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Colonial  mtd  Revolutionary 
Families  of  Pennsylvania 


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EDITOR 

JOHN  W.  JORDAN,   LL.D. 

Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania 

Ex-General  Registrar  of   Sons  of  the  Revolution 

and   Registrar   of   Pennsylvania   Society 


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THE   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  OF   PENNSYLVANIA. 

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INTRODUCTORY 

The  present  work,  "Colonial  and  Revolutionary  Families  of  Pennsylvania," 
presents  in  the  aggregate  an  amount  of  genealogical  and  personal  information 
unequalled  by  any  kindred  publication.  Indeed,  no  similar  work  concerning 
Pennsylvania   families  has  ever  been  presented. 

Numerous  voluminous  histories  of  Pennsylvania  have  presented  in  fullness 
the  political,  social  and  material  conditions,  from  the  earliest  times.  In  this 
work  are  contained  chronicles  of  the  people  who  have  made  Pennsylvania  what 
it  is.  These  records  are  presented  in  a  series  of  independent  genealogical  and 
personal  narratives  relating  to  lineal  family  heads,  and  the  most  conspicuous 
representatives  down  to  the  present  generation,  thus  giving  it  a  distinct  personal 
interest.  These  ends  have  been  conscientiously  and  faithfully  conserved 
through  the  assistance  of  those  who  have  long  pursued  genealogical  studies 
with  intelligence  and  enthusiasm,  with  John  W.  Jordan,  LL.D.,  as  supervising 
editor.  Much  assistance  was  rendered  by  Mrs.  Charles  Custis  Harrison,  Miss 
Leach,  Oliver  Hough,   Warren   S.   Ely,   and  others. 

THE   PUBLISHERS. 


Colonial    Families 


PENN  FAMILY 


Though  everything  relating  to  the  Hfe  and  works  of  Wilham  Penn,  is,  and 
always  will  be  of  intense  interest  to  the  people  of  the  great  Commonwealth  and 
city  which  he  founded,  it  is  of  course  impossible,  in  a  work  devoted  especially  to 
the  history  of  such  Colonial  families  as  have  living  descendants  still  resident 
in  or  near  his  city,  to  give  anything  like  an  adequate  account  of  the  Great  Founder 
and  his  part  in  the  founding  of  the  Colony  of  Pennsylvania  on  the  bed  rock 
of  personal  liberty  in  the  matter  of  conscience.  Volumes  have  already  been 
devoted  to  that  purpose,  and  the  many  phases  of  his  life,  character,  aims  and 
attainments,  and  their  influence  in,  and  bearing  on  the  founding  and  development 
of  the  institutions  of  a  free  and  enlightened  people,  will  prove  a  fruitful  and 
interesting  theme  for  future  historians,  so  long  as  such  institutions  survive.  It 
will  be  our  purpose,  therefore,  after  giving  such  account  of  the  origin  and  ances- 
try of  the  family  as  is  known,  to  devote  our  attention  more  especially  to  that 
branch  of  the  family  who  have  living  descendants  in  America. 

The  family  of  Penn  was  doubtless  originally  Welsh;  the  name  itself  is  dis- 
tinctly of  Welsh  origin,  and  a  word  in  common  use  in  that  language,  signifying 
a  head,  or  highland.  Penn  himself  is  said  to  have  stated  that  he  was  of  Welsh 
origin,  and  that  one  of  his  ancestors  had  come  from  Wales  into  England.  This 
ancestor,  John  Tudor,  "lived  upon  the  top  of  a  hill  or  mountain  in  Wales" ;  and 
was  generally  called  John  Penmunrith,  or  "John  on  the  top  of  a  hill,"  hence 
ultimately  John  Penn.  The  arms  borne  by  William  Penn  the  Founder;  Argent 
on  a  fesse  sable  three  plates,  are  according  to  an  old  manuscript  prepared  by  a 
member  of  the  Penn  family  of  Worcestershire,  those  of  "the  main  stem  of  the 
family".  This  manuscript  continues:  "As  for  our  beginning  I  own  it  to  pro- 
ceed from  the  Britons,  our  estates  lying  amongst  them,  and  in  the  Marches  of 
the  same,  which  anciently  belonged  to  the  Penn-House,  before  that  it  was  divided 
and  scattered  by  many  branches  into  several  counties." 

These  arms  were  likewise  borne  by  the  Penns  of  Penn  in  Bucks,  and  by  the 
Penne  family  of  Shropshire,  on  the  border  of  Wales,  as  shown,  in  the  case  of 
the  former,  in  the  Herald's  Visitation  of  Bucks,  1 575-1634:  and  in  that  of  the 
latter,  the  Visitation  of  Shropshire,  1564-1620.  The  pedigree  of  the  Shropshire 
family  extending  over  fifteen  generations  given  in  the  Herald's  manuscript, 
begins  with  Sir  William  Penne,  Knight  Lord  of  Bryn,  who  married  Joan,  daugh- 
ter of  Ririd  Voel,  of  Lodfoll,  and  "bristles  with  Welsh  names"  throughout,  the 
whole  record  being  thoroughly  Welsh. 

The  Penns  of  Penn,  county  of  Bucks,  before  referred  to,  had  also  among 
their  family  several  distinctly  Welsh  names.  It  is  from  this  family  that  William 
Penn  the  Founder  descended,  as  shown  by  the  inscription  on  the  tomb  of  his 


2  PENN 

father,  Admiral  Sir  William  Penn,  "of  the  Penns  of  Penn-Lodge,  county  of 
Wilts,  and  those  Penns  of  Penn  in  the  county  of  Bucks."  Granville  Penn,  in 
his  "Memorials"  of  the  Admiral,  says,  "Relation  of  kindred  was  always  mutually 
claimed  and  acknowledged  between  the  family  of  Sir  William  Penn  and  the 
Penns  of  Penn  in  Bucks,  now  represented  by  Earl  Howe ;  but  the  genealogical 
connection  does  not  appear  of  record."  This  is,  of  course,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
the  records  of  Mintye,  the  home  of  the  immediate  ancestors  of  the  Founder,  do 
not  commence  until  after  the  Restoration. 

W'e  must  therefore  begin  the  known  ancestry  of  William  Penn,  with  his  great- 
great-grandfather,  William  Penn,  of  Mintye  and  Penn's  Lodge,  county  of  Wilts. 
Little  is  known  of  his  life,  but  to  quote  from  an  old  letter,  "He  lived  in  a  genteel 
ancient  House",  viz :  Penn's  Lodge,  and  was  of  enough  consequence  to  be  buried 
before  the  altar  of  the  church  at  Mintye,  and  there  is  a  tablet  to  his  memory  in 
the  same  church.  He  died  March  12,  1 591-2,  and  his  will,  proved  in  1592,  is 
recorded  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury.  It  has  been  printed  in  full  in 
the  Pennsylvania  Magazine,  vol.  xiv,  p.  58.  The  parish  of  Mintye,  though  politi- 
cally in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  was  completely  environed  by  Wiltshire,  Penn's 
Lodge,  was  near  Mintye,  on  the  edge  of  Braden  Forest,  and  a  letter  written  by 
John  Georges,  M.  P.,  to  Sir  William  Penn,  under  date  of  January  27,  1665-6, 
urges  the  Admiral  to  purchase  the  ancestral  lands  at  Mintye,  "which  were  your 
ancestors,  the  Penns,  for  many  generations,  worth  about  £100  per  annum,  with 
a  genteel  ancient  house  upon  it."  The  will  of  William  Penn,  of  Penn's  Lodge, 
dated  May  i,  1590,  shows  that  his  son  William  was  deceased  at  that  date,  and 
was  survived  by  his  wife  Margaret  and  six  children;  George,  Giles,  William. 
Marie,  Sara  and  Susanna. 

William  Penn,  the  second,  of  Penn's  Lodge,  as  shown  by  the  letter  of  John 
Georges,  above  quoted,  was  placed  by  his  father  with  Christopher  Georges,  a 
gieat-uncle  of  the  writer  of  the  letter,  then  a  counsellor-at-law,  "to  be  bred  up  by 
him,  and  with  whom  he  lived  many  years  as  his  chief  clerk,  till  he  married  him 
to  one  of  his  sister  Ann  Georges's  daughters  by  Mr.  John  Rastall,  then  one  of  the 
aldermen  of  Gloucester."  As  shown  by  the  will  of  his  father,  he  died  prior  to 
May  I,  1590. 

Of  the  six  children  of  William  and  Margaret  (Rastall)  Penn.  we  have 
but  little  data,  further  than  what  pertains  to  Giles,  the  second  son.  and  father 
of  Admiral  Sir  William  Penn.  George,  the  eldest  son,  succeeded  to  the  estates  of 
his  grandfather,  at  Mintye,  and  had  a  son  William ;  and  Susanna,  the  youngest 
child,  is  said  to  have  married  Richard  Cusse,  of  Wooton  Basset,  in  Wilts,  in 
1633,  though  the  record  of  that  marriage  in  the  diocesan  office  at  Salisbury  may 
refer  to  a  daughter  of  George. 

Giles  Penn,  second  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Rastall)  Penn,  married 
November  5,  1600,  Joan  Gilbert,  of  the  Gilberts,  of  York.  He  became  a  captain 
in  the  Royal  Navy,  and  afterwards  was  for  many  years  a  consul  for  the  English 
trade  in  the  Mediterranean,  to  which  position  he  was  appointed  about  1635.  He 
desired  a  commission  as  Vice-Admiral  to  lead  an  expedition  against  the  corsairs 
of  Morocco  who  were  preying  on  the  English  trade  vessels,  but  the  impending 
civil  war  prevented  his  appointment.  Capt.  Giles  and  Joan  (Gilbert)  Penn.  are 
known  to  have  had  at  least  four  children :  two  sons ;  George,  born  1601.  died  ihh^. 
and  the  Admiral ;  and  two  daughters :  Rachel,  baptized  at  St.   Mary.  Radcliffe, 


PENN  3 

February  24,  1607,  and  Eleanor,  who  died  November  24,  1612.  There  must  have 
been  at  least  another  daughter,  as  Admiral  Penn,  in  his  will  mentions  his  "nephews 
James  and  John  Bradshaw  and  William  and  George  Markham,"  of  whom  Wil- 
liam Markham,  first  cousin  to  the  Founder,  was  for  many  years  his  Lieutenant 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania.  It  is  of  course  possible  that  Rachel  Penn,  above  men- 
tioned, may  have  been  twice  married,  and  have  been  the  mother  of  all  the 
"nephews"  above  named. 

George  Penn,  eldest  son  of  Giles  and  Joan,  born  1601,  was  brought  up  to 
"Commerce",  and  Granville  Penn  tells  us,  "became  an  opulent  merchant,  in 
Spain."  He  resided  many  years  in  Seville,  and  having  grown  rich  and  being  a 
Protestant,  was  pounced  upon  by  the  Spanish  Inquisition  in  1643  as  a  heretic, 
despoiled  of  all  his  estate,  cast  into  prison,  where  for  years  he  was  subjected 
to  torture  and  flagellation,  and  finally  placed  upon  the  rack  for  four  days,  until 
in  his  agonies  he  renounced  the  Protestant  faith,  whereupon  he  was  taken  through 
the  streets  of  Seville  to  a  church  where  his  confession  and  sentence  was  pro- 
claimed "in  the  sight  of  thousands."  His  property  was  confiscated;  his  wife,  a 
Flemish  woman,  was  divorced  from  him  and  ordered  to  marry  a  Spaniard,  and 
he  himself  was  expelled  from  Spain  and  told  that  if  he  either  renounced  the 
Romish  faith  or  returned  to  Spain  he  would  be  burned  at  the  stake.  On  his 
return  to  England  he  petitioned  Cromwell,  then  Protector,  for  redress  against  the 
Kingdom  of  Spain  for  his  wrongs.  After  the  Restoration,  Charles  II.  appointed 
him  envoy  to  reside  at  the  Court  of  the  King  of  Spain  in  order  to  get  satisfaction 
for  his  "suflferings,  loss  and  damage",  but  he  was  prevented  from  going  by  his 
sudden  death  on  July  31,  1664. 

Admiral  Sir  William  Penn,  father  of  the  Founder,  was  probably  the 
youngest  of  the  children  of  Capt.  Giles  and  Joan  (Gilbert)  Penn,  having  been 
born  at  Bristol,  England,  in  1621,  (twenty  years  after  the  birth  of  his  brother 
George),  and  was  baptized  in  the  Church  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  April  23, 
1621.  He  was  educated  by  his  father  "with  great  care,  under  his  own  eye,  for 
the  sea  service ;  causing  him  to  be  well  grounded  in  all  its  branches  practical  and 
scientific,  as  is  shown  by  sundry  elementary  and  tabular  documents,  nautical 
journals,  draughts  of  lands,  observations  and  calculations,  which  still  survive." 
He  served  with  his  father  as  a  boy  "in  various  mercantile  voyages  to  the  north- 
ern seas  and  to  the  Mediterranean,  became  a  lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Navy,  and 
thenceforward  passed  the  whole  of  his  active  life  in  that  service"  under  the 
Parliament,  the  Protector,  and  Charles  II.  after  the  Restoration,  his  services 
in  the  latter  behalf  being  the  foundation  of  the  claim  of  his  distinguished  son  the 
consummation  of  which  was  the  grant  to  him  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  became  a  captain  in  1644  and  admiral  in  1655,  under  Cromwell,  for  the  expe- 
dition against  Spanish  America.  His  life  can  best  be  summed  up  in  his  epitaph 
over  his  tomb  in  Saint  Mary's  Church,  RadcliflFe,  Bristol,  which  is  as  follows: 

"To  the  just  Memory  of  SfWillni   Penn.Kt.  and  sometime 
General :  born  at  Bristol.  An.   1621 :   Son  of  Captain  Giles  Penn, 
severall  yeares  Consul   for  y^English  in  yt^Meditteranean; 
of  the  Penns  of  Penns  Lodge  in  ye  County  of  Wilts, 
And  those  Penns  of  Penn  in  y«C.  of  Bucks ;  and  by  his 
Mother  from  the  Gilberts  of  ye  County  of  Somerset, 
Originally   from   Yorkshire;   Addicted   from   his 
Youth  to  Maritime  Affairs ;  he  was  made  Captain  at 
the  yeares  of  21 ;  Rear-Admiral  of  Ireland  at  23 ;  '■ 


4  PENN 

Vice- Admiral  of  Ireland  at  25 ;  Admiral  of  the  Streights 

at  29;  Vice-Admiral  of  England  at  31,  and  General 

in   the  first  Dutch   Warrcs,  at  32.     Whence  retiring 

in  Ano.   1655  he  was  chosen  a  Parliament  man  for  the 

Town  of  Weymouth,   1660;  made   Commissioner  of 

the  Admiralty  and  Navy;  Governor  of  the  Town  and  Fort 

of  King-sail ;  Vice-Admiral  of  Munster.  and  a  Member  of 

that  Provincial  Counseill ;   and  in  Anno  1664,  was 

chosen  Great  Captain  Commander  under  his 

Royal  Highnesse  in  y^Signall  and  most 

evidently  successful  fight  against  the  Dutch  Fleet. 

Thus,  He  took  leave  of  the  Sea.  his  old  Element ;  But 
continued   still  his  other  employs  till    1669;   at  what 
time,  through  Bodely  Infirmities  (contracted  by  y^ 
Care  and  fatigue  of  Publique  Affairs) 

He  withdrew, 
Prepared   and  made   for   his   End ;   and   with   a   gentle   and 
Even  Gale,  in  much  peace,  arrived  and  anchored  in  his 
Last  and  Best  Port,  at  Wansted  in  y"?  County  of  Essex, 
yei6  Sept.    1670,  Being  then  but  49  and  4  months  old. 
To  Whose   Name  and  merit  his  surviving  Lady 
hath  erected  this  remembrance." 

The  Admiral  married,  January  6.  1643-4.  Margaret,  wid.  of  Nicholas  van  der 
Schuren,  and  daughter  of  John  Jasper,  his  friend  and  colleague,  Captain  William 
Crispin,  marrying  her   sister  Anne   Jasper.     Lady   Margaret   Penn  was  buried 
March  4,  1681-2,  in  the  church  at  Walthamstow,  Essex. 
Sir  William  and  Margaret  (Jasper)  Penn  had  issue: — 

William  Penn.  Founder  of  Pennsylvania,  b.  Oct.  14,  1644;  d.  July  30,  1718;  m.  (first) 

Gulielma    Maria    Springett ;    (second)    Hannah    Callowhill ; 
Margaret,  b  1651,  d.  Dec,  1718;  m.  Feb.   14,  1666-7,  Anthony  Lowther,  Esq.,  of  Maske, 
Yorkshire,    who    d.    1692,    and   bur.    at    Walthamstow,    Essex,    where    a   monument    is 
erected  in  his  memory.     They  had  issue : — 

Margaret  Lowther.  b.   Feb.  8,   1667-8;   m.   Benj.   Poole;  a  daughter,   Mary   Poole, 
married  Richard  Nichols,  and  had  a  daughter,  Margaretta  Nichols,  who  married 
Henry  George  Herbert,  Marquis  of  Carnarvon. 
Sir  William  Lowther.  created  baronet  1697;  m.  Catharine  Preston,  and  had  issue: 
Sir  Thomas  Lowther,  m.  Lady  Elizabeth  Cavendish,  dau.  of  Duke  of  Devon- 
shire ;  had  son  William,  who  d.  unm.,  1756 ; 
Anthony   Lowther   was   member    Parliament    for   Appleby,    1678-79.     A   letter   from 
Hannah  Penn.  second  wife  of  William  Penn,  to  Rebecca  Blackfan,  at  Pennsbury.  Pa., 
mentions  her  "cousin  John   Lowther"  as  married   and  having  one  child,  a  daughter; 
who  he  was,  does  not  appear  from  the  "Penn  Pedigree." 
Richard  Penn  d.  1673,  unm. 

William  Penn,  the  Founder  of  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Katharine,  near  the  Tower  of  London,  October  14,  1644,  and  was  baptized  at 
Allhallows  Church,  Barking,  (London)  October  23,  1644.  Within  a  few  weeks 
of  his  birth,  his  father  sailed  as  captain  of  the  "Fellowship,"  in  the  Parliament's 
navy,  and  his  wife  and  child  took  up  their  home  at  Wansted,  Essex,  a  suburb  of 
London,  where  the  Admiral  and  his  family  made  their  home  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  Young  Penn  received  an  excellent  classical  education  at  private 
schools  and  under  tutors  at  home,  and  on  October  26,  1660,  was  entered  as  a 
"gentleman  commoner"  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  (Christ  Church).  His  stay 
at  the  University  however  lasted  less  than  two  years ;  having  attended  a  meeting 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  where  Thomas  Loe,  formerly  of  Oxford  University, 
preached,  he  was  strongly  impressed  with  the  simplicity  and  purity  of  the  faith 
of  that  sect,  and  with  a  number  of  fellow  students  refused  to  attend  the  divine 


PENN  5 

services  at  the  University  or  to  wear  the  gown  of  a  student;  he  was  finally 
expelled  from  the  University  for  insubordination.  After  two  years  spent  in 
travel  and  study  in  France  and  Italy  he  began  the  study  of  law  at  Lincoln's  Inn, 
February  7,  1664-5.  -^t  about  the  same  time  he  was  presented  at  Court,  and 
attending  his  father  in  command  of  the  fleet  operating  against  the  Dutch,  was 
sent  by  the  "Great  Captain  Commander"  with  despatches  to  the  King.  In  the 
autumn  of  1665  his  father  sent  him  to  Ireland,  where  he  was  received  at  the 
court  of  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  then  Lord  Lieutenant,  and  remained  about  two 
years,  serving  under  the  Duke  at  the  siege  of  Carrickfergus,  in  May,  1666.  It  was 
there  that  the  "portrait  in  armor",  of  which  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania has  a  copy,  was  painted.  In  Ireland  he  again  attended  meetings  of 
Friends  addressed  by  Thomas  Loe,  and  became  finally  convinced  in  the  doctrines, 
and  on  September  3,  1667,  suffered  his  first  arrest  for  his  religious  convictions, 
and  was  thereafter  actively  identified  with  the  Friends  and  presently  began  to 
write  and  speak  in  their  behalf.  His  "Sandy  Foundation  Shaken"  was  published 
in  1668,  and  he  suffered  imprisonment  in  the  Tower  therefore.  He  was  later 
imprisoned  at  Newgate  and  in  Wheeler  street,  London,  for  his  activity  in  Friends' 
affairs. 

At  the  death  of  his  father,  William  Penn  became  possessed  of  a  goodly  estate 
amounting  to  at  least  £1500  per  annum.  He  married,  April  4,  1672,  at  "a  publick 
Assembly  of  the  People  of  the  Lord"  at  King's,  Charle-wood,  in  the  county  of 
Hertford,  Gulielma  Maria  Springett,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Springett,  (1620- 
1644)  by  his  wife  Mary  Proude,  (1624-82)  daughter  of  Sir  John  Proude,  by 
his  wife  Anne  Fagge.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage  Gulielma  Maria  Springett 
was  residing  with  her  stepfather,  Isaac  Pennington,  who  had  married  the  widow 
Springett.  After  his  marriage  William  Penn  and  his  family  resided  for  about 
five  years  in  Basing  House,  Rickmansworth,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  near 
the  line  of  the  county  of  Bucks,  removing  to  Worminghurst,  Sussex,  a  property 
inherited  by  his  wife,  in  1677,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  1697,  after  his 
second  marriage.  In  that  year  he  removed  to  Bristol,  and  seems  to  have  had  his 
principal  residence  until  1710,  when  he  removed  to  Ruscombe  Manor,  in  Berks, 
near  Twyford.  now  on  the  Great  Western  railway,  where  he  died,  July  30,  1718. 

Of  the  four  years  spent  in  Pennsylvania  by  the  Founder,  in  two  periods  of 
nearly  equal  length,  the  major  part  was  doubtless  spent  in  the  city  of  Philadel- 
phia, laid  out  by  his  direction  prior  to  his  first  arrival,  though  his  Pennsylvania 
home  was  ostensibly  at  Pennsbury,  Bucks  county,  from  early  in  the  year  1683. 

For  several  months  after  his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Welcome,"  Octo- 
ber 28,  1682,  Penn  seems  to  have  made  his  home  at  Chester,  later  residing  in 
Philadelphia  and  at  Pennsbury,  until  his  return  to  England  in  August,  1684.  I" 
his  second  visit  to  his  province  of  Pennsylvania,  arriving  in  Philadelphia,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1699,  he  was  accompanied  by  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Callowhill,  and  their 
eldest  child,  John  Penn,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  January  29,  1699-1700.  This 
visit  extended  to  September,  1701,  and  almost  his  last  official  act  in  Pennsylvania 
was  the  signing  of  the  charter  of  incorporation  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia. 
From  the  date  of  the  grant  of  the  province  to  him,  February  24,  1680-1,  to  his 
death  thirty-seven  years  later,  practically  his  whole  time  and  energy  was  devoted 
to  her  interests,  and  his  great  regret  was  that  he  was  prevented  from  spending 
the  greater  part  of  his  time  in  his  beloved  province. 


6  PEiWN 

Gulielma  Maria,  first  wife  of  William  Penn,  died  at  Hoddeston,  county  of 
Hertford,  February  23,  1693-4,  at  the  age  of  fifty  years,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) at  the  Friends'  Meeting  in  Bristol,  November  11,  1695,  Hannah  Callowhill, 
born  at  Bristol,  England,  April  18,  1664,  died  December  20,  1726.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Thomas  Callowhill,  of  Bristol,  linen  draper,  by  his  wife  Hannah 
Hollister,  daughter  of  Dennis  Hollister,  an  eminent  merchant  of  Bristol,  England, 
and  an  early  convert  to  the  principles  of  Friends. 

JVilliam  Penn  and  his  first  wife  Gulielma  Maria  Springett  had  issue: — 

Gulielma  Maria,  b.  at  Rickmansworth,  Herts,  Jan.  23,  1672-3,  d.  there,  March  17,  1673-4; 

William  Penn,  b.  Feb.  28,  1673-4,  at  Rickmansworth,  d.  there  May  15,  1674; 

Mary  (or  Margaret),  twin  with  William,  d.  Feb.  24,  1674-5; 

Springett  Penn,  b.  at  Walthamstow,  Jan.  23,  1675,  d.  at  Lewes,  on  the  south  coast  of 
England,  where  he  had  been  taken  by  his  father  with  the  hope  of  saving  his  life,  April 
10,   1696; 

Letitia  Penn,  b.  at  Worminghurst,  Sussex,  March  6,  1678;  bur.  at  Jordans,  April  6,  1746; 
m.  Aug.  20,  1702,  William  Aubrey,  of  London,  who  was  bur.  at  Jordans,  May  23,  1731 ; 
no  issue;  lands  granted  to  Letitia  in  Pa.;  she  bequeathed  to  Christian  Gulielma  (Penn) 
Gaskell,  daughter  of  her  nephew,  William  Penn   (3d)  of  whom  hereafter; 

William  Penn  Jr.,  b.  at  Worminghurst.  March  14,  1680,  d.  June  23,  1720;  m.  Mary 
Jones,  of   whom   presently ; 

Gulielma  Maria  Penn,  b.  at  Worminghurst,  Nov.  17,  1685,  d.  at  Hammersmith,  Middle- 
sex, Nov.  20,  1689; 

By  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Callozvhill,  IVilliam  Penn  had  issue: — 

John  Penn,  "the  American",  b.  Philadelphia,  Jan.  29,  1699-1700,  d.  unm.  at  Hitcham, 
county  Bucks,  England.  Oct.  25,  1746;  under  father's  will  and  "a  deed  of  appointment" 
thereunder  by  mother,  he  became  vested  in  one-half  of  the  Proprietary  estate  in 
Pennsylvania;  the  Three  Lower  Counties  and  "elsewhere  in  Pennsylvania."  He 
came  to  Pennsylvania  in  Sept.,  1734,  with  his  sister,  Margaret  Freame,  and  her 
husband  and  was  ceremoniously  received  at  Philadelphia.  Sept.  29th.  remaining  a 
year,  he  gained  the  esteem  of  the  people  of  Pennsylvania.  He  returned  to  England  in 
Sept.,  173s,  to  attend  the  litigation  with  Lord  Baltimore  over  the  Maryland  boundary 
and  never  returned  to  America.  An  extract  from  the  Oxford  Flying  Weekly  Journal, 
Nov.   I,  1746.  has  this  obituary  notice  of  him: 

"On  Tuesday  night  last,  being  the  25th  of  Oct.,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness, 
which  was  borne  with  the  greatest  fortitude,  resignation,  and  cheerfulness,  died  at 
Hitcham,  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  John  Penn,  Esq.,  the  eldest  of  the  surviving  sons  of 
William  Penn.  Esq.,  late  Proprietor  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania;  a  gentleman 
who  from  his  strict  justice  and  integrity,  the  greatness  of  his  rnind,  his  universal 
benevolence  to  all  mankind,  and  his  many  other  amiable  qualities,  was  a  worthy 
successor  to  his  great  father.  In  his  life  he  was  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 
him  and  in  his  death  generally  lamented.  He  dying  without  issue  his  estate  in  Penn- 
sylvania descended  to  his  next  brother  Thomas  Penn,  Esq.,  who  for  many  years 
resided  in  that  Province  for  carrying  on  the  settlement  thereof,  upon  the  foundation 
which  was  laid  by  their  father." 
Thomas  Penn,  b.  at  Bristol,  Eng..  March  9.  1701-2,  d.  1775;  was  joint  proprietor  with 
brothers  John  and  Richard,  and  at  death  of  former  inherited  life-right  in  the  one- 
half  interest  held  by  John  ;  gave  more  attention  to  Proprietary  affairs  than  either  of 
his  brothers:  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  Aug.,  1732,  and  remained  until  1741,  when  he 
returned  to  England,  and  never  again  revisited  the  Province,  though  his  letters  show 
his  intention  to  do  so  soon  after  his  return,  but  business  engagements  prevented  from 
time  to  time.  He  was  an  energetic,  prudent,  capable  man  of  somewhat  colder  tempera- 
ment than  his  brothers. 

Thomas  Penn  m.  Aug.  22.  1751,  Lady  Juliana  Fermor,  fourth  daughter  of  Thomas, 
first  Earl  of  Pomphret,  of  a  family  of  great  social  distinction  in  Northamptonshire, 
that  had  the  honor  of  knighthood  as  early  as  1586,  baronetcy  1641,  and  peerage  1692. 

Of  the  eight  children  of  Thomas  Penn  and  Lady  Juliana,  five  died  in  childhood; 
one,  Juliana,  b.  May  19.  1753,  m.  William  Baker,  Esq.  of  Bafordbury,  Herts,  and  had 
one  child.  Juliana  Baker,  who  m.  Jan.  18.  1803,  John  Fawcett  Herbert  Rawlins  Esq., 
but  died  without  issue.  Sept.  11,  1849.  at  Gunters  Grove,  Stoke  Courcy,  Somersetshire. 

The  three  remaining  children  of  Thomas  Penn,  were, 


PENN  7 

John  Penn,  b.  Feb.  23,  1760,  d.  unm.  June  21,  1834;  graduated  at  Cambridge,  1779; 
after  coming  into  his  inheritance  travelled  extensively  in  Europe ;  was  a  liberal 
patron  of  art,  "something  of  a  poet,  an  idealist  and  reformer."  He  came  to 
Pennsylvania  in  1783,  and  resided  for  five  years,  having  a  city  house  at  the 
corner  of  Sixth  and  Market  streets,  and  erected  a  small  mansion  which  he 
called  "Solitude,"  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Schuylkill,  now  in  the  Zoological 
Garden.  He  returned  to  England  in  1788,  and  erected  a  handsome  residence 
at  Stoke;  was  Sheriff  of  Bucks,  1798;  member  of  Parliament,  1802;  Royal  Gov. 
of  Island  of  Portland  in  Dorset,  from  1805  for  many  years,  and  was  Lieut.  Col. 
of  First  Troop,  First  Regiment  Royal  Bucks  Yeomanry.  He  was  the  author 
of  a  number  of  literary  works,  and  Cambridge  University  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  181 1. 
Granville  Penn,  the  Memorialist,  was  b.  Dec.  9,  1761,  and  d.  Sept.  28,  1844;  he 
matriculated  at  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  Nov.  11,  1780;  later  entered  the 
civil  service  and  became  assistant  chief  clerk  in  War  Dept. ;  he  m.  June  24,  1791, 
Isabella,  eldest  daughter  of  General  Gordon  Forbes,  colonel  of  29th  Regiment 
of  Foot,  of  the  family  of  Forbes  of  Skillater,  in  Aberdeenshire,  by  his  wife 
Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Benjamin  Sullivan  Esq.,  of  Cork,  Ireland  On  his 
marriage,  Granville  Penn  settled  in  London,  and  occupied  his  leisure  with  lit- 
erary labors,  the  result  of  which  is  the  several  substantial  volumes  which  form 
one  of  the  chief  sources  of  knowledge  and  information  in  reference  to  the 
Penn  family.  He  was  a  justiciary  of  Buckinhamshire,  after  his  succession  to 
the  extensive  estates  there  at  the  death  of  his  elder  brother  John.  He  died 
at  Stoke,  Sept.  28,  1844,  almost  precisely  two  centuries  after  the  birth  of  his 
grandfather,   the    Founder. 

Granville  and  Isabella  (Forbes)  Penn,  had  issue:  nine  children  of  whom  only 
one  married,  and  she  left  no  issue. 

Granville  John  Penn,  second  and  eldest  surviving  son,  graduated  at  Christ 
Church,  Oxford,  and  became  a  barrister-at-law ;  was  a  Deputy  Lieutenant  and 
magistrate  of  Bucks ;  he  twice  visited  Pennsylvania,  in  1852  and  again  in  1857 ; 
presented  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  a  large  wampum  belt  pre- 
sented to  the  Founder  at  the  "Great  Treaty  of  1683"  by  the  Indian  Chiefs.  He 
died  unm.  March  29,  1867. 

Rev.  Thomas  Gordon  Penn,  second  surviving  son  of  Granville  and  Isabella, 
graduated  at  Christ  Church  College,  and  took  orders  in  the  Established  Church 
of  England.  At  his  death,  Sept.  10,  1869,  he  was  the  last  male  descendant  of 
William  Penn,  the  Founder,  bearing  the  name  of  Penn,  and  the  entail  of  the 
Proprietary  estate  passed  to  his  Aunt  Sophia,  wife  of  Archbishop  Stuart,  of 
whom  presently. 

Sophia  Penn,  only  married  child  of  Granville,  became  the  wife  of  Sir 
William  Maynard  Gomm,  Field  Marshall,  K.  C.  B.,  an  officer  of  high  distinction 
in  the  English  military  service,  but  d.  without  issue  in  1827. 
Sophia  Margaretta,  b.  Dec.  25,  1764,  was  the  last  of  the  children  of  Thomas  and 
Lady  Juliana  (Fermor)  Penn;  she  m.,  in  1796,  William  Stuart,  subsequently 
Archbishop  of  Armagh,  Established  Church,  and  Primate  of  that  church  in 
Ireland.  He  was  a  son  of  John,  third  ILarl  of  Bute,  a  famous  figure  in  English 
politics,  an  early  associate  and  adviser  of  George  III,  and  for  several  years  his 
Prime  Minister,  by  his  wife,  daughter  of  Lady  Mary  Wortley  Montagu. 

Mrs.  Stuart  d.  April  29,  1847,  having  survived  her  husband,  the  Archbishop, 
twenty-five  years.  She  was  survived  by  three  of  her  four  children,  two  of 
whom  have  living  issue,  the  sole  representatives  of  William  Penn.  the  founder, 
by  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Callowhill. 

Mary  Juliana  Stuart,  eldest  child  of  the  Archbishop  by  his  wife  Sophia  Mar- 
garetta Penn,  b.  May,  1797,  d.  July  11,  1866;  m.  Feb.  28,  1815,  Thomas  Knox, 
Viscount  Northland,  later  second  Earl  of  Ranfurly,  of  Dungannon  Park,  county 
Tyrone,  Ireland,  by  whom  she  had  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  the  eldest  of 
whom,  Thomas,  third  Earl  of  Ranfurly,  b.  Nov.  13,  1816,  d.  May  20,  1858;  m. 
Oct.  ID,  1848,  Harriet,  daughter  of  James  Rimington,  of  Broomhead  Hall, 
county  York,  and  his  oldest  son,  fourth  Earl  of  Ranfurly,  was  killed  in  a  hunt- 
ing expedition  in  Abyssinia,  1875,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  younger  brother, 
Uchter  John  Mark  Knox,  fifth  Earl  of  Ranfurly,  b.  Aug.  14,  1856.  who  still  sur- 
vives. He  was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Trinity  College,  Cambridge;  was  Lord- 
in-waiting  to  Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria,  1895-7;  Governor  of  New  Zealand, 
1897-1904;  is  Knight  of  Justice  of  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  in  England; 
K.  C.  M.  G.,  1897;  G.  C.  M.  G.,  1901 ;  P.  C.  1905.  He  m.  in  1880,  Hon.  Constance 
Elizabeth  Caulfield,  daughter  of  the  Seventh  Viscount  Charlemont,  and  has 
issue,  a  daugtiter.  Lady  Constance  Harriet  Stuart  Knox,  m.  in  1905,  Maj. 
Evelyn   Miles   Gaskell. 

William  Stuart,  eldest  son  of  the  Archbishop  by  his  wife,  Sophia  Margaretta 
Penn,  b.  Oct.  31,  1798,  d.  July  7,  1874.     He  was  educated  at  St.  John's  College, 


8  PENN 

Cambridge ;  was  a  Magistrate  and  Deputy  Lieutenant  of  Bedfordshire,  and 
High-SherifT  in  1846;  was  a  member  of  Parliament  for  Armagh,  1820-26.  and 
for  Bedfordshire,  1830-34.  His  seat  was  Aldenham  Abbey,  near  Watford, 
Herts.  On  the  death  of  Rev.  Thomas  Gordon  Penn  in  1869.  he  became  "tenant 
in  tail  general"  to  all  the  entailed  Penn  property  in  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1870 
"barred  the  entail"  and  confirmed  all  the  Penn  conveyances  previously  made  in 
Pennsylvania.     He  devised  his  estate  to  his  son, 

Col.  William  Stewart,  b.  March  7,  1825,  d.  Dec.  21,  1893,  member  of  Parlia- 
ment for  Bedfordshire,  1854-7,  and  1859-68;  Magistrate  and  Deputy  Lieutenant. 
He  m.  Sept.  13,  1859,  Katharine,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Armitage  Nicholson 
Esq.,  of  Belrath,  county  Meath,  Ireland,  who  d.  Oct.   16,   1881. 

Their  son,  William  Dugald  Stewart  Esq.,  of  Tempford  Hall,  county  of  Bed- 
ford, b.  Oct.  18,  i860.  Magistrate,  late  Captain  in  Kings  Royal  Rifle  Corps,  is 
present  representative  of  the  Stuart  line  of  the  Penn  family.  He  has  in  his 
possession  a  "Portrait  in  Armor"  of  William  Penn.  He  m.  July  II,  1893,  Melli- 
cent  H.  C,  eldest  daughter  of  Capt.  G.  W.  Bulkely  Hughes,  J.  P. 
Hannah   Margaritta   Penn,  third  child   of  William   Penn  and   Hannah   Callowhill,   b.   at 

Bristol,  England,  July  30,  1703,  d  there,  in  Feb.  or  March,  1707-8. 
Margaret  Penn,  fourth  child,  b.  at  Bristol,  England,  Nov.  7,  1704,  d.  Feb.,  1750- 1  ;  m. 
1727,  Thomas  Freame,  and  had  issue:  Thomas,  d.  1746,  and  Philadelphia  Hannah 
Freame,  b.  in  Philadelphia  in  1740,  who  m.  Thomas  Dawson,  Viscount  Cremorne,  and 
had  two  children  who  died  in  infancy;  Margaret  Freame  and  her  husband  came  to 
Philadelphia  with  her  brother,  John  Penn,  in  1734,  and  resided  in  Pennsylvania  for  a 
number  of  years. 
Richard  Penn,  b.  at  Bristol,  England,  Jan.  17,  1705-6,  d.  1771 ;  m.  Hannah  Lardner ;  of 

whom  presently. 
Dennis  Penn,  b.  at  Ealing,  Middlesex,  England,  Feb.  26,  1706-7,  d.  unm.  Feb.  6,  1722-3. 
Hannah  Penn,  b.  in  Ludgate  Parish,  London,  Sept.  5,   1708,  d.  at  Kensington,  Jan.   24, 
1708-9. 

Richard  Penn,  youngest  son  of  the  Founder,  who  lived  to  mature  years, 
was  born  at  Bristol,  England,  at  the  home  of  his  maternal  grandparents,  Thomas 
and  Hannah  Callowhill,  January  17,  1705-6.  He  was  apprenticed  when  a 
young  man  to  the  mercantile  business  in  London,  and  seems  to  have  resided 
there  some  considerable  part  of  his  life,  though  soon  after  his  marriage  he 
appears  to  have  made  his  principal  residence  at  Stanwell,  Middlesex,  a  suburb 
of  London.  He  married,  in  1728,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Lardner.  of 
Gracechurch  street,  London,  and  Woodford,  Epping  Forest,  Essex,  and  a  sis- 
ter to  Lynford  Lardner,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  1740  and  was  Receiver 
General,  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  etc.  Richard  Penn  was  joint  Proprietary  of 
Pennsylvania  with  his  brothers  John  and  Thomas,  but  took  much  less  interest 
in  the  affairs  of  the  Province  than  either  of  them.  Richard  Penn  died  February  4. 
1 77 1,  and  was  buried  at  Stoke  Poges.  His  widow  Hannah,  survived  him  until 
April  20,  1785. 

Richard  and  Hannah  (Lardner)  Penn  had  issue: — 

John  Penn,  b.  July  14,  1729,  d.  in  Philadelphia,  Feb.  9,  1795.  having  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  Pennsylvania,  since  his  arrival  in  1752.  He  married  when  a  school- 
boy, Grace,  daughter  of  James  Cox.  of  London,  much  to  the  displeasure  of  his  rela- 
tives, especially  his  uncle,  Thomas  Penn ;  after  four  or  five  years  spent  in  studying  at 
Geneva  and  in  traveling  on  the  continent  with  his  uncle  he  came  to  Pennsylvania,  in 
Nov.,  1752,  and  directly  afterwards  was  made  a  member  of  Provincial  Council,  and 
filled  other  positions  under  the  Proprittaries  until  the  fall  of  1755,  when  he  returned 
to  England,  returning  in  Oct.,  1763,  with  a  commission  from  his  uncle  and  father  as 
Deputy  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  dated  June  18,  1763.  He  was  twice  re-commis- 
sioned for  three  years  each,  and  served  as  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  continuously 
until  his  return  to  England,  after  the  death  of  his  father.  May  6,  1771.  His  brother 
Richard  succeeded  him  as  Governor,  Oct.  16,  1771,  and  served  until  John's  return  with 
a  new  commission  as  Governor,  Aug.  30,  1773.  He  retained  the  position  of  Governor 
until  the  collapse  of  the  Proprietary  government  in  the  Revolution,  being  the  last  of 
the  Proprietary  Governors.  His  first  wife  having  died  March  17,  1760.  he  married. 
May  31,   1766,  Anne,  eldest  daughter  of  Hon.  William  Allen,  Chief  Justice  of   Penn- 


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sylvania,  by  his  wife,  Margaret  Hamilton,  daughter  of  Andrew  Hamilton,  the  distin- 
guished Attorney  of  the  Penn  family,  and  sister  to  Governor  James  Hamilton,  of 
Bush  Hill, 

After  his  marriage  to  Miss  Allen,  John  Penn  made  his  city  residence  on  the  west 
side  of  Third  street,  in  the  house  built  for  Col.  Byrd,  of  Westover,  but  on  his  final 
return  to  Pennsylvania  in  1773,  he  purchased  an  estate  of  142  acres  on  west  side  of  the 
Schuykill,  erected  thereon  a  mansion,  and  called  his  place  "Lansdowne,"  now  included 
in  Fairmount  Park.  Here  he  resided  the  greater  part  of  the  later  years  of  his  life, 
though  he  had  a  town  house  on  Pine  street  between  Second  and  Third,  from  which 
he  was  bur.  in  1795.     He  had  no  issue  by  either  marriage. 

Hannah  Penn,  b.  about  1731,  was  bur.  at  Stoke  Poges,  Oct.  2,  1791 ;  m.  July  19,   1774, 
James  Clayton,  who  d.  in  Jan.,  1790,  without  issue. 

Richard  Penn,  Gov.  of  Pennsylvania,  Oct.  16,  1771,  to  Aug.  30,  1773,  when  he  was  super- 
seded by  his  brother  John,  was  b.  in  1735,  and  d.  at  Richmond,  Surrey,  England, 
May  27,  181 1.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  brother  John  in  Oct.,  1763,  and  was 
made  a  member  of  Provincial  Council,  Jan.  12,  1764.  He  was  the  first  President  of  the 
Jockey  Club  of  Philadelphia,  organized  in  1766,  and  presided  over  that  organization 
until  1769,  when  he  returned  to  England,  returning  with  his  commission  as  Governor 
in  Oct.,  1771.  He  m.  at  Christ  Church,  May  21,  1772,  Mary  Masters,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  took  up  his  residence  in  the  fine  mansion  on  the  south  side  of  Market  street, 
between  Fifth  and  Sixth,  erected  by  Mary  (Lawrence)  Masters,  the  bride's  mother, 
and  conveyed  to  the  bride  two  days  before  the  wedding.  The  house,  one  of  the  finest 
in  Philadelphia,  was  the  residence  of  Gen.  Howe  during  the  British  occupancy  of  the 
city,  by  Arnold  after  Howe's  departure,  and  later  by  Holker,  French  Consul,  and 
subsequently  by  Robert  Morris,  Gen.  Washington  being  entertained  there  during  the 
Constitutional  Convention,  1787,  and  it  became  his  presidential  residence  in  1790-7. 
The  original  house,  however,  was  burned  in  1780,  and  was  rebuilt  by  Robert  Morris. 
In  April,  1775,  Richard  Penn  purchased  the  Pell  Hall  estate,  on  which  Girard  College 
now  stands,  and  like  his  Market  street  house,  it  was  also  burned  during  his  ownership. 
Richard  Penn  went  to  England  with  his  family  in  the  summer  of  1775,  carrying  with 
him  the  petition  of  the  Continental  Congress,  called  the  "Olive  Branch",  drawn  up  by 
John  Dickinson,  and  when  it  was  under  consideration  in  the  House  of  Lords,  was 
interrogated  as  to  the  condition  of  the  American  Colonies.  He  continued  to  reside  in 
England,  and  was  a  member  of  Parliament  for  Applyby,  Westmoreland,  1784-90;  for 
Haslemere,  Surrey,  1790-96;  and  for  the  borough  of  Lancaster,  1796- 1802,  and  again 
elected  for  Haslemere,  in  1806.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  with  some  members  of  his 
family  and  resided  at  210  Chestnut  street  for  about  a  year  in  1808.  He  d.  in  Surrey, 
May  27,  181 1.     His  widow  survived  him  eighteen  years,  dying  Aug.  16,  1829. 

William  Penn,  b.  1747,  d.  Feb.  4,  1760. 

Richard  and  Mary  (Masters)  Penn  had  issue: — 

William  Penn,  b.  in  England,  June  23,  1776,  d.  there  Sept.  17,  1845.  He  came  to 
Philadelphia  with  his  parents  in  1808,  and  remained  in  Pennsylvania  for  many 
years,  living  for  a  time  in  Dauphin  county,  and  later  in  Easton,  Northampton 
county.  He  m.  Aug.  7,  1809,  Catharine  Balabrega,  of  Philadelphia,  but  so  far  as 
known  left  no  issue.  He  was  a  man  of  "trancendent  abilities,  an  excellent 
classical  scholar,  and  possessed  of  a  wonderful  memory,  which  he  displayed  by 
an  extraordinary  power  of  quotation  in  conversation.  *  *  *  When  he  chose 
he  could  transfix  the  minds  of  those  with  whom  he  associated  with  the  depth 
of  his  research  and  splendid  talents.  He  mixed  with  the  highest  ranks  of 
society  and  was  courted  by  every  company.  There  was  probably  no  elevation 
attainable  which  he  might  not  have  reached."     (Gentleman's  Magazine). 

Hannah  Penn,  d.  unm.  at  Richmond,  Surrey,  England,  July  16,  1856;  she  accom- 
panied her  parents  on  the  visit  to  Philadelphia  in  1808. 

Richard  Penn,  b.  1783,  d.  at  Richmond,  Surrey,  April  21,  1863;  was  many  years  a 
trusted  and  useful  oflScial  of  the  Colonial  Department  of  the  English  govern- 
ment ;  was  elected  Fellow  of  Royal  Society,  Nov.  18,  1824 ;  his  portrait  by  E.  W. 
Eddis   was   engraved  in   1834  by   M.   Ganci.      He   was  never   married. 

Mary  Penn,  b.  April  11,  1785,  d.  March  26,  1863;  m.  in  1821,  Samuel  Paynter 
Esq.,  of  Richmond,  Surrey,  J.  P.  for  Surrey  and  Middlesex,  and  High  Sheriflf 
for  Surrey,   1838.  d.  March  26,  1844;  she  had  no  issue. 

Daughter  d.  in  inf.,  June  17,   1790. 

We  now  return  to  the  elder  line  of  the  descendants  of  William   Penn,  the 
Founder,  descendants  of  which  still  reside  in  Pennsylvania. 


lo  PENN 

William  Penn  Jr.,  only  son  of  the  Founder,  by  his  first  wife,  Gulielma 
Maria  Springett,  who  lived  to  mature  years,  married  and  left  issue ;  was  born 
at  Worminghurst,  in  Sussex,  his  mother's  estate,  March  14,  1680-1,  ten  days 
after  the  grant  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania  to  his  father  by  Charles  11. 
His  mother  died  when  he  was  less  than  thirteen  years  of  age,  and  his  father 
married  Hannah  Callowhill,  a  little  over  twenty  months  later.  Of  his  child- 
hood, education  and  youth  little  is  known.  He  married,  January  11,  1698-9. 
when  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age,  at  a  meeting  of  the  religious  Society  of 
Friends,  at  Bristol,  England,  Mary  Jones,  four  years  his  senior,  daughter  of 
Charles  Jones  Jr.,  of  Bristol,  merchant,  by  his  wife  Martha  Wathers,  and 
granddaughter  of  Charles  and  Ann  Jones,  of  Redcliffe  street,  Bristol,  who  were 
among  the  early  Friends  of  that  city ;  Charles  Jones'  name  appearing  among 
those  mentioned  by  Besse,  in  his  "Sufferings  of  Quakers",  as  early  as  1663, 
and  later. 

William  Penn  Jr.,  did  not  accompany  his  father  on  his  second  visit  to  Penn- 
sylvania in  1699,  his  young  wife  preferring  to  remain  in  England,  and  his  first 
visit  to  his  father's  Province  was  in  February,  1703-4,  when  he  accompanied 
Lieut.  Gov.  John  Evans.  This  visit  was  the  result  of  a  long  cherished  plan  of 
his  father,  that  his  son  might  get  acquainted  with  the  new  country  as  well  as 
acquire  a  mode  of  living  more  in  keeping  with  his  income,  he  having  developed 
extravagant  tastes  in  England.  In  a  letter  to  Logan,  the  father  earnestly  recom- 
mended his  son  to  the  society  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  Richard  Hill  and  Isaac 
Norris,  in  whom  he  had  the  greatest  confidence.  The  society  of  the  young  and 
dissolute  Lieutenant  Governor,  however,  proved  disastrous,  and  young  Penn  was 
even  more  extravagant  in  Pennsylvania  than  in  England,  and  finally  broke  with 
the  Quakers  altogether.  He  sold  his  Manor  of  Williamstadt,  on  the  Schuylkill, 
including  the  site  of  Norristown,  to  Isaac  Norris,  and  in  November  took  passage 
on  the  "Jersey"  for  England.  While  here  he  officiated  as  a  member  of  Pro- 
vincial Council,  and  the  good  friends  of  his  father  doubtless  did  their  best  to 
reconcile  him  to  a  life  in  the  Colony.  A  portion  of  his  time  was  spent  at  Penns- 
bury,  Penn's  Manor,  in  Bucks  county,  but  during  the  greater  part  of  the  time 
he  and  James  Logan,  his  father's  secretary,  kept  bachelor's  hall,  in  William 
Clark's  newly  built  house,  on  Chestnut  street  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Third 
street,  where  later  Gov.  Evans  joined  them.  Prior  to  coming  to  Pennsylvania. 
William  Penn  Jr.  and  his  family  had  resided  at  Worminghurst.  which  he  had 
inherited  from  his  mother,  and  on  his  return  he  again  took  up  his  residence 
there,  but  becoming  involved  in  debt  sold  it  in  1707.  From  this  date  he  seems 
to  have  led  a  somewhat  roving  life,  part  of  his  time  being  doubtless  spent  on 
the  Irish  estates  inherited  from  his  grandfather,  Admiral  Sir  William  Penn.  and 
some  part  of  it  certainly  spent  in  France.  After  1712  his  wife  and  children  spent 
the  greater  part  of  the  time  with  their  step-grandmother,  Hannah  Penn.  at 
Ruscombe,  in  Berkshire,  where  William  Penn.  the  elder,  and  his  family  matle 
their  home  from  1710  until  after  the  death  of  the  Founder  in  1718. 

William  Penn  Jr.  had  expected  to  succeed  his  father  as  Proprietor  and  Gov- 
ernor of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  much  chagrined  at  the  provisions  of  his  father's 
last  will,  executed  in  17 12.  He  even  took  measures  to  obstruct  the  proving  of 
the  will  and  sent  instructions  to  Governor  Keith  to  call  the  Council  and  Assembly 
together  to  have  him  proclaimed  Proprietor  and  Governor,  but  later  acquiesced 


PENN  II 

in  the  provisions  of  the  will.  He  survived  his  father  but  two  years,  dying  June 
23,  1720,  either  in  the  north  of  France  or  in  Liege,  Belgium,  the  place  of  his 
death  being  a  matter  of  dispute.  His  wife  survived  him  thirteen  years,  dying 
about  December  i,  and  was  buried  December  5,  1733. 

Issue  of  William  Penn  Jr.,  by  Mary  Jones,  his  wife: — 

Gulielma  Maria,  b.  Nov.  10,  1699,  at  Worminghurst,  d.  Jan.  17,  1739-40,  "the  Beauty", 
and  "Sweet  Girl",  so  often  mentioned  in  her  grandfather's  leUers.  She  m.  (first) 
"early  in  life"  Aubrey,  son  of  Rees  and  Martha  (Awbrey)  Thomas,  of  Merion,  Pa., 
and  nephew  of  William  Aubrey  who  had  married  her  aunt,  Letitia  Penn.  He  did 
not  long  survive  his  marriage  and  left  one  son,  William  Penn  Thomas,  d-  unm.  1742. 
Gulielma  Maria  (Penn)  Thomas  m.  (second)  Charles,  son  of  George  and  grandson 
of  Judge  Thomas  Fell,  of  Swarthmore,  whose  widow  became  the  wife  of  George  Fox ; 
and  had  issue : 

Robert  Edward  Fell,  of  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields;  bap.  Nov.  29,  1726;  Captain 
of  Marines,  1756,  later  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  English  Army;  d.  1787,  unm. 
and  without  issue. 
Mary  Margaretta  Fell,  bap.  Aug.  23,  1724;  m.  John  Barron;  residing  in  Leeds, 
England,  May  26,  1750,  when  she  writes  to  Thomas  Penn ;  said  to  have  left  no 
issue. 
Gulielma  Maria  Frances  Fell,  bap.  Aug.  10,  1725;  m.  John  Newcomb:  in  a  letter 
to  Thomas  Penn,  dated  Oct-  22,  1750,  Newcomb.  announces  birth  of  "fine 
little  boy",  who  by  his  "dear  little  woman's  particular  desire"  has  been  named 
Thomas  Penn  Newcomb.  A  former  letter  had  referred  to  "our  little  girl". 
It  has  been  commonly  assumed  that  this  line  of  the  descendants  of  William 
Penn.  the  Founder,  has  become  extinct. 

John    Newcomb,   husband   of   Gulielma   Maria   Frances,  was  a  clergyman   of 
the  Established  Church,  and  at  the  date  of  the  marriage  vicar  of  Leire,  near 
Lutterworth,  Leicestershire.    They  had  issue,  Gulielma  Maria;  Susanna  Margar- 
etta; Philadelphia,  who  m.  Thomas  Brookholding,  John  Springett,  and  William 
Hawkins   Newcomb. 
Springett  Penn  Fell  died  without  issue. 
Springett  Penn,  b.  Feb.   10.   1 700-1,  at  Worminghurst,  was  the  "little  Saracen"  so  lov- 
ingly alluded  to  in  his  grandfather's  letters.     He  spent  much  of  his  time  after  arriving 
at  manhood  on  the  Penn  estates  in  Ireland,  and  d.  unm.  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  Feb.  8, 
1730-1.      He    instituted    Chancery    proceedings   over   the   will    of  his   grandfather,   the 
Founder,  and  while  his  suit  was  still  pending,  joined  Hannah   Penn,  his  step-grand- 
mother, in  the  appointment  of   Patrick   Gordon  as   Lieutenant   Governor  of    Pennsyl- 
vania in   1725.     At  the  meeting  of  the   Provincial   Council  of  the   Province,   held   at 
Philadelphia,  June  22,  1726,  the  commission  of  Major  Gordon,  "from  Springett   Penn 
Esq.,  with  the  assent  of  Hannah   Penn,  and  his  Majesty's  royal  approbation  thereof" 
was  produced  and  read,  and   "was   forthwith  published  at  the  Court   House."     This 
was  his  sole  connection  with  the  Province  of   Pennsylvania. 
William  Penn   (3d)   was  b.  at  Worminghurst,  March  21,  1702-3,  and  through  his  first 
marriage  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Penn-Gaskell  family. 

William  Penn  (3d)  spent  his  childhood  and  youth  under  the  care  of  his 
mother  and  step-grandmother.  He  was  seventeen  at  the  death  of  his  father  in 
1720,  and  from  that  time  for  several  years  spent  most  of  his  time  in  Ireland. 
On  the  death  of  his  elder  brother,  Springett  Penn,  in  1731,  he  inherited  the 
remaining  estates  of  the  elder  line  of  the  Penn  family,  of  which  he  then  became 
the  eldest  male  heir.  These  included  the  estate  of  Shanagarry,  granted  to  his 
great-grandfather.  Admiral  Sir  William  Penn,  by  the  Protector  in  1660,  and 
an  estate  known  as  the  "Rocks"  in  Sussex,  a  remnant  of  the  estate  of  his 
grandmother,  Gulielma  Maria  Springett,  whose  whole  possessions  of  course 
descended  in  the  elder  line.  Through  the  break  with  the  Friends  in  Philadelphia 
by  his  father,  William  Penn  Jr.,  the  family  seem  to  have  entirely  withdrawn 
from  the  Society,  but  on  the  approach  of  his  marriage,  William  Penn  united 
himself  with  the  Society  and  was  married  under  the  care  of  "the  people  of  God 


12  PENN 

called  Quakers,  in  Wandsworth,  in  the  county  of  Surrey,  according  to  the  good 
order  used  amongst  them"  *  *  *  "on  the  7th  day  of  the  month  called 
December  in  the  year  1732,"  to  Christian  Forbes,  daughter  of  Alexander  Forbes, 
of  London,  merchant,  and  Jane  his  wife,  a  daughter  of  Robert  Barclay,  of  Ury, 
the  author  of  the  famous  Quaker  book,  the  "Apology",  and  through  him  a 
descendant  of  the  royal  family  of  Stuarts;  Robert  Barclay's  mother,  the  wife  of 
Col.  David  Barclay,  of  Ury,  (who  served  under  Gustavus  Adolphus,  in  the 
Thirty  Years'  War)  was  Lady  Catherine  Gordon,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
Gordon,  second  son  of  the  Earl  of  Sutherland,  and  a  cousin  of  James  VL  of 
Scotland,  later  James  L,  of  England.  Through  this  marriage  of  Col.  David 
Barclay  to  Lady  Catharine  Gordon,  their  descendants  trace  their  ancestry  through 
all  the  English  Kings  back  from  Richard  IL  to  King  Alfred. 

The  father  of  Alexander  Forbes  was  John  Forbes,  of  Auchorties,  near  Aber- 
deen, Scotland.  Ury,  the  home  of  the  Barclays,  being  an  adjoining  estate,  the 
two  families  were  closely  associated,  and  both  joined  in  the  Quaker  movement 
that  invaded  Scotland  in  the  latter  half  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  the 
heads  of  both  families  suffered  imprisonment  at  Aberdeen  and  were  otherwise  per- 
secuted for  their  religious  faith.  The  life  and  works  of  Robert  Barclay,  of  Ury,  and 
his  association  with  the  colonization  of  New  Jersey  is  too  well  known  to  need 
repetition  in  giving  an  account  of  his  descendants  through  the  Penn  family. 

The  married  life  of  William  Penn  (3d)  with  his  first  wife  was  pathetically 
brief,  as  she  died  November  i,  1733,  within  a  year  of  her  marriage,  and  soon 
after  the  birth  of  her  daughter,  Christiana  Gulielma  Penn,  and  at  the  early  age 
of  eighteen  years.  She  was  buried  among  the  Penn  family  at  Jordans.  In  a 
sketch  of  her  in  "Piety  Promoted",  her  religious  character  is  highly  extolled. 

William  Penn  (3d)  married  Csecond),  December  7,  1736,  Ann  Vaux,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Vaux,  of  London,  and  thereafter  lived  principally  in  Ireland,  chiefly 
at  the  ancestral  estate  of  Shanagarry,  where  he  died  February  6,  1746-7.  He 
had  by  his  second  wife  a  son,  Springett  Penn,  born  at  Cork,  Ireland,  March  i, 
1737-8,  died  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  November,  1766,  unmarried,  being  the  last 
survivor  of  the  name  descended  from  Gulielma  Maria  Springett. 

The  widow,  Ann  (Vaux)  Penn,  to  whom  Springett  had  devised  his  estate, 
married  (second)  Alexander  Durdin,  and  on  her  death  bed  willed  to  him  the 
half  of  the  Shanagarry  estate  devised  to  her  by  her  son.  A  great  deal  of  liti- 
gation followed  between  Durdin,  (and  later  his  heirs)  and  Christiana  Gulielma 
Penn-Gaskell,  daughter  of  William  Penn  (2d),  by  his  first  marriage. 

Christi.^n.\  Gulielma  Penn,  only  child  of  William  Penn  (3d),  by  his  first 
wife,  Christiana  Forbes,  and  after  the  death  of  her  half-brother,  Springett  Penn, 
the  only  surviving  representative  of  the  elder  line  of  the  descendants  of  William 
Penn,  the  Founder,  was  born  October  22,  1733,  and  was  brought  up  in  the  family 
of  her  maternal  grandfather,  Alexander  Forbes,  at  Dowgate  Hill,  their  London 
Home,  and  at  Auchorties,  Scotland,  the  ancestral  estate  of  the  Forbes  family. 
Her  father,  W^illiam  Penn  (3d),  seems  also  to  have  resided  with  his  father-in-law 
until  he  contracted  his  second  marriage  with  Ann  Vaux,  after  which  he  resided 
in  Ireland.  Alexander  Forbes  died  May  25,  1740,  but  Christiana  Gulielma  Penn 
continued  to  reside  with  the  family  until  her  marriage  in  1761  to  Peter  Gaskell. 
of  Bath,  and  Ingersley  Hall.  Macclesfield,  Cheshire,  England. 

Peter  Gaskell   was  brought  up  in  the   family  of  his  kinsman,  the  Earl  of 


PENN  13 

Powis  and  Herbert,  (his  father  having  died  when  he  was  young,  was  buried  at 
Presbury  Church,  near  Macclesfield).  He  was  a  connection  of  the  Gaskell  fam- 
ily of  Beaumont  Hall,  Lancaster,  Kiddington  Hall,  Oxfordshire,  and  the  Gas- 
kells  of  Rolf's  Hold,  in  Bucks,  as  shown  by  the  arms  he  bore,  viz:  Three  bars 
engrailed  vert,  in  chief  of  a  rose  gu.  barbed  and  seeded  ppr.  between  two  tre- 
foils slipped  of  the  second;  crest,  a  sinister  arm  embowed  with  an  anchor 
with  cable,  sable.  Motto,  over  "Spes".  These  arms,  quartered  with  those  of  the 
Penn  family,  accompanied  the  engraving  of  the  portrait  of  William  Penn  in 
armour,  inscribed  to  Peter  Penn-Gaskell,  grandson  of  Peter  Gaskell,  above  men- 
tioned, by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1877. 

Christiana  Gulielma  Penn  inherited  from  her  father  a  one-half  interest  in  the 
Shanagarry  estate  in  Ireland,  that  had  descended  from  Admiral  Sir  William 
Penn,  though  it  was  involved  in  litigation  for  a  period  of  forty  years,  between 
her  and  her  heirs,  and  those  of  Alexander  Durdin,  the  second  husband  of  her 
stepmother,  Ann  (Vaux)  Penn,  the  final  decree  to  possess  that  and  the  other 
Irish  estates  involved,  being  obtained  by  her  son,  Thomas  Penn-Gaskell,  of 
Shanagarry.  Mrs.  Gaskell  also  inherited  valuable  lands  and  lots  in  and  around 
Philadelphia,  from  her  great-aunt,  Letitia  Aubrey,  including  the  old  Manor  of 
Mount  Joy  and  Fagg's  Manor,  the  latter  being  a  grant  of  10,000  acres  to  Sir 
John  Fagg,  from  whom  it  descended  to  her.  It  lay  partly  in  Chester  county  and 
partly  in  New  Castle  county.  A  great  part  of  this  was  sold  prior  to  her  mar- 
riage to  Peter  Gaskell  by  virtue  of  a  power  of  attorney  from  her  to  William 
Peters  and  Richard  Hockley,  dated  March  5,  1755.  She  likewise  inherited  con- 
siderable entailed  estate  in  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  from  her  father,  her 
uncle,  Springett  Penn,  and  the  Fell-Thomas  branch  of  the  family,  being  the 
sole  surviving  heir  of  the  elder  branch  of  the  Founder's  family.  In  1774  pro- 
ceedings were  begun  to  efifect  a  common  recovery  in  order  to  dock  the  entail, 
and  considerable  litigation  ensued  which  continued  until  her  death. 

Christiana  Gulielma  (Penn)  Gaskell  died  at  her  house  in  Thornbaugh  street, 
Bedford  square,  London,  England,  March  24,  1803,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years,  having  survived  her  husband,  Peter  Gaskell,  eighteen  years.  There  are 
two  portraits  of  Christiana  Gulielma  Penn-Gaskell,  one  in  the  possession 
of  Alexander  Penn-Gaskell,  of  London,  and  the  other  in  possession  of  her  great- 
great-granddaughter,  Christiana  Gulielma  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  Philadelphia. 
Peter  Gaskell  and  Christiana  Gulielma  Penn  had  issue:- — 

Thomas  Penn  Gaskell,  b.  1762,  eldest  son,  inherited  the  Irish  estates  and  those  in  Penn- 
sylvania. He  m.  in  1794,  Lady  Diana  Sackville.  daughter  of  the  Dowager  Countess 
of  Glandore,  who  lived  but  a  few  years,  and  their  only  child  died  in  infancy.  He 
therefore  died  without  issue,  and  his  estates  descended  to  his  younger  brother,  Peter 
Penn-Gaskell,  of  Shanagarry.  A  contemporary  obituary  notice  says,  "Died  at  his 
house  in  Fitz  William  Square,  Dublin,  on  the  Ipth  of  October,  1823,  aged  61.  Thomas 
Penn-Gaskell  of  Shanagarry  in  the  county  of  Cork,  Esq.  This  gentleman  was  the 
heir-general  of  the  celebrated  legislator  William  Penn.  *  *  *  His  estate  in  the 
county  of  Cork  Mr.  Gaskell  inherited  by  lineal  succession  from  his  illustrious  ancestor 
Admiral  Sir  William  Penn.  *  *  *  After  being  engaged  for  40  years  in  a  suit  in 
the  Irish  chancery  and  expending  upwards  of  £20,000.  he  obtained  a  decree  to  possess 
his  estates.  He  married,  in  the  year  1794  a  daughter  of  the  Dowager  Countess  of 
Glandore,  who  lived  but  a  few  years  and  bad  one  son  who  died  an  infant". 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  176.S,  d.  July  16,  1831 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Edwards;  of  whom 
presently. 

Alexander  Forbes  Gaskell,  who  d.  s.  p. 

William  Gaskell,  of  London,  England,  later  known  as  Penn-Gaskell,  married;  children: 


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William  Penn-Gaskell,  of  London,  b.  Feb.  20,  1808;  m.  and  had  ten  children,  the 
youngiest  of  whom,  George  Penn-Gaskell,  resided  in  1898,  at  No.  12  NicoU  road, 
Willesden,   S.   W.    London. 

Elizabeth  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  s.  p. 

Jane  Gaskell,  d.  s.  p. 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell,  second  son  of  Peter  Gaskell  and  Christiana  Gulielma 
Penn,  born  at  Bath,  England,  1763,  came  to  Pennsylvania  after  the  death  of 
his  father  in  1785,  and  resided  at  "Ashwood"  near  Villanova,  Delaware  county, 
after  1796,  in  which  year  he  purchased  the  estate  there  which  remained  in  the 
family  until  1888,  when  it  was  sold  by  Col.  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  U.  S.  A., 
to  whom  it  had  been  devised  by  his  aunt,  Eliza  Penn-Gaskell,  to  Dr.  J.  M. 
DaCosta.  On  May  31,  1824,  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  obtained  a  "Royal  License"  to 
assume  the  additional  surname  of  his  mother,  Penn.  At  the  death  of  his  brother, 
Thomas  Penn-Gaskell,  he  inherited  Shanagarry  and  the  other  Irish  estates.  He 
died  at  "Ashwood",  July  16,  1831. 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell  married,  in  1793,  at  St.  David's,  Radnor,  Elizabeth 
Edwards,  born  1772,  daughter  of  Nathan  Edwards,  of  Radnor,  Delaware  county, 
who  survived  him  but  three  years,  dying  July  19,  1834.  In  her  will  she  directs 
that  three  thousand  dollars  be  expended  in  erecting  tombstones  over  her  hus- 
band, herself  and  her  children  in  the  Lower  Merion  burial  ground  (back  of  Bryn 
Mawr  College). 

Issue  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth  (Edwards)  Penn-Gaskell: — 

William    Penn-Gaskell,   b.    1794,   d.   unm.   October    12,    1817. 

Thomas    Penn-Gaskell,    "of    Shanagarry",    referred    to    in    Burke's    "Landed    Gentry", 

edition  of  1879,  as  "of  Ballymaloe,  County  Cork.  Ireland,  and  Penn  Hall,  Montgomery 

county,    Pennsylvania,   born    1796."      He    was   married   Dec.   22,    1825,   by   Right   Rev. 

Bishop  White  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Blair 

McClenachan.     He  d.  at  his  home  "Penn  Lodge"  in  Lower  Merion,  near  Philadelphia, 

Sunday  morning,  Oct.   18,  1846,  in  his  S2d  year,  and  was  buried  in  his  vault  at  St. 

John's   Roman   Catholic   Church,   Thirteenth   street,   above   Chestnut,   where  his   wife. 

who  died  December  21,  1867,  is  also  buried.     A  portrait  of  Thomas  Penn-Gaskell,  by 

the  artist  Henry  Inman,  is  in  possession  of  his  grand-niece,   Gulielma   Penn-Gaskell 

Hall. 
Eliza  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  1798,  d.  unm.  at  "Ashwood",  where  she  had  always  resided.  Nov. 

23,  1865.    By  her  will  she  devised  "Ashwood"  to  her  nephew,  Col.  Peter  Penn-Gaskell 

Hall. 
Alexander  Forbes  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  unm.  at  "Ashwood"  Sept.  8,  1829,  "aged  29". 
Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Jr.,  b.  April  3,  1803,  d.  April  6,  1866;  m.  Louisa  Adelaide  Heath; 

of   whom   presently. 
Christiana   Gulielma   Penn-Gaskell,   b.    1806,   d.    March   29,    1830;   married   William 

Von    Swartzbreck    Hall ;    of    whom    later. 
Jane  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  1808,  d.  unm.  July  7,  1852,  bur.  at  Lower  Merion  Baptist  Church. 

beside    her    parents. 

Isaac  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  1810,  named  in  Browning's  "Americans  of  Royal 
Descent"  as  "Dr.  Isaac  Penn-Gaskell,  of  Paris",  d.  unm.  Oct.  24,  1842.  His 
will  bearing  date  the  day  previous  to  his  death  was  probated  May  16,  1845, 
though  letters  of  administration  had  previously  been  granted  to  his  eldest 
brother,  Thomas  Penn-Gaskell,  who  in  withdrawing  them  states  his  "belief  of 
the  mental  incapacity  of  the  decedent  to  make  a  will  remains  unaltered." 

Peter  Penn-G.^skell,  "of  Shanagarry  in  the  county  of  Cork,  Ireland,  and  1613 
Chestnut  street,  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,"  as  he  styles  himself  in  his  will, 
was  born  at  "Ashwood",  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  April  3,  1803.    At  the 


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death  of  his  brother  Thomas  in  1846,  he  became  the  eldest  male  representative 
of  the  elder  line  of  the  descendants  of  William  Penn,  the  Founder,  and  as  such 
inherited  the  Irish  estate  of  Shanagarry,  which  at  his  death  in  Philadelphia, 
April  6,  1866,  he  devised  to  his  eldest  son  William,  and  default  of  issue  of  him 
to  his  other  son  Peter  Penn-Gaskell,  2d,  to  whom  it  descended.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 15,  1825,  Louise  Adelaide  Heath,  daughter  of  Charles  P.  and  Esther  (Keely) 
Heath,  and  a  descendant,  through  her  mother,  from  Capt.  Anthony  Wayne, 
grandfather  of  Gen.  Anthony  Wayne  of  the  Revolution,  the  latter  being  a  first 
cousin  to  her  great-grandmother,  Esther  Wayne. 

Louisa  Adelaide  (Heath)  Penn-Gaskell  survived  her  husband  twelve  years. 
Her  will  dated  at  London,  June  29,  1869,  gives  her  residence  as  "of  Philadel- 
phia, in  the  United  States  of  America,  but  now  residing  at  Eastbourne  Ter- 
race, Hyde  Park,  London".  Three  codicils  were  later  added,  the  last  on  March 
27,  1877,  and  it  was  proven  in  Philadelphia,  July  30,  1878. 
Issue  of  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  and  Louisa  Adelaide  Heath: — 

Elizabeth  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  1823,  d.  1869;  m.  Samuel  Ruflf  Skillern,  M.  D.,  of  Huntsville, 
Ala.,  later  of  Philadelphia,  a  nephew  of  the  famous  international  beauty  and  wit, 
Madame  Claude  Le  Verte,  of  Mobile,  Ala.     Their  only  surviving  child  was, 

Penn-Gaskell  Skillern,  b.  at  Columbia,  S.  C,  April  29,  1856,  educated  at  Rugby 
Academy,  Philadelphia,  Andover  Academy  and  Pennsylvania  Military  Acad- 
emy, He  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  Univ.  Pa.,  and  received  his 
medical  degree  in  1877,  and  has  since  practiced  his  profession  in  Philadelphia, 
at   241    South   Thirteenth   street. 

Dr.  Penn-Gaskell  Skillern  m.  (first)  Oct.  17,  1878,  Anna,  daughter  of  Robert 
Ralston  Dorsey,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Anna,  who  d.  Oct.  8,  1900.  He  m. 
(second)  June  25,  1903,  Theodocia  Hendrickson  Hartman,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Theodocia  (Imlay)  Hartman.  By  his  first  wife  Dr.  Skillern  had  issue: 
Violet  Skillern,  b.  Nov.  13,  1879;  Penn-Gaskell  Skillern  Jr.,  b.  March  26,  1882. 
Louella  Skillern,  the  other  child  of  Dr.  Samuel  R.  and  Elizabeth  (Penn- 
Gaskell)  Skillern,  d.  aged  three  years. 
Louisa  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  1853,  without  issue;  m.  May  15,  1845,  at  St.  Stephen's  Church, 

Philadelphia,   William   Gerald   FitzGerald,   of  Ireland. 
Mary   Gulielma   Penn-Gaskell,  d.   in  childhood. 
Gulielma  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  unm.  in  1852. 
Hetty  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  unm. 

Mary  Penn-Gaskell,  d.  Aug.  22,  1877;  m.  in  1855,  Dr.  Isaac  T.  Coates,  of  Chester 
county.  Pa.,  who  d.  June  23.  1883;  they  had  issue,  one  child.  Harold  Penn-Gaskell 
Coates.   m.  Jarvis,   of   Philadelphia. 

William  Penn-Gaskell,  born  1836,  died  December  6,  1865;  entered  the  U.  S. 
service,  August  9,  1862,  as  Second  Lieutenant  of  an  Independent  Company  of 
Acting  Engineers  recruited  under  authority  of  the  War  Department;  was  pro- 
moted to  First  Lieutenant,  December  16,  1862,  and  to  Captain,  March  30,  1863, 
and  after  serving  with  great  credit  was  discharged  on  surgeon's  certificate,  July 
5,  1864.  He  died  December  6,  1865,  after  a  lingering  and  distressing  illness  of 
consumption.  An  obituary  notice  in  a  New  Orleans  newspaper  of  January  13, 
1866,  says  he  died  surrounded  by  every  member  of  his  family,  father,  mother, 
brother  and  sisters  and  that  his  scholastic  attainments  for  one  so  young 
were  very  great,  being  well  versed  in  science,  metaphysics,  history,  romance  and 
poetry,  "possessed  of  a  modest  and  retiring  character,  yet  when  his  sweet  voice 
was  heard  dignity  of  speech,  good  sense  and  social  eloquence  accompanied  it. 
He  would  have  been  the  heir  of  Shanagarry,  both  as  eldest  male  heir  and  devisee 
of  his  father's  will,  but  died  before  his   father. 


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Jane  Penn-Gaskell,  married  Washington  Irving,  U.  S.  N.,  a  nephew  of  the 
famous  author  whose  name  he  bore.     She  died  without  issue  in  1863. 

Emily  Penn-Gaskell,  married,  in  1864,  John  Paul  Quinn,  M.  D.,  Surgeon 
U.  S.  N.,  and  had  issue — Granville  Penn-Gaskell  Quinn,  born  1871,  died  1893. 
Peter  Penn-Gaskell,  born  October  24,  1843.  succeeded  to  Shanagarry  and  the 
other  Irish  estates  on  the  death  of  his  father  in  1866,  and  was  the  owner  thereof 
until  his  death  in  1905.  He  was  educated  at  Heidelburg,  and  returning  to  Amer- 
ica, entered  the  United  States  Army,  was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  of 
First  Regiment  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  April  7,  1862,  promoted  First  Lieutenant, 
November  7,  1862,  and  to  Captain,  October  23,  1863.  He  resigned  the  latter 
commission  February  3,  1864,  to  become  Major  of  the  Second  Battalion  Louisi- 
ana Cavalry,  in  which  position  he  served  until  September  7,  1864.  After  suc- 
ceeding to  the  Irish  estates  in  1866,  he  went  to  Europe,  and  July  6,  1869,  was 
married  to  Mary  Kathleen,  eldest  daughter  of  Charles  Edward  Stubbs,  Sussex 
Square,  Hyde  Park,  London.  Soon  after  his  marriage,  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  and 
his  wife  made  a  visit  to  the  United  States,  but  he  lived  almost  entirely  abroad  until 
his  death,  mostly  in  London,  where  his  mother  resided  with  him  for  some  years. 
In  1877  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  inscribed  to  Peter  Penn-Gas- 
kell the  engraving  after  the  painting  of  William  Penn  in  armour.  Accompany- 
ing this  engraving  are  the  arms  of  Penn-Gaskell  of  Shanagarry,  which  as 
described  by  Burke,  are: — 

Quarterly:  ist  and  4th  or.,  three  bars  engrailed  vert,  in  chief  a  rose  gu.  barbed 
and  seeded  ppr.  between  two  trefoils  slipped  of  the  second,  for  Gaskell,  (being 
practically  the  arms  born  by  the  Gaskells  of  Beaumont  Hall,  Lancashire,  Kid- 
dington  Hall,  Oxford,  and  those  of  Rolfe's  Hold,  in  Bucks.)  2d  and  3d,  the 
arms  of  Penn,  viz: — arg.  on  a  fesse  sable  three  plates  a  canton,  gu.  there  on  a 
crown,  ppr.  representing  the  royal  crown  of  Charles  II.;  crests:  for  Gaskell,  a 
sinister  arm  embowed  with  an  anchor  erect  with  cable,  sable;  motto-over 
"Spes";  of  Penn,  A  demi-lion  arg.  gorged  with  a  collar  sa.  charged  with  three 
plates;  motto-over,  "Pennsylvania." 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell  and  Mary  Kathleen  Stubbs,  had  issue:  William  Penn- 
Gaskell,  unm.,  Winifred  Penn-Gaskell,  unm.,  Percy  Penn-Gaskell,  unm. 

Christian.\  Gulielm.'S.  Penn-Gaskell,  second  daughter  of  Peter  Penn-Gas- 
kell (  1st),  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Edwards,  born  at  "Ashwood";  Delaware  county, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1806,  married,  January  2,  1827,  William  Von  Swartzbreck 
Hall,  born  at  Wavertree,  Lancashire,  England,  in  1799.  He  was  the  second 
son  of  Richard  Hall  of  Wavertree,  a  prominent  Liverpool  merchant  and  vessel 
owner,  extensively  engaged  in  the  South  American  and  West  Indian  trade,  and 
also  interested  in  the  "Strafifordshire  Potteries",  the  management  of  a  branch 
of  which,  brought  William  Von  S.  Hall,  his  son,  to  America,  in  1826. 

William  Von  Swartzbreck  Hall's  mother  was  Elizabeth  Von  Swartzbreck,  of 
whom  her  son.  Dr.  Edward  Hall,  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  London,  wrote 
in  his  diary  in  1823:  "Our  mother's  family  was  originally  German;  our  great- 
grandfather, by  name  Edward  Von  Swartzbreck,  was  the  first  that  settled  in 
England.  He  came  over  with  his  cousin,  Arnold  Yost  Von  Keppell,  in  the  reign 
of  William  III.  Keppell  was  created  Earl  of  Albermarle,  and  his  descendant 
now  sits  in  the  House  of  Lords,  and  is  third  cousin  to  our  mother.  Edward 
Von   Swartzbreck  married  .Ann   Gaunt,  of  Singleton.  Lancashire   (Von  Keppell 


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had  been  made  Viscount  of  Bury,  near  Singleton),  descended  from  John  of 
Gaunt,  Earl  of  Lincoln.  Their  son,  James  Von  Swartzbreck,  married  Alicia 
Porter,  and  was  father  of  Elizabeth  Von  Swartzbreck,  who  married  Richard 
Hall,  of  'Small  House',  Broughton,  Yorkshire,  in  1796.  James  Von  Swartz- 
breck had  four  brothers  who  suffered  on  the  scaffold  for  abetting  Charles 
Stuart,  'the  Pretender',  during  the  uprising  in  Lancashire." 

The  American  branch  of  the  Hall  family  has  been  of  Gargrave,  in  the  West 
Riding  of  Yorkshire,  since  the  latter  part  of  1500,  where  it  was  established  by 
John  Hall,  son  of  Robert  Hall,  of  "Leventhorpe"  (an  estate  five  miles  east  of 
Leeds,  York).  The  pedigree  of  Robert  Hall,  of  "Leventhorpe",  which  traces 
back  through  the  Leventhorpe  family,  from  1531,  was  compiled  by  "Beckwith" 
from  deeds,  wills,  and  parish  records.  From  1531  to  1700,  Hall  of  Leventhorpe 
is  contained  in  Dugdale's  visitation  of  Yorkshire,  edited  by  Foster.  The  Skipton 
and  Gargrave  branch  of  the  family  is  mentioned  in  the  Herald's  visitation  of 
London,  1568,  and  Foster  has  continued  the  East  Lieling  branch  to  its  living 
representative,   Maj.-Gen.    Hall-Plumber,   of  the   English  army. 

The  first  mention  of  the  family  in  the  Herald's  book  states  that  "Robert  Hall 
married  the  heiress  of  Sir  John  Leventhorpe  in  1394,"  and  founded  the  family 
of  the  Halls  of  Leventhorpe. 

A  claim  made  by  the  Skipton  and  Gargrave  branch  of  the  family,  but  not 
proved  to  date,  makes  Robert  Hall,  married  1394,  the  great-grandson  of  Sir 
Francis  de  Halle,  of  Halle,  in  the  Tyrol,  who  entered  the  service  of  Edward  HL 
of  England.  His  pedigree,  as  passed  by  the  Heralds'  College  in  1545  (see  visi- 
tation Shropshire  Hall  of  North  Hall),  shows  Francis  de  Halle  to  have  been  one 
of  twenty-one  children,  issue  of  Albert  L  (Hapsburg),  Emperor  of  Austria,  died 
1303,  whose  descent  is  traced  to  760  A.  D.  and  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Halle,  died 
1313,  (see  Robinson's  "Royal  Pedigrees,"  and  Coxe's  "House  of  Austria.")  Prob- 
ability, at  least,  is  leant  to  the  Hapsburg  claim  by  the  most  possible  origin  of  the 
Hall  arms,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  following  pedigree  of  Hall  of  Northall. 

Sir  Francis  De  Halle,  of  Halle,  in  the  Tyrol,  son  of  Albert  L  of  Austria,  and 
Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Halle,  entered  the  service  of  Edward  HL  of  England,  and 
was  joint  marshal  with  Sir  Walter  Manny  of  the  army  of  "the  good  Duke  of  Lan- 
caster," in  the  war  in  Guienne,  in  1544;  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  Poitiers  with 
the  Black  Prince;  40th  Knight  of  the  Garter;  Governor  of  Calais,  etc.,  etc.  (Frois- 
sart's  Chronology.)  He  married  Blanche,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Artois,  of 
Richmond,  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and  had  issue : 

Robert  Halle,  a  Knight  in  the  Westminster  Roll,  reign  of  Richard  II:  m.  Maria,  sole 
heiress  of  Robert  A.  Ketfield,  Knight  de  Orleton  (or  Moreton?),  of  county  Hereford, 
and   had   issue : — 

Henry  Hall,  Master  of  the  Horse  under  Richard  II.,  and  Governor  of  Ross  in 
Ireland.      (His  brothers  were:   Francis,  John   and   Alexander,  of  county  Here- 
ford).    He  married  Margaretha,  daughter  of  John  de  Eureux,  and  had 'issue  :— 
Robert  Hall,  who  is  claimed  to  have  married  the  heiress  of  Sir  John  Leven- 
thorpe,  in    1394. 

Sir  Francis  de  Halle's  arms,  as  placed  on  his  Garter  Stall  in  Westminster,  show 
the  Dragon  of  Halle,  etc.  His  son,  Robert  Hall,  married  into  the  A.  Ketfield  de 
Orleton  (or  Moreton)  family,  whose  arms  were:  Argent,  a  fess,  between  two 
greyhounds,  courant,  sable,  and  may  have  been  adopted  by  him. 


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Henry  Hall,  his  son,  was  Governor  of  Ross,  in  the  south  of  Ireland,  which  had 
recently  been  taken  by  the  English.  The  badge  of  Ross  is  a  greyhound  and  stag, 
courant,  since  the  English  occupation,  and  may  have  originated  with  its  first  gov- 
ernor. 

Robert  Hall  (claimed  son  of  Henry)  bore  arms  of  Leventhorpe :  Argent,  a 
fess,  between  two  greyhounds,  courant  sable — crest ;  on  a  chapeau,  gules,  turned 
up  argent,  a  greyhound,  sejant,  ermine.  Motto :  Quo  fata  vocant  ( where  ever 
Fate  may  call).  There  is  a  painting  of  these  arms  in  the  Swillington  Parish 
Church,  near  the  estate  of  Leventhorpe,  dating  from  the  sixteenth  century, 
which  has  the  word  "Haste"  written  over  the  crest.  The  motto  would  seem  an 
appropriate  one  for  an  adventurer  such  as  Francis  de  Halle  appears  to  have  been. 
The  arms  of  Leventhorpe  were :  Argent,  a  fess,  between  three  fleur-de-lis. 

While  Henry  Hall  was  Governor  of  Ross  and  "Master  of  the  Horse"  to  Rich- 
ard n.,  John  Leventhorpe  was  also  high  in  favor  with  that  monarch.  In  fact, 
both  families  were  very  prominent  prior  to  the  Reformation.  They  were  of 
those  Yorkshire  and  Lancaster  families  who  retained  their  Catholicism  and  re- 
mained faithful  to  the  House  of  Stuart,  and  suffered  much  in  consequence. 

Sir  John  Leventhorpe,  a  cadet  of  the  family,  whose  heiress  Robert  Hall  mar- 
ried in  1394,  is  stated  to  have  come  from  "Leventhorpe  Hall,"  near  Swillington, 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  in  the  fifteenth  year  of  Richard  II.  (1392),  and  set- 
tled at  Sawbridgeworth,  Hertfordshire  (it  will  be  remembered  that  the  North 
Hall  pedigree  states  that  Henry  Hall,  Governor  of  Ross,  had  brothers :  Francis, 
John,  and  Alexander,  of  Hereford,  or  Hertford?),  where  the  family  have  left 
many  interesting  monuments  in  neighboring  churches.  Sir  John  Leventhorpe  rep- 
resented his  shire  in  several  parliaments,  and  was  one  of  the  executors  of  the  will 
of  Henry  V.,  and  held  several  other  offices  of  honor.  He  died  in  1433,  leaving 
issue.  He  was  granted  freedom  to  hunt  in  all  the  King's  lands  in  Hertfordshire 
and  Essex,  also  "fair  markets"  in  the  principal  Hertfordshire  towns,  and  per- 
mission to  embark  or  inclose  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  land,  forming  part 
of  the  town  of  Sawbridgeworth. 

The  descendants  of  Robert  Hall,  of  Leventhorpe,  were  equally  fortunate,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  prominent  families  in  the  country.  In  1394  none  but 
ducal  families  were  allowed  to  use  a  "chapeau"  in  their  crests,  and  the  heralds  of 
the  present  day  consider  it  a  great  honor.  The  "Leventhorpe  Arms"  are  found 
quartered  with  others  in  a  number  of  churches  of  Southern  Yorkshire.  Whitkirk 
Church,  in  particular,  contains  a  large  memorial  window  erected  by  a  member  of 
the  family  in  the  sixteenth  century. 

The  county  of  York  has  been  represented  in  Parliament  by  the  following  mem- 
bers of  the  family:  In  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary,  1553,  by  Robert  Hall  once;  in 
Elizabeth's  reign,  1562,  by  Ralph  Hall  twice,  and  by  Henry  Hall  once.  The 
following  have  been  Lords  Mayor  of  York,  at  that  time  the  second  city  in  the 
kingdom :  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.,  John  Hall  and  Robert  Hall,  the  latter  be- 
ing again  Lord  Mayor  in  Queen  Mary's  reign ;  Henry  Hall,  Lord  Mayor  in  Eliza- 
beth's reign,  and  again  in  James  I's  reign. 

From  records  in  the  possession  of  the  Gargrave  and  Skipton  branch  of  the 
family,  it  is  known  that  Robert  Hall,  of  Leventhorpe,  died  in  1565 ;  had  issue, 
among  others,  John  Hall,  died  161 1,  who  was  possessed  of  estates  on  the  south 
bank  of  the  river  Aire,  midway  between  Skipton  and  Gargrave.  known  severally 


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as  "Coppy  Plantation",  "Small  House",  "Hall's  Close",  and  "Hall  Field",  all  in 
the  parish  of  Broughton,  about  seventeen  miles  from  "Leventhorpe  Hall."  John 
Hall  was  succeeded  by  Roger  Hall,  Sr.,  born  1635,  died  1720,  who  had  issue, 
among  others,  John  Hall,  Jr.,  born  1671,  died  1717,  who  had,  among  others,  Henry 
Hall,  born  1698,  died  1762.  This  Henry  Hall  "came  into  the  family  Estates  when 
he  was  19  years  of  age"  *  *  *  "through  gambling  and  other  means  he  lost 
all  the  family  property  except  a  part  known  as  "Hall's  Close",  about  one  mile 
north  of  the  village  of  Broughton,  which  he  left  to  his  son  John  Hall,  born  1734, 
died  1807,  who  was  compelled  by  misfortunes  to  part  with  it.  "Hall's  Close"  was 
worth  £2300  per  annum  in  1827. 

John  Hall  of  "Coppy  House"  had  issue,  among  others,  his  second  son, 
Richard  Hall,  who  removed  to  Wavertree,  Lancashire,  when  a  young  man, 
and  became  a  prominent  merchant  and  ship  owner  of  Liverpool,  carrying  on  an 
extensive  trade  with  South  American  and  West  Indian  ports.  He  married,  as 
before  stated,  Elizabeth  Von  Swartzbreck,  like  himself  of  ancient  German  an- 
cestry. The  pedigree  of  the  Gargrave  branch  of  the  Hall  family  shows  intermar- 
riages with  several  prominent  families  of  York  and  Lancashire. 
Richard  and  Elisabeth  (Von  Swartzbreck)  Hall  had  isstie: — 

James  Hall,  of  Liverpool,  succeeded  his  father,  and  d.  Sept.  2,  1850; 

William  Von  Swartzbreck  Hall,  of  whom  presently; 

Richard  Hall  Jr.,  of  "Caernarvon  Hall",  county  Essex,  b.  April  21,  1800;  m.  April  25, 
183 1,  Frances,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Latham,  who  was  Court  Physician  and  Dean 
of  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  London;  their  only  surviving  son  is  John  Oswald 
Hall,  of  Buenos  Ayres,  Argentine,  where  he  went  to  take  charge  of  his  uncle  James's 
shipping  interests.  He  is  a  well  known  collector  of  orchids,  and  has  a  large  country 
seat  near  Buenos  Ayres;  he  is  interested  in  charitable  affairs  and  has  erected  a 
church   on   his   estate. 

John  Hall,  a  planter  in  Venezuela,  who  had  sons,  John  and  Edward,  at  college  in  Eng- 
land, in  1879. 

Edward  Von  Swartzbreck  Hall,  b.  May  13,  1804,  d.  July  30,  1881 ;  was  youngest  resident 
physician  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  London ;  was  member  of  Royal  College 
of  Surgeons,  and  corresponding  member  of  a  number  of  English  medical  societies; 
was  a  prolific  writer,  especially  in  the  field  of  vital  statistics,  and  on  the  manage- 
ment of  hospitals.  (See  "Catalogue  Phila.  College  of  Physicians").  He  m.  June, 
1831,  Mary  Latham,  sister  to  his  brother  Richard's  wife,  and  she  being  threatened 
with  consumption,  he  removed  to  Hobart  Town,  Tasmania,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death,  July  31,  1881 ;  he  was  sixteen  years  on  the  Tasmania  medical  staff  of  the 
Imperial  government ;  was  Health  Commissioner  at  Hobart,  member  of  the  Board 
of  Charities,  etc.,  until  his  death.  He  was  author  of  "Climate  and  Vital  Statistics  of 
Tasmania",  "Epidemic  Diseases  of  Tasmania",  "Medical  Topography  and  Vital 
Statistics  of  Hobart  Town",  etc.  His  later  years  were  spent  in  philanthropic  work, 
and  in  collecting  different  translations  of  the  Bible.  His  book,  "Who  translated  the 
Bible",  is  considered  a  standard  work.  He  is  survived  by  one  son,  Leventhorpe  Hall, 
in  the  British  Civil  Service,  and  four  daughters,  one  of  whom,  Anastasia  Hall,  is  an 
authoress    of    considerable    merit. 

Henry  Hall,  b.  March  11,  1807;  was  ordained  a  priest,  June  5,  1830,  and  a  number  of  his 
sermons  have  been  published  in  various  Roman  Catholic  journals;  d.  at  Louth,  Lin- 
colnshire,   England,    July   9,    1878. 

Alicia  Hall,  married  Capt.  May, 

John  Hall,  D.  D.,  a  first  cousin  of  the  above  mentioned  family,  was  "The  Priest 
of  Macclesfield",  who  founded  St.  Albans  and  a  number  of  Roman  Catholic  chap- 
els. Another  relative.  Rev.  William  Hall,  was  Vicar  of  Gawsthorpe,  Cheshire.  He 
was  an  uncle  to  William  Latham. 

William  Von  Swartzdreck  Hall,  second  son  of  Richard  Hall,  of  Liverpool, 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Von  Swartzbreck,  born  1799,  came  to  America  in  1824,  as 


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his  father's  business  representative,  in  connection  with  the  pottery  and  shipping 
business.  Through  the  marriage  of  his  brothers  to  the  two  daughters  of  Dr. 
John  Latham,  and  his  own  distant  relationship  with  the  Latham  family,  who  were 
settled  near  the  Gaskells  of  Macclesfield,  in  Cheshire,  and  were  on  intimate  terms 
with  them,  as  is  shown  by  letters  from  Alexander  Forbes  and  William  Gaskell, 
Mr.  Hall  was  introduced  to  the  family  of  Peter  Penn  Gaskell,  of  "Ashwood",  on 
his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania,  and  January  2,  1827,  as  before  stated,  he  married 
Peter  Penn-Gaskell's  daughter,  Christiana  Gulielma  at  Christ  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, Right  Rev.  Bishop  William  White  performing  the  ceremony.  William 
Von  Swartzbreck  Hall  had  received  a  liberal  education,  and  was  a  portrait 
painter  of  no  mean  ability,  and  followed  his  profession  with  success,  until  his 
death,  September  26,  1862.  He  is  buried  at  Lower  Merion.  Airs.  Hall  died 
March  29,  1830,  at  the  age  of  twenty- four  years. 

Issue  of  William  Von  Swartzbreck  and  Christiana  Gulielma  (Penn-Gaskell) 
Hall:— 

William  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  b.  Nov.  26,  1827,  d.  unm.  May  2,  1862 ;  was  student  at  Univ. 
Pa.,  College  Dept..  1842-43,  and  Medical  Dept.,  1844-46;  devoted  much  time  to  literary 
and  scientific  studies;  was  author  of  a  number  of  poems  published  in  the  Bizarre 
and  newspapers  of  the  day ;  most  of  his  life  was  spent  in  foreign  travel ; 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  whom  presently. 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  "Ashwood"  and  906  Spruce  street,  Phila- 
delphia, second  son  of  William  Von  Swartzbreck  Hall  by  his  wife  Christiana 
Gulielma  Penn-Gaskell,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  16,  1830,  died  February  i, 
1905.  He  studied  at  Dr.  Crawford's  School  and  under  tutors  abroad,  and  en- 
tered Princeton  University,  and  on  his  graduation  took  up  the  study  of  law  in 
Philadelphia,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War  he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States,  and  May  31,  1861, 
was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  in  26th  Pennsylvania  Volunteers ;  pro- 
moted to  First  Lieutenant,  August  25,  1861  ;  was  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
throughout  the  Peninsular  Campaign  of  1862,  and  participated  in  the  various 
battles  in  the  advance  of  the  army  upon  Richmond,  Virginia.  On  November  6, 
1863,  he  was  commissioned  Major,  and  appointed  Paymaster  of  Volunteers, 
serving  in  that  capacity  until  November  15,  1865.  At  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War  he  entered  the  regular  army,  and  January  17,  1867,  was  appointed  Pay- 
master, with  rank  of  Major,  and  continued  in  that  position  until  July  2,  1891, 
when  he  was  honorably  retired  after  thirty  years'  service.  He  was  brevetted 
Lieutenant  Colonel  for  gallant  and  meritorious  service.  At  the  time  of  his 
decease  he  was  President  of  tlie  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ;  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
of  the  Philadelphia  and  other  clubs. 

Colonel  Hall  married  (first)  December  24,  1861,  Annie  M.,  daughter  of 
Philip  and  Sarah  (Deihle)  Mixsell,  of  Easton,  Pennsylvania;  granddaughter  of 
Philip  Mixsell,  of  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  born  in  Williams  township,  North- 
ampton county,  Pennsylvania,  March  10,  1777,  died  in  Easton.  July  26,  1870; 
and  great-granddaughter  of  Philip  Mixsael,  born  in  Conestoga  township,  Lan- 
caster county,  Pennsylvania,  November  23,  1731,  died  in  Northampton  county, 
Pennsylvania,  May  13,   1817.     The  latter  was  a  nephew  of  Jacob  Mixsell,  of 


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Leacock   township,    Lancaster   county,    who   came    from    Germany    in    the    ship 
"Mortonhouse",  which  arrived  at  Philadelphia,  August  24,   1728. 

Philip  Mixsell  (2d)  (1770-1870)  married,  April,  1804,  Mary  Wagner,  born 
April  30,  1786,  died  February  26,  1856,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Eve  (Opp) 
Wagner,  of  Fasten,  and  granddaughter  of  Judge  David  Wagner,  by  his  wife 
Susanna  Umstead,  born  February  2,  1734,  died  April  22,  1819,  daughter  of  John 
Umstead,  of  Skippack,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county,  and  his  wife 
Deborah.  John  Umsted,  who  died  in  December,  1759,  was  a  son  of  John 
Umsted,  who  died  at  Skippack,  December  31,  1747,  and  grandson  of  Hans  Peter 
Umsted,  or  Umstat,  who  with  Barbara  his  wife  and  three  children — John;  Eve 
(married  Hendrick  Pannebecker),  and  Anna  Margaretta — came  from  Crefeld, 
on  the  Rhine,  arriving  in  Philadelphia,  October  12,  1685,  in  the  "Francis  and 
Dorothy",  settled  in  Germantown.  John  Umsted  and  Hendrick  Pannebecker, 
his  brother-in-law,  were  among  the  pioneer  settlers  on  the  Skippack.  Annie 
Hall,  died  at  Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  February  14,  1869,  and  September  13, 
1871,  Colonel  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall  married  (second),  at  San  Antonio, 
Texas,  her  sister,  Amelia  Mixsell. 

Issue  of  Major  Penn-Gaskell  and  Annie  M.  (Mixsell)   Hall: — 

Christiana  Gulielma,  b.  at  "Ashwood"  April  19,  1863 ;  unm. ;  living  at  906  Spruce  street, 
Philadelphia,  1909. 

Eliza  Hall  Penn-Gaskell,  b.  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  Feb.  i,  1865 ;  m.  July  i,  1892,  Henry  James 
Hancock,  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  son  of  George  W.  and  Elizabeth  (James)  Hancock, 
and  8th  in  descent  from  John  Hancock,  one  of  the  Proprietors  of  New  Jersey,  through 
Judge  William  Hancock,  of  Hancock's  Bridge,  Salem  Co.,  N.  J.,  killed  in  his  house 
by  Col.  Mawhood's  Tory  raiders,  1778;  7th  in  descent  from  Marmaduke  Coate,  of 
Wivelscomb,  Somersetshire,  who  was  in  Wadham  College,  0.xford,  with  William 
Penn,  and  later  his  secretary  in  Pennsylvania ;  8th  in  descent  from  Nathaniel  Allen, 
one  of  Penn's  Commissioners ;  7th  in  descent  from  James  West,  one  of  the  earliest 
grantees  of  land  in  Philadelphia,  and  first  ship-builder  there ;  also  descended  from 
many  early  settlers  in  New  England,  and  on  maternal  side  descended  from  Morgan 
James,  of  Narbeth,  Wales ;  Evan  ap  Thomas,  of  Lauf keven,  Wales ;  Capt.  John 
Seaman,  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island ;  of  Giles  Knight,  and  his  wife  Mary  English, 
of  Horsley,  Gloucestershire,  who  came  over  in  the  "Welcome"  with  William  Penn ; 
and  eighth  in  descent  from  Robert  Lloyd  and  Lowry  Jones,  his  wife,  an  account  of 
whose  descendants  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes;  Henry  J.  and  Eliza  (Hall) 
Hancock,  had  issue  : — 

Jean  Barclay  Hancock,  b.  March  24,  1893. 

Edward  Von  Swartzbreck  Hall,  b.  "Ashwood,"  Jan.,  1867,  d.  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  Jan., 
1869. 

Amelia  Mixsell  Hall,  b.  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  Jan.,  1869,  d.  at  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  May, 
1869. 

Issue  of  Major  Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  and  his  second  wife,  Amelia  Mix- 
sell:— 

William  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  b.  January  16,  1873;  of  whom  presently; 

Peter  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  b.  in  New  York  City,  March  14,  1875;  living  at  906  Spruce 
street,  Philadelphia,  unm.  in  1909; 

Amelia  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  b.  in  New  York  City,  Feb.  9,  1877;  m.  Dec.  10,  1902,  Richard 
Philip  McGrann,  of  Grandview  Farms,  Lancaster  county,  Pa.,  at  the  Cathedral  of 
St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul,  Philadelphia,  by  Archbishop  Ryan ;  they  have  issue,  Bernard 
Penn-Gaskell   McGrann,   b.   at   "Grandview,"   Nov.   20.    1903. 

Philip  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  New  London  township,  Chester  county.  Pa.,  b.  at  "Ash- 
wood," Delaware  county,  Pa.;  Sept.  10,  1878;  educated  at  Forsythe  School,  Philadel- 
phia; m.  at  Wilmington,  Del.,  Dec.  21,  1901,  Mary  Eloise  Fulton,  of  Philadelphia, 
of  the  family  of  Robert  Fulton,  of  steamboat  fame ;  they  had  issue ; — 

Mary  Eloise  Hall,  b.  at  906  Spruce  street,  Philadelphia,  Oct.  4,  1902 ; 
Amelia  Hall,  born  at  906  Spruce  street,   Philadelphia.   Nov.  27,  1905. 


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William  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  1118  Spruce  street,  Philadelphia,  and 
"Leventhorpe",  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  eldest  son  of  Colonel  Peter  Penn- 
Gaskell  Hall,  by  his  second  wife,  Amelia  Mixsell,  was  born  at  San  Antonio, 
Texas,  January  16,  1873.  ^^  was  educated  at  Dr.  Ferris'  and  the  Forsythe 
Schools,  in  Philadelphia.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Racquet  Club,  of  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars,  Colonial  Society,  etc.  He  was  married  at  St.  Luke's  Church, 
Philadelphia,  by  Rev.  David  M.  Steel,  December  8,  1904,  to  Caroline  Hare  Davis, 
daughter  of  Sussex  Delaware  Davis  Esq.,  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  and  his  wife. 
Mary  Fleming  Hare,  on  account  of  whose  ancestry  in  England  and  America  is 
given  in  these  volumes. 

Issue  of  William  Penn-Gaskell,  and  Caroline  Hare   (Davis)   Hall: — 

Mary  Fleeming  Hare  Hal'    b.  at   11 18  Spruce  street,   Philadelphia,  Dec.  31,   1905; 
William  Leventhorpe  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  b.  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  October  9,   1908. 


LOGAN  FAMILY  ' 

James  Logan,  William  Penn's  Secretary,  confidential  friend  and  adviser, 
as  well  as  of  his  sons  and  grandsons,  and  for  nearly  half  a  century  the  factotum 
of  the  Colonial  government  of  Pennsylvania,  and  one  of  its  most  prominent 
officials,  Provincial  Councillor,  Judge,  Assemblyman,  Surveyor  General,  and 
at  times  all  of  these  and  more;  came  of  an  ancient  and  honorable  family  of  Scot- 
land, and  is  thought  to  have  been  a  grandson  or  great-grandson  of  Logan  of 
Restalrigg,  who  in  the  year  1600  conspired  with  the  Earl  of  Cowrie  to  kidnap 
James  VL  of  Scotland,  later  James  L  of  England,  for  which  complicity,  dis- 
covered after  his  death,  his  estate  was  confiscated  and  "his  name,  memory,  and 
dignity  abolished ;  his  arms  cancelled,  so  that  his  posterity  be  excluded  from  any 
offices,  honors,  lands,  tenements,  etc." 

The  Barony  of  Restalrigg,  Scotland,  originally  was  vested  in  the  Leith  family, 
and  in  the  reign  of  Robert  the  Bruce  came  into  the  Logan  family  by  the  mar- 
riage of  an  heiress  of  the  Leiths  with  a  Logan.  Sir  Robert  Logan,  of  this 
family,  accompanied  Sir  James  Douglas  on  his  way  to  the  Holy  Land  with  the 
heart  of  their  royal  master  Bruce,  and  with  Douglas  was  slain  by  the  Saracens, 
in  Andalusia,  Spain,  in   1330. 

In  1398  Robert  Logan,  of  Restalrigg,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Robert 
IL,  of  Scotland,  and  was  Admiral  of  Scotland,  etc.,  bore  the  coat-of-arms 
granted  to  the  family  in  commemoration  of  the  heroic  services  and  death  of 
Sir  Robert  Logan,  before  mentioned,  viz. :  "Three  passion  nails  piercing  a 
man's  heart." 

Sir  Robert  Logan,  son  of  the  Admiral,  married  Geilless,  daughter  of  the 
fourth  Lord  Seton,  and  a  descendant,  another  Sir  Robert  Logan,  married  about 
1650,  Agnes,  daughter  of  Patrick,  Lord  Gray.  Another  Logan  of  Restalrigg,  in 
the  sixteenth  century,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  David  Magill,  of  Cranston- 
riddel,  King's  Advocate ;  and  the  attainted  Logan  of  Restalrigg  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Patrick  Home,  of  Fastcastle,  in  Berwickshire.  They  had  at  least  four 
sons — Robert,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  Laird  of  Restalrigg,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  answer  his  father's  treason ;  George ;  John,  and  Archibald. 

Patrick  Logan,  the  father  of  James,  of  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  East  Lothia, 
Scotland,  and  is  said  to  have  been  a  son  of  George  and  grandson  of  Logan 
of  Restalrigg.  He  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  the  University  of 
Edinburgh,  and  became  a  clergyman  of  the  Established  Church,  but  becoming 
a  convert  to  Quakerism,  in  March,  1671,  he  removed  to  Lurgan,  county  Armagh, 
Ireland,  and  had  charge  of  a  Latin  school  there  until  the  landing  of  William  of 
Orange  in  1689,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Edinburgh,  and  soon  after 
to  Bristol,  England,  where  he  took  charge  of  a  Latin  school  under  the  care  of 
Friends.  He  had  married  while  in  Scotland,  Isabel,  daughter  of  James  Hume, 
a  younger  son  of  the  House  of  St.  Leonard's  in  the  south  of  Scotland,  by  his 
wife  Bethia  Dundas,  sister  to  the  Laird  of  Dundas,  of  Didiston,  about  eight 
miles  from  Edinburgh,  and  a  descendant  of  Lord  Panmure.  James  Logan  says, 
"The  Earl  of  Murray  assisted  my  grandfather  to  carry  of?  my  grandmother." 


24  LOGAN 

William  Logan,  eldest  son  of  Patrick  and  Isabel  (Hume)  Logan,  became  an 
eminent  physician  at  Bristol,  England,  and  his  nephew,  William  Logan,  son 
of  James  of  Philadelphia,  was  sent  to  his  uncle  by  his  parents  at  the  age  of 
twelve  years  and  was  educated  under  his  supervision.  At  the  death  of  the 
uncle,  his  nephew  and  namesake  received  under  his  will  a  legacy  of  considerable 
estate. 

James  Logan  was  born  at  Lurgan,  Ireland,  October  20,  1674,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  his  father's  school  there,  acquiring  a  fair  knowledge  of  Latin,  Greek  and 
Hebrew  before  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age.  In  his  fourteenth  year  he  was 
apprenticed  to  a  linen  draper  in  Dublin,  but  he  writes  in  his  autobiography,  "the 
Prince  of  Orange  landing  before  I  was  bound,  (the  I  served  my  Master  for 
6  Months)  in  the  Winter  of  1688,  I  went  down  to  my  Parents,  and  the  wars 
in  Ireland  coming  on,  in  the  Spring  I  went  over  to  Edinburgh  with  my  mother, 
after  which  my  father  soon  followed,  who  being  out  of  employment,  repaired  to 
London  &  was  there  gladly  received  by  our  friends,  Deputies  to  the  General 
Meeting  from  Bristol  in  that  city,  as  their  School  Master  for  the  Latin  language, 
and  I  followed  him  the  next  year."  Patrick  Logan  returned  to  Ireland  in  1693, 
leaving  James  in  charge  of  the  school.  He  retained  his  position  there,  continu- 
ing his  studies  until  1697,  when  he  engaged  in  the  shipping  trade  between  Dublin 
and  Bristol.  His  father  died  in  1702,  and  his  mother  married  again  "out  of 
Meeting",  and  in  1717,  again  a  widow,  came  to  Pennsylvania  and  lived  with  her 
son  until  her  death,  January  17,  1722.  Logan,  when  invited  by  William  Penn 
to  become  his  Secretary  and  accompany  him  to  Pennsylvania,  had  in  prospect 
a  successful  business  career.  The  promise  and  prospects  of  material  advance- 
ment in  the  new  country,  however,  induced  him  to  accept  the  offer,  and  he  sailed 
with  "The  Founder"  and  his  family  in  the  "Canterbury,"  for  Pennsylvania, 
September  9,   1699. 

James  Logan  was  born  and  reared  a  Quaker,  and  held  to  that  faith  through 
life;  but,  aristocratic  by  birth  and  tendency,  ambitious  and  courageous  by  nature, 
and  always  tenacious  of  his  rights,  the  stricter  tenets  of  the  faith  of  his  sect 
had  little  hold  on  his  outward  life;  particularly  was  this  so  in  reference  to  the 
defence  of  inherent  rights  and  liberties  by  force  if  necessary.  These  traits, 
which  marked  his  whole  after  career,  were  thus  early  made  manifest  to  his  dis- 
tinguished patron  before  their  arrival  in  America.  The  vessel  in  which  they 
were  passengers  being  attacked  by  pirates,  Logan  took  an  active  part  in  its 
defense,  while  Penn,  the  great  apostle  of  peace,  retired  "below".  After  the 
pirates  had  been  driven  off  and  Penn  reappeared,  he  reproved  Logan  for  engag- 
ing in  force  of  arms.  Logan,  with  characteristic  bluntness,  entered  into  no  lengthy 
defence  of  what  he  considered  a  perfectly  natural  action,  but  contented  him- 
self with  inquiring  of  his  patron  and  master,  since  he  did  not  wish  that  he 
should  take  part  in  the  sanguinary  struggle,  "Why  then  did  you  not  order  me 
down  too?" 

They  arrived  in  Philadelphia  in  the  early  part  of  December,  1699,  and  Logan 
took  up  his  residence  in  the  family  of  William  Penn,  in  Anthony  Morris'  "slate- 
roof  house",  on  Second  street,  and  remained  there  after  Penn  had  returned  to 
England  two  years  later.  Penn  at  once  made  him  Secretary  of  the  Governor's 
Council,  and  when  about  to  depart  for  England  made  him  also  his  Commissioner 
of  Property  and  Receiver  General,  and  he  thereafter  had  principal  charge  of  the 


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making  of  titles  to  lands,  and  the  collection  of  quit  rents,  and  had  a  general 
supervision  of  the  vast  business  interests  of  Penn  and  his  family  in  America. 
He  gained  and  held  the  confidence  of  the  Founder,  and  that  of  his  heirs  and  suc- 
cessors in  the  proprietary  interests,  and  his  recommendations,  as  to  the  policy  of 
government,  the  selection  of  members  of  Council,  and  other  high  officials,  even 
the  Deputy  or  Lieutenant  Governors  of  the  Province,  as  well  as  in  all  matters 
pertaining  to  the  proprietary  interests,  had  great  weight  as  abundantly  evidenced 
in  the  correspondence  with  Penn  and  his  family. 

Logan  became  a  voting  member  of  the  Governor's  Council,  April  21,  1702, 
and  after  the  arrival  of  Lieutenant  Governor  John  Evans  was  formally  quali- 
fied as  a  member,  February  8,  1703 -4;  and  he  continued  an  active  and  often  a 
dominant  member  of  that  body  until  his  voluntary  retirement,  May  29,  1747, 
and  during  nearly  two  years,  after  the  retirement  of  Gov.  Patrick  Gordon, 
August  4,  1736,  to  June  i,  1738,  as  President  and  senior  member  of  Council,  he 
was  acting  Chief  Executive  of  the  Province. 

At  the  time  that  Logan  became  an  acting  member  of  Council  and  assumed 
the  administration  of  the  business  affairs  of  the  Proprietary,  troubles  were 
crowding  about  his  great  patron  on  both  sides  of  the  ocean.  He  was  involved 
in  various  disputes  with  the  Crown,  and  had  quarreled  with  the  settlers  on  the 
question  of  quit  rents,  large  arrearages  of  which  remained  unpaid,  and  Logan's 
insistence  on  a  perhaps  too  rigid  enforcement  of  his  master's  rights  and  per- 
quisites, further  aggravated  the  trouble  with  the  anti-proprietary  party,  and  on 
him  as  the  confidential  clerk  and  devout  friend  of  Penn  devolved  cares  too  mani- 
fold for  his  youthful  shoulders.  By  nature  and  inheritance  an  aristocrat,  he 
resented  the  pretensions  of  the  democratic  element  in  the  Assembly,  always  too 
ready  to  ignore  the  prerogatives  of  the  Proprietary,  and  his  haughty  manner 
and  want  of  diplomacy  embroiled  him  in  a  quarrel  between  the  young  and  dis- 
solute Governor  Evans  and  the  Assembly,  which  cuTminated  in  the  articles  of 
impeachment  against  him,  exhibited  February  26,  1706-7,  charging  him  with 
inserting  in  the  Governor's  commissions,  clauses  contrary  to  the  Royal  Charter. 
He  was  also  charged  with  holding  two  incompatible  offices,  of  Surveyor  Gen- 
eral, which  he  had  held  since  its  vacation  by  the  death  of  Edward  Pennington 
in  1702,  and  that  of  Clerk  of  the  Council.  The  Governor  notified  the  Assembly 
that  he  could  find  no  warrant  under  his  commission  or  the  Royal  Charter,  to 
conduct  a  trial  of  impeachment,  and  Logan  having  sent  to  the  Assembly  a  spe- 
cific answer  to  the  several  charges  separately,  the  Assembly  still  clamored  for 
an  impeachment.  Logan  petitioned  the  Governor  and  Council  to  permit  the 
Assembly  to  present  their  charges,  but  since  the  Governor  declined  to  act  in  a 
judicial  capacity  at  the  trial  the  controversy  continued  with  much  bitterness 
for  over  two  years.  Governor  John  Evans  having  in  the  meantime  been  super- 
seded by  Colonel  Charles  Gookin.  The  controversy  was  more  in  the  nature 
of  a  contest  between  David  Lloyd,  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  and  the  leader  of 
the  anti-proprietary  party,  and  James  Logan  as  the  direct  representative  of  the 
Proprietary.  Lloyd  having  issued  addresses  abusing  and  maligning  Logan,  he 
replied  with  some  spirit,  the  Assembly  on  November  25,  1709,  issued  an  order 
to  Peter  Evans,  High  Sheriff  of  Philadelphia,  to  take  Logan  into  custody  and 
confine  him  within  the  county  jail  "&  him  therein  safely  to  detain  &  keep  until 
he  shall  willingly  make  his  submission  to  the  satisfaction  of  this   House  &c." 


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Evans  communicating  with  the  Governor  was  directed  by  him,  "that  you  suffer 
not  the  said  James  Logan  to  be  in  anywise  molested  by  virtue  of  any  order,  or 
pretended  order  of  Assembly  whatsoever;  and  in  case  any  of  the  said  Assem- 
bly or  others  under  pretense  of  any  authority  derived  from  them,  shall  attempt 
to  molest  or  attach  the  said  James  Logan  in  his  person,  I  do  hereby  Command 
you  to  oppose  such  attachment;  &c." 

Logan  had  been  long  making  preparation  to  sail  for  England,  having  about 
concluded  his  arrangements  when  the  attachment  was  issued  and  soon  after 
sailed.  He  remained  abroad  for  over  two  years,  and  on  the  eve  of  his  return 
to  Pennsylvania,  under  date  of  November  30,  171 1,  was  commissioned  by  the 
trustees  to  whom  William  Penn  had  made  over  all  his  interests  in  Pennsylvania, 
as  their  Commissioner  of  Property  and  Receiver  General. 

To  these  trustees,  Henry  Gouldney  and  Sylvanus  Grove,  he  writes  from 
"Spitthead,  19th  lomo.  171 1,"  after  beginning  his  journey  homeward,  urging 
them  to  use  their  utmost  endeavors  to  have  Penn  execute  "a  good  substantial 
will,  such  as  may  be  seen  to  the  honor  of  his  name  after  he  is  gone  wch.  is  not 
yet  done."  He  arrived  in  Philadelphia,  March  11,  1711-12,  and  at  once  resumed 
his  seat  in  the  Provincial  Council  and  the  duties  of  Clerk,  as  well  as  the  many 
other  duties  in  the  interest  of  the  Proprietary.  In  a  letter  to  Hannah  Penn, 
under  date  of  April  27,  1716,  he  recommended  the  appointment  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Keith  as  Governor  to  succeed  Gookin,  and  he  arrived  and  assumed  his 
duties.  May  31,  1717,  from  which  date  Logan  relinquished  the  duties  of  clerk 
to  his  deputies,  Ralph  Asheton  and  George  Barclay.  He  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  October  17,  1717,  and  as 
Mayor  of  the  city,  October  2,  1722.  He  and  Governor  Keith  did  not  get  along 
very  smoothly  after  the  first  few  years  of  the  latter's  governorship,  for  the 
reason  that  Keith  began  to  ignore  the  recommendations  of  Council  and  the 
interests  of  the  Proprietaries  to  propitiate  certain  wealthy  and  influential  mem- 
bers of  the  anti-Proprietary  party,  whose  interests  and  friendship  he  thought 
it  to  his  personal  interest  to  cultivate,  and  Logan  always  true  to  his  trust  as  the 
representative  of  the  family,  resented  any  abrogation  of  these  rights  or  inter- 
ests. The  breach  widened  and  on  May  20,  1723,  Keith  appointed  his  private 
secretary,  Patrick  Baird,  Secretary  of  Council,  to  succeed  Logan.  On  his 
retirement  from  the  active  work  of  Secretary  of  the  Council  in  1717,  Logan 
engaged  extensively  in  mercantile  business  and  in  the  Indian  trade.  He  had 
always  been  on  intimate  terms  with  the  leading  Indian  chiefs  and  had  negotiated 
many  important  treaties  with  them  in  the  Proprietaries'  interest,  almost  from 
the  time  of  his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania.  He  always  retained  the  friendship 
of  the  Indians,  and  it  was  their  custom  to  pay  him  periodical  visits,  late  in  his  hfe, 
while  residing  at  "Stenton",  where  he  frequently  entertained  large  numbers  of 
them,  as  many  as  three  and  four  hundred  of  them  being  hospitably  entertained 
at  "Stenton"  for  days  at  a  time. 

On  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office  as  mayor  of  Philadelphia,  he  again 
went  abroad,  and  as  a  result  of  his  conference  with  Hannah  Penn,  and  the  trus- 
tees of  the  Penn  estate,  Keith  was  withdrawn  and  Patrick  Gordon  was  com- 
missioned Deputy  Governor,  June  22,  1726,  with  instructions  to  immediately 
re-instate  James  Logan  as  Secretary  of  Council,  and  to  "be  ruled  by  him." 
Gordon  also  named  him,  on  August  25,  1726,  as  one  of  the  Justices  of  Phila- 


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delphia  county,  and  he  was  recommissioned  September  2,  1727,  and  became  one 
of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 

On  August  25,  1 73 1,  he  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Pennsylvania,  on  the  unanimous  recommendation  of  Council,  to  succeed  his 
old  adversary,  David  Lloyd,  who  had  recently  died.  He  "filled  this  position 
until  August  9,  1739,  with  marked  ability.  A  volume  of  his  decisions  and 
charges  to  juries  was  published  in  England  in  1736. 

On  the  death  of  Governor  Patrick  Gordon,  in  August,  1736,  James  Logan 
as  senior  member  of  Council,  became  its  President,  and  as  such  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  Chief  Executive  of  the  Province  until  the  arrival  of  George  Thomas, 
the  next  Deputy  Governor,  June  i,  1738,  Logan  having  been  offered  the  posi- 
tion of  Deputy  Governor,  but  declining.  His  two  years  administration  of  the 
affairs  of  the  Province  as  Chief  Executive  were  marked  by  the  Border  War, 
resulting  from  the  dispute  over  the  boundary  between  Maryland  and  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

It  was  at  Logan's  urgent  request  to  be  relieved  from  the  burden  of  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  Province,  that  George  Thomas  was  sent  to  take  the  position  of 
Deputy  Governor.  Down  to  this  time  his  untiring  industry  had  been  taxed 
to  the  utmost  by  the  cares  of  many  offices,  he  having  for  many  years  been  the 
general  factotum  of  the  government,  bringing  to  bear  upon  its  multifarious 
affairs  all  the  force  of  his  intellectual  and  business  capacity.  His  correspond- 
ence with  the  Penn  family,  covering  a  period  of  nearly  forty  years,  during 
which  he  had  been  actively  employed  in  their  interest  and  during  the  greater 
part  of  which  he  had  been  the  most  prominent  figure  in  the  government,  are 
a  mine  of  historical  information,  and  reveal  his  marvelous  industry,  carefulness 
in  all  the  details  of  the  business,  and  an  intellectual  breadth  and  capacity  for 
business  that  demand  the  admiration  of  posterity.  An  amateur  in  every  act 
he  was  called  to  perform,  when  he  undertook  the  work  on  the  departure  of  Penn 
in  1701,  having  no  private  means,  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  then  much  abused 
founder  of  the  Province,  and  undertook  the  herculean  task  of  protecting  and 
husbanding  his  interests  and  those  of  his  family,  against  the  opposition  of 
some  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  men  in  the  Colony,  and  for  years 
carried  the  heavy  burden  of  clerk,  agent,  book-keeper,  steward,  Surveyor  and 
Receiver  General,  Councillor,  and  later  Judge  and  Governor. 

In  the  midst  of  all  this  business  and  official  activity,  he  found  time  for 
reading  and  the  most  exhaustive  researches  in  the  realms  of  science,  letters, 
history  and  languages.  Nearly  all  his  business  letters  abroad  contained  orders 
for  books,  and  he  carried  on  an  extensive  correspondence  with  many  of  the 
most  learned  men  of  Europe,  and  there  was  no  topic  of  science  or  literature 
that  he  was  not  qualified  to  discuss  with  the  most  learned  scholars  of  his  time. 
He  sometimes  indited  a  lively  Greek  "Ode  to  a  friend",  and  often  his  letters 
were  indited  in  the  Latin  tongue. 

He  was  an  intimate  friend  and  correspondent  of  Linnaeus,  who,  in  com- 
pliment to  the  botanical  knowledge  transmitted  to  him  by  Logan,  named  for 
him  an  order  of  herbs  and  shrubs  "Loganiaceae",  containing  thirty  genera 
in  over  three  hundred  and  fifty  species.  He  was  a  close  student  of  scientific 
phenomena  and  contributed  a  number  of  papers,  now  in  the  Transactions  of 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  on  the  result  of  his  scientific  observations 


28  LOGAN 

on  lightning;  "Apparent  increase  of  the  magnitude  of  the  Sun  and  Moon  near 
the  horison",  "Davis'  Quadrant",  "Experimenta  et  Meletemata  circa  Planarium 
Generationem",  etc.  He  published  Latin  essays  on  reproduction  in  plants,  and 
the  aberration  of  light,  translated  Cato's  "Distich",  and  Cicero's  "De  Senectute" 
and  issued  many  other  works  many  of  which  still  remain  in  manuscript. 

With  his  withdrawl  from  the  governorship  in  1738,  he  retired  almost  entirely 
from  public  business  and  passed  the  remainder  of  his  days  at  "Stenton",  his 
country  seat  near  Germantown,  erected  in  1728,  on  a  plantation  of  five  hun- 
dred acres.  The  mansion  house,  raised  on  the  very  day  his  son  James  was 
born,  is  still  to  be  seen  on  an  eminence  a  short  distance  east  of  Wayne  Junc- 
tion, and  is  still  owned  by  his  descendants. 

This  picturesque  and  dignified  old  mansion  is  rich  in  historic  associations, 
and  is  one  of  the  finest  specimens  of  Colonial  architecture.  The  Pennsylvania 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames  have  recently  restored  it,  and  under  their  guardian- 
ship it  is  open  to  the  public.  It  is  built  of  variegated  brick,  two  stories,  sur- 
mounted by  a  pyramidal  shaped  roof,  pierced  by  dormer  windows,  and  is 
approached  by  a  long  avenue  of  grand  old  sycamore  trees.  The  Colonial  door- 
way is  reached  by  three  curious  circular  stone  steps  firmly  clasped  together  with 
iron.  The  doorway  opens  into  a  great  hall,  paved  with  brick  and  wainscoted 
in  white  to  the  ceiling,  with  an  open  fireplace  on  the  right,  and  a  stately  double 
staircase  ascends-  through  an  archway  in  the  rear.  On  either  side  are  lofty 
rooms  also  wainscoted  in  white.  Over  the  large  fireplace  in  the  room  to  the 
left  is  an  ornamental  iron  back  plate  inscribed  "J.  L.  1728."  In  another  room 
some  of  the  original  blue  and  white  Dutch  tiles,  in  grotesque  pattern,  still  adorn 
the  fireplace. 

One  of  the  most  attractive  rooms  in  the  house  is  the  library,  where  the 
illustrious  book-loving  statesman  and  scholar  spent  most  of  his  time  during  his 
declining  years.  It  is  a  fine  room,  recently  taking  up  half  of  the  front  of  the  house, 
on  the  second  story,  and  once  contained  the  finest  collection  of  books  of  any 
private  library  in  Colonial  America,  later  presented  by  the  collector  to  the  city 
of  Philadelphia,  through  the  medium  of  the  Loganian  Library,  founded  by  him, 
and  later  merged  with  the  Philadelphia  Library.  The  ancient  house,  so  long 
inhabited  by  the  Logan  family,  is  full  of  interest  to  the  lover  of  the  oldentime. 
From  cellar  to  garret  there  are  all  sorts  of  quaint  nooks  and  corners,  and  lead- 
ing from  the  cellar  to  the  stables  is  a  long  underground  passage,  which  is  the 
subject  of  many  a  strange  legend.  No  longer  surrounded  by  its  ample  estate, 
"Stenton"  at  this  time  presents  a  pathetic  appearance,  as  to  surroundings. 
Within  a  few  hundred  yards  of  the  mansion  on  the  south  and  west  terminate 
the  rows  of  brick  houses  and  intervening  streets — the  built  up  portion  of  the 
city  of  Philadelphia  once  miles  away — on  the  northwest  overshadowed  by  the 
elevated  tracks  of  the  Philadelphia  and  Reading  Railway,  at  Wayne  Junction, 
and  beyond,  to  the  north  and  east,  encompassed  by  the  irregular  gradings  and 
elevations  of  new  streets  and  buildings  of  a  great  city  which  in  its  onward 
march  of  expansion  has  leaped  over  this  little  oasis  of  faded  Colonial  grandeur 
and  pushed  for  miles  beyond,  leaving  "Stenton",  the  old  home  of  the  departed 
statesman  with  only  a  pathetic  semblance  of  its  departed  grandeur  and  mag- 
nificence. 

James   Logan,   at  the   time   he   settled   at   "Stenton".   had   acquired   a    fortune 


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in  commerce,  in  trade  with  the  Indians,  and  by  the  purchase  and  sale  of  desir- 
able tracts  of  land  in  all  parts  of  the  Colony,  which  his  position  as  Surveyor 
General  gave  him  opportunity  of  securing.  He  was  therefore  able  to  live  in 
princely  style,  and  entertain  with  a  free-hearted  hospitality.  For  more  than  a  cen- 
tury "Stenton"  as  the  home  of  the  Logan  family  was  the  resort  of  notable  and  dis- 
tinguished persons  of  the  Colonies  and  from  abroad,  and  its  mistresses  were  among 
the  most  accomplished  women  of  their  time. 

James  Logan  voluntarily  retired  from  the  Provincial  Council,  May  29,  1747, 
having  taken  little  part  in  its  deliberations  for  several  years  previously.  He 
died  at  "Stenton",  December  31,  1751,  and  was  buried  at  the  Friends'  Bury- 
ing Ground,   in   Philadelphia. 

James  Logan  married,  at  Friends'  Meeting,  Philadelphia,  December  9,  1714, 
Sarah  Read,  daughter  of  Charles  Read,  a  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia, 
by  his  second  wife,  Amy  (Child)  Stanton,  widow  of  Edward  Stanton,  and  a 
half-sister  of  Charles  Read,  the  Provincial  Councillor. 

Amy  Child,  "of  Hertford,  in  the  County  of  Hertford,  Spinster",  by  lease 
and  release,  dated  January  24  and  25,  1681,  purchased  of  William  Penn  five 
hundred  acres  of  land  to  be  laid  out  in  Pennsylvania.  After  her  purchase  she 
married  Edward  Stanton,  who  obtained  a  warrant  of  survey  for  the  said  five 
hundred  acres  of  land,  dated  9mo.  (November)  1686,  and  it  was  surveyed  in 
Solebury  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  Edward  Stanton  died,  and 
Amy  was  married  to  her  second  husband,  Charles  Read,  at  Middletown  Monthly 
Meeting,  in  Bucks  county,  September  23,  1690.  He  joined  her  in  a  conveyance 
of  the  Solebury  plantation  to  John  Scarborough,  December  19,  1698,  and  the 
resurvey  to  Scarborough,  with  the  information  above  noted,  is  mentioned  in 
the  Minutes  of  the  Commissioners  of  Property,  under  date  of  May  19,  1702. 
Amy  Child  was  probably  of  the  same  family  as  Henry  Child,  of  Coleshill,  Amer- 
sham,  county  Hertford,  who  purchased  one  thousand  five  hundred  acres  of 
William  Penn,  at  about  the  same  date,  and  came  to  Pennsylvania,  but  later 
returned  to  England,  leaving  here  a  son,  Cephas  Child,  who  has  numerous 
descendants  in  Bucks  county,   Philadelphia,  and  elsewhere  in  Pennsylvania. 

Charles  Read,  father  of  Mrs.  Logan,  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men of  Philadelphia,  under  the  Charter  of  1701,  and  represented  Philadelphia 
in  the  Assembly  in  1704.  Charles  Read,  the  Councillor,  is  said  to  have  been 
a  son  of  a  former  marriage,  while  Sarah  Logan  and  Rachel  Pemberton  were 
the  daughters  of  Amy  (Child)  Stanton,  the  second  wife. 

James  Logan  had  many  years  prior  to  his  marriage  been  an  ardent  suitor 
for  the  hand  of  Anne  Shippen,  the  beautiful  daughter  of  Edward  Shippen, 
but  she  rejected  his  suit  and  married  Thomas  Story,  Logan's  colleague  in  the 
Board  of  Property,  with  whom  he  seems  to  have  had  considerable  contro- 
versy, as  evidenced  by  his  correspondence  with  Penn,  probably  owing  largely 
to  their  rivalry  for  the  hand  of  Anne  Shippen.  Under  date  of  iimo.  16,  1704-5, 
Penn  writes  Logan,  "I  am  anxiously  grieved  for  thy  unhappy  love  for  thy  sake 
and  my  own,  for  T.  S.,  and  thy  discord  has  been  for  no  service  here  any  more 
than  there ;  and  some  say  that  come  thence  that  thy  amours  have  so  altered 
or  influenced  thee  that  thou  art  grown  touchy  and  apt  to  give  rough  and  short 
answers,  which  many  call  haughty.  I  make  no  judgment,  but  caution  thee, 
as  in  former  letters,  to  let  truth  preside  and  bear  impertinence  as  patiently  as 


30  LOGAN 

thou  canst."  Logan  in  his  reply  3mo.  17,  1705,  represents  himself  as  very  much 
abused  and  maligned  by  Thomas  Story,  whom  he  says,  "in  the  middle  of  a 
pleasant  discourse  broke  out  into  such  a  Thunder  as  if  he  carried  ye  whole 
magazine  of  anathemas  in  his  breast,  and  so  continued  for  5months  his  blow 
at  Meetings."  After  further  explanation  of  their  differences  he  concludes,  "I 
am  sorry  I  spent  so  much  paper  on  it  &  therefore  shall  close  ye  subject  when 
I  have  added  that  I  wish  he  had  some  more  Honour  to  season  his  religion,  it 
would  keep  much  ye  sweeter." 

Issue  of  James  and  Sarah  {Reed)  Logan: — 

Sarah;  b.  Dec.  9,  1715,  d.  Dec.   13,  1744;  m.  Isaac  Norris; 

James; 

William,  b.  July   14,   17 18,  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah,  b.  Feb.  21,   1719-20,  d.  Dec.   18.   1761 ;  m.  John  Smith,  of  whom  later; 

Rachel,  d.  young; 

Charles,  d.  young; 

James  Logan  Jr.,  b.  Dec,  1728,  d.  Sept.  25,  1803;  resided  in  Philadelphia;  was  sur- 
viving trustee  of  Loganian  Library,  and  as  such  agreed  with  directors  of  Library 
Company  of  Philadelphia,  for  union  of  the  two  collections,  and  in  1792  secured  an  Act 
of  Assembly  vesting  the  collections  of  the  Loganian  Library  in  the  directors  of  the 
Library  Company  and  in  himself  and  two  associates  to  be  by  him  appointed,  who 
with  said  directors  were  to  hold  the  same  in  trust  for  the  uses  and  purposes  of  the 
Library.  At  the  death  of  the  said  James  Logan  Jr.  the  ne,\t  heir  male  of  his  father, 
resident  within  seven  miles  of  Philadelphia  was  to  succeed  him  as  trustee,  always 
preferring  issue  of  eldest  son  in  male  line  to  that  of  the  female  line ;  with  power  to 
fill  vacancies,  etc.  Under  date  of  Dec.  S.  1743.  Richard  Hockley  writes : — "Mr.  Logan 
has  given  the  Corporation  (of  Philadelphia  City)  his  lot  opposite  the  Governor's 
Garden  &  books  to  the  value  of  looo£  &  intends  a  building  60  feet  front  to  put  the 
books  in,  for  the  use  of  the  city."  The  Library  then  placed  at  the  service  of  the 
public  was  the  beginning  of  the  Loganian  Library.  The  building  referred  to  by  Mr. 
Hockley  was  constructed,  but  the  deed  therefore  was  afterwards  withdrawn  and 
cancelled  by  the  elder  Logan,  who  contemplated  placing  the  trust  on  different  terms, 
but  he  died  before  accomplishing  his  object.  Under  his  will  certain  funds  were  set 
apart  for  the  permanent  support  of  the  Library,  among  which  were  the  proceeds  of  a 
permanent  ground  rent  secured  on  500  acres  of  land  in  Solebury  township,  Bucks 
county,  known  as  the  Great  Spring  Tract  which  the  Library  still  receives.  He  m. 
Sarah  Armitt,  but  left  no  issue. 

William  Logan,  second  son  of  James  Logan,  born  in  Philadelphia,  July 
14,  1 718,  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  was  sent  to  England  to  be  educated  under 
the  care  of  his  uncle  and  namesake.  Dr.  William  Logan,  a  prominent  and 
wealthy  physician  of  Bristol,  England,  and  remained  there  until  he  arrived 
at  manhood.  On  his  return  to  Philadelphia,  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  trade 
with  his  father,  and  was  made  attorney  of  the  Penn  family  on  the  death  of 
Andrew  Hamilton  in  1741.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  trade  until  the  death  of 
his  father  in  1751,  when  becoming  the  owner  of  "Stenton"  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence there  and  devoted  himself   to  agriculture. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  October  4,  1743. 
and  remained  a  member  of  that  body  until  the  municipal  government  of  the 
city  was  suspended  by  the  Revolution  in  1776.  When  his  father  on  May  29, 
1747,  sent  word  to  the  Governor's  Council  that  he  no  longer  considered  himself 
a  member  of  that  body,  William  Logan  was  immediately  called  to  take  his 
place,  and  he  continued  a  member  of  Council  until  his  death  on  October  28. 
1776.  He  was  a  far  stricter  Quaker  than  his  father,  and  was  always  actively 
opposed  to  war  on  any  pretext.     He  voted  against  the  proposition  to  Coiuicil 


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to  pay  for  Indian  scalps,  on  April  6,   1756,  and  against  the  declaration  of  war 
four  days  later. 

With  his  cousin,  Israel  Pemberton,  and  others,  he  formed  the  Peace  Asso- 
ciation, and  offered  to  go  at  his  own  expense  to  the  Delaware  Indians  to  per- 
suade them  to  lay  down  their  arms  and  enter  into  a  treaty  of  peace.  Sir  Wil- 
liam Johnston,  Governor  of  New  York,  being  already  negotiating  a  peace 
with  them,  the  argument  of  the  Peace  Association  carried  considerable  weight, 
and  William  Logan  was  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  Conference  with  the  Indians 
at  Easton,  when  peace  was  declared. 

William  Logan  cared  less  for  literary  and  scientific  pursuits  than  his  father. 
He  was  an  extensive  traveller  and  left  a  Journal  of  some  of  his  rambles,  nota- 
bly that  of  a  visit  to  Georgia.  With  his  brother  James  and  sister,  Hannah 
Smith,  he  on  August  28,  1754,  deeded  library  property,  designed  by  his  father 
for  the  use  of  the  people  of  Philadelphia,  to  a  board  of  trustees,  consisting  of 
himself,  his  brother  James,  Israel  Pemberton  Jr.,  his  first  cousin,  William 
Allen,  Richard  Peters  and  Benjamin  Franklin;  William  Logan  acting  as  librarian 
until  his  death.  He  also  bequeathed  to  the  library  thirteen  hundred  volumes 
bequeathed  to  him  by  his  uncle.  Dr.  William  Logan,  of  Bristol,  England,  with 
the  provision  that  such  as  were  duplicates  of  what  the  library  already  contained, 
should  be  given  to  the  Philadelphia  Library. 

Conscientiously  opposed  to  war,  and  deeply  attached  to  the  Penn  family 
whom  he  had  long  represented  in  America,  William  Logan  naturally  held  aloof 
from  active  part  in  the  revolutionary  struggle,  and  like  many  others  of  his  ilk, 
was  often  an  object  of  suspicion,  and  had  he  lived  until  the  British  threatened 
Philadelphia,  would  doubtless  have  been  arrested  and  subjected  to  considerable 
annoyance  as  were  many  other  wealthy  and  influential  men  of  his  class.  He 
lived  quietly  at  "Stenton"  during  the  inception  of  the  national  struggle,  and 
attended  the  meetings  of  Provincial  Council  long  after  the  battle  of  Lexington. 

Like  his  father,  he  was  a  great  friend  of  the  Indians,  travelled  among  them 
frequently  without  an  armed  escort,  even  in  days  when  Indian  atrocities  had 
alarmed  the  whole  frontier;  and  frequently  entertained  large  delegations  of 
the  aborigines  at  "Stenton".  He  lived  a  life  of  activity  and  good  deeds,  thor- 
oughly consistent  with  his  religious  belief.  He  died  at  "Stenton",  October  29, 
1776,  and  was  buried  at  the  Friends'  Burying  Ground.  He  married,  March 
24,  1740,  Hannah  Emlen,  daughter  of  George  Emlen,  born  in  Philadelphia,  June 
I,  1722,  died  at  "Stenton",  January  30,  1777. 

Issue  of  William  and  Hannah   (Emlen)    Logan: — 

Sarah,  d.  young; 
James,  d.  young; 

William,  b.  1747;  studied  medicine,  graduating  at  Univ.  Edinburgh,  1770;  d.  in  Philadel- 
phia, January  17,   1772,  in  his  twenty-fifth  year;  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Dr.   Portsmouth, 
who  d.  March,  1797 ; 
Sarah,  b.  Jan.  6,   175 1;  m.  Thomas  Fisher; 

George,  b.  Sept.  9,  1753,  m.  Deborah  Norris  (See  Norris  Family),;  of  whom  presently; 
Charles,  d.  in  Virginia,   1794;  married  at  Friends'  Meeting,  Philadelphia,  July  8,   1779, 
Maiy   Pleasants,  and  had  issue : — 

James  Logan,  merchant  of  Philadelphia ;  lost  at  sea ;  will  probated  April  29,  1805 ; 

d.  s.  p. ; 
Sarah  Pleasants  Logan,  m.  Dr.  James  Carter,  of  Prince  Edward  county,  Va. ; 
Maria  Virginia  Logan,  m.   (first)   Robert  Woodson,  a  Virginia  lawyer;   (second) 
William  F.  Carter,  of  Virginia; 


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Harriet    M.    Logan,    m.    (first)    John    St.    John,    of    Virginia;    (second)    David 

Howard ; 
Juliana  Logan,  m.  Neil  McCloud,  merchant,  of  Virginia ; 

Charles  Franklin,  b.  Jan.  3,   1793;  m.  Sarah  W.  Robeson,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Robeson,  of  Philadelphia,  and  had  issue : — 
James  Logan,   d.   s.  p.   Dec.   19,   1866; 
Charles; 

Sally  Robeson  Logan,  d.  April  6,   1877 ;  m.  James  S.  Newbold,  of  Philadel- 
phia, broker. 

George  Logan,  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Emlen)  Logan,  and  who 
survived  his  parents,  was  born  at  "Stenton",  September  9,  1753.  He  is  said 
to  have  been  the  last  Pennsylvania  Quaker  to  attain  eminence  in  pubHc  Hfe,  and 
the  only  strict  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  that  ever  sat  in  the  United 
States   Senate. 

When  a  boy  George  Logan  was  sent  to  school  in  Worcester,  England.  His 
father  destined  him  for  a  mercantile  career,  and  on  his  return  from  abroad  he 
was  placed  in  the  counting  house  of  John  Reynolds,  an  eminent  merchant  and 
shipper  of  foreign  goods  in  Philadelphia.  He,  however,  soon  decided  to  study 
medicine,  and  after  the  death  of  his  father,  entered  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh, from  which  he  graduated  in  1779,  and  then  crossing  to  the  continent, 
spent  some  time  perfecting  himself  for  his  profession  in  Paris,  where  he  was 
kindly  received  and  introduced  by  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin,  then  Minister  to 
the  French  Court.  From  the  distinguished  philosopher  and  patriot  he  possibly 
imbibed  the  democratic  principles  that  marked  his  subsequent  career,  and  which 
he  certainly  did  not  inherit  from  his  austere  and  aristocratic  grandsire.  He 
returned  to  Philadelphia  in  the  autumn  of  1780,  and  finding  the  old  family 
home,  "Stenton",  laid  waste  by  the  Revolutionary  war,  bought  the  interest 
therein  of  his  brother  and  sister,  and  turning  his  attention  to  its  restoration  and 
improvement,  took  up  his  home  there  and  devoted  himself  for  some  years  to 
agriculture.  He  became  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and 
two  contributions  to  their  "Transactions"  published  in  1797,  on  "Experiments 
in  Gypsum"  and  "Rotation  of  Crops",  show  that  he  had  become  a  scientific 
and  practical  farmer.  He  was  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1785, 
and  regularly  re-elected  for  the  ne.xt  three  years.  He  was  an  intimate  friend 
of  Thoinas  Jefferson,  and  warmly  espoused  the  cause  and  doctrines  of  the 
Democratic  party.  He  was  again  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania  Legislature  as 
the  nominee  of  that  party  in  1795,  and  re-elected  the  following  year.  Like  his 
father,  an  ardent  advocate  of  peace,  he  went  to  France  in  June,  1798,  in  an 
effort,  on  his  own  responsibility,  to  prevent  a  war  between  that  country  and 
the  United  States.  Landing  at  Hamburg,  he  met  Lafayette,  who  enabled  him 
to  make  his  way  to  Paris,  where  he  arrived  on  August  7,  1798.  Learning  from 
the  United  States  Consul  General,  that  President  Adams'  Commissioners  had 
left  without  accomplishing  their  mission,  and  that  all  negotiations  were  at  an 
end,  and  that  an  embargo  had  been  laid  on  all  American  shipping  in  the  ports 
of  France,  and  many  American  seamen  confined  as  prisoners,  he  presented 
to  Tallyrand  his  letter  of  introduction  from  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  made  a 
strenuous  effort  for  the  relief  of  his  countrymen.  Finding  the  minister  obdur- 
ate, he  obtained  an  introduction  to  Citizen  Merlin,  one  of  the  Directory,  and 
securing  a  footing  of  warm  friendship  with  him  was  able  through  him  to  save 


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the  property  of  a  number  of  persons  from  confiscation,  and  secured  the  release 
of  a  number  of  the  imprisoned  seamen.  His  interference  was  resented  by  the 
Federalist  officials,  and  on  his  return  in  1799,  as  the  bearer  of  despatches  from 
the  Consul  General,  he  found  them  duplicated  before  his  arrival,  and  the 
Federalist  majority  in  Congress  passed  in  that  year  an  act  later  known  as  the 
"Logan  Act",  forbidding  any  private  citizen  to  take  any  part  in  diplomacy,  or 
to  treat  with  a  foreign  country,  without  the  authority  of  the  government.  He 
was  re-elected  to  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1799,  and  in  1801  was  appointed 
to  the  United  States  Senate  to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Peter 
Muhlenberg,  serving  out  the  full  term  which  expired  March  4,  1807.  In  1810 
he  again  went  abroad  on  a  mission  of  peace,  this  time  in  an  effort  to  prevent 
the  second  war  with  Great  Britain,  which  followed  in  1812.  He  died  at  "Sten- 
ton",  April  9,  1821,  in  his  sixty-eighth  year. 

George  Logan  married,  September  6,  1781,  Deborah  Norris,  born  October  19, 
1761,  died  at  "Stenton",  February  2,  1839.  She  was  the  second  child  and  eldest 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Parker)  Norris  and  was  the  "Debby  Norris" 
to  whom  Sally  Wister  indited  her  "Journal".  She  was  an  exceedingly  hand- 
some and  gifted  woman,  and  as  the  mistress  of  "Stenton"  "drew  around  her  the 
most  eminent  and  illustrious  men  and  women  of  the  then  leading  city  of  the 
young  Republic,"  as  well  as  distinguished  visitors  and  diplomats  from  abroad. 
President  George  Washington  was  frequently  entertained  there  while  Philadel- 
phia was  the  seat  of  the  national  government,  and  here  Citizen  Genet  met  and 
dined  with  the  prominent  men  of  this  country,  and  intrigued  to  secure  their  sup- 
port of  the  struggling  French  Republic. 

Issue  of  Dr.  George  and  Deborah  (Norris)  Logan:— 

Albanus   Charles,   of  whom  presently ; 

Gustavus  George,  b.  Oct.  6,   1786,  d.  Aug.  20,   1800; 

Algernon   Sydney,   d.    s.   p.   at   "Stenton",   Dec.    10,    1835. 

Albanus  Charles  Logan,  eldest  son  of  Dr.  George  and  Deborah  (Debby) 
(Norris)  Logan,  born  at  "Stenton",  November  22,  1783,  was  also  a  physician. 
He  succeeded  his  father  as  Trustee  of  the  Loganian  Library.  He  died  Febru- 
ary ID,  1854.  He  married  his  second  cousin,  Maria  Dickinson,  born  November 
6,  1783,  died  1854,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Norris)  Dickinson,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Isaac  Norris,  and  his  wife  Sarah  Logan,  daughter  of  James  Logan, 
the  famous  secretary.  Her  paternal  ancestry,  as  well  as  that  of  her  husband's 
mother,  "Debby"  Norris,  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes,  under  the  title  of 
the  "Norris  Family." 

Issue  of  Albanus  Charles  and  Maria  (Dickinson)  Logan: — 

Mary   Norris  Logan,   d.   unm,   October  3,   1886. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  Logan,  b.  Nov.  6,   1812,  d.   March   18,   1859;  m.  Oct.   10,   1833,  Thomas 

Forrest   Betton,   M.    D.,   of   Germantown,   d.   May   24,    1875. 
Gustavus  George  Logan,  b.  May  15,   1815;  of  whom  presently. 
John  Dickinson  Logan,  b.  June  21,   1817 ;  of  whom  presently. 

Gustavus  George  Logan,  eldest  son  of  Albanus  Charles  and  Maria  (Dick- 
inson) Logan,  born  at  "Stenton",  May  15,  1815,  as  eldest  male  representative 
of  James  Logan,  the  Provincial  Councillor,  was  Trustee  of  the  Loganian  Library 


34  LOGAN 

until  his  death,  December  17,  1876.  He  married,  October  29,  1846,  Anna  Arm- 
att,  daughter  of  WilHam  and  Jane  Caroline  Armatt,  of  "Loudon,"  Philadelphia 
county. 

Issue  of  Gitstaviis  George  and  Anna  (Armatt)  Logan: — 

Dickinson  Norris  Logan,  b.   Oct.   5,   1848,  d.  Jan.   28,   1851. 

Albanus    Charles   Logan,   b.    Sept.    19,    1850,   the   present   owner   of   "Stenton"   with   his 
sister  Maria  Dickinson  Logan,  and  eldest  male  representative  of  the  great  secretary. 
William  Armatt  Logan,  b.  Dec.   i,   1852,  d.  March  31,   1859. 
Fannie  Armatt  Logan,  b.  Oct.  14,   1854. 
Maria  Dickinson  Logan,  b.  May  30,  i85.:i. 
Jane   Caroline  Armatt  Logan,  b.   Sept.  22,   1859. 

John  Dickinson  Logan,  second  son  of  Albanus  Charles  and  Maria  (Dick- 
inson) Logan,  born  at  "Stenton",  June  21,  1817,  graduated  from  Medical  De- 
partment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  lived  first  at  "Somerville", 
later  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  where  he  died  April  25,  1881.  He  married,  April 
28,  1846,  Susan  Wister,  of  the  well-knovk'n  Wister  family  of  Germantown,  an 
account  of  which  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes,  three  or  four  members 
of  which  intermarried  with  the  Logan   family. 

Algernon  Sydney  Logan,  son  of  John  Dickinson  and  Susan  (Wister)  Logan, 
born  May  17,  1747,  married,  November  4,  1873,  Mary  Wynne  Wister,  born  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1847,  daughter  of  William  Wynne  and  Hannah  (Lewis)  Wister,  and 
they  reside  at  "Somerville".     They  had  issue,  one  son, 

Robert  Restalrigg  Logan,  b.  Dec  3,  1874,  who  m.  June  6,  1898,  Sara  Wetherill,  and  had 
issue : 

Deborah    Logan   Wetherill,    b.    Feb.    16,    1900. 

Hannah  Logan,  second  daughter  of  James  Logan,  the  distinguished  Pro- 
vincial Secretary,  born  February  21,  1719-20,  and  named  in  honor  of  Hannah 
Penn,  the  second  wife  of  her  father's  honored  patron,  married,  December  7, 
1748,  John  Smith,  then  a  wealthy  and  prominent  young  merchant  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly.  Their  courtship  as  gleaned 
from  the  diary  of  Jobn  Smith,  is  the  subject  of  a  delightful  book,  entitled  "Han- 
nah Logan's  Courtship",  recently  published,  which  gives  us  the  best  picture  of 
Colonial  life  in  Philadelphia  to  be  found  in  our  later  day  literature.  The  intro- 
duction to  the  diary  opens  with  an  account  of  the  visit  to  "Stenton",  June  i. 
1744,  of  the  Indian  Commissioners  from  Virginia,  on  their  way  to  meet  the 
Iroquois  chieftans  at  Lancaster  to  negotiate  a  treaty,  and  quotes  from  the  Jour- 
nal of  William  Black,  the  Secretary  of  the  Commission,  published  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania Magazine;  and  the  merry  young  Secretary  thus  describes  his  impres- 
fions  of  Hannah  Logan,  "At  last  the  Tea  Table  was  set  and  one  of  his  daugh- 
ters presented  herself  in  Order  to  fill  out  the  Fashionable  Warm  Water;  I  was 
really  very  much  surprised  at  the  appearance  of  so  Charming  a  Woman,  in  a 
place  where  the  seeming  moroseness  and  Goutified  Father's  Appearance  Prom- 
ised no  such  Beauty,  tho'  it  must  be  allowed  the  Man  seem'd  to  have  some  Re- 
mains of  a  handsome  enough  person,  and  a  Completion  beyond  his  years. 

"But  to  return  to  the  Lady,  I  declare  I  burnt  my  Lips  more  than  once,  being 
quite  thoughtless  of  the  warmness  of  my  Tea.  entirely  lost  in  Contemplating  her 
Beauties.     She  was  tall  and  slender,  but  Exactly  well  shap'd,  her  Features  Per- 


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feet  and  Compleetion,  tho'  a  little  the  whitest,  yet  her  countenance  had  some- 
thing in  it  extremely  Sweet.  Her  eyes  press'd  a  very  great  softness,  denoting  a 
compos'd  Temper  and  Serenity  of  Mind.  Her  Manner  was  Grave  and  Resev'd 
and  to  be  short,  she  had  a  Sort  of  Majesty  in  her  Person  and  Agreeableness 
in  her  Behavior,  which  at  once  Surprised  and  Charmed  the  Beholders." 

On  her  removal  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  with  her  husband  in  the  year 
1756,  Hannah  (Logan)  Smith,  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
and  conformed  to  the  "meek  and  lowly"  habits  she  conceived  to  be  consistent 
with  her  professions,  refusing  to  ride  as  formerly  in  her  "four  wheeled  Chaise, 
with  Driver  &  horses,"  and  travelled  to  and  from  the  meetings  where  she  min- 
istered on  horseback.  She  died  at  Burlington,  January  15,  1762,  at  the  age  of 
forty-two  years.  Her  husband  writes  of  her:  "In  the  relation  of  Child,  Wife 
and  Mother,  she  was  tenderly  and  anxiously  careful  to  fill  her  place." 

John  Smith  was  born  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  March  20,  1722,  and  was 
the  second  son  of  the  Honourable  Richard  Smith  Jr.  by  his  wife  Abigail  Rapier 
or  Raper,  daughter  of  Thomas  Raper,  who  was  born  at  Sindersby,  near  Thursk, 
Yorkshire,  and  came  to  New  Jersey  in  1681,  where  he  married  Abigail  Perkins, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Perkins,  who  in  1677  came  from  Seilby,  in  one 
of  the  first  English  vessels  that  came  up  the  river  Delaware ;  the  father  dying  at 
sea,  and  the  mother  settling  with  her   family  at   Burlington. 

The  "Burlington  Smiths"  from  whom  John  Smith  descended  were  of  a 
Quaker  family  of  the  name  that  had  been  residents  of  Bramham,  in  the  West 
Riding  of  Yorkshire,  since  the  sixteenth  century.  Richard  Smith,  the  great- 
grandfather of  John,  was  baptized  at  Bramham  in  1626,  and  was  a  son  of  Rich- 
ard Smith  of  Bramham,  born  1593,  died  1647,  the  first  ancestor  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  have  any  record.  Richard  (2)  was  educated  for  the  Law.  He  joined 
the  Friends  when  a  young  man,  and  in  1660  was  with  five  hundred  other  Quakers 
imprisoned  in  York  Castle.  He  was  the  author  of  a  tract  called  "A  Christian 
Directory."  He  was  married  in  1653,  before  Alderman  Paul  Peale,  of  York, 
to  Anne  Yeates,  daughter  of  William  Yeates,  a  Quaker  resident  of  Albrough. 
She  was  also  imprisoned  in  York  Castle  in  1688,  the  year  of  her  husband's 
decease.  Richard  Smith  was  one  of  the  first  purchasers  with  William  Penn  and 
Edward  Byllinge  of  the  West  Jersey  lands,  and  his  eldest  son  John  came  over 
in  1677  to  look  after  it.  The  other  sons,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Emanuel,  Samuel  and 
Richard  following  later. 

Samuel  Smith,  the  grandfather  of  John  Smith,  first  above  mentioned,  was 
a  son  of  Richard  and  Anne  (Yeates)  Smith,  and  was  born  at  Bramham,  York- 
shire, in  1672,  and  in  1694  emigrated  to  New  Jersey  and  settled  at  Burlington, 
where  he  became  prominent  in  local  and  Provincial  aflfairs,  serving  in  the  Pro- 
vincial Assembly.  He  married  Elizabeth  Lovett,  daughter  of  Edmond  Lovett, 
of  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  had  one  son  Richard  Smith  Jr.  and  a  daugh- 
ter Mary,  who  married  Joseph  Noble,  a  son  of  Abel  Noble  of  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania. 

Richard  Smith  Jr.,  born  in  Burlington  in  1699,  was  a  prominent  member  of 
Burlington  Friends'  Meeting,  and  a  prosperous  merchant,  being  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  West  India  trade,  and  owning  a  number  of  vessels,  some  of  which 
were  built  at  his  own  shipyard  at  Burlington.  His  extensive  wharves  were  at 
Green  Bank,  where  he  received  grain,  lumber,  and  other  products  of  New  Jer- 


36  LOGAN 

sey  for  shipment  to  the  West  Indies  in  exchange  for  sugar,  rum,  molasses  and 
other  products  of  those  isles.  He  erected  in  1720,  shortly  after  his  marriage 
to  Abigail  Raper,  a  spacious  town  house,  on  Main  street,  Burlington,  not  far  from 
the  river,  and  also  owned  a  country  seat,  near  Green  Hill,  once  the  seat  of  Gov- 
ernor Samuel  Jennings.  He  was  for  nearly  twenty  years  a  member  of  New 
Jersey  Assembly,  and  was  held  in  high  respect  by  the  prominent  men  of  the 
Province.  According  to  James  Alexander,  one  of  the  Councillors  of  New  Jer- 
sey, Governor  Belcher  relied  chiefly  on  his  counsel  in  state  affairs,  and  he  was 
"by  much  the  Man  of  the  best  Sense  and  Interest  in  the  Assembly."  His  eldest 
son  was  Samuel  Smith,  (1720-1776)  the  historian,  member  of  Provincial  Assem- 
bly and  Council,  and  with  his  brother  John,  and  Charles  Read  the  Custodian  of 
the  seal  and  acting  Governor  during  the  absence  in  England  of  Governor  Wil- 
liam Franklin,  and  subsequently  Provincial  Treasurer.  His  "History  of  New 
Jersey",  issued  in  1765,  is  still  the  standard  history  of  the  state  during  Colonial 
times.  He  was  also  in  a  sense  the  first  historian  of  Pennsylvania,  as  the  final 
compiler  of  the  "History  of  the  Quakers  in  Pennsylvania",  authorized  by  Phil- 
adelphia yearly  meeting  from  which  Proude  and  later  historians  drew  largely 
in  compiling  their  works.  He  was  further  associated  with  Pennsylvania  by  his 
marriage  with  Jane  Kirkbride,  in  1741,  daughter  of  Joseph  Kirkbride,  one  of 
the  largest  land  owners  and  most  prominent  men  of  Bucks  county. 

William  Lovett  Smith,  third  son  of  Richard  and  Abigail  (Raper)  Smith,  born 
1726,  died  1798,  was  early  in  life  also  a  West  India  merchant,  but  later  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits,  near  Burlington,  naming  his  estate  "Bramham"  after  the 
ancestral  estate  in  England.  He  married,  in  1749,  Mary  Doughty,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Amy  Doughty. 

Richard  Smith,  youngest  brother  of  John,  first  mentioned,  and  the  fourth 
son  of  Richard  and  Abigail  (Raper)  Smith,  born  1735,  died  1803:  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  Joseph  Galloway  at  Philadelphia,  and  practiced  there  and  in  New 
Jersey.  He  took  an  active  part  in  political  affairs  and  was  Recorder  of  Burling- 
ton county,  Assemblyman  and  Provincial  Treasurer  of  New  Jersey.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  Revolution  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  state  in  the  Continental 
Congress,  and  became  its  first  Secretary,  his  portrait  appearing  in  Molleson's 
painting,  "The  First  Prayer  in  Congress".  He  devoted  much  time  to  literary 
pursuits.  He  married  Elizabeth  Rodman,  daughter  of  John  Rodman,  and  resided 
at  his  seat  called  "Bramham  Hall".  He  died  at  Natchez,  ^Mississippi,  in  1803. 
while  on  a  tour  of  the  southern  states. 

John  Smith  began  his  diary  before  referred  to.  in  1736,  when  a  youth  of 
fourteen,  residing  at  his  father's  house  in  Burlington,  and  continued  it  with  a 
few  interruptions  for  fourteen  years.  He  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  1743.  and 
his  notes  of  everyday  life  in  the  metropolis  of  the  American  Colonies  for  the 
next  nine  years  present  a  clear  picture  of  Colonial  life  at  that  time  among  the 
wealthy  and  governing  class  to  which  he  belonged  and  with  whom  he  was  in  daily 
and  intimate  association,  presenting  an  interesting  personal  view  of  nearly  cverv 
one  of  consequence  in  the  Province  at  that  time,  as  well  as  of  many  notable  visi- 
tors, and  records  many  interesting  and  important  events. 

John  Smith  had  just  attained  his  majority  when  in  1743  he  located  in  Pliila- 
delphia  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  and  .shipping  tra<le,  in  which  he  was 
very  successful,  and  lieing  a  man  of  wealth,  education  and   refinement  enjoyed 


LOGAN  37 

the  best  society  of  the  aristocratic  Quaker  City,  and  belonged  to  the  most  exclu- 
sive social  organizations.  In  1746  he  purchased  a  fine  country  seat  at  Point-no- 
point,  on  the  Delaware  above  Philadelphia,  on  which  was  a  fine  brick  mansion, 
and  employing  a  gardener  devoted  much  time  to  its  beautification  and  in  agricul- 
tural and  horticultural  pursuits.  He  was  intimate  with  John  Bartram,  the  great 
American  botanist,  and  the  leading  scholars  and  scientists  of  the  day,  and  gave 
much  time  to  reading  and  literary  pursuits.  He  published  in  1747  a  little  book 
entitled.  "The  Doctrine  of  Christianity,  As  held  by  the  People  Called  Quakers, 
Vindicated:  In  Answer  to  Gilbert  Tennent's  Sermon  on  the  Lawfulness  of 
War." 

In  1746  he  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  Philadelphia  Contributionship, 
one  of  the  first  insurance  companies  in  the  country,  and  in  1751  helped  to  found 
the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Philadelphia  Library  Com- 
pany, a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  Philadelphia  Quarterly  Meeting  of  Friends,  of  which  he  served  for 
a  time  as  clerk.  He  was  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1750,  and 
re-elected  in  1751  and  1752,  and  his  diary  shows  that  he  was  in  almost  constant 
attendance  and  took  an  active  part  in  its  deliberations.  His  courtship  of  Hannah 
Logan  began  almost  with  his  first  appearance  in  Philadelphia  and  ended  with 
their  marriage  five  years  later.  Isaac  Norris,  who  had  married  Hannah's  elder  sister 
Sarah,  many  years  Speaker  of  Assembly  and  referred  to  by  James  Logan  as 
the  "most  learned  man  in  Philadelphia",  went  to  his  father-in-law  and  sought 
the  hand  of  Hannah  for  his  younger  brother  Charles,  and  was  very  much 
offended  when  John  Smith  carried  off  the  prize,  refusing  to  attend  the  wedding 
or  to  hold   further  communication  with  the  Smiths. 

John  and  Hannah  (Logan)  Smith  resided  in  Philadelphia  until  1756,  when 
John  gave  up  trade  and  removed  with  his  family  to  Burlington,  taking  up  their 
residence  in  the  house  erected  by  his  father  in  1729.  He  continued  to  take 
active  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  in  1757  was  a  subscriber  to  the  "New  Jersey 
Association  for  Helping  the  Indians".  On  December  15,  1753,  he  was  appointed 
a  member  of  the  King's  Council  for  New  Jersey.  In  1761  he  was  named  as 
one  of  the  Commissioners  to  try  pirates,  and  in  1768,  with  his  brother  Samuel 
and  Charles  Read,  was  commissioned  to  take  charge  of  the  Seals  of  the  Province 
of  New  Jersey,  during  the  absence  of  Governor  William  Franklin  in  England.  He 
died  at  Burlington,  March   16,   1771,  in  his   forty-ninth  year. 

Robert  Proude,  the  historian,  says  of  John  Smith,  "He  was  engaging,  open, 
friendly  and  undesigning  in  his  address  and  behavior:  of  a  cheerful  and  benev- 
olent disposition,  well  skilled  in  the  laws  of  his  country:  and  very  ready,  gen- 
erous and  serviceable  in  giving  his  advice  and  assistance.  In  his  religious  char- 
acter he  exhibited  an  excellent  example  of  true  practical  Christianity,  free  from 
affectation  and  narrowness  of  mind.  He  was  in  several  relations  one  of  the  best 
of  neighbors  and  men." 

Issue  of  John  and  Hannah  (Logan)  Smith:— 

Sarah  Logan  Smith,  b.  Aug.  29,  1749,  d.  April  23,  1769;  m.  May  9.  1768,  William 
Dillwyn,  of  Philadelphia,  later  of  Higham  Lodge,  county  Middlesex,  England,  and 
had  issue : 

Susannah  Dillwyn,   b.   March  3,   1769,  d.   s.  p.,   Nov.   24,   1819;  m,   April   16,   1795, 
Samuel   Emlen,  of   Philadelphia. 


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James  Smith,  b.  Oct.  15,  1750.  d.  in  Philadelphia,  1833;  m.  Jan.  13,  1772,  Esther 
Hewlings,  daughter  of  William  Hewlings.  of  Burlington ;  was  for  many  years  a 
merchant  of  Burlington   county,   New  Jersey.     They  had  issue ; 

Hannah  Smith,  b.   Nov.  26,   1773;   m.  Dec.   11,   1794,   Henry  S.  Drinker,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 
Sarah    Logan    Smith,   b.    Sept.    28,    1778,    m.    Hugh    Roberts,    of    Philadelphia. 
John   J.    Smith,   b.   July   26,    1780;   m.    Nov.   6,    1805,    Mary    Roberts,   daughter   of 

George ;    lived   in    Philadelphia. 
Elizabeth    Smith,   d.   young. 
William  Smith,  d.  young. 
James   Smith,   d.   young. 

Charles  Logan  Smith,  b.  March   16,   1787,  d.  May  14,   1811. 
Abigail  Bowne  Smith,  b.  Dec.  2,  1788;  m.  Feb.  18,  1813,  John  Drinker. 
Elizabeth   Smith,   b.   August  25,    1790;   m.   Mordecai   Lewis,   of   Philadelphia. 
Susannah  Dillwyn  Smith,  b.  March  5,  1792;  m.  Samuel  Allinson.  of  New  Jersey. 
James    Logan    Smith,    b.    Sept.    14,    1793;    m.    (first)    Elizabeth    Alden ;    (second) 
Mary  Couper,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Couper;  settled  at  New  Castle,  Del. 
Hannah  Smith,  b.  Oct.  29,   1753;  m.  Jan.,   1780,  John  Coxe,  of  "Oxmeade",   Burlington 
county,  N.  J. ;  had  a  daughter,  Hannah  Coxe,  m.  George  Davis,  M.  D.,  of  Ostego,  N.  Y. 
John    Smith,   of   Green   Hill,   b.    Nov.   2,    1761,   d.   April    18,    1803;   m.    April   8,    1784, 
Gulielma  Maria   Morris,   of  whom  presently. 

John  Smith  Jr.,  yotingest  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Logan)  Smith,  lived 
at  "Green  Hill",  the  country  seat  established  by  his  grandfather,  Hon.  Richard 
Smith,  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  He  married  Gulielma  Maria  j\Ior- 
ris,  born  1766,  died  1826,  daughter  of  William  Morris,  by  his  wife  ]\Iargaret 
Hill,  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  Hill,  of  the  island  of  Madeira,  by  his  wife  Deborah 
Moore.  The  children  of  John  and  Gulielma  Maria  (Morris)  Smith  were  there- 
fore descended  from  at  least  five  Provincial  Councillors,  viz:  Thomas  Lloyd, 
first  President  of  Penn's  Council ;  James  Logan,  both  acting  Governors  of  Penn- 
sylvania ;  Anthony  Morris,  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Rich- 
ard Smith  and  John  Smith,  of  the  Governor's  Council  of  New  Jersey.  Among 
(heir  ancestors  were  also  nearly  twice  that  number  who  served  in  the  Provincial 
Assemblies  and  held  high  positions  in  the  Provincial  afifairs  of  the  two  Provinces. 
Issue  of  John  and  Gulielma  Maria  (Morris)  Smith: — 

Henry  Hill  Smith,  d.  young. 

Margaret  Hill   Smith,  m.   Samuel  Hilles,  of  Wilmington,  Del. 

Richard  M.  Smith,  b.  June  27,  1788;  became  the  owner  of  "West  Hill",  Burlington 
county,  on  the  death  of  his  cousin,  Susannah  (Dillwyn)  Emlen,  in  1819,  and  d.  there 
Feb.  II,  1826;  m.  Susanna  Collins,  daughter  of  Isaac  Collins,  the  celebrated  printer 
of  Trenton,   N.   J. 

Rachel  Smith,  b.  May  26,  1792,  d.  Oct.  7,  1839;  iri.  George  Stewardson,  a  Philadelphia 
merchant,  had  issue. 

Milcah   Martha  Smith,  d.  young. 

John  Jay  Smith,  b.  June  16,  1798;  m.  Rachel  C.  Pearsall.  of  whom  presently. 

Morris  Smith,  b.  Aug.  29,  1801,  d.  March  28,  1832;  m.  Caroline  M.,  dau.  of  Robert 
Smith,  of  Abington,  Montgomery  county.  Pa.,  and  was  the  father  of  Richard  Morris 
Smith,  of  Philadelphia,  author  of  the  "Burlington  Smiths";  m.  Anna  Kaighn. 

John  Jay  Smith,  son  of  John  and  Gulielma  Maria  (Morris)  Smith,  born 
June  16,  1798,  was  for  many  years  Librarian  of  the  Philadelphia  and  Loganian 
libraries,  and  lived  a  life  of  literary  activity,  being  the  author  of  a  number  of 
books,  papers  and  addresses,  among  which  were,  "A  summer's  Jaunt  Across  the 
Water",  I'hiladelphia,  1846,  two  volumes:  "American  Historical  and  Literary 
Curiosities",  and  various  letters,  biographical  sketches,  etc.     He  was  for  a  time 


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conductor  of  the  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  Saturday  Bulletin,  Daily  Express,  Littel's 
Museum,  and  Walsh's  National  Gazette.  He  also  edited  "Letters  of  Dr.  Rich- 
ard Hill",  the  "Recollections  of  John  Jay  Smith",  and  a  number  of  other  works 
of  merit.  He  resided  at  "Ivy  Lodge"  in  Philadelphia  county,  where  he  died  Sep- 
tember 23,  1881.  He  married  Rachel  C.  Pearsall,  daughter  of  Robert  Pearsall, 
of  Flushing,  Long  Island. 

Issue  of  John  Jay  and  Rachel  C.  (Pearsall)  Smith: — 

Lloyd  Pearsall  Smith,  b.  1822,  d.  1886;  succeeded  his  father  as  librarian,  and  was  for 
some  years  conductor  of  Lippincott's  Magazine;  m.  Hannah  E.  Jones,  daughter  of 
Isaac  C.  Jones,  and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Preston,  Provincial  Councillor. 

Albanus  Smith,  b.  Sept.  30,  1823,  d.  March  29,  1842,  while  a  student  at  the  U.  of  Pa. 

Robert  Pearsall  Smith,  m.  Hannah  Whitall,  dau.  of  John  Whitall,  a  Philadelphia 
chemist,  and  now  a  resident  of  Oxford,  England,  her  husband  being  deceased ;  she 
was  for  some  years  a  prominent  speaker  in  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere  on  religious 
and  social  subjects,  and  is  the  author  of  "Frank,  The  Record  of  a  Happy  Life",  "The 
Christian's  Secret  of  a  Happy  Life",  "Bible  Readings  on  Progressive  Development 
of  Truth  in  the  Old  Testament",  "John  M.  Whitall,  The  Record  of  his  Life",  and 
a  number  of  other  works ;  Robert  Pearsall  was  also  the  author  of  a  number  of  books, 
one  of  which  was  "Account  of  the  Union  Meeting  for  the  Promotion  of  Scriptural 
Holiness,  August  29,  to  September  7,  1874". 

Gulielma  Maria  Smith,  d.  young. 

Horace  John  Smith,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Dec.  9,  1832 ;  was  educated  at  the  U.  of  Pa. ; 
engaged  in  importation  of  china  and  pottery ;  in  1865,  being  in  poor  health,  engaged 
in  farming  at  George's  Hill,  Philadelphia ;  was  actively  interested  in  the  agricultural 
department  of  the  Centennial  Exposition  in  1876;  in  that  year  went  to  California; 
during  years  1883-97,  he  travelled  extensively  in  Europe ;  in  1897  took  up  his  resi- 
dence at  Mosely,  a  suburb  of  Birmingham,  England,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
May  19,  1906 ;  he,  however,  maintained  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  his 
native  country  and  was  for  many  years  an  active  advocate  of  the  establishment  of  a 
postal  savings  bank  system  in  the  United  States.  He  m.  Oct.  8,  1857,  Margaret  Long- 
streth,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Bringhurst)  Longstreth,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
they   had    four   children. 

Elizabeth  Pearsall  Smith,  now  residing  at  "Ivy  Lodge",  Philadelphia,  who  edited 
"Recollections  of  John  Jay  Smith",  and  presented  to  the  Philadelphia-Loganian 
Library  some  4000  papers  of  her   father,   John  Jay   Smith. 

Rachel  Collins  Pearsall,  wife  of  John  Jay  Smith,  and  mother  of  the  above 
named  children,  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Pearsall,  of  Flushing,  Long  Island, 
and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  Collins,  of  Burlington,  and  his  wife 
Rachel  Budd,  an  account  of  whose  ancestry  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes. 


LLOYD  FAMILY 

Thomas  Lloyd,  Deputy  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  1684-88,  and  1690-93, 
though  a  consistent  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  a  typical  representa- 
tive of  that  good  old  Quaker  stock  of  solid  respectability  and  sterling  worth 
without  the  ostentation  of  pomp  and  display,  whose  home  life  lent  such  a  peculiar 
charm  to  social  life  of  the  City  of  Brotherly  Love,  in  Colonial  days,  was  never- 
theless of  Royal  descent,  and  traced  his  ancestry  on  both  maternal  and  paternal 
lines  back  to  Edward  L,of  England,  and  on  more  remote  paternal  lines  back  through 
a  long  line  of  princes  of  ancient  Britain.  The  surname  of  Lloyd  had  its  original 
with  Owen,  son  of  levan  Teg,  otherwise,  "Evan  the  handsome",  whose  family 
had  owned  and  occupied  Dolobran,  Wales,  since  1496,  and  like  all  the  old  Welsh 
families  traced  its  ancestry  back  to  the  Dark  Ages.  Owen  Lloyd  married  Kath- 
erine  Vaughn,  and  his  brother,  David  Lloyd,  of  Dolobran,  married  Eva,  daugh- 
ter of  David  Goch  Esq.,  and  David  Lloyd,  son  of  David  and  Eva,  had  son 
John  Lloyd,  grandfather  of  Governor  Lloyd,  who  married  Catharine,  daughter 
of  Humphrey  Lloyd  Wyn,  whose  father,  John  Lloyd,  was  a  son  of  levan  Lloyd 
and  grandson  of  Owen  Lloyd  and  Katherine  Vaughn.  John  Lloyd,  grandfather 
of  Catharine,  married  Margaret  Kynaston,  who  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Edward  L,  through  the  following  line :  Jane,  "the  fair  maid  of  Kent,"  grand- 
daughter of  Edward  L,  and  daughter  of  Edmund  of  Woodstock,  Earl  of  Kent, 
married  (first)  Sir  Thomas  Holland,  who  was  thereupon  made  Earl  of  Kent, 
and  (second)  Edward,  the  Black  Prince,  becoming  by  the  second  marriage  the 
mother  of  Richard  H.  Her  eldest  son.  Sir  Thomas  Holland,  who  succeeded  his 
father  as  Earl  of  Kent  and  was  later  Marshall  of  England,  had  a  daughter  Elea- 
nor who  married  (first)  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  from  which  mar- 
riage descended  Edward  IV.,  and  (second)  Edward  Cherleton,  Lord  of  Powys, 
by  whom  she  had  a  daughter  Joane,  who  married  Sir  John  Grey,  who  in  141 8, 
was  created  Earl  of  Tankerville.  Henry  Grey,  Earl  of  Tankerville,  son  of  Sir 
John  and  Joane,  married  Antigone,  daughter  of  Humphrey,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
who  was  a  son  of  Henry  IV.,  and  had  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  married  Roger 
Kynaston  Esq.,  and  their  son,  Humphrey  Kynaston,  was  the  father  of  Mar- 
garet Kynaston,  who  married  John  Lloyd,  as  above  noted,  and  whose  grand- 
daughter Catharine  married  another  John  Lloyd,  the  grandfather  of  Thomas 
Lloyd   of    Pennsylvania. 

Charles  Lloyd,  of  Dolobran,  Montgomeryshire,  Wales,  son  of  John  and  Cath- 
arine, and  father  of  Governor  Thomas  Lloyd,  was  born  at  Dolobran,  in  1613. 
He  was  a  magistrate  of  Montgomeryshire,  and  had  emblazoned  on  a  panel  at 
Dolobran,  his  coat-of-arms,  with  fifteen  quarterings,  impaled  with  the  arms  of 
his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Stanley,  of  Knockden,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  the  Earls  of  Derby.  The  paternal  or  Lloyd  arms  were,  "azure,  a  chevron 
between  three  cocks  argent",  and  the  different  quarterings  show  the  descent  of 
Governor  Lloyd  from  the  ancient  male  lines  of  the  Lords  of  Powys,  the  Cherle- 
tons.  Greys  and  Kynastons.  The  first  quarter  of  the  maternal  arms  is  the  shield 
of   the   Earls  of  Derby,   differenced   with    a   crescent   charged   with    a   crescent. 


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which     indicates  that  Thomas  Stanley  was  descended  from  a  second  son  of  a 
second  son. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  {Stanley)  Lloyd,  of  Dolobran: — 

Charles,  inherited  Dolobran,  and  was  ancestor  of  the  Lloyd  who  founded  Lloyd's  Bank- 
ing House,  in  London ; 
John,  was  a  clerk  in  chancery; 
Thomas,  came  to  Pennsylvania,  in  1683 ; 
Elizabeth,  m.   Henry   Parry,   of   Penamser,   Merionethshire,   Wales. 

Thomas  Lloyd  was  born  at  Dolobran,  Montgomeryshire,  Wales  about  the 
year  1640,  and  was  sent  to  Jesus  College,  Oxford,  where  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  January  29,  1661.  Both  he  and  his  elder  brother, 
Charles,  with  several  others  of  the  gentry  of  Montgomeryshire,  became  con- 
verted to  the  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  under  the  teachings  of  George  Fox 
in  1663,  and  both  were  imprisoned  in  1664,  and  continued  nominally  prisoners 
until  1672,  when  Charles  II.,  by  letters  patent,  dispensed  with  the  laws  inflicting 
punishment  for  religious  offences,  when,  according  to  Besse,  Charles  Lloyd, 
Thomas  Lloyd  and  others  "were  discharged  from  Montgomery  Gaol."  Thomas 
Lloyd  seems,  however,  to  have  enjoyed  a  nominal  liberty  during  at  least  a  por- 
tion of  this  period,  as  it  covers  the  date  of  his  marriage,  and  his  wife  was  permitted 
to  visit  him  while  in  prison.  Thomas  Lloyd  was  a  physician  while  residing  in 
Wales,  and  had  a  large  practice.  Belonging  as  he  did  to  the  gentry  class,  and 
being  a  man  of  high  intellectual  abihty,  he  exercised  a  wide  influence  in  matters 
of  state,  though  of  the  proscribed  sect  religiously.  According  to  "The  Friend", 
it  was  at  his  solicitation  that  Parliament  was  induced  to  abolish  the  long  unused 
writ  "de  heretico  comburendo",  with  the  operation  of  which  the  Friends  were 
threatened.  He  was  tendered  high  place  and  influence  if  he  would  renounce 
his  religion,  but  adhered  to  the  faith.  In  1681  he  and  his  brother  Charles  held  a 
public  disputation  at  the  town  hall  of  Llanwilling,  with  Right  Rev.  William 
Lloyd,  Bishop  of  Asaph,  one  of  the  noted  prelates  whom  James  II.  committed 
to  the  Tower. 

Thomas  Lloyd  and  his  wife  and  children  embarked  from  London  for  Pennsyl- 
vania, June  10,  1683,  on  board  the  same  ship  with  Francis  Daniel  Pastorius, 
the  "Sage  of  Germantown,"  then  on  his  way  to  take  possession  of  the  lands  pur- 
chased by  the  Frankfort  Company  of  William  Penn,  on  which  was  planted  the 
first  German  Colony  in  Pennsylvania.  Lloyd  and  the  distinguished  German 
scholar  discoursed  in  Latin  and  discussed  religious  and  political  questions  on  the 
voyage,  and  cemented  a  friendship  that  continued  through  life.  They  arrived 
at  Philadelphia  6mo.  (August)  20,  1683.  On  December  2,  1683,  William  Penn 
appointed  Thomas  Lloyd  Master  of  Rolls,  the  office  having  been  created  by  the 
Assembly  at  the  request  of  Penn,  its  object  being  to  keep  an  exact  record  of  the 
laws  enacted  for  the  Province,  as  well  as  a  record  of  transfers  of  real  estate 
and  other  legal  documents.  Thomas  Lloyd  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Gov- 
ernor's Council,  qualified  on  imo.  20,  1684,  and  was  elected  its  president.  Be- 
fore sailing  for  England,  in  August  of  the  same  year,  William  Penn  executed 
a  commission  to  his  Council  to  act  as  Governor  in  his  absence,  made  Thomas 
Lloyd  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  of  the  Province,  and  made  him,  with  James 
Claypoole  and   Robert   Turner,   Commissioners   of   Property,   with   authority  to 


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grant  warrants  of  survey  and  issue  patents  to  purchasers  of  land.  The  commis- 
sion, vesting  the  governing  power  in  Council,  terminated  in  1688,  and  though 
Lloyd  desired  to  be  relieved  from  office,  Penn's  commission  arrived  i2mo.  9, 
1687-8,  vesting  the  powers  of  Deputy  Governor  in  Thomas  Lloyd,  Robert  Turner, 
John  Simcock,  Arthur  Cooke  and  John  Eckley,  and  this  arrangement  continued 
for  ten  months,  when  Penn,  having  ofYered  Lloyd  the  Lieutenant  Governorship, 
on  his  declination  of  the  honor,  appointed  Capt.  John  Blackwell,  then  in  New 
England,  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  Thomas  Lloyd  still  retaining  the  positions  of 
Master  of  Rolls  and  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal.  The  administration  of  Blackwell 
was  far  from  satisfactory  to  the  Friends,  and  there  was  considerable  clash  be- 
tween him  and  Lloyd  as  Keeper  of  the  Seal,  so  that  when  Thomas  Lloyd  was 
returned  as  a  member  of  the  Council  by  Bucks  county  in  March,  1689,  Blackwell 
presented  articles  of  impeachment  against  him,  and,  failing  to  eject  him  from  the 
Council,  adjourned  that  body  from  time  to  time  whenever  Lloyd  was  present. 
On  Penn's  return  Blackwell  resigned,  and  on  iimo.  2.  1689-90,  the  Council 
accepted  Penn's  ultimatum  that  the  whole  Council  act  as  the  governing  body, 
elected  Thomas  Lloyd  its  president,  and  made  him,  as  Keeper  of  the  Seal,  a 
member  of  the  county  court,  ex-officio.  He  was  later  commissioned  Lieutenant 
Governor  and  served  until  the  arrival  of  Governor  Fletcher,  when  he  was  offered 
the  second  place  in  the  government,  but  declined.  Thomas  Lloyd  died  Septem- 
ber 10,  1694,  after  eleven  years  residence  in  Pennsylvania,  during  eight  of  which 
he  had  served  as  her  chief  executive.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife, 
Mary  Jones,  whom  he  married  9mo.  9,  1665,  at  the  Friends'  Meeting  in  Shrop- 
shire, Wales,  died  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  married  (second)  Patience  Story,  a 
widow  of  New  York,  who  survived  him. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Jones)  Lloyd: — 

Hannah,    b.    Sept.    21,    1666,    m.    John    Delaval.    Provincial    Councillor,    1692,    (second) 

Richard   Hill,   Provincial   Councillor,   1704-28; 
Rachel,  b.  Jan.  20,   1667,  m.   Samuel   Preston.   Provincial   Councillor,   1714-43 ; 
Mordecai,  b.  Dec.  7.   1669.  d.  s.  p.  1694.  lost  at  sea ; 
John.  b.  Feb,  3,  1671,  d.  s.  p.  at  Jamaica,  1692; 
Mary.  b.  March  27,   1674.  m.   Isaac   Norris.   Provincial   Councillor,   1709-34.   Speaker  of 

Assembly,  etc. ; 
Thomas,  b.  Sept.  15,  1675,  d.  1718,  m.  Sarah  Young;  of  whom  presently; 
Elizabeth,  b.   March   i.   1677,  d.  July  22.   1704.  m.   April  9,   1700,   Daniel   Zachary.     Her 

son   Lloyd   Zachary.   b.    1701,   was  first   physician   of   Pennsylvania   Hospital; 
Margaret,  b.   May  5,   1680,  d.   Sept.   13.   1693; 

Deborah,  b.  March   i,  1682.  m.  Mordecai  Moore;  his  second  wife; 
Samuel,  b.,  Philadelphia,   1684;  d.  young. 

Thom.\s  Lloyd,  son  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Jones)  Lloyd,  born  in 
Great  Britain,  September  15,  1675,  was  a  merchant  of  (70odmansfield.  London, 
and  died  there  prior  to  i2mo.  17,  1717,  at  which  date  his  widow  obtained  a 
certificate  from  London  Meeting  to  Philadelphia.  She  was  Sarah  Young,  bom 
November  2,  1676,  and  died  in  Philadelphia. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Young)  Lloyd: — 

Peter,    b.    in    London,    came    from    Bristol.    England,    to    Philadelphia.    1718.    Common 

Councilman    1729-44.   merchant;    m.    Mercy   Masters,    1729;    d    Feb.    16,    1744-S; 
Mary.   d.   unm.,    Sept.    17.    1775; 
Thomas,  of  whom   prescntlv; 


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John,   d.   s.   p.,    Philadelphia ; 

Mordecai,  b.   Sept.  6,   1708,  m.   Hannah  Fishbourne; 

Anne,  m.  John  Mathews,  d.  s.  p. ; 

Charles,  d.  s.  p.,  June  8,  i745- 

Thomas  Lloyd,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Young)  Lloyd,  born  in 
London,  England,  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  mother,  in  1718,  married,  i2mo. 
23,  1734,  at  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  Susannah,  widow  of  Dr.  Edward 
Owen  and  daughter  of  Philip  Kearney,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Lionel  Britain,  who  came  from  Almy,  Bucks  county,  England,  and 
settled  in  Bucks  county  in  1680,  removing  later  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died 
in  1 72 1.  Thomas  Lloyd  was  a  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  and  died 
there.   May  4,   1754. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Kearncy-Ozvcn)  Lloyd: — 

Sarah,  d.  Aug.  9,  1788,  m.,  Dec.  13.  1757,  William  Moore,  native  of  Isle  of  Man,  Member 
Council  of  Safety,  1776,  Board  of  War,  1777;  Delegate  to  Continental  Congress, 
1777;  Member  Supreme  E.xecutive  Council,  1779,  Vice-president,  1779,  President, 
1781;  Judge  High  Court  of  Appeals,  1783;  Member  Assembly,  1784;  died  1793; 

Susannah,  m.  Thomas  Wharton,  President  Supreme  Executive  Council,  1777-8;  d. 
Oct.  24,   1772. 

Deborah  Lloyd,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Governor  Thomas  Lloyd,  born 
March  i,  1682,  married,  September  12,  1704,  Mordecai  Moore,  of  Anne  Arundel 
county,  Maryland,  "practitioner  in  Physick  and  Chirurgery",  who  had  come  to 
America  with  Lord  Baltimore  as  his  family  physician.  He  received  through 
Lord  Baltimore,  large  grants  of  land,  and  held  under  him  various  offices  of  honor 
and  trust.  Deborah  Lloyd  was  his  second  wife,  and  his  son  by  the  former  mar- 
riage, Richard  Moore,  M.  D.,  at  one  time  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in 
Philadelphia,  and  member  of  Common  Council  of  that  city  in  1716,  had  married 
Deborah  Lloyd's  niece,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Provincial  Councillor  Samuel 
Preston  by  his  wife  Rachel  Lloyd,  sister  of  Deborah,  as  shown  in  narrative  of 
the  Preston  family.  Mordecai  Moore  died  in  Maryland  in  1721. 
Issue  of  Mordecai  and  Deborah  (Lloyd)  Moore: — 

Deborah  Moore,  b,  June  2,  1705.  m.  Dr.  Richard  Hill,  Jr.,  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah  Moore,  b.  Oct.   18,   1706,  d.  Oct.  26,   1706; 

Mary  Moore,  b.  Aug.  29,  1708,  d.  Nov.  3,  1760,  unm. ; 

Hester  Moore,  b.  Aug.  30,   1710,  d.  young; 

Elizabeth  Moore,  b.  Oct.  11,  1712,  d.  young; 

Rachel  Moore,  b.  June   18,   1714,  d.  July   16,   1796,  unm. 

Deborah  Moore,  eldest  child  of  Mordecai  and  Deborah  (Lloyd)  Moore 
born  in  Maryland,  June  2,  1705,  died  on  Island  of  Madeira,  December  19,  1751 
She  married,  at  South  River,  Maryland,  February  9,  1 720-1,  Dr.  Richard  Hill 
son  of  Henry  Hill  of  Maryland,  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Levin  Denwood 
and  nephew  and  heir  of  Richard  Hill  of  Philadelphia,  Provincial  Councillor 
1704-1728,  who  had  married  Hannah  Lloyd,  another  daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd 
Dr.  Richard  Hill  was  born  at  South  River,  Maryland,  in  1698.  He  studied  medi- 
cine, practiced  at  his  native  place  for  some  years,  and  also  engaged  in  the  ship- 
ping trade  at  that  point.  He  met  with  severe  financial  losses,  became  heavily 
involved  in  debt,  and  with  the  hope  of  retrieving  his  fortunes,  removed  with  his 


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family  to  Funchal,  Island  of  Madeira,  and  engaged  in  the  wine  trade  there.  He 
was  very  successful  in  this  venture,  and  in  addition  to  paying  his  creditors  in 
full  of  principal  and  interest,  and  establishing  his  sons  and  sons-in-law  in  a 
thriving  business,  acquired  a  comfortable  competence,  and  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia to  live  with  his  daughters,  and  died  there  January  29,  1762. 
Issue  of  Dr.  Richard  and  Deborah    {Moore)   Hill: — 

Richard  Hill,  b.  Jan.  28,  1721-2,  d.  unm.  in  Madeira,  March  18,  1754.  Was  a  merchant 
at  Philadelphia  a  number  of  years,  and  a  large  landholder  there,  in  Bucks  county 
and  elsewhere,  having  with  his  sister  Hannah  been  named  as  residuary  legatee  under 
will    of   his   granduncle    Richard    Hill    Sr.,    before    mentioned.    Provincial    Councillor ; 

Hannah  Hill,  b.  Feb.  25,  1723-4,  d.  s.  p.  Jan.  27,  1799;  m.  her  cousin,  Samuel  Preston, 
M.  D.,  son  of  Richard  and  Margaret  (Preston)  Moore,  and  grandson  of  Samuel 
Preston,  Provincial  Councillor,  by  his  wife  Rachel,  dau.  of  Thomas  Lloyd.  Samuel 
Preston  Moore  was  treasurer  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  1755-1768.     Left  no  issue; 

Mary  Hill,  b.  Oct.  28,  1725,  d.  s.  p.  in  London,  England,  Feb.  11,  1799;  m.  Thomas 
Lamar,  of  Madeira,  member  of  firm  of  Hill,  Lamar  &  Brissett,  merchants,  Philadelphia 
and  Madeira,  composed  of  sons  and  sons-in-law  of  Dr.  Richard  Hill.  Mr.  Lamar  d. 
Madeira,  April  i,  1792,  his  widow  joined  her  sister  Harriet  in  London,  and  d.  there 
1799; 

Deborah  Hill,  b.  Feb.  9.  1727,  d.  Feb.  22,  1728; 

Deborah,  b.  Aug.  31,  1728,  d.  at  Madeira,  April  23,  1763;  m.  Robert  Brissett,  another 
member  of  firm  of   Hill,  Lamar  &  Brissett ;   d.,  Madeira,   Nov.  3,   1801 ; 

Harriet  Hill,  b.  Dec.  31,  1729,  d.  at  Bath,  England,  Feb.  22,  1795;  m.,  July  21,  1755,  John 
Scott,   merchant,  of  London,   England; 

Rachel  Hill,  b.  May  8,   1731,  d.  July   10,   1731; 

Henry  Hill,  b.  Sept.  18,  1732,  d.  Philadelphia,  Sept.  15,  1798;  sent  to  Scotland  to  be 
educated,  on  coming  of  age  joined  his  father  in  Madeira,  and  engaged  in  trade  with 
his  brothers  and  brothers-in-law,  returning  later  to  Philadelphia  as  representative  of 
firm  of  Hill,  Lamar  &  Brissett;  an  original  member  of  the  First  City  Troop; 
became  Member  of  Assembly,  etc.     M.  Anne,  dau.  of  Reese  Meredith,  of  Philadelphia ; 

Rachel  Hill,  b.  April  2,  1735,  d.  May  17.  1796;  m.  April  17,  1759,  Richard  Wells,  of 
Philadelphia,  merchant,  b.  near  Hull,  England,  July  22,  1734,  son  of  Dr.  Gideon  Wells, 
of  Cottness,  by  his  wife  Mary.  dau.  of  Richard  Partridge,  Esq.,  of  London,  at  one 
time  Agent  for  the  Colonies  of  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Rhode  Island  and  Con- 
necticut, at  London,  England.  Richard  Wells  came  to  America  in  1750,  and  resided 
some  time  in  Burlington,  N.  J.,  later  removing  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  a 
prominent  merchant.  Was  Secretary  of  American  Philosophical  Society,  Director  of 
Library  Company,  member  Pennsylvania  Assembly,  and  for  a  long  time  cashier  of 
Bank   of    North   America. 

Margaret  Hill,  b.  Nov.  2,  1737,  m.  William  Morris,  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah  Hill,  b.  Feb.  14,  1738,  d.  s.  p.  Nov.  30,  1826;  m.  Oct.  16,  1759,  George  Dilwyn, 
and   resided  at   Burlington,    N.   J. 

Milcah  Martha  Hill,  b.  at  Madeira,  Sept.  29.  1740,  d.  s.  p.  Aug.  24,  1829;  m.  Charles 
Moore,  M.  D.,  of  Montg'omery  county.  Pa.,  a  grandson  of  Samuel  Preston  Moore. 

Issue  of  Richard  and  Rachel   [Hill)    lUells:— 

Richard  Wells,  b.  June  10,  1760,  d.  June  20,  1760; 

Samuel  Preston  Wells,  b.  July  7,  1763,  d.  Aug.  26,  1763; 

Mary  Wells,  b.,  Burlington,  Sept.  4,  1764,  m.  Benjamin  Wistar  Morris,  son  of 
Captain  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wistar')  Morris  of  Philadelphia,  and  their  son 
Samuel  Wells  Morris,  was  Judge  of  District  Court,  of  Tioga  county,   Pa; 

Gideon   Hill   Wells,   of  Wellsborough.   Pa.,  b.   Sept.   20,    1765;   m.   Hannah   Wain; 

Hannah  Wells,  b.  Nov.   10,   1769,  d.,   Philadelphia,  June  29,   1790; 

William  Hill  Wells,  d.  1829;  m.  Elizabeth  Dagworthy ;  U.  S.  Senator  from  Dela- 
ware,   1804  and    1813-17. 

Margaret  Hill,  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  and  Deborah  (Moore)  Hill,  of  the 
Island  of  Madeira,  born  November  2,  1737,  spent  a  portion  of  her  girlhood  in 
Philadelphia.     She  married  there,  September  i,   1758,  William,  son  of  John  and 


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Mary  (Sutton)  Morris,  of  Spring  Mill,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county, 
grandson  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  Guest  Morris,  of  Philadelphia,  great- 
grandson  of  Anthony  Morris,  member  of  Provincial  Council,  1695-6,  early 
Colonial  merchant  and  Mayor  of  Philadelphia.  William  Morris  was  the  eldest 
child  of  John  and  Mary,  and  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  27,  1735.  Prior 
to  his  marriage  to  Margaret  Hill,  in  a  letter  written  to  her  father,  then  in 
Madeira,  he  states  that  he  is  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  trade,  but  purposed  going 
into  the  "general  trade"  in  the  near  future.  He  was  an  enterprising  and  public- 
spirited  man  of  good  education  and  fine  intellectual  traits.  He  was  a  signer  of 
Provincial  paper  money  in  1757,  an  early  contributor  to  the  establishment  of 
Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and  was  admitted  a  member  of  colony  in  Schuylkill, 
October  7,  1761.  He  died  April  14,  1766,  less  than  eight  years  after  his  mar- 
riage, and  four  months  before  the  birth  of  his  youngest  child.  On  June  7,  1770, 
Margaret  (Hill)  Morris  removed  from  Philadelphia  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
with  her  four  surviving  children,  and  took  up  her  residence  with  her  sister  and 
brother-in-law,  Sarah  and  George  Dilwyn.  She  later  bought  the  house  of  Gov. 
•William  Franklin  on  the  bank  of  the  Delaware,  sold  under  the  confiscation  acts, 
and  lived  there  to  old  age.  In  her  later  days  she  was  much  afflicted  with  rheuma- 
tism, finally  becoming  practically  helpless.  After  the  death  of  her  son  Dr.  John 
Morris,  in  1793,  she  took  her  granddaughter,  Margaret  Morris,  to  live  with 
her  and  she  was  her  constant  companion  until  her  marriage  in  1810,  after  which 
her  place  was  supplied  by  another  granddaughter,  Martha  Milcah  Smith.  Mar- 
garet Morris  was  a  lifelong  attendant  of  Friends'  Meeting,  being  frequently  car- 
ried to  the  Meeting  House,  but  a  few  doors  from  her  Burlington  home,  by  her 
grandchildren,  after  she  had  become  helpless,  in  a  wicker  chair.  She  was  a 
woman  of  excellent  mind  and  character,  and  universally  revered.  The  daughter 
of  a  skillful  physician,  she  possessed  considerable  knowledge  of  medical  science, 
and  frequently  ministered  to  her  family  and  others  in  an  emergency. 
Issue  of  William  and  Margaret  {Hill)  Morris: — 

Richard  Hill  Morris,  b.  Sept.  28,   1759,  d.   Sept.  29,   1760; 

John  Morris,  M.  D.,  twin  to  above ;  of  whom  presently ; 

Deborah  Morris,  b.  Nov.  29,  1760.  d.  March  17,  1822;  m.  (first)  Nov.  II,  1789,  Benjamin 
Smith;    (second)    Nov.  9,   1809,   Isaac  Collins,  of  Trenton,   N.   J.,  printer; 

Richard  Hill  Morris,  b.  Sept.  S,  1762,  d.  Dec.  6,  1841 ;  m.  (first)  March  17,  1786,  Mary- 
Mifflin;    (second)    Oct.   25,    1798,   Mary   Smith; 

Mary  Morris,  b.  June  19,   1764,  d.  Feb.  14,  1765; 

Gulielma  Maria  Morris,  b.  Aug.  18,  1766,  d.  Sept.  9,  1826,  m.,  April  8,  1784,  John 
Smith,  Jr. 

Dr.  John  Morris,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Margaret,  born  in  Philadelphia 
September  28,  1759,  lost  his  father  at  the  age  of  seven  years,  and  was  reared 
under  the  care  of  his  noble  mother,  principally  at  Burlington.  Making  choice 
of  the  medical  profession,  in  which  his  maternal  ancestors  had  excelled,  he  took 
up  his  studies  with  Dr.  Charles  Moore,  of  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania, 
who  had  married  his  mother's  sister.  On  obtaining  his  degree,  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  at  Burlington,  and  was  quite  successful  from  the  start. 
However,  he  soon  after  located  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  became  an  exceedingly 
popular  and  successful  physician.  He  was  located  in  1785  at  No.  27  Chestnut 
street,  but  by  1791,  had  removed  to  No.  11  Pear  street,  where  he  died  of  yellow 


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fever,  September  8,  1793,  in  the  arms  of  his  devoted  mother,  who  had  come  from 
Buriington  to  nurse  him  and  remained  to  close  the  eyes  of  his  wife,  also  a  victim 
to  the  pestilence,  eight  days  later. 

Dr.  John  Morris  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  College  of  Physicians  insti- 
tuted in  1787,  and  incorporated  in  1789,  and  his  name  is  one  of  those  engraved 
on  the  tablet  erected  there  to  commemorate  that  fact ;  it  also  appears  on  another 
tablet,  as  one  of  those  who  "fell  a  martyr  to  the  pestilence."  Dr.  Morris  mar- 
ried at  Philadelphia  Friends'  Meeting,  October  8,  1783,  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Benedict  and  Sarah  Dorsey,  of  Philadelphia,  who  followed  him  to  the  grave, 
September  16,  1793,  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  years,  leaving  four  small  children. 
Issue  of  Dr.  John  and  Abigail  (Dorsey)  Morris: — 

Sarah,  b.  1784,  d.  1794; 

William  Stanton,  b.  Nov.  24,  1785,  d.  unm.  in  1819; 

Benedict,  b.  March  27,  1787,  d.  Nov.   13,   1790; 

Martha  Milcah,  b.  Aug.  24,  1788,  d.  Jan.  26,  1826;  m.   (first)  Thomas  Lawrie ;   (second) 

Jacob  B.  Clarke ; 
Mary,  b.  1790,  d.  inf. 
Margaret  Morris,  b.  Aug.   18,   1792,  d.  April  22,   1832.  of  whom  presently. 

Margaret  Morris,  youngest  child  of  Dr.  John  Morris,  who  was  but  a 
little  over  a  year  old  at  the  death  of  both  of  her  parents,  was  taken  and  reared 
by  her  grandmother,  Margaret  (Hill)  Morris,  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  where 
she  married,  October  4,  1810,  Isaac  Collins  Jr.,  eleventh  child  of  Isaac  and 
Rachel  (Budd)  Collins.  He  was  born  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  October  31, 
1787,  and  was  reared  to  mercantile  pursuits,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of  six 
years  with  the  well-known  firm  of  Mott  &  Bowne,  at  New  York.  At  the  age 
of  twenty-one,  he  went  as  supercargo  on  the  brig  "Dean",  to  St.  Mary's  on 
the  Georgia  coast,  and  probably  made  a  few  subsequent  trips  in  the  same  capac- 
ity for  his  old  employers.  He  then  returned  to  New  York  city,  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  Samuel  Mott,  in  the  manufacture  of  flour  for  the  whole- 
sale market,  and  did  a  large  and  profitable  business.  He  made  a  trading  voyage 
to  Eastport  and  the  Bay  of  Fundy,  having  charge  of  ten  vessels. 

On  his  marriage  to  Margaret  Morris  in  1810,  Isaac  Collins  Jr.  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  New  York  City,  and  engaged  in  the  publishing  business.  The  well 
known  firm  of  Isaac  Collins  &  Company,  printers  and  publishers  of  books,  etc., 
were  so  successful  that,  at  the  age  of  thirty-four  years,  Isaac  retired  from  the 
business  and  devoted  himself  to  philanthropic  and  charitable  enterprises.  He 
was  largely  instrumental  in  establishing  the  Eye  Dispensary  in  New  York,  and 
the  Just  Saving  Fund  of  that  city. 

In  1828,  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  principally  on  account  of  his  wife's 
failing  health,  and  at  once  became  prominently  identified  with  various  institu- 
tions there.  He  was  a  member  of  Board  of  Managers  of  House  of  Refuge: 
director  of  public  school  system ;  one  of  the  founders  of  Haverford  College,  for 
the  higher  education  of  the  children  of  Friends ;  was  identified  with  all  leading 
Charitable  institutions  of  the  city,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  temperance 
and  anti-slavery  cause.  He  was  one  of  those  who  instituted  the  Institute  for 
Feeble-Minded  Children. 

Margaret  (Morris)  Collins  died  in  Philadelphia,  .April  22.  1832.  and  Isaac 
married  (second)  January  28,  1833,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  Singer,  a  prom- 


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inent  merchant  of  Philadelphia.  She  was  an  eminent  minister  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  died  in  April  of  1892  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years.  He  died 
January   15,   1863. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Margaret   {Morris)    Collins: — 

William  Morris  Collins,  b.  July  19,  181 1,  d.  Oct.  30,  1864;  m,  Nov.  7,  1839,  Eliza  C.  Cope; 
Martha   Lawrie   Collins,   b.   July  21,    1813,   d.    May  6,    1887;   rn.   Oct.   3,    1833,   John   B. 

Bispham ; 
Gulielma  Maria  Collins,  b.  Aug.  28,   1815,  d.  Feb.  4,   1867;  m.,  June  5,   1839,   Philip  B. 

Chase ; 
Henry  Hill  Collins,  b.  March  3,   1818,  d.  s.  p.  July  20,   1840; 
Alfred  Morris  Collins,  b.  Jan.  11,  1820,  in.  Nov.  22,  1843,  Hannah  Evans; 
Frederic  Collins,  b.  Jan.  21,  1822,  d,  Nov.  27,  1892;  m.  Letitia  Poultney  Dawson;  of  whom 

presently ; 
Isaac  Collins.  Jr.,  b.  May  2,  1824,  m.  Dec.  9,  1847,  Elizabeth  B.  K.  Earl ; 
Theodore  Collins,  b.  July  27,   1826,  d.   Sept.  4,   1826; 
Margaret  Morris  Collins,  b.  Aug.  iS,  1829,  d.  April  6,  1863;  m.  June  i,  1853,  Oliver  K. 

Earle ; 
Percival  Collins,  b.  Dec.  19,  1831,  d.  May  7,   1872;  m.  Oct.  5,   1856,  Sarah  Levick. 

Frederic  Collins,  sixth  child  of  Isaac  and  Margaret  (Morris)  Collins,  born 
in  New  York  City,  January  21,  1822,  came  with  his  parents  to  Philadelphia,  at 
the  age  of  six  years,  and  resided  there  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Haverford,  and  on  his  marriage,  in  1844,  became  a  member  of  firm  of 
M.  L.  Dawson  &  Co.,  of  which  his  father-in-law,  Mordecai  Lewis  Dawson, 
was  a  member  of  board  of  managers  and  president  of  the  House  of  Refuge, 
from   1869  until  his  death,  November  27,    1892. 

Mr.  Collins  later  withdrew  from  the  firm  and  started  the  brokerage  business 
with  Samuel  Huston,  but  in  a  short  time  returned  to  his  old  firm,  the  name  of 
which  was  changed  to  Massey,  Collins  and  Company.  He  remained  a  member  of 
this  firm  until  1866,  achieving  eminent  financial  success.  He  later  became  pres- 
ident of  the  McKean  and  Elk  County  Land  and  Improvement  Company,  was 
also  a  member  of  banking  firm  of  Elliott,  Collins  &  Company,  until  1873.  He 
was  a  member  of  board  of  managers.  House  of  Refuge,  from  1869  until  his 
death,  November  27,  1892. 

Frederic  Collins  married,  August  28,  1844,  Letitia  Poultney  Dawson,  daughter 
of  Mordecai  L.  Dawson,  a  descendant  of  Robert  Dawson,  an  early  Colonial  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia,  who  came  from  Ireland  in  1735,  and  married  at  Christ 
Church,  Philadelphia,  March  5,  1738,  Mary  Warner.  He  died  August  2,  1746. 
His  widow  married,  August  6,  1751,  George  Morrison,  and  through  this  mar- 
riage was  the  grandmother  of  George  Morrison  Coates,  one  of  Philadelphia's 
prominent  business  men  of  a  later  date. 

Issue  of  Frederic  and  Letitia  Poultney    (Dazvsou)    Collins: — 

Elizabeth  Dawson  Collins,  b.   1847,  m.  June  3,   1869,  Charles  F.   Hulse,  who  d.  Aug.  28. 
1876  ;   they  had  issue  ; — 

Letitia  Collins  Hulse,  b.  June  i,  1870,  m.  April  28,  1892,  Samuel  Bowman 
Wheeler,  had  issue,  Samuel  Bowman  Wheeler,  Jr.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1893 ;  Frederic 
Collins  Wheeler,  b.  March  30,  1894 ;  and  Elizabeth  Dawson  Wheeler,  b  Mav  7 
1897; 
Margaret  Morris  Hulse,  b.  April  22.  1873,  who  m.  Nov.  2,  1892,  Burnet  Land- 
reth,  Jr.,  and  had  issue:  Burnet  Landreth  3d,  b.  Sept.  25,  1899;  Letitia  Land- 
reth,  b.  Aug.  7,  1903 ; 
Anne  Morrison  Collins,  b.  July  26,   1849,  m.  April,   1890,  Morris  Earle;  had  no  issue; 


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Frederic   Collins,   Jr.,  b.  Feb.  4,   1868,  m.   June   19,   1895,  LiHie  Moffit  Brown,  who  d. 
April,    1896,   by   whom   he   had   issue ; — 

Frederic  Collins,  3d.,  b,  March  25,   1896; 
He  m.   (second),  Nov.  17.   1897,  Janet  Rae,  who  d.  Feb.   15,   1906;  by  her  he  had 
issue : — 

Dawson  Rae  Collins,  b.  Dec.  21,   1898; 
Marjorie  Janet  Collins,  b.  April   i,   1900. 


MORRIS  FAMILY 

Anthony  Morris,  founder  of  the  American  branch  of  the  prominent  Phila- 
delphia family  of  the  name,  was  bora  in  Old  Gravel  Lane,  Stepney,  London, 
England,  August  23,  1654,  baptized  August  25,  1654,  at  St.  Dunstan's  Church, 
Stepney.  He  was  a  son  of  Anthony  Morris,  mariner,  of  Welsh  origin,  who  at 
the  date  of  birth  of  his  son  Anthony,  was  residing  in  Old  Gravel  Lane,  Stepney, 
but  later  removed  to  Barbados,  and  was  lost  at  sea  when  on  his  return  voyage 
in  1655  or  1656.  He  was  born  about  the  year  1630,  and  probably  was  a  son  of 
another  Anthony  Morris,  of  Reading,  Berkshire,  born  about  1600.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Senior,  who  soon  after  her  husband's  death  made  a  voyage  to  Bar- 
bados, in  connection  with  the  settlement  of  his  estate,  and  died  there  in  1660, 
when  her  only  child,  Anthony  Morris,  first  above  mentioned,  was  aged  six 
years.  Anthony  Morris  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the  city  of  London,  and, 
prior  to  arriving  at  his  majority,  united  himself  with  the  Society  of  Friends, 
becoming  a  member  of  Savoy  Meeting,  in  the  Strand,  which  was  connected  with 
the  Westminster  Monthly  Meeting.  On  i2mo.  (February)  2,  1675-6,  he  declared 
intentions  of  marriage  with  Mary  Jones,  belonging  to  the  same  Meeting  and  they 
were  married,  imo.  (March)  30,  1676.  They  continued  to  reside  in  London 
until  near  the  close  of  the  year  1682,  and  four  children  were  born  to  them  there, 
Susanna,  Mary,  and  two  who  were  named  for  the  father,  all  of  whom  died  there 
except  the  last.  On  8mo.  (October)  4,  1682,  they  laid  before  the  Meeting  at 
Savoy  their  intentions  of  removing  themselves  to  America,  and  asked  for  a  cer- 
tificate to  Friends'  Meeting  at  Burlington,  "New  West  Jersie."  The  certificate 
was  granted  on  gmo.  (November)  i,  1682,  and  they  embarked  for  the  Delaware 
river,  in  which  they  arrived  in  the  latter  part  of  February,  1682-3,  and  took  up 
their  home  in  Burlington.  Anthony  Morris  purchased  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
in  Burlington  county,  fronting  on  the  Delaware,  two  miles  below  the  town,  and  also 
owned  several  town  lots.  In  the  latter  part  of  1685,  or  early  in  1686,  he  removed 
to  Philadelphia  and  began  his  successful  career  as  a  merchant.  Three  more 
children  were  born  by  his  first  wife  to  bim  in  America,  John  in  Burlington,  2mo. 
17,  1685,  and  Samuel  and  James  in  Philadelphia.  His  first  wife  died  in  Philadel- 
phia, 8mo.  (October)  3,  1688,  and  he  married  (second)  at  Philadelphia  Monthly 
Meeting,  8mo.  (October)  28,  1689,  Agnes,  widow  of  Cornelius  Bom,  who  had 
been  married  three  times  previously.  She  died  5mo.  (July)  26,  1692,  and  he  mar- 
ried (third)  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  ilmo.  (January)  18,  1693-4,  Mary,  widow 
of  Thomas  Coddington,  son  of  Gov.  William  Coddington,  of  Rhode  Island,  and 
daughter  of  John  Howard,  formerly  of  Yorkshire,  England.  Anthony  early 
became  identified  with  the  afifairs  of  the  embryo  city,  and  on  its  incorporation, 
3mo.  20,  1691,  was  named  in  the  charter  as  one  of  the  first  aldermen.  On  Septem- 
ber 6,  1692,  he  was  commissioned  Justice  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas  and 
Quarter  Sessions  of  the  Peace,  and  Orphans'  Court.  On  February  10,  1697-8, 
he  was  one  of  the  applicants  for  the  charter  of  the  public  school,  and  was  after- 
ward named  in  the  charter  as  one  of  first  Board  of  Overseers.  When  the  new 
charter  was  granted  in   171 1,  he  was  named  as  one  of  the  Overseers,  and  the 


so 


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family  has  been  represented  on  the  board  for  many  generations.  He  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council  in  1695,  ^^'^  re-elected  in  1696.  He  was 
named  as  one  of  the  original  Board  of  Aldermen  in  city  charter  of  1701,  and 
October  5,  1703,  was  elected  Mayor,  serving  one  year.  He  was  elected  to 
Colonial  Assembly,  May  10,  1698,  and  served  until  October  i,  1704.  He  was 
closely  associated  in  business  and  official  circles  with  his  brother-in-law,  Edward 
Shippen,  who  had  married  Rebecca,  widow  of  Francis  Richardson,  formerly 
Rebecca  Howard,  a  sister  of  Anthony  Morris'  third  wife,  Mary  Coddington. 
In  1687  Anthony  Morris  established  a  brewery  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  and  his 
descendants  carried  on  the  brewing  business  on  an  extensive  scale  for  many 
years.  Anthony  Morris  was  a  preacher  among  Friends  and  travelled  exten- 
sively in  the  ministry  in  New  England  and  other  parts  of  the  colonies,  and 
also  visited  the  meeting  in  London,  where  he  first  became  a  member  of  the 
Society.  He  died  of  apoplexy,  October  23,  1721.  His  third  wife  died  September 
25,  1699,  and  he  married  (fourth)  October  30,  1700,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Luke 
and  Sarah  Watson.  In  the  old  family  Bible  of  Anthony  Morris  is  the  following 
entry: 

"May  16,  1677,  Was  baptised  three  children  of  Luke  and  Sarah  Watson  art 
the  Fort  att  New  York,  by  the  Dutch  Minister,  viz: — Sarah,  Elizabeth,  and 
Isaac,  the  aforesaid  Elizabeth  being  then  about  three  and  a  half  years  old.  This 
note  sent  hither  by  Samuel  Bowne,  who  searched  the  records  for  the  same." 

Elizabeth  (Watson)  Morris  survived  her  husband  over  forty-five  years,  dying 
February  2,    1767,   in  her   ninety- fourth   year. 

Issue  of  Anthony  and  Mary  (Jones)  Morris  were: — 

Susanna,  b.  in  London,  d.  there  at  age  of  six  years ; 

Mary,  d.  at  age  of  one  year; 

Anthony,  d.  at  age  of  one  year ; 

Anthony,  b.  at  London,  March  15.  1682.  d.  at  Philadelphia,  Sept.  23.  1763;  m.  May  10, 

1704,  Phoebe  Guest; 
John,  b.  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  April  17,  1685,  d.  June  12,  1690; 
Samuel,  b.  Philadelphia,  February  28.   1686-7,  d.  Nov.  2,   1689; 
James,  b.  July  8,   1688,   d.   Dec.  31,   1747,   at  Duck   Creek,   Del.;   m.   March  8,   1709-10, 

Margaret  Cook. 

Issue   of   Anthony   and   Mary    (Hotvard-Coddington)    Morris: — 

William,  b.  July  23,   1695,  d.   Nov.  6,   1776;   m.    (first")    Feb.   14.    1718-19.   Sarah  Dury; 

(second)    Nov.   2,   1752,   Rebecca   Cadwalader ; 
Elizabeth,  b.  4mo.  28,  1697,  m.   (I^rst)   lomo.  13,  1716,  Samuel  Lewis;   (second)  William 

Dury; 
Joseph,  b.  May  12,   1699.  d.  July  25,   1699. 

Issue  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  (IVatson)  Moiris: — 

Isaac,  b.  Dec.  24,  1701.  d.  Philadelphia,  after  Oct.  24.  1755; 

Sarah,  b.  Feb.  16,   1703-4,  d.  Oct.  24,  1775,  unmarried; 

Israel,  b.  Dec.  25,  1705,  d.  Philadelphia,  1729; 

Luke,  b.  Oct.  25,  1707,  d.  Philadelphia,  Nov.  17,  1793;  m.  .\pril  1749-50.  Mary  Richards; 

Hannah,  b.  July  4,  1717,  d.   Philadelphia,  Aug.  25,   1741,  unmarried. 

Anthony  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Anthony  and  Mary   (Jones)   Morris,  born 


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in  London,  England,  imo.  (March)  15,  1681-2,  came  to  New  Jersey  with  his 
parents  when  less  than  a  year  old,  and  removed  with  them  to  Philadelphia, 
(where  he  was  destined  to  take  an  important  part  in  city  and  Colonial  affairs)  at 
the  age  of  four  years.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  according  to  the  custom 
of  the  times,  he  was  apprenticed  to  Henry  Badcock  and  Mary,  his  wife,  to  learn 
the  brewing  business.  Under  the  terms  of  his  indenture,  he  was  to  serve  seven 
years  from  February  29,  1695-6.  Soon  after  attaining  his  majority  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  brewing  business,  and  continued  to  carry  on  that 
business,  probably  during  his  whole  life,  but  he  early  became  interested  in  other 
business  ventures,  notably,  that  of  owner  and  proprietor  of  iron  furnaces  and 
forges  in  various  parts  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Durham  Iron  Works  in  1727,  which  commenced  operations  in 
the  autumn  of  that  year.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  owner  of  two  six- 
teenth shares  in  the  Pool  forge  on  Manatawny  creek  in  Berks  county,  1731,  and 
also  owned  one-twelfth  interest  in  a  large  furnace  at  Colebrookdale  on  the  Mana- 
tawny, which  supplied  the  forge.  On  June  20,  1729,  with  Thomas  Lambert, 
John  Porterfield  and  James  Trent,  he  founded  a  forge  on  the  Assunpink,  at  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey,  which  was  probably  supplied  from  the  Durham  furnace,  in 
which  both  he  and  Trent  held  an  interest.  He  also  purchased  at  about  the  same 
date  a  tract  of  land  on  the  Assunpink,  with  privilege  of  erecting  corn  mills,  grist 
mills  and  saw  mills.  In  1724  he  became  part  owner  of  the  mills,  and  a  forge 
with  400  acres  of  land,  at  Wells  Ferry,  now  New  Hope,  Bucks  county,  and  in 
1736,  with  Benjamin  Canby,  who  conducted  a  forge  there  for  several  years, 
was  granted  by  proprietaries'  Commissioners  the  privilege  of  a  tract  of  land  in 
the  Manor  of  Highlands,  on  the  Delaware  river,  for  erecting  a  storehouse  and 
wharf  below  the  ferry,  with  privilege  of  a  road  thereto,  for  convenience  of  carry- 
ing flour  and  other  goods  and  merchandise  by  water  on  the  said  river.  He  was 
one  of  the  largest  land  owners  in  Pennsylvania,  continuing  until  late  in  life, 
eitiher  alone  or  in  association  with  others,  to  purchase  large  tracts  of  land  in 
different  parts  of  the  Province.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  Common  Council 
of  Philadelphia,  October  4,  171 5,  but  does  not  seem  to  have  taken  his  seat  until 
July  30,  1 716;  the  term  at  that  date  was  for  life,  and  when  he  was  elected  by 
Council  as  an  Alderman,  September  29,  1726,  he  declined,  preferring  to  retain  his 
seat  in  Council.  He  was,  however,  again  chosen,  October  2,  1733,  as  Alderman 
and  then  accepted  and  served  until  elected  Mayor  of  the  city,  October  3,  1738, 
which  latter  position  he  filled  for  one  year.  He  was  commissioned  Associate 
Justice  of  the  City  Courts,  October  2,  1733,  and  on  his  retirement  from  the 
mayoralty  became  Justice  of  the  Orphans'  Court.  He  was  elected  Overseer  of 
Public  Schools,  3mo.  18,  1725,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  his  death,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1763.  He  was  elected  Mayor  a  second  time,  October  6,  1747,  but  not 
desiring  to  serve,  absented  himself  from  home,  and  after  a  vain  attempt  to  find 
him,  in  which  those  charged  with  serving  the  notice  upon  him  visited  his  iron 
works  in  Berks  county,  New  Jersey,  and  elsewhere  in  search  of  him,  William 
Atwood  was  selected  in  his  stead.  In  Colonial  affairs  he  filled  the  same  prom- 
inent position  as  in  city  affairs.  He  was  elected  to  represent  Philadelphia  in 
Colonial  Assembly  in  1721,  first  taking  his  seat  on  October  14,  1721,  a  few  days 
before  the  death  of  his  honored  father.  Like  his  father,  he  at  once  took  a  prom- 
inent part  in  affairs  of  state.     He  was  actively  identified  with  the  issue  of  paper 


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currency,  and  was,  March  23,  1723,  named  by  Assembly  as  one  of  the  signers 
of  "Bills  of  Credit",  as  this  early  issue  of  paper  money  was  designated.  He  was 
re-elected  to  the  Assembly  for  years  1722-3-4-5,  and  sat  until  the  close  of  the 
session  6mo.  6,  1726.  In  endeavoring,  as  an  Alderman  and  Magistrate,  to  sup- 
press a  riot  in  the  streets  of  Philadelphia,  during  the  exciting  and  bitter  contest 
for  election  of  members  of  Assembly  in  1742,  he  was  knocked  down,  "and  nearly 
murdered"  as  shown  by  numerous  depositions  presented  at  the  next  Assembly. 
He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  the  old  Mansion 
House,  on  Second  street  above  Arch,  where  he  and  his  family  resided  for  many 
years  and  where  he  died^  was  the  scene  of  many  notable  gatherings  of  the  elite 
of  the  city  and  colony,  with  whom  the  family  were  prominently  associated,  where 
he  and  his  estimable  wife  dispensed  the  broadest  hospitality. 

Anthony  Morris  married  in  Philadelphia,  3mo.  (May)  10,  1704,  Phoebe, 
daughter  of  George  and  Alice  (Bailyes)  Guest,  born  7  mo.  (September)  28, 
1685,  died  March  18,  1768.  She  was  for  many  years  an  elder  of  Philadelphia 
Monthly  Meeting,  and  a  woman  of  many  rare  and  exalted  virtues.  "She  died 
on  the  same  spot  on  which  she  was  born  and  was  buried  in  the  same  grave  with 
the  husband  with  whom  she  had  lived  upwards  of  sixty  years  in  the  highest 
degree  of  conjugal  affection."  Among  the  "Pemberton  Papers",  in  the  library 
of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  (vol.  viii,  p.  2),  is  a  deed  dated  March 
14,  1672,  by  which  Joane  Guest,  of  Birmingham,  county  Warwick,  England, 
relict  of  John  Guest,  late  of  Birmingham,  deceased,  conveys  to  William  Bailyes, 
of  Birmingham,  and  William  Whyton,  also  of  Birmingham,  a  tract  of  land  in 
county  Warwick,  in  trust  for  George  Guest,  son  of  said  Joane  and  John 
and  Alice  his  wife,  a  daughter  of  the  said  William  Bailyes,  which  deed  recites 
that  said  John  Guest  by  will  devised  to  his  second  son,  George  Guest,  land  pur- 
chased by  him  of  Nicholas  Farkson  and  William  Bailyes,  father  of  the  above 
mentioned  William,  married,  January  26.  1612,  Alice  Sommerland,  and  had  the 
following  children : — 

Joane,  bap.  June  15,  1617; 

Margerie,  bap.  Feb.  2y,  1619; 

William,  bap.  Dec.  15,  1622,  of  whom  presently; 

Alice,  bap.  Jan.   14,   1626; 

Ann,   bap.    May    17,    1629. 

William  Bailyes,  only  son,  married  Alice,  dau.  of  Thomas  Glanders,  and  had 
two  sons  and  six  daughters,  viz : — 

William,   d.   y. ; 

John,  m.  Feb.  20.  1671-2.  Sarah  Dyke,  of  London,  at  Peel  Mtg.,  and  had  John.  d.  iinm.. 

Samuel,   of   Evesham,   d.   s.   p.,   and   Hannah,   m.    Samuel   Freeth ; 
Mary,  m.  Barnet  Parks,  surgeon  of  Dudley,  d.  s.  p. ; 
Sarah,  m.  John  Guest; 

Elizabeth,  m.  June   17,  1673.  William  Hard,  of  Kingston ; 
Rebecca,  m.  Thomas  Rose,  or  Ross,  of  Birmingham ; 
Phoebe,   m.    Constantine   Young,   of   Leominster: 
Alice,   m.    George   Guest,   before   mentioned. 

George  and  Alice  (  Bailyes)  Guest  emigrated  to  Burlington.  \ew  Jersey.  1680, 
and  were  neighbors  of  .Anthony  Morris  Sr.  and  his  wife,  during  the  residence  of 


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the  latter  at  Burlington.  Having  heard  that  her  sister,  EUzabeth  Hard,  was  on 
the  way  to  America,  and  "designed  to  Philadelphia",  Alice  Guest  prevailed  upon 
her  husband  to  remove  to  Philadelphia,  and,  the  ancient  chronicles  of  the  family 
recite,  "had  just  got  settled  in  a  cave  on  the  bank  of  the  Delaware,  when  the 
sister  Elizabeth  arrived."  Here  Phoebe  Guest,  who  later  became  the  wife  of 
Anthony  Morris  Jr.,  was  born  September  28,  1685.  Her  father  died  in  the  lat- 
ter part  of  the  same  year,  and  the  widow,  Alice  Guest,  later  built  a  house  near 
the  spot  of  their  first  rude  domicile  and  resided  there  until  her  death  in  August, 
1705.  Her  elder  sister,  Elizabeth  Hard,  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety-three  years. 
Both  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

Issue  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  {Guest)  Morris  were: — 

Anthony,  b.  Feb.  14,  1705-6,  d.  Oct.  2,  1780,  of  whom  presently ; 

James,  b.  Sept.  8,  1707,  d.  Jan.  29.  1750-1;  m.  March  12,  1729-30.  Ehzabeth  Kearney; 

John,  b.  June  23,  1709,  d.  Feb.  3,  1782;  m.  April  18,  1734.  Mary  Sutton; 

Samuel,  b.  Sept.  20,  1710,  d.  October  7,  1710; 

Samuel,  b.  Nov.  21,  1711,  d.  March  31,  1782;  m.  May  26,  1737,  Hannah  Cadwalader; 

Mary,  b.  Oct.  13,  1713,  d.  Oct.  31,  1759;  m.  Nov.  9,  1732,  Samuel  Powell; 

Joseph,   b.   March    10,    1714-5,   d.  July   i,   1785;   m.   Feb.   18,    1741-2,   Martha  Fitzwater; 

(second)   Nov.  7,  1765,  Hannah  Mickle. 
Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  21,  1716;  m.  Sept.  6,  1739,  Benjamin  Shoemaker; 
Benjamin,  b.  Dec.  30,  1717,  d.  Sept.  7,   1719; 
Phoebe,   b.   July  4,   1721,   d.   May   5,    1722; 
Susanna,  b.  Sept.  27,   1722,  d.  Aug.   13,   1724; 
Deborah,  b.  Feb.  13,  1723-4,  d.  March  31,  1793,  unm. ; 
Benjamin,  M.  D.,  b.  May  7,  1725,  d.  May  14,  1755,  unm.; 
A  daughter,  d.  unm.  July  19,   1726. 

William  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Anthony  Morris  by  third  marriage  with  Mary 
Coddington,  born  in  Philadelphia,  5mo.  (July)  23,  1695,  died  there  November 
6,  1776,  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  the  family,  but  his  long 
career  of  usefulness  and  honor  was  largely  spent  outside  of  the  city  of  his 
birth.  Early  in  life  he  engaged  in  mercantile  trade  with  the  West  Indies,  and 
removed  to  the  island  of  Barbados,  where  he  married  4mo.  (June)  14,  1718,  a 
rich  heiress,  Sarah  Dury,  of  Speightstown,  Barbados.  On  7mo.  (September) 
5,  1728,  he  brought  a  certificate  from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at  Heathescoate 
Bay,  Barbados,  to  Philadelphia,  but  soon  after  located  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
where  his  half  sister,  formerly  Mary  Coddington,  daughter  of  his  mother  by  first 
marriage,  now  the  widow  of  Col.  William  Trent,  was  largely  interested  in  real 
estate,  purchased  by  her  distinguished  husband,  who  had  died  in  1724.  William 
Morris  purchased  of  the  Trent  estate  500  acres  of  land  on  the  Assunpink,  includ- 
ing mills  thereon  erected,  and  made  his  permanent  home  in  Trenton  for  nearly 
the  whole  of  the  remainder  of  his  life  and  is  there  buried.  He,  however,  sold 
a  large  part  of  his  valuable  real  estate  there  in  1733  to  Col.  George  Thomas,  of 
the  island  of  Antigua,  and  again  engaged  in  West  India  trade,  with  Joseph  Cal- 
lender,  a  prominent  West  India  trader,  taking  his  certificate  from  Chesterfield 
Friends'  Meeting  dated  Qmo.  (November)  i,  1733;  he  sailed  for  Barbados,  and 
was  absent  for  two  years,  returning  by  way  of  England,  bringing  certificate  from 
Bristol  Meeting,  England,  produced  at  Chesterfield  Meeting,  8mo.  (October) 
2,  1735.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  growing  Jersey  city; 
was  one  of  a  committee  to  build  the  Friends'  Meeting  House  at  Trenton  in  1737; 


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was  appointed  by  Governor  Lewis  Morris  in  1739  Judge  of  the  Hunterdon 
County  Courts,  a  position  he  vainly  sought  to  be  reheved  from;  was  one  of  the 
first  Council  of  the  city  of  Trenton  at  its  incorporation  in  1746,  and  four  years 
later  was  unanimously  chosen  by  the  Governor  and  Council  for  a  position  in  the 
Council,  but  was  never  commissioned.  His  wife  Sarah  died  August  26,  1750, 
in  her  fifty-sixth  year,  having  been  born  i2mo.  26,  1694.  He  married  (second) 
November  2,  1752,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  and  Martha  Cadwalader,  sister 
of  Hannah  Cadwalader,  who  had  married  in  1737  his  nephew,  Samuel  Morris. 
She  died  October  9,  1764,  and  he  November  6,  1776. 
Issue  of  William  and  Sarah  (Diiry)  Morris: — 

William  Morris,  b.  Barbados,  Oct.  18,  1719;  m.  Oct.  5,  1752,  Rebecca  Peters; 

Mary  Morris,  b.  Barbados,  May  30,  1721,  d.  June  5,  1721 ; 

Sarah   Morris,   b.   Barbados,   Sept.   9,    1722,  d.    1746;  m.   8mo.    (October)    1745,   Joseph 

Richardson,  of  whom  presently; 
Mary  Morris,  b.  Barbados,  Dec.  15,  1724,  d.  Aug.,  1726; 

Anthony  Morris,  b.  Oct.  31,  1727,  d.  March  10,  1804;  m.  Dec,  1746,  Sarah  Cramner ; 
Mercy  Morris,  b.  Trenton,  N.  J.,  June  9,  1731,  d.  Feb.  15,  1775;  m.  Dr.  Horton ; 
Joseph  Morris,  b.  Trenton,  Nov.  25,  1733,  d.  Feb.  15,   1733-4; 
Israel   Morris,   b.   Trenton,   April    13,    1738,   d.   April   3,    1818;   m.    (first)    Feb.    19,    1761, 

Phoebe   Brown;    (second)    Sarah   Bond; 
Joseph  Morris,  b.  Trenton,  July  19,  1739,  d.  Aug.  14,  1739. 

Joseph  Richardson,  who  married,  October,  1745,  Sarah,  eldest  surviving 
daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Dury)  Morris,  was  a  son  of  John  and  Ann 
Richardson,  and  was  born  at  the  family  residence  on  Christiana  creek,  lomo. 
(December)  6,  1706.  His  father  had  expected  him  to  join  him  in  the  West 
India  trade  and  had  built  him  a  house  at  Christiana,  but  he  settled  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  became  a  prominent  business  man,  filling  many  positions  of  trust 
and  representing  the  city  in  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  1763  to  his  death,  No- 
vember 17,  1770.  His  wife,  Sarah  Morris,  died  about  a  year  after  her  marriage 
and  soon  after  the  birth  of  their  only  child,  and  he  never  remarried. 

Sarah  Richardson,  only  child  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Morris)  Richardson, 
born  October  11,  1746,  died  March  13,  1825;  married,  May  22,  1771,  Nicholas, 
son  of  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Shoemaker)  Wain,  and  grandson  of  Nicholas  Wain, 
who  came  from  Chapelcroft,  near  Settle,  Yorkshire,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Provincial  Assembly,  1682-3,  and  served  for  many  years  thereafter  in  the 
Assembly,  first  from  Bucks  county  and  later  from  Philadelphia.  The  descend- 
ants of  Sarah  Richardson  Wain  will  be  given  in  this  volume  under  the  head  of 
Wain  Family. 

Anthony  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest)  Morris,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  February  14,  1705-6,  on  arriving  at  manhood  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  brewing  business,  to  which  the  father,  owing  to  the 
multiplicity  of  his  business  interests,  was  able  to  give  but  little  attention.  Becom- 
ing interested  in  a  business  venture  in  the  Barbados,  he  took  a  certificate  from 
Philadelphia  Tvlonthly  Meeting  to  the  Monthly  IMeeting  at  Barbados,  dated  i2mo. 
(February)  28,  1728-9,  and  remained  on  the  Islands  six  months.  Returning  to 
Philadelphia,  he  again  gave  his  attention  to  the  brewing  business,  and  became 
a  partner  with  his  father,  December  10,  1741.  He  was  a  large  land  owner  in 
Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  and  like  his  father  was  actively  associated  with  the 


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business  and  official  life  of  the  city,  and  held  a  high  place  in  the  social  life  of 
Philadelphia  in  the  palmy  days  of  her  prosperity  during  the  years  preceding  the 
war  for  independence.  He  maintained  a  city  house  and  two  country  seats,  one, 
"Peckham"  in  district  of  Southwark,  and  the  other,  "Solitude"  in  the  same  dis- 
trict, and  numbered  among  his  friends  and  associates  the  most  aristocratic  fami- 
lies in  America.    He  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  "Colony  in  Schuylkill,"  May 

1,  1748,  of  which  his  son,  Capt.  Samuel  Morris,  was  later  a  distinguished  member 
and  Governor  for  a  long  term  of  years.  He  was  elected  an  Overseer  of  Public 
Schools,  8mo.  8,  1742,  and  resigned  2mo.  23,  1758,  to  be  succeeded  by  his 
brother,  Joseph  Morris,  and  also  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  one  of  the  city 
assessors.  He  was  a  contributor  to  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  1751,  of  which  his 
brother  Joseph  was  one  of  the  original  managers.  He  was  from  the  first  a 
champion  of  the  Colonies  against  the  oppressive  measures  of  the  mother  country, 
and  a  signer  of  the  non-importation  agreement,  November  7,  1765.  He  and  his 
second  wife,  Elizabeth,  took  an  active  interest  in  benevolent  and  philanthropic 
work  in  the  city  and  elsewhere,  and  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

Anthony  Morris  died  at  his  country  seat,  "Peckham",  in  Southwark,  October 

2,  1780,  aged  nearly  seventy-five  years.  He  married  (first)  i2mo.,  1730,  Sarah, 
born  June  29,  1713,  daughter  of  Samuel  Powell,  a  rich  builder,  by  his  wife, 
Abigail  Wilcox.  She  died  April  10,  1751,  and  he  married  (second)  April  30, 
1752,  Elizabeth,  born  February  20,  172 1-2,  daughter  of  William  and  Jane 
(Evans)  Hudson,  and  granddaughter  of  William  Hudson,  member  of  Colonial 
Assembly  and  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  1725-6,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Richardson. 
Elizabeth  Morris  survived  her  husband,  dying  May  23,  1783. 

Issue  of  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Powell)  Morris  were: — 

Anthony,  b.  Nov.  25,  1731,  d.  Feb.  28,  173-2-3; 

Capt.  Samuel,  b.  June  24,  1734,  of  whom  presently; 

Deborah,  b.  Nov.  15,  1736;  m.  Sept.  8,  1756,  John  Franklin,  of  New  York;  died  Nov.  23, 

1787; 
Anthony   (Major),  b.  Oct.  8,  1738,  killed  at  Princeton,  Jan.  3,  1777; 
Israel,  b.  April  6,  1741,  d.  Oct.  30,  1806;  m.  Mary  Harrison; 
Sarah,  b.  July  2,  1743,  d.  Jan.  20,  1830;  m.  April  11,  1771,  William  Buckley; 
Thomas,  b.  Jan.  25,  1745-6;  m.  Mary  Saunders,  of  whom  later. 

Issite  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth    (Hudson)  Morris: — 

William  Hudson,  b.  March   10,  1753.  d.  Sept.   14,   1S07;  m.   Sept,  _S.   1776.  Sarah  Warder; 
Luke,  b.  April  10,  1760.  d.  March  20,  1S02;  m.  May  9,  1786,  Ann  Willing; 
Isaac,  b.  Nov.  28,   1761,  "died  the  following  week". 

Capt.mn  Samuel  Morris,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Pow- 
ell) Morris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  24,  1734,  usually  referred  to  on  the 
early  records  as  Samuel  Morris  Jr.  to  distinguish  him  from  his  uncle,  Samuel 
Morris  Sr.,  both  being  members  of  the  Board  of  War  during  the  Revolution, 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  this  prominent  family  in  public  affairs.  On 
January  8,  1750,  he  was  apprenticed  to  Isaac  Greenleafe,  merchant,  to  serve  until 
he  attained  his  majority,  a  period  of  four  years,  five  months  and  two  weeks. 
Greenleafe  had  married  as  his  second  wife,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Caspar  and 
Catharine  f  Jansen)  Wistar,  and  through  her  their  young  apprentice  was  brought 


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in  close  association  with  her  sister,  Rebecca  Wistar,  whom  he  married  only  a  few 
months  after  the  close  of  his  apprenticeship,  December  ii,  1755. 

Samuel  Morris  was  a  keen  sportsman,  very  fond  of  outdoor  sports  and  an 
excellent  horseman.  He  was  an  original  member  of  the  Colony  in  Schuylkill 
in  1748,  was  elected  its  governor  in  1766,  and  served  until  his  death,  a  period 
of  forty-six  years,  being  a  member  for  sixty-four  years.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  "Society  of  Fort  St.  Davids",  of  which  the  membership  was  principally 
Welsh,  of  the  "Order  of  Ancient  Britons."  The  "Fort"  was  a  building  on  the 
east  bank  of  the  Schuylkill,  near  the  falls,  where  the  members  resorted  to  fish 
and  feast  and  entertain  their  friends,  it  being  principally  a  fishing  club.  Samuel 
Morris  was  also  one  of  the  most  ardent  members  of  the  Gloucester  Fox-Hunting 
Club,  of  which  he  was  president  from  its  organization,  October  29,  1766,  until 
his  death  forty-six  years  later.  It  was  from  this  organization,  composed  of  the 
aristocratic  youths  of  Philadelphia,  that  he  organized,  November  17,  1774,  the 
Philadelphia  Troop  of  Light  Horse,  of  which  he  served  many  years  as  Captain, 
and  which  rendered  such  efficient  service  in  the  early  days  of  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Twenty-two  of  its  twenty-eight  members  being  members  of  the  Gloucester 
Fo.x-Hunting  Club,  it  had  its  inception  while  the  first  Continental  Congress 
was  assembled  in  Philadelphia,  and  Abraham  Markoe  was  elected  its  first  Cap- 
tain; Andrew  Allen,  First  Lieutenant;  Samuel  Morris,  Second  Lieutenant,  and 
James  Mease,  Cornet.  Their  first  flag,  presented  to  them  by  Captain  Markoe, 
and  still  a  prized  possession  of  the  Troop,  was  the  first  known  flag  to  contain 
thirteen  stripes,  and  is  thought  to  have  suggested  the  adoption  of  the  striped 
Union  Flag  at  Cambridge,  six  months  after  the  City  Troop  had  escorted  General 
George  Washington,  accompanied  by  Lee  and  Schuyler,  to  New  York,  when  on 
his  way  to  take  command  of  the  army  at  Cambridge,  June  21,  1775.  Captain 
Markoe  had  then  resigned  and  Samuel  Morris  was  unanimously  elected  as  Cap- 
tain. Captain  Samuel  Morris  and  his  brother.  Major  Anthony  Morris,  were  the 
most  ardent  of  patriots  from  the  time  of  the  earliest  protest,  the  signing  of  the 
Non-importation  Resolutions,  October  25,  1765,  the  latter  being  one  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  Provincial  Convention  of  July  15,  1774,  eventually  gave  his  life 
to  the  cause  of  liberty,  being  killed  in  the  battle  of  Princeton,  January  3,  1777. 

Samuel  was  selected  a  member  of  the  first  Committee  of  Safety  of  the  State, 
appointed  by  Assembly,  June  30,  1775,  and  when  this  body  was  merged  into  the 
Council  of  Safety,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  that  body,  July  24,  1776,  but 
declined,  preferring  to  give  his  attention  to  more  active  service.  He  was  appointed 
by  a  resolve  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  January  22,  1776,  chairman  of  a  com- 
mittee to  survey  the  Jersey  shore  of  the  Delaware  from  Billingsport  to  Newtown 
creek,  to  determine  what  posts  it  would  be  necessary  to  fortify  against  any 
attempted  invasion  of  the  enemy.  He  interested  himself  in  the  equipment  of  and 
organization  of  the  army  and  was  energetic  in  completing  the  naval  defenses  of 
the  city  and  blocking  the  channel  of  the  Delaware.  When  the  Hessians  embarked 
from  Staten  Island,  October,  1776,  the  Council  of  Safety  ordered  that  a  letter 
be  sent  to  "Samuel  Morris  Junr.  requesting  him  to  send  up  the  Ammunition  Sloop 
and  to  supply  himself  with  a  shallop  in  her  stead,  to  assist  in  making  the  Chevaux 
de  Prize,  at  Billingsport."  His  City  Troop  was  kept  constantly  drilled,  and  its 
services  tendered  to  the  government  at  the  breaking  out  of  hostilities,  and  it 
served  as  a  body  guard  of  General  Washington  through  the  campaign  of  1776-7. 


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In  November,  1776,  several  of  the  troop  were  at  the  headquarters  at  Morristown, 
New  Jersey,  and  on  report  of  General  Howe's  advance,  the  whole  troop,  under 
Captain  Morris,  joined  Washington  at  Trenton,  December  3,  1776,  and  marched 
with  him  to  Princeton,  and  covering  his  retreat,  five  days  later,  were  the  last  to 
cross  the  Delaware  into  Pennsylvania.  On  Christmas  night,  1776,  they  re-crossed 
the  Delaware  in  the  storm  and  sleet,  and  participated  in  the  historic  battle  of 
Trenton,  several  members  of  the  troop  distinguishing  themselves  by  special  acts 
of  bravery,  though  this  was  the  first  time  they  had  been  under  fire,  in  active  ser- 
vice. On  December  30,  1776,  the  troop  again  crossed  the  Delaware  and  marched 
with  Washington  to  Trenton,  where  was  fought  the  battle  of  Assunpink  Creek; 
both  of  these  battles  being  fought  on  land  that  had  belonged  for  a  half  century 
to  the  Morris  family.  When  Washington  decided  to  move  off  during  the  night 
to  Princeton,  it  was  the  City  Troop  who  were  selected  to  keep  up  the  camp 
fires  to  divert  suspicion  from  his  movements  and  to  follow  him  to  Princeton, 
where  they  especially  distinguished  themselves,  being  at  the  front  with  Wash- 
ington when  he  drove  the  enemy  over  fields  and  fences.  Here  it  was  that  Major 
Anthony  Morris  was  killed  in  action. 

After  the  battle  of  Princeton,  the  troop  remained  in  headquarters  at  Morris- 
town,  New  Jersey,  for  about  three  weeks,  and  the  campaign  being  over  were 
honorably  discharged,  January  23,  1777,  with  the  highest  praise  of  General 
Washington,  the  letter  of  discharge  being  still  in  possession  of  the  Morris  family. 
This  troop  was  the  only  cavalry  in  the  Jersey  campaign,  and  served  entirely  at 
their  own  expense.  After  its  discharge,  it,  however,  maintained  its  organization, 
and  with  its  valiant  captain  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine  and  German- 
town,  camped  at  Valley  Forge,  and  served  in  the  operations  around  Philadelphia, 
until  the  evacuation  of  Philadelphia  by  the  British  in  June,  1778.  and  for  the 
next  two  years  was  in  the  service  of  Congress  and  under  State  authority;  was 
again  at  Trenton  in  June,  1780,  but  the  enemy  having  left  the  state,  returned 
to  Philadelphia  and  again  received  the  thanks  of  Washington.  The  troop  again 
received  his  thanks  for  services  during  the  Whiskey  Insurrection  of  1794.  The 
organization  has  been  maintained  to  the  present  time,  it  being  now  known  as 
"First  Troop,  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry."  Captain  Samuel  Morris  continued 
with  Washington  until  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  constantly  employed 
as  the  bearer  of  confidential  messages,  and  his  troop  was  always  held  in  readi- 
ness to  perform  special  duty.  Captain  Morris  was  elected  to  the  Provincial 
Assembly  in  1776,  and  served  in  that  body  until  February  21,  1777;  was  again 
elected  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Commonwealth  in  1781-82-83.  He  pos- 
sessed a  strong  but  gentle  personality,  and  was  known  as  "Christian  Sam."  He 
died  at  his  residence  in  Philadelphia,  July  7,  1812,  universally  loved  and  lamented. 
His  wife,  Rebecca  Wistar,  had  died  January  22,  1791. 

Issue  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Rebecca  {Wistar)  Morris: — 

Samuel,  d.  y. ; 

Sarah,  b.  Jan.  19.  1758,  d.  Jan.  7,  183 1 ;  m.  March  14,  1782;  Richard  Wistar; 

Benjamin  Wistar,  b.  Aug.  14,  1762,  d.  April  24,  1825 ;  m.  Nov.  24,  1785,  Mary  Wells,  of 

whom  presently; 
Caspar  W.,  b.  Sept.  12,  1764,  d.  Feb.  27,  1828 ;  m.  Nov.  24,  1795,  Elizabeth  Giles ; 
Anthony,  b.  Feb.  10.  1766,  d.  Nov.  3,  i860;  m.  May  13  1790,  Mary  Smith  Pemberton ; 
Luke  W.,  b.  June  25,  1768,  d.  June  4,  1830;  m.  March  24.  1791,  Elizabeth  Morris  Buckley; 

(second)    April  4.   1800,   Ann   Pancoast ;   see   forward ; 


58  MORRIS 

Isaac  W.,  b.  July  19,  1770,  d.  May  8,  183 1 ;  m.  i2nio.  17,  1795,  Sarah  Paschall; 

Catharine  W.,  b.  April  22,  1772,  d.  Dec.  10,  1859,  unm. ; 

Samuel,  b.  March  4,  1775,  d.  Sept.  17,  1793,  of  yellow  fever; 

Israel  Wistar,  b.  Feb.  27,  1778,  d.  Aug.  17,  1870;  m.  6mo.  12,  1799,  Mary  Hollingsworth. 

Benjamin  Wistar  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wistar) 
Morris,  born  at  Philadelphia,  August  14,  1762,  married  at  Market  street  Meet- 
ing, Philadelphia,  November  24,  1785,  Mary,  born  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
September  4,  1764,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Rachel  (Hill)  Wells,  and  about 
1800  removed  with  his  family  from  Philadelphia  to  Tioga  county,  Pennsylvania, 
where  the  town  of  Wellsborough  was  named  for  Mrs.  Morris,  and  her  brother, 
Gideon  H.  Wells,  and  where  they  were  among  the  earliest  settlers.  Benjamin 
Wistar  Morris  died  at  Wellsborough,  April  24,  1825,  and  his  wife,  November  6, 
1819.     They  had  issue: — 

Samuel  Wells,  b.  Sept.  i.  1786,  d.  May  25.  i&}7,  of  whom  presently; 
Sarah,  b.  Sept.  2,  1788,  d.  May  18,  1862;  m.  Aug.  5,  1804,  Jacob  Shoemaker  Wain; 
Rebecca,  b.  Dec.  23,  1789,  d,  Dec.  8,  1871  ;  m.  July  11,  1810,  William  Cox  Ellis; 
Richard  Wells,  b.  Feb.  18,  1791,  d.  Oct.  4.  I79i. 

The  Wells  family,  from  which  ]\Iary  (Wells)  Morris  was  descended,  traces 
back  to  John,  Lord  Wells,  of  Alford,  1380,  whose  son.  Lord  Wells,  was  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  1433,  and  a  lineal  descendant  was  Anthony  Wells,  Cap- 
tain of  York  Castle,  1635.  His  son,  Anthony  Wells,  "of  Cottness  on  the  River 
Ouse,  near  Howden,"  had  a  son  Nathaniel,  buried  at  York,  1734,  who  married. 
August  13,  1693,  Abia  Burden,  died  1735,  and  had  issue : — 

Anthony,  b.  Oct.  2,  1694,  d.  Oct.  2,  1746;  m.  July  5.  1723.  Abia  Dickinson,  b.  June  4. 
1703,  d.  July  2,   1743; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  22,  1695-6; 

Gideon,  M.  D.,  b.  March  3,  1700,  d.  1759;  married  at  London.  Oct.  2,  1730,  Mary 
Partridge,  b.  Feb.  26,  1707,  d.  1789.  dau.  of  Richard  Partridge,  of  London,  agent  at 
the   court   of   Great   Britain   for   Pennsylvania.    New   Jersey   and   Delaware. 

Richard  Wells,  son  of  Dr.  Gideon  Wells,  bnrn  July  22.  1734.  at  Cutthorp.  Eng- 
land, came  to  America,  1750,  and  settled  in  Philadelphia;  married,  April  17, 
1759,  Rachel  Hill,  born  April  2,  1735,  died  Philadelphia,  May  17,  1796,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Richard  and  Deborah  (Moore)  Hill,  a  descendant  of  Alfred  the  Great, 
through  her  great-grandfather,  Thomas  Lloyd,  President  of  Provincial  Council. 
1684,  Deputy  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  1691-3.  Children  of  Richard  and 
Rachel  (Hill)  Wells  were: 

Richard,  b.  June  10,  1760.  d.  June  29,  1760; 
Samuel   Preston,   b.   July  7,   1763,   d.   Aug.   29,    1763; 

Mary,  b.  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Sept.  4,   1764;  married   Benjamin   W.  Morris; 
Gideon  Hill,  b.  Sept.  20,  1765;  m.  May  11,   1790.  Hannah  Wain; 
Henry,  b.   1766,  d.   1767; 

Hannah,  b.   Nov.   10,   1767,  died,   Philadelphia,  June  29.   1796; 

William  Hill.  b.  Jan.  7.  1769;  m.  Oct.  9.  1790,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gen.  John  Dag- 
worthy,  of  New  Jersey,  later  of  Delaware. 

Samuel  Wells  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  W.  and  Mary  (Wells') 
Morris,  born  in  Philadelphia.  September   i.   1786.  died  at  Wellsborough,  Tioga 


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county,  Pennsylvania;  was  educated  at  Princeton,  studied  law,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Tioga  county,  where  he  practiced  for  some  years ;  became  Judge  of 
the  District  Court,  September  4,  1837,  and  served  until  March  3,  1841.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Wellsborough  Academy,  where  his  children  were  edu- 
cated, and  was  a  man  of  considerable  prominence  in  that  section.  He  married 
at  Muncy,  Pennsylvania,  Meeting,  December  5,  1810,  Anna,  born  May  7,  1791, 
died  at  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  January  26,  1858,  daughter  of  William  and 
Mercy  (Cox)  Ellis,  granddaughter  of  Benjamin  and  Ann  (Swaifer)  Ellis,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Ellis  Ellis,  born  in  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  who  married  Lydia 
Humphrey,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  Register  General  of 
the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  July  28,  1687,  to  July  25,  1689. 
Issue  of  Judge  Samuel  Wells  and  Anna  (Ellis)  Morris: — 

William  Ellis  Morris,  b.  Jan.  29,  1812,  d.  Oct.  15,  1875;  m.  May  7,  1839,  Mary  Nancy 

Burnside,  of  whom  presently ; 
Mary  Wells  Morris,  b.   1813,  d.  Oct.,   1896;  m.   1834,  James  Lowrey; 
Sarah  Ellis  Morris,  b.  Oct.  14,  1815,  d.  Jan.  4,  1898;  m.  Nov.  2,  1836,  Joseph  P.  Morris; 
Susan   Marriott   Morris,   b.   July  29,    1817,   d.   Sept.   3,   1891  ;   m.   May  4,    1841,  John   W. 

Guernsey ; 
Benjamin  Wistar  Morris,  D.  D.,  Bishop,  b.  May  30,   1819;  d  April  7.  1906;  m.  June  22, 

1852,  Hannah  Rodney ; 
Rachel  Wells  Morris,  b.    1821,  of  Portland,  Ore.;   d.   August  30,   1906; 
Ellen,  b.  1823;  d.  1885;  m.  1846,  Judge  Henry  Booth.  LL.  D. ; 
Charles  Ellis  Morris,  b.  1825,  d.  1883;  m.  1851,  Elizabeth  Holstein  Amies; 
Anna  Ellis  Morris,  b.  Aug.  28,  1827 ;  m.  Aug.  3,  1853,  George  R.  Barker ; 
Louisa  Morris,  b.   1829,  d.   1864,   unm. ; 
Samuel  Wells  Morris  Jr.,  b.  1835;  m.  1863,  Charity  Payntar. 

William  Ellis  Morris,  eldest  son  of  Judge  Samuel  Wells  and  Anna  (Ellis) 
Morris,  born  at  Muncy,  Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1812,  received  an  academic 
education,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  left  his  parents'  home  at  Wellsborough, 
Pennsylvania,  to  accept  the  lowest  position  in  an  engineering  party,  having  in 
charge  the  building  of  canals  in  Western  Pennsylvania.  He  rose  rapidly  in  his 
chosen  profession  and  became  first  assistant  engineer  of  the  West  Branch  Canal 
Company,  later  Engineer-in-chief  of  Bald  Eagle  Canal  Company,  and  was  ap- 
pointed by  Gov.  David  R.  Porter,  one  of  the  State  Engineers  of  the  Canal  Com- 
mission. He  became  very  eminent  in  his  profession  and  constructed  many  im- 
portant works,  among  them  the  reservoirs  at  Hollidaysburg,  Spring  Garden 
Water  Works  at  Philadelphia,  Water  Works  at  Athens,  Schenectady,  Rondout 
and  Oswego,  New  York,  Vicksburg  and  Meridian,  Mississippi,  as  well 
as  erecting  works  and  improvements  at  Morristown  and  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
Easton,  Bristol  and  Doylestown,  Pennsylvania,  and  Wilmington,  Delaware.  In 
January,  1843,  he  was  called  to  the  presidency  of  Philadelphia,  Germantown 
and  Norristown  Railroad  Company,  which  position  he  filled  for  ten  years 
and  then  was  elected  president  of  the  Long  Island  Railroad  Company,  where  he 
also  served  ten  years,  and  was  then  made  Vice-president  and  Acting  President 
of  the  New  York  and  Harlem  Railroad  Company,  but  at  the  end  of  one  year 
failing  health  induced  him  to  resign,  and  he  returned  to  Germantown  in  1864, 
and  was  employed  as  consulting  engineer  and  in  erecting  various  water  works 
and  other  municipal  improvements  until  his  death.  In  June,  1875,  he  was  nom- 
inated by  the  Franklin  Institute  and  appointed  by  Mayor  of  Philadelphia  as  one 


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of  the  commission  of  five  experts  to  report  to  councils  of  Philadelphia  upon 
the  present  and  future  supply  of  water  for  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  died 
at  his  residence,  No.  1225  Spruce  street,  Philadelphia,  of  heart  disease,  October 
15,  1875.  He  married,  May  7,  1839,  at  Bellefonte,  Pennsylvania,  Mary  Nancy, 
born  1813,  died  September  4,  1891,  daughter  of  Hon.  Thomas  Burnside,  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  and  President  Judge  of  the  Bucks 
County  Courts,   1841-4. 

Issue  of  William  Ellis  and  Mary  Nancy  (Burnside)  Morris: — 

Anna  Maria  Morris,  b.  HoUidaysburg.  Pa.,  March  31.  1840.  d.  March  11,  1875,  unm. ; 
Thomas  Burnside  Morris,  b.  Wellsborough,  Pa.,  May  13,  1842,  of  whom  presently; 
Charles   Ellis    Morris,   b.    Philadelphia,   March   7.    1844.   d.    Feb.    10.    1879;   ra.   May   17, 

1877,  Ella  Graham  Benson ; 
William  B.  Morris,  b.  Germantown,  Dec.  18.  1850,  d.  October  i.  1864. 

Thomas  Burnside  Morris,  eldest  son  of  William  Ellis  and  Mary  Nancy 
(Burnside)  Morris,  born  at  Wellsborough,  Pennsylvania,  May  13,  1842,  fol- 
lowed the  profession  of  his  father  and  was  chief  engineer,  having  in  charge 
erection  of  250  miles  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  over  the  Rocky  Mountains, 
and  also  of  several  of  the  more  important  sections  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Rail- 
road. In  1874  he  gave  up  regular  practice  of  his  profession  and  engaged  in  coal 
business  in  Washington  Territory,  now  the  State  of  Washington.  Two  years 
later  he  removed  to  San  Francisco,  California,  and  became  president  of  the 
Renton  Coal  Company,  which  position  he  filled  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1885,  having  been  a  resident  of  California  for  nine  years,  making  his  home 
at  San  Rafael,  Oakland,  where  he  was  ruling  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  superintendent  of  the  Sabbath  school.  He  married,  October  3,  187 1,  Sarah 
Arndt  Sletor. 

Issue  of  Thomas  B.  and  Sarah  Arndt  (Sletor)  Morris: — 

Mary  Burnside  Morris,  b.  Nov.  8.  1872;  m.  June  14.   1899,  Russell  Duane ; 

RoL.\ND    Sletor    Morris,   b.    March    11,    1874;    ni.    Augusta   Twiggs    Shippen    West,    of 

whom  presently ; 
Anna  Lloyd  Morris,  b.  Aug.  16,  1876;  m.  April  14,  1904,  Benjamin  Coates. 

Roland  Sletor  Morris,  only  son  of  Thomas  Burnside  and  Sarah  Arndt 
(Sletor)  Morris,  born  March  11,  1874,  graduated  at  the  Lawrenceville  (New 
Jersey)  School,  1892,  and  entered  Princeton  University,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  1896.  He  then  entered  the  Law 
Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B., 
1899,  and  has  since  practiced  the  legal  profession  in  Philadelphia.  Roland  Sletor 
Morris  is  a  member  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia ;  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars;  Philadelphia  Club,  Philadelphia  Barge  Club,  Philadelphia  Racquet  Club, 
president  of  the  Democratic  Club  of  Philadelphia.  He  married,  April  20,  1903. 
Augusta  Twiggs  Shippen,  daughter  of  William  W.  and  Sarah  (Shippen)  West, 
of  Philadelphia.  Mrs.  Morris  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Dames 
of  America  and  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy. 

Issue  of  Roland  Sletor  and  .lugusta  T.  S.  (IVest)  Morris: — 

Sarah  Arndt  Morris,  b.  May  25,  1904; 
Edward   Shippen   Morris,  b.   Feb.    14,   1906. 


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Luke  Wistar  Morris,  fourth  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wistar)  Mor- 
ris, born  June  25,  1768,  died  June  4,  1830;  was  associated  with  his  brother,  Isaac 
Wistar  Morris,  in  the  brewing  business  at  Dock  and  Pear  streets,  until  1810.  In 
1817  he  purchased  the  house  at  225  South  Eighth  street,  now  known  as  the  Mor- 
ris Mansion,  where  he  thereafter  resided.  He  married  (first)  March  24,  1791, 
Elizabeth  Morris,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Morris)  Buckley,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Powell)  Morris.  She  was  born  July  17,  1772, 
died  August  21,  1797,  and  (second)  April  4,  1800,  Ann  Pancoast,  born  Sept.  12, 
1764,  died  Feb.  17,  1858. 

Issue  of  Luke  Wistar  and  Elizabeth  Morris: — 

Samuel  Buckley  Morris,  their  only  child,  b.  Dec.  27,  1791,  d.  Jan.  23,  1859; 
m.  June  16,  1825,  Hannah  Perot,  dau.  of  Elliston  Perot,  b.  June  12,  1792,  d.  July 
6,  1831.  He  was  a  member  of  the  widely  known  shipping  firm  of  Wain  &  Morris  ; 
was  one  of  the  first  directors  of  the  Philadelphia  Saving  Fund ;  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  Pennsylvania  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb ;  manager  of  Friends' 
Asylum  for  the  Insane,  at  Frankford ;  one  of  the  founders  of  Haverford  College ; 
and  founded  in  1854,  the  Saving  Fund  Society  of  Germantown  and  its  Vicinity. 
From  1834  till  his  death  he  resided  in  the  house  owned  by  him  at  5442  German- 
town  Ave.,  Philadelphia,  which  was  occupied  by  President  Washington  during  the 
yellow  fever  of  1793  and  1794.  He  was  widely  known  for  his  benevolence. 
Christian   politeness   and   geniality. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Buckley  and  Hannah  (Perot)  Morris: — 

Samuel  Morris,  b.  Oct.  7,  1827,  d.  Oct.  17,  1905;  m.  Lydia  Spencer,  Feb.  17,  1853,  b. 
March  22,  1829,  d.  Dec.  22,  1903; 

Beulah  Sansom  Morris,  b.  Jan.  4,  1829;  m.  March  24,  1870,  Charles  Rhoads.  Issue: 
Mary,  b.  June  8,   1871,  d.  March  27,   1872. 

Elliston  Perot  Morris,  b.  May  22,  1831,  m.  March  21,  1861,  Martha  Canby,  of  Wilming- 
ton, Del. 

Samuel  Morris  resided  for  fifty  years  at  Olney,  Philadelphia,  was  a  minister 
and  prominent  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  widely  known  for  his  many 
Christian  virtues.  He  was  an  original  director  of  the  Saving  Fund  Society  of 
Germantown  and  its  Vicinity,  and  for  many  years  a  director  and  president  of 
Friends  Asylum  for  the  Insane  at  Frankford. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Lydia   (Spencer)  Morris: — 

Hannah  Perot  Morris,  b.  Feb.  20,  1854; 

Luke  Wistar  Morris,  b.  June  11,   1858;  d.   1873; 

George  Spencer  Morris,  b.  July  11,  1867,  m.  June  i,  189S,  Lydia  Ellicott. 

Issue  of  George  Spencer  and  Lydia    (Ellicott)   Morris: — 

Samuel  Morris,  Jr.,  b.  June  12,  1896; 
Nancy  Morris,  b.  April  3,  1898 ; 
Edith   Ellicott  Morris,  b.  Aug.   12,   1899 ; 
Lydia  Spencer  Morris,  b.  Nov.  2y.  1900; 
Hannah  Perot  Morris,  b.  May  14,  1906. 

Elliston  Perot  Morris,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Germantown  Dispensary 
and  Hospital ;  an  original  director  of  the  Saving  Fund  Society  of  Germantown 
and  its  Vicinity ;  manager  of  Friends  Asylum  for  the  Insane ;  an  overseer  of  the 


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Public  School  under  Charter  of  Wm.  Penn;  for  a  time  member  of  Board  of 
Managers  of  Haverford  College;  director  of  the  Philadelphia  Contributionship 
for  the  Insurance  of  houses  from  loss  by  Fire ;  and  a  member  of  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Issue  of  Elliston  Perot  and  Martha  (Canby)  Morris: — 

Marriott  Canby  Morris,  b.  Sept.  7,  1863;  ra.  June  8,  1897,  Jane  Gibbons  Rhoads ; 

Elizabeth   Canby  Morris,  b.  Oct.  4,   1867 ; 

Samuel  Buckley  Morris,  b.  Oct.  10,  1868;  d.  June  20.  1886. 

E.  Perot  Morris,  b.  May  31,  1872,  d.  March  16.  1881 ; 

Marriott  Canby  Morris  is  a  graduate  of  Haverford  College ;  a  director  of  the 
Provident  Life  and  Trust  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  director  of  Saving  Fund  Society 
of   Germantown   and   its   Vicinity ;   president   of   the   Germantown   Boys'    Club, 
founded  1887,  and  a  member  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 
Issue  of  Marriott  Canby  and  Jane  (Rhoads)  Morris: — 

Elliston  Perot  Morris,  Jr.,  b.  May  17,  1899; 
Marriott  Canby  Morris,  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1900; 
Janet  Morris,  b.  April  7,  1907. 

Issue  of  Luke  IVistar  and  Ann  (Pancoast)  Morris: — 

Elizabeth  Buckley  Morris,  b.  June  12,  1801,  d.  1863;  m.  Jan.,  1821,  Thomas  Wistar; 

an  account  of  whom  and  his  ancestry  appears  elsewhere ; 
Mary  Luke  Morris,  b.  Jan.  28,  1803,  d.  April  28,  1884;  m.  Sept.  25,  1832,  Charles 

Ellis ; 
Sarah  Wistar  Morris,  b.  Aug.  22,  1807,  d.  March  7,  1855;  in.  June  5,  1827,  Joseph 

Perot ; 
Hannah  Ann  Morris,  b.  Sept.  24,  1812,  d.  Sept.  17,  1889;  m.  June  11,  1833,  Effing- 
ham Lawrence   Buckley;   had  issue: 
Edward    Morris   Buckley,   b.    April   29,    1834.   d.    May    13,    1866;    m.    June   6, 

185s,  Gertrude  Underdonk ; 
Annie  Morris  Buckley,  b.  Jan.  13,  1836;  m.  Dec.  3,  1855,  Israel  Wistar  Morris, 
second  son  of  Dr.  Caspar  and  Annie   (Cheston)   Morris,  and  grandson  of 
Captain  Samuel  Morris.    An  account  of  their  descendants  is  given  later. 

Rebecca  Morris,  second  daughter  of  Benjamin  Wistar  and  Mary  (Wells) 
Morris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  December  23,  1789,  removed  with  her  parents  to 
the  present  site  of  Wellsborough,  Tioga  county,  Pennsylvania,  about  1800.  She 
married,  July  11,  1810,  William  Cox  Ellis,  of  Muncy,  now  Lycoming  county, 
son  of  William  and  Mercy  (Cox)  Ellis,  brother  to  Anna  Ellis,  who  married  her 
brother,  Samuel  Wells  Morris.  William  Cox  Ellis  was  born  at  Fort  Muncy,  then 
Northumberland  county,  Pennsylvania,  May  5,  1787,  and  became  a  prominent 
attorney-at-law  at  Muncy,  and  served  in  Pennsylvania  Legislature  and  represented 
Lycoming  county  in  Congress.  He  died  December  13,  1871,  and  his  wife  Rebecca 
Morris,  December  8,  of  the  same  year. 

Issue  of  William  Cox  and  Rebecca   {Morris)   Ellis: — 

Mary  Morris  Ellis,  b.  May  7,  1811,  d.  April  15,  1831,  unm. ; 

William  Ellis,  b.  June  20,  1813,  d.  Oct.  13,  1881 ;  m.  (first)   Hannah  Lownes;  (second) 

Agnes  Boyd,  of  whom  presently; 
Richard  Wells  Ellis,  b.  June  18,  1815,  d.  May  21.  1832.  unm. ; 
Mercy  Ann  Ellis,  b.  Oct.  11.  1817.  d.  Aug.  2i,  1843.  unm.; 


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Benjamin  Wistar  Morris  Ellis,  b.  Jan.  27,  1820,  d.  Dec.  5,   1881 ;  m.  Elisabeth  Masters; 
Sarah  Ellis,  b.  Jan.  27,  1822;  m.  April  25,  1842,  Rev.  Edwin  Nathaniel  Lightner; 
Anna  Morris  Ellis,  b.  April  9,  1824;  m.  Sept.  26,   1848,  William  Hayman  Holstein; 
Joshua  Alder  Ellis,  b.  April  28,  1826,  d.  Aug.  4,  i8g6;  m.  (first)  July  14,  1852,  Henrietta 

Ashmead;   (second)   June  10,  1856,  Mary  Cheyney;   (third)   Mrs.  Courtney; 
Alfred  Ellis,  b.  Dec.   19,  1828,  d.  Oct.   1,  1829. 

William  Ellis,  eldest  son  of  William  Cox  and  Rebecca  (Morris)  Ellis,  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  A.,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Hannah  Lownes.  She  died 
1857,  and  he  married  (second)  Agnes,  daughter  of  Rev.  George  and  Elizabeth 
(Livingston)    Boyd. 

Issue  of  William  and  Hannah  (Lownes)  Ellis: — 

Rebecca  Ellis,  b.  Sept.  9,   1842,  d.  Nov.   13,   1843; 

Sarah  Byrnes  Ellis,  b.  Nov.  4,  1844;  m.  Dec.  17,  1884,  William  Kerr  Merritt  Groverman, 

who  died  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  1893; 
Frances    Lownes    Ellis,    b.    Oct.    19,    1S46;    m.    1871,    George    Harrison    Wiltbank,    who 

changed  his  name  to  MacPherson ; 
Catharine  Morris  Ellis,  b.  May  8,  1848,  d.  July  6,  1849; 
Edward  Lownes  Ellis,  b.  1851,  d.  uiun. ; 
William    Lownes    Ellis,    b.    Aug.   4,    1855;    m.    Apr.    20,    1881,    Nellie    Huntingdon,    of 

Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
By  the  second  marriage  William  Ellis  had  three  children :  George  Boyd  Ellis,  died 

in  infancy,  and  Agnes  Boyd  and  Alder  Morris  Ellis, 

Israel  Wistar  Morris,  youngest  child  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wis- 
tar) Morris,  was  born  at  Reading,  Berks  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  Capt.  Mor- 
ris had  removed  his  family,  during  the  occupancy  of  Philadelphia  by  the  British 
forces,  February  27,  1778,  died  in  Philadelphia,  August  17,  1870.  As  a  young 
man  he  was  a  member  of  Philadelphia  City  Troop,  organized  by  his  distinguished 
father,  becoming  a  member  May  31,  1798,  and  made  an  honorary  member  in 
1803.  He  was  for  several  years  a  prosperous  broker  and  commission  merchant 
of  Philadelphia,  but  removed  in  181 5  to  his  farm  called  "Green  Hill"  in  Lower 
Merion  township,  and  his  Mansion  House  there  was  his  home  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  married,  6mo.  12,  1799,  Mary,  born  zjjno.  19,  1776,  daughter  of 
Levi  Hollingsworth,  and  a  descendant  of  Valentine  Hollingsworth,  one  of  the 
earliest  English  settlers  in  New  Castle  county,  and  of  a  very  distinguished  family 
in  that  section  and  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania.  Mrs.  Morris  died  6mo.  23, 
1820,  after  an  illness  of  but  a  few  hours,  her  husband  surviving  her  a  half 
century. 

Issue  of  Israel  Wistar  and  Mary  {Hollingszvorth)  Morris: — 

Stephen,  b.  6mo.  3,  1800,  d.  8mo.  13,  1865;  m.  2mo.  21,  1827,  Rachel  Johnson;   (second) 

l2mo.  9,  1854,  Mary  Ann  Cope; 
Henry,  b.  imo.  27,  1802,  d.   i2mo.  20,  1881 ;  m.   1830,  Caroline  Old ; 
Samuel,  b.   iimo.  25,   1803,  d.  6mo.  18,   1804; 
Caspar,  b.  May  2,  1805,  d.  March  17,  1884,  of  whom  presently; 
Levi,  b.  4mo.  24,  1807,  d.  2mo.  26,  1868 ;    m.  1830,  Naomi  McClenachan ; 
Hannah,  b.  3mo.  20.   1809,  d.   imo.  3.   1892; 

Israel,  b.  lomo.  22,  1811 ;  d.  l2mo.  13,  190S ;  m.  9mo.  25,  1839.  Elizabeth  Longstreth ; 
Jane,  b.  8mo.  13,  1813,  d.  3mo.  12,  1897; 
Wistar,  b.  9mo.  6,  1815,  d.  3mo.  23,  1891 ;  m.  imo.  22,  1863,  Mary  Harris. 

Caspar  Morris,  M.  D.,  fourth  son  of  Israel  Wistar  and  Mary    (Hollings- 


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worth)  Morris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  2,  1805,  was  but  an  infant  when  his 
parents  removed  to  "Green  Hill"  farm,  and  his  mother  dying  there  when  he  was 
but  five  years  of  age,  much  of  his  early  life  was  spent  at  the  home  of  his  maternal 
grandparents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Levi  Hollingsworth.  His  earliest  education  was 
acquired  at  the  school  at  Pine  Street  Meeting  House,  later  under  David  Ellis,  at 
Church  Alley,  and  finally  at  the  Penn  Charter  School,  in  the  management  of 
which  his  paternal  ancestors  had  taken  a  prominent  part  for  over  a  century.  He 
took  up  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Joseph  Parrish,  then  the  leading  physician  of 
the  city,  and  aided  by  a  legacy  of  $1,500,  from  his  aunt.  Miss  Sarah  Wistar, 
entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated  with  high 
honors  in  1826.  He  served  as  resident  physician  at  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and 
later  made  a  voyage  to  India  as  a  ship's  surgeon.  On  his  return  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  lived  there  until  he  retired  from  pro- 
fessional pursuits  in  1871.  He  achieved  high  rank  as  a  practitioner  as  well  as  a 
lecturer  and  author  of  medical  works.  He  lectured  for  many  years  successively- 
on  theory  and  practice  of  medicine  at  Philadelphia  Summer  School  of  Medicine, 
and  on  diseases  of  children  at  Blockley  Hospital.  He  was  also  Professor  of 
Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine  at  Philadelphia  Medical  Institute ;  was  founder 
of  Protestant  Episcopal  Hospital  and  its  manager  from  i860  to  1880;  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Institute  for  the  Blind,  and  one  of  the  first  to  urge  the  establishment 
of  the  House  of  Refuge.  He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  and  general 
literature,  among  his  miscellaneous  publications  being,  "Life  of  William  Wil- 
berforce",  (Philadelphia,  1841),  "Memoirs  of  Margaret  Mercer"  (Philadel- 
phia, 1848);  "Letter  to  Bishop  Alonzo  Potter,  on  Hospital  Needs"  (1851); 
"Lectures  on  Scarlet  Fever"  (1858)  ;  "Essay  on  Hospital  Construction  and  Man- 
agement" (Baltimore,  1875);  "Rilhet  and  Barthol,  on  Diseases  of  Children": 
"Heart  Voices  and  Home  Songs",  for  private  distribution;  and  a  great  number 
of  contributions  to  medical  journals.  He  died  at  his  residence,  1033  Spruce 
street,  Philadelphia,  March  17,  1884,  after  a  long  illness  and  a  period  of  twelve 
or  thirteen  years  of  failing  health.  A  memorial  brass  tablet  was  erected  in  the 
chapel  of  Episcopal  Hospital  in  his  memory.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church,  and  one  of  the  principal  promoters  of  the  Church  of  Epiphany, 
at  Fifteenth  and  Chestnut  streets. 

Dr.  Caspar  Morris  married,  November  12,  1829,  his  cousin.  Anne,  eldest 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Hollingsworth)  Cheston.  She  was  born  May  9,. 
1 810,  died  November,  1880. 

Issue  of  Dr.   Caspar  and  Anne    (Cheston)   Morris: — 

James  Cheston  Morris,  M.  D..  b.  May  2S.  1831  ;  m.  (first)  March  8.  1854,  Hannah  .^nn- 
Tyson;    (second)   Jan.    11,    1870,   Mary   Ella    (Johnson)    Stuart,   a  widow; 

Israel  Wistar  Morris,  b.  June  1,  1833,  d.  Dec.  18,  1909;  m.  Annie  Morris  Buckley,  of 
whom  presently ; 

Mary   Hollingsworth  Morris,  b.   Nov.   1.   1835;  m.   1856.   Henry  M.   Murray; 

Galloway  Cheston  Morris,  b.  June  26,  1837;  m.  1861,  Hannah  Perot; 

Cornelia  Morris,  b.  June  26,  1840,  d.  April   12,   1842; 

Daniel   Corrie  Morris,  b.   May    17,   1842,   d.  July  21,    1845. 

Israel  \N'ist.\r  Morris,  second  son  of  Dr.  Caspar  and  .\nne  (Cheston)  Mor-- 
ris.  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  i,  1833,  died  there  December   18,  i<)09.     He  was 


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known  as  one  of  the  country's  pioneer  mining  experts,  and  was  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  the  history  of  anthracite  mining  in  Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  Morris  became  interested  in  coal  mining  in  Schuylkill  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, at  about  the  time  he  attained  his  majority,  and  was  one  of  the  most  far- 
sighted  pioneers  in  the  development  of  Pennsylvania's  great  anthracite  indus- 
try. At  that  period  the  domestic  use  of  anthracite  was  very  limited,  and  Mr. 
Morris'  part  in  bringing  its  utility  for  general  use  before  the  public  forms  one 
of  the  most  romantic  chapters  in  the  state's  early  industrial  history. 

Mr.  Morris  became  associated  with  Robert  Hare  Powell  in  the  anthracite  and 
bituminous  coal  trade  during  the  Civil  War.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  he  became 
president  of  the  Locust  Mountain  Coal  Company,  a  corporation  embraced  in  the 
activities  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Morris  was 
mining  expert,  and  much  of  the  present  wealth  of  that  company  is  due  to  his 
far-sightedness  and  expert  knowledge  on  the  subject  of  coal  deposits.  He  pur- 
chased many  of  the  coal  properties  which  have  since  enhanced  to  fabulous 
value. 

Israel  Wistar  Morris  remained  in  charge  of  the  mining  branch  of  the  Lehigh 
Valley's  operations  until  seventy  years  of  age,  when  he  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness. He  was  also  for  many  years  a  director  of  the  Girard  Trust  Company; 
succeeded  his  father  as  the  active  manager  of  the  Episcopal  Hospital ;  and  was 
connected  with  a  number  of  other  institutions  of  his  native  city. 

During  his  later  years  Israel  W.  Morris  devoted  himself  to  literary,  scientific, 
historical  and  charitable  work.  His  knowledge  regarding  all  matters  concerning 
old  Philadelphia  was  encyclopedic.  He  was  in  possession  of  many  rare  volumes 
relating  to  the  annals  of  the  city  a  century  and  more  ago,  and  spent  much  time 
in  adding  to  his  store  of  knowledge  by  historical  research.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  Society  of  Mining  Engineers,  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a  great  many  other  literary,  scientific  and  historical 
associations. 

Israel  W.  Morris  married,  December  3,  1855,  his  cousin,  Annie  Morris,  born 
January  13,  1836,  daughter  of  Eflfingham  Lawrence  Buckley,  late  of  New  York 
City,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  A.,  daughter  of  Luke  Wistar  Morris,  by  his  second 
wife,  Ann  Pancoast.     Her  ancestry  has  already  been  given  in  this  family  sketch. 

Israel  W.  Morris  and  his  wife  resided  in  the  old  Morris  Mansion  at  225  South 
Eighth  street,  from  the  time  of  their  marriage  to  his  death,  December  18,  1909. 
The  wife  still  survives.  In  spite  of  the  gradual  encroachment  of  the  city's  active 
business  center,  they  never  thought  of  removing  from  the  old  family  mansion, 
despite  the  fact  that  most  other  fashionables  of  Philadelphia  had  long  since 
migrated  further  west.  The  neighborhood  has  materially  changed  since  the 
previous  generations  of  the  family  occupied  the  house,  but  no  changes  have  been 
made  in  the  furniture  or  decorations  of  the  interior,  which  stand  today  in  the 
same  places  they  occupied  a  century  ago.  The  famous  Wistar  parties,  originated 
by  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar,  ancestor  of  both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris,  were  often  enter- 
tained in  the  old  mansion,  Mr.  Morris  being  long  a  member  of  this  historic 
organization. 

Effingham  Buckley  Morris,  only  child  of  Israel  W.  and  Annie  M.  (Buck- 
ley) Morris,  was  born  August  23,  1856,  in  the  old  family  mansion  at  225  South 
Eighth  street,  Philadelphia.     He  received  his  preliminary  education  in  the  well- 


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known  school  of  Dr.  J.  W.  Faires,  and  entering  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
class  of  '75,  and  received  his  classical  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1878  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two.  He  immediately  entered  the  Law  Department  of  the  University, 
and  in  1878  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Philadelphia  bar.  He  was  associated  with  his  distinguished  cousin,  Phineas  Pem- 
berton  Morris,  LL.D.,  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  until  the  latter's  death  and 
succeeded  him.  He  was  for  some  years  General  Attorney  for  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Railroad  Company,  and  as  receiver  of  the  Schuylkill  Navigation  Company,  in 
1888,  materially  assisted  in  the  reorganization  of  the  Philadelphia  and  Reading 
Railroad  Company.  He  filled  position  of  counsel  for  the  Girard  Trust  Company 
until  1887,  and  since  that  time  has  been  its  president.  When  the  Girard  Trust 
Company  was  made  receiver  of  the  Pennsylvania  Steel  Company  in  1893,  Mr. 
Morris  was  Chairman  of  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  tangled  afifairs  of 
the  company  and  brought  about  its  reorganization  on  a  safe  financial  basis ;  he 
served  for  a  time  as  its  president  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors, 
and  chairman   of   its   executive  committee. 

He  is  also  chairman  of  executive  committee  of  Cambria  Steel  Company, 
which  gives  employment  to  twelve  thousand  men.  He  is  director  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Company,  and  holds  the  same  position  with  the  Philadelphia 
Savings  Fund  Society,  Philadelphia  National  Bank,  Franklin  National  Bank, 
Fourth  Street  National  Bank,  Pennsylvania  Fire  Insurance  Company,  and  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company  of  Philadelphia,  and  other  corporations. 

Mr.  Morris  was  a  member  of  Common  Council  from  the  Eighth  Ward,  1880- 
81,  being  elected  to  that  ofSce  during  the  crusade  of  the  Committee  of  One 
Hundred  for  better  politics.  He  was  director  of  the  Union  League  for  three 
years;  is  member  of  Philadelphia  Club,  Rittenhouse  Club,  University  Club, 
Racquet  Qub  and  Merion  Cricket  Club. 

Effingham  B.  Morris  married,  November  5,  1879,  Ellen  Douglas,  daughter 
of  Nelson  Burroughs,  of  Philadelphia.  An  account  of  her  ancestry  is  given 
elsewhere  in  these  volumes. 

Issue  of  EfUngham  B.  and  Ellen  D.  (Burroughs)  Morris: — 

Rhoda  Fuller  Morris,  b.  Nov.  5.   i38o;  m.  Feb.   12,   1901,  George  Clymer  Brooke;   had 
issue: 

Rhoda  Morris  Brooke,   b.   Nov.    12,    1901 ; 
George  Clymer  Brooke  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  29,  1905; 
Eleanor  Burroughs  Morris,  b.  Oct.  6,  1881 ;  m.  Oct.  25,  1902.  Stacy  Barcroft  Lloyd :  had 
issue : 

Ellen  Douglas  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  7,  1903; 
Caroline  Mitchell  Morris,  b.  Nov.  6,   1886;  m.  Dec.  6,   1905.    John  Frederic  Byers  Esq.; 
had  issue : 

Carolyn  Morris  Byers.  b.  Nov.  II,   1906;  d.  Sept.   II,   1907; 
Effingham  Buckley  Morris  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  26,   1890. 

Isaac  Wistar  Morris,  sixth  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wistar) 
Morris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  19,  1770,  on  attaining  his  majority  became 
a  partner  with  his  brother,  Luke  Morris,  in  the  conduct  of  the  brewery  at  Dock 
and  Pear  streets,  but  retired  from  business  in  1810,  and  lived  a  retired  life  in 
Philadelphia  until  his  death,  May  18,  183 1.  He  was  a  member  of  the  company 
organized  in  1789  to  prosecute  the  enterprise  of  perfecting  the  Fitch  steamboat. 


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He  married  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  i2mo.  17,  1795,  Sarah,  born  imo.  22,  1772, 
died  lomo.  25,  1842,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Patience  (Mifflin)  Paschall. 

Sarah  Paschall,  wife  of  Isaac  Wistar  Morris,  inherited  from  her  grandmother, 
Elizabeth  (Coates)  Paschall,  "Cedar  Grove",  which  with  its  quaint  and  vener- 
able stone  mansion  on  the  northwest  side  of  the  old  road  near  Harrowgate  Sta- 
tion was  the  country  home  of  the  Morris  family  until  the  present  generation, 
and  is  still  the  property  of  John  Thompson  Morris  and  his  sister,  Lydia  Thomp- 
son Morris,  though  the  encroachment  of  modern  improvements  induced  them  to 
erect  their  present  summer  home  "Compton"  at  Chestnut  Hill,  where  they  have 
spent  the  summer  months  since  1887.  "Cedar  Grove"  was  erected  in  1748  by 
Elizabeth  (Coates)  Paschall,  wife  of  Joseph  Paschall,  on  property  taken  by 
her  father,  Thomas  Coates,  in  17 14,  and  was  inherited  by  her  granddaughter, 
Sarah  (Paschall)  Morris,  and  somewhat  enlarged  in  1790.  It  is  a  delightfully 
antique  old  Colonial  dwelling,  with  a  hipped  roof,  dormer  windows  and  wide 
piazza.  The  interior  with  its  wide  hall  and  spacious  rooms,  with  their  old  fash- 
ioned wainscoting,  broad  window  seats  and  wide  fireplaces,  when  garnished  with 
the  solid  old  furniture  and  quaint  bric-a-brac  of  by-gone  generations,  presents 
all  the  delightful  charm  of  the  old  time  home  now  so  rarely  met  with. 
Issue  of  Isaac  Wistar  and  Sarah   (Paschall)  Morris: — 

Paschall,  b.  June  i,  1797,  d.  March   18,   1802 : 

Anthony  Paschall,  b.  June  26,  1798,  d.  Feb.  6,  1873;  m.  Sept.  14,  1820,  Anna  Hus- 
band, of  whom  presently; 

Elizabeth  Paschall,  b.  March  2,  1800,  d.  July  i,  1800; 

Catharine,  b.  Aug.  15,  1801,  d.  Jan.  i,  1888;  married.  March  10,  1847,  Moses  Brown, 
who  died  in  1878; 

Isaac  Paschall,  b.  July  24,  1803,  d.  Jan.  11,  1869;  m.  Nov.  17,  1841,  Rebecca  Thompson; 

Susanna,  b.  Feb.  15,  1805,  d.  Oct.  17,  1888;  m.  Nov.  11,  1829,  Caleb  Johnson; 

Martha,  b.  March  20,  1807,  d.  Dec.  8,  1879,  unm. ; 

Joseph  Paschall,  b.  Feb.  8.  1809,  d-  Dec.  17,  1892;  m.  Nov.  2,  1836,  Sarah  E.  Morris; 

Beulah,  b.  Feb.  2,  181 1,  d.  Jan.  20,  1892;    m.  Nov.  10,  1830,  Jeremiah  Hacker; 

Paschall,  b.  March  19,  1813,  d.  April  n,  1875;  m.  Nov.  5,  1834,  Thomazine  R.  Pennell; 
(second)   1873,  Anna  Reeve; 

Sarah  Paschall,  b.  Feb.  5,  1815 ;  d.  Feb.  6,  1905. 

Anthony  Paschall  Morris,  second  and  eldest  surviving  son  of  Isaac  W. 
and  Sarah  (Paschall)  Morris,  bom  in  Philadelphia,  June  26,  1798,  entered  West- 
town  Boarding  School,  Chester  county,  at  age  of  fourteen  years,  and  finished 
his  elementary  education  there.  He  was  all  his  life  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  He  resided  for  many  years  at  1425  Arch  street,  but  late  in  life 
removed  to  620  North  Fifteenth  street,  where  he  died  February  6,  1873.  He 
also  had  a  country  residence  in  Montgomery  county.  He  married,  gmo.  14,  1820, 
at  Deer  Creek  Meeting,  Maryland,  Anna  Husband,  of  an  old  and  highly  respected 
family. 

Issue  of  Anthony  Paschall  and  Anna   (Husband)   Morris: — 

Mifflin,  b.  May  30,  1821,  d.  2mo.  i,  1887 ;  m.  June  14.  1848,  Jerusha  K.  Howell ; 
Joshua  Husband,  b.   Sept.   12,   1822,  d.  Dec.  23,   1885;  m.   Nov.   18,   1847,  Anna  Morris, 
dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Buckley  (Morris)  Wistar;  had  issue: 

Elizabeth  B.  Morris,  b.  May  30,  1849;  m.  Sept.  13.  1871.  Dillwyn  Wistar,  Esq.,  of 

Philadelphia  bar ; 
William  Canby  Morris,  b.  Feb.  26,  1856,  d.  Mch.  8,  1856; 


Joshua  Husband  Morris  m.  (second)  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Dr.  John  and  Tabitha  (Jenkins) 
Stokes;  had  issue: 

Stokes  Morris,  d.  y. ; 

Joshua  H.  Morris  Jr.,  d.  y. ; 

John  Stokes  Morris,  b.  6mo.  24,   1873;  m.   May  23,   1894,  Mary  Eastburn  Fox; 

Anna  Stokes  Morris,  b.  Aug.  28,  1879; 
Charles  Wistar,  b.  Oct.  27,  1824,  d.  Nov.  4,  1893;  m.  Aug.  24,  1848,  Frances  E.  Skerrett; 
Sarah,  b.  June  26,  1826;  m.  Nov.  3,  1852,  Henry  Haviland ; 
Anthony  P.,  born  July  24.  1828.  drowned  May  13.  1844; 
Edward  S.   Morris,  b.  Dec,   1830,  d.   Dec.  20,   1890;  merchant  of  Philadelphia;   Consul 

for  Republic  of  Liberia.  West  Africa;  m.  6mo.  5.  i860,  Hannah  L.  Pennock; 
Thomas  Husband,  b.  Dec.  29,  1832,  d.  Jan.  19,  1834; 

Margaret  Husband,  b.  Nov.  3,  1834;  ni.  Apr.  27,  1886,  Dr.  Robert  C.  Moon; 
Anna   Husband,  b.   Dec.  6,   1836,   d.   May   15.   1898;   m.    (first)    Nov.  27,   1856,  John   S. 
Powell;    (second)   Nov.  6,  1867,  John  H.  Carels. 

Isaac  Paschall  Morris,  third  son  of  Isaac  Wistar  and  Sarah  (Paschall) 
Morris,  born  at  "Cedar  Grove",  July  24,  1803,  was  educated  for  a  druggist,  and 
in  1826,  with  Charles  Ellis,  purchased  of  Elizabeth  Marshall,  the  old  Marshall 
drug  establishment  at  No.  56  Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia,  established  by  her 
grandfather.  Christopher  Marshall,  1740.  The  new  firm  of  Ellis  &  Morris  at 
once  took  front  rank  in  the  drug  business  in  the  city,  but  Isaac  P.  Morris  found 
the  business  distasteful,  and  at  the  end  of  one  year  sold  his  interest  to  William 
Ellis  and  the  firm  of  Charles  Ellis  &  Son  Company  continued  the  business. 

Mr.  Morris  took  up  the  business  of  manufacturing  machinery  in  1827,  and  in 
1828  with  his  brother,  Joseph  Paschall  ]\Iorris,  entered  into  partnership  with 
their  cousin,  Levi  Morris,  who  a  year  previous  had  started  the  iron  works  at 
what  is  now  Sixteenth  and  Market  streets,  and  founded  the  firm  of  Levi  Morris 
8f  Company,  which  later  became  the  prominent  firm  of  I.  P.  Morris  &  Company, 
of  which  Isaac  Paschall  Morris  was  for  many  years  senior  member  and  becaine 
one  of  the  leading  ironmasters  of  Pennsylvania.  Lewis  Taws  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  in  1834.  Joseph  P.  Morris  retiring,  and  removing  to  Tioga  county, 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  1841  Levi  Morris  retired,  at  which  time  the  firm  name 
changed  to  I.  P.  Morris  &  Company.  In  1847  John  J.  Thompson,  a  brother-in- 
law,  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  and  they  removed  to  Port  Richmond  and 
erected  the  plant  since  known  as  the  Port  Richmond  Iron  Works.  In  the  man- 
agement of  the  company  and  throughout  his  life,  I\Ir.  Morris  displayed  and 
exercised  that  rare  business  ability  and  judgment  that  had  characterized  his  fam- 
ily for  many  generations,  and  continued  his  personal  interest  in  the  affairs  of 
the  company  to  his  death,  though  in  his  later  years  his  health  was  much  impaired. 
He  was  a  highly  esteemed  citizen,  of  great  public  spirit,  taking  a  deep  interest 
in  all  that  pertained  to  the  interest  and  prosperity  of  his  native  city.  He  mar- 
ried, iimo.  17,  1841,  at  the  Friends'  Meeting  House,  on  Orange  street,  Rebecca, 
bom  February  4.  181 1,  daughter  of  James  B.  and  Lydia  (Poultney)  Thompson. 
Mr.  Morris  died  at  his  residence,  826  Pine  street,  January  11,  1869,  his  wife 
surviving  until  March  22,  1881. 

Issue  of  Isaac  Paschall  and  Rebecca   I  Thoiiipsoit)   Morris: — 

James  Thompson,  b.  Sept.  18,  1842.  d.  Sept.  23,  1874;  m.  Dec.  5.  1872.  Jane  Glover 
Montague.  He  with  hi?  brother,  John  T.,  and  Lewis  Taws,  continued  the  iron  busi- 
ness after  the  death  of  his  father.     He  was  a  very  eminent  engineer ; 

Isaac  Wistar,  b.  July   14.   1844.  d.  Nov.  $.   1872,  unm.; 


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John  Thompson,  b.  July  i-2,  1847,  unm. ;  Hving  with  his  sister,  Lydia  T.,  at  the  old 
home,  826  Pine  street,  and  the  country  home  at  "Compton".  He  continued  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  Port  Richmond  Iron  Works  until  its  sale  to  the  Cramps  in  1891 ; 

Lydia  Thompson  Morris,  living  at  8j6  Pine  street  and  at  "Compton".  "Compton",  the 
country  seat  of  John  T.  and  Lydia  T.  Morris,  at  Chestnut  Hill,  erected  in  1887,  and 
their  residence  during  the  summer  months  since  1888,  is  an  imposing  structure  in  Nor- 
man style  of  architecture.  It  is  situated  on  an  elevation  overlooking  the  beautiful  valley 
of  White  Marsh  and  is  surrounded  by  tastefully  arranged  grounds.  A  portion  of  it 
has  been  furnished  almost  entirely  with  the  antique  furniture  removed  from  "Cedar 
Grove",  most  of  which  had  been  in  the  family  for  centuries. 

Thomas  Morris,  fifth  son  of  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Powell)  Morris,  and 
brother  to  Capt.  Samuel  Morris,  born  iimo.  (January)  25,  1745-6,  in  Philadel- 
phia, died  there  October  2,  1809.  He  was  associated  with  his  brother  Joseph  in 
the  ownership  and  operation  of  the  brewery  on  Second  street,  and  occupied 
the  old  family  Mansion  House  on  Second  street  above  Arch,  where  he  received 
the  corpse  of  his  elder  brother  Anthony,  after  the  battle  of  Princeton.  He  was 
elected  an  Overseer  of  the  Public  School,  November  i,  1782;  was  one  of  the 
Commission  having  charge  of  the  building  of  Philadelphia  Library  in  1789;  was 
a  contributor  to  Pennsylvania  Hospital  in  1780,  and  a  member  of  its  board  of 
managers  from  1793  to  his  death  in  1809;  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  Friends 
to  build  the  Westtown  Boarding  School,  1800,  and  a  Director  of  the  Hand  in 
Hand  Company,  1791.  He  was  member  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  of 
Friends,  and  was  married  under  the  auspices  of  that  Meeting,  October  6,  1768, 
to  Mary,  born  April  14,  1748,  died  July  22,  1774,  daughter  of  Joseph  Saunders, 
who  was  born  at  Farnham  Royal,  Buckinghamshire,  England,  February  8, 
1712-13,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife,  Hannah  Reeve,  born  at  Whitby, 
Yorkshire,  England,  gmo.  15,  1717,  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  8,  1788. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Saunders)  Morris: — 

Sarah,  b.  Aug.  3,  1769,  d.  May  10,  1780; 

Anthony  S.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1771,  d.  of  yellow  fever,  Sept.  10,  1793; 

Joseph  S.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1772,  d.  Feb.  16,  1817 ;  m.  6mo.  18,  1795,  Abigail  Marshall ; 

Thomas,  b.  July  13,  1774,  d.  April  14,  1841,  of  whom  presently. 

Thomas  Morris,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Saunders)  Morris, 
born  at  the  old  Morris  Mansion,  Second  street  above  Arch,  Philadelphia,  July 
13,  1774,  resided  at  the  place  of  his  birth  and  at  his  country  seat  called  "Swarth- 
more",  on  the  Old  York  road,  near  Philadelphia.  He  was  member  of  State  in 
Schuylkill,  March  18,  1800,  and  became  its  fourth  Governor,  May  i,  1828,  serv- 
ing until  November  6,  1834.  He  was  a  member  of  Common  Council;  manager 
of  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  1817-40;  treasurer  of  Philadelphia  Library;  prison 
inspector,  and  filled  a  number  of  other  positions  of  trust  and  honor.  He  and  his 
wife  were  members  of  Society  of  Friends. 

He  married  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  June  8,  1797,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Patience  (Parrish)  Marshall,  and  granddaughter  of  Christopher  Marshall, 
who  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  November  16,  1709,  came  to  Philadelphia, 
1729,  joined  Society  of  Friends,  and  married,  June  r,  1735,  Sarah  Thompson. 
He  was  a  druggist  in  Philadelphia,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety,  1775,  and  was  a  Justice  of  the  Philadelphia  Courts.  He  later  joined  the 
.Society  of  Free  Quakers.  Had  sons,  Christopher,  Charles,  above  mentioned, 
born  May  8,  1744,  died,  1826,  Philadelphia;  married,  August  15,  1765,  Patience 


70  MORRIS 

Parrish,  born  Baltimore,  Md.,  November  lo,  1745,  died  Philadelphia,  1834, — two 
daughters  married  Morrises,  Sarah  becoming  wife  of  Thomas,  and  Abigail,  wife 
of  his  brother  Joseph.     Sarah   (Marshall)   Morris  died  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
4mo.  2,  1824,  and  her  husband  died  4mo.  14,  1841. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Marshall)  Morris: — 

Sarah  Saunders  Morris,  b.  Nov.  22,  1799.  d.  Feb.  26,  1883:  m.  (first)  Oct.  19,  1819,  Elisha 

Tyson;    (second)   Clement  Biddle ; 
Elizabeth  Marshall  Morris,  b.  Feb.  2,  1802;  m,  Francis  Perot,  of  whom  presently; 
Anthony  Saunders  Morris,  b.  Dec.  5,  1803,  d.  March  25,   1885;  m.  June   13,   1837,  Anne 

Emlen  Jones ; 
Samuel  Powel  Morris,  b.  April  18,  1807,  d.  Oct.  23,  1808; 
Powel  Morris,  b.  Dec.  25,  1809,  d.  y. ; 

Lewis  S.  Morris,  b.  Nov.  19,  1813,  d.  Oct.  8,  1872;  m.  Oct.  15,  1845,  Lucy  Tucker; 
Charles  Marshall  Morris,  b.  Oct.  22,   1816,  d.  Dec.  30,   1816. 
Mary  Ann  Morris,  d.  inf. 

Elizabeth  Marshall  Morbis,  second  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Mar- 
shall) Morris,  born  February  2,  1802,  married,  June  17,  1823,  Francis  Perot, 
born  August  23,  1796,  son  of  Elliston  Perot  and  Sarah  Sansom.  The  Perot  fam- 
ily were  of  French  extraction  and  were  among  the  Huguenot  refugees  who,  at 
the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  1685,  embarked  from  Rochelle  and  sought 
an  asylum  in  America,  and  landing  at  New  York  formed  a  settlement  at  New 
Rochelle,  New  York.  James  Perot,  born  in  New  York,  1710,  migrated  from 
there  to  Bermuda  and  married  there  Frances  Mallory,  born  in  the  Bermudas, 
1712.  He  died  there  February  29,  1780,  and  his  wife  March  i,  1780,  of  putrid 
fever.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children :  Martha,  Mary,  Elliston,  John, 
James,  William,  Frances  and  Angelina.  Elliston  Perot,  born  on  island  of  Ber- 
muda, May  15,  1747,  was  sent  to  New  York  to  be  educated  under  the  care  of  his 
uncle,  Robert  Elliston,  then  the  Comptroller  of  Customs,  when  seven  years  of 
age.  When  he  had  been  five  years  at  school  at  New  Rochelle,  his  uncle  died, 
and  he  returned  to  Bermuda  and  remained  there  until  of  age,  when  he  returned 
to  New  York  and  embarked  in  West  India  trade.  1772,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother  John,  under  the  firm  name  of  Elliston  and  John  Perot,  and  located  on 
Island  of  Dominica,  where  he  remained  until  1778,  when  he  removed  to  St. 
Christopher  and  soon  after  to  island  of  St.  Eustacia,  then  under  the  Dutch 
government.  In  1781,  when  the  island  was  captured  by  the  British  fleet,  the 
Perots  were  taken  prisoners  and  their  goods  confiscated  and  sold  at  public  auc- 
tion. Elliston  went  to  England  in  the  hope  of  obtaining  restitution  from  the 
English  government  and  remained  in  Europe  three  years,  visiting  Holland,  Ire- 
land and  France.  John  Perot  came  to  Philadelphia,  1781 ;  married  there  in  1783, 
Mary  Tybout ;  purchased  land  on  Water  street,  between  High  (Market!  and 
Mulberry  streets,  and  his  brother  Elliston  joined  him  in  1784.  The  latter  was 
admitted  as  member  of  Society  of  Friends,  1786;  married  at  Bank  Meeting 
House,  imo.  9,  1787,  Sarah,  born  1764,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  San- 
som. He  became  a  prominent  business  man  of  the  city ;  was  a  manager  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Hospital,  1789-1806;  president  of  Philadelphia  and  Lancaster 
Turnpike  Company:  director  of  Philadelphia  Insurance  Company.  His  wife 
died  8mo.  22,  1808,  and  he  on  November  28,  1834,  in  his  eighty-eighth  year. 
Thev  had  issue  : — 


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Hannah,  b.  June  12,  1792,  d.  July  6,   1831 ;  m.  June   16,   1825,  Samuel  B.   Morris ; 

Sansom,   b.    Nov.   24,    1794,   d.   unm. ; 

Francis,  b.   Aug.  23,   1796,   d.   March  24,   1885;   m.   June    17,    1823,   Elizabeth   Marshall 

Morris,  above  mentioned ; 
Joseph,  b.  Feb.  11,  1799,  d.  Jan.  19,  1876;  m.  June  5,  1827,  Sarah  Wistar  Morris; 
William  S.,  b.  9mo.  2Z,  1800,  d.  3mo.  14,  1833 ;  m.  lomo.  9,  1822,  Mary  Williams  Poultney. 

Francis  Perot  was  apprenticed  "to  learn  the  art  and  mystery  of  brewing,'" 
with  Thomas  and  Joseph  Morris ;  his  indenture  showing  that  he  paid  to  them 
Si, 000,  previous  to  entering  upon  his  apprenticeship,  and  was  to  serve  five  years 
without  compensation.  This  was  in  1812.  Soon  after  the  close  of  his  appren- 
ticeship, he  started  a  malt  house  and  brewery  on  Vine  street,  between  Third 
and  Fourth  streets,  the  present  location  of  the  establishment  that  still  bears  his 
name,  and  a  year  later,  1819,  took  his  brother,  William  S.  Perot,  into  partner- 
ship, under  the  firm  name  of  Francis  &  William  S.  Perot.  In  1823  he  married 
Elizabeth  Marshall,  daughter  of  his  old  employer,  Thomas  Morris,  and  the 
latter  and  his  son,  Anthony  S.,  who  had  been  operating  the  old  Morris  brewery, 
founded  by  Anthony  Morris  in  1687,  soon  after  gave  up  business  at  the  old 
place  on  Second  street  and  turned  the  business  over  to  the  Perot  firm.  The 
Perot  brothers  carried  on  brewing  until  1850,  when  they  abandoned  that  branch 
of  the  business  and  turned  their  attention  entirely  to  malting.  Francis  retired 
from  the  business  in  1868,  and  was  succeeded  by  the  firm  of  Francis  Perot's 
Sons,  which  some  years  ago  became  incorporated  under  the  name  of  Francis 
Perot's  Sons  Company,  who  continued  a  business  founded  by  the  ancestors  of 
the  leading  members  of  the  firm  over  two  centuries  before.  T.  Morris  Perot, 
of  the  present  firm,  represents  the  eighth  generation  in  descent  from  the  founder 
of  the  firm. 

Both  Francis  Perot  and  his  estimable  wife,  Elizabeth  Marshall  Morris,  lived 
to  a  serene  old  age.  They  celebrated  their  golden  wedding  in  the  old  home  at 
1032  Arch  street,  June  17,  1873,  when  five  generations  of  the  family  were  pres- 
ent, "Aunt  Mary  Ann  Marshall"  being  the  first  and  little  Elliston  Perot  Bissel, 
the  fifth.     Francis  Perot  died  March  24,  1885. 

Issue  of  Francis  and  Elizabeth  Marshall  {Morris)  Perot: — 

Elliston  Perot,  b.  July  24,   1824,  d.  Feb.  25,   1865 ;  m.  April  2,  1845.  Caroline  R.  Corbit ; 
Thomas  Morris   Perot,  b.   May  8,   182S;   m.   Nov.  3,   1858,   Rebecca  C.   Siter; 
Sarah  Morris  Perot,  b.   Nov.  6,  1831  ;  m.  Dec.   I,   1853,  Edward  H.  Ogden. 

Issue  of  Edward  H.  and  Sarah  Morris  (Perot)  Ogden:  — 

Francis  Perot  Ogden,  b.  Jan.  4,  1855,  d.  Jan.   10.  1887; 

Elizabeth  Morris  Ogden.  b.  May  19.  1856;  m.  Dec.  7,  1876,  Henry  Howard  Ellison, 
of   Philadelphia,   and   has  one   child,   Henry   Howard  Ellison,  b.   Dec.   31,   1877; 
Harriet   Middleton   Ogden,   b.    Sept.   7,    1859;   m.   October    11.    1888,   Rev.    Charles 
Wordsworth    Nevin,    b.     1857,    son    of    Rev.    Edwin    H.    and    Ruth    Channing 
(Little)    Nevin,  of   Philadelphia.;  children: 
Dorothy    Nevin.    b.    Aug.    31,    1889; 
Ogden   Nevin,   b.   May    10,    1891  ; 
Charles  W.   Nevin  Jr.,  b.  June  24,   1895; 
Perot  Nevin,  b.   April  27,    1897. 

Luke  Morrls,  second  son  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth   (Hudson)   Morris,  born 


72  MORRIS 

in  Philadelphia,  April  lo,  1760,  died  March  20,  1802,  was  commissioned  Cap- 
tain in  the  Fifth  Batallion,  Philadelphia  Militia.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  high 
standing  in  the  early  days  of  the  Republic.  He  died  at  his  residence,  "Peck- 
ham",  district  of  Southwark,  March  20,  1802.  He  married,  March  9,  1786, 
Anne,  born  August  28,  1767,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Hannah  (Car- 
rington)  Willing,  who  resided  for  many  years  after  her  husband's  death  in  a  fine 
old  Colonial  house  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Main  and  High  streets,  Germantown. 
She  was  a  lady  of  remarkable  attainments  and  of  great  energ>'.  She  died  Janu- 
ary II,  1853,  and  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Germantown, 
of  which  she  was  one  of  the  originators,  her  name  appearing  on  the  list  of  first 
subscribers  for  its  erection  in  181 1. 

Issue  of  Luke  and  Anne    (IVilling)    Morris: — 


Willing,  b.  March  20,  1787,  d.  .A.ug.  18,  1858;  m.  March  27,  1815.  Justus  Johnson; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  15,  1789,  d.  April  15,  1789; 
Anne  Willing,  b.  March  30,   1790,  d.  July  9,   1820;   unm. ; 
Thomas  Willixg.  b.  Oct.  2^.  1792,  d.  May  12,  1852;  m.  June  19,  1823,  CaroHne  Maria 

Calvert,  of  whom  presently ; 
Elizabeth  Carrington,  b.  July  7,  1795,  d.  Feb.  12,  1865,  unm.,  was  a  scientific  botanist; 
Margaretta   Hare,  b.   Dec.   3,    1797,  d.   May  29,   1867;  unm.;   was  a  naturalist  of  high 

attainments ; 
Susan   Sophia,  b.   Aug.   11,   1800,   d.  July   15,   1868;  m.  March   13,   1832,  John  Stockton 

Littell. 

Thomas  Willing  Morris,  only  son  of  Luke  and  Anne  (Willing)  Morris, 
was  bom  in  Philadelphia,  October  23,  1792.  He  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Philadelphia  bar,  July  3,  1819,  and  practiced  his  profession  there  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  was  appointed  an  aide-de-camp  to  Gen.  Cadwalader, 
May  15,  1819,  with  the  title  of  captain,  and  was  promoted  to  major,  May  30, 
1824,  and  was  appointed  Inspector  of  the  Pennsylvania  Militia,  August  3,  1828. 
He  was  elected  to  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  October  13,  1829.  He 
later  removed  to  Maryland  and  died  at  "Glenthorne",  his  country  seat  in  How- 
ard county,  May  12,  1852.  He  married,  June  19,  1823,  Caroline  Maria  Calvert, 
born  July  15,  1800,  died  November  25,  1842,  at  Baltimore,  where  she  had  gone 
for  medical  treatment.  She  was  a  daughter  of  George  and  Rosalie  Eugenia 
(Stier)  Calvert,  of  Riverdale,  Prince  George  county,  Maryland,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Benedict  Calvert,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Hon.  Charles 
Calvert,  Governor  of  Maryland,  1720-27.  Benedict  Calvert  was  a  son  of  Charles 
Calvert,  fifth  Lord  Baltimore,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  direct  descendants 
of  George  Calvert,  first  Lord  Baltimore  and  Proprietor  of  Maryland. 
Issue  of  Thomas  Jl'illing  and  Caroline  Maria  {Calvert)  Morris: — 

Rosalie  Eugenia,  b.  May  s,   1824,  d.  July  17,   1878,  unm. ; 

Anna   Maria,  b.   March  23,   1826,  d.   March  6,    1900 ;   m.   Sept.   7,   1848.   Captain   Francis 

Key  Murray,  U.   S.   N. ; 
George  Calvert,  b.  Oct.  16.  1828,  d.  April  29.  1882;  m.  July  15.  1856.  Elizabeth  Kuhn ; 
Julia  Meta,  b.  Dec.  27,  1830,  d.  June  8,  1857,  unm.; 
Henry  Thomas,  b.  Oct.   10,   1833.   d.   Dec.    17,    1833; 
Carrington,  b.   March  29,   1835,  d.   Aug.   23,   1835 ; 
Eugenia   Carrington,   b.   Feb.    12,    1836,   d.   .\pril    11.    1837; 
Caroline  Maria,  b.  March  s,  1838,  d.  same  year. 


MORRIS  73 

George  Calvert  Morris,  eldest  and  only  surviving  son  of  Thomas  Willing 
and  Caroline  Maria  (Calvert)  Morris,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  i6, 
1828.  He  was  educated  at  St.  James  Hall,  an  educational  institution  near 
Hagerstown,  Maryland.  He  read  law  with  Henry  Williams  Esq.,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  Philadelphia  bar.  May  31,  1851 ;  he  received  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  a*t  University  of  Pennsylvania,  July  6,  1852,  and  practiced  his  profession 
until  failing  health  compelled  him  to  relinquish  it.  He  died  of  consumption  at 
his  home,  1600  Locust  street,  Apfil  29,  1882,  and  is  buried  at  West  Laurel  Hill 
Cemetery.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  church  work,  was  vestryman  of  St. 
Peter's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  from  April,  1870,  until  his  death;  served 
for  some  years  on  the  standing  committee  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Diocese 
of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  manager  of  Christ  Church  Hospital,  and  a  director 
of  Philadelphia  Contributionship  from  1871.  He  married  at  St.  Peter's  Church, 
July  15,  1856,  Elizabeth,  born  April  24,  1833,  died  October  13,  1890,  daughter 
of  Hartman  and  Ellen  (Lyle)   Kuhn,  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  George  Calvert  and  Elisabeth  (Kuhn)  Morris: — 

Julia,  b.  Sept.  10,   1857,  d.  April  3,   1859; 

Ellen  Lyle,  b.  March  6,  1859,  d.  April  i,  1900;  m.  Oct.  26,  1885,   Pierre  Camblos; 

Hartman  Kuhn,  b.  Dec.  30,   i860,  d.  July  29,   1861 ; 

Caroline  Calvert,  b.  May  19,   1862;  m.  Sept.  21,  1892,  James  Cheston  Jr.; 

Rosalie,  b.  Jan.  17,   1864,  d.  Aug.  5,   1903;  m.  Nov.   10,   1887,  Robert  Winder  Johnson; 

Eugenia,  b.  July  5,  1865;  m.  Oct.  28,  1886,  Radcliffe  Cheston,  M.  D. 

Ros.^LiE  Morris  married  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  November  10,  1887,  Robert 
Winder  Johnson,  of  the  firm  of  Lawrence,  Johnson  &  Company,  shipping  and 
commission  merchants  and  foreign  bankers.  He  is  the  ninth  child  of  Lawrence 
and  Mary  (Winder)  Johnson,  and  was  born  at  727  Pine  street,  Philadelphia, 
May  7,  1854.  His  father,  Lawrence  Johnson,  the  prominent  typefounder  of 
Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Hull,  England,  January  23,  1801,  and  came  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  parents,  Edward  and  Ann  (Clayton)  Johnson,  18 18,  and  located  in 
Philadelphia  two  years  later,  where  he  established  a  type  foundry,  under  the 
firm  name  of  L.  Johnson  &  Company,  and  built  up  an  immense  business,  main- 
taining branches  in  different  parts  of  Pennsylvania.  He  became  interested  in 
many  prominent  business  enterprises  in  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  being 
prominently  identified  with  the  building  of  a  number  of  street  car  lines 
in  Philadelphia,  and  in  the  development  of  coal  lands  in  the  anthracite 
region  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years  president  of  the 
Commonwealth  Bank  of  Philadelphia  and  associated  with  a  number  of 
other  financial  institutions.  He  lived  for  a  number  of  summers  prior  to  his 
death  at  "Lansdowne",  the  present  country  seat  of  the  family  on  the  Neshaminy 
in  Bucks  county,  near  Bristol.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  26,  i860.  His 
wife,  Mary  Winder,  was  born  in  Bucks  county,  June  18,  1814,  died  February  16, 
1877.  She  was  descended  from  Colonial  families,  prominent  in  the  social,  civil, 
and  military  affairs  of  the  county  from  the  time  of  its  first  settlement.  Robert 
Winder  Johnson  was  reared  in  the  i:ity  of  Philadelphia,  and  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Mr.  Gregory's  private  school  on  Market  street.  He  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  September  1870,  but  left  there  in  the  spring  of  1871  to 
accompany  his  mother  to  Europe,  wliere  he  travelled  extensively  and  continued 


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his  studies  until  1876.  Returning  to  Philadelphia  in  1876,  he  entered  the  office 
of  Lawrence,  Johnson  &  Company,  and  three  years  later  became  a  member  of 
the  firm,  with  his  brother,  Lawrencf;  Johnson. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  a  life  member  oi  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  a  mem- 
ber of  Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Colonial  Society,  Netherland  So- 
ciety, and  a  life  member  of  Bucks  County  Historical  Society.  He  is  one  of  the 
vestry  of  St.  Peter's  Church  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Advancement  of  Christianity  in  Pennsylvania.  He  is  also  one  of  the  board  of 
managers  of  the  Christ  Church  Hospital,  and  was  until  recently  a  member  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  Children's  Hospital  of  Philadelphia. 

He  has  for  a  number  of  years  laken  a  deep  interest  in  local  history  and  for 
over  twenty  years  has  devoted  considerable  time  to  the  collecting  of  data  relat- 
ing to  the  ancestors  of  his  wife  and  himself.  In  1902  he  published  "Winders  of 
America";  in  1905  a  volume  relating  to  the  ancestors  of  his  wife,  and  in  1907 
a  second  volume  of  "The  Ancest<-y  of  Rosalie  Morris  Johnson." 
Issue  of  Robert  Winder  and  lio^nlie  (Morris)  Johnson: — 

Morris  Winder  Johnson,  b.  July  :„  1889; 
Lawrence  Edward  Johnson,  b.  Julv  9,  1892; 
Robert  Winder  Johnson  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  IQ,   1894; 
Rosahe  Eugenia  Johnson,  b.  Oct.   r<j    1900. 

James  Morris,  second  son  oi  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest)  IMorris,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  September  8,  1707,  was  a  prominent  business  man  of  Philadelphia 
and  early  became  identified  with  city  and  Provincial  affairs.  He  was  elected  to 
the  Colonial  Assembly  1739,  re-elected  continuously  until  his  death,  January  29, 
1 750- 1.  He  served  almost  constantly  on  most  important  committees  and  was 
named  as  a  signer  of  Provincial  paper  money  in  1744-46.  He  married  at  Phila- 
delphia Monthly  ]Meeting,  Marc'^  T2.  1729-30,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Philip  and 
Rebecca  ( Britain )  Kearney,  o'  Philadelphia,  granddaughter  of  Lionel  Britain, 
one  of  the  earliest  English  settlers  in  Bucks  county. 
Issue  of  James  and  Elizabeth   (Kearney)  Morris: — 

James,  d.  Oct.   12,   1738,  inf; 

Anthony,  d.  Feb.  25,  1736-7; 

Isaac,  b.  1736,  d.  May  29,  1821  ;  m.  Oct.  21,   1810.  Sarah  Marriott; 

Anthony  James,  b.   1739,  d.  May  27,   1831,  unm. ; 

Mary,  bur.  March.  9,  1800;    m.  May  25,  1762,  Col.  Blathwaite  Jones. 

John  Jones  came  from  Barbados  to  Philadelphia  bringing  certificate  to 
Friends'  Meeting  dated  5mo.  (July)  15,  1683.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  that  city  named  in  the  Charter  of  1691 ;  was  one  of  the  peti- 
tioners for  the  establishment  of  the  public  school,  February,  1697-8;  was 
appointed  Regulator  of  streets  and  water-courses.  May  17,  1699,  and  was  Jus- 
tice of  City  and  County  Courts,  1700  to  his  death,  l\Iay.  1708.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent and  wealthy  merchant,  and  owned  large  tracts  of  land  in  Philadelphia  and 

Bucks  counties  and  elsewhere.     He  married    (first)    Rebecca  ,  who  died 

1694,  and  (second)  November  30,  1696,  Margaret,  widow  of  John  \\'aterman. 
Issue  of  John  and  Rebecca  Jones: — 

John   Jones,   m.    March    II,    1702-3,    Margaret    Waterman. 


MORRIS  75 

Issue   of  John   and   Margaret    {IVaterman)    Jones: — 

Gibbs  Jones,  b.  Aug.  3,  1701,  d.  1736;  m.  Aug.  2,  1721,  Jane,  dau.  of  Dr.  John  and 
Susanna   (Budd)    Crapp,  who  married   (second)   William  Craddock. 

Gibbs  and  Jane  (Crapp)  Jones  had  issue: — 

Susannah,   b.    Dec.    12,    1722;    m.    Ephraim    Bonham ; 

John; 

Blathwaite,  b.  April  21,   1726;    m.    (first)    Jane  and    (second)    Mary   Morris. 

Col.  Blathwaite  Jones  was  an  ardent  patriot  during  the  Revolution.  He 
was  appointed  February  15,  1777,  to  have  charge  of  the  erection  of  fortifica- 
tions at  Billingsport,  New  Jersey,  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  and  served 
as  Chief  Engineer  of  fortifications  later.  His  son,  Gibbs  Jones,  by  his  former 
marriage,  was  Lieutenant  and  later  Captain  of  a  company  raised  for  the  cam- 
paign against  Canada  and  was  later  Captain  of  a  ranging  company. 
Issue  of  Col.  Blathwaite  and  Mary   (Morris)   Jones: — 

James  Morris,  b.  April  12,  1763 ;  m.  June  24,  1784,  Arabella  Levy ; 

Susannah  Budd,  b.  July  26,  1767,  d.  Dec.  15,  1835;  m.  Oct.  14,  1784,  Dr.  Samuel  L. 
Shober. 

Andrew  Shober,  father  of  Dr.  Samuel  L.  Shober,  was  a  son  of  John  and 
Katharine  Shober,  of  Neuhoffmansdorf,  Jannowiz,  Moravia,  and  was  born  near 
Olmutz,  Moravia,  November  17,  1710.  In  1743,  with  his  wife,  Hedwig  Regina, 
he  joined  a  colony  of  Moravians  under  Count  Zinzendorf,  fitted  out  at  Marien- 
born  and  Herrnhaag,  and  sailing  in  the  ship  "Little  Strength",  settled  at  Naza- 
reth, Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania,  November  26,  1743.  Andrew  Shober 
was  a  mason  by  trade  and  superintended  the  building  of  most  of  the  buildings 
in  the  Moravian  settlements.  In  1756  he  removed  to  Bethlehem  and  died  there 
July  12,  1792.  He  had  married  at  Marienborn,  Germany,  Hedwig  Regina 
Schubert. 

Issue  of  Andrew  and  Hedwig  Regina  Shober: — 

John  Andrew,  settled  at  Lititz,  Lancaster  county ; 

Gottleib,  removed  to  Salem,  N.  C. ;  died  1838; 

Joseph,  remained  at  Bethlehem ; 

Samuel  L.,  M.  D.,  b.  at  Bethlehem,  student  at  College  of  Philadelphia ;  m.  Oct.  14,  1784, 
Susannah  Budd  Jones.  Samuel  L.  Shober  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.  at  College  of 
Philadelphia,  later  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  located  at  Philadelphia,  where 
he  became  an  eminent  physician. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Samuel  L.  and  Susannah  Budd  (Jones)  Shober: — 

Blathwaite,  b.  1785,  counselor  at  law  in  Philadelphia ;    m.  Catharine  Ann  Snyder ; 

Hedwig  Regina,  b.   October  24,   1786,   d.  May  7,   1865,  unm. ; 

Samuel  Lieberkuhn.  b.  Sept.  6.  1789,  d.  Aug.  2=;,  1847;  m.   (first)    Dec.  7,   1813, 

Mary  Ann   Bedford;     (second)    Oct.   27,   1830,  Lucy  Hall   Bradley; 
Joanna   Sophia,   b.    Nov.    10,    1794,   d.    Nov.   20,    1845;   m.    Dec.    i,    1819,   Thomas 

Kimber. 

Samuel  Lieberkuhn  Shober,  youngest  son  of  Samuel  L.  and  Susannah 
Budd     (Jones)     Shober,    born    in     Philadelphia,     September    6,    1789,     was    a 


prominent  business  man  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  sergeant  of  the  Third 
Company  of  the  Washington  Guards  at  Camp  Dupont  in  the  War  of  1812-14; 
was  offered  a  commission  as  captain  in  the  regular  army  but  declined.  He  was 
a  founder  of  the  Apprentices'  Library  and  was  prominent  in  philanthropic  and 
charitable  institutions  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  intei 
csting  the  United  States  Congress  in  doing  justice  to  the  remnant  of  the  Dela- 
ware Indians  remaining  in  New  Jersey.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  August  25, 
1847.  He  married  (first)  December  7,  1813,  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Ann  (Phelps)  Bedford,  who  died  November  2.  1828,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
three  years.  Mr.  Shober  married  (second)  October  27,  1830,  Lucy  Hall,  born 
February  24,  1805,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Lucy  (Hall)  Bradley,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Gov.  Dudley,  of  Massachusetts. 

Issue  of  Samuel  L.  and  Mary  Ann   [Bedford)   Shober: — 

John  Bedford,  b.  Nov.  13,  1814,  d.  unm.  Nov.  27,  1864; 

Mary  Morris,  b.  May  6.   1816,  d.  ]\Iay  27,   1873; 

Hedwig  Regina.  b.  Dec.  24.  1818,  d.  Jan.  18,  1885;  m.  Julv  10.  1844,  Francis  H.  Grav, 
M.  D.; 

Elizabeth  Kearney,  b.   Sept.  28,   1821.  d.  unm.  Dec.   i,   1865; 

Susanna  Budd,  b.  Feb.  24,  1823;  m.  June  21,  1867,  John  Davies  Esq..  Surgeon  General  of 
Island  of  Fayal; 

Sarah  Morris,  b.  Julv  24,  1825;  m.  June  17,  1868,  Rev.  William  P.  Lewis,  Rector  of 
Holy  Trinity  Church,   Pottsville,  Pa.,  later  of  Christ's  Chapel,  Philadelphia; 

Samuel  Lieberkuhn  Shober  Jr.,  b.  March  13,  1828;  m.  Nov.  16,  1858,  Ann  Bond  Coch- 
ran, of  whom  presently. 

S.\MUEL  Lieberkuhn  Shober,  son  of  Samuel  L.  and  Mary  Ann  (Bedford) 
Shober,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  13,  1828,  entered  LTniversity  of  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1842,  but  left  during  the  sophomore  year  to  take  up  mercantile  business 
which  he  afterwards  followed.  He  married,  November  16,  1858,  Ann  Bond, 
daughter  of  William  Greene  and  Elizabeth  (Travis)  Cochran. 

S.^muel  Lieberkuhn  Shober  Jr.,  a  son  of  Samuel  L.  and  Anna  Bond  (Coch- 
ran) Shober,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  26,  1862.  He  was  educated  at 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  which  he  entered  in  1882.  He  later  took  a  special 
course  in  civil  engineering,  which  occupation  he  has  since  pursued.  He  married 
Agnes  Wharton,  daughter  of  Pemberton  Sydney  and  Agnes  (Wharton)  Hut- 
chinson. 

John  Morris,  third  son  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest)  Morris,  was  born 
in  the  old  Morris  Mansion  in  Philadelphia,  June  23,  1709.  Married,  April  18, 
1734,  ]\Iary,  born  in  Philadelphia,  1706,  daughter  of  Richard  Sutton,  of  Phila- 
delphia, by  his  wife,  Mary  Howell,  of  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  whom  he  mar- 
ried September  12,  1698.  Richard  Sutton  died  leaving  two  children,  Howell  and 
Mary,  and  his  widow  married,  August  26,  1721,  William  Carter,  a  native  of 
Wapping,  county  of  Middlesex,  England,  who  was  an  early  landholder  in  Phila- 
delphia, owning  several  lots  in  the  neighborhood  of  Second  and  Chestnut  streets. 
He  was  named  in  the  Charter  of  1701,  as  one  of  first  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the 
city  and  was  elected  Mayor  in  October,  1710.  He  died  February  19,  1738-9, 
aged  eighty-eight  years,  and  his  widow  in  1749.  From  their  house,  where  she 
had  spent  her  girlhood  days,  Mary  (Sutton)  Morris  went  to  the  house  of  her 
husband.  May  5,  1734. 

John  Morris  was  settled  by  his  father  on  "Spring  Mill"  property,  on  the  Schuyl- 


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kill,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county,  twelve  miles  from  Philadelphia, 
where  lie  erected  for  him  a  fine  mansion,  which  he  named  "Mount  Joy",  and 
in  1739  conveyed  to  him  the  mill  and  three  tracts  of  land,  comprising  four  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres.  Here  John  Morris  and  his  family  resided  until  1769, 
when  hv;  conveyed  "Mount  Joy"  and  the  surrounding  property  to  his  son-in-law, 
Joseph  Potts,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  Southwark.  This  fine  property  was 
later  acquired  by  Peter  Legaux,  the  French  nobleman,  who  established  there  a 
vineyard,  and  sought  the  assistance  of  the  State  Legislature  in  an  effort  to 
establish  the  wine  industry  in  Pennsylvania.  It  is  still  owned  and  occupied  by 
John  Morris  was  associated  with  his  brothers,  Samuel  and  Joseph  Morris,  in 
the  Righter  family,  lineal  descendants  of  Peter  Legaux. 

the  esttiblishment  of  Boiling  Spring  Furnace  and  Forge.  He  also  owned  at  the 
time  of  his  death  a  mill  property  and  tract  of  land  on  Ridley  Creek  in  Chester 
county,  which  he  devised  to  his  grandson,  Richard  Hill  Morris.  He  died  Febru- 
ary 3,  1782. 

Issue  of  John  and  Mary   (Sutton)   Morris: — 

William    Moreis,   b.   June   2y,    1735,   d.    April    14,    1766;   m.    Margaret    Hill,   of   whom 

presently ; 
Mary,  b.  Jan.  3,  1738,  d.  Dec.  19,  1865;  tn.  Aug.  16,  1764,  Joseph  Potts,  and  had  one  son, 

John  Morris  Potts,  a  legatee  under  the  will  of  his  grandfather,  John  Morris ; 
Anthony,  b.  "Mount  Joy",  Oct.  10,  1740,  d.  Nov.  2,  1740;  buried  at  Plymouth  Meeting; 
John,  b.  Nov.  4,  1745,  d.  Aug.  9,  1746; 
John,  b.  Dec.  3,   1748,  d.  May  29,   1749. 

William  Morris,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Mary  (Sutton)  Morris,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  June  27,  1735,  was  a  merchant.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  intellectual 
ability  and  attainments,  and  took  an  active  interest  in  the  various  institutions  of 
his  native  city.  He  was  appointed  a  signer  of  Provincial  paper  money  in  1757, 
and  was  a  contributor  to  Pennsylvania  Hospital  in  1758.  A  member  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends,  he  moved  in  the  most  exclusive  social  circles  of  the  Quaker 
City.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  "Colony  in  Schuylkill",  October  7,  1761. 
He  died  in  his  early  prime,  April  14,  1766. 

William  Morris  married,  September  21,  1758,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Richard  Hill,  of  Island  of  Madeira,  later  of  Philadelphia,  a  native  of  South 
River,  Maryland,  and  a  nephew  of  Richard  Hill,  the  Provincial  Councillor,  so 
long  identified  with  the  Colonial  affairs  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Province  of 
Pennsylvania.  The  mother  of  Margaret  Hill  was  Deborah  Moore,  born  in 
Maryland,  June  2,  1705,  died  in  Madeira,  December  19,  1751,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Mordecai  Moore,  the  family  physician  of  Lord  Baltimore,  who  accompanied 
him  to  Maryland,  by  his  second  wife,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd, 
President  of  William  Penn's  Council  and  Deputy  Governor  of  the  Province  of 
Pennsylvania,  1690-93,  and  a  descendant  through  the  Lloyds  of  Dolobran, 
Wales,  from  Alfred,  the  Great.  Margaret  Hill  Morris  represented  the  noblest 
type  of  womanhood,  a  true  "Mother  in  Israel"  to  the  poor  and  afflicted,  she  bore 
with  Christian  resignation  the  heavy  trials  of  sorrows  that  fell  to  her  lot,  and 
was  a  model  to  Christian  womanhood  and  motherhood.  Left  a  widow  with  four 
small  children  (one  unborn  at  her  husband's  death),  she  reared  them  to  man- 
hood and  womanhood  and  the  memory  of  her  wise  counsels  and  Christian  teach- 
ings has  been  reverently  transmitted  to  her  posterity  to  the  present  day.     She 


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survived  her  husband  over  half  a  century,  removing  in  1770  to  BurHngton,  New 
Jersey,  where  she  thereafter  lived.  At  the  death  of  her  son,  Dr.  John  Morris,  in 
1793,  she  adopted  his  youngest  daughter  Margaret,  then  an  infant  and  she  was 
her  constant  companion  until  her  marriage  in  1810,  after  which  she  received  into 
her  household  another  granddaughter. 

Issue  of  William  and  Margaret  (Hill)  Morris: — 

Richard  Hill  Morris,  b.  Sept.  28.   ijsg,  d.  Aug.  29,   1760; 

John  Morris,  M.  D.    (twin  to  Richard),  b.  Sept-  28.   1759,  d.  Sept.  8,   1793.  of  whom 

presently ; 
Deborah  Moore  Morris,  b.  Nov.  29,  1750,  d.  March  17.  1822;  m.   (first)   Nov.  11,   1789, 

Benjamin  Smith;     (second)    Nov.  9,  1809,  Isaac  Collins  Sr.,  printer  of  Trenton; 
Richard  Hill  Morris,  b.  Sept.  5,  1762,  d.  Dec.  6.   1841  ;  m.   (first)   March  17,   1786,  Mary 

Mifflin;  (second)  Oct.  25,  1798,  Mary  Smith; 
Mary  Morris,  b.  June  19,  1764,  d.  Feb.  14,  1765 ; 
Gulielma  Maria  Morris,  b.  Aug.  18,  1766.  four  months  after  the  death  of  her  father ;  d. 

Sept.  9,  1826;  m.  April  8,  1784,  John  Smith  Jr. 

Dr.  John  Morris,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Morris,  bom  in  Phil- 
adelphia, September  28,  1759,  was  but  seven  and  a  half  years  of  age  at  the 
death  of  his  father.  In  his  eleventh  year  his  mother  removed  with  her  little  fam- 
ily to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  residing  for  a  time  in  the  house  of  George 
Dillwyn,  who  had  married  her  sister,  Sarah  Hill,  but  a  few  years  later  purchas- 
ing the  house  of  Gov.  William  Franklin  on  the  river  bank,  where  she  lived  to 
serene  old  age. 

Having  chosen  the  medical  profession,  followed  so  successfully  by  his  ma- 
ternal ancestors,  John  Morris  began  study  in  office  of  his  uncle  and  cousin,  Dr. 
Charles  Moore,  of  Montgomery  county,  who  had  married  his  mother's  sister, 
Milcah  Martha  Hill.  On  obtaining  his  degree  he  located  at  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  practiced  with  success  for  a  few  years  and  then  removed  to 
Philadelphia,  and  located  first  at  No.  27  Chestnut  street,  where  he  was  from 
1785  to  1 791,  removing  in  the  latter  year  to  No.  11  Pear  street,  where  he  died. 
He  became  the  fashionable  physician  of  Philadelphia  and  enjoyed  a  large  prac- 
tice. He  was  a  founder  of  the  College  of  Physicians  in  1787,  and  his  name  with 
that  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  and  other  illustrious  physicians  of  Philadelphia, 
appears  on  the  tablet  erected  there  commemorating  the  fact.  At  the  outbreak 
of  the  yellow  fever  pestilence  in  Philadelphia,  he  devoted  himself  earnestly  to 
the  relief  of  the  sufTerers,  but  soon  fell  a  victim  to  the  dread  disease  and  died 
in  the  arms  of  his  devoted  mother,  who  had  come  from  her  home  at  Burlington 
to  nurse  him,  September  8,  1793.  His  wife  also  contracted  the  disease  and  died 
eight  days  later,  leaving  to  the  care  of  their  paternal  grandmother  four  small 
children,  one  of  whom  died  less  than  a  year  later. 

Dr.  John  Morris  married  at  Friends'  Meeting.  Philadelphia,  October  8.  1783. 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Benedict  and  Sarah  Dorsey,  of  Philadelphia,  who  was  born 
in   1765,  died  September   16,   1793. 

Issue  of  Dr.  John  and  Abigail   (Dorsey)   Morris: — 


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Martha  Milcah,  b.  Aug.  24,  1788,  d.  Jan.  26,  1826;  m.   (first)  Thomas  Lawrie;   (second) 

Jacob  B.  Clarke; 
Mary,  b.   1790,  d.  inf. ; 
Margaret,  b.  Aug.   18,  1792,  d.  April  22,  1832. 

Margaret  Morris,  youngest  child  of  Dr.  John  Morris,  was  as  before  stated 
reared  in  the  home  of  her  grandmother,  Margaret  (Hill)  Morris,  at  Burlington, 
New  Jersey.  She  married  there,  October  4,  18 10,  Isaac  Collins  Jr.,  eleventh 
child  of  Isaac  and  Rachel  (Budd)  Collins,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
was  born  October  31,  1787.  He  had  served  eight  years'  apprenticeship  in  a 
mercantile  house  and  was  then  engaged  in  the  mercantile  trade  in  New  York 
City  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Mott  &  Collins,  and  later  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Isaac  Collins  &  Company,  publishers  and  printers.  The  family  resided  in 
New  York  until  1828,  when  they  removed  to  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Collins  had  ere 
this  acquired  a  comfortable  fortune  and  retired  from  active  business.  After  the 
removal  to  Philadelphia  he  became  identified  with  the  leading  charitable  enter- 
prises and  institutions  of  that  city,  and  was  deeply  interested  in  the  cause  of 
education  as  well  as  in  the  temperance  and  anti-slavery  cause.  He  was  a  founder 
of  Haverford  College ;  member  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  House  of 
Refuge;  director  of  the  Public  School  System  and  an  official  in  a  number  of 
philanthropic  and  charitable  institutions.  The  founding  of  the  Institute  for 
Feeble  Minded  Children  was  largely  due  to  his  efforts.  Mrs.  Margaret  Col- 
lins' health  was  very  much  debilitated  before  the  removal  from  New  York,  that 
being  the  main  cause  of  the  removal,  which  doubtless  prolonged  her  life ;  but 
she  died  four  years  later,  April  22,  1832.  Isaac  Collins  married  (second)  Jan- 
uary 28,  1835,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  Singer,  a  prominent  merchant  of 
Philadelphia.  She  was  an  eminent  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  sur- 
vived her  husband  many  years,  dying  April,  1892,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven 
years.     Mr.  Collins  died  January  15,  1863. 

Issue   of  Isaac  and  Margaret    {Morris)    Collins: — 

William  Morris  Collins,   b.   July   19,    181 1,   d.   Oct.  30,   1864;   m.    Nov.   7,    1839.   Eliza   C. 

Cope; 
Martha   Lawrie   Collins,   b.   July  21.    1813,   d.   May   6,    1887;   m.   Oct.   3,    1833,   John   B. 

Bispham ; 
Gulielma  Maria  Collins,  b.  Aug.  28,   181S.  d.  Feb.  4,   1867;  m.  June  5.   1839,   Philip  B. 

Chase ; 
Henry  Hill  Collins,  b.  Feb.  3,  1818,  d.  s.  p.  July  20,  1840; 

Alfred  Morris  Collins,  b.  Jan.  II,  1820,  d.  May  26,  1895;  m.  Nov.  22,  1843,  Hannah  Evans; 
Frederic   Collins,   b.  Jan.    21,    1822,   d.   Nov.   27,    1892;   m.   Letitia    Dawson,   of  whom 

presently ; 
Isaac  Collins  Jr.,  b.  May  2,  1824,  d.  Dec.  28,  1902 ;  m.  Dec.  9,  1847,  Elizabeth  B.  K.  Earle ; 
Theodore  Collins,  b.  July  27,  1826,  d.  Sept.  4,  1826; 
Margaret  Morris  Collins,  b.  Aug.  18,  1829,  d.  April  6,  1863;  m.  June  i,  1853,  Oliver  K. 

Earle ; 
Percival  Collins,  b.  Dec.  19,  1S31,  d.  May  7,  1872;  m.  Oct.  5,  1856,  Sarah  Levick. 

Frederic  Collins,  sixth  child  of  Isaac  and  Margaret  (Morris)  Collins, 
born  in  New  York  City,  January  21,  1822,  became  a  prominent  business  man 
of  Philadelphia.  After  his  graduation  at  Haverford,  he  entered  the  establish- 
ment of  M.  L.  Dawson  &  Company,  and  on  arriving  of  age  and  his  marriage  in 
iSzH  to  Letitia,  daughter  of  Mordecai  Lewis  Dawson,  the  senior  member 
of  the  firm,  became  a  partner  in  the  business  and  was  identified  with  it  for  many 


8o  MORRIS 

years,  first  under  the  title  above  given,  later  as  Poultney,  Collins  &  Company  and 
subsequently  as  Massey,  Collins  &  Company.  He  was  also  engaged  for  a  time 
in  the  brokerage  business,  and  later  was  a  member  of  the  banking  firm  of  Elliott, 
Collins  &  Company,  and  was  president  of  the  McKean  and  Elk  Land  and 
Improvement  Company.  He  became  a  manager  of  the  House  of  Refuge  in  1869. 
Frederic  Collins  died  November  2y.  1892 ;  by  his  wife,  Letitia  P.  Dawson,  of 
an  old  Colonial  family  of  Philadelphia,  he  had  issue: — 

Elizabeth   Dawson   Collins,  m.   Charles   F.   Hulse.   who  d.   Aug.  28,   1876,  leaving  issue: 
Letitia    Collins    Hulse.    b.    June    i.    1870;    m.    April    28,    1892,    Samuel    Bowman 

Wheeler ; 
Margaret   Morris   Hulse,  b.   April  22,   1873; 

Anne  Morrison   Collins,  m.  April   10,   1890,   Morris  Earle ; 

Frederic  Collins  Jr.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1868;  m.  June  19,  1895,  Lillie  Moffit  Brown. 


N ORRIS  FAMILY 

The  patronymic  of  the  Norris  family  was  Norrey  and  Norreys.  It  was  an 
ancient  family  in  England  and  flourished  in  Sutton  and  Lancashire  many  cen- 
turies. William  Norreys,  of  Sutton,  descended  from  Alain  Norreys,  who  in 
remote  times  dwelt  in  Sutton,  was  ancestor  of  the  celebrated  family  of  Norris, 
of  Speke,  Lancashire,  and  that  of  Ryecote,  Berkshire.  In  A.  D.,  131 1,  Sir 
Henry  Norreys,  of  this  branch,  by  marriage  with  Joan  Molyneaux,  acquired  the 
manor  of  Speke,  and  was  founder  of  the  family  there. 

Thomas  Norreys,  of  Speke,  was  father  of  Nicholas  Norreys,  of  Tarleton, 
who  was  succeeded  by  a  son,  Nicholas  Norreys,  of  Tarleton,  whose  son,  Nicholas 
Norreys,  also  of  Tarleton,  had  a  son,  Nicholas  Norreys,  of  Middlewortli, 
Lancashire,  born  1633,  who  was  succeeded  by  a  son,  Henry  Norris.  Sev- 
eral branches  of  the  family  came  to  America  at  different  periods,  some  settling 
in  New  England,  and  at  least  one  in  Maryland. 

Thomas  Norris,  first  known  ancestor  of  the  distinguished  Philadelphia  fam- 
ily of  the  name,  was  a  merchant  in  London,  England,  where  at  an  early  age  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  No  direct  connection  has  ever 
been  traced  between  this  Thomas  Norris  and  the  Norris  family  of  Speke  Hall, 
Lancashire,  but  the  fact  that  his  son,  Isaac  Norris,  who  subsequently  settled  in 
Philadelphia,  bore  the  same  coat-of-arms  as  that  belonging  to  the  Speke  Hall 
family,  makes  it  reasonable  to  suppose  that  his  line  of  descent  sprang  from  this 
source.  It  was  not  uncommon  in  those  days  for  a  member  of  a  family  of  prom- 
inence to  be  disinherited  and  disowned  for  embracing  the  tenets  of  the  Quaker 
religion.  About  1678,  Thomas  Norris  emigrated  to  the  Island  of  Jamaica.  The 
reason  for  his  departure  from  the  land  of  his  birth  was  the  continued  and  per- 
sistent religious  persecution  of  the  Quakers,  as  may  be  assumed  from  the  fact 
that  in  1659  he  was  one  of  those  people  who  petitioned  Parliament  for  the  release 
of  a  number  of  their  brethren  immured  in  the  prisons  of  London  for  matters  of 
conscience,  offering  "to  lie  in  prison,  person  for  person,  instead  of  such  as  were 
then  in  confinement  and  might  be  in  danger  of  their  lives  through  extreme  duress." 

Even  after  his  arrival  at  Port  Royal,  he  continued  to  be  subjected  to  persecu- 
tion, being  twice  fined  for  refusal  to  bear  arms,  and  a  third  time  for  the  refusal 
of  his  son  to  do  the  same. 

Thomas  Norris  was  killed  in  the  great  earthquake  that  destroyed  Port  Royal, 
June  7,  1692.  He  had  been  a  member  of  Southwark  Monthly  Meeting,  London, 
upon  whose  records  his  name  is  spelled  "Norrice",  which  indicates  the  correct 
pronunciation  rather  than  the  correct  spelling  of  the  name,  for  that  was  a  day 
of  phonetic  spelling,  as  shown  by  many  of  the  ancient  records  of  the  time.  He 
married   (first),  about  1656,  Mary  Moore,  who  died  in  Jamaica,  June  3,   1685; 

(second),  Sarah  ,  who  survived  him  and  died  October  19,  1696. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary   (Moore)  Norris: — 

Elizabeth   Norris,  b.  London,   Eng.,   2mo.    (.\pril)    i,   1657;   m.   in  parish  of  Magdalen, 
Bermondsey,    Jamaica,    Timothy    Weymouth,    who    d.    Sept.,    1692 ;    they    had    issue : 
Prudence   Weymouth,  m.   John   Moon,  but   d.   s.  p. 
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82  NORRIS 

Thomas  Norris,  b.  London,  lomo.   (Dec.)  29,  1659,  d.  Jamaica,  1685;  m.  Ann  ; 

Joseph  Norris,  b.  London,   i2mo.   (Feb.),   1661-2,  d.  9mo.    (Nov.)    14,  1692;  m.   Martha 

Phillips;  had  issue:  Thomas  Norris,   Hannah  Norris.  d.   inf.; 
Mary  Norris,  b.  London,  Smo.   (July)   24,   1664,  d.  y.; 
Prudence  Norris,  b.  5mo.  (July)  31,  1660,  d.  y. ; 
Benjamin    Norris,   b.    lomo.    (Dec.)    25,    1668; 
Isaac   Norris,  b.  4mo.    (June)   22,   1669,  d.  inf.; 
Isaac  Norris,  b.  smo.   (July)   26,  1671,  in  Olave's  Parish,  London,  d.  Philadelphia,  6mo. 

(Aug.)  4,  173s;  m.  Mary  Lloyd,  of  whom  presently. 

Isaac  Norris,  youngest  child  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Moore)  Norris,  was 
born  in  London,  England,  July  26,  1671 ;  and  removed  with  his  parents  to  the 
Island  of  Jamaica  at  the  age  of  seven  years.  In  1690  his  father  sent  him  to 
Philadelphia  to  investigate  the  propriety  of  moving  there,  and  he  sailed  from 
Port  Royal,  March  5,  1690,  taking  with  him  a  letter  of  introduction  from 
Mordecai  Lloyd,  to  the  latter's  father.  Gov.  Thomas  Lloyd,  whose  daughter 
Isaac  subsequently  married.  After  carefully  looking  into  the  advantages  of 
Philadelphia  and  its  vicinity  as  a  trading  center,  he  returned  to  Jamaica,  in  1692, 
only  to  learn  that  his  father  and  other  members  of  the  family,  with  the  exception 
of  his  stepmother  and  sister  Elizabeth,  had  perished,  either  by  the  earthquake  or 
the  pestilence  which  followed,  and  that  practically  all  the  family  property  had 
been  destroyed.  He  returned  to  Philadelphia  the  following  year  with  little  more 
than  one  hundred  pounds,  and  entered  into  business  there,  in  which  he  was 
eminently  successful,  becoming  eventually  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  influ- 
ential men  in  the  Province.  He  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  business  ability  and 
perspicuity,  and  his  services  were  early  enlisted  in  the  affairs  of  the  city  and 
Province.  He  soon  attracted  the  attention  and  won  the  esteem  of  William 
Penn,  at  whose  request  he  went  to  England,  1707,  to  assist  in  extracting  the 
great  founder  of  Pennsylvania  from  the  difficulties  in  which  he  was  entangled 
with  the  Fords.  He  was  elected  to  the  Colonial  Assembly  in  1699,  and  con- 
tinued a  member  until  1705,  was  again  returned  in  171 1,  and  again  the  following 
year  and  elected  Speaker.  He  was  called  to  the  Provincial  Council,  February  8. 
1708-9,  with  his  brother-in-law,  Samuel  Preston,  and  from  that  day  was  one  of 
the  prominent  men  of  the  Province,  and  particularly  in  the  affairs  of  the  Coun- 
cil for  the  next  twenty-five  years,  during  a  portion  of  the  time  also  serving  in 
the  Assembly,  to  which  he  was  again  returned  in  October,  1720,  and  elected 
Speaker  to  succeed  William  Trent,  who  that  year  removed  to  New  Jersey. 

In  addition  to  filling  these  offices  of  honor  and  responsibility,  he  was  a  Jus- 
tice of  the  Courts  of  Philadelphia  from  June  4.  1715,  until  his  death,  and  at 
the  organization  of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery  being  one  of  the  oldest  Coun- 
cillors, was  appointed  Master  of  that  Court  to  sit  with  the  Lieutenant  Governor 
in  hearing  cases.  He  became  Alderman  of  Philadelphia  in  1708,  and  October 
6,  1724,  was  elected  from  the  Board  of  Aldermen  to  the  position  of  Mayor  of 
the  city,  serving  one  term.  At  the  death  of  David  Lloyd,  there  being  few  able 
lawyers  in  the  Colonies,  the  Governor  and  Council,  April  7.  1731,  unanimously 
agreed  to  appoint  Isaac  Norris  to  the  position  of  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  Province,  but  he  declined  to  accept  preferring  to  remain  a  Justice  of 
the  County  Court.  He  was  for  many  years  the  chief  representative  of  the  Pro- 
prietaries, being  their  attorney  for  sale  of  lands  under  tiie  Gouldney  mortgage; 


NORRIS  83 

trustee  under  William  Perm's  will;  attorney  for  Hannah  Penn  after  her  hus- 
band's death,  etc. 

In  1704,  with  William  Trent,  Isaac  Norris  purchased  William  Penn's  Manor 
of  Williamstadt,  on  Schuylkill,  comprising  7,480  acres,  and  including  the  site 
of  Norristown  (named  for  him),  the  present  county  seat  of  Montgomery 
county.  In  iyi2  ht  purchased  Trent's  interest  in  this  manor,  thereafter  called 
Norriton,  and  owned  it  until  his  death  in  1735.  He  also  owned  632  acres  in 
the  Northern  Liberties  of  Philadelphia,  prior  to  February,  1712,  when  he  added 
192  acres  to  the  tract  at  a  cost  of  £453.  In  1713  he  purchased  of  Hamilton 
and  Falconer,  for  £550,  the  unlocated  first  purchase  of  Charles  Marshall,  of 
6,000  acres,  and  located  the  forty-two  acres  Liberty  Land  appurtenant  thereto, 
alongside  his  other  lots  above  mentioned.  At  this  date  he  was  residing  in  the 
city,  where,  in  addition  to  other  properties,  he  owned  the  "Slate-roof  House" 
celebrated  as  the  residence  of  Penn,  during  his  second  visit  to  Pennsylvania, 
which  Norris  had  purchased  in  1709  for  £900,  Pennsylvania  currency;  the  lot 
fronting  fifty-seven  and  one-half  feet  on  the  east  side  of  Second  street,  below  Chest- 
nut, and  extending  along  Norris  alley,  269  feet  deep.  On  his  estate  in  the  North- 
ern Liberties  known  as  "Fair  Hill",  he  erected  a  mansion,  and  removed  there 
about  1718,  living  in  a  style  befitting  his  rank  and  wealth.  He  possessed  the 
luxury  of  a  coach,  and,  Quaker  though  he  was,  emblazoned  his  coat-of-arms 
thereon.  He  was  fond  of  reading,  and  being  familiar  with  several  languages, 
his  leisure  hours  were  spent  among  his  books.  He  died  June  4,  1735,  being 
smitten  with  apoplexy  while  attending  Friends'  Meeting  at  Germantown,  whence 
he  was  removed  to  Stenton,  James  Logan's  residence,  where  he  died. 

Isaac  Norris  married,  March  7,  1694,  Mary,  third  daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd, 
many  years  President  of  the  Provincial  Council,  and  twice  acting  Governor  of  the 
Province  of  Pennsylvania.  Isaac  Norris  was  described  by  one  of  his  contem- 
poraries as  "one  whose  character  will  do  honor  to  his  latest  posterity,  a  doer  of 
justice,  a  lover  of  mercy,  a  loving  husband,  an  affectionate  father,  a  sincere  friend, 
and  a  lover  of  his  country."  He  was  a  director  of  the  first  public  school  of 
Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Mary  {Lloyd)  Norris: — 

Mary  Norris,  b.  Dec,  S,   1694,  d.  Feb.   13,   1750-1  ;  m.   1717,  Thomas  Griffiths,   Provincial 

Councillor,   Keeper   of   Great   Seal,    etc. ; 
Hannah  Norris,  b.  Aug,  I,  1696,  d.  July  21,  1774;  m.  June  15,  1717,  Richard  Harrison,  of 
Maryland,    who    settled    in    Lower    Merion    township,     Philadelphia    county,    and    d. 
there   Oct.   5,    1747;   they  had   issue: 
Richard    Harrison,    d,    y,,    1731; 

Mary  Harrison,  b.   1720.   d.   s,   p.,   1766,  m.   David   Crawford; 
Samuel   Harrison,  b,   1724,  d.   s.  p.   1774; 
Isaac    Harrison,    d.    1745 ; 

Hannah  Harrison,  b.  Dec,  1728,  d.  s.  p.  Sept.  6,  1807;  m.,  Sept.  i,  1774,  Charles 
Thomson,  Secretary  of  the   Continental  Congress  throughout  the  Revolutionary 
War; 
Thomas  Harrison,  b.   1729,  d.   1759,  m.  Francis  Scull. 
Sarah   Norris,  b.  Oct.  2,   1697,  d.   Dec.   26,   1699; 
Joseph   Norris,   b.   Jan.   29,    1698-9,   d.   Oct.,    1733,   unm, ; 
Rachel  Norris,  b.  1700,  d.  Nov.   13,   171 1; 

Isaac  Norris,  b.  Oct.  3,  1701,  d-  July  13,  1766;  m.  Sarah  Logan,  of  whom  presently; 
Elizabeth    Norris,    b.    Jan.    7,    1703-4,    d.    Aug.    6,    1779 ;    unm, ; 
Deborah   Norris,  b.   Oct.    18,   1705,   d.   May   17,    1767;   unm.; 


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Thomas  Norris,  b.  Jan.  29,  1706-7,  d.  Jan.  20,   1727-8;  unm. ; 

John   Norris,  b.   April,   1709,   d.   August,    1731;   unm.; 

Prudence    Norris,   d.    inf.; 

Charles    Norris,   b.    May   9,    1712,    d.   Jan.    13,    1766;    m.    (first)    Margaret   Rodman; 

(second)    Mary    Parker; 
Margaret  Norris,  b.  1713,  d.  inf.; 
Samuel   Norris,  b.   Sept.   12,   1714,   d.   Jan.  3,   1746-7;   unm.;   was   from  early   manhood 

partner   of   his    brother    Charles ;    see    forward. 

Isaac  Norris,  second  son  and  sixth  child  of  Isaac  Norris,  Councillor,  and 
Mary  Lloyd,  his  wife,  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  3,  1701,  was  like  his  dis- 
tinguished father,  prominent  in  Colonial  affairs,  filling  the  position  of  Speaker  of 
Assembly  of  the  Province  for  fifteen  years.  A  sketch  of  him,  written  by  Dr. 
George  W.  Norris,  was  published  in  the  Pennsyh'ania  Magazine  of  History  and 
Biography,  vol.  i,  p.  449,  etc. 

He  was  trained  for  a  mercantile  career,  but  nevertheless  received  a  fine 
classical  education,  and  twice  went  abroad  to  travel  in  Europe.  Becoming  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  mercantile  business  he  continued  it  after  the  latter's 
death  until  1743.  Prior  to  the  death  of  his  father  he  resided  in  the  "Slate-roof 
House",  and  afterwards  at  "Fair  Hill."  In  1727  he  was  elected  to  Common  Coun- 
cil of  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  three  years  later  was  advanced  to  the  Board  of 
Aldermen.  He  was  first  elected  to  the  Provincial  Assembly  in  October,  1734,  from 
Philadelphia  county,  and  his  standing  as  a  merchant  made  him  at  once  an  author- 
ity on  matters  of  trade,  measures  for  the  advancement  of  which  were  then  being 
agitated  in  the  law-making  bodies  of  the  Province.  On  October  15,  1734,  on  the 
organization  of  the  House,  Lieut.  Gov.  Patrick  Gordon  communicated  to  it  an 
inquiry  from  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  as  to  what 
encouragement  was  necessary  to  make  the  Colonies  of  America  furnish  naval 
stores  and  other  commodities  not  produced  in  England.  The  subject  was  excit- 
ing much  attention  in  the  mother  country,  where  it  was  feared  that  industries 
would  become  established  in  the  Colonies  for  the  production  of  fabrics,  of  which 
England  could  always  produce  more  than  was  used  there,  and  she  would  thus 
lose  an  important  market.  Isaac  Norris  was  appointed  chairman  of  committee 
to  draft  a  reply.  His  knowledge  of  trade  conditions  and  natural  resources 
_of  the  Province,  enabled  him  in  his  report  to  the  Assembly  to  embody 
the  valuable  statement  of  Pennsylvania's  resources  to  be  found  in  "Votes  of 
Assembly."  It  declared  that  hemp,  pig-iron,  and  bar-iron,  being  staples  generally 
purchased  with  money  by  the  subjects  of  Great  Britain  from  the  Northern 
kingdoms,  might,  on  a  bounty  being  given  by  the  home  government,  be  had  from 
some  parts  of  this  and  other  colonies  in  exchange  for  the  manufactures  and 
products  of  the  Mother  Country. 

In  1739,  four  years  after  his  father's  death,  the  younger  Norris  comes  to 
the  front  as  the  leader  of  the  Quaker  party.  Rather  more  of  a  Quaker  than 
his  father,  much  more  of  a  Quaker  than  James  Logan,  he  is  interesting  as  a 
statesman  who  endeavored  to  keep  the  policy  of  the  state  consistent  with  Quaker 
principles.  In  his  day  the  crucial  circumstances  arose  for  carrying  out  theories 
as  to  the  unlawfulness  of  war,  which  it  was  a  different  thing  to  profess  than  when 
the  sect  was  only  a  few  individuals  in  the  great  nation  of  England.  It  was  to  be 
seen  what  Friends  in  control  of  a  state  would  do  in  case  of  invasion.  In  England 
they  occasionally  suffered  legal  penalties;  in  .America  they  would  have  to  antici- 


NORRIS  85 

pate  a  conquering  army  depriving  them  of  the  fruits  of  their  toil,  their  nation- 
ality, and  their  chartered  liberties.  The  case  did  not  really  present  itself  to  the 
earlier  settlers  of  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania.  Those  colonies  were  too  small 
either  to  tempt  invasion,  or  to  be  looked  to  for  recruits ;  and  a  little  presence  of 
mind  on  such  occasions  as  Gov.  Evans'  scare  was  all  that  was  called  for.  But 
in  1739  war  was  breaking  out  with  the  yet  mighty  kingdom  of  Spain,  from  whose 
American  possessions  an  armament  could  be  fitted  out  against  the  territory  with 
which  Raleigh  and  Gilbert  had  enriched  the  British  Crown.  Indeed  it  was  ex- 
pected that  France,  then  possessor  of  Canada,  would  ally  herself  with  Spain, 
and,  thus  flanked,  the  British  colonies  must  bear  a  bitter  struggle,  while  their 
population  and  natural  wealth  were  now  so  considerable  that  their  conquest  by 
either  of  their  neighbors  would  be  a  sufficient  fruit  of  the  war.  Under  these  cir- 
cumstances, the  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  with  Norris  a  member,  met  in  Octo- 
ber, 1739.  The  Governor  suggested  that  they  take  measures  for  the  defence  of 
the  Province.  He  also  laid  before  them  a  communication  from  the  Lords  Com- 
missioners of  Trade  and  Plantations  asking  for  information  as  to  the  rates  of 
gold  and  silver  coin  and  value  of  gold  and  silver  per  oz.  in  1700-10-20-30,  and 
the  provisions  of  the  acts  for  issuing  bills  of  credit  from  1700  down,  the  amounts 
named  in  them,  and  the  amount  outstanding.  The  statement  sent  in  answer  was 
prepared  by  a  committee  of  which  Thomas  Leech  was  the  first  named,  and  Isaac 
Norris,  the  second.  This  work  over,  the  House  sent  a  message  on  the  subject 
of  defence,  contending  for  the  rights  of  the  Quakers  to  obey  their  conscientious 
scruples  against  war.  At  the  same  time,  it  was  said,  persons  of  other  sects  who 
held  no  such  views  were  equally  entitled  to  liberty  of  conscience.  Of  such  there 
were  many,  and  they  could  arm,  the  Governor  by  the  charter  to  Penn  being  au- 
thorized, and  no  act  of  Assembly  having  restrained  him,  to  levy,  muster,  and  train 
all  sorts  of  men,  and  to  make  war,  and  act  as  a  captain-general.  But  Gov. 
Thomas  wished  them  to  vote  money,  and  to  enact  a  law  relating  to  military  ser- 
vice. This  they  would  not  do;  they  would  not  even  pass  a  bill  on  the  subject 
when  the  Quakers  were  exempted  from  its  provisions.  The  Governor  replied 
that  sharing  in  the  expense  had  been  agreed  to  in  Pennsylvania  when,  in  17 10, 
a  sum  was  granted  to  Queen  Anne  for  the  reduction  of  Canada,  and  was  always 
done  by  persons  of  their  religious  persuasion  in  Britain.  Norris  was  on  the  com- 
mittee to  draft  the  rejoinder.  It  ably  states  the  Quaker  argument  against  the 
lawfulness  of  war  to  Christian  men,  and  recalls  the  fact  that  the  money  voted  to 
Queen  Anne  was  accompanied  by  an  explanation  that  their  principles  forbade 
war,  but  commanded  them  to  pay  tribute  and  yield  obedience  to  the  power  God 
had  set  over  them  in  all  things  so  far  as  their  religious  persuasions  would  per- 
mit. The  paper  further  declares  an  unwillingness  to  place  such  instruments  of 
power  as  a  militia  and  the  money  for  fortifications  in  the  hands  of  the  Governor 
and  his  friends.  This  of  course  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  religious  principle; 
at  the  same  time  it  was  cunningly  added,  and  gained  for  those  who  wrote  it  sup- 
port from  the  democracy.  In  the  course  of  time,  the  non-Quaker  population 
organized  seven  companies  of  soldiers,  but  in  these  a  large  number  of  indentured 
servants  undertook  to  enlist.  Many  Quaker  masters  were  thus  injured.  The 
Assembly  took  up  the  matter,  and  addressed  the  Governor ;  but  the  runaways 
had  taken  the  oath,  and  a  large  portion  had  received  the  King's  subsistence  for 
several  weeks,  and  the  Governor  declined  to  dismiss  them.     Finally,  on  the  9th 


86  NORRIS 

of  August,  the  Assembly  yielded  to  the  importunities  for  money,  and  voted 
3000/.  to  Thomas  Griffitts,  Edward  Bradley,  John  Stamper,  Isaac  Nor- 
ris,  and  Thomas  Leech,  "for  the  use  of  King  George  II.,"  provided,  however, 
that  no  warrant  for  said  sum  should  issue  from  the  Speaker  until  all  the  ser- 
vants enlisted  should  be  returned  to  their  masters  free  of  all  charges.  A  remon- 
strance to  the  King  was  ordered  to  be  drawn  up,  Norris  being  upon  the  commit- 
tee to  draft  it.  At  the  next  Assembly,  Norris  again  member,  a  committee  re- 
ported the  number  of  servants  thus  eloigned  as  262,  and  compensation  was  made 
to  the  masters. 

The  various  disputes  between  the  Governor  and  the  Quakers,  or  "Norris 
party,"  as  the  stricter  Friends  came  to  be  called,  brought  about  contests  for  office 
as  bitter  as  in  modern  times.  The  re-election  of  Norris  to  the  Assembly  in  1741 
could  not  be  prevented;  and  the  Quakers  had  some  vantage  ground  with  Norris 
and  his  brother-in-law  Griffitts  and  uncle  Preston,  as  three  of  the  Aldermen  of 
the  city.  But  the  Corporation  was  too  important  a  political  factor  to  be  allowed 
to  feel  his  influence.  The  adverse  party  mustered  a  majority  to  elect  four  new 
Aldermen  and  five  new  Councilmen  who  would  further  the  Governor's  plans ; 
and  the  prominence  of  the  Lloyd  connection,  and  even  the  equal  footing  of  the 
Quakers  in  the  Board,  was  destroyed  forever.  It  was  not  so  easy  to  defeat 
Norris  at  a  popular  election.  In  1742,  after  a  session  in  which  he  had  been  head 
of  nearly  every  committee,  and  in  which  he  had  performed  lasting  services  in 
superintending  the  completion  of  portions  of  the  State  House,  and  in  purchas- 
ing a  site  and  devising  plans  for  a  Lazaretto,  the  wealthy  Recorder  of  the  city, 
Mr.  Allen  contended  for  his  seat  in  the  House.  The  German  settlers  had  in- 
variably voted  with  the  Quakers,  and  it  was  charged  that  the  "Norris  party" 
had  been  in  possession  of  the  polls,  crowded  out  their  opponents,  and  elected 
their  candidate  with  the  aid  of  unnaturalized  voters.  But  if  the  Governor's 
friends  cried  "fraud,"  they  were  now  guilty  of  "bulldozing."  On  election  day 
of  that  year,  a  party  of  sailors,  strong  enough  in  numbers  to  make  havoc  in  the 
little  city,  marched  up  from  the  wharves,  applied  their  clubs,  and,  wounding 
several,  drove  the  disciples  of  peace  from  the  State  House.  In  the  hubbub  that 
followed,  Allen  is  reported  to  have  said  "They  had  as  good  a  right  to  be  there 
as  the  unnaturalized  Dutchmen ;"  he  took  no  steps  to  preserve  the  peace,  and  his 
supposed  complicity  lost  him  many  votes.  Such  violence  brought  a  reaction  in 
public  feeling;  and  Norris  was  returned.  A  fresh  controversy  arose  from  this 
"Riot  of  1742,"  the  new  Assembly  desiring  the  Governor  to  bring  the  officers 
of  the  City  Corporation  to  trial  before  the  Supreme  Court,  and  the  Corporation 
refusing,  after  which  a  resolution  was  passed  censuring  the  officers  in  question 
for  neglect  of  duty.  The  withholding  of  the  Governor's  salary  was  the  effective 
weapon  of  the  Assembly ;  and  in  time  induced  that  officer  to  attempt  a  concilia- 
tory course.  Certain  bills  which  had  been  insisted  on,  he  finally  assented  to,  and 
the  money-voting  power  granted  him  his  means  of  subsistence.  Gordon  in  his 
History  says  that  the  triumph  of  the  Assembly  was  complete  they  had  taken  no 
step  of  a  military  character,  nor  made  any  gift  of  money  inconsistent  with  their 
principles. 

In  1745,  the  Governor  appointed  Norris,  Kinsey,  and  Lawrence,  commissioners 
to  represent  Pennsylvania  at  the  conference  with  the  Indians  at  Albany.  Nor- 
ris had  left  a  diary  of  his  journey,  privately  printed  by  one  of  his  brother's 


NORRIS  87 

descendants  in  1867.  The  conference  was  of  little  importance  to  the  English ; 
but  in  1755  Norris  was  again  sent  to  Albany  as  one  of  the  commissioners  from 
Pennsylvania  to  treat  with  the  Indians.  He  and  his  colleagues  at  this  time  effected 
the  purchase  of  several  million  acres,  comprising  the  southwestern  portion  of 
Pennsylvania. 

On  the  death  of  John  Kinsey,  in  1751,  Isaac  Norris  was  elected  Speaker 
of  the  Assembly.  It  was  in  that  year  that  the  old  State  House  bell  was  ordered 
from  England,  Norris  directing  the  inscription,  which  turned  out  to  be  prophetic, 
to  be  placed  around  it.  The  bell  was  cracked  by  a  stroke  from  the  clapper  in 
1752,  was  recast  with  the  same  inscription,  and  less  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
afterwards  actually  did  "Proclaim  liberty  throughout  the  land,  unto  all  the  inhab- 
itants thereof."  During  the  fifteen  years  of  Norris's  speakership,  was  waged  the 
great  contest  between  the  populace  and  the  Proprietaries  on  the  subject  of  taxa- 
tion and  legislative  control  of  the  Penn  family  estates.  The  Quakers,  with  Nor- 
ris at  their  head,  joined  the  opposers  of  privilege.  In  the  course  of  one  of  the 
debates  in  the  Assembly,  Norris  declared  "No  man  shall  ever  stand  upon  my 
grave  and  say  'Curse  him'  or  'Here  lies  he  who  betrayed  the  liberties  of  his 
Country.'  "  In  1757,  the  Assembly  resolved  to  send  him  and  Benjamin  Franklin 
to  England  to  solicit  for  the  removal  of  grievances  occasioned  by  the  Proprie- 
tary instructions,  &c.,  but  Norris  declined  the  appointment  on  account  of  ill  health, 
so  that  Franklin  undertook  it  alone.  Opposition  to  the  encroachments  of  the 
Penns,  however,  did  not  lead  Norris  into  the  scheme  for  converting  Pennsylvania 
into  a  Royal  Province,  whereby  instead  of  having  to  deal  with  a  family  who  felt 
some  attachment  to  the  people  of  the  soil,  whose  property  lay  in  the  colony,  and 
whose  financial  interests  were  generally  identical  with  their  own,  and  for  whom 
in  most  contests  they  had  proved  themselves  a  match,  the  people  were  to  be 
ruled  by  a  Governor  responsible  only  to  the  British  Ministry,  and  supported  by 
the  whole  power  of  the  Crown.  When,  in  1764,  a  petition  to  the  King  to  effect 
this  change  passed  the  Assembly  despite  the  remonstrances  of  Dickinson,  Norris's 
son-in-law,  Norris  requested  that,  his  sentiments  being  very  different  from  those 
of  the  majority,  as  his  seat  in  the  chair  prevented  him  from  entering  into  the 
debate,  therefore  if  in  consequence  of  their  order  his  duty  should  oblige  him  to 
sign  the  petition  as  Speaker,  he  might  be  permitted  to  offer  his  sentiments  on  the 
subject  before  he  signed,  and  that  they  might  be  entered  on  the  minutes.  This 
request  was  granted,  after  which  the  House  adjourned  to  the  following  morning. 
On  reassembling,  it  received  a  letter  from  Norris  resigning  the  Speakership.  The 
long  sitting  and  the  excitement  of  the  debate  had  proved  too  much  for  his 
weakened  health,  and  being  too  unwell  to  attend,  he  availed  himself  of  the  excuse 
to  be  relieved  of  the  unpleasant  duty.  Benjamin  Franklin  was  chosen  his  suc- 
cessor, and  signed  the  petition.  At  the  ensuing  popular  election,  Franklin  was 
not  returned  to  the  Assembly.  Norris's  name,  contrary  to  his  wishes,  had  been 
placed  upon  the  ticket  for  Philadelphia  county:  he  was  again  chosen  to  the  As- 
sembly, and  again  became  its  Speaker.  He  a  second  time  resigned,  October  24, 
1764,  Joseph  Fox  being  his  successor. 

Norris  had  the  literary  tastes  of  the  Quaker  connection  to  which  he  belonged, 
and  in  the  course  of  his  busy  life  collected  a  fine  library  for  those  days.  The 
principal  portion  of  it,  "consisting  of  about  1,500  volumes  upon  the  most  impor- 
tant subjects,"  was  presented  to  Dickinson  College  by  the  Hon.  John  Dickinson 


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npon  the  founding  of  that  institution.  Norris  wrote  with  ease  in  French  and 
Latin,  and  had  some  knowledge  of  Hebrew.  Among  his  various  public  services, 
he  acted  for  several  years  as  a  trustee  of  the  College.  He  died  at  "Fair  Hill," 
July  13,  1766.     He  made  no  will. 

The  following  extract  is  taken  from  the  Independent  Gazetteer,  of  November 
27,  1787,  No.  612 :  "The  late  Mr.  Isaac  Norris,  whose  memory  will  be  forever 
revered  by  every  good  citizen  of  Pennsylvania,  had  served  his  country  with  the 
utmost  fidelity  for  more  than  twenty  years  in  the  character  of  legislator.  His 
age  and  increasing  weakness  of  constitution  at  length  obliged  him  to  quit  the 
task  of  reconciling  and  directing  the  various  interests  and  views  of  his  fellow 
representatives  to  the  good  of  his  country.     .     .     ." 

Isaac  Norris  married,  in  1739,  Sarah,  eldest  daughter  of  James  Logan,  Pro- 
prietary Secretary  of  Pennsylvania,  member  of  the  Provincial  Council  for  almost 
a  half  century,  Deputy  Governor,  Chief  Justice,  etc.  She  was  born  December  9. 
1715,  died  December  13,  1744,  soon  after  the  birth  of  her  youngest  child,  having 
survived  her  marriage  but  little  over  five  years. 
Issue  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Logan)  Norris: — 

Mary  Norris,  b.  July  17,  1740,  d.  at  Wilmington,  Del,  July  23,   1803;  m.  July   19,   1770, 
Hon.    John    Dickinson,    and    had    issre : 

Sally   Norris   Dickinson,   b.    1771,   d.   unni.,    Nov.    I,    1855; 

M.\RiA  Dickinson,  b.  Nov.  6,  1783 ;  d.  Feb.  10,  1854 ;  married  her  cousin,  Albanus 
Charles  Logan,  son  of  Dr.  George  Logan,  of  "Stenton,"  by  his  wife  Deborah 
Norris.  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary    (Parker)    Norris,  of  whom  later; 
Isaac   Norris,   d.   inf. ; 
James  Norris,  d.  inf. ; 
Sarah   Norris,  b.    1744,   d.   s.   p.    1769. 

Charles  Norris,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Lloyd)  Norris,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, May  9,  1712,  was  a  prominent  and  successful  merchant  of  that  city,  being 
for  some  years  associated  with  his  younger  brother  Samuel.  He  lived  in  a  fine 
house,  on  what  was  then  the  outskirts  of  the  city,  the  present  site  of  the  Custom 
House.  He  was  for  many  years  Trustee  of  the  Loan  Office  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  was  one  of  first  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  His  palatial 
home  with  its  fine  grounds  running  back  to  Library  street,  ornamented  with 
gravelled  walks,  flowers,  rare  shrubs  and  plants,  was  the  scene  of  much  social 
activity  among  the  aristocratic  youth  of  Philadelphia,  after  the  evacuation  of  the 
city  by  the  British,  1778.  Deborah  Norris,  eldest  daughter,  was  the  bosom  friend 
and  correspondent  of  Sally  Wistar,  and  one  of  the  charming  circle  of  friends  of 
whom  we  get  a  glimpse  in  "Sallie  Wistar's  Journal".  "During  the  Revolution- 
ary War,  the  Patriots  took  from  the  Norris  house  the  heavy  leaden  spouts  and  rain 
gutters  to  make  bullets  for  the  Continental  Army." 

Charles  Norris  died  January  15,  1766,  but  seven  years  after  his  second  mar- 
riage, and  therefore  while  all  his  children  were  yet  in  tender  years.  He  married 
(first)  Margaret,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Rodman,  of  Bucks  county,  who  died 
without  issue.  He  married  (second)  June  21,  1759.  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Parker,  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  who  was  Deputy  Register  of  Chester 
county.  Clerk  of  Common  Pleas  Court  there  in  1733-4,  but  later  removed  to  West 
Jersey.     By  his  wife,  Mary  Ladd,  he  had  issue  Mary  (Parker)  Norris,  who  died 


N  ORRIS  89 

December  4,  1799,  and  was  buried  in  the  Friends'  Burying  Ground,  at  Chester. 
Issue  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Parker)  N orris: — 

Isaac   Norris,  b.  July   18,   1760,  d.   Oct.   2.   1802;   unm. ; 

Deborah  Norris,  b.  Oct.  19,  1761,  d.  at  Stenton,  Feb.  2,  1839;  m.  Dr.  George  Logan; 
Deborah  was  educated  as  a  child  in  the  school  kept  by  Anthony  Benezet,  celebrated 
scholar  and  philanthropist  of  Philadelphia,  and  after  her  schoolgirl  days  pursued 
a  regular  course  of  education  at  home,  becoming  one  of  the  literary  characters  of  her 
time.  It  was  through  her  careful  collation  of  family  MSS.  and  her  memoranda  of 
events  of  which  she  was  an  eye-witness,  her  notes  of  facts  which  she  had  peculiar 
opportunities  of  learning,  that  Watson,  the  annalist,  gained  much  of  the  Colonial 
history  which  he  preserved.  She  possessed  considerable  poetic  talent,  writing  many 
small  pieces  of  verse  in  her  diary ;  a  sketch  of  her  appears  in  "Worthy  Women  of 
our  First  Century"  (Phila.,  1877),  and  "she  is  as  justly  celebrated  as  any  woman 
whom   Philadelphia  has  produced" ; 

Joseph  Parker  Norris,  b.  May  5,  1763,  d.  June  22,  1841 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Hill  Fox,  of 
whom   presently ; 

Charles  Norris,  b.  July  12,  1765,  d.  Dec.  24,  1813;  resided  for  some  years  in  Massachu- 
setts;  m.   at   Nantucket,   July  4,    1793,   Eunice   Gardner;   they   had   issue: 
Mary   Norris,   m.   John    Schrack,   of   Montgomery   county.    Pa.; 
Deborah    Logan    Norris,    d.    unm.; 

Hepzibah    Norris,    m.     (first)    William    E.    Wells;     (second)    in    1846,    William 
McCann. 

Joseph  Parker  Norris,  second  son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Parker)  Norris, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  May  5,  1763,  was  a  pupil  of  Robert  Proud,  the  historian, 
and  was  an  executor  of  his  will.  The  estates  of  "Fair  Hill"  and  "Sepviva", 
having  been  settled  upon  him  and  his  brothers,  in  tail  male,  with  remain- 
der to  the  right  heirs  of  Isaac  Norris,  Speaker,  with  power  in  Mrs.  Dick- 
inson, (daughter  of  Isaac)  to  determine  which  son  of  Charles  Norris  should 
be  tenant  in  tail;  Joseph  Parker  Norris  purchased  the  property;  John  Dick- 
inson and  Mary,  his  wife,  she  being  sole  heiress  of  Isaac  Norris,  Speaker, 
made  him  a  deed  dated  May  18,  1790,  naming  him  as  tenant  in  tail, 
and  granting  him  the  reversionary  interest,  also.  He  then  instituted  pro- 
ceedings to  destroy  the  entail,  and  in  the  course  of  a  year  through  the  legal 
legerdemain  of  common  recovery,  became  seized  of  these  estates  in  fee  simple. 
They  consisted  of  some  six  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  in  the  Northern 
Liberties,  lying  between  Gunner's  Run,  later  the  Aramingo  canal,  and  the  Ger- 
mantown  turnpike.  This  remained  the  rural  seat  of  the  family  up  to  the  date  of 
his  death,  though  the  time  when  it  became  covered  with  rows  of  houses  was  then 
so  near  at  hand  that  he  must  be  considered  to  have  left  the  greatest  landed 
estate  of  any  of  his  contemporaries  in  these  parts. 

Joseph  Parker  Norris  was  many  years  president  of  the  Bank  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  died  June  22,  1841,  devising  "Fair  Hill"  to  trustees  for  the  children 
of  his  sons,  and  "Sepviva"  to  trustees  for  his  daughters'  children.  An 
Act  of  Assembly  was  passed  to  enable  the  trustees  to  sell  lots  during  the  lifetime 
of  the  testator's  children.  He  married.  May  20,  1790,  Elizabeth  Hill,  daughter  of 
Elizabeth  Mickle  and  Joseph  Fox,  who  succeeded  Isaac  Norris  as  Speaker  of 
Assembly.  Mrs.  Norris  survived  her  husband  nearly  twenty  years,  dying  in 
January  of  1861. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Parker  and  Elizabeth  Hill   (Fox)   Norris: — 

Mary  Parker  Norris,  b.  June  19,  1791 ;  m.  Nov.  n,  1813,  William  Fishbourne  Emlen, 
b.  May  20,  1787,  son  of  George  and  Sarah  (Fishbourne)  Emlen,  of  Philadelphia; 
they  had   issue : 


90  NORRIS 

George  Emlen,  b.  Sept.  25,  1814,  d.  June  7,  1853;  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1828,  was 
valedictorian  of  class  of  1831  ;  studied  law  and  was  lifelong  member  of  Phila- 
delphia Bar;  President  Law  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  1851;  Secretary  Board 
of  Trustees  of  Univ.  Pa.,  1841-53;  President  of  Controllors  Public  Schools, 
etc;  m.  Ellen  Markoe,  May  6.  1840;  had  issue  as  shown  in  sketch  of  Emlen 
family;  Mrs.  Emlen  d.  Jan.  15,  1900; 
Joseph  Norris  Emlen,  b.  Sept.  4,   1816,  d.  Aug.  26,  1882;  was  a  graduate  of  the 

Univ.   Pa.,  A.   B.,    1834,  A.   M.,   1835. 
Elizabeth  Norris  Emlen,  b,  Jan.  26,   1825;  m.  Dec.  22,   1847,  James  Roosevelt,  b. 
June  12,   1825,  d.  July   15,   1898;  had  issue: 

Mary   Emlen   Roosevelt,   b.   Sept.   27,    1848,   d.   Dec.    19,    1885; 

Leila  Roosevelt,  b.  Feb.,   1850;  m.  Edward  R.  Merritt ; 

Alfred  Roosevelt,   b.   Apr.   2,    1856,   d.   July  3,    1891 ;   m.   Katharine,   dau.   of 

Augustus  Lowell,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.  5,  1882;  had  issue; 
William  Emlen  Roosevelt,  b.  April  30,  1857;  m.  Oct.  4,  1883,  Christine  Griffin, 
dau.  of  John  Kean.  of  Ursino,  N.  J.,  and  had  issue; 
Sarah  Emlen,  b.  June  15,  1832;  m.  Oct.   15,  1862,  James  Casey  Hale;  had  issue: 
Mary  Emlen  Hale,  b.  Aug.  9,   1863;  m.  Oct.  23,  1883,  James  Lowell,  Jr.,  of 
Boston.    Mass. ;    was   the    mother    of    Mary    Emlen    Lowell,    who    Oct.    15, 
1904,    married    Francis    Vernon    Lloyd. 
Charles  Norris,  b.  Feb.  24,  1793,  d.  June  4,  1868;  trustee  of  the  "Fair  Hill"  estate,  etc.; 
m.    1821,   Dorothea,   dau.   of   Louis   Clapier;   had   issue: 

Louis  Clapier  Norris,  b.  June  10,   1822,  d.  Feb.   15,   1900;  m.  Dec.   14,   1847.  Jane 

McKee;    no   issue; 
Joseph    Parker    Norris,   of   New   York,   b.   Feb.    15,    1824,   d.   March    19,    1894;   m. 
Feb.   5,    1857,   Frances  Ann   Stevens ;  they  had  issue ; 
Dorothea  Clapier  Norris,  b.  June  i,  1858; 
Fanny   Norris,  b.   March    19,    1864; 
Gertrude  Norris,  b.  Dec.   15.  1865,  d.  Oct.  8,  1886; 

Charles  Norris,  M.  D.,  of  New  York,  b.  Oct.  23,  1868;  graduated  at  Yale 
University,  (Ph.B.)  1888,  and  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine 
at  Columbia  University,  New  York,  in  1892 ;  instructor  in  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons,  in  Bacteriology,  1896 ;  instructor  of  Pathology  at 
Cornell  University,  1899-1900;  director  of  Laboratories  at  Bellevue  and 
Allied  Hospitals,  New  York. 
Charles  Norris,  b.  Oct.  23,  1828; 
Joseph   Parker  Norkis   (the  younger),  b.  Oct.  20,   1794,  d.  Jan.  31,  1863;  m.  Caroline 

Thompson,  of  whom  presently ; 
Samuel  Norris,  b.  April  i,  1796,  d.  s.  p.  Dec.  28,  1866;  trustee  of  "Fair  Hill"  estate,  etc.; 
Elizabeth  Fox  Norris,  b.  Sept.  9,  1797,  d.,  Sept.  9,  1874;  m.  July  I,.  1819,  Elihu  Spencer 
Sergeant ;  had  issue  : 

Elizabeth  Norris  Sergeant,  b.  May  I,  1820.  d.  Oct.  7,  1877;  m.  June  6.  1853.  John 
Lambert,  who  d.  May  2,   1901 ;   and  had  issue :  John  Lambert,  artist  b.   March 
10.  1861 ;  grad.   (A.  B.)  of  the  Univ.  Pa.,  1883;  d.  Dec.  29.  1907; 
Jonathan    Dickinson   Sergeant,   member   of   the    Philadelphia    Bar,    and   trustee   of 

"Sepviva"  Estate ;  b.  March  14,  1822 ;  died.  June,  1909. 
Margaret  Spencer  Sergeant,  b.  Feb.  13,  1824,  died.  July  27,  1825. 
Isaac    Norris,    b.    1799.    d.    inf. 

Deborah   Norris,  b.   Oct.   2,    1800,   d.   Feb.  4,    1864;   m.   July    10,    1823,   William   Brown, 
had  issue : 

Elizabeth   Norris   Brown,   b.    April   22,    1824 ; 

Thomas    Hamilton    Brown,   b.    Aug.    18,    1826,   d.    inf.; 

Joseph   Norris   Brown,  d.   inf. ; 

Francis  Brown,   d.   inf. ; 

John   Hamilton   Brown,   d.   inf. ; 

William    Richardson    Brown,    b.    April    20,    1830,    d.    April    5,    1879;    m.    Caroline 

Law  son ; 
George    Hamilton    Brown,   b.   June    18,    183T,    d-    1856; 
Deborah   Norris  Brown,  b.  Aug.   15,   1832,  d.  Aug.   19,   1904;  m.  January   13,   1852, 

George   Dawson   Coleman,  of   Lebanon. 
Frances   Brown,   d.   inf. ; 
Mary   Hamilton   Brown,  b.  Dec.   25,   1834; 

Emily    Hamilton    Brown,    b.    Sept.    10,    1836;    m.    Jan.    15.    1856,    Samuel    Glover; 
Fanny   Brown,  b.   Feb.  23,   1838; 


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Isaac  Noreis,  b.  Feb.  21,  1802,  d.  July  i,  1890;  m.  Mary  Pepper,  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Lloyd  Norris,  b.  Sept.  2,  1803,  d.  Feb.  9,  1828 ;  unm. ; 

Hanna  Fox  Norris,  b.  Sept.  5,   1804,  d.  Aug.  26,   1884; 

George   Washington    Norris,   M.    D.,   b.    Nov.   6,    1808,   d.    March   4,    187s ;   m.    Mary 

Pleasants   Fisher,   of   whom   later ; 
Ellen  Norris,  b.  March  4,   1810,  d.   Sept.  23,   1877;  unm.; 
Henry  Norris,  b.  Aug.  6,  1811,  d.  Dec.  17,  1904;  unm.; 

Sally  Norris,  b.  Jan.  16,  1814,  d.  May  19,  1899;  m.  Feb.  11,  1841,  Henry  Pepper;  had  issue: 
Elizabeth  Norris  Pepper,  b.  Dec.  19,  1841 ;  m.  Feb.  7,  1872,  Col.  William  Brooke 

Rawle ; 
Henry  Pepper,  b.  Aug.  8,   1843,  d.  Feb.  28,   1844 ; 
Mary  Pepper,  b.  Jan.  11,  1845,  d.  Jan.  12,  1845; 

Henry  Pepper,  b.  Nov.  4,  1846,  d.  March  3,  1880;  m.  Jan.  16,  1873,  Agnes  Camp- 
bell Norris; 
Mary  Pepper,  b.  Nov.  18,  1848;  m.  June  21,  1880,  John  Gwinn ; 
Catharine  Pepper,  b.  May  i,  1851,  d.  May  2,  1851 ; 
George  Norris  Pepper,  b.  Oct.  18,  1852 ;  d.  Oct.  8,  1898. 

Emily  Norris  Pepper,  b.  June  28,  1855;  m.  Feb.  I,  1877,  J.  Wain  Vaux,  he  d,  May, 
1898;  had  issue: 
Richard  Vaux,  b.  Dec.   13,   1877; 
Henry    Pepper   Vaux,    b.   June    12,    1879.    banker,    of    Philadelphia;    m.,    1907, 

Frances   Alice   Cramp. 
Norris  Wister  Vaux,  b.   Sept.   i,    1881 ;   M.   D.   Univ.   Pa. ;  m.,   1907,   Honora 

Dixon. 
Emily   Norris  Vaux,  b.  June   i.    1885;   m.   Apr.    17,   1907,   Edward   Ingersoll; 
issue:    Warren    Ingersoll,   b.   March   22,    1908;    Emily   Norris   Ingersoll 
Emily  Norris,  b.  July  17,  1816,  d.  Aug.  6,  1901 ;  unm. 
Ann  Caroline  Norris,  b.  1817,  d.  y. 

Joseph  Parker  Norris,  the  youngest  son  and  third  child  of  Joseph  Parker 
Norris,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hill  Fox,  was  born  October  20,  1794.  He  entered 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  received  his  degree  from  the  College  Department 
in  1816;  taking  up  the  study  of  the  legal  profession,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia bar,  and  practised  in  that  city  until  his  death,  January  31,  1863.  He 
married,  February  21,  1821,  Caroline  Thompson,  and  had  issue,  viz: 

Anne  Thompson  Norris,  b,  March  22,  1822,  d.  s.  p.  May  30,  1866;  m.  (first)  Oct.  18,  1844, 

Robert  E.  Johnson;    (second)   July  24,  i860,  Lamar  W.  Fisher; 
Elizabeth   Norris,   b.   July   23,    1824,   d.   July   5,    1908;   unm.; 

Joseph  Parker  Norris  (third),  b,  Jan.  27,  1826,  d.  Nov.  16,  1887;  m.  Feb.  22,  1854,  Mary 
Elizabeth   Garesche ;    had   issue  : 
Louis  Baudery  Norris,  d  inf. ; 

Caroline  Thompson   Norris,  b.  Oct.  31,   1857,  d.  Apr.  30,   1882;  m.  Apr.  28,   1881, 
William  A.  Dick;  had  issue; 
Franklin  A.  Dick.  b.  Apr.  27,   1882; 
Mary  Garesche  Norris,  b.  Nov.  19,  1859; 
George  Washington  Norris,  younger,  b.  July  5,   1864;  banker  of  Philadelphia;  m. 

June   10,   1891,   Sarah   Fox; 
Annie   Norris,   b.   May  27,   1867,  d.   May   12,   1873; 

Alexander  Garesche  Norris,  b.  July  12,  1868;  m.  Dec,  1899,  Emma  Carmen,  dau. 
of  Alexander  Wilson,  M.  D. ;  had  issue: 
Elizabeth  Carmen  Norris,  b.  Dec.  6,  1901 ; 
Henry  Turner  Norris,  b.  July  30,  1870,  d.  Mch.  25,  1872; 
Thomas  Lloyd   Norris,  b.  July   12,   1874,  d.  June  4,   1876: 
Caroline  Norris,  b.  Jan.  6,  i8-'8,  d.  Feb.   18,  1877;  m.  Nov.  2,  1854,  Phineas  J.  Horwitz, 
M.  D.,  who  died  Sept.  28,  1904 ;  Medical  Director,  U.  S.  N. ;  Assistant  Surgeon  Gen- 
eral, U.  S.  N..  1860-64;  Surgeon  General,  1864-69;  was  voted  highest  pay  of  his  grade 
by  Congress  for  distinguished  services  during  War  of  the  Rebellion ;  had  issue : 


92  MORRIS 

Theodore  Horwitz,  b.  Sept.  24,  1856,  d.  Dec.   13,  1877; 

Joseph   Parker  Horwitz,  b.  June  26,   1858,  d.  July   12,   i860; 

Orville  Horwitz,  b.  June  26,  i860;  received  degree  of  B.  S-  at  Univ.  Pa.,  1881 ; 
that  of  M.  D.  at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  1883;  Professor  of  Genito-Urinary 
Surgery,  Jefferson  Medical  College ;  Surgeon  to  same  institution ;  also  to  St. 
Agnes  and  Philadelphia  General  hospitals,  and  to  State  Hospital  for  Insane; 
Consulting  Surgeon  to  Jewish  Hospital,  and  Surgeon  to  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege Hospital ; 

Caroline  Norris  Horwitz,  b.  Sept.  17,  1861,  d.  July  i,  1862; 

Thomas  Lloyd  Norris  Horwitz,  b.  Sept.   13,  1863,  d.  June  22.   1900; 

John  Meredith  Read  Horwitz,  b.  Jan.  27,  d.  Aug.  21,  1865; 

Amelia  Read  Horwitz,  b.  Aug.  26,  1866;  m.  May  23,  1894,  S.  Franklin  Sharpless; 

George  Quintard  Horwitz  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia  Bar,  b.  Feb.  3,  1868;  m.  May  23, 
1901,  Marian,  dau.  of  Daniel  S.  Newhall;  A.  B.   1886;  LL.B.  1888,  Univ.   Pa.; 
issue;  Caroline  Norris  Horwitz,  b.  Dec.  10,  1902,  d.  Aug.  27,  1906. 
Thomas  Lloyd  Norris,  b.  April  8,  1831,  d.  April  28,   1862; 
Adeline  Norris,  b.  Nov.  3,  1834,  d.  s.  p.  Nov.  7,  1900;  m.  Feb.  15,  1862,  Sewell  H.  Brown. 

Isaac  Norris,  eighth  child  of  Joseph  Parker  and  Elizabeth  Hill  (Fox)  Norris, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  February  21,  1802,  received  his  early  education  in  private 
schools,  and  in  1818  entered  the  college  department  of  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
graduating  with  his  class  in  1821.  He  studied  law  and  practiced  at  the  Phila- 
delphia bar  ;  was  a  member  of  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  a  Trustee  of 
Fair  Hill  estate.  He  died  at  his  country  residence,  "Hawthorne",  near  West 
Chester,  July  i,  1890.  He  married.  May  18,  1830,  Mary,  daughter  of  George 
Pepper,  of  Philadelphia. 

Isstte  of  Isaac  and  Mary  {Pepper')  Norris: — 

George  Pepper  Norris,  b.  July  o,  1831,  d.  March  7,  1865;  A.  M.,  Univ.  Pa.,  1850;  M.  D., 
1858;  practiced  medicine  in  Wilmington.  Del.,  where  he  died;  m.  Agnes  Campbell, 
dau.  of  John   Price,  of  Wilmmgton ;   had  issue : 

John   Price  Norris,  b.  Aug.  20,   1853,  d.   Sept.   14,   1865; 
Isaac   Norris,   b.   Mch.   29,    1856,   d.   Dec.   9,    1857 ; 
George   Pepper  Norris  Jr.,  b.   Sept.  29,   1858; 
Margaretta    Price    Norris,    b.    Sept.    8,    1861. 
Isaac  Norris,  b.  June  12.  1834;  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  A.  B.  and  M.  D. ; 
was   Physician   to   Philadelphia   Dispensary;   Lincoln   Institute   and   Oiurch   Home   for 
Children;  Prof.  Chemistry.  High  School,  Philadelphia,  1869-76;  Fellow  of  College  of 
Physicians,  1865;  Secretary  of  same.  1885-88;  member  American  Philosophical  Society 
since    1873;    member    Academy   of    Natural    Sciences    since    1861  ;    of    Biological    and 
Microscopical  Society  since  1872,  and  its  Secretary  and  Treasurer ;  of  Franklin  Insti- 
tute  since    1886;   member    Hist.    Society    Pennsylvania;    Assistant   Surgeon    U.    S.   A., 
1862-66,  serving  in  military  hospitals  of  Philadelphia;  m.  April  24.  1862,  Clara  Lamb; 
had  issue: 

Clara  Norris,  b.  May  10,  1864; 

Isaac  Norris,  b.  Aug.  2,  1865;  Ph.  B.  Yale;  LL.  B.  Univ.  Pa.;  m.  Harriet  Sears, 
dau.  of  Caspar  Crowinshield;  she  died  Aug.  18.   1905;  had  issue: 
Mary   Lloyd   Norris,   b.   Jan.   4,    1903. 
Mary  Pepper  Norris,  b.  Oct.  7,  1837;  m.  April  30,  1857,  Travis  Cochran;  have  issue: 
Mary   Norris   Cochran,  b.  April   14,   1858; 
John  Travis  Cochran,  b.  Dec.  24,  1859,  d.  Mch.  23,   1882 ; 
Isaac  Norris  Cochran,  b.  Oct.  7,  1866,  d.  Jan.  17,  1890; 
Elizabeth  Travis  Cochran,  b.  Dec.  3,   1870,  died  same  day ; 
Fanny   Travis   Cochran,   b.    Dec.   9,    1876; 
Joseph  Parker  Norris,  b.  Nov.  28,   1841,  d.  Jan.   15,  1842; 

Henry  Pepper  Norris,  b.  May  18.  1843,  d.  Feb.  15,  1892;  member  of  Philadelphia  bar; 
m.  June   18,   1879,   Bessie   Ebbs;   had  issue: 

Henry  Pepper  Norris  Jr.,  b.  July   18,   1881. 
Joseph  Parker  Norris,  b.  Nov.  3,  1847;  Attorney-at-Law ;  author  of  "Portraits  of  Shake.s- 
peare,"  etc.;  m.  March   10.   1870,  Isabel  Nevins,  dau.  of  Joseph  Reese  Fry;  have  issue: 


NORRIS  93 

Joseph  Parker  Norris,  b.  Feb.  9,   1871 ;  m,  Jan.  6,  1909,  Mary  Rawlings  Brady,  of 

Baltimore;   issue:     Mary   Rawlings   Brady   Norris,   b.   Dec.   II,    igog. 
Cornelia  Norris,  b.  Feb.  6,   1873,  d.  June  29,   1874; 

Henry  Norris,  b.  May  27,   1875;  A.   B.  and  M.  D.,  Univ.  Pa.;  m.  Aug.  3,  1898, 
Ethel  Bowman,  dau.  of  Charles  Wheeler  Esq. ;  have  issue : 
Susan  Wheeler   Norris,  b.   June  22,    1899; 
Henry  Norris  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  25,   1901  ; 
Ethel   Stuart   Norris,   b.   Feb.   28,    1905; 
John  Ridgway  Norris,  b.  Feb.  27,   1877; 

Edith  Norris,  b.  April  19,   1878;  m.  Jan.   18,   1905,  Reginald  Kearney  Shober ;  had 
issue: 

Edith  Shober,  b.  May  25,  1906;  d.  Apr.  21.  1909. 
Mary   Bedford   Shober,   b.   Aug.    15,    1908; 
Mary  Pepper  Norris,  b.  Sept.  25,  1879;  m.  Jan.  27,  1908,  Dr.  Montgomery  H.  Biggs, 
Phillip  Norris,  b.  Dec.  5,   1880,  M.  D.  Univ.   Pa.,   1903; 
Alice  Isabel  Norris,  b.  June  15,  1882; 
William   Pepper  Norris,  b.  June  26,   1886. 
William    Pepper   Norris,  b.   Feb,   9.    1852,   d.    Nov.    14.    1876;   received  degree   of   A.    B, 
at   Univ,    Pa.,    1871 ;   m,   June,    1876.   Laura   Camblos ;   had   issue : 
Charles  Camblos  Norris,  M.  D.  (Univ,  Pa„  1898). 

George  W,\shington  Norris,  twelfth  child  of  Joseph  Parker  and  Elizabeth 
Hill  (Fox)  Norris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  6,  1808;  in  1824  entered  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  class  of  1827,  and  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts.  Entering  the  medical  department  of  the  same  institution,  he  received  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  1830.  During  the  same  year  he  was  elected  one  of 
the  resident  physicians  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  his 
term  of  service,  he  studied  medicine  abroad  for  a  few  years,  most  of  his  time 
being  spent  in  Paris.  In  1836,  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  years,  he  was  elected 
one  of  the  surgeons  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  a  position  which  he  held  for  over 
twenty  years.  In  1848,  he  was  appointed  Clinical  Professor  of  Surgery  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  finally  resigning  in  1857,  at  which  time  he  was  elected 
Trustee  of  the  University. 

He  was  the  author  of  a  number  of  monographs,  which  were  eventually  pub- 
lished in  one  volume,  entitled  "Contributions  to  Practical  Surgery" ;  and  from 
time  to  time  he  wrote  articles  on  historical  subjects  for  the  magazines,  etc.  His 
last  literary  work,  "The  Early  History  of  Medicine  in  Philadelphia",  left  unfin- 
ished at  the  time  of  his  death,  was  subsequently  finished  by  his  son.  Dr.  Norris 
rose  to  great  eminence  in  his  profession  as  a  surgeon.  Despite  his  diffidence  and 
humility,  he  had  a  wide  reputation  as  a  consultant.  His  calm  and  excellent  judg- 
ment was  frequently  called  into  requisition  by  his  professional  confreres  and 
friends. 

A  memoir  of  Dr.  Norris,  by  Dr.  William  Hunt,  says  of  him,  in  part :  "Dr. 
Norris  was  a  man  of  truth.  He  never  flattered  and  he  never  sneered.  Well 
may  we  wish  that  not  only  we,  but  many  more  of  his  profession  than  those  who 
hear  us  tonight,  were  such  as  he  was." 

In  two  respects  Dr.  Norris  may  be  said  to  have  anticipated  the  subsequent 
developments  of  modern  surgery.  Before  the  days  of  anaesthetics,  he  used  before 
operations,  in  a  measure  to  relieve  the  sufiferings  of  his  patients,  a  liberal  admin- 
istration of  alcohol  and  opium ;  and  before  the  days  of  antiseptics,  he  used  to 
rigorously  insist  upon  the  necessity  of  prolonged  and  frequent  application  of 
soap  and  water,  and  upon  the  use  of  new  and  unused  bandages  for  each  patient. 


94  NORRIS 

In  fact  he  was  so  punctilious  in  these  matters  that  he  was  sometimes  criticised  as 
cranky  on  the  subject. 

Among  the  official  positions  held  by  Dr.  Norris  the  following  may  be  men- 
tioned:  Vice-President  of  the  College  of  Physicians  (1864-75)  !  President  of  the 
P/oard  of  Managers  of  the  Children's  Hospital ;  Consulting  Surgeon  to  the  same 
institution,  and  to  the  Orthopaedic  Hospital ;  President  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  Pennsylvania ;  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  of  the 
Academy  of  Natural  Sciences ;  Director  of  the  Philadelphia  Library  Company, 
and  of  the  Mutual  Assurance  Company,  (Green  Tree)  ;  of  the  Philadelphia  Sav- 
ing Fund  Society,  and  "a  much  consulted  Trustee  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania." 

Dr.   George  W.  Norris  married,  February   i,   1838,  Mary  Pleasants,  daughter 
of  William  Wharton  Fisher,  of  Philadelphia.  He  died  March  4,   1875. 
Issue  of  Dr.  George  W.  and  Mary  P.  (Fisher)  Norris: — 

WiLLi.^M  Fisher  Norris.  b.  Jan.  6,  1839,  d.  Nov.  18,  1901 ;  m.   (first)  Rosa  Clara  Buch- 

mann,  of  whom  presently ; 
Mary  Fisher  Norris.  b.  July  7,  1841,  d.  May  27,  1894;  m.  James  Parsons,  Professor  of 
Law  of  Personal  Property  at  the  Univ.  Pa.,  Feb.  26,  1874 ;  had  issue : 

Lewis  Hines  Parsons,  b.  April  30,  1876;  banker,  of  Philadelphia;  graduate  (A.  B.) 

of   Harv.   Univ. ; 
Mary  Norris  Parsons,  b.  June  18,  1881  ;  m.  Nov.  2,  1908.  J.  RidgT,vay  Reilly. 

William  Fisher  Norris,  M.  D.,  only  son  of  Dr.  George  W.  and  Mary  P. 
(Fisher)  Norris,  born  in  Philadelphia,  January  6,  1839,  graduated  from  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  "with  high  honors",  class  of  1857,  receiving  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts;  two  years  later  that  of  Master  of  Arts,  and  in  1861,  that  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  same  institution.  He  became  a  resident  physician 
of  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and  after  having  served  his  term  there,  passed  the 
examinations  for  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  A.  During  the  greater  part  of  the  Civil 
War  he  was  stationed  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  after  a  short  term  of  service 
was  placed  in  charge  of  Douglas  Hospital,  a  post  which  he  held  until  his  resig- 
nation from  army  in  1865  ;  he  having  been  brevetted  Captain.  While  at  Wash- 
ington, he  inaugurated  the  custom  of  photographing  wounds  and  pathological 
specimens  for  future  records;  he  was  practically  the  first,  in  this  country,  to 
photograph  microscopic  sections.  The  authorities  at  Washington  were  so  im- 
pressed with  the  value  of  this  means  of  recording  case  histories  that  a  special 
bureau  was  established  for  this  purpose.  After  leaving  the  army  Dr.  Norris  went 
to  Europe  to  study  Ophthalmology,  a  branch  of  medical  science  at  that  time 
practically  unknown  in  this  country.  He  spent  several  years  in  Europe,  most  of 
his  time  being  passed  in  Vienna.  Here  it  was  that,  together  with  Professor  Strieker, 
he  published  an  epoch-making  article  "On  the  Inflammation  of  the  Cornea." 

On  his  return  to  this  country  Dr.  Norris  took  up  Ophthalmology  as  a  specialty. 
In  1873  he  was  appointed  Lecturer  on  this  branch  of  medicine  at  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  1876  was  appointed  to  the  newly  established  professorship 
of  Clinical  Ophthalmology.  This  chair  was  later  made  a  full  professorship  and 
held  by  him  until  his  death  in  1901. 

Tn  1872  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  Wills  Eye  Hospital,  a  position  he 
also  held  until  1901,  at  which  time  he  was  appointed  consulting  surgeon,  "as  a 
token  of  respect  for  his  unremitting  labor  as  Attending  Surgeon." 


NORRIS  95 

Conservatism  and  conscientiousness,  rather  than  brilliancy  or  display,  char- 
acterized the  lectures  and  operations  of  Dr.  Norris ;  the  welfare  of  the  patient 
being  always  the  primary  object  in  view.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Uni- 
versity Hospital,  (he,  with  Drs.  Wood  and  Pepper,  being  the  originators  of  the 
plan),  and  for  many  years  was  President  of  its  Board  of  Managers.  He  was 
a  Fellow  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia,  and  for  many  years  one  of 
its  Censors.  In  1877  he  was  president  of  Pathological  Society;  from  1885  to 
1889,  president  of  the  American  Ophthalmological  Society;  a  director  of  the 
Mutual  Assurance  Company;  a  member  of  the  Wistar  Party,  of  the  Academy  of 
Natural  Sciences,  and  the  Philadelphia  Zoological  Society.  He  made  many  con- 
tributions to  medical  literature;  was  senior  author  of  "A  Text  Book  of  Ophthal- 
mology", and  senior  editor  of  "A  System  of  the  Diseases  of  the  Eye."  He  died 
November  18,  1901. 

Dr.  William  Fisher  Norris  married  (first)  July  14,  1873,  Rosa  Clara,  of 
Vienna,  daughter  of  Hieronymus  Buchmann,  who  died  November  i,  1897.  Mar- 
ried (second)  June  12,  1899,  Annetta  Culp,  daughter  of  Col.  George  A.  Eam- 
shaw,  of  Gettysburg,  Pennsylvania.  He  and  his  first  wife  are  buried  at  Laurel 
Hill  Cemetery. 

Issue  of  Dr.  William  F.  and  Rosa  Clara  (Buchmann)  Norris: — 

George  William  Norris,  b.  Jan.  i,  1875;  graduated  at  the  Univ.  Pa.,  (B.  A.)  class  of  1895, 
and  from  medical  department  of  the  same  institution  ( M.  D.)  in  1899;  is  Associate  in 
Medicine  at  the  University;  Assistant  Physician  at  Philadelphia  General,  and  the  Uni- 
versity Hospitals.  Fomerly  Physician  to  Phipps  Institute ;  Fellow  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians, Philadelphia;  Physician  to  Out-patient  Dept.  Penn.  Hospital. 

William  Felix  Norris,  b.  May  6,  T879;  graduated  at  the  Univ.  Pa.  (B.  S.)  class  of  1901 ; 
received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  the  same  institution  in  1904;  was  admitted  to  the 
Philadelphia  bar  in  the  same  year,  and  is  a  practicing  attorney  in  the  city ; 

Lloyd  Buchmann  Norris,  b.  Jan.   19.  1881.  d.  March  30,  1885. 


SHIP  PEN  FAMILY 

Among  those  who,  in  the  second  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  left  Eng- 
land for  the  New  World,  was  Edward  Shippen  of  Methley,  in  the  West  Riding 
of  Yorkshire.  There  is  a  family  tradition,  confirmed  by  a  letter  of  Edward 
Shippen  "of  Lancaster",  written  in  1741,  that  the  Shippens  were  settled  at  Hil- 
1am,  a  hamlet  in  tlie  ancient  parish  of  Monk  Fryston,  in  Yorkshire,  as  early  as 
the  thirteenth  century.  There  is  nothing  further  known  to  prove  this  tradi- 
tion, and  it  may  be  true.  In  any  case,  at  the  dawn  of  the  Reformation  the  Ship- 
pens  were  established  at  Hillam,  in  the  parish  of  Monk  Fryston. 

In  1539  there  is  the  entry,  "Janet  Shippen  christened  the  XXIIth  day"  and, 
between  that  date  and  1678,  there  are  about  forty  Shippen  entries,  the  latest  of 
which  are  in  1622-3  and  1624-5.  There  were  Shippens,  however,  in  many  of 
tlie  villages  adjacent  to  Monk  Fryston,  and  to  this  day  there  is  a  farm-house 
called  Shippen,  in  the  parish  of  Barwick-in-Elmet,  six  or  seven  miles  to  the 
northwest  of  Monk  Fryston.  The  word  'shippen'  is  in  every-day  use  in  agricul- 
tural Yorkshire,  at  the  present  time,  and  denotes  a  partly  covered  cattle-yard, 
and  there  are  persons  bearing  the  name  Shippen  still  to  be  found  in  Leeds  and 
the  neigborhood. 

Monk  Fryston  is  in  the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and  lies  about  thirteen 
miles  southeast  of  Leeds  and  fifteen  miles  south  of  York.  There  William  Ship- 
pen — the  father  of  the  emigrant — appears  to  have  been  born  about  the  year 
1600,  but  by  some  mischance  his  name  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  Alonk  Fryston 
registers.  What  is  certain  is  that  he  migrated  to  Methley.  a  village  about  seven 
miles  to  the  west  of  Monk  Fryston.  and  that  there,  on  July  16,  1626,  he  married 
Mary  Nunnes  or  Nuns. 

William  Shippen,  in  his  new  home  at  Methley,  became  a  man  of  local 
prominence,  for  in  1642,  he  was  overseer  of  the  poor,  and  in  1654.  overseer 
of  highways.  He  died  in  1681  at  Stockport  in  Cheshire,  where  he  was  living 
with  his  son  William.  His  wife,  Mary  Nunnes,  the  daughter  of  John  Nunnes.  of 
a  substantial  yeoman  family  long  established  at  Methley,  was  baptized  at  Meth- 
ley on  October  11,  1592,  and  buried  there  May  26,  1672.  William  Shippen  him- 
self spent  his  declining  years  with  his  son  William,  rector  of  Stockport,  and  died 
there  in  1681.  William  and  Mary  (Nunnes)  Shippen  had  six  children,  all  boni  at 
Methley : — 

Robert  Shippen,  bap.  May  20,  1627; 

Mary  Shippen,  bap.  June  24,  1629; 

Ann  Shippen,  bap.  Nov.  21,  1630; 

Dorathe  Shippen,  bap.  Feb.  9,  1631 ; 

William  Shippen,  bap.  July  2,  1637; 

Edward  Shippen,  bap.  March  5,  1639. 

Of  these,  Robert,  Ann,  and  Dorathe  died  young  at  ^fethlcy,  and  ^fary  married,  in 
1663.  William  Chapman,  of  the  neighboring  town  of  Normanton.  Of  the  two  remaining 
children,  William  remained  in  England  and  Edward  came  to  America. 


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SHIPPEN 


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at  University  College,  Oxford,  receiving  his  B.  A.  in  1656  and  his  M.  A.  in  1659. 
He  was  afterward  Proctor  of  the  University,  1664;  Rector  of  Stockport  in  Ches- 
hire; and  was  the  author  of  "The  Christian's  Triumph  over  Death,"  a  sermon 
preached  at  the  funeral  of  Richard  Leigh,  Esq.  He  died  in  1693,  and  was  buried 
imder  the  chancel  of  the  church.  Rev.  William  Shippen  had  four  sons  and  one 
daughter : — 

Edward  Shippen,  b.  1671,  M.  A.  and  M.  D.,  Brasenose  College,  Oxford,  subsequently  suc- 
ceeded his  brother  Robert  as  Professor  of  Music  at  Gresham  College.  Was  a  physi- 
cian ;  supposedly  m.  Frances,  dau.  of  Peter  Leigh,  of  Lynne  ; 
William  Shippen.  b.  1673  and  d.  1743;  was  bur.  in  St-  Andrew's  Church,  Holborn,  Lon- 
don. Educated  at  Westminster  and  Brasenose  College,  O.xford,  he  was  called  to  the 
Bar  from  the  Middle  Temple  in  1693.  He  sat  in  five  parliaments  from  1716  to  his 
death  in  1743,  and  was  the  incorruptible  leader  of  the  Jacobites.  In  his  speeches  he 
spoke  his  mind  clearly  and  fearlessly,  and  to  such  purpose  that  on  one  occasion,  for 
reflecting  on  the  policy  of  the  King,  he  was  confined  to  the  Tower  of  London.  It  was 
of  him  that  Pope  wrote, — 

"I  love  to  pour  out  all  myself,  as  plain 

As   downright   Shippen,   or  as  old   Montaigne." 

Lord  Dover,  in  his  edition  of  the  letters  of  Sir  Horace  Walpole,  brother  of  Sir  Rob- 
ert Walpole,  says  of  Shippen, — 

"'Honest  Will  Shippen,'  as  he  was  called,  or  'Downright  Shippen.'  as  Pope  terms 
him,  was  a  zealous  Jacobite  member  of  Parliament,  possessed  of  considerable  talents, 
and  a  vehement  opposer  of  Sir  Robert  Walpole's  government.  He.  however,  did 
justice  to  that  able  Minister,  for  he  was  accustomed  to  say,  'Robin  and  I  are  honest 
men;  but  as  for  those  fellows  in  long  perriwigs,'  (meaning  the  Tories  of  the  day) 
'they  only  want  to  get  into  office  themselves.'  He  was  the  author  of  a  satirical  poem 
entitled  'Faction  Displayed,'  which  possesses  considerable  merit." 

Sir  Robert  Walpole  said  of  Shippen,  "Some  are  corrupt,  but  I  will  tell  you  of  one 
who  is  not ;  Shippen  is  not." 

On  one  occasion  the  Prince  of  Wales,  to  show  his  satisfaction  with  a  speech  of 
Shippen,  sent  the  sturdy  Jacobite  leader,  by  General  Churchhill,  Groom  of  the  Bed- 
chamber, a  thousand  pounds  sterling,  which   Shippen  refused. 

Shippen's  character  and  conduct  are  well  illustrated  in  the  report  of  the  proceedings 
in  Parliament,  when  he  was  sent  to  the  Tower. 

"In  this  speech,  Mr.  Shippen  overshot  himself  so  far  in  his  expressions,  as  to  give 
too  much  advantage  against  him,  to  such  as  perhaps  were  not  over-backward  to  lay 
hold  of  it :  His  words  that  gave  the  ofifence  were  to  the  following  purpose,  'That  the 
second  paragraph  of  the  King's  speech  seemed  rather  to  be  calculated  for  the  meridian 
of  Germany,  than  Great  Britain ;  and  that  'twas  a  great  misfortune,  that  the  King  was 
a  Stranger  to  our  language  and  constitution:'  These  expressions  gave  offence  to  sev- 
eral members,  and  in  particular  to  Mr.  Lechmere,  who  having  taken  them  down  in 
writing,  urged.  "That  those  words  were  a  scandalous  invective  against  the  King's  per- 
son and  government,  of  which  the  house  oug-ht  to  shew  the  highest  resentment,  and 
therefore  moved.  That  the  member  who  spoke  those  offensive  words  should  be  sent  to 
the  Tower.'  Mr.  Lechmere  was  seconded  by  Mr.  Cowper.  brother  of  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor, and  back'd  by  Sir  Joseph  Jekyll,  and  some  others :  LTpon  which  Mr.  Robert  Wal- 
pole said,  'That  if  the  words  in  question  were  spoken  by  the  member  on  whom  they 
were  charged,  the  Tower  was  too  light  a  punishment  for  his  rashness ;  but  as  what  he 
had  said  in  the  heat  of  his  debate  might  have  been  misunderstood,  he  was  for  allowing 
him  the  liberty  of  explaining  himself.'  Mr.  Snell,  Mr.  Hutchinson,  and  some  other 
gentlemen,  spoke  also  in  behalf  of  Mr.  Shippen,  intending,  chiefly,  to  give  him  an  op- 
portunity of  retracting  or  excusing  what  he  had  said :  which  Mr.  Shippen  not  thinking 
proper  to  do,  several  speeches  were  made  upon  the  question.  Whether  the  words  taken 
down  in  writing  were  the  same  as  he  had  spoken?  A  gentleman  having  suggested. 
That  there  was  no  precedent  of  a  censure  passed  on  a  member  of  the  house,  for  words 
spoken  in  a  Committee,  Sir  Charles  Hotham  produced  instances  of  the  contrary ;  and. 
on  the  other  hand.  Mr.  Shippen  having  maintained  what  he  had  advanced,  it  was.  at 
last,  resolved  by  a  majority  of  196  votes  against  about  100,  That  the  words  taken  down 
in  writing  were  spoken  by  Mr.  Shippen,  It  was  then  about  nine  o'clock  in  the  even- 
ingt,  and  it  being  moved  and  carried.  That  the  Chairman  leave  the  chair ;  Mr.  Speaker 
resumed  his  place,  and  Mr.  Farrer  reported  from  the  said  Committee.  'That  exceptions 
having  been  taken  to  some  words  spoken  in  the  Committee,  by  William  Shippen,  Esq,, 
a  member  of  the  house,  the  Committee,  had  directed  him  to  report  the  words  to  the 
house.'  Which  being  done  accordingly,  and  candles  ordered  to  be  brought  in.  Mr. 
Shippen  was  heard  in  his  place,  and  then  withdrew.  After  this  it  was  moved,  that  the 
question  might  be  put,  'That  the  words  spoken  by  William  Shippen,  Esq..  (a  member 
of  this  house)  are  highly  dishonorable  to.  and  unjustly  reflecting  on  his  Majesty's  per- 


SHIPPEN 

son  and  government.'  Which  occasioned  a  debate  that  lasted  'till  past  ii  o'clock;  when 
the  question  being  put,  was  carried  in  the  affirmative  by  175  voices  against  81 ;  and 
thereupon  ordered,  'That  William  Shippen,  Esq.,  be,  for  the  said  offence,  committed 
prisoner  to  his  Majesty's  Tower  of  London,  and  that  Mr.  Speaker  do  issue  his  warrant 
accordingly.'  " 

Of  a  speech  by  Shippen  in  the  Commons  (1720)  the  Countess  of  Cowper  writes  in 
her  diary, — 

"Shippen  upbraided  Walpole  terribly  in  Debate  with  having  chid  the  Committee  of 
Supply  for  fear  of  such  an  indiscreet  method  as  this  to  raise  Money,  and  now  with 
moving  and  helping  the  Court  to  it  in  this  manner.  He  spoke  long,  and  very  well — the 
better  for  being  in  the  Right" 

Something  of  his  political  views  are  expressed  in  the  following  speech  in  the  House 
of  Commons : 

"For  my  part  I  am  not  ashamed  nor  afraid  to  affirm,  that  thirty  years  have  made  no 
change  in  any  of  my  political  opinions;  I  am  now  grown  old  in  this  house,  but  that  ex- 
perience which  is  the  consequence  of  age  has  only  confirmed  the  principles  with  which 
I  enter'd  it  many  years  ago ;  time  has  verified  the  predictions  which  I  formerly  utter'd, 
and  I  have  seen  my  conjectures  ripen'd  into  knowledge.  I  should  be  therefore  without 
excuse,  if  either  terror  could  affright,  or  the  hope  of  advantage  allure  me  from  the 
declaration  of  my  opinions ;  opinions,  which  I  was  not  deterred  from  asserting,  when 
the  prospect  of  a  longer  life  than  I  can  now  expect  might  have  added  to  the  tempta- 
tions of  ambition,  or  aggravated  the  terrors  of  poverty  and  disgrace ;  opinions,  for 
which  I  would  willingly  have  suffered  the  severest  censures,  even  when  I  had  espoused 
them  only  in  compliance  with  reason,  without  the  infallible  certainty  of  experience.  Of 
truth  it  has  been  always  observed,  Sir,  that  every  day  adds  to  its  establishment,  and 
that  falsehoods,  however  specious,  however  supported  by  power,  or  established  by  con- 
federacies, are  unable  to  stand  before  the  stroke  of  time :  Against  the  inconveniences 
and  vexations  of  long  life,  may  be  set  the  pleasure  of  discovering  truth,  perhaps  the 
only  pleasure  that  age  affords.  Nor  is  it  a  slight  satisfaction  to  a  man  not  utterly  in- 
fatuated or  depraved,  to  find  opportunities  of  rectifying  his  notions,  and  regulating 
his  conduct  by  new  lights.  But  much  greater  is  the  happiness  of  that  man,  to  whom 
every  day  brings  a  new  proof  of  the  reasonableness  of  his  former  determinations,  and 
who  finds,  by  the  most  unerring  test,  that  his  life  has  been  spent  in  promotion  of  doc- 
trines beneficial  to  mankind.  This,  Sir,  is  the  happiness  which  I  now  enjoy,  and  for 
which  those  who  never  shall  attain  it,  must  look  for  an  equivalent  in  lucrative  employ- 
ment, honorary  titles,  pompous  equipages,  and  splendid  palaces.  These,  Sir,  are  the 
advantages  which  are  to  be  gained  by  a  seasonable  variation  of  principles,  and  by  a 
ready  compliance  with  the  prevailing  fashion  of  opinions ;  advantages,  which  I  indeed 
cannot  envy,  when  they  are  purchased  at  so  high  a  price" ; 
William  Shippen,  m.  Frances,  dau.  of  Sir  Richard  Stote ; 

Robert  Shippen,  b.  1675.  Received  his  M.  A.  July  22,  1693,  was  Fellow  of  Brasenose, 
and  Professor  of  Music  at  Gresham  College;  he  held  several  preferments.  In  1710  he 
became  Principal  of  Brasenose,  and  in  1718  Vice-chancellor  of  Oxford  University.  Bur. 
in  Brasenose  Chapel,  where  there  is  his  bust  and  an  epitaph  in  Latin  by  Dr.  Frewin,  of 
which  the  following  is  a  free  translation : 

"Robert  Shippen,  Professor  of  Sacred  Theology 

Who  amongst  the  Mertonians 

Well   Versed  in   the  knowledge  of  I-iterature 

And  the  rules  of  Philosophy. 

Was  first  a  Fellow  of  this  College 

Afterwards  for  Thirty  Five  Years 

Warden 

Meanwhile   five   times   vice-Chancellor   of   the   University. 

A  man,   if  ever   such  there  was, 

Prompt,  diligent  and  faithful 

In  promoting  the  interests  &  advantage  of  his  friends 

Careful,  expert  and  unwearied 

In  enlarging  the  revenue  &  emoluments  of  the  College 

Watchful,   bold   and   resolute 

In  maintaining  and  defending  the  rights  &  privileges  of  the  University. 

Died  24   November   A.   D.    1745— Aged   70  years. 
Most  deeply  lamented  by  his  friends,  the  College  and  the  University." 


"William    Seyborne    Esquire 

A  nephew  by  a  sister 

To  his  greatly  revered  Uncle 

And  who  honored  him  living  and  dead. 

Hath  erected 
This  memorial  of  his  love  and  dutv." 


SHIPPEN  99 

The  tablet  is  about  eight  feet  in  length,  surmounted  with  a  bust  of  Robert  Shippen, 
terminating  with  the  shield  of  the  Shippen  coat-of-arms.  There  appears  to  have  been  a 
certain  degree  of  intimacy  between  Robert  and  his  American  cousin,  Joseph,  His 
book-plate  is  preserved  in  the  American  branch  of  the  family; 

John  Shippen,  bap.  by  his  father  at  Stockport  July  5,  1678.  Was  a  merchant  in  Spain, 
and  British  consul  at  Lisbon ;  d.  unm.  Sept.,  1747 ;  bur.  in  St.  Andrew's,  Holborn, 
London ; 

Anne  Shippen,  named  for  Edward  Willes,  one  of  the  Judges  of  Court  of  King's  Bench, 
1767,  m.  Anne  Taylor,  dau.  of  Anne,  sister  of  William  Shippen,  M.  P. 

Edward  Shippen,  the  emigrant,  was  baptized  on  March  5,  1639,  at  Methley, 
not  far  from  the  manufacturing  city  of  Leeds  ;  the  Loidis-in-Elmet  of  Saxon  days. 
The  name  Methley  probably  originally  meant  the  middle  pasture  land  between 
the  rivers  Calder  and  Aire.  To-day  Methley  Church  is  almost,  excepting  the 
steeple,  which  is  an  eighteenth-century  addition,  as  it  was  when  Edward  Ship- 
pen  lived  at  Methley.  He  came  over  to  America  and  settled  in  Boston  in  1668. 
There  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  with  much  success.  In  1669  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  showing  that  he  was 
still  at  that  time  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Church  of  England.  Two  years 
later  he  married  Elizabeth  Lybrand,  a  Quarkeress;  this  marriage  led  him  to 
become  a  Quaker.  Owing  to  his  new  religion,  he  was  subjected  to  severe  perse- 
cution, and  in  1677,  was  twice  "publickly  whipped."  In  various  ways  he  was 
subjected  to  great  annoyance,  until  finally,  about  1693-4,  he  decided  to  take 
refuge  in  Pennsylvania. 

It  would  seem  to  have  taken  him  about  a  year  to  perfect  the  disposal  of  his 
estate  in  Boston  and  transfer  it  to  Philadelphia.  In  this  latter  city  his  wealth, 
his  fine  personal  appearance,  his  house  on  Second  street,  styled  "a  princely 
mansion",  his  talents,  and  his  high  character,  speedily  obtained  for  him  such  posi- 
tion and  influence  that  on  July  9,  1695,  he  was  elected  Speaker  of  the  Assem- 
bly; in  1699  he  was  made  Chief-Justice,  and  on  October  25,  1701,  William 
Penn  named  him  in  the  charter  as  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia.  Penn,  as 
is  well  known,  gave  most  anxious  consideration  to  his  selection  of  officers  to 
govern  the  new  city.  He  thoroughly  appreciated  the  importance  of  a  correct 
choice.  It  was,  to  borrow  a  military  phrase,  the  base-line  in  his  operations. 
The  success  of  his  whole  enterprise  turned  upon  it,  the  consciousness  of  which, 
apart  from  any  other  motives,  political  or  philanthropic,  was  sufficient  to  stimu- 
late him  to  the  utmost  caution  and  deliberation  in  his  choice  of  incumbents.  In 
Edward  Shippen  he  found  a  man  of  courage,  energy,  integrity,  intelligence,  and 
sagacity ;  whose  unspotted  moral  character  was  ample  earnest  to  the  citizens  that 
the  executive  power  would  be  exercised  with  the  strictest  justice  and  fidelity ; 
whose  active  business  habits  and  bravery  equally  assured  them  of  the  chief  mag- 
istrate's resolution  and  promptness,  whilst  his  high  social  position  gave  dignity 
to  the  office. 

From  1702  to  1704  Edward  Shippen  was  President  of  the  Governor's  Council, 
and  for  six  months,  when  there  was  no  Governor  in  the  Province,  he  was  acting 
Governor.  In  1706  he  contracted  his  third  marriage,  which  led  to  his  separation 
from  the  Society  of  Friends.  After  that,  apparently,  he  retired  from  public  life, 
except  that  he  continued  to  advise  upon  public  afifairs,  as  is  shown  by  Penn's  let- 
ter dated  24th,  5th  month,  1712,  where  Edward  Shippen  is  addressed,  in  con- 
nection with  Isaac  Norris,  Thomas  Story,  and  others.  Edward  Shippen  died  at 
Philadelphia,  October  2,  1712. 


loo  SHIPPEN 

No  one  could  wish  to  detract  in  the  shghtest  degree  from  Penn's  merits ;  but 
we  are  taught  to  render  "honor  to  whom  honor  is  due."  In  doing  so,  we  must 
needs  say  that  a  great,  if  not  the  greatest,  portion  of  the  glory  of  building  up  the 
commonwealth  which  was  "founded  by  deeds  of  peace"  is  due  to  Shippen,  Nor- 
ris,  and  Logan,  and  men  like  them;  the  men  who,  here,  in  the  new  country 
itself,  fostered  commerce,  developed  the  resources  of  the  Province,  set  the  best 
of  examples,  by  disdaining  no  proper  toil  in  their  respective  vocations,  yet  neg- 
lected not  the  refinements  and  graces  of  letters  and  polite  society. 

Edward  Shippen  married  (first),  1671,  Elizabeth  Lybrand,  of  Boston;  they 
had  eight  children,  from  whom  are  descended  the  Shippen  family  in  America. 
She  having  died,  October  25,  1688,  he  married  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1689,  Rebecca,  widow  of  Francis  Richardson,  of  New  York,  and 
daughter  of  John  Howard,  of  Yorkshire.  Her  sister  ]\Iary,  who  had  married 
(first)  Thomas,  son  of  William  Coddington,  Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  had  just 
prior  to  Edward  Shippen's  removal  to  Philadelphia,  become  third  wife  of 
Anthony  Morris,  at  that  time  a  leading  merchant  of  Philadelphia.  Edward 
Shippen  took  up  his  residence  in  a  fine  mansion  on  the  west  side  of  Second  street, 
north  of  Spruce,  and  had  a  fine  "country  house"  at  Broad  and  South  streets,  his 
property  extending  along  the  south  side  of  the  old  city  as  far  west  as  Sixteenth 
street  and  east  to  Front  street.  William  Penn  spent  much  of  his  time  at  Ship- 
pen's  house  on  Second  street,  on  the  occasion  of  his  second  visit  to  Pennsyl- 
vania. His  spacious  lawn  extending  down  to  Dock  Creek,  on  which  he  main- 
tained a  herd  of  deer,  and  his  orchard  of  choice  fruits  were  famous  in  their  day. 

Among  the  descendants  of  Edward  Shippen  and  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Ly- 
brand, many  reached  positions  of  influence  and  distinction,  both  under  the  Colon- 
ial and  the  State  governments.  Some  account  of  their  distinguished  services  will 
be  given  later  in  this  narrative.  Mr.  Shippen's  second  wife,  Rebecca  (Howard) 
Richardson,  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  26,  1704-5,  and  in  1706  he  married 
(third)  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Thomas  James,  from  Bristol,  England,  daughter  of 
John  Wilcox.  This  marriage  separated  him  from  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
about  this  time  he  also  retired  from  public  afifairs,  except  that  he  continued  to  be 
the  confidential  adviser  of  Penn  in  some  matters  of  state  as  shown  by  Penn's 
letter  of  5mo.  24,  1712.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  October  2,  1712.  His  third 
wife  survived  him,  dying  in  Philadelphia,  August  7,  1724.  His  only  child  by 
the  second  marriage  was  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  born  at  Boston,  October  20, 
1691,  and  died  there  August  8,  1692.  By  the  third  marriage  he  had  two  sons, 
John,  1707,  died  same  year;  and  William,  born  Philadelphia,  October  3,  1708, 
died  February  3,  1730-1,  unmarried.  His  descendants  therefore  are  through  his 
first  marriage,  with  Elizabeth  Lybrand. 

Issue  of  Edzvard  and  Elizabeth    {Lybrand)   Shippen: — 

Frances,  b.  Feb.  2.  1672,  d.  April  9,  1673; 

Edward,  b,  Oct.  2,  1674,  d.  Nov.  2,  1674; 

William,  b.  Oct.  4,  1675,  d.  1676; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  21.  1676,  d.  Aug.  16,  1688; 

Edward,  b.  Feb.  10,  1677-8;  d.  in  Philadelphia.  Dec.  29.  1714;  m.  Fancenia  Vanderheyden 

of  Maryland,   had   dau.   Margaret,   who   m.   Jeykill.     It   was   to  him   that   his 

father  devised  ancestral  estate  at  Hillam,  Yorkshire; 
Joseph,  b.   Feb.  28,    1678-9,   d.   in   Philadelphia,   June    1741 ;   m.    (first)    Abigail   Grosse; 

(second)   Rose  ^McWilliams :  of  whom  presently; 


SHIPPEN  loi 

Mary,  b.  May  6,  1681,  d.  Aug.  30,   1688; 

Ann,  b.  June  17,  1684,  d.  s.  p.  Dec.  6,  1712;  m.  July  10,  1706,  Thomas  Story,  (first)  Re- 
corder of  Philadelphia,  named  as  such  m  Charter  of  1701 ;  Master  of  Rolls,  1700-2; 
Keeper  of  Seal,  same  period;  Provincial  Councillor,  1700-1706;  and  one  of  Commis- 
sioners of  Property;  d.  1742,  in  England;  elected  Mayor,  but  refused  to  serve. 

Joseph  Shippen,  son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Lybrand)  Shippen,  born  at 
Boston,  February  28,  1678-8,  remained  in  Boston  after  the  removal  of  his  father 
to  Philadelphia,  and  married  there,  July  28,  1703,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Grosse,  of  Huguenot  descent.  They  removed  to  Philadelphia  in 
1704,  his  wife  died  there  June  28,  1716,  and  he  married  (second)  Rose,  widow 
cf  John  McWilliams,  also  widow  of  Charles  Plumly.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Sarah  Budd,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  where  she  was  born 
March  13,  1680-1.  Joseph  Shippen  resided  a  time  in  Philadelphia,  removing 
later  to  Germantown.  Resided  at  "Buttowood  Farm,"  formerly  the  "Roebuck 
Tavern."  In  1727  Joseph  Shippen  joined  Dr.  Franklin  in  the  formation  of 
the  "Junto"  founded  "for  mutual  information  and  the  promotion  of  the  public 
Good,"  which  was  the  forerunner  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  founded 
in  1743.  He  was  an  energetic  and  industrious  business  man,  was  very  prominent 
in  the  commercial  and  social  life  of  Philadelphia,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in 
science  and  literature.  He  died  at  Germantown,  June,  1741.  His  children,  all 
by  the  first  wife,  were : — 

Edward,  known  as  "Edward  Shippen  of  Lancaster,"  b.  Boston,  July  9,  1703,  d.  Lancas- 
ter,  Sept.  25,   1781 ;  m.    (first)    Sarah   Pluniley;    (second)    Mary    (Gray)    Rowland,   of 
whom  presently; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Philadelphia,  April  17,  1705,  d.  there  June  8,  1714; 

Joseph,  known  as  "Gentleman  Joe,"  b.  Philadelphia,  Nov.  28,  1706,  d.  Germantown,  July, 
1793;  subscriber  to  the  Dancing  Assembly,  1748;  led  a  "gay  and  luxurious  life";  was 
member  of  Common   Council  of   Philadelphia   from  Oct.    1742,  many  years;   m.   Mary 
Kearney ; 
William,  b.  Aug.  31,  1708,  d.  Dec.  29,  1716; 
Anne,  b.  Philadelphia,  Aug.  5,  1710,  m.  Charles  Willing; 

Dr.  William  Shippen  Sr.,  b.  Philadelphia,  Oct.  i,  1712,  d.  Nov.  4,  1801 ;  one  of  first 
physicians  of  Pa.  Hospital ;  one  of  founders  of  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  member 
sixty  years ;  elected  American  Philosophical  Society,  1767,  later  its  Vice-president ;  had 
been  member  of  Franklin's  "Junto" ;  elected  by  Pa.  Assembly  to  Continental  Congress 
Nov.  20,  1778,  re-elected  Nov.  13,  1779.  M.  Susannah,  b.  Philadelphia,  June  30,  171 1, 
d.  there  1774.  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Katharine   (Noble)    Harrison; 

Dr.  William  Shippen  Jr.,  son  Dr.  William  Sr.,  b.  Philadelphia  Oct.  21,  1736,  grad- 
uated at  College  of  N.  J.  (Princeton),  1754,  valedictorian  of  class;  studied  med- 
icine with  father  until  1758,  then  went  to  England  and  pursued  his  studies  there; 
took  degree  M.  D,  at  Univ.  of  Edinburg,  1761  ;  returned  to  Philadelphia  May, 
1762,  and  on  advice  of  his  father  commenced  course  of  lectures  on  anatomy, 
the  first  ever  delivered  in  America,  continued  until  appointed,  Sept.  23,  1765, 
Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery  of  Medical  Dept.  of  College  of  Philadelphia, 
founded  by  him.  July  15,  1776,  appointed  Chief  Physician  of  Flying  Camp,  and 
March,  1777,  laid  before  Congress  a  plan  for  organization  of  Hospital  Dept. 
for  the  army,  which,  with  slight  modifications,  was  adopted,  and  he  was  ap- 
pointed, April  II,  1777,  "Director  General  of  all  the  Military  Hospitals,  for  the 
Army  of  the  United  States ;"  On  reorganization  of  College  of  Philadelphia  as 
Univ.  of  Pa.  elected  May  11,  1780,  Professor  of  Anatomy,  Surgery  and  Mid- 
wifery, which  he  held  until  resignation,  1806.  Was  an  originator  of  Philadel- 
phia "College  of  Physicians,  1787.  and  its  president  1805  to  death,  July  11,  1808. 
M.  in  London,  1760,  Alice,  youngest  dau.  of  Col.  Thomas  Lee,  Governor  of  Vir- 
ginia, by  his  wife  Hannah  Ludwell.  and  sister  to  Richard  Henry.  Lightfoot,  and 
Arthur  Lee.  She  was  b.  in  Virginia,  June  4,  1736.  d.  Philadelphia  March  25, 
1801. 
Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  28,  1714,  d.  Dec.  3,  1714. 

Edward  Shippen,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Gosse)  Shippen,  gener- 


I02  SHIPPEN 

ally  known  as  "Edward  Shippen  of  Lancaster",  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  July  9, 
1703,  was  reared  in  Philadelphia  to  mercantile  pursuits,  in  1732  became  a  part- 
ner of  James  Logan,  under  firm  name  of  Logan  &  Shippen,  and  in  1749,  engaged 
in  the  fur  trade  with  Thomas  Lawrence,  under  title  of  Shippen  and  Lawrence. 
He  was  elected  to  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia  October  3,  1732,  was  elected 
by  that  body  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen  October  4,  1743,  and  a  year  later  was 
elected  Mayor  of  the  city.  He  was  an  accomplished  scholar,  a  cultured  gentle- 
man, and  was  very  much  esteemed  throughout  the  Province.  He  was  a  founder 
of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  L'niversity,  and  was  a  trustee 
twenty  years.  He  became  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  in 
1768,  of  which  his  son  Edward  was  also  a  member.  On  engaging  in  the  fur 
trade  in  1749,  he  removed  to  Lancaster,  and  became  an  extensive  landed  pro- 
prietor on  the  then  frontier  of  Pennsylvania.  He  laid  out  the  town  of  Shippens- 
burg,  named  for  him.  He  was  appointed  Prothonotary  of  Lancaster  county, 
March  28,  1753,  held  that  office  until  the  Revolution,  and  was  also  clerk  of  the 
other  courts  of  the  county,  as  well  as  Justice  of  the  County  and  Provincial 
Courts. 

During  the  French  and  Indian  wars  he  filled  the  position  of  paymaster  and 
Commissary  of  the  British  and  Provincial  troops,  under  Generals  Forbes  and 
Stanwix  and  Col.  Bouquet,  and  managed  the  purchase  of  supplies  for  the  sev- 
eral expeditions  with  so  much  thoroughness,  integrity  and  tact,  as  to  receive  the 
public  thanks  for  his  services  in  1760.  In  fact  he  discharged  all  his  public  duties 
in  a  manner  eminently  praiseworthy  and  honorable,  and  in  his  private  inter- 
course always  showed  himself  so  virtuous  and  upright  as  to  merit  and  hold  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  At  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Revolutionary  struggle  he  was  too  old  to  take  a  prominent  part,  either  in 
the  field  or  in  the  Committee  of  Safety,  but  nevertheless,  always  expressed  him- 
self warmly  in  behalf  of  the  Colonies,  and  gave  material  aid.  He  had  an 
unswerving  faith  in  the  ultimate  success  of  the  cause  of  independence,  even  in 
the  darkest  days  of  the  struggle,  but  did  not  live  to  see  it  achieved.  He  died  at 
Lancaster,  September  25,  1781.  He  married  (first),  September  20,  1725,  Sarah, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  November  8,  1706,  died  there  April  28,  1735,  daughter  of 
Charles  Plumley  by  his  wife  Rose  Budd,  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Joseph  Shippen,  father  of  Edward.  He  married  (second),  in  August,  1747, 
Mary,  widow  of  John  Nowland,  and  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Gray,  of 
Philadelphia.  She  was  born  in  London,  England,  January  13,  1705-6,  and  died 
at  Lancaster  May  3,  1778.  His  children  were  all  by  the  first  wife. 
Issue  of  Edzvard  and  Sarah   (Plumley)   Shippen: — 

Elizabeth  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia.  Aug.   17.   1726,  d.  Aug.  29.   1726; 

Joseph  and  Benjamin,  twins,  d.  inf.,  Sept.  6,  1727; 

Edward  Shippen,  b  Philadelphia,  Feb.  16,  1728-9;  Provincial  Councillor,  Chief  Justice, 
etc.,  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah  Shippen,  b.  Feb.  22,  i7.?o-i.  d.  at  "Tinian",  her  husband's  seat  near  Harris- 
burg,  Pa.,  Sept.  17,  1784;  m.  May  14.  1748,  Col.  James  Burd.  of  Provincial  service  and 
Revolution;  of  whom  later; 

Joseph  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Oct.  30,  1732;  Colonel  in  Provincial  service;  Secretary 
Provincial  Council ;  Judge  of  Lancaster  County  Courts,  etc. ;  m.  Jane  Galloway ;  of 
whom  also,  later ; 

Rose  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Sept.  10,  1734.  d.  Sept.  30,  1734. 


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Edward  Shippen,  eldest  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Plumley)  Shippen,  born 
in  Philadelphia  February  16,  1728-9;  through  the  trying  ordeal  of  the  struggle 
for  independence,  he  entertained  views  entirely  at  variance  with  those  of  the 
then  dominant  party,  and  took  no  part  in  the  struggle,  nevertheless,  through  a 
long  and  useful  career,  rendered  to  his  Province  and  State  as  distinguished  ser- 
vices as  any  of  his  distinguished  family,  and  held  throughout,  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  her  people.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Tench  Francis,  Esq.,  then 
the  most  learned  and  prominent  member  of  Philadelphia  Bar.  His  father,  real- 
izing he  could  not  fit  himself  for  a  high  position  in  the  practice  of  that  profes- 
sion in  America,  sent  him  to  England  in  the  early  part  of  1749,  to  pursue  his 
legal  studies  there.  He  was  entered  as  a  student  at  the  Middle  Temple,  London, 
and  in  1750,  was  admitted  to  practice  as  a  barrister.  On  May  14,  1750,  he  sailed 
for  home,  and  on  his  arrival  in  Philadelphia,  at  once  took  up  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  profession.  His  rare  talents  and  learning  soon  procured  him  a  fair 
amount  of  business  at  the  local  bar,  and  on  September  25,  1750,  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  on  his  diploma  from  the 
Middle  Temple,  London,  and  he  soon  after  had  charge  of  a  number  of  important 
cases  in  that  tribunal.  On  November  22,  1752,  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the 
Court  of  Admiralty  at  Philadelphia,  then  an  important  and  lucrative  position. 
He  took  a  lively  interest  in  Provincial  afifairs,  and  in  1756,  was  appointed  by 
Provincial  Council,  with  a  number  of  others,  to  pacify  the  people  of  Lancaster, 
then  in  a  turmoil  over  Indian  afifairs.  On  September  24,  1765,  he  was  appointed 
Prothonotary  of  the  Supreme  Court,  a  position  that  does  not  seem  to  have  pre- 
vented him  from  enjoying  a  large  practice  in  that  court.  On  December  12, 
1770,  he  was  appointed  to  the  Provincial  Council,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
its  deliberations,  until  it  went  out  of  existence  with  the  Provincial  government 
in   1776. 

With  the  coming  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  followed  by  the  Supreme  Exec- 
utive Council,  as  the  ruling  power  in  the  State,  Judge  Shippen  was  of  course 
deprived  of  his  several  offices  and  the  disturbance  and  uncertainties  of  the  change 
of  government  then  succeeding,  left  little  time  or  thought  for  litigation,  so  that 
his  practice  ceased  to  bring  in  any  revenue,  and  he  retired  with  his  family  to  the 
Falls  of  the  Schuylkill,  and  lived  in  quiet  retirement.  While  he  resented  and 
abhored  the  oppressive  measures  which  the  dominant  party  in  England  had  un- 
wisely imposed  upon  the  Colonies,  his  education  and  profession  and  its  practice 
had  engendered  in  him  the  highest  respect  for  the  English  laws  and  the  preroga- 
tives of  the  Crown,  and  felt  that  a  total  separation  from  the  mother  country 
would  be  ruinous  to  his  beloved  province  and  her  institutions.  He  was,  however, 
loyal  to  the  existing  authorities  in  his  native  state  and  freely  gave  and  kept  his 
parole,  to  hold  no  communication  with  her  enemies  and  remain  in  or  near  his  own 
house,  remaining  entirely  impassive  and  neutral;  an  attitude  he  strenuously  main- 
tained throughout  the  war.  When  the  British  took  possession  of  the  city  of  Phil- 
adelphia, he  returned  to  his  city  house,  and  was  on  terms  of  intimacy  with  a  num- 
ber of  the  English  officers.  His  accomplished  and  beautiful  daughters  received 
much  attention  from  the  gallant  young  English  cavaliers,  with  whom  they  were 
thrown  in  contact.  They  were,  however,  not  permitted  to  attend  the  "Meschi- 
anza",  the  brilliant  fete  designed  by  Major  Andre  just  before  Gen.  Howe's  de- 
parture for  England ;  though  it  is  believed  that  his  repugnance  to  their  appear- 


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ing  in  the  immodest  costume  they  were  expected  to  wear,  had  more  to  do  with 
his  refusal  than  questions  of  state  or  loyalty. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  his  means  were  much  impaired  and  he  purposed  to 
remove  his  family  to  Lancaster  in  order  to  reduce  the  cost  of  living.  With  the 
coming  of  peace,  however,  differences  of  opinion  were  largely  forgotten,  and 
by  reason  of  his  well  known  ability  and  integrity,  he  was  appointed  ^lay  i,  1784, 
President  Judge  of  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Philadelphia,  and  on  September 
16  of  the  same  year,  was  made  one  of  the  judges  of  the  High  Court  of  Errors 
and  Appeals,  filling  both  positions  until  the  abolition  of  the  latter  by  the  adoption 
of  the  new  constitution  in  1790.  In  addition  having  been  elected  Justice  of  Dock 
Ward,  October  13,  1785,  he  was  commissioned  on  the  following  day  by  the  Su- 
preme Executive  Council,  President  Judge  of  the  Quarter  Sessions  and  General 
Jail  Delivery ;  but  having  little  taste  for  the  petty  criminal  trials  that  came  before 
him,  he  asked  to  be  relieved  of  that  office  a  year  latter.  January  29,  1791,  he 
was  appointed  Associate  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  and  held  that  position  until 
1799,  when  Chief  Justice  Thomas  McKean,  having  become  Governor,  appointed 
Judge  Shippen  to  the  position  of  Chief  Justice,  vacated  by  his  election.  He 
served  as  Chief  Justice  until  the  close  of  the  year  1805,  when  the  infirmities  of 
age  induced  him  to  resign  and  he  died  suddenly,  April  16,  1806,  and  was  buried 
at  Christ  Church  with  high  honors.  Judge  Shippen  was  a  man  of  large  views, 
sound,  practical  common  sense  which  tolerated  and  respected  the  views  and  opin- 
ions of  others,  though  he  could  not  share  them,  when  convinced  that  they  were 
honestly  held  and  expressed.  His  great  experience,  learning  and  talents,  his 
undoubted  integrity,  his  patience  and  industry,  his  careful  discrimination  and 
conscientious  love  of  justice,  made  him  just  such  a  judge  as  the  state  needed  as 
she  launched  into  independent  statehood  under  new  laws  and  new  conditions. 
He  was  not  one  of  those  brilliant  meteors  that  have  periodically  flashed  upon 
the  forensic  horizon,  but  a  plain,  practical,  conscientious  jurist  of  unquestioned 
ability  and  fairness.  He  was  a  member  of  American  Philosophical  Society.  He 
married  at  Christ  Church.  Philadelphia,  November  29,  1753,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Attorney  Gen.  Tench  Francis  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Turbett.  She  was  born 
in  Talbot  county,  Maryland,  August  17.  1735,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  ]\Iay 
28,   1794. 

Issue  of  Edicard  and  Margaret    (Francis)    Shippen: — 

Elizabeth  Shippen.  b.  Sept.  15,  1754,  m.  her  cousin  Col.  Edward,  son  of  Col.  James  and 

Sarah   (Shippen)   Burd,  of  whom  later; 
Sarah  Shippen.  b.  Feb.  i,  1756,  d.  1831 :  m.  Sept.  21.  1787,  Thomas  Lea  of  Philadelphia, 

son  of  Thomas  and  Eleanor  Lea,   from   Dublin,   Ireland ;  b.  in   Philadelphia,  July  26, 

1757,  d.  there,  Sept.  22.  1793; 
Marv  Shippen,  b.  Aug.  15,   1757,  became  the  second  wife  of  Dr.  William  Mcllvaine,  of 

Biirlington,  N.  J. ; 
Enw.^RD  Shippen,  M.  D.,  b.  Dec.  11,  1758,  d.  Burlington,  N.  J..  Oct.  22.  i8og;  m.  Elizabeth 

Juliana  Footman ;  of  whom  presently : 
Margaret  Shippen,  b.  July  11,  1760,  d.  in  London,  England.  Aug.  24.   1804:  m.  .\pril  8. 

1779,  Gen.  Benedict  Arnold,  then  commanding  the  Continental  forces  in  Philadelphia; 
John  Francis  Shippen,  b.  Nov.  24,  1762;  bur.  Jan.  8,  1763; 
James  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Oct.  9,  1766;  bur.  Nov.  10.  1769. 

Edv.^rd  Shippen,  M.  D.,  only  surviving  son  of  the  Chief  Justice,  born  in 
Philadelphia  December  it,  1758,  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with 


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degree  of  A.  B.,  and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine,  taking  degree  of  M.  D. 
at  University  of  Edinburg.  After  traveling  a  short  time  on  the  continent,  he 
returned  to  Philadelphia  and  took  up  the  practice  of  medicine  there,  settling  for 
a  time  at  White  Marsh,  Mongomery  county,  and  later  removed  to  Burlington, 
2\'ew  Jersey,  where  he  practiced  until  his  death,  October  22,  1809.  He  mar- 
ried at  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  November  23,  1785,  Elizabeth  Juliana,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  January  21,  1762,  died  August  17,  1848,  daughter  of  Thoma<=. 
and  Eleanor  Footman  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Edzvard  and  Elizabeth    (Footman)   Shippen: — 

Margaret  Shippen,  b.  Phil<idelphia,  Oct.  18,  1786,  d.  unm..  Burlington,  N.  J.,  July  23,  1853; 

Elizabeth  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Dec.  16,  1787,  d.  unm.,  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Aug.  11,  1871 ; 

Edward  Shippen,  b.  Upper  Merion,  Montgomery  county,  Pa.,  Feb.  22,  1789,  d.  unm.  Lou- 
isville, Ky.,  Dec.  23,  1832.  Was  an  official  of  U.  S.  Bank  at  Philadelphia,  when  in  its 
full  tide  of  success,  went  to  Louisville  to  establish  a  branch  bank,  and  was  stricken  with 
Asiatic  cholera ; 

Mary  Coxe  Shippen,  b.  Upper  Merion,  April  23,  1790.  d.  unm.  in  Philadelphia,  Dec. 
29,  1871 ; 

Anne  Coxe  Shippen,  b.  Upper  Merion,  May  20,  1792,  d.  s.  p.,  Belvidere,  N.  J.,  Aug.  13. 
1836;  third  wife  of  Richard  H.  B.  Mitchell; 

Richard  Shippen,  b.  Upper  Merion,  Feb.  2.  1795,  d.  Burlington.  N.  J.,  May  18,  1868, 
of  whom  presently; 

Sarah  Shippen,  b.  Burlington.  Feb.  7,  1798,  d.  unm.  Dec.  1819. 

Ricn.vRD  Shippen,  youngest  son  of  Dr.  Edward  Shippen,  born  at  White 
Marsh,  Upper  Merion  township,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  February 
2,  1795.  was  sent  to  India  and  China  when  a  mere  boy,  and  succeeded  to  the 
command  of  an  East  Indiaman,  when  barely  of  age.  He  followed  the  sea  for 
some  fifteen  years,  and  had  quite  a  reputation  as  a  navigator.  On  his  marriage, 
i«2S,  he  left  the  sea,  and  settled  as  "Singletree",  near  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 
On  the  inception  of  the  Camden  &  Amboy  Railroad,  he  became  connected  with 
that  enterprise,  and  remained  with  the  company  until  his  death,  a  period  of  forty 
years,  during  which  he  resided  some  time  at  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  later  in 
Philadelphia,  and  finally  at  his  seat  "Green  Bank"  in  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  died  May  8,  1868.  He  married  (first),  March  8,  1825, 
Anna  Elizabeth,  only  child  of  Lawrence  Farmer  of  White  Marsh,  Montgomery 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  promi- 
nent families  of  that  section,  who  was  the  mother  of  his  children.  He  married 
(second)  Catharine,  daughter  of  Francis  Binney,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia. 
Issue  of  Ricliard  and  Anna  Elisabeth  (Fanner)  Shippen  : — 

Edward  Shippen,  M.  D.,  b.  New  Jersey,  1826,  present  head  of  the  Shippen  family  in 
America.  Graduated  at  Princeton  with  degree  of  A.  B..  entered  Medical  Dept.  of 
Univ.  Pa.,  and  received  degree  of  M.  D.  He  entered  U.  S.  N.  as  Assistant  Surgeon 
Aug.  7,  1849,  and  was  commissioned  Surgeon  April  26,  1861.  On  March  8,  1862,  he  was 
on  the  "CongJ-ess"  off  Newport  News,  Va.,  when  she  was  destroyed  by  the  "Merrimac", 
and  was  injured  bv  a  shell.  In  1864-5,  he  was  on  the  iron-clad  frigate,  "New  Iron- 
sides" in  both  battles  of  Fort  Fisher,  and  in  operations  at  Bermuda  Hundred.  He 
made  the  Russian  cruise  with  Admiral  Farragut,  1871-3;  was  commissioned  Medical 
Inspector  in  187=;.  Surgeon  of  European  Squadron,  1871-3.  He  was  Surgeon  of  U.  S. 
Navy  Yard,  Philadelphia,  1873-4;  had  charge  of  Navy  Hospital.  Philadelphia,  1874-5; 
was  commissioned  Naval  Medical  Director,  1876,  and  President  of  Naval  Examinmg 
Board,  1880.     M.  Mary  Catherine,  dau.  of  Dr.  J.  Rodman  Paul; 

William  Watson  Shippen,  b.  New  Jersey,  m.  Georgiana  E.  Morton; 

Richard   Shippen,  d.  y. 


io6  SHIPPEN 

Anna  Elizabeth  Shippen,  m.  Robert  M.  Lewis  Jr.,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Nov.  7,  1822,  son 
of  Lawrence  and  Anna  Mary  (Stocker)  Lewis.     Issue: — 

Lawrence  Lewis  Jr.,  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1876;  b.  in  Philadelphia,  June  20, 
1856,  d.  Frazer,  Chester  co..  Pa..  Sept.  2,  1896 ;  principal  counsel  for  French 
Spoliation  Claimants ;  member  Historical  Society  of  Pa.,  author  "Original  Ti- 
tles in  Philadelphia",  "History  of  Bank  of  North  America",  "Memoir  of  Ed- 
ward Shippen,  Chief  Justice  of  Pennsylvania" ;  editor  of  "American  and  Eng- 
lish Corporation  Cases",  "American  and  English  Railroad  Cases."  M.  Dora,  dau. 
of  Henry  R.  Kelly,  of  Philadelphia ; 

Anne    Shippen    Lewis. 

Sarah  Shippen,  only  surviving  daughter  of  Edward  Shippen  of  Lancaster, 
by  his  wife  Sarah  Plumley,  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  22.  1730-1,  married. 
May  14,  1748,  Col.  James  Burd,  born  at  Ormiston,  near  Edinburg,  Scotland, 
March  10,  1726,  son  of  Edward  and  Jane  (Halliburton)  Burd,  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  the  Lord  Provost  of  Edinburgh.  He  came  to  Pennsylvania  when  a 
young  man,  and  on  his  marriage  located  on  a  farm  in  Lancaster  county.  He 
entered  the  Provincial  service  at  the  first  outbreak  of  hostilities  with  the  French 
and  Indians,  was  commissioned  Lieutenant  Colonel,  1755;  Major,  December  3, 
1757,  and  Colonel,  May  28,  1758.  In  December,  1756,  he  was  placed  in  coin- 
mand  at  Fort  Augusta,  and  his  daily  journal  from  December  8,  1756,  to  October 
14,  1757,  published  in  the  Pennsylvania  Archives,  gives  a  vivid  picture  of  the 
state  of  affairs  in  the  frontiers  of  Pennsylvania  in  those  troublous  times.  He 
served  with  especial  distinction  throughout  the  different  Provincial  wars,  and 
was  a  Justice  of  Lancaster  county,  1764-73.  When  the  first  clouds  of  the  strug- 
gle against  the  oppression  of  the  inother  country  appeared  on  the  horizon,  he 
came  at  once  to  the  front  in  his  own  country.  He  was  chairman  of  a  meeting 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Lancaster  county  held  on  June  8,  1774,  when  resolutions 
were  adopted,  setting  forth  in  no  uncertain  tone  their  intention  "to  oppose  with 
decency  and  firmness  every  measure  tending  to  deprive  us  of  our  just  rights  and 
privileges,"  and  pledging  themselves  "to  abide  by  the  measures  which  shall  be 
adopted  by  the  members  of  the  General  Congress  of  the  Colonies",  and  appointed 
a  committee  to  confer  with  other  committees  with  reference  to  such  a  congress. 
A  similar  meeting  was  held  in  the  borough  of  Lancaster  just  one  week  later, 
at  which  Edward  Shippen,  Col.  Burd's  father-in-law,  presided,  and  was  made 
chairman  of  Committee  of  Observation.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  In- 
spection of  Lancaster  county,  January  14,  1775,  of  which  Edward  Shippen  was 
Chairman,  James  Burd  was  named  as  one  of  the  deputies  from  Lancaster  to  the 
Provincial  Convention  to  be  held  January  23,  1775.  Col.  Burd  was  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Safety  for  Lancaster  county,  assisted  in  the  military  organiza- 
tion of  the  county,  and  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  first  Battalion  from  the 
county,  but  became  disgusted  with  the  dissensions  and  desertions  from  the  ranks 
at  the  expiration  of  the  short  term  of  service  for  which  the  first  recruits  enlisted, 
and  resigned  in  December,  1776.  He  resided  for  a  time  shortly  after  his  mar- 
riage at  Lancaster,  later  at  Shippensburg,  and  finally  at  "Tinian",  his  seat  in  the 
present  county  of  Dauphin,  near  Harrisburg.  where  he  died  October  5,  1793. 
Issue  of  Co!.  James  and  Sarah   (Sliippen)   Burd: — 

Sarah  Burd,  b.  Jan.  i.  1748-9,  d.  Lancaster.  Oct.  25.  1829;  m.  Dec.  30,  1767,  Jasper 
Yeates.   Justice   of   Supreme   Court   of   Pennsylvania.    1791-1817; 

Edward  Burd.  b.  Feb.  5,  1750-1,  d.  Philadelphia,  July  24,  1833;  member  of  Bar  of 
Berks  county,  practicing  at  Reading  until  1776:  commissioned  Major  of  a  Volun- 
teer Corps,  and  captured  at  battle  of  Long  Island  Oct.  23.  1776:  on  being  e.xchanged 
was  too  broken  in  health  to  re-enter  the  service,   and  was  appointed   Register  of 


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High    Court   of    Errors   and   Appeals,    and   later   Prothonotary   of   Supreme   Court, 

holding  the  latter  position  until  his  death.     M.,  Dec.  17,  1778,  his  cousin,  Elizabeth, 

daughter   of   Chief  Justice    Edward   Shippen; 
Mary    Burd,    b.    at   Shippensburg,    Jan.    15,    1753,    d.    at    Hopewell    Forge,    Lancaster 

county,   Feb.  23,   1774;   m.,   Nov.   28,    1771,   Col.   Peter   Grubb,   of  the   Revolution,   a 

prominent   ironmaster   of   Lancaster   county; 
Allen  Burd,  b.  at  Shippensburg,   Dec.  23,  1754,  d.  at  Lancaster,  July   10,   1764; 
Jane  Burd,  b.  Aug.  12,  1757,  m..  May  8,  1783,  George,  son  James  and  Mary  Patterson; 
Anne  Burd,  b.  at  Lancaster,  Sept.  3,  1759,  d.  there  Aug.  11,  1760; 
Margaret  Burd,  b.  Feb.  3,  1761,  m.,  Nov.  3,  1786,  Jacob  Hubley,  Esq.,  of  Lancaster; 
Elizabeth  Burd,  b.  at  Lancaster,  Nov.  3,  1762,  d.  April  12,   1763; 
James  Burd,  b.  Jan.  4,   1765,  m.   Elizabeth   Baker; 

Joseph  Burd,  b.  Jan.  8,  1768,  m.   (first)   Catharine   Cochran;   (second)   Harriet  Bailey; 
Elizabeth   Burd,  b.    Feb.    18,    1772;   d.   unm. 

Joseph  Shippen,  youngest  son  of  Edward  Shippen  "of  Lancaster",  by  his 
wife  Sarah  Plumley,  and  brother  of  Chief  Justice  Edward  Shippen,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia October  30,  1732,  graduated  at  Princeton,  1753,  with  degree  of  A.  B. 
He  entered  the  Provincial  army  as  captain  and  was  at  Fort  Augusta  and  Sha- 
raokin  with  Col.  James  Burd,  (his  brother-in-law)  in  1756-7;  rose  to  rank  of 
Colonel  and  served  under  Gen.  Forbes  in  the  expedition  which  captured  Fort 
Du  Quesne,  November  25,  1758.  After  the  disbandment  of  his  command,  he 
went  to  Europe,  partly  on  a  mercantile  venture,  but  chiefly  for  the  advantage  of 
foreign  travel.  Returning  to  Philadelphia  in  December,  1761,  he  was  appointed 
January  2,  1762,  Secretary  of  Provincial  Council,  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  the  dissolution  of  the  Council  in  1775.  In  1773  he  removed  to  near  Ken- 
nett  Square,  Chester  county,  purchasing  a  plantation  which  he  named  "Plum- 
ley"  in  honor  of  his  mother,  where  he  resided  until  1786,  when  he  was  appointed 
Judge  of  the  Lancaster  county  Courts,  to  which  position  he  was  appointed  June 
16,  1786.  He  died  at  Lancaster,  February  10,  1810.  He  became  a  member  of 
American  Philosophical  Society,  January  19,  1765,  and  took  a  lively  interest  in 
its  proceedings.  He  was  an  accomplished  scholar  of  fine  literary  taste,  and  pos- 
sessed some  talent  as  a  poet.  He  was  one  of  those  who  early  noted  the  artistic 
genius  of  Benjamin  West  and  assisted  him  to  pursue  his  studies  abroad.  He 
filled  his  several  military  and  official  positions  with  much  honor  and  was  esteemed 
by  all  who  knew  him  as  an  eminently,  just  and  upright  man.  He  married  at 
Christ  Church,  September  29,  1768,  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Galloway,  Esq.,  of 
Maryland,  by  his  second  wife,  Jane,  the  widow  of  William  Fishbourne  of  Phil- 
adelphia. She  was  born  September  1745,  died  at  "Plumley",  February  17,  1801, 
and  is  buried  at  Radnor  churchyard. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (GaUoway)  Shippen: — 

Robert  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia.  July  10,  1769,  m.  Priscilla  Thompson,  of  Chester 
county;  lived  for  a  time  at  "Tivoli"  a  400-acre  plantation  opposite  "Plumley",  and 
later  at  "Eons  Salutis",  Lancaster  county,  where  he  d.  Dec.  31,  1840.  A  fine 
classical   scholar   and   cultured   gentleman: 

Sarah  Shippen,  b.  Sept.  3,  1770,  d.   March  3,  1773; 

John  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Oct.  31,  1771,  d.  at  Shippensburg,  Sept.,  1805;  m., 
June   25,    1789,   Abigail    Caroline    Reynolds; 

Mary  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  May  17,  1773,  d.  there  June  2,  i8og;  m.,  Feb.  11,  1793, 
Samuel    Swift,    of  whom    presently; 

Charles  Shippen,  b.  Philadelphia,  Sept.  15.  1774,  d.  July  31,  1775; 

Anne  Shippen.  b.  Philadelphia.  Oct.   12,   1775,  d.  July  28,   1776: 

Elizabeth   Shippen,  b.   at   Kennett,   Feb.   21,    1780,   d.   at   Shippensburg,    1801,   unm. ; 


io8  SHIPPEN 

Margaret  Shippen,  b.  Kennett,  Oct.  31,  1782,  d.  Philadelphia,  May  9,  1876,  unm.; 

Joseph  Galloway  Shippen,  b.  Dec.  25,  1783,  d.  s.  p.  Sept.  6,  1857,  graduated  at  Medi- 
cal Dept.  of  Univ.  of  Pa.;  m.  Nov.  10,  1814,  Anna  Maria,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Sarah 
(Brooke)    Buckley    of    Lancaster    county; 

Henry  C.  Shippen,  b.  Dec.  28,  1788,  d.  Meadville,  Pa.,  March  2,  1839;  member  Lan- 
caster county  Bar ;  member  Pa.  Legislature ;  President  Judge  Sixth  Judicial  Dis- 
trict; m.,  May  I,  1817,  Elizabeth  Wallis  Evans. 

Mary  Shippen,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (Galloway)  Shippen,  born  in 
Philadelphia  ]\Iay  17,  1773,  married,  February  11,  1793,  Samuel  Swift,  Esq., 
of  Philadelphia,  son  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (McCall)  Swift.  He  was  born  in 
Philadelphia  January  12,  1771,  and  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  in  1786.  He  studied  law  with  Judge  Jasper 
Yeates  at  Lancaster,  and  practiced  at  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  living  at  his  country 
place  "The  Grove"  in  Philadelphia  county.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  literary  taste, 
with  a  natural  poetic  talent  which  he  cultivated  and  exercised  to  some  extent. 
He  took  a  lively  interest  in  political  questions;  was  educated  as  a  Federalist, 
but  espoused  Democratic  principles  and  advocated  them  in  a  number  of  articles 
greatly  esteemed  for  vigor,  candor,  polish  and  careful  research.  He  died  at 
Germantown,  November  28,  1847.  He  and  his  wife  are  buried  at  Trinity 
Church,  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia  county,  of  which  they  were  members. 
Mrs.  Swift  died  June  2,  1809. 

hstie  of  Samuel  and  Mary    {Shippen)    Swift: — 

Margaret   McCall   Swift,   b.    Philadelphia,   June   2,    1796,   m.    her   cousin   John,   son    of 

Robert  and   Priscilla   (Thompson)    Shippen,   above   mentioned,   on   May   19,   1831; 
William  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove"  Aug.  3,  1797,  d.  unm.,  Nov.  2,  1838;  extensive  writer 

on    free    trade; 
Mary   Swift,   b.   at   'The   Grove",    Nov.   22,    1798,   d.    Feb.    15,   1877,   m.,   Sept.   9,    1824, 
Mathew   Brooke,   son   of   Daniel   Buckley,   ironmaster   of   Lancaster   county,   by   his 
wife   Sarah   Brooke.     He  was  b.   Oct.  31,   1794.  and  d.   March  8,   1856;   President  ot 
the  Philadelphia,  Wilmington  and  Baltimore  Railroad  Company. 

Their  son,  Edward  Swift  Buckley,  b.  Philadelphia ;  ironmaster,  trustee  of 
Episcopal  Academy.  Director  Phila.  Saving  Fund,  etc.;  m.  (first)  Hannah  J. 
dau.  of  Hon.  Thomas  Smith,  M.  C,  who  d.  1853;  m.  (second)  Catharine,  dau. 
of  Col.  John  G.  Watmough,  who  d.  1859;  m.  (third)  Mary  Wain,  dau.  of 
Hon.  Richard  Vaux.  M.  C. 
Joseph  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove"  Dec.  26.  1799,  d.  July  i,  1882.  m.  Eliza  Moore,  dau. 

of  George   and    Rebecca    Harrison    (Blackwell)    Willing; 
George  Swift,  b.  March  9.   1801,  d.  July  16,   1801; 
Samuel  Swift,  m.  Mary  R.  Rover; 
Elizabeth   Shippen   Swift; 
John  Swift,  d.  y.; 
Sarah    Bordley  Swift; 

Jane  Galloway  Swift,  m.  May  6,  1834,  John  Swift,  of  another  branch  of  the  family, 
b.  March  25,  1808,  d.  March  10,  1872,  bur.  at  Easton,  Pa. 

Joseph  Swift,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Shippen)  Swift,  born  at  his 
father's  country  seat  "The  Grove",  December  26,  1799,  was  educated  at  a  classi- 
cal school  in  New  Jersey.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1818,  became  associated 
with  brokerage  firm  of  Thomas  A.  Biddle  &  Company,  bankers  and  brokers, 
and  remained  with  them  until  1842,  when  he  retired  from  active  business  and 
travelled  extensively  abroad,  living  when  at  home  at  his  country  seat  "Wood- 
field".  He  was  an  excellent  business  man  and  was  associated  with  a  number  of 
financial  and  business  institutions  as  Director  and  Manager,  among  them  the 
Philadelphia   Rank,   and    Philadelphia   Saving   Fund,   being   connected   with   the 


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latter  institution  until  his  death,  July  i,  1882,  a  period  of  twenty-six  years.  He 
was  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Philadelphia  Club  from  1854  to 
1859.  He  was  married  by  the  Right  Rev.  William  White,  November  24,  183 1, 
to  Eliza  Moore,  daughter  of  George  Willing,  by  his  wife  Rebecca  Harrison 
C  Black  well).     She  died  September  8,  1840. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Eliaa  Moore   (Willing)  Swift: — 

Emily  Swift,  m.  Thomas  Balch; 

George  Swift,  d.  y. ; 

Maty  Swift,  m.   Horace  G.  Browne. 


POWELL  FAMILY 

Samuel  Powell,  pioneer  ancestor  of  the  Philadelphia  family  of  that  name, 
was  born  in  Stoke  parish,  St.  Gregory,  Somersetshire,  England,  iimo.  2,  1673, 
of  a  Somersetshire  family  originally  from  Wales,  and  claimed  descent  from  the 
princes  of  Powis,  through  Einion  Efell,  Lord  of  Cynlaeth,  who  flourished  in 
the  twelfth  century.  Their  coat-of-arms  bore  "Party  per  fesse  argent  and  or, 
a  lion  rampant  gules",  crest,  "A  star  of  eight  points  above  a  cloud, — all  proper." 

John  Powle,  buried  February  27,  1618,  probably  grandson  of  Morgan  Powell 
of  Taunton,  married  Elizabeth  Savidge.  Their  son  Godfrey,  baptized  June  7, 
1599,  was  grandfather  of  Samuel  Powell,  first  above  mentioned.  Samuel  Powell, 
son  of  Godfrey  and  father  of  Samuel  was  baptized  September  20,  1642, 
at  Stoke,  St.  Gregory,  Somersetshire,  England,  and  was  an  early  con- 
vert to  Quakerism.  He  married,  at  Friends'  Meeting,  3mo.  6,  1670, 
Deborah  Powle,  of  Stoke,  baptized  at  St.  Gregory  October  12,  1640,  died  2mo. 
6,  1679.  Ann  Powell,  daughter  of  Godfrey,  of  North  Curry,  Somerset 
married  at  Greinton,  Somerset,  6mo.  23,  1685,  John  Parsons,  of  Middlezoy, 
Somerset,  and  emigrated  to  Philadelphia  the  same  year,  bringing  with  them 
Mrs.  Parson's  nephew  Samuel  Powell,  then  a  lad  of  twelve  years.  John  Par- 
sons was  a  carpenter  of  high  ability,  and  Samuel  Powell  was  trained  to  that 
trade.  John  Parsons  was  a  man  of  some  means  and  a  member  of  council,  and 
at  his  death  in  1695,  and  that  of  his  widow  Ann  Powell  in  1712,  Samuel  Powell 
fell  heir  to  the  greater  part  of  their  joint  estates.  He  became  a  prominent 
builder  and  architect.  He  erected  the  bridge  over  Dock  Creek  at  W'alnut  street 
in  1718.  He  was  an  elder  of  Friends'  Meeting  in  1712,  was  elected  member  of 
Common  Council  in  1717,  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  alderman  in  1743, 
and  served  until  his  death,  6mo.  27,  1756,  in  his  eighty-third  year.  He  was  the 
owner  of  over  ninety  houses,  and  lived  on  the  north-east  corner  of  Second  and 
Pine  streets.  Pine  Street  Meeting  House  was  erected  on  land  devised  to  the 
meeting  by  him  for  that  purpose.  He  married,  i2mo.  19,  1700,  Abigail,  born 
7mo.  28,  1679,  died  7mo.  4,  1713,  daughter  of  Barnabas  and  Sarah  Wilcox,  who 
came  from  Bedminster  parish,  near  Bristol,  Somersetshire,  England,  in  1683. 
Barnabas  Wilcox  was  a  merchant  and  a  member  of  Colonial  Assembly  1685 ; 
Justice  of  Philadelphia,  1686  to  1690. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (IVilcox)  Pozvcll: — 

Ann,  b.   i2mo.   10,   1702,  d.   lomo.   10,   1707; 

Samuel,  b.   i2mo.  26,   1704,  d.  lomo.  i,  1759;  m.,  gmo.  9,   1732.  Mary  Morris,  of  whom 

presently : 
Deborah,  b.  8mo.  24,  1706,  m.  91110.  28,   1728,  Joshua  Emlen ; 
Ann,  b.  7mo.  24,   1708,  d.  8nio.  26,   17 14; 
Sarah,  b.  41110.  29,   1713,  d.  2mo.   10,   1751,  m.  Anthony  Morris  Jr. 

Samuel  Powel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Wilcox)  Powell,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia i2mo.  26,  1704-5,  always  spelled  his  name  with  one  'T',  the  form  in 
which  the  name  was  written  by  his  remote  ancestors.  He  became  a  prominent 
merchant  of  Philadelphia,  was  elected  to  Common  Council  of  the  City  October 


POWELL  III 

6,  1730,  and  became  an  alderman  October  4,  1743.  He  died  October  i,  1759, 
in  the  prime  of  a  life  of  usefulness  and  business  activity.  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1732,  Mary,  daughter  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest)  Morris,  and  sister 
to  Anthony  Morris,  who  married  his  sister  Sarah.  She  was  born  October  13, 
1713,  and  died  October  31,   1759. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary   (Morris)   Pozvcl: — 

Abigail,  b.  July  21,  1735,  d.  Nov.  16,  1797;  m.  William  Griffitts;  of  whom  later; 
Samuel,  b.  Oct.  28,  1738,  d.  Sept.  29,  1793;  m.  Aug.  7,  1769,  Elizabeth  Willing,  of  whom 

presently ; 
Sarah,  b.  Sept.  22,  1747,  d.  Jan.  7,  1773;  m.  Jan.  20,  1768,  Joseph  Potts,  previously  m.  to 

her  cousin  Mary  Morris. 

Samuel  Powel,  only  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Morris)  Powel,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia October  28,  1738,  entered  College  of  Philadelphia,  now  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  May  25,  1756,  and  graduated  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts, 
class  of  1759.  After  graduation  he  made  an  extended  visit  to  Europe,  traveling 
extensively  in  Great  Britain  and  on  the  Continent.  During  his  travels  he  kept 
up  a  constant  correspondence  with  friends  and  relatives  in  Philadelphia,  and 
many  of  his  letters  have  been  published  in  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine;  while 
those  to  his  uncle,  Capt.  Samuel  Morris,  have  been  preserved  by  the  family, 
and  many  of  them  appear  in  a  history  of  the  Morris  family  prepared  by  Dr. 
Robert  C.  Moon.  This  correspondence  shows  that  he  was  entertained  in  the 
best  society  of  England  and  Scotland  and  "had  the  honor  of  being  presented  to 
his  majesty." 

He  was  a  brithright  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  but,  while  in  England, 
was  baptized  by  the  Rev.  Richard  Peters,  on  his  return  to  Philadelphia  became  a 
prominent  member  of  St.  Peter's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  lay 
deputy  of  that  church  at  the  convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  held 
at  Christ's  Church,  November  24,  1785.  He  was  elected  to  Common  Council  of 
Philadelphia  in  1770,  advanced  to  position  of  alderman,  October  4,  1774,  and, 
October  3,  1775,  was  elected  Mayor,  the  last  to  serve  in  that  office  under  the  old 
charter  of  1701,  under  which  his  wife's  grandfather,  Edward  Shippen,  had  been 
the  first:  when  the  charter  had  been  renewed  in  1789,  he  was  again  elected 
Mayor,  and  from  the  fact  that  he  was  the  last  magistrate  under  the  old  charter 
and  the  first  under  the  new,  he  was  known  as  the  "Patriot  Mayor". 

He  was  a  man  of  high  scholastic  attainments  and  took  a  lively  interest  in  liter- 
ary and  scientific  subjects;  he  became  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical 
Society  in  1760,  and  took  an  active  interest  in  their  work.  A  man  of  public  spirit 
and  well  known  business  ability,  he  was  frequently  consulted  in  affairs  of  state. 
He  was  intimately  associated  with  George  Washington,  who  was  a  frequent 
visitor  at  his  house,  now  number  244  S.  Third  street,  between  Walnut  and  Spruce 
.'Streets,  and  the  first  president  held  him  in  high  esteem,  as  is  evidenced  by  his 
journal  and  correspondence.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Powel  were  likewise  frequently 
entertained  at  Mount  Vernon. 

Samuel  Powel  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  the  Philadelphia  Courts  April 
27,  1 772,  and  probably  served  until  his  elevation  to  the  Mayoralty.  He  was  made 
one  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  in  1778,  but  resigned 
in  1780.  He  was  Trustee  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  first  president  of 
Philadelphia    Society    for    Promotion   of   Agriculture.      He   was   elected    to   the 


112  POWELL 

Morris  Mansion  on  Front  street  between  Chestnut  and  Walnut  streets,  devised 
to  him  by  his  greataunt,  Deborah  Morris,  by  whose  will  it  was  directed  that 
Senate  of  Pennsylvania,  1792,  and  filled  the  position  of  Speaker.  He  inherited 
a  large  fortune  from  his  father,  and  gave  liberal  support  to  many  philanthropic 
and  charitable  enterprises.  In  1780  he  contributed  five  thousand  pounds  toward 
provisioning  the  Continental  troops  from  Pennsylvania.  He  died  of  yellow  fever 
September  29,  1793,  at  his  country  seat  "Powelton",  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Schuylkill. 

He  married,  August  7,  1769,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Anne  (Ship- 
pen)  Willing,  bom  February  10,  1742-3,  died  January  17,  1830,  and  they  had 
two  sons,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs. 
Powel  adopted  the  youngest  son  of  her  sister  Margaret  (Willing)  Hare,  by 
Robert  Hare. 

John  Powell  H.\re,  born  April  22,  1786,  died  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
June  14,  1856.  To  him  she  devised  the  greater  part  of  the  large  estate  left  her 
by  her  husband,  including  "Powelton".  He  changed  his  name  by  act  of  legis- 
lature, to  John  Hare  Powell.  He  was  a  colonel  in  the  War  of  1812-14,  and 
Secretary  to  American  Legation  at  the  Court  of  St.  James.  He  married  Julia 
de  Veaux,  and  descendants  of  his  bearing  the  name  of  Powell,  still  reside  in 
Philadelphia. 

Abigail  Powel,  eldest  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Morris)  Powel,  born 
in  Philadelphia  5mo.  21,  1735,  died  November  16,  1797;  married  April  16,  1752, 
William  Griffitts,  of  Welsh  descent,  said  to  have  been  a  son  of  James  Griffitts, 
of  Swanset,  South  Wales,  and  nephew  of  Thomas  Griffitts,  who  came  from 
Jamaica  to  Philadelphia  and  engaged  in  the  shipping  trade  with  Isaac  Norris, 
whose  daughter  Mary  he  married  in  1717.  Thomas  Griffitts  became  prominent 
in  the  community;  was  a  Provincial  Councillor  1733-42;  Keeper  of  the  Great 
Seal  of  the  Province  1732-4;  Judge  of  Supreme  Court  from  1739  to  his  death 
in  1743;  Mayor  of  Philadelphia  from  October,  1729,  to  October,  1730,  and  from 
October  i,  1733,  to  October  4,  1737.  William  Griffitts  was  a  prominent  business 
man  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of   WUliaui   and  Abigail    (Poii'c!)    Griffitts: — 

Mary  Griffitts,  b.  June  6,  1753,  d.  Aug.  4,  1753; 

Hester  Griffitts,  b.  Dec.  6,  1754,  m.  Sept-  5,   1777,  Capt.  James  Montgomery; 
James  Griffitts,  b.  Sept.  9,   1756,  d.  March  22.   1S36;  m.,  Sept.   12,  1793,  Sarah  Havens; 
Samuel  Powel  Griffitts,  M.  D.,  b.  July  21,   1759,  d.  IMay   12,   1826;  m.,  Jan.  3,   1787, 
Mary  Fishbourne. 

Dr.  S.\muel  Powel  Griffitts.  son  of  William  and  Abigail  (Powel)  Grif- 
fitts, born  in  Philadelphia,  July  21,  1759,  studied  medicine  in  Paris,  London  and 
Edinburg,  after  graduation  from  University  of  Pennsylvania  with  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  in  1781.  Returning  to  Philadelphia  he  took  up  the  practice 
of  his  profession  and  became  one  of  the  most  eminent  physicians  of  his  time.  He 
was  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  at  the  L^nivcrsity,  1791-6;  was  founder  of  the 
Philadelphia  Dispensary;  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Physicians,  its  secretary  in  1788  and  vice-president  in  18 18.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  American  Philosophical  Society  in  1785.  He  was  a  fine  Greek  and  Latin 
scholar  and  spoke  French   fluently.     His  home  for  many  years  was  at  the  old 


POWELL 


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when  the  house  was  rebuilt  the  date  of  its  original  erection,  1686,  with  the  letters 
"A.  M."  for  Anthony  Morris,  the  original  builder,  should  .be  placed  upon  its 
gable.  Dr.  Samuel  Powel  Griffitts  was  of  a  retiring  disposition,  avoiding  all 
ostentation  both  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  in  his  extensive  philan- 
thropic work,  seeking  to  do  the  greatest  amount  of  good  with  the  least  possible 
show.  During  the  yellow  fever  pestilence  of  1793,  which  carried  away  his  dis- 
tinguished uncle,  Samuel  Powel,  he  stuck  to  his  practice,  as  did  he  during  the 
small-pox  scourge  of  1797-8-9  and  the  later  pestilence  of  1802-3.  He  died  sud- 
denly in  the  old  Morris  Mansion,  May  12,  1826.  He  was  an  elder  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  An  obituary  notice  of  him  says  truly: — "As  a  friend  he  was  kind, 
sincere,  and  obliging,  as  a  husband  attentive  and  affectionate,  and  as  a  father 
fond  and  indulgent."  He  married,  January  3,  1787,  Mary,  daughter  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  (Tallman)  Fishbourne,  the  "Polly  Fishbourne"  of  "Sally  Wistar's 
Journal",  born  1760,  and  died  September  21,  1842. 
Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary  {Fishbourne)   Griffitts: — 

Mary,  b.  Oct.  25,  1787,  d.  Jan.  3,  1817;  m.,  April  2,  1807,  Redwood  Fisher; 

Abigail,  b.  Dec.  29,  1791,  d.  March  26,  1871 ;  m.  April  3,  1817,  Richard  W.  Wells; 

Hannah,  b.  Dec.  9,  1793,  d.  Jan.  11,  1862;  m.  Feb.  10,  1814,  Thomas  Wain  Morgan; 

William  Fishbourne,  b.  Oct.  5,  1796,  d.  Aug.  28,  1878;  m.  (first)  May  18,  1824,  Rebecca 
H.  Smith,  (second),  July  21,  1842,  Helen  McDougall  Smith; 

Sarah  Emlen,  b.  April  20,  1798,  d.  Nov.  19,  1863;  m.  Dec  30,  1828,  William  Alexander 
Smith ; 

Hester,  b.  Dec.  26,  1799,  d.  June  8,  1867;  m.,  Oct.  i,  1822,  Ellis  Lewis; 

Samuel  Powel  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  8,  1802,  d.  Jan.  25,  1849;  m.,  Oct.  22,  1824,  Mary  Ann  Whar- 
ton. 

Samuel  Powel  Griffitts  Jr.  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Peregrine 
Hogg  and  Jane  (Brown)  Wharton.     They  had  issue: — 

Mary  Fishbourne,  b.  Sept.  24,  1825,  d.  March  28.  1891,  unm. ; 

Samuel  Powel,  b.  May  7,  1827,  d.  Sept.  13,  1865;  m.,  June  2,  1857,  Eleanor  Bird; 

Wharton,  b.  Nov.  21,  1828,  d.  Feb.  13,  1878;  m.,  Jan.  26,  i860,  Fannie  Lewis  Penington, 

of   whom    presently ; 
Ehzabeth  Brown,  b.  Aug.  24,  1830,  m.  June  19,  1873,  Theodore  Herbert,  M.  D. ; 
William  Fishbourne,  b.  April   18,   1832,  m.  June  26,   1855,  Sarah  Freeman  Russell,  and 

removed    to    Illinois; 
Franklin  Peale,  b.   May  26,   1834,  d.  Dec.   17,   1888;  m.,  Oct.  22,   1862,  Josephine  Lewis 

Penington,   who   d.   April   7,    1896.     Issue : 

Frances   Montgomery  Griffitts,  b.   Philadelphia,   March  29,   1865,  m.  June  6,   1894, 
Rev.   Lewis   Theodore   Lampe. 
David   Stuart   Griffitts,   b.   in    Philadelphia,   Nov.   24,    186—;   m.,   Oct.    i,    1889,   Mary   A. 

Wohlson. 

Wharton  Griffitts,  son  of  Samuel  P.  and  Mary  Ann  (Wharton)  Griffitts, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  21,  1828,  and  died  in  Florida,  February  13, 
1878.  He  married,  January  26,  i860,  his  cousin  Fanny  L.,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Lewis)  Penington,  and  had  issue: — 

Fanny  Penington  Griffitts,  b.  June  24,  1861,  d.  June  22,  1863; 
Joseph  Lewis  Griffitts,  b.  Oct.  :o,  1862,  d.  July  30,  1864; 
Wharton  Griffitts  Jr.,  b.  March  3,  1865,  d.  June  29,  1865; 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Griffitts,  b.  April  18.  1866,  m.,  Jan.  29,  1890,  James  de  Waele  Cook- 
man,  and  had  issue : 

Wharton   Griffitts   Cookman,  b.   Nov.   27,    iSgo; 

Rodney   Penington   Cookman,  b.   Sept.  27,   1896. 
Mary  Wharton  Griffitts,  b.  April  6,  1874,  d.  April  7,  1874. 


HUDSON  FAMILY 

Almost  as  little  is  known  of  the  ancestry  of  William  Hudson  of  York,  Eng- 
land, father  of  William  Hudson  who  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1686,  as  of  that  of 
the  illustrious  and  intrepid  navigator  Henry  Hudson,  whom  John  F.  Watson,  the 
annalist  of  Philadelphia  claimed  was  his  relative.  He  was  an  early  convert  to 
the  faith  and  principles  of  Friends,  and  suffered  persecution  for  conscience  sake, 
From  Besse's  "Sufferings  of  Quakers"  we  quote  the  following,  "William  Hud- 
son of  York  was  committed  to  York  Castle  by  a  writ  de  excommunicato  capiendo, 
on  the  Eighth  of  the  Eleventh  month,  1673,  after  a  prosecution  in  the  Ecclesias- 
tic Court  for  refusing  to  pay  an  assessment  toward  repairing  the  Steeple  House, 
and  was  remaining  a  prisoner  there  upwards  of  nine  years  after."  He  died  at 
York,  2mo.  14,  1713.  He  was  thrice  married,  his  first  wife  Mary,  whose  maiden 
name  is  thought  to  have  been  Head,  died  gmo.  11,  1681.  He  married  (second), 
5mo.  10,  1684,  at  Selby,  Susannah  Morley,  a  widow  with  children.  She  died 
5mo.  14,  1700.  and  he  married  (third),  5mo.  8,  1703,  Jane  Waite,  who  died 
i2mo.  2j,  1704-5.     His  children,  all  by  his  first  wife,  were: — 

WiLUAM,  b.  at  York,  4mo.  3,  1664,  d.  Philadelphia,  lomo.  16,  17+2,  of  whom  presently; 
John,  d.  at  York,  England.  1687; 
Mary,  d.  at  York,   England,   1674,  unm. ; 
Samuel,   d.   at  York.   England,   1690,  unm. ; 

Timothy,  brought  certificate   from   York   Meeting  to   Philadelphia,    iimo.   6,    1688-9,  but 
after  a  short  visit  returned  to  his  native  place. 

WiLLi.JiM  Hudson,  son  of  William  and  Mary,  of  York,  England,  brought  a 
certificate  from  York  jNIeeting,  without  date,  which  is  recorded  at  Philadelphia, 
and  an  examination  of  the  mmutes  of  York  Meeting  shows  that  it  was  granted 
2mo.  2,  1686.  He  was  a  tanner,  and  came  to  Philadelphia  "clear  as  to  marriage." 
On  the  same  date  as  that  of  the  granting  of  his  certificate,  viz.,  April  2,  1686,  he 
had  purchased  with  John  Cornwell,  also  of  York,  of  William  Cornthwaite,  500 
acres  to  be  laid  out  in  Pennsylvania.  They  also  purchased  five  hundred  acres  of 
Edward  Atkinson,  of  Side,  county  York.  This  land  was  laid  out  to  them  by 
warrant  dated  6mo.  11,  1686,  in  East  Bradford  township,  Chester  county,  now 
Birmingham  township.  William  Hudson  did  not,  however,  take  up  his  residence 
on  this  or  his  other  purchases  of  large  tracts  of  virgin  land  in  Pennsylvania,  but 
built  a  tannery  on  Dock  Creek,  in  what  was  then  known  as  "the  swamp",  and 
built  a  fine  brick  mansion,  in  which  he  lived,  set  well  back  from  Chestnut  street 
near  Third  street;  and  Hudson's  Alley,  opened  for  access  to  his  tan-yard  and 
other  property,  still  bears  his  name.  He  sold  his  share  of  his  Chester  county 
lands  to  John  Davies,  December  30,  1709,  and  in  February  following  purchased 
of  his  father-in-law,  Samuel  Richardson,  1160  acres  in  Willistown  township, 
Chester  county,  which  he  later  sold  in  smaller  tracts  to  actual  settlers,  at  a  hand- 
some profit.  A  successful  business  man,  and  of  good  executive  ability,  he  soon 
became  identified  with  the  affairs  of  the  city  and  Province.  He  is  named  in  the 
charter  of  1701,  as  one  of  the  Common  Council  of  the  city,  then  selected  for  life, 
or  during  good  behavior,  and  was  elected  to  Provincial  Assembly  in  1706.    Octo- 


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ber  4,  171 5,  he  was  named  by  Common  Council  as  one  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men of  the  City,  and  as  Associate  Justice  of  the  City  Court.  In  1725,  he  was 
made  Mayor  of  the  city.  He  was  made  an  Elder  of  Friends'  Meeting  in  1727, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  Yearly  Meeting  until  within  a 
few  years  of  his  death,  when  he  was  confined  to  his  house  by  infirmities,  and 
asked  to  be  relieved  from  work  on  special  committees  in  which  he  had  thereto- 
fore been  actively  interested.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  advocates  of  prison 
reform,  and  took  a  keen  personal  interest  in  hospital  and  charitable  work,  taking 
especial  delight  in  visiting  and  relieving  the  poor  and  sick.  He  died  lomo.  16, 
1742,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  He  married  (first),  i2mo.  28,  1688,  at  Phila- 
delphia Meeting  House,  Mary,  born  in  London  4mo.  19,  1673,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Richardson,  Provincial  Councillor,  by  his  wife,  Eleanor,  an  account  of  whom 
and  their  descendants  is  given  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Mary  (Richardson) 
Hudson  died  i2mo.  16,  1708-9,  and  he  married  (second)  i2mo.  27,  1709-10, 
Hannah,  widow  of  Robert  Barber,  of  Darby,  and  sister  of  David  Ogden,  whose 
arrival  in  Merion  from  London,  is  noted  in  our  account  of  the  Ogden  family. 
She  survived  her  husband  nearly  seventeen  years,  dying  9mo.  16,  1759,  aged 
ninety-nine  years. 

Issue  of  William  and  Mary  {Richardson)  Hudson: — 

Samuel,  b.  ymo.  27,  i6go,  on  plantation  of  his  grandfather,  Samuel  Richardson,  near 
Germantown,  d.  in  Philadelphia,  1725.  He  was  also  a  tanner ;  elected  to  Provincial 
Assembly  1724,  but  his  health  failing,  he  took  an  ocean  voyag;e  and  was  lost  at  sea. 
M.  1715-16.  Mary,  dau.  of  Arthur  and  Elizabeth  (Guest)  Holton,  who  m.  (second), 
1726,  Joshua  Emlen. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Holton)  Hudson: — 

Elizabeth,  b.  6mo.  24,  1721,  m.,  3mo.  8,  1740,  John  Jones; 
William,  b.  7mo.  6,  1722,  d.  8mo.  26,  1722;' 
Hannah,  b.  Bmo.  28,  1723,  m.,  3mo.  19,  1741,  Joseph  Howell; 
Mary,  b.  gmo.  6,  1724,  m.  2mo.  15,  1746,  John  Head. 
Mary,  b.  i2mo.  3,  1691-2,  d.  1728;  m.  1713,  Joseph  Cooper,  of  Pine  Point,  N.  J.; 
Elizabeth,  b.  4mo.  19,  1693,  m.  (first)  Joshua  Cockfield,  of  Philadelphia;  had  dau.  Han- 
nah, m.  William  Moode,  of  Philadelphia.    Joshua  Cockfield,  d.  4mo.  26,  1717,  and  she 
m.,   1722,   Thomas   Coebourne,  of  Chester; 
Sarah,  b.  4mo.  19,  1694,  d.  imo.  i,  1714,  unm. ; 
William,  b.  imo.  31,  1696,  d.  7mo.  22,  1752;  m.,  8mo.  29,  1717,  Jane  Evans;  of  whom 

presently ; 
John,  b.  lomo.  10,  1697,  d.  3mo.  7,   1698; 
Susanna,   b.   i2mo.    17,   1698-9,  m.    (first),   iimo.   10,   1716-17,   Robert  Owen;    (second), 

3mo.  2,  1734,  John  Burr,  of  Northampton  township,  Burlington  county,  N.  J. ; 
Eleanor,  b.  6mo.  8,   1700,  d.  6mo.  27,   1700; 

John,  b.  i2mo.  25,  1701-2,  d.  circa  1730;  m.  Hannah  ,  who  m.   (second)   in  1731, 

Abel  Preston. 

Issue  of  John  and  Hannah  Hudson: — 

Samuel,  b.   1724,  d.  6mo.   12,   1728; 

Rebecca,  b.  6mo.  27,  1726,  m.  Oct.  18,  1744,  Alex.  Crookshanks; 
William,  b.  smo.  26,   1728,  d.  I  imo.   14,   1728; 
John,  b.  5mo.  26,  1728,  d.  6mo.  5,  1728; 
Rebecca,  b.    imo.   s.   1729-30. 
Hannah,  b.  imo.  28,  1704,  m.  Jacob  Medcalf,  of  Phila.,  later  of  Gloucester  county,  N.  J., 
and  had  issue : — 

Matthew,  b.   2mo.    12,    1724; 


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Hannah,   b.   smo.   12,    1726,   d.   y. ; 

Mary,  b.  i2mo.  21,  1727-8; 

Rachel,  b.  gmo.  27,  1729,  m.,  iimo.  16,  1732,  Thomas  Wharton; 

Sarah,   b.   2mo.   27,    1731 ; 

Wilham,  b.  6mo.  12,  1732; 

Jacob,   b.   6mo.    12,    1732; 

Susannah,  b.  6mo.  4.  1734,  m.,  lomo.   15,  1767,  William  Wharton; 

Hannah,  b.  gmo.  4,  1735. 
Rebecca,  b.  3mo.  30,   1705,  d.  7mo.   10,   1705; 
Timothy,  b,  smo.  8,  1706,  d.  7mo.  11,  1708; 
Rachel,  b.  Smo.  11,  1707,  d.  gmo.  12,  1771  ;  m.,  lomo.  2,  1751,  Samuel  Emlen,  b.  2mo.  15, 

1697,  d.   1783; 
Timothy,  b.   i2mo.   13,   1708,  d.  imo.,   1709. 

WiLLi.JiM  Hudson,  second  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Richardson)  Hud- 
son, born  in  Philadelphia  imo.  31,  1696,  followed  the  business  of  his  father,  that 
of  tanning,  and  was  a  successful  business  man,  leaving  a  large  estate.  He  did 
not,  however,  participate  so  largely  in  public  affairs  as  his  distinguished  parent. 
He  married,  at  Evesham  Friends'  Meeting,  New  Jersey,  Smo.  22,  1717,  Jane, 
daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Evans  of  Evesham,  who  was  bom  in  New 
Jersey  Smo.  i,  1699,  and  died  in  Philadelphia  5mo.  15,  1759.  William  Hudson 
died  7mo.  22,  1752. 

Issue  of  IVilliam  Jr.  and  Jane  (Evans)  Hudson: — 

Sarah,  b.  smo.  30,  1718,  d.  Smo.  5.  1780;  m.,  Dec.  30.  1737,  John  Langdale,  of  Philadelphia, 
b.  1715,  d.  gmo.  18,  1769,  and  had  issuer- 
Rachel,  b.  3mo.  7,   1738,  d.   I  imo.   1773; 

Josiah,   b.    lomo.    18,    1739; 

William,  b.  5mo.  22,   1741,  d.   6mo.   10,   1741 ; 

John,  b.  7mo.  22,  1742,  d.  i2mo.  23,  1765;  m.,  lomo.  26,  176s,  Alice  Coates; 

Margaret,    b.    7mo.    9,    1744,    d.    y. ; 

William   Hudson,  b.  gmo.   22,    1747,   d.   i2mo.    1772; 

Elizabeth,  b.   iimo.    13,   1749-so,  m.,  2mo.  g,   1797,  John  Balderston,  of  Solebury, 
Bucks   county.    Pa. ; 

Margaret,  b.  3mo.,   1752; 

Jane,  b.  imo.  3,  1755,  m.,  Aug.  15,  1777,  Dr.  Thomas  Parke; 

Samuel,  b.   lomo.   16,  I7sg. 
Mary,  b.   i2mo.  22,   i7ig-20,  d.  7mo.   i,   i7gs,  unm. ; 
Elizabeth,  b.  i2mo.  20,  1721-2,  d.  smo.  22,  1783,  an  eminent  minister  among  Friends;  m. 

Anthony   Morris; 
Rachel,  b.  iimo.  26,  1723;  m.,  Oct.  2,  1741,  John  Jorey;   (second),  iimo.  28,  1769,  John 

Hunt; 
Jane,  b.  imo.  4,  172S-6,  d.  6mo.  22,  1768,  unm. ; 
William,  b.  Smo.  29,  1728,  d.  imo.  i,  1731-2,  of  smallpox; 
Susannah,  b.  Smo.  30,  I72g,  d.   i2mo.  25,  1731,  of  smallpox; 
Susannah,  b.  4mo.  lO,   1733,  d.  7mo.  20,   1817,  unm.; 
Margaret,  b.  2mo.  16,  1734,  d.  smo.  7,  1734; 
Margaret,  b.  smo.  17,  1735.  d.  6mo.  3,  1735; 

Samuel,  b.  Smo.  6,  1736,  d.  iimo.  2,  I7g3,  m.,  3mo.  5,  1761,  Martha,  dau.  of  Rees  Lloyd. 
She  d.   lomo.  3,   1780,  aged  39  years. 


SWIFT  FAMILY 

Among  the  adherents  of  the  English  Church  who  settled  in  Philadelphia  in 
Colonial  days  were  two  brothers,  John  Swift  and  Joseph  Swift,  and  their  sister, 
Mary  Swift,  who  married  Matthias  Keen,  of  Philadelphia. 

Their  father,  John  Swift,  brought  them  from  Bristol,  England,  about  1737 
or  1738,  to  place  them  in  the  care  of  their  uncle,  John  White,  a  successful 
merchant  of  Philadelphia,  and  then  returned  to  England.  John  White,  an  Eng- 
lishman by  birth,  had  formed  a  partnership  with  Abram  Taylor,  a  fellow- 
countryman,  as  early  as  1724.  In  their  commercial  undertakings  they  were  very 
successful,  and  John  White,  with  a  view  of  offering  a  better  business  opening  to 
the  children  of  his  sister,  invited  them  to  Philadelphia. 

John  White  in  1741  returned  to  his  native  land,  leaving  his  nephews  and 
nieces  in  the  care  of  his  partner.  He  established  himself  at  first  at  Bristol  and 
afterwards,  when  he  had  retired  from  business,  at  Croydon  in  Surrey.  His 
portrait  by  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller  is  still  in  the  family.  John  White's  arms  as 
painted  on  his  china  and  engraved  on  the  silver,  are: — Gules,  a  bordure  sable 
charged  with  eight  estoiles  or ;  on  a  canton  ermines,  a  lion  rampant  sable.  Crest, 
— on  the  china,  an  ostrich,  but  on  the  silver  a  stork.  John  and  Joseph  Swift 
and  their  sister  Mary,  were  the  children  of  John  Swift  and  Mary  White,  his 
wiie.  John  was  born  in  1720,  Mary  in  1726,  and  Joseph  on  June  24,  1731. 
They  were  all  born  in  England.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Swifts  was : — Or,  a 
chev.  barry  nebulee  ar.  and  az.  between  three  rebucks  courant  ppr. 

John  Swift,  who  was  a  young  gentleman  fond  of  society,  in  1740  arranged  a 
number  of  dancing  parties  or  "assemblies,"  as  they  were  called  at  that  time.  In 
1743  he  went  back  to  England  to  join  his  uncle,  where  he  remained  until  1747, 
when  he  returned  to  Philadelphia.  In  this  city  he  became  a  successful  merchant 
and  a  prominent  and  influential  individual  in  the  affairs  and  the  social  life  of 
the  town.  In  the  winter  of  1748-9  he  was  primarily  instrumental,  together  with 
Lynford  Lardner,  also  an  Englishman,  and  John  Wallace  and  John  Inglis,  both 
Scotchmen,  in  planning  and  organizing  a  series  of  dancing  parties,  known  as  the 
"Assemblies."  Thus  was  inaugurated  a  long  series  of  balls  that  have  become 
liistoric  in  the  annals  of  Philadelphia,  and  are  known  to-day  as  "The  Philadel- 
phia Assemblies."  During  the  winter  of  1748-9,  six  Assemblies  were  given 
under  the  management  of  four  Directors ;  Lynford  Lardner,  John  Inglis,  John 
Wallace  and  John  Swift.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the  Swift  family,  that  has  come 
down  in  two  different  lines,  that  the  first  meeting  at  which  the  Assemblies 
originated  was  held  at  John  Swift's  house.  There  were  fifty-nine  subscribers 
in  all,  and  as  an  invitation  was  extended  to  the  family  of  every  head  of  a  family 
who  subscribed,  probably  some  two  hundred  persons  were  eligible  to  attend  the 
dances.  The  subscription  was  two  pounds  sterling.  Three  manuscript  relics 
of  those  gay  festivities  have  come  down  to  us :  the  rules  to  govern  the  dances, 
the  list  of  the  original  subscribers,  and  the  Treasurer's  Account-book.  Except 
the  signatures  of  the  subscribers,  all  three  documents  are  in  the  handwriting 
of  John   Swift. 


ii8  SWIFT 

On  October  4,  1757,  John  Swift  was  elected  a  Common  Councilman  of  Phil- 
adelphia, and  so  continued  to  serve  until  about  the  end  of  1764,  and  in  that 
office  devoted  much  time  to  the  service  of  the  city.  In  1762  he  was  appointed 
by  the  Crown,  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Philadelphia,  and  during  the  ten  years 
that  he  served  in  that  office,  a  large  part  of  his  time  was  occupied  in  preventing 
the  landing  of  cargoes  without  the  payment  of  duties.  He  had  to  cope  with  all 
sorts  of  subterfuges  on  the  part  of  the  smugglers  in  their  attempts  to  avoid  the 
payment  of  duties.  For  example,  sometimes  the  clearance  papers  were  altered 
during  the  voyage.  And  on  two  occasions  the  smugglers  resorted  to  acts  of 
piracy  in  the  Delaware  River  to  accomplish  their  purpose,  as  some  of  his  letters 
in  the  collections  of  The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  show. 

John  Swift  married  (first),  May  29,  1749,  at  Christ  Church,  Magdalene  (Kol- 
lock),  widow  of  Jasper  McCall,  and  daughter  of  Jacob  Kollock;  (second) 
Rebecca  Kollock,  a  niece  of  his  first  wife.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he 
lived  at  his  country  seat,  "Croydon  Lodge",  Bensalem  township,  Bucks  county, 
where  he  died.  January,  1802.  A  portrait  of  him  belonged,  in  1855,  to  his 
granddaughter  Magdalene  Peel  Swift. 

Issue  of  lohn  and  Magdalene  (Kollock)  Szi'ift: — 

John  White  Swift,  b.  Philadelphia,  Jan.  30,  1749-SO,  graduated  at  Academy  and  College 
of  Philadelphia,   1767.  and  received  degree  of  A.   M.  at  same  institution  in   1770;  en- 
tered counting  house  of  Thomas  Wharton  Jr.,  1768;  a  merchant  at  Lisbon.  1771-4.  and 
at  Quebec,  Canada,  1774-5;  joined  American  army  on  approach  of  Gen.  Montgomery, 
was  wounded  in  the  attack  on  Quebec,  and  was  appointed  Inspector  of  Accounts  and 
Works  at   Montreal   by   Gen.   Worster ;   resigned   from   army   on  declaration  of   inde- 
pendence, and  became  purser  on  the  "Empress  of  China",  first  ship  to  enter  port  of 
Canton  under  American  flag,  in  1784:  d.  unm.  in  Bucks  county,  in  1818; 
Alice  Swift,  b.  Feb.  20,   1750-1  ;  m.  at  "Croydon  Lodge",  Bucks  county,   Nov.  22.   1778, 
Robert   Cambridge,   son  of  Robert  Livingston,  proprietor  of  Livingston   Manor,   New 
York;  and  (second)  James,  son  of  Patrick  Crauford  of  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  ofiicer  in 
British  army; 
Joseph  Swift,  b.  Feb.  g,  1752;  graduated  at  College  and  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  1769, 
and  entered  counting  house  of  his  uncle  Joseph  Swift,  left  to  accept  the  captaincy  in 
the    Pennsylvania    Loyalist    Troop    of    Horse,    Dec.    12,    1777,    and    served    with    it    in 
British  army  until  close  of  war,  when  he  settled  at  Fredericktoni  Nova  Scotia,  and  m. 
Ann,  dau.  of  William  Fowler,  from  New  York;   returned  to  Pennsylvania,   1799,  and 
resided  in  Bristol,  Bucks  county;  d.  there  1810; 
Charles  Swift,  b.  Aug.  26.  1757;  educated  at  College  and  Academy  of  Philadelphia;  ad- 
mitted  to    Philadelphia    Bar   March   9,    J779;    Register   of   Wills,   Philadelphia   county, 
May  19,  1800,  to  April  12,  1809;  d.  at  "Croydon  Lodge",  Bucks  county,  Oct.  8,  1813, 
bur.  at  St.  James  P.  E.  Church,  Bristol,  Bucks  county;  m.,  Dec.  31,     1783.  Mary.  dau. 
of  Thomas  Riche.  Esq.,  of  Bucks  county,  who  d.  Feb.  7,   1790;    (second)    Mary  Bad- 
ger Inman,  dau.  of  Bernard  and  Susanna  (Riche)   Badger,  and  widow  of  Capt.  George 
Inman  of   British   Army,   in  26th   Regiment  of   Foot ;   d.  at   "Croydon   Lodge".   Bucks 
county,  April  7,  1833.     Was  a  founder  of  Philadelphia  Academy  of  Fine  .\rts,  in  1805 ; 
John,   son   of  Charles   and   Mary    (Riche)    Swift,  b.   Philadelphia,   Jan.   21,    1790; 
graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,   1808;  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar  March 
16,    181 1 ;    was    Captain   of   Second    Company   of   "Washington    Guards"    in   the 
War  of   1812,  and  later  Colonel ;  was  one  of  committee  in  charge  of  "Military 
Birth  Night  Ball"  given  in  Washington   Hall  on  Washington's  birthday,   1818; 
elected  member  of  "State  in   Schuylkill",   Oct.    12,   1822;   Chief   Marshal   of   the 
civic  division,  of  the   Lafayette   parade,  Sept.   21,   1824;   Mayor  of   Philadelphia, 
1832-41.  and  again  1845-9;  one  of  the  most  popular  and  efficient  chief  magistrates 
of  the  city;  on  occasion  of  a  revolt  of  the  prisoners,  in  the  old  jail,  at  south-east 
corner    of    Sixth    and    Walnut    streets.    Mayor    Swift,    hearing    the    commotion, 
reached  the  jail  in  time  to  see  several  prisoners  coming  down  the  steps.     He 
immediately  shot  one  of  them  and  drove  the  others  back  to  their  cells.     He  was 
an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  Henry  Clay  for  the  presidency,  1844,  and  the  "great 
pacificator"   was   entertained   at   his   house    for   several   days,   while   making   his 
campaign  in  Philadelphia.     Mr.  Swift  d.  Philadelphia.  June  9.   1873.     M.  March 
II,   181 1,  Mary,  dau.  of  Commodore  Truxton  of  the  U.   S.  N.     His  portrait,  by 
Thomas  Sully,  shows  a  man  of  much  force  of  character. 


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Joseph  Swift,  younger  son  of  John  and  Mary  (White)  Swift,  born  June 
24,  1 73 1,  went  to  England  in  1747,  resided  with  his  uncle  John  White  at  Croy- 
don, county  Surrey,  and  attended  school  at  Manchester,  becoming  a  proficient 
French  and  Latin  scholar.  He  returned  to  Philadelphia  on  completion  of  his 
education,  and  entered  into  the  mercantile  business  with  his  brother  John  Swift. 
He  was  a  signer  of  the  Non-importation  Agreement  of  1765,  and  one  of  the 
committee  of  Philadelphia  merchants  which  included  Robert  Morris,  Tench 
Francis,  and  others,  who  secured  the  refusal  of  John  Hughes  (who  was  by 
royal  commission  to  distribute  the  obnoxious  stamps),  to  make  any  effort  to 
vn force  the  provisions  of  the  Stamp  Act,  and  was  honored  by  a  vote  of  thanks 
by  the  Assembly  of  New  Jersey,  passed  October,  1769,  for  their  patriotic  action 
in  that  behalf.  Joseph  Swift  was  elected  to  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia 
October  6,  1767,  and  was  chosen  as  one  of  Board  of  Aldermen  for  the  city, 
under  the  Act  of  March  11,  1789.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church  for 
forty  years,  and  represented  that  parish  in  the  diocesan  conventions  1785- 1802. 
He  became  one  of  the  first  board  of  trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Acad- 
emy, in  1785,  and  filled  that  position  until  his  death  on  December  26,  1806.  He 
resided  for  many  years  on  the  west  side  of  Front  street,  between  Market  and 
Chestnut,  near  his  place  of  business,  and  later  on  the  north  side  of  Pine  street, 
between  Third  and  Fourth  streets,  and  also  had  a  country  seat  near  Germantown. 
Joseph  Swift  married  at  Christ  Church,  February  3,  1759,  Margaret,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  April  6,  1731,  daughter  of  George  McCall,  one  of  Philadelphia's 
early  Colonial  merchants,  and  a  prominent  ironmaster,  by  his  wife  Anne  Yeates, 
daughter  of  Jasper  Yeates,  Provincial  Councillor  of  Pennsylvania,  by  his  wife 
Catharine,  daughter  of  James  Sandelands,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  at  Upland, 
now  Chester,  Pennsylvania.  Margaret  McCall  Swift  died  December  16,  1804. 
Issue  of  Joseph  and  Margaret   (McCall)   Swift: — 

Eleanor  Swift,  b.  Jan.  6,  1760,  d.  in  Philadelphia,  Sept.  19,  1787,  unm.; 

John  White  Swift,  b.  March  12,  1761,  d.  Nov.  19,  1761; 

Anne  Swift,  b.  July  19,  1762,  d.  Dec.  30,  1764; 

George  Swift,  b.   1764,  d.  Sept.   19,   1794,  unm. ; 

Joseph   Swift,  b.   Dec.   14,   1765 ;   several  years  merchant  in   Philadelphia,   later   resident 

of  Lancaster  county;  m.  and  left  issue; 
John  White  Swift,  b.  March  5,   1767,  d.   May   15,   1852;  merchant  in   Philadelphia;  d. 

Margaret  McCall  Swift,  b.  March  20,  1768,  d.  May  9,  1822,  unm,; 

Martha  Swift,  b.  Oct.  30,  1769,  d.  July  2,  1793,  unm.; 

Samuel    Swift,    b.   Jan.    12,    1771,    d.    Nov.    28,    1847;    m.    Mary    Shippen;    of   whom 

presently; 
Elizabeth   Swift,  b.  April   i,   1772,  d.  Jan.  24,   1857,  unm.; 
Anne  Shippen  Swift,  b.   Nov.,   1773,  d.  April  5,   1774; 
Archibald  McCall  Swift,  b.  1775,  d.  Dec.  S,  1779; 
William  Swift,  d.  unm. 

Samuel  Swift,  son  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (McCall)  Swift,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, January  12,  1771,  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  the  class 
of  1786,  studied  law  with  his  mother's  cousin  Judge  Jasper  Yeates,  later  Chief 
Justice  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar.  He  early 
manifested  a  lively  interest  in  political  matters,  espousing  the  cause  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  advocating  their  policy  in  a  number  of  articles  published 


I20  SWIFT 

in  Philadelphia  journals,  displaying  considerable  vigor,  candor,  and  polish,  and 
evidencing  careful  and  intelligent  research  on  the  questions  treated.  He  also 
possessed  considerable  poetic  talent,  which  he  cultivated  and  exercised  up  to  the 
time  of  his  decease,  being  the  author  of  a  number  of  poems  of  considerable 
merit.  He  lived  at  his  country  seat  known  as  "The  Grove",  near  Germantown, 
the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and  died  there  November  28,  1847,  ^"d  both  he  and 
his  wife  are  buried  at  Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia 
county,  of  which  he  was  a  vestryman. 

Samuel  Swift  married,  February  11,  1793,  Mary,  born  in  Philadelphia,  May 
17,  1773,  daughter  of  Hon.  Joseph  Shippen,  many  years  Clerk  of  Provincial 
Council,  and  later  Judge  of  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Lancaster  county,  by  his 
wife  Jane  Galloway;  granddaughter  of  Edward  Shippen  "of  Lancaster"  and 
niece  of  Chief  Justice  Edward  Shippen.  She  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  17, 
1773,  and  died  June  2,  1809,  and  is  buried  at  Trinity  Church,  Oxford,  of  which 
she  and  her  husband  were  members. 

Issue  of  Sa)iiHel  and  Mary  (Shippen)  Swift: — 

Margaret  McCall  Swift,  b.  Philadelphia,  June  2,  1796;  d.  Apr.  6,  1873;  m.,  May  19, 
1831,  her  cousin  John,  son  of  her  mother's  brother  Robert  Shippen,  of  "Tivoli", 
Lancaster  county,  by  his  wife  Priscilla  Thompson; 

William  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove"  Aug.  3,  1797;  d.  unm.,  Nov.  2,  1838;  was  an  exten- 
sive writer  on  political  questions,  and  an  ardent  advocate  of  "Free  Trade"; 

Mary  Shippen  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove",  Nov.  22,  1798,  d.  Feb.  15,  1877;  m.,  Sept.  9, 
1824.  Mathew  Brooke  Buckley,  b.  Oct.  31,  1794,  d.  March  8.  1856,  President  of 
Philadelphia,  Wilmington  &  Baltimore  Railroad  Company,  and  was  mother  of  Edward 
Swift  Buckley,  who  is  prominently  identified  with  some  of  Philadelphia's  financial 
and   business   institutions; 

Joseph  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove",  Dec.  26,  1799,  d.  at  Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  July  I, 
1882;  was  educated  at  a  classical  school  in  New  Jersey,  and  settling  in  Philadelphia 
in  1818,  became  a  member  of  brokerage  firm  of  Thomas  A.  Biddle  &  Co.,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  1842.  when  he  retired  from  active  business,  and  resided  at 
his  country  seat,  "Woodfield".  when  not  engaged  in  foreign  travel.  He  was  one 
of  the  original  members  of  Philadelphia  Club  (1834).  On  Oct.  5,  1835,  he  was 
elected  for  the  first  time  a  Director  of  the  Club,  and  in  subsequent  years  he  was 
chosen  again  and  again  to  fill  that  position.  On  April  7,  1854,  Mr.  Swift  was 
elected  President  of  Philadelphia  Club,  in  which  position  he  continued  to  serve 
until  Sept.  16.  1859.  He  was  elected  Director  of  The  Philadelphia  Contribution- 
ship  (the  Hand  and  Hand)  from  Sept.  4,  1844,  to  Aug.  16,  1871 ;  The  Philadel- 
phia Bank  from  1851  to  1859;  The  Philadelphia  Saving  Fund  Society  from  1855  until 
his  death  in  1882;  and  The  Pennsylvania  Company  for  Insurance  on  Lives  and 
Granting  Annuities,  from  Sept.  13,  1852,  to  Dec.  10,  1867.  In  1831,  Mr.  Swift 
m.  Eliza  Moore,  dau.  of  George  Willing.  Their  eldest  dau.  m.,  Oct.  5,  1852, 
Thomas  Balch  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  a  member  of  a  family  established  in  Mary- 
land since  1658. 

George  Swift,  b.  at  "The  Grove".  March  9,   1801,  d.  July  16.  1801; 

S.-^MUEL  Swift,  b.  March  10,  1802,  d.  Feb.  29,  1888;  m.  Mary  A.  Royer,  of  whom 
presently; 

Elizabeth  Swift,  b.  May  9,  1804,  d.  March  31.  1886,  unm.; 

John   Swift,   d.   young; 

Sarah   Bordley   Swift; 

Edwin  Swift,  b.  Nov.  6.  1806.  d.  in  Philadelphia.  March  22,  1891;  member  of  Phila- 
delphia Club;  President  of  Little  Schuylkill  Navigation.  Railroad  and  Coal  Com- 
pany, from  Dec.  7,  1836,  to  May  20.  1844;  Director  of  Chesapeake  and  Delaware 
Canal  Company  from  June  i,  i868,  to  his  death;  connected  with  a  number  of  other 
industrial    and    financial    institutions: 

Jane  Galloway  Swift,  b.  March  15.  1808.  d.  Fasten.  Pa.  March  16.  1872;  m.  John  Smith, 
of  another  branch  of  the  family,  a  descendant  of  John  Swift  who  settled  in  Bucks 
county  about  1685.  and  d.  there  in  1733.  at  a  very  advanced  age.  He  was  many  years  a 
member  of  Colonial  Assembly  from  Bucks  county,  and  Justice  of  the  courts  there ; 
later  removing  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  a  Justice  of  the  several  courts,  and 
also   a   member   of   Colonial    .Assembly,    succeeding  John   Wiite.   before-mentioned,   in 


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that  body,  in  1721,  and  serving  until  1730,  when  he  returned  to  Bucks  county.  Orig- 
inally a  member  of  Society  of  Friends  at  Oxford  Meeting,  he  was  carried  out  of  the 
Society  by  the  Keith  Schism  of  1692,  and  became  a  Baptist  preacher,  the  congrega- 
tion later"  composing  Southampton  Baptist  Church,  meeting  for  some  time  at  his 
house  in  Southampton  township.  Was  later  pastor  of  First  Baptist  Church  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Samuel  Swift,  third  surviving  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary   (Shippen)    Swift, 
born  at  "The  Grove",  the  country  seat  of  his  parents  near  Bustleton,   Philadel- 
phia county,   March    10,    1802,   married,    May    i,    1831,   Mary   Ann   Royer,   and 
resided  the  greater  part  of  his  life  at  "The  Grove".    He  died  February  20,  1888. 
Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Ann  (Royer)  Swift: — 

Emma  Louisa  Swift,  b.  May   19,  1834,  d.   Dec.  23,   1869,  unm. ; 

William    Henry   Swift,   b.   Oct.    14,   1836;   m.   Eliza   Clewlow   Lewis   Grubb,   of  whom 

presently ; 
Elizabeth  Swift,  b.  April  26,   1839 ;  unm. ;  residing  in  Norristown,   Montgomery  county. 

Pa.; 
Sarah   Swift,   b.    Nov.   21,    1841 ;   m.    Thomas   Cummings   Zulich,   son   of   Anthony   and 

Jane  Morton   (Cummings)   Zulich,  of  Easton,   Pa.; 
Joseph  Swift,  b.  Dec.  16,  1843,  m.  Gertrude  Horton  Dorr,  of  whom  presently; 
Edwin  Swift,  b.  Feb.  26,  1846,  d.  March  18,  1852; 
Samuel  Swift,  b.  1850,  d.  Feb.  10,  1852 ; 
May  Swift,  b.  Feb.  26,  1853,  d.  April  18,  1896.  unm. 

William  Henry  Swift,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Ann  (Royer)  Swift, 
born  in  Philadelphia  county,  October  14,  1836,  removed  to  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, when  a  young  man,  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  matches.  He 
has  been  President  of  the  Diamond  Match  Company  from  its  organization  in 
1887  to  1898,  when  he  retired  from  active  business.  He  married,  September 
10,  1863,  Eliza  Clewlow  Lewis,  daughter  of  Charles  T.  Grubb,  of  Wilmington 
Bar,  and  granddaughter  of  William  Ford  Grubb,  by  his  wife  Lydia  Wilkinson, 
daughter  of  Adam  Wilkinson,  by  his  wife  Mary  Gilpin. 

Issue  of  William  Henry  and  Eliza  C.  L.  {Grubb)  Snnft: — 

Charles  Grubb  Swift,  b.  Sept.  i,   1865.  d.  April  2,   1866; 

William  Henry  Swift  Jr.,  b.  May  3,  1867,  d.  April  9,  1875 ; 

Anna  Vaughan  Swift,  b.  Jan.  13,  1870;  m.  Nov.  14,  1894,  Charles  G.  Rupert,  had  issue  :^ 

Mary  Swift  Rupert,  b.  April  21,   1897; 

Anna  Swift  Rupert,  b.  June   i,   1900; 

William   Swift  Rupert,  b.  April   17,   1902; 

Amy  Lewis  Rupert,  b.  Oct.  14,  1905. 
Emma  Louisa  Swift,  b.  Oct.  3,  1876;  m.  Nov.   14,  1901,  Charles  Boiling  HoUaday,  and 
had  issue : — 

Elizabeth  Swift  Holladay,  b.  Aug.  12,  1902; 

Alexander  Randolph  Holladay,  b.  June  2,  1904. 

Joseph  Swift,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Ann  (Royer)  Swift,  born  in  Mont- 
gomery county,  December  16,  1843,  became  a  business  man  of  New  York  City 
when  a  young  man ;  retired  from,  business  and  removed  to  Wilmington,  Delaware, 
in  1889,  and  has  since  been  a  resident  of  that  city ;  now  living  retired,  is  a  member 
of  various  social  organizations  of  the  city.  He  married,  June  18,  1868,  Gertrude 
Horton,  born  May  19,  1844,  daughter  of  Horatio  and  Adeline  Levina  (Van 
Norstrand)   Dorr. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Gertrude  Horton   (Dorr)  Szi'ift: — 


2  SJVIFT 

Gertrude  Horton  Swift,  b.  March  29,  1869,  d.  inf. ; 
Joseph  Swift,  b.  Aug.  13,  1870,  d.  inf. ; 
Horatio  Dorr  Swift,  b.  July  19,  1871,  d.  inf. ; 

Samuel  Swift,  b.  Jan.  19,  1875:  m.  June  8,  1896.  Ellen  Mary  Faulkner,  dau.  of  Edwin  and 
Lucy  (Schofield)   Faulkner,  and  had  issue: — 

Katharine  Faulkner  Swift,  b.  April  19,  1897; 
Samuel   Swift  Jr.,  b.  Jan.   14,   1903. 
Frances  Dorr  Swift,  b.  Oct.  18,  1874;  m.  Oct.  27,  1897,  Henry  Lea  Jr.,  son  of  Henry  Lea 
and  Caroline   (Gibbons)   Tatnall ;  had  issue: — 
Joseph  Swift  Tatnall,  b.  Sept.  30,  1898; 
Caroline  Gibbons  Tatnall,  b.  Mar.  26.  1901 ; 
Henry  Lea  Tatnall  3d,  b.  Feb.  13,  1903 ; 
Mary  Swift  Tatnall,  b.  Oct.  i,  1904: 
Louise  Westervelt  Tatnall,  b.  July  i,  1906. 
Mary  Swift,  b.   June  2,   1876;   m.,  Jan.    12,   1903,  William  Raymond   Driver  Jr.,  son   of 
William  Raymond  Driver,  and  they  had  issue: — 

Gertrude    Horton   Driver,   b.    Oct.   7,    1903,   d.   inf.; 
Ruth  Driver,  b.  Sept.  17,  1905. 
Elizabeth  Shippen   Swift,  b.  June  28,   1878;  m.,  Jan.  9,   1904,  William  Arthur,  son  of 
Edward  and   Lucy   (Schofield)    Faulkner;   they  had  issue:— 
Lucy  Faulkner,  b.  March  13,  1905; 
Edwin   Faulkner,  b.   Nov.    12,   1906; 
Joseph   Swift,  b.   April  20,   1880,   d.   inf.: 
John  Dorr  Swift,  b.  June  18,  1881,  d.  y.; 
Gertrude  Dorr  Swift,  b.  Oct.  6,  1883:  m.,  April  16,  1906,  Edward  Saville  Ogden,  son 

of  E.  Huson  and  Martha  Louise  (Goodrich)  Ogden; 
Eleanor  McCall   Swift,  b.  June   15,   1886,  residing  with  her  parents,   in  Wilmington, 
Del. 


WILLING  FAMILY 

Charles  Willing,  American  progenitor  of  the  Willing  family  of  Philadelphia, 
was  born  in  Bristol,  England,  May  i8,  1710,  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (Har- 
rison) Willing  and  grandson  of  Joseph  and  Ava  (Lowle)  Willing.  The  family 
is  probably  of  Saxon  origin  and  had  been  more  or  less  prominent  in  the  coun- 
ties bordering  on  the  English  Channel,  for  many  generations.  Michel  Willing, 
brother  of  Sir  John  Willing,  a  prominent  royalist,  born  about  1542,  was  a  grand- 
son of  Simon  Willing,  living  at  Medbury,  Devonshire,  in  1546,  had  wife  Mary, 
who  bore  him  three  sons,  William  of  Medbury,  who  died  in  1635;  Michel,  and 
John.  Joseph  Willing,  son  of  John  and  grandson  of  Michel,  baptized  December 
17,  1620,  died  1678,  lived  at  Hupperton,  county  of  Somerset.  By  his  wife  Mary 
he  had  issue: — 

Joseph  Willing,  of  whom  presently; 

John; 

Mary; 

Anne; 

Thomas,  bap.   at   Bristol,   Sept.    10,   1654. 

Joseph  Willing,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary,  buried  February  2,  1693,  mar- 
ried (first),  July  I,  1672,  Elizabeth  Plaver,  who  died  October  4,  1675,  and  he 
married  (second),  May  24,  1676,  Ava  Lowle,  a  Saxon  heiress,  who  died  Decem- 
ber 31,  1707.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Lowle,  and  granddaughter  of 
John  Lowle  of  Woodhouse,  Gloucestershire,  by  his  wife  Martha,  daughter  and 
sole  heiress  of  Thomas  Smith,  Esq.,  Taunton,  Somersetshire.  She  had  a  com- 
mon ancestry  with  the  distinguished  family  of  Lowell,  of  Massachusetts,  in  John 
Lowle  of  Clevedon,  Somersetshire.  William  Lowle  of  Yardley,  Worcestershire, 
married  a  Lyttleton  and  had  sons,  James,  Andrew  and  Samuel,  the  first  named 
of  whom  married  a  Baskerville,  and  had  sons,  Rafife,  George,  Edward,  and  An- 
drew;  the  first  named  of  whom  married  a  Hasdrigg,  and  had  Walter,  Thomas, 
Anthony  and  Sabity.  Walter  Lowle  married  Joan  Russell,  and  had  issue: — 
Richard,  married  a  Turner  and  lived  and  died  at  Yardley,  and  Thomas 
married  a  Mayhouse.     The  latter  had  issue: — 

John  Lowle,  of  Clevedon,  Somersetshire,  before  mentioned; 
William    Lowle; 
Thomas   Lowle; 
Roger  Lowle. 

John  Lowle,  of  Clevedon,  Somersetshire,  married  a  Wake  and  had  issue: — 
John  Lowle,  married  Apolys,  daughter  of  Robert  Liversage,  and  Richard,  married 
a  Percival,  and  had  Percival  Lowle,  the  ancestor  of  the  Lowell  of  Massachusetts, 
born  about  1591. 

Roger  Lowle,  married  Joane  Gage,  daughter  of  John  Gage  of  Walton. 

Roger  Lowle  and  Joane  Gage  had  issue: — 


124  WILLING 

John  Lowle  of  Walton,  m.  Prudence  Whyke,  of  whom  presently ; 
William    Lowle; 
James  Lowle. 

John  Lowle  and  Prudence  Whyke  had  issue: — 
Thomas  Lowle  married  Margaret  Dyer  and  had  issue: — 

John  Lowle,  m.   Martha  Smith; 

William    Lowle; 

Raffe  Lowle; 

Francis   Lowle; 

Thomas  Lowle; 

Mary   Lowle,   m.  John   Hubbell,   of   London. 

John  Lowle,  of  Woodhouse,  Gloucestershire,  1699,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Margaret  (Dyer)  Lowle,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  Smith,  of 
Taunton,  Somersetshire,  and  had  issue: — 

Thomas  Lowle,  father  of  Ava,  m.  Joseph  Willing; 
Raffe  Lowle; 
John  Lowle; 
Martha    Lowle; 
Mary   Lowle. 

Ch.xrles  \^'ILLING,  born  at  Bristol,  England,  May  18,  17 10,  was  reared  to 
mercantile  business,  and  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1728,  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
to  take  charge  of  a  mercantile  house,  said  to  have  been  established  there  by  his 
family  in  1726.-  A  cousin,  Thomas  Willing,  also  came  to  America,  and  laid 
out  a  town  of  Willing-town,  now  Wilmington,  Delaware.  Thomas  Willing, 
brother  of  Charles,  also  came  to  Philadelphia,  but  after  a  brief  residence  there 
returned  to  England,  where  he  died.  Charles  Willing  was  a  successful  business 
man  of  much  more  than  ordinary  ability,  and  became  a  much  esteemed  and 
respected  merchant,  councilman  and  magistrate.  He  carried  on  a  large  foreign 
trade,  and  his  many  successful  operations  materially  aided  in  establishing  in 
foreign  countries  the  reputation  of  his  adopted  city  for  public  honor  and  pri- 
vate wealth,  which  it  enjoyed  to  a  marked  degree  in  the  quarter  century  pre- 
ceding the  war  of  the  Revolution,  and  to  his  family  and  those  of  Shippen,  Mor- 
ris, Wharton,  Biddle  and  others  with  whom  it  was  more  or  less  intimately  asso- 
ciated in  business  and  by  marriage,  Philadelphia  is  largely  indebted  for  her 
commercial,  political,  social  and  intellectual  prominence,  in  Colonial  days. 
Charles  Willing  soon  became  indentified  with  the  affairs  of  his  adopted  city  and 
province.  He  was  active  in  organizing  the  Philadelphia  Associators  for  the 
defense  of  the  frontier  in  1747,  and  was  commissioned  captain  of  a  company  in 
the  Associated  Regiment  of  Foot,  commanded  by.  Col.  Abraham  Taylor.  He 
was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  in  1743,  commissioned  a  Justice,  1745,  made 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  City  Court  in  1747,  and  the  following  year  was  elected 
Mayor  of  the  City.  He  was  re-commissioned  Justice,  1749-52-54,  was  again 
elected  Mayor,  and  died  from  ship  fever  contracted  in  the  discharge  of  his  offi- 
cial duties,  November  30,  1754.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  first  trustees 
of  the  Philadelphia  College,  later  University  of  Pennsylvania,  serving  as  trus- 
tee from   1749  to  his  death,   1754.     He  was  a  member  of  the  vestry  of  Christ 


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Church  from  1735,  to  his  death.  Some  estimate  may  be  formed  of  the  place  he 
filled  in  the  community  from  the  obituary  notice  of  him  published  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Gazette  of  December  5,  1754,  which  is  as  follows : — 

"Last  Saturday,  after  a  short  illness,  departed  this  life  in  the  forty-fifth 
year  of  his  age,  Charles  Willing,  Esquire,  Mayor  of  this  city.  As  it  may  be 
truly  said  that  this  community  had  not  a  more  useful  member,  his  death  is 
justly  lamented  as  a  public  loss  to  his  country  as  well  as  most  irretrievable  to 
his  family  and  friends.  In  the  character  of  a  magistrate  he  was  patient,  inde- 
fatigable, and  actuated  by  a  steady  zeal  for  justice ;  as  a  merchant  it  was  thought 
no  person  amongst  us  understood  commerce  in  general,  and  the  trading  inter- 
ests of  the  Province  in  particular,  better  than  he,  and  his  success  in  business 
was  proportionately  great;  as  a  friend  he  was  faithful,  candid  and  sincere;  as 
a  husband  and  parent  few  ever  exceeded  him  in  tenderness  and  affection, 
being  himself  a  sincere  Christian  he  was  strictly  attentive  to  the  education  of  his 
children  in  every  virtuous  qualification,  and  m  a  particular  manner  he  was  remark- 
able in  that  essential  part  of  a  parent's  duty,  so  little  considered,  a  regular  attend- 
ance, together  with  his  numerous  family  on  the  public  worship  of  God,  and  for 
this  accordingly  they  will  now  have  reason  to  bless  his  memory,  since  the  impres- 
sions thereby  received  will  go  further  to  teach  them  how  to  bear  their  present 
heavy  affliction,  and  recommend  them  to  the  favor  of  the  world,  (degenerate  as 
it  is)  than  all  the  external  advantages, — all  the  fortune,  grace  and  good  opinion 
he  has  left  them  possessed  of." 

Mr.  Willing  lived  and  died  on  Third  street,  in  the  house  devised  by  him  to 
his  son  Thomas,  who  succeeded  him  in  the  business.  He  married,  January  21, 
1730,  Anne,  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  5,  1710,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Abi- 
gail (Grosse)  Shippen.  Mrs.  Willing  survived  her  husband  many  years,  dying 
June  27,,   1 79 1. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Anne  (Shippen)  Willing: — 

Thomas,  b.  Dec.  19,  1731,  d.  Jan.  19.  1821  ;  m.  June  19.  1763.  Anne  McCall,  of  whom 
presently; 

Anne.  b.  July  16,  1733,  d.  Jan.  2,  1812;  m.  Feb.  6,  1762,  Tench  Francis  Jr.,  of  Philadel- 
phia; 

Dorothy,  b.  Aug.  3,  1735,  d.  in  Scotland.  1782;  m.  Captain,  afterwards,  Sir  Walter  Stirl- 
ing, of  Taskine,  Scotland,  Commodore  in  the  Royal  Navy ; 

Charles,  b.  May  20,  1738,  d.  March  22.  1788;  m.  May  24,  1760,  Elizabeth  Hannah  Car- 
rington,  of  Barbadoes ;  of  whom  later ; 

Mary,  b.  Sept.  24,  1740,  d.  March  28,  1814;  m.  Jan.  29,  1761,  Col.  William  Byrd,  of 
Westover,   Va. ; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  10,  1742,  d.  Jan.  17,  1830;  m.  Augi.  7.  1769,  Samuel  Powell,  Mayor  of 
Philadelphia,  Speaker  of  Pennsylvania  Assembly,  etc. ; 

Richard,  b.  Jan.  2,  1744-5,  d.  Jan.  30,  1798;  m.  Jan.  30,  1766,  Margaret  Kortwright,  of 
New  York; 

Abigail,  b.  June   15,   1747,  d.  Aug.   10,   1791,  unm. ; 

Joseph,  b.  Oct.  15,  1749,  d.  July  4,  1750; 

James,  b.  Feb.  g,  1750-1,  d.  Oct.  13,  1801,  unm.  Captain  in  Continental  Army,  during  Rev- 
olution, taken  prisoner  and  confined  in  the  loathsome  prison  ships  in  New  York  har- 
bor; 

Margaret,  b.  Jan.  15,  1753,  d.  Sept.  21,  1816;  m.  Nov.  16,  1775,  Robert  Hare,  of  whom 
later. 

Thomas  Willing,  eldest  son  of  Charles  and  Anne  (Shippen)  Willing,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  December   19,   1731,  was  sent  by  his  father  to  England  at  the 


126  WILLING 

age  of  eight  years,  and  was  educated  there  under  the  supervision  of  his  grand- 
father Thomas  Willing,  of  Bristol.  He  was  placed  at  a  school  at  Wells,  Som- 
ersetshire, and  later  spent  some  time  in  London.  He  returned  to  Philadelphia, 
May  19,  1749,  and  at  once  entered  his  father's  counting  house.  Two  years  later 
his  father  made  a  business  and  fraternal  visit  to  England,  leaving  Thomas  in 
charge  of  his  extensive  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  on  his  return,  October, 
1751,  was  so  much  pleased  with  the  manner  in  which  the  business  had  been 
handled  that  he  made  his  son  a  partner.  At  the  death  of  his  father,  1754. 
Thomas  Willing  took  entire  charge  of  the  business  and  of  the  family,  all  his 
nine  brothers  and  sisters  with  the  exception  of  one  being  minors,  the  youngest 
less  than  two  years  old.  He  inherited  his  father's  business  abilities  and  sterling 
qualities  and  successfully  managed  the  large  concerns  established  by  his  father. 
He  took  as  a  partner  Robert  Morris,  the  financier  of  the  Revolution,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Willing  &  Morris,  of  whom  Mr.  Griswold  truly  says,  "to  the 
great  credit  and  well  known  patriotism  of  the  house  of  Willing  &  Morris  the 
country  owed  its  extrication  from  those  trying  pencuniary  embarrassments  so 
familiar  to  the  readers  of  Revolutionary  history."  What  was  true  of  it  then 
was  equally  true  during  the  twenty  years  preceding  the  Revolutionary  struggle. 
Possessed  of  the  finest  business  qualifications  and  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
needs  of  the  country,  and  practicing  the  strictest  business  integrity  in  all  their 
transactions,  they  carried  on  an  immense  trade  and  became  one  of  the  best  and 
most  favorably  known  commercial  houses  in  America.  Thomas  Willing's  name 
heads  the  list  of  the  merchants  of  Philadelphia  to  sign  the  Non-importation  Res- 
olutions of  1765.  He  was  President  of  the  Provincial  Conference  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  different  Colonies,  held  at  Philadelphia,  July  15.  1774,  and  repre- 
sented his  State  in  the  Continental  Congress  of  1775  and  1776.  In  the  latter  he 
voted  against  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  for  the  reasons  that  he  did  not 
believe  his  country  was  at  that  time  equal  to  the  conflict  that  must  ensue, — and 
because  as  a  delegate  from  Pennsylvania,  he  felt  that  he  had  not  been  author- 
ized either  by  the  State  Assembly  or  by  the  voice  of  the  people  at  large  to  join 
in  such  action.  He,  however,  gave  his  best  energies  and  his  money  to  its  support 
when  adopted.  He  was  also  a  member  of  Committee  of  Safety  of  the  Province 
June  30  to  October  19,  1775.  Prior  to  the  Revolution  he  had  filled  the  position 
of  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  1767-76,  being  with  John  Lawrence  and  John 
Morton,  the  last  to  act  under  the  old  constitution.  When  Congress  chartered 
the  Bank  of  North  America,  to  assist  the  Government  in  raising  funds  to  pay  the 
expenses  of  the  war,  it  was  made  part  of  the  enactment  that  Thomas  Willing 
should  be  its  president,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Legislature  confirmed  that  enact- 
ment, March  26,  1782.  This  bank  was  the  agent  that  enabled  Robert  Morris 
to  reclaim  the  finances  of  the  country,  and  Willing,'  as  its  official  head 
in  all  matters,  was  unanimously  re-elected  at  each  annual  election,  when 
the  Bank  of  the  LTnited  States  was  organized  he  was  induced  to  sur- 
render the  presidency  of  the  Bank  of  North  America  to  accept  that  of  the  new 
financial  institution,  and  managed  its  affairs  with  the  same  eminent  ability  that 
had  characterized  his  administration  of  the  former.  In  municipal  affairs  he  held 
the  same  prominent  place  as  in  Provincial  and  State.  He  was  elected  to  Com- 
mon Council  of  the  City,  October  5,  1755.  became  a  member  of  Board  of 
Aldermen,  October  2,   1758,  and  Alayor,  October  4.    1763,  and  represented  the 


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city  in  the  Provincial  Assembly  for  the  years  1764-5-6.  He  died  in  Philadel- 
phia, January  18,  1821,  in  his  ninetieth  year.  To  few  men  in  any  age  has  been 
vouchsafed  so  long  a  successful  and  honorable  career,  whose  lives  ran  through 
such  trying  and  epoch-making  times  as  did  that  of  Thomas  Willing.  He  was 
possessed  in  a  high  degree  of  those  sterling  qualities  of  probity,  fidelity,  and 
stability,  that  go  to  the  making  up  of  a  model  official  and  business  man,  and 
he  had  and  held  the  public  esteem  throughout  his  long  career.  He  was  an 
active,  enterprising  and  successful  business  man  for  sixty  years,  and  held  pub- 
lic position   for  nearly  as  long  a  period. 

Thomas  Willing  married,  June  9,  1763,  Anne,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Anna 
(Searle)  McCall,  born  March  30,  1745,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  5, 
1781. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (McCall)    Willing: — 

Anne,  b.  Aug.  I,  1764,  d.  in  Bermuda,  May  11,  1801,  a  noted  beauty  of  her  time;  m. 
May  16,  1781,  William  Bingham,  Member  Continental  Congress,  1787-8;  Pennsylvania 
Assembly  1790,  Speaker  1791 ;  Speaker  State  Senate,  1794;  U.  S.  Senator,  1795,  and 
President  pro  tem  ; 

Charles,  b.  May  5,  1765,  d.  July  12,  1765 ; 

Charles,  b.  April  7,  1766,  d.  July  20,  1799,  m.  (first)  Rosalind  Evans;  (second)  Anne 
Hemphill ; 

Thomas  Mayme,  b.  April  15,  1767,  d.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Oct.  3,  1822;  m.  Jane  Nixon; 

Elizabeth,  b.  March  27.   1768,  m.  Major  William  Jackson; 

George,  b.  April  4,  1769,  d,  Aug.  10,  1769; 

Mary,  b.  Sept.  15,  1770,  m.  Henry,  son  of  George  Clymer,  signer  of  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence ; 

Dorothy,  b.  July   16,   1772,  m.  her  cousin,  Thomas  Willing  Francis ; 

George,  b.  April  14,  1774,  m.  (first)  Maria  Benezet  (second)  Rebecca  Harrison  Black- 
well,  of  whom  presently; 

Richard,  b.  Dec.  25,  1775,  m.  Eliza  Moore,  of  whom  presently; 

Abigail,  b.  May  16,  1777,  m.  Richard  Peters ; 

William  Shippen,  b.  Feb.  6,  1779;  m.  Maria  Wilhelmina  Peters; 

Henry,  b.  Dec.  15,  1780.  d.  June  20,  1781. 

George  Willing,  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (McCall)  Willing,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, April  14,  1774,  graduated  at  Princeton  in  1792,  and  entered  his 
father's  counting  house.  He  later  went  to  India  in  the  interest  of  the  firm  of 
Willing  &  Francis,  who  did  a  large  importing  business  in  India  goods.  He 
retired  from  business  in  early  life,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  December  22,  1827. 
He  married  (first),  at  Philadelphia,  October  i,  1795,  Maria,  only  child  of  John 
and  Maria  (Bingham)  Benezet  of  Philadelphia,  who  died  without  issue.  He 
married  (second),  November  26,  1800,  Rebecca  Harrison,  only  child  of  Rev. 
Robert  Blackwell,  D.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Rebecca  Harrison,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  February  25,  1782,  died  there,  May  12,   1852. 

Issue  of  George  and  Rebecca  Harrison  (Blackzvell)   Willing: — 

Maria,  b.  Aug.  g,  1801,  m.  (first)  her  cousin,  Willing  Francis,  and  (second)   Sylvanus  S. 

Hammersly,  M.  D. ; 
Robert  Blackwell,  b.  July  16,  1801,  d.  June  7,  1831,  unm  ; 
Anne,  d.  Oct.  12,  1816; 

Hannah,  d.  s.  p.  Nov.   18,   1882,  m.  Henry  Ralston; 

Rebecca  Harrison,  d.  s.  p,  Aug.  21,  1878,  m.  May  29,  1834,  George  Henry  Thompson,  Esq. ; 
Eliza  Moore,  d.  Sept.  9,  1840,  m.  Joseph  Swift,  of  whom  presently ; 
Dorothy,  m.  June  15,  1853,  John  William  Wallace,  A.  B.,  LL.D. ; 


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Anne,  or  Nancy,  d.  Sept.  27,  1818; 

Charles,  d.  July  25,   1868;  m.   Selena  Watson. 

Eliza  Moore  Willing,  daughter  of  George  and  Rebecca  Harrison  (Black- 
well)  Willing,  born  in  Philadelphia,  married,  November  24,  1831,  Joseph,  son 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Shippen)  Swift,  who  was  born  at  his  father's  country 
seat  called  "The  Grove",  Philadelphia,  December  26,  1799.  He  was  educated  at 
a  classical  school  in  New  Jersey,  and  in  1818,  became  associated  with  broker- 
age firm  of  Thomas  A.  Biddle  &  Company,  and  remained  with  them  until  1842, 
when  he  retired  from  business  and  went  abroad,  travelling  extensively  some 
years.  He  was  an  excellent  business  man  and  financier,  and  was  connected  with 
a  number  of  financial  institutions  of  Philadelphia,  being  repeatedly  elected  as  a 
director  of  various  corporations,  among  them  the  Philadelphia  Bank,  and  the 
Philadelphia  Saving  Fund  Society,  serving  as  a  director  of  the  latter  institution 
from  its  organization  until  his  death,  a  period  of  twenty-six  years.  He  main- 
tained a  city  house,  and  a  country  seat  called  "Woodfield."  !Mrs.  Eliza  Moore 
(Willing)  Swift  died  September  9,  1840. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Eliza  M.  {Willing)  Sianft: — 

Emily   Swift,   m.   Thomas,  son  of  Lewis  P.   W.  and   Elizabeth   Balch,   b.   Leesburg, 
Va.,   July   23,    1821; 

Mary  Swift,   m.   Horace   G.   Browne. 

Thomas  Balch  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia  University,  and  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  He  was  much  devoted  to  literary  pursuits  and  wrote  a 
number  of  articles  on  finance,  social  science  and  miscellaneous  subjects.  He  was 
first  to  propose  a  Court  of  International  Arbitration.  Among  his  literary  produc- 
tions are,  "Les  Francais  de  1'  Independance  des  Etats-Unis,  1777-83,"  "Letters  and 
Papers  relating  chiefly  to  the  Provincial  History  of  Pennsylvania"  and  "The  Mary- 
land Papers".     He  died  in  Philadelphia,  March  29,  1877. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Emily   (Swift)   Balch: — 

Elsie   Willing   Balch; 
Edwin  Swift  Balch,  of  Philadelphia  Bar; 
Joseph  Balch,  died,  Paris,  July  3,   1864; 
Thomas  Willing  Balch. 

RicH.\RD  Willing,  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (AlcCall)  Willing,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  December  25,  1775,  on  arriving  at  manhood  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile trade  in  connection  with  the  firm  of  Willing  &  Francis,  for  whom  he 
made  four  voyages  to  India  and  one  to  China,  and  later  took  an  active  part  in 
winding  up  the  affairs  of  that  well-known  firm. 

He  visited  Europe,  was  a  member  of  the  First  City  Troop,  and  at  one  time 
presid>ent  of  an  insurance  company,  the  only  official  position  he  could  ever  be 
induced  to  accept.     He  died  in  Philadelphia.  May  18,   1858. 

Richard  Willing  married,  at  Christ  Church,   February   i,   1804,  Eliza  Moore, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd  Moore,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Stamper. 
She  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  14,  1786,  and  died  May  21,  1823. 
Issue  of  Richard  and  Eliza  (Moore)  Willing: — 

Thomas   Moore  Willing,   d.   Isle  of  Wight,   Sept.   17,   1850;   m.  July  23,   1831,   Matilda 

Lee   Carter,   of  Virginia; 
Mary  Willing,  m.  Feb.  12.  1828,  John  Montgomery  Dale,  son  of  Commodore  Richard 

Dale,  U.  S.  N.,  d.  s.  p.  Feb.  13,  i860; 


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Henry  Willing,  d.  unm.  Sept.  13,  1845 ; 

Ellen   Willing,   m.   le   Compte   Blondell   von   Cuellbroeck,   Envoy    Extraordinary   from 

Belgium  to  Spain;  d.  at  Madrid,  Sept.   13.  1872; 
Caroline   Willing,   d.   July   22,    i860;    m.    and   had   issue    who   changed   their   name   to 

Willing; 
Elizabeth   Willing,   m.  John  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob   Ridgway,   the   eminent   Philadelphia 

merchant,  and  they  lived  the  greater  part  of  their  lives  in  Paris; 
Edward  Shippen  Willing,  d.,  Philadelphia,   1907;  m.  Alice,  dau.  of  John  Rhea  Barton, 
M.   D.,  and  had  issue: — 

John   Rhea    Barton   Willing; 

Susan    Ridgway   Willing; 

Edward  Shippen  Willing,  Jr.,  d.  young  in   1873; 

Ava   Lowle   Willing. 

Charles  Willing,  second  son  of  Charles  and  Anne  (Shippen)  Willing,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  May  30,  1738,  was  a  merchant  in  Philadelphia  in  the  days  of 
that  city's  mercantile  preeminence,  but  the  greater  part  of  his  business  career  was 
spent  in  Barbadoes,  where  he  resided  for  many  years.  He  married  at  Barbadoes, 
May  24,  1760,  Elizabeth  Hannah  Carrington,  born  in  Barbadoes,  March  12,  1739, 
died  there  October  12,  1795,  daughter  of  Paul  and  Elizabeth  (Gibbs)  Carring- 
ton. He  later  returned  to  Philadelphia,  and  spent  most  of  his  remaining  days 
in  that  city  and  at  his  country  seat  "Coventry"  farm,  in  Chester,  now  Delaware 
county,  dying  at  the  latter  place,  March  22,  1788,  in  his  fiftieth  year.  An  excel- 
lent portrait  of  him  painted  by  Benjamin  West,  is  in  possession  of  Charles  Will- 
ing Littel,  of  Baltimore.  Elizabeth  Hannah  (Carrington)  Willing,  returned  to 
Barbadoes  after  the  death  of  her  husband  and  died  there  October  12,  1795. 
Issue  of  Charles  and  Elisabeth  Hannah   (Carrington)   Willing: — 

Elizabeth  Gibbs  Willing,  b.  Sept.  30,  1764,  d.  Feb.  12,  1820;  m.  June  10,  1782,  John 
Forster  of  Barbadoes,  son  of  John  Forster  AUeyne,  and  grandson  of  Thomas  and 
Dorothy  Alleyne  of  Braintree,  Mass.  John  F.  Alleyne  and  his  family  removed  to 
England  after  the   Revolution. 

Anne  Willing,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Aug.  28,  1767,  d.  Jan.  11,  1853,  m.,  May  9,  1786,  Luke, 
son  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  (Hudson)   Morris. 

Anne  (Willing)  Morris,  according  to  a  deposition  made  by  her  son  Thomas 
Willing  Morris,  always  resided  in  Philadelphia.  She  survived  her  husband  a  half 
century,  living  many  years  in  Germantown.  An  account  of  her  descendants  is 
given  in  this  volume  under  the  heading  of  the  Morris  Family.  The  descendants 
of  Elizabeth   Gibbs   (Willing)   Alleyne,  all   lived  in   England. 

Margaret  Willing,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Anne  (Shippen)  Willing,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  January  15,  1753,  died  September  21,  1816,  married  November 
16.  1775^  Robert  Hare,  son  of  Richard  and  Martha  Hare,  of  Limehouse,  near 
London,  England.  He  was  born  at  Woolwich,  Kent  county,  England,  January 
28,  1752,  and  came  to  Pennsylvania  June  4,  1773.  He  became  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man  of  Philadelphia,  and  represented  the  city  in  the  General  Assembly  in 
1791,  and  later  in  the  State  Senate;  was  Speaker  of  the  Senate  and  ex-officio 
Lieutenant  Governor,  1796.  He  was  one  of  the  original  organizers  of  the 
Philadelphia  "First  City  Troop"  but  took  no  part  in  the  military  operations 
during  the  Revolutionary  War.  During  the  British  occupation  of  Philadel- 
phia, he  and  his  family  were  exiles  in  Virginia,  and  made  their  residence 
with  his  brother-in-law.  Colonel  William  Byrd,  of  Westover,  near  Winchester. 
He  was  trustee  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1789-1805.  He  died  in  German- 
town,    Philadelphia,    March    8,    1812. 


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Issue  of  Robert  and  Margaret  (IViUing)  Hare: — 

Richard  Hare,  b.  Philadelphia,  Sept.  22,  1776,  d.  July  9,  1778; 

Charles  Willing  Hare.  b.  Westover.  Va..  April  23.  1778.  m.  Anne  Emlen.  of  whom 
presently ; 

Martha  Hare,  b.  Philadelphia  Aug.  17,  1779,  d.  Feb.  4.  1852.  unm. ; 

Robert  Hare,  b.  Philadelphia,  Jan.  17,  1781,  d.  May  15,  1858;  Prof,  of  Chemistry.  Univ. 
of  Pennsylvania,  Life  member  of  Smithsonian  Institute,  m.  Harriet  Clark,  of  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. ; 

Richard  Hare,  b.  Philadelphia,  Sept.  24,  1782,  d.  Jan.  9,  1796; 

John  Powell  Hare.  b.  Philadelphia,  April  22.  1786,  d.  Newport,  R.  I.,  June  14,  1850, 
m.  Julia  de  Veaux.  He  changed  his  name  to  John  Hare  Powell;  was  Colonel  in  War 
of  1812-14,  and  later  a  Secretary  of  Legation  at  Court  of  St.  James,  London. 

Ch.^rles  Willing  Hare,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  (Will- 
ing)  Hare,  married  August  29,   1801,  Anne  Emlen,  daughter  of  George  Emlen, 
Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  born  July  6,   1777,  died  February,   185 1. 
Issue  of  Charles  Willing  and  Anne  (Emlen)  Hare: — 

Sarah  Emlen  Hare,  d.  unm.  April,  i860; 

Robert  Hare,  d.  June  1846,  m.  Nov.,  1840,  Claire  Louise  de  Peslre; 

William  Bingham  Hare,  d.  Aug.  1825; 

George  Emlen  Hare,  D.  D.,  LL.D.,  S.  T.  D.,  m.  Elizabeth  Catharine  Hobart; 

Margaretta   Hare,  m.   April  28,    1831,   Israel    Pembcrton   Hutchinson; 

Ann  Bingham  Hare,  b.  Feb.  16,  1813,  d.  March  27,  1825. 

Robert  Hare,  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  (Willing)  Hare,  the  distinguished 
chemist  and  philosopher,  "whose  name  for  half  of  a  century  was  familiar  to 
men  of  science  as  a  chemical  philosopher  and  to  cultivators  of  the  useful  arts 
throughout  the  civilized  world",  was  born  in  Philadelphia  January  17,  1781.  He 
received  a  fair  academic  education  and  in  early  life  managed  the  business  of  an 
extensive  brewery  established  by  his  father,  an  Englishman  of  strong  mind, 
who  early  affiliated  himself  with  the  institutions  of  his  adopted  country,  and 
was  honored  by  public  confidence.  Young  Hare  soon  abandoned  business  for 
the  study  of  science,  attending  lectures  in  his  native  city,  and  united  himself 
with  the  Chemical  Society  of  Philadelphia,  to  whom  he  communicated  in  1801.  a 
description  of  his  "hydrostatic  blow-pipe,"  in  a  "Memoir"  republished  in  Tul- 
loch's  Philosophical  Magazine.  London,  in  1802,  and  also  in  Annals  dc  Chime, 
vol.  45.  This  apparatus  was  the  earliest  and  perhaps  the  most  remarkable  of 
his  many  original  contributions  to  science,  and  gave  evidence  of  a  highly  phil- 
osophic mind.  He  experimented  with  Professor  Silliman  and  with  him  con- 
structed in  1803,  for  Yale  College  laboratory,  the  first  pneumatic  trough,  in 
which  was  incorporated  his  new  invention,  and  he  received  the  Rumford  Medal, 
from  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  He  also  perfected  the  vol- 
taic battery,  introducing  his  invention  of  the  "Deflagorator." 

Professor  Hare  was  called  to  the  chair  of  Chemistry  of  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  1818,  which  he  continued  to  fill  until  his  resignation  in  1847,  at 
which  time  he  was  made  Emeritus  Professor.  In  1816  he  invented  a  galvanic  in- 
strument called  the  "Calorimotor,"  introducing  a  new  theory  of  galvanism,  and  his 
"Deflagorator,"  above  referred  to,  followed  in  1820.  Dr.  Hare  published  a 
number  of  papers  and  pamphlets  on  scientific  subjects  since  much  quoted,  and 
considered  valuable  contributions  to  chemical  science.     He  was  an  ardent  patriot 


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and  student  of  political  economy;  was  first  a  Federalist  and  later  a  Whig,  and 
published  a  number  of  works  on  political  and  financial  questions  which  were 
marked  by  vigorous  thought  and  large  views.  He  was  a  life  member  of  the 
Smithsonian  Institute,  to  which  he  gave  all  his  chemical  and  physical  apparatus. 
Dr.  Robert  Hare  died  in  Philadelphia  May  15,  1858.  Many  tributes  to  his 
memory  and  worth  in  the  realm  of  science  and  literature  were  published  in  the 
newspapers  and  other  periodicals  of  the  day,  and  an  excellent  account  of  his 
scientific  attainments  of  some  length  appeared  in  the  Journal  of  Science  for 
July,    1858. 

Dr.  Hare  married,  September  181 1,  Harriet  Clark,  daughter  of  John  Innis 
Clark,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  by  his  wife  Lydia  Brown.  She  was 
born  1782,  and  died  March  19,  1869. 

Issue  of  Robert  and  Harriet  {Clark)  Hare: — 

John  Innis  Clark  Hare,  b.  Aug.,   1812,  d.  the  same  month; 

Hon.  John  Innis  Clark  Hare,  late  President  Judge  of  Common  Pleas  Court  of  Phila- 
delphia, b.  Oct.  17,  1817,  d.  1907.  He  received  degree  of  A.  B.  at  Univ.  of  Pa.  in 
1834;  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar,  1841.  Was  made  a  Judge 
of  District  Court  of  Philadelphia,  1851,  and  became  President  Judge  of  that  court 
in  1867,  presiding  until  1874,  when  the  new  State  constitution  abolished  the  District 
Court,  and  he  was  made  President  Judge  of  Common  Pleas  Court  No.  2,  which 
position  he  held  until  his  death,  in  1907.  The  Univ.  of  Pa.  conferred  upon  him 
honorary  degree  of  LL.D.,  1868,  and  he  was  trustee  of  the  University  1858-68;  Pro- 
fessor of  the  Law  Institute,  1868.  He  became  a  member  of  American  Philosophical 
Society  in  1842,  was  the  author  of  a  number  of  papers  on  legal  questions,  edited 
"Smith's  Leading  Cases,"  and  other  standard  works.  M.,  Nov.  16,  1842,  Esther  C. 
Binney,  dau.  of  Hon.   Horace  Binney,  by  his  wife   Elizabeth  Coxe; 

Lydia  Hare,  m.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Aug.  15,  1828,  Frederick  Prime  of  New  York; 

Robert  Harford  Hare,  m.,  Aug.  28,  1845,  Caroline,  dau.  of  Charles  Henry  Flem- 
ing of  New  Bedford,  Conn.,  by  his  wife  Mary  Rotch,  of  whom  presently; 

George  Harrison  Hare,  of  the  U.  S.  N.;  m.  Elizabeth  Binney,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary 
(Binney)  Cadwalader,  d.  s.  p.,  July  22,  1857; 

Theodore  Dehon  Hart,  d.  y.,   1825. 

Issue  of  Robert  Harford  and  Caroline  ( Fleming)  Hare: — 

Mary  Fleming   Hare,   m.   Sussex  Delaware   Davis,  of   Philadelphia   Bar,   and   had 
issue : — 

Samuel   Boyer  Davis ; 

Caroline  Hare  Davis,  m.  Oct.  8,  1904,  William  Penn-Gaskell  Hall,  of  Philadel- 
phia,  descendant   of   William   Penn,   the  Founder; 
Robert  Hare  Davis ; 
Sussex  Delaware  Davis  Jr. ; 
Harriet  Clark  Hare,  m.  George  McClelland,  M.  D. 


BALCH  FAMILY 

Among  those  who  crossed  the  Atlantic  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth 
century  to  seek  their  fortune  in  the  Xevv  World,  was  John  Balch  of  Somer- 
setshire, England.  The  family  was  settled  in  that  shire  from  very  early  times. 
In  1225,  Edward  Balch  was  living  in  the  Hundred  of  Chyu,  in  1327,  William 
Balch  was  taxed  at  Purye  near  Bridgwater,  and  in  1492,  Robert  Balch  became 
incumbent  of  the  church  at  Hazelbury.  William  Balch  of  Higham,  county 
Somerset,  who  died  in  1532-3,  was  living  before  Columbus  crossed  the  Atlan- 
tic to  America,  as  his  son  John  Balch  of  Horton,  County  Somerset,  was  born  1497, 
in  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Second.  In  the  Visitation  of  Somerset  in  1623  by 
the  Heralds  of  the  College  of  Arms,  the  right  was  confirmed  to  the  family 
through  George  Balch  of  Horton,  Somerset,  to  blazon  on  their  shield,  "Barry 
of  six,  or  an  az.  on  a  bend  engrailed  gules,  three  spear  heads  ar.,"  and  to  bear 
for  a  crest,  a  demi  griffin  rampant.  These  arms  are  recorded  in  Harley  manu- 
scripts 1141-5-1559,  in  the  British  Museum.  The  motto  used  by  the  family  is, 
"Coeur  et  courage  font  I'ouvrage."  A  branch  of  the  family  that  settled  as 
early  as  the  sixteenth  century  in  Bridgwater  gave  three  members  to  Parlia- 
ment, and  three  mayors  to  the  town. 

John  Balch  came  from  county  Somerset  to  the  Province  of  Maryland,  1658, 
of  his  own  free  will,  paying  himself  for  his  transportation.  One  of  his  sons, 
Thomas  Balch,  born  in  Maryland,  was  of  a  restless  and  adventurous  disposi- 
tion, and  went  as  a  very  young  man  to  England.  There  he  knew  Richard  Bax- 
ter and  was  much  influenced  by  that  eminent  divine.  When  "King  Mon- 
mouth" raised  his  standard  in  south-western  England  in  June,  1685,  Thomas 
Balch  joined  the  Duke's  forces  and  became  a  captain  in  his  army.  After  the 
disastrous  battle  of  Sedgemoor,  July  5,  1685.  in  which  Monmouth's  army  was 
routed  and  his  cause  destroyed,  Thomas  Balch  found  it  advisable,  owing  to 
the  activities  of  the  notorious  Colonel  Kirke  and  his  men,  known  as  "Kirke's 
lambs,"  to  leave  England  for  the  New  World.  Accordingly,  shortly  after,  he 
sailed,  disguised,  from  Bristol  and  landed  at  Annapolis,  Maryland.  His  part 
in  Monmouths'  rebellion  was  the  thread  round  which  George  Parker,  at  one 
time  Mayor  of  Bridgwater,  wrapped  an  account  of  Monmouth's  rising  in  a  book 
entitled,  "Tom  Balch ;  an  Historical  Tale  of  West  Somerset  during  Monmouth's 
Rebellion",  published  at  Bridgwater,  1879.  After  returning  to  Maryland. 
Thomas  Balch  married  Agnes  Somerville. 

One  of  Captain  Balch's  grandsons,  James  Balch,  after  visiting  England, 
married  Anne  Goodwyn,  of  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland,  Jaiuiarv-  19,  1737. 
The  second  son  of  James  and  Anne  (Goodwyn)  Balch  was  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Stephen  Bloomer  Balch,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C,  who  was  born  on  Deer  Creek, 
Harford  county.  Maryland,  April  5,  1747.  He  graduated  at  Princeton  College, 
1774,  receiving  the  A.  B.  degree.  At  Princeton  he  was  a  member  of  American 
Whig  Society.  On  October  i,  1775,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  in  the  Cal- 
<ieTt  county,  Maryland,  militia ;  he  held  this  command  for  three  years,  and  was 
in  actual   service  against  the  enemy   December   i,    1775-Decembcr    i,    1777.      In 


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1778,  when  the  feehng  was  universal  that,  owing  to  the  defeat  of  Burgoyne  and 
the  French  alliance,  our  independence  was  secured,  he  resigned  from  the  service 
In  order  to  give  himself  up  more  assiduously  to  preparing  for  the  Presbyterian 
ministry.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  the  Gospel  by  the  Presbytery  of  Donegal 
June  17,  1779.  In  1780  he  was  called  by  the  Presbyterians  of  Georgetown  on 
the  Potomac  to  establish  a  church  among  them.  Accepting,  he  arrived  there 
March  16,  1780,  and  remained  in  charge  of  the  church  he  founded  until  his 
death  fifty-three  years  afterwards. 

Among  Dr.  Balch's  friends  were  George  Washington,  who  sometimes  attended 
his  church,  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Albert  Gallatin.  A  few  weeks  after  the  death 
of  General  Washington,  Dr.  Balch  gave  notice  that  he  would  speak  of  the  life 
and  services  of  the  dead  statesman.  He  preached  in  the  open  air  to  more  than 
a  thousand  people,  from  the  last  verse  of  the  tenth  chapter  of  the  book  of 
Esther,  "For  Mordecai  the  Jew,  was  next  unto  King  Ahasuerus,  and  great 
among  the  Jews,  and  accepted  of  the  multitude  of  his  brethren,  seeking  the 
wealth  of  his  people,  and  speaking  peace  to  all  his  seed."  On  account  of  the 
friendly  relations  that  had  long  existed  between  the  United  States  and  the  Mus- 
covite Empire,  the  defeat  of  Napoleon  in  his  Russian  campaign  was  celebrated 
in  June,  1813,  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  the  religious  exercises  being  held 
at  Dr.  Balch's  church,  the  Russian  Minister,  M.  Daschkofif,  attending. 

Dr.  Balch  was  a  firm  believer  in  the  rights  of  the  individual,  and  was  in  favor 
of  gradually  liberating  the  slaves  and  sending  them  to  Liberia.  He  was  opposed 
to  slavery  and  corresponded  on  the  subject  with  Wilberforce.  He  was  a  lover 
of  books,  and  among  the  classics  preferred  Horace  to  Virgil.  In  1818  Princeton 
University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  D.  D.  He  published,  February  i, 
1 79 1,  the  earliest  publication  printed  in  the  District  of  Columbia:  "Two  Ser- 
mons on  the  Certain  and  Final  Perserverance  of  the  Saints."  And  ten  years  after- 
wards, 1801,  he  published  "A  Series  of  Letters  addressed  to  the  Rev.  Adam  Free- 
man," entitled  "A  Vindication  of  the  right  of  infants  to  the  Sacrement  of  Bap- 
tism according  to  the  Scripture."  He  died  September  22,  1833,  as  he  was  pre- 
paring to  go  to  church.  He  was  the  leading  divine  in  the  District  of  Columbia, 
and  in  such  esteem  was  he  held  by  his  fellow  townsmen,  that  at  his  funeral  the 
members  of  the  City  Councils  of  Georgetown  attended  in  a  body,  the  town  was 
draped  in  mourning,  all  places  of  business  were  closed,  and  ministers  of  all 
denominations  joined  in  the  funeral  cortege.  His  remains  now  rest  in  Oak  Flill 
cemetery,  where  W.  W.  Corcoran  has  placed  on  the  wall  of  the  chapel  a  mural 
tablet  bearing  the  following  inscription : 

"In   honor   of 

STEPHEN  BLOOMER  BALCH,  D.  D., 

Born 

On  "Deer  Creek,"  near   Bait:  Md. 

April,  A.  D.,   1747. 

Came  to  Georgetown,  D.  C. 

March   i6th,  A.  D.   1780 

Died  September  22  A.  D.  1833. 

He  planted  the  Gospel  in 

Georgetown ;     Founded 

'The    Bridge    Street    Presbyterian    Church' 

And  was   for  more  than  50  years 

Its    Pastor. 

In  life  he  Practiced  what  he  Preached 

No  Eulogy  can  add  to  such 

A   Record." 


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Dr.  Balch  married  at  Georgetown,  June  lo,  1781,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col. 
George  Beall  of  Georgetown.  She  was  descended  from  Col.  Ninian  Beall  of 
the  Rock  of  Dumbarton,  Prince  George's  county,  Maryland,  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  provincial  forces  of  Maryland,  and  also  from  Col.  Thomas  Brooke 
of  Brookfield,  Prince  George's  county,  Maryland,  President  of  the  Council  and 
Acting  Governor  of  Maryland. 

One  of  Dr.  Balch's  sons.  Judge  Lewis  P.  W.  Balch.  was  born  at  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  December  31,  1787,  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1806.  He  was  a 
member  of  Whig  Hall.  He  studied  law  with  his  kinsman.  Chief  Justice  Roger 
Brooke  Taney,  and  was  admitted  to  Maryland  Bar.  Judge  Balch's  second  son, 
Thomas  Balch,  was  born  at  Leesburg,  Loudon  county,  Virginia,  July  23,  182 1. 
He  entered  Columbia  College  in  1838  with  the  class  of  1842.  At  the  end  of  his 
freshman  year  he  received  a  silver  medal  for  leading  the  class  in  mathematics. 
and  his  classmate,  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  said  that  "Tom  Balch  was  the  master  of 
English  style  in  the  class."  He  studied  law  with  Stephen  Cambreling,  was 
admitted  to  the  New  York  bar  in  1845,  to  the  Philadelphia  bar  in  1850,  and  to 
the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  1855.  In  1853  he  was 
elected  Domestic  Secretary  and  a  member  of  the  council  of  Historical  Society 
of  Pennsylvania.  In  1854,  along  with  ^^'illiam  Rotch  Wister,  William  Logan 
Fisher,  Hartman  Kuhn  and  others,  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Cricket  Club,  and  the  same  year  he  was  an  original  member  of  the  Seventy- 
six  Society.     He  traveled  in  Europe,  1859-73,  residing  chiefly  at  Paris. 

In  1864,  Thomas  Balch,  who  was  present  at  Cherbourg  during  the  fight 
between  the  Kearsarge  and  the  Alabama  (June  19,  1864),  proposed — after 
studying  the  works  of  Grotius,  the  Due  de  Sully,  Castel  de  Saint-Pierre,  Leibniz, 
Bentham,  Kant,  and  the  Saint  Croix  River  boundary  case  and  other  precedents, 
— he  proposed  to  various  European  jurists,  that  the  diflferences  between  the 
United  States  and  England  arising  out  of  the  cruise  of  the  Alabama  and  kindred 
causes,  should  be  argued  before  an  International  Court  of  Arbitration.  In  No- 
vember, 1864,  Mr.  Balch.  during  a  visit  home,  urged  upon  some  of  his  friends, 
among  them  General  Nathanial  P.  Banks,  the  submission  of  the  Anglo-Ameri- 
can dififerences  to  such  a  court.  General  Banks  requested  Mr.  Balch  to  see 
President  Lincoln,  and  arranged  an  interview.  The  President  questioned  Mr. 
Balch,  then  lately  returned  from  Europe,  largely  about  trans-Atlantic  afifairs. 
The  President  ridiculed  the  Mexican  Empire  and  said  that  he  considered  it  "a 
pasteboard  concern  on  which  we  won't  waste  a  man  nor  a  dollar.  It  will  soon 
tumble  to  pieces  and,  maybe,  bring  the  other  down  with  it."  President  Lincoln 
.ipproved  of  Mr.  Balch's  suggestion  that  the  difficulties  with  England  should 
be  argued  before  a  Court  of  Arbitration,  as  also  afterwards  did  Richard  Cob- 
den,  James  Lorimer,  Prevost-Paradol  and  others.  In  an  open  letter,  to  which 
Horace  Greeley  gave  a  prominent  place  in  the  Tribune.  May  13,  1865,  Mr.  Balch 
publicly  expounded  his  idea  of  referring  the  outstanding  dififerences  between 
the  two  countries  to  a  Court  of  Arbitration.  In  the  fourth  section  of  that  let- 
ter he  said : 

"IV.  That  the  best  manner  of  composing  such  a  Court  of  Arbitration  would 
be,  that  each  party  should  select  some  competent  jurist,  those  two  to  select  an 
umpire.  The  claims  to  be  presented,  proved  and  argued  before  this  Court,  whose 
decisions  should  be  final  and  without  appeal." 


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From  this  seed  the  Geneva  Tribunal  grew.  Mr.  Balch  returned  to  Philadel- 
phia, October,  1873.  In  1875  he  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Whig  Society  of  Princeton  University.  The  same  year  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Rittenhouse  Club  of  Philadelphia.  He  published  and  edited, 
"Letters  and  Papers  relating  chiefly  to  the  Provincial  History  of  Pennsylvania," 
generally  known  as  "The  Shippen  Papers."  1855 ;  "The  Examination  of  Joseph 
Galloway,"  1855 ;  "Papers  relating  to  the  Maryland  Line  during  the  Revolution," 
1857 ;  "Les  Francais  en  Amerique  pendant  la  Guerre  de  1'  Independance  des 
Etats-Unis,  1777-1783,"  1872;  "International  Courts  of  Arbitration,"  1874; 
"The  Journal  of  Claude  Blanchard,"  1876,  etc.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Phila- 
delphia March  29,  1877.  He  married,  October  5,  1852,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Swift  of  Philadelphia.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Acorn  Club,  and  is  a 
member  and  was  Vice-president  of  the  Colonial  Dames  of  America. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Emily  (Szuift)  Balch: 

Elise  Willing  Balch ;  member  of  Acorn  Club  and  Colonial  Dames  of  America,  and 
wrote  the  part  of  the  "Provincial  Councillors  of  Pennsylvania."  entitled,  "Edward 
Shippen." 

Edwin  Swift  Balch,  A.  B.  Harv.  and  member  of  Philadelphia  Bar.  Member  of  Phila- 
delphia Club,  American  Philosophical  Society,  a  manager  of  Franklin  Institute,  mem- 
ber of  Council  of  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  of  Pa.,  member  of  Royal  Geographical  So- 
ciety. He  has  written  and  published  "Mountain  Exploration"  "Glacieres  or  Freezing 
Caverns,"  "Antarctica,"  "Comparative  Art,"  "Roman  and  Prehistoric  Remains  in  Cen- 
tral Germany,"  etc.  He  married  Eugenia  H  Macfarlane,  great-great-granddaughter  of 
George  Clymer,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence ; 

Joseph  Swift  Balch,  d.  young ; 

Thomas  Willing  Balch,  A.  B.  Harv.,  LL.B.  Univ.  of  Pa.,  and  member  of  Philadelphia 
Bar.  He  is  a  member  of  Philadelphia  Club,  American  Philosophical  Society,  Council 
of  Historical  Society  of  Pa.,  a  manager  of  Children's  Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  and  a 
director  of  Chesapeake  and  Delaware  canal.  He  has  written  and  published  "The  Ala- 
bama Arbitration,"  "The  Alaska-Canadian  Frontier,"  "The  Alaska  Frontier,"  "L'Adju- 
dication  de  la  Question  de  la  Frontiere  entre  1' Alaska  et  le  Canada,"  "France  in  North 
Africa,  1906,"  etc. 


BEVAN  FAMILY 

The  name  of  Bevan  had  its  origin  in  the  old  Cymric  custom  prior  to  the  use 
of  hereditary  surnames,  of  designating  each  child  of  a  common  parent  by  con- 
necting his  given  name  with  that  of  his  father,  by  the  word  "ap",  meaning  "son" 
thus  John,  son  of  Evan,  was  "John  ap  Evan" ;  Evan,  son  of  Richard,  was  "Evan 
ap  Richard";  John,  son  of  Rhys,  or  Rees,  a  common  given  name  among  the 
Welch,  was  "John  ap  Rhys."  From  the  three  names  mentioned  originated  the 
names  Bevan,  Prichard  and  Presse  or  Price,  common  among  descendants  of 
early  Welsh  settlers  in  Pennsylvania,  formed  by  the  incorporation  of  the  "ap" 
into  the  parental  given  name,  after  the  emigration  of  the  family  to  America. 

John  Bevan,  first  to  bear  the  name  in  its  modern  form,  came  to  Pennsylvania 
in  1683,  from  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  and  was  a  son  of  Evan  ap  John,  of 
Treverigg,  Glamorganshire,  and  Jane,  daughter  of  Richard  ap  Evan  of  Collena, 
and  was  descended  in  a  direct  line,  through  fourteen  generations  from  lestan  ap 
Gwrgan,  the  last  prince  of  Glamorgan,  1018,  to  1090,  and  through  his  mother 
a  lineal  descendant  of  Edward  III,  King  of  England.  The  land  upon  which  he 
was  born  in  1646,  and  upon  which  he  died  and  was  buried  eighty  years  later, 
after  an  active  and  useful  career,  twenty  years  of  which  was  spent  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, had  been  owned  and  occupied  by  his  direct  ancestors  for  probably  ten 
centuries. 

lestan  ap  Gwrgan,  before  referred  to,  became  hereditary  ruler  of  the  territory 
known  as  Glamorgan,  at  the  death  of  his  father  in  1030.  His  direct  male  ances- 
tors had  held  sovereignty  over  it  for  many  generations,  but  owing  to  the  arrogance 
and  opposition  of  a  younger  brother,  lestan's  uncle,  Howell,  was  elected  ruler 
in  his  stead,  and  was  succeeded  by  lestan  in  the  year  1043.  In  1088,  when 
lestan  was  seventy  years  of  age,  he  became  involved  in  a  war  with  Rhys  ap 
Tewdyr,  Prince  of  South  Wales,  by  whom  he  was  defeated  in  battle,  and  having 
lost  a  number  of  his  castles,  lestan  sought  the  aid  of  the  Normans,  who  thereby 
gained  a  foothold  and  subsequently  deprived  lestan  of  sovereignty  and  lands 
and  he  became  an  exile,  first,  at  Glastonbury,  later  at  Bath,  and  finally  found 
refuge  in  the  monastery  of  Llangenys,  in  Monmouthshire,  where  he  died,  in 
obscurity  and  forgotten,  at  the  great  age,  it  is  said,  of  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
nine  years.  He  had  married  several  times.  By  his  first  wife  Denis,  a  sister  to 
Bleddyn  ap  Cynfyn,  Prince  of  Powys,  he  had  si.\  sons  and  one  daughter;  by  his 
second  wife,  Angharad,  daughter  of  Elystan  Gloddrudd,  Lord  of  Ferllwg,  he  had 
two  sons,  Madog  and  Rhys,  and  two  daughters. 

Fitzhamon,  leader  of  the  Norman  invaders,  appropriated  Glamorgan,  which  he 
divided  into  nineteen  parts,  and  some  of  the  sons  of  the  exiled  lord,  lestan  ap 
Gwrgan,  being  popular  with  the  people,  and  having  taken  no  part  in  opposing 
Fitzhamon,  four  shares  of  their  father's  lands  were  set  apart  to  them,  and  one 
share  each  to  two  of  his  sons-in-law. 

Madog  ap  lestyn,  son  of  lestan  ap  Gwrgan,  by  his  second  wife,  was  one  of 
those  who  shared  in  the  division  of  his  father's  lands  in  Glamorgan,  receiving 
from  Fitzhamon,  the  Norman  invader,  the  grant  of  the  Lordship  of  Ruthyn  and 


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the  lands  lying  between  the  rivers  Taff  and  Ely.  He  married  Janet,  daughter 
of  Sytsyll,  Lord  of  Upper  Gwent,  and  had  one  son, 

Howell  ap  Madog,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Griffith  ap  Ivor  Bach,  and  his 
eldest  son  was, 

Cynfrig  ap  Howell,  who  succeeded  to  the  Lordship  of  Llantrithyd  and  Radyr, 
and  died  prior  to  1280.  He  married  Angharad,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Lewis 
ap  Rhys  ap  Rosser,  and  his  eldest  son  was, 

Llewelyn  ap  Cynfrig,  who  possessed  the  lands  of  Llantrithyd  and  was  living 
in  1280  and  probably  as  late  as  13 17.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph 
Madog  and  had  seven  children,  the  fourth  of  whom, 

levan  Mady  ap  Llewlyn,  had  the  lands  of  Bwlch  Gwyn,  which  descended  to 
his   only  son, 

Llewelyn  ap  levan  Mady,  who  is  called  "of  Abergorky".  He  was  three  times 
married  and  by  his  second  wife,  a  daughter  of  Llewelyn  ap  Ivorhir,  had  nine 
children,  the  fourth  of  whom  was, 

Thomas  Ddu,  (that  is  Thomas  the  dark)  who  married  Grisly,  daughter  of 
Howell  ap  Philip  hir,  and  had  three  sons,  the  second  of  whom  was, 

Jenkin  ap  Thomas  Ddu,  who  married  a  daughter  of  David  Lloyd  ap  Madoc, 
and  had  a  son, 

Ralph  ap  Jenkin,  who  married  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Philip  Vawr,  and 
had  five  children,  the  second  of  whom  was, 

Jenkin  ap  Ralph,  who  was  living,  circa  1520.  He  married  (first)  Gwenllian, 
and  (second)  Margaret,  daughter  of  Richard  ap  levan.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
two  children,  the  eldest  of  whom  was, 

John  ap  Jenkin,  who  was  living,  circa  1550.  He  married  Gwenllian,  daughter 
of  levan  Morgan,  descended  from  Bach  ap  Grono,  and  had  six  children,  the  eldest 
of  whom  was, 

levan  (Evan)  ap  John,  who  died  prior  to  November  7,  1632.  He  married 
Wenllian,  daughter  of  David  ap  Llewelyn  ap  Howell,  by  whom  he  had  six  chil- 
dren, the  eldest  of  whom, 

John  ap  Evan,  of  Treverigg,  was  grandfather  of  John  Bevan,  the  Pennsylvania 
emigrant  of  1683.  Treverigg,  in  the  parish  of  Llantrisant,  was  part  of  the  orig- 
inal possessions  of  lestan  ap  Gwrgan,  set  apart  to  his  son,  Madog  ap  lestan,  and 
descended  in  a  direct  line  to  John  ap  Evan,  and  is  located  a  few  miles  from 
Cardiff,  in  Glamorganshire.  The  estate  is  about  two  miles  long  and  one  mile 
wide  and  is  now  divided  into  three  farms.  The  ancient  house  in  which  John 
Bevan  resided,  near  the  little  Quaker  Meeting  House,  is  still  standing.  The 
rooms,  which  are  very  large,  are  timbered  in  heavy  oak  and  the  floors  are  paved 
with  stone,  as  usual  in  Wales  at  that  time.  A  mill,  in  operation  in  John  Bevan's 
time,  is  also  still  standing. 

John  ap  Evan,  of  Treverigg,  was  born  about  1585,  died  prior  to  July  19,  1630, 
and  was  buried  in  Llantrisant  Church,  where  his  tomb  can  still  be  seen.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Richards,  who  was  living  in  1630.  They 
had  one  son,  Evan  ap  John,  of  whom  presently ;  and  four  daughters.  The  will 
of  John  ap  Evan  remaining  on  file  at  Llandaf  Registry,  Glamorganshire,  bears 
date  June  27,  1630,  and  was  probated  July  19,  1630.  It  gives  legacies  to 
Llandal  Cathedral,  and  Llantrisant  Church,  and  to  his  four  daughters.  To  his 
son,  Evan  John,  he  devises  his  "three  principals"  or  farms,  in  Treverigg.     To 


138  BEVAN 

his  wife,  "Elizabeth  Thomas",  he  devises  the  occupancy  of  his  tenements  called 
Kae  Banall  and  Kystille  for  life. 

Evan  ap  John,  only  son  of  John  ap  Evan  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  was  evidently 
of  age  at  his  father's  death  in  1630.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Richard  ap 
Evan,  of  Collena,  an  estate  in  Llantrisant  Parish,  by  his  wife,  Catharine,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Bassett,  of  Miscin,  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  David  Evans, 
whose  wife  Catharine  was  a  great-great-granddaughter  of  Henry  Somerset, 
second  Earl  of  Worcester,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Henry  Plantagenet  Beaufort, 
beheaded  in  1463,  and  the  latter  was  a  great-great-grandson  of  Edward  HI, 
King  of  England,  and  his  wife,  Philippa,  daughter  of  William  HI,  Count  of 
Hainault  and  Holland,  by  his  wife  Joanna,  daughter  of  Charles  of  Valois,  son  of 
King  Philip  of  France.  Hon.  Samuel  W.  Pennypacker.  a  descendant  of  John 
Bevan,  has  traced  the  line  back  many  generations  further  through  a  number  of 
royal  lines.  Evan  ap  John  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  had  four  sons,  all  of  whom 
assumed  the  surname  of  Bevan,  and  one  daughter  who  died  unmarried. 

John  Bevan,  eldest  son  of  Evan  ap  John,  born  on  the  ancestral  estate  of 
Treverigg,  parish  of  Llantrisant,  county  of  Glamorganshire,  in  the  year  1646, 
inherited  the  estate  of  Treverigg  at  the  death  of  his  father  about  1665,  and  on 
coming  of  age  made  liberal  provision  for  his  brothers  and  sisters  who  were  un- 
provided for.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  was  for 
many  years  an  esteemed  minister  of  that  sect,  travelling  extensively  on  that  ser- 
vice. He  became  interested  in  founding  a  colony  of  Welsh  Quakers  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  as  agent  for  a  company  of  them  purchased  2,000  acres  of  William 
Penn,  a  part  of  which  was  surveyed  in  Haverford  township,  Chester  county,  and 
about  300  acres  in  Merion,  Philadelphia  county.  He  also  purchased  a  tract  of 
land  for  his  brother,  Charles  Bevan,  and  made  several  purchases  in  his  own  name. 
On  the  loth  of  the  7th  month  (September)  1683,  a  certificate  was  granted  by  the 
Friends  Meeting  at  Treverigg  for  John  Bevan,  his  wife  Barbara,  and  their  chil- 
dren, to  remove  to  Pennsylvania.  They  were  accompanied  by  Ralph  Lewis  and 
a  number  of  other  Welsh  Quakers  who  settled  near  them.  His  land  was  laid 
out  in  different  parts  of  Philadelphia  and  Chester  counties,  and  he  settled  on  a 
tract  of  300  acres  in  Merion,  including  the  present  site  of  Wynnewood  station 
on  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  and  adjoining  the  line  of  Haverford  township, 
Chester  county.  He  early  became  interested  in  the  affairs  of  his  adopted  country 
and  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  Philadelphia  county,  November  6,  1685,  and 
was  re-commissioned  November  2,  1689.  He  was  returned  as  a  member  of 
Colonial  Assembly  in  1687-95-99-1700,  and  probably  served  continuedly  in  that 
body  from  1687.  As  before  stated,  he  was  a  minister  among  Friends  and  trav- 
elled extensively  in  the  ministry,  making  several  visits  to  his  native  land  and  to 
New  England  and  other  parts  of  the  Colonies.  In  1694  he  visited  Wales,  his 
return  to  Pennsylvania  being  noted  in  a  letter  written  by  Rees  Thomas  to  his 
father-in-law  in  Wales,  under  date  of  "ye  29th  day  of  Ye  3d.  Mo.  1695,"  which 
says,  "My  unkle  John  Bevan  came  over  very  well  and  had  a  good  voyage,  he  told 
me  he  had  seen  thee  twice,  etc."  He  again  crossed  in  1698,  and  travelled  through 
New  England  in  1701.  In  1704,  as  given  in  a  "Journal",  under  his  own  hand 
several  years  later,  he  experienced  "a  weighty  concerne  to  return  to  my  native 
country  and  that  chiefly  on  Truth's  account.  I  laid  it  before  my  wife  and  she 
could  not  be  easy  to  stay  behind  me  and  we  came  over  in  the  year  1704."    They 


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were  accompanied  by  their  youngest  daughter,  Barbara,  their  only  child  remaining 
unmarried,  and  she  died  in  Wales,  soon  after  their  arrival  there.  They  landed  at 
Shields,  Northumberland,  and  after  attending  meeting  there,  set  forward  for 
their  old  home  in  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  a  distance  of  near  three  hundred  miles, 
visiting  a  number  of  Meetings  by  the  way,  and  the  journal  continues,  "about  the 
beginning  of  the  eighth  month  1704,  we  came  to  our  home  at  Treveyricke".  He 
died  at  Treverigg,  aged  eighty  years,  his  will  bearing  date  March,  1724-5,  being 
probated  October  21,  1726.  The  will  mentions  the  300  acre  plantation  in  Merion 
as  having  been  given  to  his  son,  Evan  Bevan,  prior  to  his  decease.  Another 
plantation  in  Merion,  he  devises  to  his  daughter-in-law,  Eleanor  Bevan,  for  life, 
then  to  go  to  his  grandchildren :  Evan,  Aubrey  and  Charles  Bevan. 

John  Bevan  married,  1665,  Barbara,  daughter  of  William  Aubrey,  of  Pencoyd, 
sometime  Sheriff  of  Glamorganshiie,  who  also  traces  back  to  Edward  III,  King 
of  England. 

Stiant  Awbrey,  founder  of  the  Aubrey  family  in  Great  Britain,  was  "second 
brother  to  the  Lord  Awbrey,  Earle  of  Bullen  and  Earle  Marechal  of  France,  and 
came  to  England  with  William  ye  Conqueror,  in  Anno  1066." 

Sir  Rinalt  Awbrey,  son  of  Stiant,  married  a  daughter  of  the  Earle  of  Clare 
and  Priany,  and  their  second  son, 

William  Awbrey,  of  Aberkynfrig,  county  Brecknock,  Wales,  married  Julia, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Gunter,  Knight.     Their  son, 

Thomas  Awbrey,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Cayrawe  (Carewe),  baron  of 
Cayrawe,   and  their  son, 

Thomas  Awbrey,  of  Aberkynfrig,  Constable  and  Ranger  of  the  Forest  of 
Brecon,  married  Juhan,  daughter  of  Trakaerne  ap  Einion,  lord  of  Comond,  and 
their  son, 

Thomas  Awbrey  Goch,  ( i.  e.  red  haired)  married  Nest,  daughter  of  Owan 
Gethyn,  of  Glyn  Taway,  and  their  son, 

Richard  Awbrey,  married  Creslie,  daughter  of  Phe  ap  Eledr,  and  their  son, 

Gwalter  Awbrey,  married  Juhan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Rees  Morgan  ap 
Einion,   of   Carmarthen,   and  their   son, 

Morgan  Awbrey,  of  Aberkynfrig,  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Watkin  Thomas 
David  Lloyd,  and  their  son, 

Jenkin  Awbrey,  Esquire,  married  Gwenlliam,  daughter  of  Owain  ap  Griffith, 
Esquire,  of  Tal  y  Lyn,  and  their  son, 

Hophin  Awbrey,  married  daughter  of  John  Griffith  of  Gwyn,  Esquire,  and 
their  son, 

William  Awbrey,  Esquire  of  Aberkynfrig,  who  died  June  2j,  1547,  married 
Jane  Herbert,  widow  of  Thomas  Lloyd,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Herbert, 
of  Montgomery  Castle,  who  was  Gentleman  Usher  to  King  Henry  VHI,  and 
resided  at  Blackball  where  he  dispensed  a  lavish  hospitality  with  great  luxury. 
He  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  Richard  Herbert,  of  Coldbrook  House,  near  Aber- 
gavenny, Monmouthshire,  who  was  slain  at  Banbury  in  1469.  Of  him  his  great- 
great-grandson  writes  as  "that  incomparable  hero,  who  twice  passed  thro  a  great 
army  of  Northern  men  alone,  with  his  pole  axe  in  his  hand  and  returned  without 
mortal  hurt."  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas  ap  Griffith  Nicholas,  of 
Dynevor,  and  sister  of  the  renowned  Sir  Rhys  ap  Thomas,  who  slew  Richard 
HI  on  Bosworth  Field.     Sir  Richard  Herbert  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  William 


I40  BEVAN 

ap  Thomas,  who  was  knighted  in  the  year  1426  and  died  1446.  He  acquired  the 
lands  and  Castle  of  Raglan,  from  his  mother's  family,  the  ^Nlorleys.  He  was 
with  Henry  V,  at  Agincourt  in  1415  and  was  known  as  William  Thomas  Her- 
bert. He  was  the  fifth  son  of  Thomas  ap  Gwillinn  of  Perthir  by  his  wife  Maud, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Morley,  Knight,  and  grandson  of  Jenkin  ap 
Adam,  Lord  of  Kevondygewydd,  who  lived  in  the  time  Edward  HI  and  Richard 
n,  Kings  of  England,  and  said  to  have  been  a  descendant  of  a  Norman  family 
famous  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest. 

Richard  Awbrey,  of  Aberkynfrig,  was  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Jane 
(Herbert)  Awbrey,  and  inherited  the  lands  of  Aberkynfrig  at  the  death  of  his 
father,  but  sold  them  to  his  cousin.  Dr.  William  Awbrey.  He  married  ^lar- 
garet,  daughter  of  Thomas  Gunter,  and  died  in  1580,  leaving  a  son, 

Richard  Awbrey,  of  Llanelyw,  whose  tombstone,  forming  part  of  the  pave- 
ment of  the  chancel  in  the  church  of  Llanlyw,  bears  this  inscription,  "Here  lyeth 
the  body  of  Richard  Awbrey  of  Llanelyw,  Gent,  who  married  Anne  Vaughan, 
daughter  to  William  Vaughan  of  Lanelyw,  who  had  issue,  William,  Richard. 
Thomas,  John,  Theophilus  and  Elizabeth.  Died  the  23  day  of  September 
1646." 

The  arms  of  the  Awbrey  and  Vaughan  families  are  likewise  engraved  upon 
the  tombstone. 

Thomas  Awbrey,  third  son  of  Richard  and  Anne,  married,  in  1646,  his  cousin. 
Elizabeth  Awbrey,  daughter  of  his  father's  brother  William,  and  had  by  her  ten 
children,  the  second  of  which, 

William  Awbrey,  married  as  his  second  wife,  Letitia,  daughter  of  William 
Penn,  the  founder.  A  daughter  Martha  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  and  emigrated  with  John  and  Barbara  (Awbrey)  Bevan  to  Pennsylvania 
and  was  married  to  Rees  Thomas  at  Haverford  Meeting,  June  18,  1692.  The 
exact  relationship  between  Barbara  (Awbrey)  Bevan  and  Martha  Awbrey,  who 
accompanied  her  to  Pennsylvania  and  married  Rees  Thomas,  has  not  been  de- 
termined. 

Barbara  (Awbrey)  Bevan  was  much  devoted  to  charity  and  religious  work 
among  the  poor,  both  in  Pennsylvania  and  in  Wales.  She  accompanied  her 
husband  on  his  final  return  to  his  native  town  of  Treverigg  and  died  there  as 
stated  in  his  Journal.  February  26,  1710-11  "at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years 
and  foure  months,  after  a  married  life  of  upwards  of  forty-five  years." 
Issue  of  John  and  Barbara  (Atvbrey)  Bevan: — 

Evan  Bevan,  b.  in  Wales,  circa  1666,  d.  at  Merlon.  Philadelphia  co,  Pa.,  1720;  m.  at  Darby 
Friends  Meeting.  Feb.  9.  1693-4,  Eleanor  Wood,  of  Darby,  who  died  in  Merion,  Jan. 
28,  1744-S  ;  they  had  issue  : 
John  Bevan.  b.  Jan.  23,   1694-5,  to  whom  his  grandfather  devised  the  paternal  estate  of 
Treverigg  Glamorganshire,  and  he  lived  and  died  there,  leaving  descendants  who  still 
possess  a  portion  of  the  ancestral  estate ; 
Evan  Bevan,  b.  Feb.  14,  i6g8.  d.  in  Phila.  1746,  leaving  issue ; 
Aubrey  Bevan.  of  Chester  co..  Pa. ; 
Charles  Bevan ; 
Anne  Bevan ; 
Catharine  Bevan  ; 
Jane  Bevan,  b.   March  29.   1707-8; 
Janf.  Bevan,  m.  John  Wood,  of  Darby,  of  whom  presently  : 
.^nlle  Bovan.  m.  March  23.  1606-7,  Owen  Roberts,  of  Merion; 


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Elizabeth  Bevan,  m.  June  30,  i6g6,  Joseph  Richardson,  son  of  Samuel  Richardson,  Pro- 
vincial Councillor,  etc.,  an  account  of  whom  and  his  descendants  is  given  elsewhere  in 
these  volumes ; 

Barbara  Bevan,  who  returned  with  her  parents  to  Wales  and  died  there. 

Jane  Bevan,  eldest  daughter  of  John  and  Barbara  (Awbrey)  Bevan,  born 
in  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  came  with  her  parents  to  America,  and  married,  De- 
cember I,  1687,  at  the  house  of  William  Howell,  in  Haver  ford,  Chester  county, 
Pennsylvania,  John  Wood,  of  Darby,  son  of  George  Wood,  who  came  from 
Ashford,  Nottinghamshire,  England,  bringing  a  certificate  which  was  presented 
at  Darby  Meeting,  5mo.  (July)  27,  1682.  George  Wood  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Colonial  Assembly,  1682-3,  and  died  at  Darby,  April  27,  1705.  His  son 
John  was  a  member  of  Assembly,  1704-10-12-17,  and  was  commissioned  a  Jus- 
tice, August  25,  1726,  and  served  until  his  death,  December  12,  1728.  His  wife, 
Jane  (Bevan)  Wood,  died  July  18,  1703,  and  he  married  (second)  i2mo.  (De- 
cember) 5,  1706-7,  Rebecca  Faucit,  of  Ridley,  by  whom  he  had  two  children: 
Joseph,  born  July  19,  1708,  and  Hannah,  September  2,  1712. 
Issue  of  John  and  Jane  (Bevan)   Wood: — 

George  Wood,  b.  March  12,  1690-J,  m.  Feb.  i,  1715-16,  Hannah  Hood; 

William  Wood,  b.  Jan.  17,  1691-2;  m.  Sept.  3,  1718,  Mary  Hood. 

John  Wood,  b.  Feb.  14,  1693 ; 

Barbara  Wood,  b.  May  11,  1696; 

Aubrey  Wood,  b.  Nov.  22,  1698; 

Abraham  Wood,  b.  March  2,  1701-2,  d.  1733,  of  whom  presently. 

Abraham  Wood,  youngest  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Bevan)  Wood,  born  at 
Darby,  March  2,  1701-2,  married  Ursula,  born  1703,  died  at  Lancaster,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  August  of  1794,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Julian  Taylor,  of  Oxford  town- 
ship, Philadelphia  county.  Abraham  Wood  removed  with  his  family  to  Make- 
field,  Bucks  county,  in  1729,  where  he  purchased  a  farm  on  which  he  lived  until 
his  death  in  1733.  His  widow,  Ursula,  married  Joseph  Rose,  attorney  at  law, 
and  removed  to  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  with  her  family. 
Issue  of  Abraham  and  Ursula  (Taylor)  Wood: — 

Abraham  Wood ; 
Ehzabeth  Wood; 
Ann  Wood,  b.  Jan.  24,  1734,  d.  March  8,   1799,  of  whom  presently. 

Ann  Wood,  posthumous  child  of  Abraham  and  Ursula  Wood,  was  born  in 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  January  24,  1734;  removed  with  her  mother  and 
stepfather  to  Lancaster  county,  when  a  child.  She  married  there,  in  January  of 
1756,  William  Henry,  one  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  that  county.  The  Henrys 
are  of  Scotch  ancestry.  Robert  and  Mary  A.  Henry,  with  their  adult  sons:  John, 
Robert  and  James,  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  1722,  and  settled  on  a  tract  of  land 
watered  by  Doe  Run,  in  West  Cain  township,  Chester  county.  Robert  and  Mary 
A.  died  in  1735.  Their  son  John  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Hugh  and 
Mary  (Jenkins)  de  Vinney,  who  settled  in  Chester  county  in  1723,  not  far  from 
the  Henry  plantation.  He  died  in  Chester  county,  1744,  and  his  wife  at  Lan- 
caster, in  October  of  1778,  aged  seventy-seven  years,  and  is  buried  in  the  grounds 
of   St.   James   Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 


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Hon.  William  Henry,  eldest  of  their  eight  children,  was  born  in  Chester 
county,  May  19,  1729.  Shortly  after  the  death  of  his  father  he  removed  to 
Lancaster,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  firearms,  and  did  an  exten- 
sive business  with  Indian  traders.  As  Armourer  of  the  troops  of  Generals 
Braddock  and  Forbes,  he  accompanied  both  expeditions  against  Fort  Duquesne. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  county  and  the  State,  and 
throughout  the  Revolution  ardently  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Colonists,  and 
filled  many  offices  of  honor  and  trust.  He  was  commissioned  Justice  of  the 
Peace  in  1758-70-77,  and  Associate  Justice  and  President  Judge  of  the  Common 
Pleas,  Quarter  Session  and  Orphans'  Court,  November  18,  1780.  In  1776  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Assembly,  and  "from  October  17  to  December  4, 
1777,  served  in  the  Council  of  Safety  of  Pennsylvania;  and  as  County  Treasurer 
from  1777  to  his  death.  His  commission  of  Armourer  of  the  State  is  dated  Sep- 
tember 4,  1778,  and  he  was  selected  as  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  limit  prices 
of  merchandise,  in  the  convention  called  by  the  meeting  of  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut, October  29,  1779,  to  assemble  at  Philadelphia,  January  5,  1780.  He  was 
appointed  Dedimus  Protestatem  in  1778-81.  As  Assistant  Commissary  General 
from  1778,  he  was  of  great  service  to  the  army  in  the  field.  He  served  two 
terms  in  the  old  Congress,  1784-85.  In  1767  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
American  Philosophical  Society ;  was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  Society  for 
Promoting  Agriculture;  and  a  founder  of  the  Juliana  Library  of  Lancaster.  As 
an  ingenious  inventor  he  enjoyed  a  high  reputation,  particularly  in  the  applica- 
tion of  steam  for  motive  power,  and  built  the  first  steamboat  in  the  L^nited 
States,  and  in  1771  invented  the  screw-auger.  William  Henry  died  at  Lancas- 
ter, December  15,  1786,  and  his  wife  Ann,  March  8,  1799. 
Issue  of  William  and  Ann   (Wood)  Henry:— 

William  Henry,  b.  March  12,  1757,  d.  April  21,  182 1  ;  m.  Sabina  Schropp ;  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 

John  Joseph  Henry,  b.  Nov.  4,  1758.  d.  April  22,  181 1 ;  m.  Jane  Chambers  and  has  left  is- 
sue ;  was  a  member  of  Gen.  Arnold's  army  of  invasion  of  Canada,  captured  on  assault 
of  Quebec ;  Judge  of  Second  Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania ; 

George  Henry,  d.  inf. ; 

Abraham  Henry,  b.  Nov.  10,  1762,  d.  Sept.  25.  1766; 

Elizabeth  Henry,  b.  April  8,  1764.  d.  Oct.  1764; 

Elizabeth  Henry,  b.  March  27.  1765,  d.  June  I,  1798;  m.  Rev.  John  Molther ; 

Mary  Henry,  b.  Jan.  11,  1767,  d.  Aug.  22,  1768; 

Abraham  Henry,  b.  March  14,  1768,  d.  Aug.  12,  181 1;  m.  Elizabeth  Martin; 

Andrew  Henry,  b.  Dec.  8,  1769,  d.  March  9,  1772; 

James  Henry,  b.  March  13,  1771,  d.  Jan.  i,  1813; 

Matthew  Henry,  b.  Jan.  8,  1773,  d.  March  28,  1804; 

Nathaniel  Henry,  b.  April  23,  1775,  d.  Jan.  9,  1776; 

Benjamin  West  Henry,  b.  Jan.  18,  1777,  d.  Dec.  26,  1806;  an  artist  of  considerable  merit; 
m.  Catharine  Huffnagle. 

Hon.  William  Henry,  (2nd)  eldest  son  of  Wilham  and  Ann  (Wood)  Henry, 
born  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  March  12,  1757,  removed  in  early  manhood  to 
Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  extensively  carried  on  the  manu- 
facture of  firearms.  He  served  as  Justice  of  the  Courts  of  that  county  from  1788 
to  1814.  and  in  1792,  was  a  presidential  elector  for  Washington's  last  term;  Com- 
missioner to  erect  the  first  bridge  across  the  Delaware  at  Easton.     He  died  in 


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Philadelphia,  April  21,  1821,  and  is  buried  at  the  "Woodlands."  He  married, 
November  21,  1781,  Sabina,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Anna  Maria  Schropp. 
She  was  born  at  Nazareth,  Northampton  county,  November  5,  1759,  and  died  at 
Bethlehem,    May    8,    1848. 

Issue  of  William  and  Sabina  (Schropp)  Henry: — 

Elizabeth  Henry,  b,  Oct.  15,  1782,  d.  Dec.  15,  1844;  in.  John  Jordan,  of  whom  presently; 

John  Joseph  Henry,  b.  June  17,  1784,  d.  Dec.  2,  1836;  m.  Mary  R.  Smith  and  left  issue; 

Anne  Henry,  b.  Sept.  29,  1786,  d.  June  22,  1803,  unm. ; 

Maria  Henry,  b.  May  6,  1788,  d.  April  8,  1858;  m.  Rev.  Andrew  Benade  and  left  issue; 

Matthew  S.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  10,  1790,  d.  Jan.  20,  1862;  m.  (first)  Anne  C.  Henry;  (second) 
Esther  Berg;  left  issue; 

Sabina  S.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  4,  1792,  d.  March  22,  1859;  m.  John  F.  Wolle,  and  left  issue; 

William  Henry  (3d),  b.  Aug.  15,  1794,  d.  May  22,  1878;  m.  (first)  Mary  Albright;  (sec- 
ond)  Sarah  Atherton  and  left  issue  by  both  marriages; 

Edward  Henry,  b.  July  29,  1799,  d.  Jan.  22,  1800. 

Elizabeth  Henry,  eldest  child  of  Hon.  William  and  Sabina  (Schropp)  Henry, 
born  in  Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania,  October  15,  1782:  was  educated  at 
the  well  known  Female  Seminary  at  Bethlehem.  Married,  August  23,  1804,  John 
Jordan,  son  of  Frederick  and  Catharine  (Eckel)  Jordan. 

Frederick  Jordan,  of  French  extraction,  was  born  in  county  Kent,  England, 
in  September  of  1744.  In  early  manhood,  he  came  to  Pennsylvania  with  his 
brother  Mark,  and  shortly  after  settled  in  Alexandria  township,  Hunterdon 
county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  purchased  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  forty-two 
acres  and  erected  a  flour  mill.  He  subsequently  purchased  another  mill  property 
at  Hickory  Tavern,  same  county,  of  both  of  which  he  died  possessed.  During 
the  greater  part  of  the  Revolution,  the  Jordan  mills  were  kept  busy  grinding  grain 
for  the  use  of  the  army. 

When  the  seat  of  war  was  removed  southward,  Frederick  Jordan  entered  the 
army,  January  i,  1781,  as  a  corporal  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Samuel  Hendry, 
Second  Regiment  New  Jersey  Continental  Line,  Col.  Elias  Dayton,  and  on  May 
I  was  promoted  sergeant.  His  services  in  the  Yorktown  campaign,  with  his 
regiment,  are  worthy  of  record.  On  August  ist  his  regiment  and  others  were 
mustered  at  Dobb's  Ferry,  New  York,  and  on  the  19th  crossed  the  Hudson  and 
marched  to  Paramus,  New  Jersey.  The  following  day  the  march  was  continued 
to  Second  river,  and  on  the  21st  to  Springfield,  where  they  went  into  camp.  On 
September  ist  the  New  Jersey  regiment,  with  others  of  the  army  in  the  division 
of  Maj.  Gen.  Benjamin  Lincoln,  crossed  the  Delaware  at  Trenton  in  boats,  and 
bivouacked  on  the  Neshaminy  Creek,  Bensalem,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  and 
the  next  day  marched  through  Philadelphia  and  encamped  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Schuylkill  river.  By  September  6th  the  Jersey  troops  reached  the  Head  of  Elk, 
Maryland,  and  on  finding  that  sufificient  transportation  by  water  could  not  be  fur- 
nished there,  they  marched  to  Plumb  Point,  where  they  embarked,  and  on  Sep- 
tember 19th  anchored  in  York  river,  Virginia.  The  following  day  they  entered 
the  James  river,  passing  the  French  fleet  in  Hampton  Roads,  and  anchored  ofif 
Newport  News.  On  September  23rd  a  number  of  companies  were  landed  near 
Williamsburg,  and  the  following  day  the  remainder,  after  some  difficulty,  joined 
their  regiment. 

Under  general  orders,   September  24th,  the  two  New  Jersey  regiments  with 


144  BEVAN 

the  Rhode  Island  battahon  were  formed  into  a  brigade,  with  Col.  Dayton  in 
command.  On  the  march  of  the  army  to  Yorktown,  Gen.  Clinton's  and  Col. 
Dayton's  brigades  established  the  advance  line  on  the  left  of  the  American 
troops,  and  on  the  29th  they  began  to  throw  up  earthworks  under  direction  of 
Gen.  Duportail,  commander  of  the  corps  of  engineers.  When  Cornwallis  aban- 
doned his  outer  works  they  were  occupied  by  the  allied  forces.  Col.  Dayton  on 
October  ist,  being  assigned  to  court-martial  duty,  Col.  Matthias  Ogden.  of  the 
First  Regiment,  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  brigade.  Four  days  later 
ground  was  broken  for  the  first  parallel  by  Gen.  Lincoln's  troops,  and  on  October 
8th  orders  were  issued  to  form  the  Jersey  troops  into  one  regiment,  under  Col. 
Ogden.  The  same  day  the  French  troops  bombarded  the  British  left,  which  was 
taken  up  by  the  Americans,  during  which  Ogden's  men  were  busy  making  gabions, 
fascines  and  pickets.  On  the  night  of  October  nth  the  second  parallel  was 
made  by  Baron  Steuben's  division.  Six  days  later  the  allied  troops  had  all  their 
artillery  in  position,  prepared  for  a  cannonade  of  two  days,  to  be  followed  by  a 
general  assault  on  the  British  works,  but  Cornwallis  sent  commissioners  to  treat 
for  the  surrender.  Two  days  later  the  surrender  took  place.  Col.  Ogden's  regi- 
ment being  in  the  receiving  line. 

On  October  27th  the  Jersey  troops  were  employed  in  levelling  the  British 
works,  after  which  duty  they  marched  by  land  to  the  Head  of  Elk,  where  they 
joined  the  army  transported  by  water,  and  continued  the  march  to  Morristown, 
New  Jersey,  where  the  Jersey  troops  went  into  winter  quarters. 

In  IMarch,  J783,  John  N.  Cummings  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  Commandant  of 
the  regiment,  and  on  June  5th  Sergt.  Jordan  was  furloughed  at  New  Windsor,  on 
the  Hudson,  until  the  ratification  of  a  definite  treaty  of  peace,  and  finally  was 
honorably  discharged  by  proclamation  of  the  Continental  Congress,   November 

3,   1783- 

Frederick  Jordan  married,  1769,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susanna 
Eckel.  She  was  born  in  Bedminster  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
December  28,  1750,  died  in  Alexandria  township,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, July  I,  1786.  He  died  August  20,  1784,  and  both  are  buried  in  the  church- 
yard of  St.  Thomas  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  They  had  issue :  John,  born 
September  i,  1770;  Frederick;  Mary;  Catherine;  Henry. 

John  Jordan,  son  of  Frederick  and  Catherine  (Eckel)  Jordan,  born  in  Alex- 
andria township,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  September  i,  1770.  was  but 
fourteen  years  of  age  when  his  father  died,  and  his  mother  dying  two  years  later, 
he  came  to  Philadelphia  and  entered  the  counting  house  of  his  uncle,  Godfrey 
Haga,  the  eminent  merchant  and  philanthropist,  and  in  1793  succeeded  him  in 
the  business  there.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  17,  1845.  and  his  wife 
December  15,  1844. 

Issue  of  John  and  Elizabeth    (Henry)   Jordan: — 

William  Henry  Jordan,  b.  Oct.  5.  1806.  d.  unm.  Dec.  26.  1835; 

John  Jordan  Jr.,  b.  May   11,   1808,  d.  March  23.   1890:  m.  Jane  Bell;  no  issue:   entered 

Univ.  of  Pa.,  1823;  Bank  president  1843-75,  Director  N.  P.  R.  R.,  1852-90;  .Antiquarian; 

Vice-President   Historical   Society  of   Pennsylvania; 
Edward  Jordan,  b.  Sept.  10.  1810.  d.  Oct.  3,  1842,  unm.; 
Antoinette   Jordan,  b.  Jan.   10.   1813;  m.  John  T.  Bell.     Issue:   Helen,  Emilv,  Laura  and 

Edward  J.  Bell. 
Francis  Jordan,  b.  June  26.  1815.  d.  .-Vugust  13.  1885;  m.  Emily  Woolf ;  of  whom  presently. 


BEVAN  145 

Francis  Jordan,  youngest  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Henry)  Jordan,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  June  26,  1815,  was  a  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia  and 
connected  with  a  number  of  the  city's  financial  institutions.  He  died  at  Ocean 
Beach.  New  Jersey,  August  13,  1885.  He  married,  December  10,  1839,  Emily, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  November  12,  1821,  died  September  4,  1889,  daughter 
of  John  Lewis  and  Margaret  (Ewing)  Woolf,  and  granddaughter  of  Lewis 
Woolf. 

Lewis  Woolf,  granddaughter  of  Emily  (Woolf)  Jordan,  was  born  in  Han- 
over, Germany,  1747.  He  came  to  Pennsylvania  and  became  a  resident  of  Potts- 
grove,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county.  On  July  11,  1778,  he  entered 
the  Continental  army  as  a  private  in  the  Troop  Marechausse,  Capt.  Bartholomew 
Von  Heer,  (fonnerly  of  Proctor's  Artillery),  organized  under  resolution  of 
Congress,  May  27,  1778,  to  act  as  provost  guard  of  the  army.  The  Troop  was 
mounted  and  accoutred  as  light  dragoons. 

John  Lewis  Woolf  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  1787,  died  February  12,  1850. 
During  the  second  war  with  England,  he  was  commissioned  Lieut.-Col.  of  the 
Seventy-fourth  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Militia,  August  14,  1814.  For  many 
years  he  took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  city,  was  an  Inspector  of  the 
Eastern  Penitentiary;  president  of  the  Guardians  of  the  Poor;  School  Director; 
Director  Northern  Liberties  and  Penn  Township  Railway  Company;  vestryman 
of  Zion,  and  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal  Churches,  and  a  prominent  Mason. 
He  married,  June  19,  1817,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Keen) 
Ewing,  born  in  Lancaster,  1786,  died  in  Philadelphia,  January  7,  1868.  She  was 
a  descendant  of  Joran  Kyn  and  Jasper  Yeates  of  the  Governor's  Council,  1696- 
1720.  They  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  one  of  the  latter,  Emily,  becom- 
ing the  wife  of  Francis  Jordan. 

John  Ewing,  soh  of  John  and  Sarah  (Yeates)  Ewing,  was  born  in  Lancaster, 
June  22,  1755.  He  married,  1795,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Margaret 
Keen,  and  had  one  daughter,  Margaret.  He  died  February  14,  1799.  His  wife 
survived  him,  and  later  married  Jonathan  Hillborn,  of  Limerick  township,  Mont- 
gomery county.  John  Ewing  was  commissioned  Captain  of  the  Second  Com- 
pany, Eighth  Battalion,  Lancaster  County  Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  James 
Ross,  in  1780,  and  served  to  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  performing  a  number 
of  "tours  of  duty." 

Issue  of  Francis  and  Emily  (Woolf)  Jordan: — 

John  Woolf  Jordan,  LL.D.,  b.  Sept.   14,   1840,  of  whom  presently; 

William  Henry  Jordan,  b.  Jan.  2y,  1842;  m.  Clara  W.  Sparks;  no  issue; 

Francis  Jordan  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  28,  184:?;  member  of  .\merican  Philosophical  Society,  the 
Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society  and  author  of  "Life  of  William  Henry";  m.Mary 
A.  Harding,  and  has  issue; 

Emily  Jordan,  b.  March  18,  1845,  d.  June  17,  1847; 

Ewing  Jordan,  M.  D.,  b.  March  18,  1847;  entered  College  Department,  Univ.  of  Pa., 
1864,  awarded  Senior  English  prize;  graduated  from  Medical  Department;  Resident 
Physician  Pennsylvania  Hospital;  Visiting  Physician  to  Philadelphia  Dispensary.  Lin- 
coln Institute,  Catharine  Street  Dispensary,  Southern  Home  for  Destitute  Children ; 
First  Assistant  Physician  State  Hospital  for  Insane,  Norristown,  1880-85 ;  member  of 
Philadelphia  County  Medical  Society,  etc. ; 

Gilbert  Jordan,  b.  Aug.  5,  1848.  m.  Ellen  Poinier  Canfield,  of  Morristown.  N.  J.,  b.  May 
29,  1852 ;  they  have  issue ; 

Antoinette  Jordan,  b.  Oct.  17.  1840;  wife  of  Rev.  William  H.  Cavanagh ; 

Reverend  Walter  Jordan,  b.  Oct.  23,  185 1 ;  m.  Nellie  Beaumont  Gloninger ;  has  issue; 


146  BEVAN 

Ella  Jordan,  b.  May  25,  1853,  d.  Dec.  10,  1893,  unm. ; 
Augustus  VV.  Jordan,  b.  Dec.  4,  1854;  m.  Julia  Gillet ;  has  issue; 
Lawrence  Thomsen  Jordan,  b.  May  28,  1856,  d.  Dec.  5,  1856; 
Maria  Louisa  Jordan,  b.  Dec.  28,  1857,  d.  Jan.  20,  1861 ; 
Rodman  Jordan,  b.  March  28,  i860,  d.  Dec.  12,  1861. 

John  Woolf  Jordan,  LL.  D.,  eldest  son  of  Francis  and  Emily  (Woolf) 
Jordan,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  September  14,  1840.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  private  schools  of  the  city,  and  graduated  from  Nazareth  Hall,  in  1856. 
Lafayette  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  1902.  He  is 
librarian  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  editor  of  the  "Pennsylvania 
Magazine  of  History  and  Biography;"  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Federation 
of  Historical  Societies ;  vice-president  of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania ; 
registrar  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution;  vice-president  of 
the  Swedish  Colonial  Society ;  honorary  member  of  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the 
Cincinnatti ;  and  connected  with  many  learned  societies.  He  is  also  a  Commis- 
sioner of  Valley  Forge  Park;  a  commissioner  for  the  Preservation  of  the  Pub- 
lic Records  of  Pennsylvania,  etc.  During  the  "Emergency"  of  1863,  he  served 
in  Starrs'  Battery,  attached  to  the  32d  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Militia.  Dr. 
Jordan's  contributions  to  local  and  general  history  are  numerous.  He  edited 
■'Extracts  from  the  Diary  of  Jacob  Hiltzheimer  of  Philadelphia.  1765-98,"  and 
among  his  other  contributions  are,  "A  Red  Rose  from  the  Olden  Time,  1752-72," 
"Friedensthal  and  its  Stockaded  Mill",  "Narrative  of  John  Heckwelder's  Journey 
to  the  Wabash  in  1792,"  "John  Heckwelder's  Notes  of  Travel  to  Ohio,  1797," 
"Bishop  A.  G.  Spangenberg's  Journey  to  Onondaga  in  1747,"  "Military  Hos- 
pitals at  Bethlehem  and  Lititz  during  the  Revolution."  "Revolutionary  History 
of  Bethlehem,  1775-83,"  Franklin  as  a  Genealogist,"  etc. 

Dr.  Jordan  was  twice  married,  and  has  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 


RAWLE  FAMILY 

The  Rawle  family  that  has  for  over  two  centuries  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  professional,  business  and  social  life  of  Philadelphia,  came  of  ancient 
lineage  in  Great  Britain,  and  was  probably  of  Norman  origin.  The  surname 
Rawle  is  doubtless  derived  from  the  Norman  Radulphus,  or  Ralph,  and  its 
French  diminutive  Raoul,  which  in  its  turn  came  from  the  Norse  Rollo.  In  1267 
Rogerus  de  Raule  is  mentioned  in  an  Inquisition  post  mortem;  and  in  1273 
appears  Henricus  de  Raule.  Families  of  the  name  were  at  one  time,  and  at  the 
present  day  a  few  are  still  to  be  found,  scattered  along  the  coast  of  the  British 
Channel  from  Tintagel  and  Boscastle  in  Cornwall,  through  Clovelly,  Ilfracombe 
and  Lynton  in  Devonshire,  and  Oare,  Porlock  and  Minehead  in  Somersetshire. 
In  1412,  John  Raule  and  Simon  Rale  appear  in  the  records  of  Somersetshire, 
and  John  Rawle  and  John  de  Releg  in  1428,  and  there  are  indications  that  this 
last  was  nearest  the  original  spelling  of  the  name.  In  1523  John  Rawell  was 
assessed  in  the  last  mentioned  county  and  his  widow  as  Cecilia  Rawle  in  1546, 
but  in  both  their  wills  their  surname  was  spelled  Rawlie.  In  certain  localities  in 
later  years,  persons  of  the  name  of  Rawle  were  and  still  are  living,  indeed  some- 
times on  the  identical  estates  on  which  centuries  ago  a  family  named  Ralegh 
resided.  The  original  seat  in  Devonshire  of  that  family  was  named  Ralegh,  and 
it  possessed  as  early  as  1398  an  estate  in  the  neighboring  county  of  Hereford 
upon  which,  in  1607,  one  Henry  Rawle  resided.  At  Ralegh,  or,  as  it  is  now 
spelled,  Rawleigh,  Ralegh,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  was  born  in  1244.  As  early 
as  the  reign  of  Henry  II.  (1154-1189),  the  name  appears  also  in  Somersetshire 
in  the  grant  of  the  manor  of  Nettlecomb  to  Hugh  de  Ralegh. 

The  Rawle  family  of  America  is  descended  from  the  Rawle  family,  lords  of 
Tresparret  and  other  manors,  seated  at  Hennett,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Juliot,  in  the 
Hundred  of  Lesnewth  on  the  north  coast  of  Cornwall,  near  the  ancient  harbor  of 
Boscastle,  formerly  Bottreux  Castle.  The  estate  and  barton  house  of  Hennett, 
adjacent  to  the  Parish  church  of  St.  Juliot,  was  the  home  of  the  Rawle  family  in 
the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century.  They  also  became  lessees  of  crown  lands 
there  and  of  the  rectory  of  St.  Juliot,  which,  as  shown  by  a  suit  in  chancery  in 
1601  was  granted  in  1576  by  Nicholas  Rawle,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  to  his 
father,  William  Rawle,  from  whom  it  descended  to  his  son  William  Rawle,  the 
plaintiff  in  the  suit  of  1601.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Rawle  family  of  St.  Juliot, 
county  Cornwall,  were,  "Sable,  three  swords,  two  with  their  points  in  base,  the 
middle  one  in  chief."  Crest,  An  arm  embowed  in  armour  proper,  holding  in 
gauntlet  a  sword,  argent,  hilt  or. 

William  Rawle,  father  of  Nicholas  before  mentioned,  was  living  at  St.  Juliot 
prior  to  1550.  As  was  not  uncommon  in  those  days  he  had  two  sons  by  the 
name  of  William,  the  elder  of  whom,  the  plaintiff  of  1601,  continued  at  St.  Juliot, 
where  he  died  in  1605.  His  will,  bearing  date  March  6,  1604-5,  directs  that  he  be 
buried  at  the  church  of  St.  Juliot,  and  devises  to  his  wife  the  tenement  of 
"Hennett,"  during  her  widowhood ;  to  his  son  Edward  lands  in  parish  of  David- 
stowc;  makes  eldest  son  Francis  and  wife  Jane  the  executors,  and  his  "brother 


148  RAIVLE 

William  Rawle"  and  Richard  Westlaike,  overseers.  The  widow  died  in  1636. 
William  the  testator,  above-mentioned,  rebuilt  "Hennett"  during  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  and  caused  the  coat-of-arms  of  the  Tudor  family  to  be  moulded 
in  plaster  on  the  gable  wall  of  the  room  over  the  hall  where  they  may  still  be  seen. 

JNIuch  of  the  land  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Juliot  still  remains  in  the  female  line 
of  the  Rawle  family.  Right  Rev.  Richard  Rawle  D.  D.,  President  of  Codington 
College,  Barbadoes,  and  Bishop  of  Trinidad,  the  last  male  of  that  branch  of  the 
family,  being  also  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Tretarret,  having  died  childless  in  1689, 
devised  his  estates  to  Edmund  Valleck,  the  son  of  his  sister. 

William  Rawle  the  younger,  mentioned  as  overseer  in  will  of  his  brother 
William,  had  two  sons — Francis,  who  removed  to  Rochester,  county  Kent,  and 
died  there  in  1628,  a  young  man,  and, 

William  Rawle,  second  son,  who  remained  at  St.  Juliot,  and  died  there  in 
1646,  leaving  three  sons : — 

William  Rawle,  of  St.  Juliot.  d.   1727;  by  wife   Dorothy  had  children   Elizabeth,  Grace. 

Edward,  and  Katharine ; 
Edward  Rawle,  also  of  St.  Juliot,  m.  Grace  Shepherd ;  had  children,  William.  Thomanine, 

Mary,   Edward,  and  Richard  and  three  others  d.  inf. ; 
Francis  Rawle,  became  member  of  Society  of  Friends  and  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania 

in  1686  with  son  Francis;  of  whom  presently. 

Francis  Rawle  (2),  was  born  at  St.  Juliot,  county  Cornwall,  but  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Plymouth,  county  Devon,  in  1660,  prior  to  which  he  had  embraced  the 
tenets  of  "the  people  called  Quakers",  as  Besse  gives  his  name  as  one  of  the 
twenty  persons  taken  from  a  Meeting  of  Friends  and  imprisoned  in  the  Castle  of 
Exon,  3mo.  20,  1660.  On  October  4,  1663,  Francis  Rawle  is  again  taken  from  a 
meeting  at  Plymouth  by  a  constable;  and  again  with  eighteen  others,  on  April 
23,  1665,  is  carried  from  a  meeting  at  Plymouth  and  committed  to  Bridewell.  On 
August  26,  1665,  taken  by  a  sergeant  and  soldiers  and  again  committed  to  Bride- 
well. 

In  May,  1670,  Francis  Rawle  of  Plymouth  suffered  a  distraint  of  goods  in 
lieu  of  a  fine  for  refusing  to  take  an  oath.  The  last  record  we  have  of  his  impris- 
onment for  conscience  sake  was  on  August  26.  1683,  when  Francis  Rawle  Sr. 
and  Francis  Rawle  Jr.  are  both  confined  in  the  "High  Gaol  at  Exeter." 

To  escape  the  endless  and  severe  persecutions  to  which  members  of  his  sect 
were  subjected  in  their  native  country  of  England,  Francis  Rawle  and  his  son 
(iecided  to  emigrate  to  Pennsylvania,  and  March  13,  1685-6,  by  deeds  of  lease  and 
release,  William  Penn  assured  to  Francis  Rawle  Jr.  2,500  acres  of  land  to  be  laid 
out  in  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania ;  and  father  and  son  took  passage  at 
Plymouth  in  the  ship  "Desire,"  which  arrived  in  Philadelphia  June  23,  1686.  The 
"Register  of  Arrivals  in  Philadelphia,  1682-1686,"  gives  the  names  of  Francis 
Rawle  Sr.  and  Francis  Rawle  Jr.  and  six  servants  of  the  latter  among  the  list 
of  passengers  on  the  "Desire."  Jane  Rawle,  wife  of  Francis  Sr..  did  not  accom- 
pany her  husband  and  son  on  the  "Desire",  probably  remaining  at  Plymouth  to 
care  for  a  sick  daughter,  as  it  appears  that  Rebecca  Rawle,  daughter  of  Francis 
and  Jane,  was  buried  there  June  7,  1686.  She  was  in  Philadelphia  prior  to  the 
marriage  of  her  son  Francis,  October  18,  1689,  when  her  name  appears  as  a 
witness  on  his  marriage  certificate  at  the  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting.  Of  the 
2,500  acres  of  land  purchased  of  William  Penn  by  deed  of  March   13,   1685-6, 


RAWLE  149 

Francis  Rawle,  of  Plymouth,  county  of  Devon,  by  lease  and  release  dated  March 
25-26,  1696,  conveyed  500  acres  to  Richard  Gove,  who  accompanied  the  Rawles 
to  Philadelphia  in  the  "Desire."  The  2,500  acres  were  located  in  Plymouth  town- 
ship, Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery,  county,  on  the  banks  of  Schuylkill,  below 
the  present  site  of  Norristown,  the  tract  being  known  as  that  of  the  "Plymouth 
Friends."  Both  Francis  Sr.  and  his  son  seem  to  have  remained  in  Philadelphia 
from  the  time  of  their  arrival,  where  lots  were  surveyed  to  Francis  Jr.  as  well, 
as  "Liberty  Land"  in  right  of  his  purchase  of  2,500  acres.  Francis  Rawle  Sr. 
died  in  Philadelphia  and  was  buried  February  25,  1696-7.  His  wife  Jane  died 
almost  a  year  earlier ;  she  was  buried  February  9,  1695-6. 

Fr.ancis  Rawle,  son  of  Francis  and  Jane  Rawle,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Devon- 
shire, England,  about  the  year  1663.  On  his  arrival  in  Philadelphia  he  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he  followed  for  a  number  of  years,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  administration  of  various  official  positions  under  the  City  and  Pro- 
vincial government,  and  late  in  life  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  law  at  the 
Philadelphia  Bar.  He  was  a  man  of  good  education  and  a  high  order  of  intel- 
ligence, and  was  early  called  upon  to  take  a  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  his 
adopted  city  and  Province.  He  was  commissioned  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  of 
the  City  Courts,  January  2,  1689,  and  was  named  by  William  Penn  in  his  first 
charter  of  the  city.  May  20,  1691,  as  one  of  the  six  members  of  Board  of  Alder- 
men, and  in  1694  was  made  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Property.  He  was 
elected  to  Provincial  Assembly  in  1704  and  regularly  re-elected  until  1709:  was 
again  returned  in  1719,  and  continued  to  serve  until  his  death  in  1727,  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  law-making  body  of  the  Province  and  serving  on  many  impor- 
tant committees.  He  belonged  to  the  "Anti-Proprietary  party,"  under  the  leader- 
ship of  David  Lloyd.  He  was  called  to  the  Provincial  Council  in  1724,  but  de- 
clined to  serve.  He  also  filled  the  position  of  Deputy  Register  General  for  Phil- 
adelphia  for  some  years. 

Francis  Rawle  was  author  of  an  anonymous  pamphlet  published  in  Philadel- 
phia, in  1725,  entitled  "Ways  and  Means  for  the  Inhabitants  on  the  Delaware 
to  become  Rich",  a  treatise  on  political  economy,  the  first  book  printed  by  Benja- 
min Franklin.  An  attack  was  made  upon  it,  also  anonymously,  in  a  pamphlet 
supposed  to  have  been  written  by  Secretary  James  Logan,  entitled,  "A  Dialogue 
Showing  What's  therein  to  be  Found."  This  called  forth  a  reply  from  Rawle, 
in  a  second  pamphlet,  published  in  1726,  entitled  "A  Just  Rebuke  to  'A  Dialogue', 
and  that  treatise  entitled  'Ways  and  Means,  &c.,'  rescued  from  the  Dialoguist's 
charge  of  Inconsistencies  and  Contradictions."  Francis  Rawle  is  also  supposed 
to  have  been  author  of  another  anonymous  work,  published  in  1721,  which  was 
considered  of  importance  and  created  a  great  stir  at  the  time,  entitled  "Some 
Remedies  Proposed  for  the  Restoring  the  Sunk  Credit  of  the  Province  of  Penn- 
sylvania, with  Some  Remarks  on  its  Trade."  Copies  of  these  four  pamphlets 
are  in  the  collection  of  The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Francis  Rawle  married,  at  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  October  18,  1689, 
Martha,  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  September  24,  1668,  daughter  of  Robert  Turner, 
Provincial  Councillor,  etc.,  by  his  second  wife,  Martha  Fisher,  who  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania with  her  father  in  the  "Lion"  of  Liverpool,  arriving  in  Philadelphia 
October  14,  1683.  Her  father,  Robert  Turner,  was  a  son  of  Robert  and  Mary 
Turner,  of  Royston,  Hertfordshire,  England,  and  was  born  at  Cambridge  Octo- 


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ber,  1635.  He  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  early  in  life  and  was  one  of  its 
early  ministers,  travelling  extensively  in  England,  Ireland  and  Wales,  "in  the 
service  of  Truth."  Prior  to  his  emigration  to  America  he  was  a  linen  draper  at 
Dublin,  Ireland,  possessed  of  a  considerable  fortune.  He  married  (first)  at 
Dublin,  March  27,  1662,  Elizabeth  Ruddock,  of  Dover,  who  died  during  the 
following  year,  leaving  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  bom  March  12,  1663.  who  died  in 
1678.  He  married  (second),  at  Rosenallis,  Queens  county,  Ireland,  September 
10,  1665,  Alartha  Fisher,  of  Cheshire,  England,  who  died  May  1682.  They  were 
the  parents  of  four  children,  viz. : — 

Martha  Turner,  b.  Sept.  24,  1668,  d.  in  Philadelphia.  July  18,  1745;  m.  Francis  Rawie ; 

Robert  Turner,  b.  Aug.  25.  1672,  d.  same  year; 

Abraham  Turner,  b.  Sept.  28,  1673,  d.  1675 ; 

Mary  Turner,  b.  Feb.  7.   1674,  m.  and  remained  in  Ireland. 

Robert  Turner  was  a  preacher  among  Friends  as  early  as  1657,  and  suffered 
imprisonment  for  conscience  sake  in  1660-61-62,  both  at  Bridewell  and  New- 
gate. He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  William  Penn,  and  the  purchaser  of  many 
large  tracts  of  land  in  Pennsylvania,  and  like  Samuel  Carpenter  was  one  of 
the  wealthiest  of  the  early  English  immigrants  to  Pennsylvania,  and  with  Car- 
penter, one  of  the  most  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  Province.  He  bought  a 
certificate  from  the  Friends'  Meeting  at  Dublin,  dated  5mo.  3,  1683.  He  was 
then  a  widower,  but  married  (third),  after  his  arrival  in  Philadelphia,  Susanna, 
daughter  William  Welch,  Provincial  Councillor,  in  1683.  By  the  third  mar- 
riage he  had  a  son  Robert,  who  was  buried  December  18,  1692.  Both  Robert 
Turner  and  Francis  Rawle  were  adherents  of  George  Keith  in  his  schism  of 
1692.  Robert  Turner  died  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  buried  in  the  Friends'  bur}'- 
ing  ground,  August  24,  1700.  Letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  his 
estate  to  his  son-in-law,  Francis  Rawle,  April  28,  1701.  Turner  had  been  a 
member  of  Provincial  Council  by  election  from  Philadelphia  for  three  years  from 
March  30,  1686,  was  appointed  to  that  body  (no  longer  elective),  by  William 
Penn,  in  1693,  and  again,  on  the  restoration  of  the  charter  in  1700,  with  Thomas 
Lloyd,  Arthur  Cooke,  John  Simcock,  and  John  Eckley,  he  was  named  and  em- 
powered to  act  as  Lieutenant  or  Deputy  Governor  of  the  Province,  on  February 
9.  1687-8,  with  the  above  named  colleagues,  filled  that  position  until  the  arrival 
of  Gov.  Blackwell,  December  18,  1688.  He  was  one  of  the  active  and  promin- 
ent members  of  the  Council,  and  when  he  was  too  indisposed  to  attend  the  Coun- 
cil, September  3,  1686,  the  Council  adjourned  to  his  house  and  held  its  session 
there.  He  was  commissioned  Provincial  Justice.  August  18,  1684,  the  follow- 
ing day  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  Philadelphia  county,  and  re-commissioned  May 
I,  1686.  On  the  death  of  Christopher  Taylor  he  was  commissioned  by  the  Pro- 
vincial Council,  on  July  5,  1686,  with  William  Frampton  and  William  South- 
ersby,  to  administer  the  office  of  Register  General,  and  November  18  following, 
Frampton  having  died  and  Turner  declining  to  accept  the  office,  James  Claypoole 
was  appointed  for  a  term  of  three  years.  Robert  Turner  was,  however,  ap- 
pointed to  the  office  of  Register  General  of  the  Province,  March  4,  i6go,  and 
filled  the  office  for  three  years.  He  was  also  Provincial  Treasurer  for  a  number 
of  years,  as  well  as  Receiver  General  for  the  Proprietaries. 


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Francis  Rawle  died  at  Philadelphia,  March  5,  1726-7;  his  widow,  Martha,  sur- 
vived him  for  eighteen  years,  and  died  July  18,  1745. 
Issue  of  Francis  and  Martha  (Turner)  Rawle: — 

Robert,  eldest  son,  d.  s.  p.,  1730; 

Francis,  removed  when  a  young  man  to  Paramaribo,  capital  of  Surinam,  or  Dutch 
Guiana,  South  America,  and  was  a  successful  merchant  there  until  his  death,  May 
14,  1779.  M.  Sept.  26,  1733.  Margaret  Fickes.  of  Paramaribo,  their  marriage  certificate 
written  in  Dutch,  being  now  in  possession  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 
They  had  issue  : — 

Samuel  Rawle.  of  whom  later; 
Francis  Rawle.  d.  s.  p.  before  his  father ; 
Sarah  Rawle,  m.  Thomas  Massey ;  d,  s.  p.   1784; 

Elizabeth  Rawle.  m.  (first)  Simon  Kirchner,  by  whom  she  had  no  issue;   (second), 
1778,   at   Paramaribo.   George  William   Steinhauer,   and  had   issue;   d.    Philadel- 
phia,  April    1789; 
William,  d.  Philadelphia,  Dec.  16,  1741.  m.  Margaret  Hodge,  of  whom  presently; 
Joseph,  removed  to  Somerset  county,  Maryland,  d.  there   1762.  unm. ; 
John,  d.  in  1759,  unm.; 
Benjamin,  m.  Hannah  Hudson,  d.  in  1784,  leaving  dau.  Rebecca,  who  m.  Jacob  Ridgway, 

and  left  issue; 
Mary,  m.  William  Cooper,  of  Camden,  N.  J.,  later  of  Philadelphia;  left  dau,  Rebecca, 

who  d.  unm.  before  1761  ; 
Rebecca,  d.  unm.  Oct.  2,  1759; 
Elizabeth,  d.  unm.  1758; 
Jane,  m.  Abraham  England,  of  New  Castle ;  no  issue. 

William  Rawle,  third  son  of  Francis  and  Martha  (Turner)  Rawle,  received 
a  good  classical  education,  and  being  a  man  of  scholarly  tastes  became  an  eminent 
classical  Greek  and  Latin  scholar,  acquiring  an  extensive  library  of  choice  and 
valuable  works  of  the  best  authors.  He  was  an  original  member  of  the  Library 
Company  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  member  of  its  board  of  Directors,  from  its  incep- 
tion until  his  death.  He  was  also  the  first  American  to  donate  books  to  the 
Library.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  April  4,  1728,  but  died  when 
comparatively  a  young  man,  December  16,  1741.  He  married,  August  29,  1728, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  Hodge,  a  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia. 
She  died  soon  after  the  birth  of  her  only  child,  Francis  Rawle. 

Francis  Rawle,  only  child  of  William  and  Margaret  (Hodge)  Rawle,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  July  10.  1729,  and  was  therefore  but  twelve  years  old  when 
his  father  died.  He  was  liberally  educated,  and  of  attractive  manners  and  con- 
versation. In  1755  he  made  an  extensive  trip  through  Europe.  Landing  at 
Cork,  Ireland,  he  made  a  tour  of  Ireland,  and  then  visited  other  parts  of  Europe, 
writing  an  interesting  account  of  his  journey.  Returning  to  Philadelphia  he 
married,  December,  1756,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Edward  Warner,  by  his  wife 
Anna  Coleman.  Like  his  father,  Francis  Rawle  was  cut  off  almost  at  the  begin- 
ning of  what  bade  fair  to  become  a  brilliant  career,  dying  June  7,  1761,  from  the 
effects  of  a  gunshot  wound  received  by  the  accidental  discharge  of  a  fowling 
piece  while  hunting  at  his  country  seat.  His  widow,  Rebecca  (Warner)  Rawle, 
married  (second),  November  10,  1767,  Samuel  Shoemaker,  who  that  year  suc- 
ceeded his  father  as  City  Treasurer ;  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of 
the  City  of  Philadelphia,  became  Mayor  of  the  City  in  1769,  and  served  two 
terms.  He  was  also  Justice  of  Philadelphia  courts  and  member  of  Colonial 
Assembly.     Both  he  and  his  second  wife  Rebecca  were  decided  Royalists  during 


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the  Revolution ;  he  was  acting  Mayor  of  the  city  during  its  occupation  by  the 
British,  and  retired  to  New  York  on  its  evacuation  by  the  British  army.  Mrs. 
Rawle-Shoemaker  was  a  woman  of  uncommon  strength  of  intellect  and  cul- 
ture, "possessed  of  every  virtue  that  befits  and  adorns  a  Christian  woman,  and 
whose  tenderness  and  solicitude  for  her  ofTspring,  swelled  beyond  the  ordinary 
stream  of  maternal  love."  Both  her  husbands  belonged  to  the  class  of  cultured 
and  accomplished  gentlemen  of  ample  means,  common  to  Philadelphia  in  its 
prosperous  days  preceding  the  Revolution,  and  she  had  been  brought  up  and 
lived  in  luxury  and  refinement.  "Deprived  of  husband  and  children, — exiled 
during  the  war  of  the  Revolution  on  account  of  her  persistent  loyalty  to  the  Crown, 
and  plundered  of  prosperity,  this  excellent  woman  displayed  a  fortitude  and 
energy  of  character  which  contrasted  strongly  with  her  serene  and  gentle  dis- 
position. She  survived  to  an  advanced  age,  but  the  progress  of  years  and  infir- 
mities made  no  impression  on  her  warm  and  kindly  heart."  She  died  Decem- 
ber 21,  1819. 

Issue  of  Francis  and  Rebecca  (Warner)  Razvle: — 

Anna,  b.  Oct.  30,  1757,  d.  July,  1828;  m.  Sept.  16,  1783,  John  Clifford,  and  her  dau.  Rebecca 
became  wife  of  John  Pemberton ; 

William,  b.  April  28,  1759.  d.  April  12,  1836;  m.  Sarah  Coates  Burge;  of  whom  presently; 

Margaret,  b.  1760,  d.  Aug.  25,  1881,  m.  Isaac,  son  of  Joseph  Wharton  of  "Walnut  Grove." 
Their  son,  Thomas  I.  Wharton  was  a  distinguished  lawyer,  and  author  of  "Wharton's 
Digest  of  Reports  of  Decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania." 

WiLLi.\M  Rawle,  only  son  of  Francis  and  Rebecca  (Warner)  Rawle,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  April  28,  1759,  was  but  two  years  of  age  when  the  unfortunate  and 
lamentable  accident  deprived  him  of  his  father.  He  was,  however,  left  to  the 
care  of  a  mother  well  qualified  to  instill  into  the  mind  and  heart  of  her  brilliant 
*on,  the  earnestness  of  purpose  and  fine  qualities  of  Christian  and  civic  virtue, 
that  characterized  his  long  and  distinguished  career.  His  early  education  was 
acquired  at  the  Friends'  Academy  of  Philadelphia  and  under  private  tutors.  He 
was  sixteen  years  of  age  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  prac- 
tically all  his  immediate  relations  and  connections  were  either  adherents  of  or 
sympathizers  with  the  royal  cause,  including  his  gifted  mother  for  whom,  during 
all  the  period  of  her  life,  he  gave  constant  proof  of  the  deepest  and  strongest 
sentiment  of  filial  love.  His  stepfather,  Samuel  Shoemaker,  as  before  stated,  an 
accomplished  gentleman  of  extensive  reading  and  cultivated  tastes,  was  a  Pro- 
vincial Royalist,  who,  though  arrested  by  order  of  Congress  with  many  other  men 
of  wealth  and  standing  whose  sympathies  were  not  with  the  patriot  cause,  and 
confined  in  the  Masonic  Lodge  room  in  1777,  escaped  the  exile  to  Virginia 
suffered  by  many  of  his  associates,  by  giving  his  parole  not  to  render  aid  to  the 
enemies  of  his  country,  and  remained  in  Philadelphia  during  its  occupation  by  the 
British  army,  acting  during  that  period  as  Mayor  of  the  City.  Surrounded  by 
these  influences,  young  Rawle  remained  entirely  passive,  but  circumstances 
strongly  indicate  that  he  had  little  sympathy  with  the  Tory  sentiments  of  his 
relatives.  When  the  British  were  about  to  evacuate  the  city,  his  stepfather  retired 
with  them  to  New  York  City,  and,  at  the  urgent  request  of  his  mother,  young 
Rawle  accompanied  him  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  there  under  the  Royal 
Attorney  General,  Mr,  Kempe,  the  city  being  then  under  military  government. 
After  three  years  spent  in  diligent  preparation   for  his  chosen  profession,  pre- 


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vented  from  returning  to  his  native  city  by  the  poHtical  outlawry  of  his  parents, 
he  decided  to  go  to  London  to  pursue  further  his  legal  studies,  and  to  take  up  the 
practice  of  law  there  until  the  close  of  the  war  would  permit  him  to  return  to  his 
native  city,  where,  in  a  letter  written  to  his  mother  before  sailing,  he  stated  his 
intention  of  settling,  as  soon  as  the  clouds  of  war  should  roll  by.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  August  17,  1781.  The  war  having 
drawn  to  a  close,  he  left  England,  April  24,  1782,  and  after  a  tour  of  the  con- 
tinent and  a  visit  to  Dr.  Franklin,  at  Passy,  near  Paris,  he  sailed  for  America, 
November  17,  1782,  and  arrived  in  Philadelphia  January  17,  1783,  after  an 
absence  from  his  native  city  of  four  and  a  half  years.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  at  the  Philadelphia  Bar  on  September  15,  1783,  and  November  13  follow- 
ing married  Sarah  Coates  Burge,  the  "Sally  Burge"  of  "Sally  Wistar's  Journal," 
born  November  13,  1761,  daughter  of  Samuel  Burge,  a  distiller  and  merchant  of 
Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Beulah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Coates) 
Shoemaker,  and  sister  to  Samuel  Shoemaker,  stepfather  of  William  Rawle. 
Samuel  Burge  was  a  son  of  William  Burge,  a  native  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
(brother  of  the  first  wife  of  Col.  William  Trent,  Provincial  Councillor,  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  founder  of  Trenton)  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Henry 
Stacy,  of  Burlington  county.  Mrs.  Rawle  was  one  of  that  httle  coterie  of  girls  of 
Philadelphia  during  the  Revolutionary  period,  a  glimpse  of  whose  happy  girlhood 
life  is  given  in  the  delightful  "Journal"  of  her  intimate  friend  and  associate, 
Sallie  Wistar,  and  was  a  woman  of  many  accomplishments  and  virtues.  Her 
married  life  with  Mr.  Rawle  continued  over  a  period  of  upwards  of  forty  years, 
and  was  ever  serene  and  happy. 

William  Rawle  at  once  acquired  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  associates  and 
fellow  citizens,  but  his  early  professional  career  was  beset  with  difficulties  and 
discouragements,  and  not  distinguished  by  early  success.  He  persistently  declined 
to  take  part  in  party  warfare  and  always  eschewed  public  office.  Against  his  wish 
and  positive  declination,  he  was  nominated  and  elected  to  General  Assembly  of 
the  State  in  October,  1789,  as  a  Federalist,  to  which  party  he  gave  his  unswerving 
allegiance.  The  importunities  of  his  friends  prevailed  upon  him  to  serve  in  the 
unsought  position.  His  practice  had  by  this  time  become  large  and  lucrative,  and 
he  preferred  to  give  his  whole  time  to  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession. 

In  1791  Mr.  Rawle  was  appointed  by  President  Washington  to  the  position 
of  United  States  Attorney  for  Pennsylvania,  which  he  filled  until  1800,  when  he 
resigned.  He  was  offered  by  Washington  the  office  of  Attorney  General  of  the 
United  States,  and  also  the  Judgeship  of  the  United  States  District  Court,  but 
declined  both  these  honorable  positions.  As  United  States  Attorney  for  Penn- 
sylvania, he  accompanied  in  1794  the  Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court 
and  the  military  forces  to  Western  Pennsylvania,  to  suppress  the  "Whiskey  In- 
surrection," and  it  became  his  duty  as  attorney  to  prosecute  the  leaders  of  this 
insurrection  as  well  as  those  of  the  "Fries  Rebellion."  of  1798. 

Mr.  Rawle  took  an  active  interest  in  the  literary  and  scientific  societies  and 
associations  of  his  time.  He  was  elected  member  of  American  Philosophical 
Society;  secretary  of  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  director  in  1792; 
elected  in  1786,  trustee  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  applied  himself  dili- 
gently to  the  duties  of  that  office,  with  zeal  and  punctuality,  for  a  period  of 
forty  years.     He  was  for  many  years  attorney  and  counsel  for  Bank  of  United 


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States.  In  1805  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  estabhshment  of  Academy  of  Fine 
Arts,  and  at  the  opening  dehvered  an  address  urging  and  vindicating  the  claims 
of  painting  and  sculpture  to  the  encouragement  and  support  of  a  republican 
country. 

In  1 82 1,  on  the  incorporation  of  the  Law  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  he  was 
chosen  its  vice-president,  in  1822  was  unanimously  chosen  Qiancellor  of  the  As- 
sociated Members  of  Bar  of  Philadelphia,  and  five  years  later,  when  that  asso- 
ciation was  merged  with  the  Law  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia  under  the 
title  of  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia,  he  became  Chancellor  of  the  new  asso- 
ciation and  retained  that  position  until  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1824,  and  its  president  until  his  death; 
making  a  number  of  communications  that  hold  an  honored  place  among  its 
archives,  among  them,  one  on  the  "Valedictory  Address  of  President  Washing- 
ton": one  respecting  Heckwelder's  "History  of  the  Indian  Nations";  a  "Bio- 
graphy of  Sir  William  Keith",  and  "A  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Thomas  Mififlin." 

In  1827  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  University,  conferred  upon 
i\Ir.  Rawle  the  degree  of  LL.  D.,  and  in  1828  he  received  the  same  honor  from 
Dartmouth  College.  In  1830  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governor,  in  pursuance 
of  an  act  of  Legislature,  with  his  nephew  Thomas  I.  Wharton,  and  Judge  Joel 
Jones,  to  revise  the  civil  code  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  chief  author  of  reports  of 
this  commission,  the  valuable  results  of  whose  labors  are  embodied  in  existing 
statutes.  He  was  also  the  author,  among  other  valuable  legal  publications,  of 
"A  View  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States",  for  forty  years  considered 
the  leading  authority  on  the  subject. 

Mr.  Rawle's  professional  business  after  the  year  1793  was  very  extensive  and 
brought  him  a  large  income ;  he  was  associated  with  most  of  the  important  cases 
from  that  date  for  forty  years.  Not,  in  the  accepted  sense  of  the  term,  an  orator, 
his  address  to  a  jury  was  simple  in  diction,  free  from  all  unnecessary  ornamenta- 
tion, earnest  and  impressive.  His  deportment  in  the  conduct  of  his  professional 
business  was  always  respectful  and  conciliatory  to  his  professional  adversaries, 
and  it  is  said  he  never  had  an  enemy  at  the  Bar.  "He  sought  and  acquired  that 
enduring  reputation  which  is  founded  on  the  good  opinion  of  the  wise  and  vir- 
tuous of  this  world,  and  was  an  upright  man  of  whom  it  may  be  truly  said  'The 
talents  lent  him  were  well  employed.'  " 

At  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar  held  December  20,  1831. 
it  was  unanimously  resolved  that  they  were  desirous  of  expressing  their  respect 
and  regard  for  their  venerable  associate,  and  of  preserving  a  likeness  of  one  who 
had  contributed  to  add  honor  to  his  profession,  and  they  accordingly  solicited 
Mr.  Rawle  to  sit  for  a  portrait,  to  be  painted  at  their  expense,  and  to  be  placed 
in  the  Law  Library.  Mr.  Rawle  complied  with  their  request,  and  a  very  strik- 
ing likeness  of  him  was  painted  by  Inman,  which  still  gives  inspiration  from  the 
walls  of  the  library  to  the  worthy  student  who  would  emulate  his  noble  example. 

The  accomplished  jurist  was  a  fine  scholarly  man  of  great  artistic  and  literary 
taste.  His  classical  knowledge  was  extensive  and  accurate,  and  he  brought  to  his 
professional  work  a  discriminating  mind  which  enabled  him  to  make  the  best 
use  of  what  he  had  read.  He  was  fond  of  poetry,  and  at  one  time  of  his  life 
wrote  verses;  he  also  drew  and  painted  well.  He  was  by  birth  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  never  ceased  to  entertain  the  highest  respect  for  the  So- 


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ciety,  attending  their  meetings,  though  he  differed  from  them  on  some  points 
pecuHar  to  the  sect,  which  he  considered  non-essential,  especially  as  to  language 
and  attire.  He  was  at  all  periods  of  his  life  devout  in  thought  and  action,  and 
read  and  wrote  much  on  religious  subjects. 

During  the  year  1835  his  bodily  infirmities  increased  rapidly,  and  he  was  sel- 
dom able  to  leave  his  house;  but  his  mental  vigor  was  unabated.  He  gave  much 
time  to  reading,  and  found  especial  enjoyment  in  his  books.  In  truth,  literature, 
which  had  been  "the  delight  of  his  youth,  the  relaxation  of  his  manhood,  was  the 
solace  of  his  declining  years."  After  a  confinement  to  his  bed  of  several  weeks, 
he  died  April  12,  1836,  having  passed  a  life  of  seventy-six  years  without  stain  or 
reproach. 

Issue  of  William  and  Sarah  Coatcs  (Biirge)  Rawle: — 

Elizabeth  Margaret,  b.  Oct.  15,  1784,  d.  June  23,  1794; 

Francis  William,  b.  Jan.  27,  1786,  d.  Sept.  15,   1795; 

Samuel  Burge,  b.  July  i,  1787;  merchant  at  Philadelphia,  later  at  Hong  Kong,  China; 
U.  S.  Consul  to  Hong  Kong,  and  Macoa ;  d.  Macoa,  Sept.  2,  1858 ;  m.  at  Pine  Street 
Friends'  Meeting,  Philadelphia,  Jan.  2,  181 1,  Ann,  dau.  of  Jesse  Wain,  a  Philadelphia 
merchant.     She  d.   Philadelphia,  Oct.  26,   1875; 

William,  b.  July  19,  1788,  d.  Aug.  9,  1858;  m.  Mary  Anna  Tilghman ;  of  whom  presently; 

Beulah,  b.  March  25.  1790.  d.  s.  p.  July  17.  1876;  m.  May  23,  1839,  William  Craig,  a 
prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  who  d.  July  14,  1869,  she  being  his  second  wife; 

Rebecca  Shoemaker,  b.  Feb.  20,  1792,  d.  unm.  Sept.  26,  1814; 

Sarah,  b.  Jan.  7,  1794,  d.  Sept.  11,  1822,  unm.; 

Francis  William,  b.  Sept.  28,  1795,  d.  at  his  country  seat,  "Fairfield,"  Lycoming  Co., 
Pa.,  Oct.  27,  1881 ;  m.  Louisa  Hall;  of  whom  presently; 

Edward,  b.  Sept.  22,  1797,  d.  at  New  Orleans,  Nov.  4,  1880;  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.. 
1815:  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar,  Jan.  2,  1823;  removed  to  New  Orleans,  and 
admitted  to  Bar  there  April  19,  1824,  and  following  Feb.  was  appointed  Associate 
Judge  of  City  Court,  a  position  he  held  for  some  years;  resided  several  years  on  his 
plantation  in  Jefferson  Parish,  Louisiana ;  resumed  practice  of  law  at  New  Orleans, 
was  Attorney  of  Second  Municipality  of  City,  1839- 1846;  one  of  the  founders  of  public 
school  system  of  New  Orleans,  and  many  years  president  of  Board  of  Education;  Fel- 
low of  New  Orleans  Academy  of  Science,  1856;  m.  April  19,  1827,  Appolina  S. 
Claiborne,  dau.  of  Joseph  Saul,  Esq.,  of  New  Orleans;  she  d.  Feb.  27,  1844; 

Henry,  b.  July  10,  1799;  graduated  Univ.  of  Pa.  1815;  d.  unm.  June  2,  1816; 

Horatio,  b.  March  20,  1801,  studied  law  and  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar;  d.  unm.  June 
25.   1830; 

Juliet,  b.  Aug.  26,  1804;  d.  in  Philadelphia  Oct.  20,  1883;  m.  Oct.  i,  1839.  Rev.  William 
Herbert  Norris,  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  later  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Woodbury,  N.  J. 
Norris  d.  Philadelphia,  Feb.  18,  1880. 

William  Rawle  Jr.,  third  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Burge)  Rawle,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  July  19,  1788,  was  educated  at  Princeton  College  and  admitted 
to  Philadelphia  Bar  May  21,  1810.  During  the  War  of  1812-14,  he  served  as 
Captain  of  the  Second  Troop  of  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry.  In  the  practice  of 
his  profession  he  attained  a  prominence  and  reputation  little  inferior  to  that  of 
his  father.  In  1814,  with  Hon.  Thomas  Sergeant,  he  began  the  preparation  of 
Reports  of  Decisions  of  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  known  to  the  legal 
fraternity  as  "Sergeant  and  Rawle's  Reports",  contained  in  eighteen  volumes. 
Mr.  Sergeant  retired  from  the  work  in  1828,  and  it  was  continued  to  1835,  by 
Mr.  Rawle,  in  five  volumes. 

Mr.  Rawle  was  a  member  of  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  1835-40,  and 
its  president  four  years.  He  was  elected  member  of  American  Philosophical 
Society  in  1841.    With  his  father  he  participated  in  the  founding  of  the  Histori- 


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cal  Society  of  Pennsylvania  in  1824,  and  was  many  years  its  vice-president.  He 
was  secretary  and  later  director  of  Philadelphia  Libran,'  Company,  and  Trustee 
of  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  died  at  his  son's  country  seat,  August  9, 
1858. 

Mr.    Rawle    married,    October    17,    1817,    Alary   Anna,    daughter    of    Edward 
Tilghman,  Esq.,  a  leader  of  Philadelphia  Bar,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Chew,  daugh- 
ter of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew.  Mrs.  Mary  Anna  (Tilghman)   Rawle  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  February  25,  1795,  and  died  Februan,'  4,  1878. 
Issue  of  William  and  Mary  Anna  (Tilghman)  Razdc: — 

Elizabeth  Tilghman,  b.   Philadelphia  July  16,   1818.  d.  April   10.   1897;  m.  June   18.   1844, 
Charles  Wallace  Brooke,  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  who  d.  Oct.  22,  1849.     They  had 

Elizabeth  Tilghman.  b.   Philadelphia,  July  7,  1841,  d.  there  Sept.  28.   1894,  unm. ; 

WiLLi.^M  Rawle,   (who  bv  legal  authority  reversed  his  name  to  William   Brooke 
Rawle); 

Charlotte,  b.  Philadelphia,  Feb.  9,  1846.  d.  Nov.  21,  1885.  unm.: 

Charles  Wallace,  b.  Philadelphia,  Feb.  22,  184S,  d.  there  Nov.  17,  1854. 
William  Henry  Rawle,  b.  Philadelphia,  Aug.  31,  1823;  graduated  from  Univ.  of  Pa., 
1841,  from  which  institution  he  received  in  1882  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  He 
studied  law  with  his  father  and  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar,  Oct.  12,  1844.  and 
like  his  father  and  grandfather  became  later  one  of  its  leaders ;  acquiring  eminence  as 
a  successful  practitioner  soon  after  his  admission.  He  officiated  as  counsel  in  many 
of  the  important  cases  in  his  native  city  and  elsewhere,  and  was  private  counsel  for 
some  of  the  most  eminent  lawyers  and  judges  of  Pennsylvania,  and  had  care  of  many 
important  trusts.  He  was  also  a  distinguished  writer  on  various  topics  in  the  line 
of  his  profession.  In  1852.  he  published  his  "Practical  Treatise  on  the  Law  of 
Covenants  for  Title,"  of  which  four  editions  have  since  been  published,  and  has  been 
cited  as  an  authority  in  all  parts  of  the  Union  and  in  England.  This  work  has  a  high 
and  enduring  reputation  among  the  really  great  books  on  the  law.  In  1853  he  pub- 
lished the  third  American  edition  of  Smith's  "Law  of  Contracts,"  adding  to  it  many 
able  and  learned  notes.  He  also  edited  Joshua  Williams'  "The  Law  of  Real  Property" 
with  elaborate  notes;  which  has  also  gone  through  many  editions,  and  has  been  used 
as  a  te.xt  book  in  many  law  schools  and  private  offices  in  the  United  States.  A  lecture 
delivered  by  Mr.  Rawle,  in  1881,  before  the  Law  Dept.  of  the  Univ.  of  Pa.  on  "Some 
Contrasts  in  the  Growth  of  Pennsylvania  and  English  Law,"  was  published  and  at- 
tracted much  attention  both  in  this  country  and  in  England.  In  May,  1884.  he  delivered 
an  oration  before  both  Houses  of  Congress  upon  the  occasion  of  the  unveiling  of  the 
statue  of  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall,  in  Washington ;  and  in  June,  1885,  he  delivered 
an  address  before  the  Harvard  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Societj-  on  "The  Case 
of  the  Educated  Unemployed."  In  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  "Emergency"  .Artillery  Com- 
pany, commanded  by  Capt.  Chapman  Biddle,  and  was  ordered  to  Harrisburg.  Again  in 
1863,  he  went  out  as  Quartermaster  Sergeant  of  Landis's  Battery,  which  formed  part 
of  command  of  Gen.  Couch,  and  was  engaged  in  the  battle  with  Confederate  cavalry 
at  Carlisle.  Pa.  He  was  Vice-provost  of  the  Law  .Academy  of  Philadelphia,  1865-1873. 
and  Vice-chancellor  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia  from  1880  to  his  death. 
He  was  director  of  Philadelphia  Library  Co.  and  member  of  .American  Philosophical 
Society,  and  of  Board  of  Directors  of  City  Trusts.  D.  April  19.  i88g.  He  was  twice 
m. :  (first)  Sept.  13,  1849,  to  Mary  Binney  Cadwalader,  dau.  of  Judge  John  Cadwalader, 
and  granddau.  of  Horace  Binney.  She  d'.  May  26,  lS6i.  He  m.  (second).  Oct.  17.  1869, 
Emily  Cadwalader,  dau.  of  Gen.  Thomas  Cadwalader.  of  Trenton,  N.  J.  By  his  first 
wife  he  had  a  dau.  Mary  Cadwalader  Rawle,  who  m.  Frederic  Rhinelander  Jones  of 
N  Y.,  and  another  dau.  Edith,  the  wife  of  Louis  Godfrey  Rosseau.  of  Pittsburg.  His 
only  son,  William,  b.  in  1855.  d.  in  i860.  He  was  succeeded  in  the  law  business  by  his 
nephew,  student  and  associate.  William  Brooke  Rawle. 

WiLLi.\M  Brooke  R.xwle,  eldest  and  only  surviving  son  of  Charles  \^'^allace 
Brooke,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Anna  (Tilghman) 
Rawle,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  29,  1843.  His  early  education  was 
acquired  in  the  best  private  schools  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  entered  University  of 
Pennsylvania  in  1859,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  B.  A.  in  the  class  of  1863. 
Having  in  his  senior  year  obtained  leave  of  absence  from  the  college  authorities, 
he  entered  the  United   States  \'olunteer  Armv   for  service  in  the  War  of  the 


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Rebellion,  and  took  his  B.  A.  degree  on  July  3,  1863,  while  actually  participating 
in  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  He  entered  the  army  as  Second  Lieutenant,  Third 
Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  and  served  continuously  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
from  early  in  1863  until  after  the  close  of  the  war,  attaining  the  lineal  rank  of 
Captain,  and  being  brevetted  Major  and  Lieutenant  Colonel,  for  gallant  and 
meritorious  services  at  the  battle  of  Hatcher's  Run,  and  in  the  campaign  that 
terminated  with  the  surrender  of  Lee  at  Appomattox  Court  House  respectively. 
He  was  in  numerous  engagements  during  the  war,  taking  an  active  part  in  all  the 
arduous  campaigns  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  after  that  of  Chancellorsville. 
He  returned  to  Philadelphia  at  the  close  of  the  war,  in  August,  1865,  and  took 
up  the  study  of  law  with  his  uncle  William  Henry  Rawle,  receiving  the  degree 
of  AI.  A.  at  the  Lmiversity  of  Pennsylvania,  July  3,  1866,  and  being  admitted  to 
the  Philadelphia  Bar,  May  18,  1867.  Shortly  before  the  latter  date  he  assumed 
by  legal  authority  the  name  of  William  Brooke  Rawle,  in  lieu  of  his  baptismal 
name  of  William  Rawle  Brooke.  He  became  associated  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  with  his  preceptor  and  uncle,  William  Henry  Rawle,  continuing  with 
him  until  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1889,  when  he  succeeded  him  as  the  head  of 
the  family  law  offices,  which  had  been  established  in  1783,  by  his  great-grand- 
father, William  Rawle  the  elder.  He  and  his  cousins  James  and  Francis  Rawle 
are  now  the  present  representatives  of  a  family  which  has  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  affairs  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  for  over  two  centuries. 
Col.  Rawle  is  a  Vice-President  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania ;  for 
many  years  was  Treasurer  of  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  many  patriotic  and  historical  associations.  He  married,  February  7, 
1872,  Elizabeth  Norris,  born  December  19,  1841,  daughter  of  Henry  Pepper,  of 
Philadelphia,  by  his  wife,  Sally  Norris,  daughter  of  Joseph  Parker  Norris,  of 
"Fair  Hill,"  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hill  Fox. 

Fr.ancis  Wiluam  Rawle,  third  surviving  son  of  William  and  Sarah  C. 
(Burge)  Rawle,  born  in  Philadelphia  September  28,  1795,  graduated  at  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1812  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  and  received  the  degree 
of  A.  M.  from  the  same  institution  in  1816.  During  the  War  of  1812-14  he  served 
as  Sergeant  and  Lieutenant  in  the  Pennsylvania  Regiment  known  as  the  "Wash- 
ington Guards."  After  taking  his  second  course  at  the  university  he  became  a 
civil  engineer,  and  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  in  the  earliest 
days  of  railroad  construction.  Later  he  was  an  ironmaster  at  Freedom  Forge, 
Mifflin  county,  Pennsylvania.  He  served  for  some  years  as  Lay  Judge  of  the 
Courts  of  Clearfield  county.  In  1847  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  and  became 
secretary  of  Equitable  Fire  Insurance  Company.  He  retired  from  business  in 
1861  and  moved  to  his  country  seat,  "Fairfield",  Lycoming  county,  one  of  the 
"Muncy  Farms",  where  he  passed  most  of  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  where 
he  died  October  27,  1881. 

Francis  William  Rawle  married,  December  16,  1828,  Louisa,  daughter  of 
Charles  Hall,  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Bar  at  Sunbury,  Northumberland 
county,  Pennsylvania,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  Coleman,  the 
prominent  ironmaster  of  Cornwall,  Pennsylvania.  She  died  at  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  Easter  Sunday,  1884. 

Issue  of  Francis  William  and  Louisa   (Hall)   Razvle: — 


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Charles  Rawle.  b.  at  Sunbury,  June  14.  1830,  d.  at  South  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  on  temporary 
visit  there,  Jan.  i/,  1891  ;  was  educated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  and  in  1859  located  at  "Fair- 
field," Lycoming  county.  Pa.     He  m.  Nov.  18,  1868,  Mary  Jeanne,  dau.  of  Oliver  Wat- 
son, of  Williamsport,  and  had  issue : 
James  Rawle,  b.   Sept.  6,    1869; 
William  Rawle,  b.  Oct.  10,  1871,  d.  March  3,  1873; 
Juliet  Rawle,  b.  April  4,  1874. 
Henry  Rawle,  b.  Aug.  21,  1833,  at  Freedom  Forge,  Mifflin  county.  Pa.;  was  some  years  a 
civil  engineer  under  J.   Edgar  Thompson,   in  constructing  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad ; 
became  Principal  Engineer  of  Western  Division  of  Sunbury  &  Erie  Railroad;  in  1859, 
engaged   in   iron  business   at   Sharon,   Mercer  county.   Pa. ;   later   established   the   Erie 
Rolling  Mills,  at  Erie,  Pa.;  was  Mayor  of  Erie,  1874- 1876;  was  elected  State  Treasurer 
of  Pennsylvania,  in   1875,  and  served  the  three  years  term   1876-7-8;   subsequently  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia,  spending  the  last  years  of  his  life  at  his  country  residence  at 
Villa  Nova,  and  at  "Fairfield,"  dying  at  Villa  Nova,  Dec.  7,  1899. 
He  m.  (first),  Dec.  20,  i860,  Harriet  G.,  dau.  of  Hon.  Charles  M.  Reed,  of  Erie;  she 
d.  Oct.  23,   1869;  and  he  m.    (second)    Encie    (Maynard)    Herdic;  by  his  first  wife  he 
had   issue : — 

Alice  Reed  Rawle,  b.  Feb.  24,  1862 ;  m.  April  25,  1883,  Henry  Laussat  Geyelin, 
of  the  Philadelphia  Bar;  they  reside  at  "Harwick,"  Villa  Nova,  Pa.;  and  have 
issue : — 

Henry   Rawle   Geyelin,  b.   May   12,    1884; 
Marion  Geyelin,  b.  Jan.  12,  1886; 
Antony  Laussat  Geyelin,  b.  Oct.  17,  1889; 
Alice   Beatrice   Geyelin,   b.   April    13,    1891  ; 
Harriet  Gertrude  Reed  Geyelin,  b.  Oct.   I,  1894; 
Emile  Camile  Geyelin,  b.  Jan.  6,  1896 ; 
Henry  Laussat  Geyelin,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  20,   1898; 
Estella  Antonette  Geyelin,  b.   July   18,   1901. 
Marion  Louisa  Rawle,  b.  May   10,   1865 ;  m.  Thomas  Patton,  of  New  York,  and 
they  reside  at  Villa  Nova,  Pa. 
William  Rawle,  b.  Jan.  21,  1835,  d.  March  1846; 

Emily  Rawle,  b.  April  10.  1838,  at  Freedom  Forge,  Mifflin  Co.,  Pa.,  m.  June  27,  1861,  Rev. 
Albra  Wadleigh,  then  Rector  of  the  Lutheran  Church  at  Muncy,  Pa.,  subsequently  of 
Christ  Church,  Williamsport,  Pa.,  and  St.  Luke's  Church,  Germantown,  Philadelphia, 
where  he  d.  May  25,  1873 ;  they  had  issue : — 
Francis   Rawle   Wadleigh; 
Edith  Wadleigh ; 
Athula  Blight  Wadleigh; 
Henry  Rawle  Wadleigh. 
Ann  Caroline  Rawle,  b.  March  1840,  d.  July  1844; 

James  Rawle,  b.  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Nov.  15,  1842;  graduated  at  L^niv.  of  Pa.,  A.  B.,  1861, 

and  A.   M.   1864 ;   was  civil  engineer  in  employ  of  Philadelphia  &  Erie  Railroad   Co., 

1862-1870;   removed  to   Philadelphia  in   1871,   and   following  year   became   member  of 

firm  of  J.   G.   Brill   &   Co.,  manufacturers  of   street   cars   in   that   city ;   taking   up   his 

residence    at    "Castlefinn,"    Delaware    county.    Pa.,    near    Bryn    Mawr,    where    he    has 

since  resided;  m.  Nov.  29,   1871,  Charlotte  Collins  dau.  of  Charles  Collins  Parker,  M. 

D.,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Zaccheus  Collins,  and  also  of  Robert  Coleman. 

James  Rawle  was  member  of  First  Troop,   Philadelphia   City  Cavalry,   with   rank  of 

First  Lieutenant,  resigning  after  twelve  years  service ;  he  became  president  in   1906  of 

the  J.   G.   Brill   Co.,   the  largest  concern  in  the  world  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 

street  cars;  he  had  issue: — 

Charles  Parker  Rawle,  b.  Oct.  8,  1872,  d.  Oct.  16,  1872; 

Francis  William  Rawle,  b.  Sept.  22,   1873 ;  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter, 
and  Williams  College,  Mass.,  and  received  degree  of  LL.B.  in   1898  from  both 
Harv.  and  Univ.  of   Pa. ;   was  admitted  to   Philadelphia   Bar,   and   is  associated 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  with  his  cousin  William  Brooke  Rawle,  in  the 
"Rawle    Law    Offices,"    established    in    1783.    M.    April    19,    1904,    Harriet    Weld 
Corning,  dau.  of  Erastus  Corning,  Esq.,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  they  have  issue  :— 
Francis  William  Rawle,  Jr.,  b.  March   16,   1905; 
Edward  Peace  Rawle,  b.  May  4,  1876 ; 
Edith   Rawle,  b.   August  31,    1878; 
Louisa  Rawle,  b.  July  30,  1879. 
Francis  Rawle,  b.  Aug.  7.  1846;  m.  Margaretta  C.  Aertsen;  of  whom  presently. 


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Francis  Rawle,  youngest  son  of  Francis  William  and  Louisa  (Hall)  Rawle, 
born  at  Freedom  Forge,  Mifflin  county,  Pennsylvania,  August  7,  1846,  entered 
Harvard  University,  and  graduated  with  honors,  class  of  1869.  The  same  year 
he  entered  the  office  of  his  cousin  William  Henry  Rawle,  of  Philadelphia,  as  a 
student-at-law,  spent  the  following  year  at  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1871,  and  November  11,  1871,  was  admitted  to  the 
Philadelphia  Bar,  where  he  has  since  practiced.  In  1883  and  again  in  1897  he 
edited  new  editions  of  Bouvier's  Law  Dictionary,  the  standard  work  of  its  kind, 
much  of  which  he  rewrote.  In  his  earlier  professional  life  he  wrote  various 
articles  for  legal  periodicals,  and  in  1885,  prepared  and  read  before  the  American 
Bar  Association  a  paper  on  "Car  Trust  Securities". 

In  1876  he  became  librarian  of  Library  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadel- 
phia, succeeding  John  William  Wallace,  James  T.  Mitchell,  now  Chief  Justice  of 
Pennsylvania,  Samuel  Dickson  and  George  Tucker  Bispham.  He  held  this 
position  until  1894,  building  up  the  library  into  a  foremost  place  among  law 
libraries.  In  1878,  at  the  organization  of  American  Bar  Association  at  Saratoga 
Springs,  he  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  Conference,  and  afterwards  Treasurer 
of  the  Association,  to  which  office  he  was  re-elected  every  year  thereafter  until 
1902,  when  he  became  president  of  the  Association,  for  the  year  1902-3,  an  office 
held  by  no  one  but  for  a  single  year.  During  these  twenty-five  years  of  service, 
and  an  additional  year,  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee.  He 
edited  and  prepared  the  annual  reports  of  the  Association  for  these  twenty-six 
years. 

In  1887,  he  was  a  delegate  from  the  American  Bar  Association  to  the  London 
Conference  of  the  Association  for  the  Reform  and  Codification  of  the  Laws 
of  Nations,  and  was  made  a  member  of  its  executive  committee.  In  1890,  and 
again  in  1896,  he  was  elected  Overseer  of  Harvard  University,  one  of  the  gov- 
erning boards,  serving  from  1900  to  1902.  In  1900,  he  attended  the  banquet 
given  by  the  English  Bar  to  the  American  Bar,  and  proposed  the  regular  Toast 
to  the  Bench  and  Bar  of  England. 

Francis  Rawle  married,  November  25,  1873,  Margaretta,  daughter  of  James 
M.  Aertsen,  and  his  wife  Harriet  Romeyn  Smith,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Smith 
and  granddaughter  of  Col.  Persifer  Frazer. 

Issue  of  Francis  and  Margaretta  {Aertsen)  Rawle: — 

James  Aertsen  Rawle,  b.  Aug.  29,  1874,  in  Philadelphia ;  d.  at  Bay  Head,  N.  J.,  Aug.  31, 
1893 ;  educated  at  Groton  School,  and  at  time  of  his  death  was  a  student  at  Harv., 
class  of  1899; 

Francis  Rawle,  b.  Feb.  19.  1876;  educated  at  Groton  School  and  Harv.  class  of  1900; 
now  residing  in  Philadelphia  ; 

Persifer  Frazer  Rawle,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  February  7,  1878,  d.  there,  Feb.  22,  1882 ; 

Russel  Davenport  Rawle,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Feb.  15,  1882,  d.  at  Cape  May  Point,  N.  J., 
Aug.  5,  1882: 

Henry  Rawle,  (bapt.  Harry  Romeyn  Rawle),  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Oct.  8,  1883;  educated  at 
Groton  School ;  in  1901  became  a  midshipman  in  class  of  1905,  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md. ;  graduated  there  Feb.  1905,  and  was  assigned  to  the  battle- 
ship "West  Virginia,"  afterwards  to  the  "Connecticut;"  resigned,  Aug.  1906,  and  en- 
tered upon  a  manufacturing  career  in  Philadelphia. 

Samuel  Rawle,  second  son  of  Francis  Rawle  of  Paramaribo,  Surinam,  South 
America,  by  his  wife  Margaret  Fickes,  an  account  of  whom  is  given  in  the  pre- 
ceding pages,  was  born  at  Paramaribo,  about  the  year  1736.    He  married  there, 


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but  the  name  of  his  wife  is  unknown  to  the  writer  of  these  lines.     He  had  two 
children,  Benjamin  and  Eleanor. 

Eleanor  R.\wle,  only  daughter  of  Samuel  Rawle,  married.  July  3,  1794, 
Anthony  Chardon,  of  French  extraction,  and  had  eight  children,  viz. : — 

Eleanor,  m.  George  A.  Bicknell.  of  Philadelphia,  and  had  two  daus. ; 

Hannah  Chardon ; 

Anthony  Chardon,   Jr. 

Fiancis  Augustus  Chardon.  b.  Nov.  6,  1800; 

Samuel  Rawle  Chardon.  b.  Sept.  4,  1802 ;  m.  March   19.   1823,  Eliza  Kelly,  dau.  of  John 

Kelly  of  Kelly's  Landing.   Salem  Co.,  N.  J.; 
Adelaide  Chardon,  b.  Aug.  8,   1807; 
George  William  Chardon,  b.  Feb.  3,  1810; 
Matilda  Chardon,  m.  Sept.  26,  1833,  William  G.  Heyl. 

George  A.  Hevl,  son  of  William  G.  and  Matilda  (Chardon)  Heyl,  m.,  Oct.  24, 
1861,  Kate  Thomas  Field,  and  had  issue: 

Juliet  Field  Heyl. 

Benjamin  Rawle  (son  of  Francis  Rawle  Junior  and  iMartha  Turner,  emi- 
grant), m.  Hannah,  dau.  of  William  Hudson  (3d)  of  Philadelphia  and  Jane 
Evans,  and  had  issue  as  follows : — 

Robert   Turner   Rawle.   d.   s.   p. ; 

William    Hudson    Rawle.    d.    inf.; 

Rebecca  Rawle,  m.  Jacob  Ridgway  of  Philadelphia.  Merchant,  and  had : — 

Susan  Ridgway,  m.   (first)   Thomas  Roach;   (second)   J.  Rhea  Barton  M.  D.   (his 

2d  wife)  ;  d.  s.  p. ; 
Phoebe  Ann  Ridgway,  m.  James  Rush,  M.  D. ;  d.  s.  p.,  1857 ; 
Benjamin  Ridgway,  d.  unm. ; 

John  Jacob  Ridgway  of  Paris.  France,  m.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Richard  Willing  of 
Philadelphia,  Merchant,  and  had  issue : — 

Emily  Ridg\vay  m.  Etienne,  Marquis  de  Ganay  of  France,  and  had  issue : — 
Marguerite  Elizabeth  de  Ganay,  m.  Arthur  O'Connor,  and  had  issue : — 
Brigitte   O'Connor ; 
Elizabeth    O'Connor. 
Charles  Anne  Jean  Ridgway  Marquis  de  Ganay  m.  Bertha  and  had  issue; 
Jacques  Andre  Comte  de  Ganay  m.  Mdlle  le  Marois ; 
Charlotte  Gabrielle  Madeleine  de  Ganay.  m.  Thierry  Prince  d'Henin; 
Gerard  de  Ganay  m.  Jeanne  Schneider ; 
Guillaume  Charles  de  Ganay. 
Charles  Henry  Ridgway,  m.  Ellen  Monroe,  and  has  issue : 
Richard  Willing  Ridg^vay ; 
Charles   Ridgway ; 
Daughter. 
Caroline  Ridgway.  d.  unm. 


BIDDLE  FAMILY 

William  Biddle,  pioneer  ancestor  of  the  Biddle  family  of  Philadelphia,  was 
born  near  London,  England,  about  1630,  left  that  city  July,  1681,  and  came  to 
New  Jersey.  He  is  said  to  have  been  an  officer  in  the  Parliamentary  army  during 
the  civil  war  of  England,  but  soon  after  its  close  joined  the  Society  of  Friends. 
His  name  appears  among  the  list  of  persons  imprisoned  by  Mayor  Brown,  1660-1, 
for  attending  "non-conformist"  meetings.  The  names  of  William,  Esther  and 
Thomas  Biddle  appear  on  another  list  of  Quakers  sent  to  Newgate  prison.  Esther 
Biddle,  possibly  his  mother,  an  eminent  Friend,  suffered  persecution  for  "Truth's 
sake"  at  various  periods ;  Thomas  Biddle  was  a  cousin  of  William  Biddle,  and 
either  accompanied  or  followed  him  to  New  Jersey  and  was  mentioned  in  his  will 
probated  1712,  and  has  descendants  in  New  Jersey.  William  Biddle  married,  at 
Bishopgate  street  Friends'  Meeting,  i2mo.  7,  1665,  Sarah  Kemp,  born  1634.  died 
in  New  Jersey,  2mo.  27,  1709,  in  her  seventy-fifth  year.  Their  children,  all  born 
at  London,  were  as  follows : — 

Elizabeth,  b.  June  25,  1668,  d.  in  childhood ; 

William,  b.   Dec.  4,   1669,  d.   Mount  Hope,   N.  J.,   1743,  m.,   1695,  Lydia  Wardell ;    of 

whom  presently; 
John,   b.   Dec.   27,   1670,   d.    in   childhood ; 
Joseph,  b.  Feb.  6,   1672,  d.  in  childhood ; 
Sarah,  b.  Dec.  2,   1678,  d.  Aug.  2,   1705,   Phila.,  Pa.,  m.    (first),  Oct.  21,   1695,  William 

Righton,  and  (second),  March  14,  1703,  Clement  Plumstead  of  Phila.     Left  no  issue. 

William  Biddle  (i),  purchased  January  23,  1676,  of  William  Penn,  Gawen 
Lawrie,  Nicholas  Lucas  and  Edward  Byllynge,  a  one-half  share  in  the  lands  of 
West  Jersey,  and  became  therefore  one  of  the  Proprietaries  of  that  Province. 
His  later  purchases,  as  shown  by  the  early  records  of  the  Province,  were  as  fol- 
lows:  April  I,  1677,  of  Thomas  Hutchinson  et  al.,  one-fourth  share.  April  29, 
1678,  of  Nicholas  Bell,  one-sixth  share.  August  8,  1684,  of  Joseph  Helmsley,  one- 
fourth  share.  August  21,  1684,  of  Samuel  Clay,  one-sixth  share.  May  20,  1686, 
of  Thomas  Hutchinson,  one- fourth  share.  November  10,  1691,  of  the  Exrs.  of 
Anna  Salter,  one-sixth  share.  Making  in  all  one  and  three-quarter  shares  of  the 
sixteen  shares  into  which  the  province  was  divided,  by  the  original  purchasers, 
entitling  him  to  43,000  acres. 

William  Biddle  and  his  family,  which  consisted  ef  his  wife  Sarah  and  two 
children,  William,  aged  eleven  years,  and  Sarah,  aged  two  and  a  half  years,  on 
their  arrival  in  New  Jersey,  probably  at  once  took  up  their  residence  at  the  site 
of  the  town  of  Burlington,  where  he  occupied  a  house  as  late  as  September  26, 
1682.  December  17,  1682,  there  was  surveyed  to  him  in  right  of  his  purchase,  by 
Thomas  Revell,  Surveyor  General,  the  island  called  "Sepasswick"  or  "Sepassinck", 
later  known  as  "Biddle's  Island",  in  the  Delaware,  "over  against  Burlington", 
containing  278  acres,  and,  January  16,  1681-2,  500  acres  on  the  Delaware,  "over 
against  Seppassinck  Island."  On  this  plantation,  which  he  named  "Mount  Hope", 
he  took  up  his  residence,  and  it  remained  the  home  of  his  descendants  for  many 
generations.    It  was  situated  about  midway  between  Burlington  and  Bordentown. 


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He  and  his  wife  were  prominent  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  Quar- 
terly Meetings  of  the  Society  were  held  at  his  house  at  "Mount  Hope."  He  was 
a  Justice  of  Burlington  County  from  1682  until  his  death ;  was  one  of  the  ten 
members  of  Governor's  Council,  1682,  re-elected  3mo.  15,  1683;  one  of  trustees 
selected  by  the  Proprietors  to  conduct  the  business  of  the  Proprietorship,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1687,  and  regularly  re-elected  thereafter,  serving  as  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  1706-7 :  Representative  in  General  Assembly  of  the  Province 
at  Perth  Amboy,  1703.  He  died  at  "Mount  Hope"  in  1712,  leaving  by  will  dated 
June  23,  171 1,  probated  March  3,  1711-12,  his  plantation  and  island  to  his  son 
WilHam  and  his  wife  Lydia  for  hfe,  then  to  their  children,  as  well  as  1,500  acres 
yet  to  be  taken  up  in  New  Jersey. 

William  Biddle,  only  surviving  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Kemp)  Biddle, 
was,  like  his  father,  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  West  Jersey;  he  was  appointed 
by  the  Council  of  Proprietors  on  November  2,  1703,  to  treat  with  the  Indians  for 
lands  above  the  Falls,  and  at  his  father's  death  inherited  12,905  acres  of  land  in 
the  Lotting  Purchase.  He  died  intestate  about  1743.  He  had  married,  about 
1695,  Lydia  Wardell,  granddaughter  of  Eliakim  Wardell.  who  purchased  lands  at 
Nevesink  of  the  Indians,  in  1666,  was  SheritT  of  Monmouth  county,  1683.  mem- 
ber of  House  of  Deputies,  1688,  and  member  General  Assembly.  1692 ;  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Wardell,  French  Huguenot,  who  settled  in  New  Eng- 
land about  the  middle  of  seventeenth  century.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Friends' 
Meeting  at  Shrewsbury. 

Issue  of  IVaiiain  and  Lydia  (Wardell)  Biddle: — 

William,  b.  about   1697,  d.   Phila.   1756,  m.  April  3,   1730,  Mary  Scull,  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 
Elizabeth ; 
Sarah ; 

Penelope,  m.  Whitehead; 

Joseph,  m.  (first),  Lydia  Howard;    (second),  Sarah  Rogers.    Remained  in  N.  J.; 
John,  b.  1707,  m.  March  3,  1736,  Sarah  Owen,  of  whom  later. 

William  Biddle,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Lydia  (Wardell)  Biddle  of 
"Mount  Hope",  New  Jersey,  with  his  youngest  brother  John,  removed  to  Phila- 
delphia prior  to  1730,  and  engaged  in  mercantile  business  there.  He  met  with 
many  reverses  financially,  mainly  through  endorsements  for  friends ;  and,  though 
inheriting  a  large  fortune,  lost  practically  all  of  it  prior  to  his  death.  1756.  He 
married,  April  3,  1730,  Mary,  born  Aug.  2,  1709,  died  May  9,  1789,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  Scull,  Surveyor  General  of  Pennsylvania,  by  his  wife,  Abigail  Heap. 

Nicholas  Scull  was  the  eldest  of  six  sons  of  Nicholas  Scull  who  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania in  the  ship  "Bristol  Merchant,"  arriving  at  Chester,  gmo.  10,  1685,  and  is 
supposed  to  have  been  a  native  of  Ireland.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  was 
Sir  John  Scull,  a  Norman,  one  of  twelve  Norman  knights  mentioned  in  Burke's 
"Landed  Gentry",  who  accompanied  Newmarch  into  North  Wales,  and  eventually 
conquered  that  country.  At  an  early  period  one  branch  of  the  family  located  in 
the  Southeastern  part  of  county  Cork,  Ireland,  and  gave  the  name  to  the  town 
and  parish  of  Scull,  from  whence  Nicholas  Scull  Sr.  is  supposed  to  have  accom- 
panied Major  Jasper  Farmer  to  Pennsylvania.  Nicholas  Scull,  the  Surveyor 
General,  was  born  near  Philadelphia,  1687.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  pupil  and 
assistant  to  Thomas  Holm,   Penn's  first   Surveyor  General.     He  was  at  least 


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engaged  in  surveying  the  wild  lands  on  the  frontiers  of  Pennsylvania  at  an  early 
date,  while  still  a  very  young  man,  and  by  frequent  contact  with  the  different 
Indian  tribes,  learned  the  language  of  a  number  of  them,  and  frequently  acted  as 
interpreter  and  messenger  in  the  early  treaties  negotiated  with  the  aborigines  by 
the  Governors  and  Council.  He  and  his  brother  John  Scull  were  deputed  by 
Council  to  deliver  match  coats  and  other  presents  to  the  Indians  at  Conestogo, 
and  officiated  as  interpreters  there  May  26,  1728.  In  1730,  he  was  directed  to 
proceed  to  the  Minnisinks,  in  the  present  limits  of  Monroe  county,  to  ascertain  the 
extent  and  condition  of  the  Holland  settlement  there  and  make  report  to  the 
Council.  He  participated  in  the  Indian  Walk  of  1737,  and  made  a  deposition  in 
reference  thereto  and  the  attitude  of  the  Indians  in  reference  to  it,  before  the 
Provincial  Council  twenty  years  later,  January  25,  1757.  He  was  elected  Sheriff 
of  Philadelphia,  1744,  and  re-commissioned  1745-6.  January  10,  1748,  he  suc- 
ceeded William  Parsons  as  Surveyor  General  of  the  Province  and  filled  that 
position  until  his  death,  1761.  A  large  number  of  his  surveys  are  on  file  in  the 
Archives  of  the  State,  and  he  executed  a  number  of  maps  of  the  new  country 
laid  out  by  him.  He  is  buried  in  the  family  burying  ground  near  Scheetz's  Mill, 
White  Marsh.  He  married,  1708,  Abigail  Heap,  who  died  May  21,  1753,  aged 
sixty-five  years.     They  had  issue : — 

Mary,  b.  Aug.  2,  1709,  d.  May  9,  1789,  m.  William  Biddle ; 

Nicholas,  b.  Oct.  26,  1711,  m.  Oct.  17,  1732,  Rebecca  Thompson; 

Elizabeth,  b.  April  2,   1714; 

Edward,  b.  Oct.  26,   1716,  lived  at  Reading,  Berks  county.  Pa.; 

Jasper,  b.  Dec.  3,  1718,  also  lived  at  Reading; 

John,  b.  Jan.  28,  1721,  d.  March  21,  1769; 

Abigail,  b.  Dec.  28,  1724,  m.  Biddle; 

Ann,  b.  Nov.  13,  1727 ; 
James,  b.  Nov.  22,  1730. 

Mary  Scull  Biddle,  left  a  widow  in  1756,  with  six  children,  the  youngest  not 
four  years  of  age,  and  without  any  fortune,  with  the  assistance  of  her  eldest  son 
James,  already  grown  to  manhood,  and  her  fourth  child,  Edward,  who  was 
eighteen  years  of  age  at  his  father's  death,  succeeded  in  educating  her  children 
in  a  manner  befitting  the  high  and  honorable  positions  they  were  destined  to  fill,  and 
lived  to  see  them  hold  positions  of  trust  and  honor  that  have  made  their  name  an 
honored  one  in  the  Commonwealth  which  they  aided  so  materially  in  founding. 
She  died  at  the  residence  of  her  son  James  Biddle  Esq.,  in  Philadelphia,  May  9, 
1789,  in  her  eighty-first  year. 

Issue  of  William  and  Mary  (Scull)  Biddle: — • 

James,  b.  Feb.  18,  1731,  d.  June  15,  1797,  m.  Frances  Marks; 
Nicholas,  b.  1733,  d.  inf.; 

Lydia,  b.  1734,  m.  Capt.  William  McFunn,  of  the  Royal  Navy; 
John,  b.  1736,  d.  in  Nova  Scotia,  m.  Sophia  Boone; 
Edward,  b.  1738,  d.  Sept.,  1779,  m.  Elizabeth  Ross; 
Charles,  b.  Dec.  24,  1745,  d.  1821,  m.  Hannah  Shepard; 
Abigail,   b.    1747,   d.    1765; 
Mary,  b.  1749,  d.  inf.; 

Nicholas,  b.  1750,  killed  at  loss  of  the  "Randolph,"  Feb.  1778;    of  whom  later; 
Thomas,  b.   1752,  removed  to  Georgetown,  S.   C. ;    studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Thomas 
Bond,  took  degree  of  M.  D.  at  the  university,  and  located  at  Georgetown,  S.  C. 


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James  Biddle,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Alary  (Scull)  Biddle,  born  February 
i8,  1/3 1,  studied  law  with  John  Ross  at  Philadelphia,  and  located  in  Reading, 
Berks  county,  practicing  law  in  the  counties  of  Berks,  Lancaster  and  Northamp- 
ton. Removed  to  Philadelphia  1750,  and  became  Deputy  Prothonotary,  and  later 
Deputy  Judge  of  Admiralty  Court.  In  December,  1776,  he  returned  to  Reading, 
and  took  up  the  practice  of  law.  In  1788,  was  commissioned  Prothonotary  of 
Philadelphia  Courts,  and  returned  to  that  city,  where  he  resided  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  He  was  commissioned  President  Judge  of  the  First  Judicial  District, 
1791.  and  filled  that  position  until  his  death,  June  15,  1797.  He  was  a  man  uni- 
versally loved  and  respected  by  all  with  whom  he  came  into  close  acquaintance. 
He  married,  June  30.  1753,  Frances  Marks,  and  had  issue: — 

Joseph,  lost  at  sea   1780; 

William,  lost  at  sea  in  1780; 

Marks  John,  b.  1765,  m.  1793,  Jane  Dundas; 

Lydia,  m.  James   Collins; 

Elizabeth,    m.    George    Eckert. 

Of  the  above  children,  Marks  John  Biddle  commenced  the  practice  of  law  at 
Reading,  Berks  county,  Pennsylvania,  1788,  and  became  a  prominent  lawyer  there, 
was  member  of  State  Senate  and  Prothonotary  of  the  county.  He  married  Jane 
Dundas,  1793,  and  they  had  issue: — 

James  Dundas  Biddle,  d.  1822.  m.   1815,  Frances  Wood ; 

Hannah   Biddle,  m.   first,  Jonathan   D.   Good,   and   second,  Abraham  Adams ; 

Frances   Dundas    Biddle,   m.    Joseph    Priestly ; 

Lydia  Biddle,  m.  Judge  David  F.  Gordon,  of  Berks  county; 

Elizabeth  Biddle,  m.  Edward  Anderson,  and  d.  1876; 

Jane   Dundas   Biddle,   d.   unm.    1849; 

Ann  Biddle,  d.  unm.   1882. 

Lydia  Biddle,  eldest  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Scull)  Biddle,  married, 
December  3,  1752,  Capt.  William  McFunn,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  and  later  Gover- 
nor of  the  Island  of  Antigua,  West  Indies.  He  died,  1767-8,  leaving  two  children  ; 
Mary,  who  married  Collison  Read  of  New  Jersey,  and  William,  who,  at  the  wish 
of  his  uncle  Edward  Biddle,  changed  his  name  after  the  death  of  his  father  to 
William  McFunn  Biddle.  He  married,  1797,  Lydia  Spencer,  who  removed  to 
Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  1827,  and  died  there  1858,  aged  ninety-two  years. 
Issue  of  IVilliain  McFunn  and  Lydia  (Spencer)  Biddle: — 

Lydia   Spencer   Biddle,   m.   Samuel    Baird: 
Valeria  Biddle,  m.   Charles  B.   Penrose; 
William  McFunn  Biddle,  Jr.,  m.  Julian  Montgomery; 
Mary  E.  D.  Biddle,  m.  Major  George  Blaney,  U.  S.  A.; 

Edward  Biddle,  m.  Julia  H.   Watts,  and  had  issue,  David  W.,  Lydia  Spencer,  Charles 
Penrose,  Frederick  W.,  Edward  W.,  and  William  McFunn. 

John  Biddle,  second  surviving  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Scull)  Biddle,  was 
Deputy  Quartermaster  in  the  Provincial  army,  in  Gen.  Forbes'  campaign  against 
Fort  Du  Quesne,  and  was  later  appointed  Collector  of  Excise  in  Berks  county. 
He  was  a  royalist  during  the  Revolution,  sought  refuge  with  the  British  Army 
at  New  York,  1777-8,  and  later  fled  to  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  died.     His  prop- 


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erty  in   Pennsylvania  was  confiscated.     His   family  returned  to   Berks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  after  his  death. 

Edward  Biddle,  third  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Scull)  Biddle,  entered  the 
Provincial  army  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  was  commissioned  Ensign  of  Lieut. 
Col.  Weiser's  company,  December  3,  1757,  promoted  to  Lieutenant  February  i, 
1759,  and  Captain  in  Col.  Hugh  Mercer's  Battalion  February  24,  1760.  He  was 
at  the  capture  of  both  Fort  DuQuesne  and  Fort  Niagara.  He  resigned  from  the 
army,  and  studying  law,  established  himself  at  Reading.  Was  member  of  Assem- 
bly 1767-75,  and  Speaker  of  the  House,  1774.  He  was  a  representative  from 
Berks  to  Provincial  Conventions  of  July  15,  1774;  January  23,  1775;  its  repre- 
sentative in  the  first  Continental  Congress ;  Member  of  Committee  of  Safety, 
June  30,  1775,  to  July  22,  1776,  and  again  a  representative  in  the  Assembly,  1778. 
An  accident  met  with,  January  23,  1775,  disabled  him  and  made  him  an  invalid  for 
life,  and  though  he  lived  for  nearly  five  years  later,  the  patriot  cause  was  deprived 
of  the  ardent  and  intelligent  service  he  had  rendered  it  at  the  outset.  He  died 
at  the  residence  of  his  daughter  Catharine,  wife  of  George  Lux,  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  September  5,  1779.  His  last  public  service  being  as  one  of  a  committee 
of  four  appointed  February  5,  1779,  to  bring  in  a  bill  for  abolishing  slavery  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  married,  1761,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Ross,  Esq.,  and 
they  had  issue  : — 

Catharine,  m.   George  Lux,  of  Baltimore ; 
Abigail,   m.   Dr.    Falls,   of   Maryland. 

Charles  Biddle,  fourth  surviving  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Scull)  Biddle, 
born  in  Philadelphia  December  24.  1745,  was  but  eleven  years  of  age  at  the 
death  of  his  father.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years  he  was  apprenticed  to  William 
Ball,  a  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  to  learn  the  mercantile  business,  but  left  there 
three  years  later  and  took  to  a  seafaring  life,  his  first  voyage  being  with  Capt. 
Robert  Grant,  with  whom  he  sailed  on  a  voyage  to  Spain,  May  10,  1763.  In  the 
spring  of  1764  he  was  appointed  second  mate  of  a  ship  built  for  his  brother-in-law 
Capt.  William  McFunn,  and  sailed  several  trips  under  him  to  the  West  Indies 
and  other  points.  In  June,  1767,  he  purchased  a  ship  with  the  assistance  of  his 
brother  James,  and  sailed  as  captain,  following  the  sea  in  that  capacity  until  May 
4,  1775.  When  it  became  evident  that  war  with  the  mother  country  was 
inevitable,  Capt.  Biddle  returned  to  Philadelphia,  determined  to  cast  his  lot  with 
his  country,  for  better  or  for  worse.  He  sailed  in  the  "Chance,"  with  Capt.  John 
Craig,  for  France,  for  a  cargo  of  ammunition  and  arms  for  the  use  of  the  patriot 
army,  but  returned  by  way  of  West  Indies  with  Capt.  Mason.  In  January,  1776, 
he  joined  Capt.  Cowpertwaite's  company  of  the  "Quaker  Light  Infantry,"  and 
when  Capt.  Cowpertwaite  ofifered  his  company  to  serve  as  marines  on  board  the 
barges  sent  down  the  river  to  capture  the  British  vessel  Roebuck  reported  to  be 
aground  on  the  Brandywine  shoals ;  though  his  oflfer  was  not  accepted,  Capt. 
Biddle  and  several  others,  learning  that  men  were  needed  "before  the  mast" 
volunteered  for  that  service  and  accompanied  the  expedition  as  ordinary  seamen. 
In  August,  1776,  he  went  out  with  the  "Quaker  Light  Infantry",  marching  with 
them  to  New  Brunswick  as  acting  sergeant,  and  receiving  intelligence  from  Gen. 
Mercer  that  an  attack  was  to  be  made  on  the  Hessians  on  Staten  Island,  they 
marched  to  Elizabethtown  Point  to  participate  in  the  attack.    A  storm  prevented 


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the  attack,  and  the  balance  of  the  term  of  their  enHstment  was  spent  with  the 
"Flying  Camp"'  at  the  Point.  Returning  to  Philadelphia,  he  sailed  in  the  "Grey- 
hound," for  Port  au  Prince,  but  was  taken  with  all  on  board  by  the  "Antelope" 
and  held  prisoner  several  months.  Finally  effecting  his  escape  to  Jamaica,  he 
assisted  in  fitting  out  a  brig,  loaded  with  sah  for  Nicola  Mole,  where  he  remained 
some  time  and  then  purchased  a  half  interest  in  a  vessel  called  "The  Three 
Sisters,"  with  Bristol  Brown  of  Virginia,  and  sailed  with  her  to  North  Carolina, 
landing  at  Beaufort,  where  he  met  for  the  first  time  his  future  wife  Hannah 
Shepard.  Loading  the  vessel  for  return  to  Brown,  at  the  Mole,  he  set  out  for 
Philadelphia  by  way  of  Portsmouth  and  Baltimore,  arriving  at  Philadelphia,  June, 
1777,  and  finding  his  mother  and  family  had  removed  to  Reading,  visited  them 
there.  On  July  i,  1777,  he  set  off  again  for  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  to  visit 
his  brother  Nicholas,  in  command  of  the  unfortunate  "Randolph," '  in  which 
he  lost  his  life  some  months  later.  After  spending  some  time  with 
his  brother  he  went  to  Beaufort  to  rejoin  the  "Three  Sisters,"  but,  learning 
that  she  had  been  captured  by  the  British,  returned  to  Philadelphia.  He  was  at 
Baltimore  when  the  British  fleet  appeared  in  the  bay  on  its  way  to  Philadelphia. 
After  a  short  time  spent  in  Reading  he  returned  to  Philadelphia,  and  entered  on 
board  an  armed  brig,  and  after  the  battle  of  Brandywine,  sailed  up  the  Delaware 
with  a  large  number  of  fugitives  from  Philadelphia  on  board,  and  lay  for  some 
time  near  Bordentown.  The  day  after  the  battle  of  Germantown  he  again  went 
to  Reading  and  after  two  days  spent  with  the  army,  went  to  Charleston,  and  was 
appointed  to  the  command  of  the  "Volunteer",  which  was  to  sail  with  the  "Ran- 
dolph", under  the  command  of  his  brother  Nicholas,  to  attack  two  British  frigates 
off  the  bar.  Delay  in  manning  the  "Volunteer"  induced  him  to  volunteer  on  board 
the  "Randolph"  for  the  expedition,  but  the  frigates  having  sailed  away  before 
the  expedition  got  started,  Charles  Biddle  returned  to  Newbern  to  take  command 
of  a  vessel  called  the  "Cornelia,"  then  being  fitted  out.  While  manning  the 
"Cornelia"  and  drilling  the  men  for  service  on  her,  he  heard  of  the  loss  of  the 
"Randolph"  and  the  death  of  his  distinguished  brother  Nicholas.  Sailed  with  the 
"Cornelia",  September,  1778,  and  returned  to  Beaufort  with  her  November,  1778. 
Was  married  there,  November  25.  1778,  to  Hannah  Shepard,  and  made  his  home 
at  Newbern  and  Beaufort  until  June  i,  1780,  his  eldest  son  Nicholas,  who  died  in 
infancy,  being  born  there  October,   1779.     He  made  one  trip  to  sea  in  August. 

1779,  but  the  greater  part  of  a  year  and  a  half  was  spent  at  Newbern,  where  he 
took  an  active  part  in  the  organization  of  the  militia  for  defense  of  the  coast  and 
in  the  erection  of  fortifications.  He  was  elected  to  General  Assembly  of  North 
Carolina  and  took  an  active  part  in  that  body.     He  left  Newbern  on  June   i, 

1780,  for  Philadelphia,  intending  to  return  in  five  or  six  months,  but  remained  in 
Pennsylvania  the  remainder  of  his  life.  After  spending  the  summer  at  Reading, 
he  went  to  sea  again  on  November  15,  1781,  with  his  old  shipmate  Capt.  Decatur, 
but  was  captured,  off  the  capes  of  Virginia,  by  the  British  brig  "Chatham,"  and 
being  exchanged  soon  after,  returned  to  Philadelphia,  January  31,  1782.  The 
next  two  years  were  occupied  with  various  sea  ventures,  and  in  October,  1784, 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  Supreme  Executive  Council,  and  a  year  later  was 
elected  Vice-president  of  the  Council,  and  Benjamin  Franklin,  then  just  returned 
from  F"rance,  was  elected  president,  but,  seldom  attending,  Capt.  Biddle  was 
during  the  next  two  years,  for  the  greater  part  of  the  time,  presiding  officer  of 


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the  Council  and  therefore  acting  chief  executive  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 
During  the  second  year  of  this  service  he  met  with  an  injury,  and  not  being  able 
to  leave  his  house,  the  Council  met  at  his  home.  In  October,  1787,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  Berks  county,  but  being  appointed  October  23, 
1787,  Clerk  of  Supreme  Executive  Council,  resigned  from  the  Legislature  without 
taking  his  seat,  and  served  as  clerk  of  Council  until  that  body  ceased  to  exist 
under  the  new  Constitution.  On  February  i,  1791,  he  was  commissioned  Pro- 
thonotary  of  Common  Pleas  Court  of  Philadelphia,  succeeding  his  brother  James, 
who  was  then  made  President  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  Court.  Capt.  Biddle 
served  as  Prothonotary  until  1809,  the  following  year  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  State  Senate  and  served  several  terms.  He  was  appointed  by  the  President 
in  1812  to  sign  the  treasury  notes  issued  by  the  government.  He  was  a  member 
of  State  Board  of  Property,  1784-6,  and  Vice-president  of  the  board  the  latter 
year.  He  was  an  original  member  of  Society  of  Cincinnati,  and  was  its  treasurer 
in  iSii.  He  was  elected  a  director  of  Bank  of  Pennsylvania,  1793,  and  served 
many  years.  In  1799,  during  the  French  agitation,  he  assisted  in  organization  of 
a  militia  company  for  preservation  of  order  at  home,  and  took  an  active  part  in  all 
matters  pertaining  to  the  best  interests  of  the  city.  Capt.  Charles  Biddle  was  an 
intimate  friend  of  Col.  Aaron  Burr,  and  while  the  Colonel  was  under  a  cloud 
by  reason  of  the  killing  of  Alexander  Hamilton  in  a  duel,  he  spent  some  time 
at  the  house  of  Capt.  Biddle,  in  Philadelphia.  Burr  made  an  effort  to  interest 
Capt.  Biddle  in  his  Mississippi  enterprise,  but  failed,  though  Capt.  Biddle  always 
believed  in  the  sincerity  of  his  motives.  He  died  at  his  home  on  Chestnut 
street  near  Eleventh,  April  4,  182 1,  and  was  buried  at  Christ  Church. 
Issue  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Shepard)  Biddle: — 

Nicholas,  b.   Newbern,   N.   C,  Oct.   1779,  d.  inf.; 

William  Shepard  Biddle,  b.  Philadelphia  Feb,  21,  1781,  d.  May  30,  1835,  m.  first,  Circe 
Deroneray,  and  second,  Elizabeth  B.  Keating,  nee  Hopkinson.  Graduated  univ.  of  Pa. 
1797.     Prominent  lawyer  of  Phila. 

James  Biddle,  b.  Feb.  18,  1783,  d.  unm.  October  1848;  of  whom  later. 

Edward  Biddle,  b.  1784,  appointed  midshipman  U.  S.  N.,  Feb.  14,  1800;  d.  on  Frigate 
"President,"  Nov.   14,   i8oo. 

Nicholas,  b.  January  8,  1786,  d.  1844.  m.  Jane  Craig,  of  whom  presently; 

Charles,  b.  1787,  d.  1836;  business  man  in  Phila.  until  1826;  admitted  to  bar  at  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  1827.  Sent  to  Isthmus  of  Panama  by  Pres.  Jackson,  1835,  to  report  on 
feasible  route  for  railroad  and  canal  across  isthmus,  and  obtained  concessions  for 
former.  M.  1808,  Anna  H.  Stokes.  Son  James  S.  Biddle,  entered  U.  S.  N.  as 
midshipman,  Dec.  18,  1833;  passed  midshipman.  July  2,  1839;  Lieut.  Aug.  29,  1834; 
resigned  Sept.  25,  1856,  m.  Meta  Craig  Biddle,  dau.  of  his  uncle  Nicholas  Biddle ; 

A  dau.  b.  1788,  d.  1789,  at  age  of  15  months. 

Thomas,  b.  1790,  commissioned  Capt.  Infantry,  April  9.  1812;  under  Col.  Zebulon  Pike; 
transferred  to  2d  Artillery  July  6,  1812;  Corps  Artillery,  May  12,  1814,  wounded  at 
Lundy's  Lane  and  Fort  Erie,  and  breveted  Major  for  gallant  and  meritorious  ser- 
vice, Aug.  15,  1814;  transferred  to  Rifle  Regiment,  Jan.  7,  1820;  coqimissioned  Major 
P.  M.  Aug.  7,  1820;  killed  in  duel  with  Spencer  Pettis,  M.  C,  Aug.  29,  1831.  M.  Ann 
Mullanphy  ;  no  issue  ; 

John,  b.  1792,  d.  Aug.  21,  1859,  at  Detroit,  Michigan.  Commissioned  2d  Lieut.  3rd 
Artillery,  U.  S.  A..  July  6,  1812;  ist  Lieut.  March  13.  1813;  transferred  to  Corps  Artil- 
lery, May  17,  1815;  Major,  A.  I.  G.,  June  18,  1817.  disbanded  June  i,  1821.  Delegate 
to  Congress  from  Michigan,  1829-31  :  president  of  convention  which  adopted  first 
constitution  of  State.  M.  Eliza  Bradish  and  had  Margaretta,  wife  Gen.  Andrew  Por- 
ter, U.  S.  A. ;  William,  James,  and  Edward  J.  Biddle. 

Richard,  b.  1796,  d.  Pittsburg.  1847,  m.  Ann  Anderson.  Eminent  member  Pittsburg  Bar ; 
member  of  Congress,   1837-41  ;  author  of  "Life  of  Sebastian  Cabot." 


i68  BIDDLE 

Nicholas  Biddle,  fourth  surviving  son  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Shepard) 
Biddle,  born  at  Philadelphia  January  8,  1786,  was  of  much  more  than  ordinary 
intellectual  ability.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  years  he  had  completed  a  course  of 
study  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  entered  Princeton  University,  where 
he  took  his  degree  in  his  fifteenth  year,  dividing  first  honors  with  a  much  older 
class-mate.  He  studied  law  in  Philadelphia  three  years  and  being  too  young  to 
gain  admission  to  the  Bar,  went,  in  1804,  to  Europe  as  secretary  to  Gen.  Arm- 
strong, United  States  Minister  to  Court  of  France,  and  was  present  at  the  corona- 
tion of  Napoleon  at  Paris.  He  attended  to  the  details  of  the  Louisiana  purchase 
and  later,  leaving  the  legation,  traveled  through  the  greater  part  of  Europe, 
adding  to  his  classical  accomplishments  a  thorough  mastery  of  the  modern  lan- 
guages of  Europe.  Arriving  in  England,  he  became  secretary  to  James  Monroe, 
then  Minister  at  London,  and  remained  there  until  1807,  when  he  returned  to 
Philadelphia  and  took  up  the  practice  of  law.  He  also  devoted  considerable  time 
to  literary  pursuits,  becoming  associated  with  Joseph  Dennie  in  the  editorship  of 
the  Portfolio,  181 1,  and  writing  a  number  of  critical  essays,  biographies,  essays 
on  the  fine  arts,  and  occasional  verses ;  among  his  poetical  productions  being  "An 
Ode  to  Bogle",  the  subject  of  which  was  an  eccentric  waiter  and  undertaker  of 
Philadelphia.  He  prepared  the  original  journal  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  expedi- 
tion, from  narrative  and  notes  of  the  eminent  explorers.  He  was  elected  to  Penn- 
sylvania Legislature,  1810,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  legislation  of  that  ses- 
sion. He  declined  a  re-election  in  the  following  year,  married  Jane,  daughter  of 
Capt.  John  Craig,  and  took  up  his  country  residence  in  Bucks  county  on  land 
inherited  by  his  wife,  which  he  named  Andalusia,  though  also  maintaining  a  city 
residence.  He  was  elected  to  State  Senate  during  second  war  with  England, 
gave  zealous  and  prompt  support  to  measures  for  carrying  the  war  to  a  successful 
issue,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest  advocates  of  popular  education.  He  prepared 
the  reply  to  the  address  of  the  Hartford  Convention,  his  elaborate  report,  adopted 
by  the  Legislature,  being  one  of  the  State  papers  that  have  attracted  universal 
attention.  He  was  a  candidate  of  the  Democratic  party  for  Congress.  1818-20, 
but  was  defeated  at  the  polls.  In  1819,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Monroe 
a  government  director  of  Bank  of  the  United  States,  was  elected  its  president  in 
1823,  and  took  a  very  prominent  part  in  its  affairs  until  it  was  closed  in  1836,  by 
President  Jackson's  refusal  to  renew  the  charter.  He  was  the  first  president  of 
its  successor,  chartered  by  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  called  United  States  Bank, 
and  served  until  1839,  when  he  resigned,  and  retired  to  his  country  seat  at 
Andalusia.  He  was  also  appointed  by  President  Monroe  under  an  Act  of  Con- 
gress, to  collate  the  laws  of  foreign  countries  in  reference  to  commerce,  money, 
weights  and  measures,  etc.,  and  prepared  an  octavo  volume  known  as  the  "Com- 
mercial Digest."  In  matters  of  internal  improvement  and  commerce  he  was  one 
of  the  most  far-seeing  statesmen  of  his  age.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  agricul- 
ture and  horticulture,  after  locating  at  his  country  seat  "Andalusia"  in  Bensalem 
township,  Bucks  county,  on  the  banks  of  the  Delaware,  which  was  his  permanent 
residence  from  1821  until  his  death.  He  was  president  of  Agricultural  Society 
of  Philadelphia  many  years,  and  devoted  much  attention  to  the  improvement  of 
the  country  residence  inherited  by  his  wife,  improving  the  fine  old  Colonial  man- 
sion, and  embellishing  the  extensive  grounds  surrounding  it  by  the  propogation 
of  rare  plants  and  trees.     He  was  first  to  introduce  the  breeding  of  .Alderiiey 


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cattle,  and  greatly  encouraged  the  cultivation  of  the  grape,  then  a  new  industry  in 
Pennsylvania.  Here  in  his  beautiful  country  retreat,  Nicholas  Biddle  courted  the 
muse,  cultivated  his  fine  literary  tastes,  and  gave  much  attention  to  the  encourage- 
ment of  commerce  and  of  internal  improvements.  Brilliant  in  his  conception  of 
ideas  for  the  improvement  and  elevation  of  his  race,  and  fearless  in  their  advocacy, 
he  left  his  impress  on  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  Charles  J.  Ingersoll,  his 
political  opponent,  says  of  him,  "Nicholas  Biddle  was  as  iron-nerved  as  his  great 
antagonist.  Andrew  Jackson,  loved  his  country  not  less — and  money  as  little." 
One  of  his  favorite  hobbies  was  Greek  architecture,  and  he  is  quoted  as  saying 
that  there  were  "but  two  truths  in  this  world,  the  Bible  and  Greek  architecture." 
He  added  to  the  "Andalusia"  mansion  the  beautiful  Doric  portico  that  still  adorns 
it,  and  his  influence  was  exerted  for  the  adoption  of  that  style  for  public  buildings, 
and  Girard  College,  modelled  after  "Andalusia",  is  a  sample  of  his  efforts.  His 
ideas  on  many  subjects,  were  far  in  advance  of  his  age,  and  were  not  fully  appre- 
ciated during  his  life  time.  Gov.  Packer  later  wrote  of  him:  "Whatever  may  be 
said  of  Nicholas  Biddle  as  a  politician,  or  a  financier,  all  agree  that  on  questions 
of  internal  improvement  and  commerce  he  was  one  of  the  most  sagacious  and  far- 
seeing  statesmen  of  the  Union.  His  fault  was,  if  fault  it  be,  that  he  was  twenty 
years  in  advance  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived." 

Nicholas  Biddle  died  at  Andalusia  February  27,  1844,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight 
years.     His  wife  survived  him. 

Issue  of  Nicholas  and  Jane  (Craig)  Biddle: — 

Edward   Biddle,  m.  Jane   M.    (Sarmiento)    Craig,  and   had   issue: — 

Edith   Biddle,   m.   Van   Rensselaer; 

Frances  Biddle ; 

Agnes  Biddle,  m.  Ward ; 

Edward   Biddle,  m.   Emily   Drexel ; 
Mildred  Biddle. 
Charles  John  Biddle.  d.  Sept.  28,  1873 ;    commissioned  Captain  in  the  U.  S.  A.  Feb.  16, 
1847;    served  with  distinction  during  the  Mexican  War,  being  made  Major  by  brevet, 
Sept.  13,  1847,  "for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  at  the  storming  of  Chapultepec". 
His  regiment  was  disbanded   Aug.  29.   1848.     He   was  commissioned  Colonel  of   13th 
Regiment,  United  States  Volunteers,  June  21,   1861.  but  resigned  his  commission  Dec. 
II,  1861,  having  been  elected  to  the  United  States  Congress,  in  which  he  served  one 
term.     M.  Emma  Mather,  of  a  prominent  Phila.  county  family,  and  they  had  issue : 
Emma   Biddle,  m.   Thomas   F.   Dixon ; 
Charles  Biddle,  m.  Letitia  Glenn ; 

John  Craig  Biddle,  m.   Delia  Sturgess,  and  had  one  dau.,  Delia  Biddle; 
Adele  Biddle,  b.  June  15,  1864;    m.  April  23,  1884,  Samuel  H.  Thomas,  of  Phila., 

b.    1853; 
Dillon  Biddle; 

Alexander  Mercer  Biddle,  m.  Harriet  Fox,  and  had  issue : — 
Harriet  Biddle; 
Mercer   Biddle; 
Sydney  Biddle; 
Katharine  Biddle. 
Hon.  Craig  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  10,  1823;    of  whom  presently; 

Meta  Craig  Biddle,  m.  her  cousin,  Capt.  James  S.  Biddle,  of  the  U.  S.  N..  son  of 
Charles  Biddle,  (1787-1836),  brother  of  Nicholas,  by  his  wife  Anna  H.  Stokes.  They 
had  issue : — 

Jane   Craig  Biddle; 
Nicholas   Biddle;    m.   Eliza   I.   Butler. 
Adele  Biddle; 
Jane   Biddle. 


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Hon.  Craig  Biddle,  youngest  son  of  Nicholas  Biddle  by  his  wife  Jane  Craig, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia  January  lo,  1823.  He  received  his  preliminary  educa- 
tion under  private  tutors  and  entered  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton 
University,  from  which  he  graduated  with  degree  of  A.  J\l.,  1841,  and 
from  which  institution  he  later  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D. 
He  studied  law  in  Philadelphia,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  1844,  and 
practiced  in  that  city  until  his  elevation  to  the  bench,  1875.  As  a  lawyer  he  was 
conservative  and  unostentatious,  and  he  enjoyed  the  reputation  of  a  safe  and 
learned  counsellor,  and  a  logical  and  successful  advocate.  He  took  little  part 
in  public  affairs  in  early  life,  serving  one  term  in  General  Assembly,  1849.  -*^t 
the  outbreak  of  hostilities,  between  the  States  in  1861,  he  entered  the  service  as 
a  member  of  the  staff  of  Gen.  Robert  Patterson,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and 
served  with  him  in  the  Shenandoah  campaign  of  1861.  He  was  later  a  member  of 
the  staff  of  Gov.  Andrew  G.  Curtin.  assisting  in  the  organization  of  new  regi- 
ments, and  1863,  when  Pennsylvania  was  threatened  with  invasion  by  Lee's  army, 
he  went  out  in  an  Emergency  Company  for  State  defence,  as  a  private. 

In  1875,  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  Common  Pleas  Court  of  Philadelphia,  to 
fill  a  vacancy,  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  was  nominated  and  elected  to  the  same 
position  for  the  full  term  of  ten  years,  and  was  unanimously  re-elected  in  1885, 
and  1895,  filling  the  position  of  presiding  Judge  of  that  Court  until  his  resigna- 
tion in  1907,  to  accept  the  position  of  Prothonotary  of  Courts  of  Philadelphia, 
which  position  he  still  fills.  Judge  Biddle,  like  his  distinguished  father,  served  many 
years  as  President  of  the  Philadelphia  Agricultural  Society,  and  took  active  inter- 
est in  its  proceedings.  He  has  been  many  years  one  of  the  active  members  of  His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania,  of  which  he  is  vice-president,  and  has  been  the 
vice-president  of  the  Princeton  Club  several  years,  and  President  of  the  Ritten- 
house  Club  since  1891. 

Capt.  Nicholas  Biddle,  ninth  child,  and  fifth  surviving  son,  of  William  Bid- 
dle (who  came  to  Philadelphia  from  New  Jersey  1730,  and  died  there  1756)  by 
his  wife  Mary  Scull,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  September  10,  1750,  and  was 
therefore  but  six  years  of  age  at  the  death  of  his  father.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
years  he  shipped  on  board  a  trading  vessel  at  Philadelphia,  and  thereafter  fol- 
lowed the  sea,  until  his  tragic  death  in  the  service  of  his  country,  on  the  "Ran- 
dolph", March  7,  1778.  After  several  voyages  on  trading  vessels  sailing  from 
the  port  of  Philadelphia,  then  one  of  the  most  important  maritime  ports  in  the 
Colonies;  and  after  being  several  times  shipwrecked,  young  Biddle  went  to  Eng- 
land and  became  a  midshipman  on  board  a  British  Sloop-of-war.  commanded 
by  Capt.,  afterwards  Admiral,  Sterling;  and  subsequently  was  transferred  to  a 
vessel  in  the  command  of  the  Hon.  Capt.  Phipps.  which  was  sent  northward, 
where  he  first  met  Horatio  Nelson,  a  volunteer  like  himself:  and  both  were 
made  coxswain,   1773. 

When  an  armed  conflict  between  the  mother  country  and  the  American  Col- 
onies became  imminent,  in  1775,  Nicholas  Biddle  returned  to  Philadelphia  with 
the  determination  to  enter  the  service  and  share  the  fortunes  of  his  native 
country  in  weal  or  woe.  He  was  placed  in  command  of  a  galley  called  the 
"Franklin,"  one  of  the  first  armed  vessels  fitted  out  by  the  sub-committee  of  the 
Committee  of  Safety,  viz..  Owen  Biddle,  (first  cousin  of  Capt.  Nicholas)  and 
Robert  White ;    for  the  defense  of  the  Delaware.   He  was  commissioned  Captain 


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of  the  "Franklin",  August  i,  1775.  Service  in  this  fleet  proving  too  monotonous 
for  Capt.  Biddle,  he  resigned  December  9,  1775,  and  two  weeks  later,  was 
appointed,  by  resolution  of  Congress,  Captain  of  the  "Andrea  Doria",  a  little  brig 
of  fourteen  guns,  and  with  the  squadron  of  Commodore  Hopkins,  sailed  from  Del- 
aware Bay,  February  17,  1776,  on  an  expedition  against  New  Providence.  Capt. 
Biddle  at  once  showed  special  valor  and  skill  in  the  command  of  his  vessel,  the  lit- 
tle brig  succeeding  in  capturing  two  armed  transports  loaded  with  soldiers,  and 
made  so  many  prizes  of  merchant  ships,  that  he  returned  to  the  Delaware  with 
but  five  of  his  original  crew,  the  others  having  been  put  in  charge  of  the  prizes 
captured,  and  their  places  filled  from  the  crews  of  the  captured  vessels.  Capt. 
Biddle  was  made  captain  of  the  "Randolph,"  sailed  with  that  vessel  for  the 
Carolina  coast,  February  1777,  and  remained  in  that  vicinity  in  charge  of  the 
naval  operations  there,  until  the  "Randolph"  was  blown  up  in  an  attack  on  the 
British  ship  "Yarmouth"  March  7,   1778. 

Capt.  Biddle  was  an  able  and  intrepid  commander  and  a  skilled  navigator,  and 
would  have  inevitably  attained  high  rank  had  he  been  spared.  He  died  single, 
having,  at  the  time  of  his  tragic  death,  been  engaged  to  marry  a  lady  of  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina.  His  naval  career,  though  short,  was  very  brilliant,  and  his 
services  were  highly  appreciated  by  Congress. 

Commodore  James  Biddle,  another  naval  hero  of  the  Biddle  family  of  Phila- 
delphia, was  a  nephew  of  Capt.  Nicholas,  being  the  second  surviving  son  of  Hon. 
Charles  Biddle  by  his  wife  Hannah  Shepard.  He  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1783,  and  left  University  of  Pennsylvania  to  accept  appointment  of 
midshipman,  with  his  brother  Edward,  under  Commodore  Truxton,  Septem- 
ber 1800.  He  went  to  the  Mediterranean  under  Commodore  Murray,  1802,  in 
the  "Constitution",  and  was  later  transferred  to  the  "Philadelphia",  Capt.  Bain- 
bridge,  which  on  October  31,  1803,  ran  upon  a  bar  on  the  coast  of  Tripoli,  and 
all  on  board  were  captured  by  the  Moors,  and  held  in  captivity  until  January, 
1805.  He  was  made  First  Lieutenant  of  the  "Wasp",  Capt.  Jacob  Jones,  and 
October  18,  1812,  led  the  boarders  from  that  vessel  when  she  captured  the 
"Frolic",  and  received  medal  from  Congress  for  his  gallant  services  and  a  sword 
from  his  native  State,  and  was  promoted  to  Master  Commandant,  and  placed  in 
charge  of  a  flotilla  of  boats  to  defend  the  Delaware,  and  later  to  the  command 
of  the  "Hornet",  with  which  he  became  blockaded  at  New  London,  and  was 
ordered  to  dismantle  his  ship,  to  avoid  capture;  he,  however,  begged  permission 
to  run  the  blockade  and  succeeded  in  doing  so  on  November  18,  1814. 

He  joined  the  East  India  Squadron,  March  22,  1815,  and  in  the  capture  of  the 
"Penguim",  in  a  battle  fought  after  the  treaty  of  peace  was  signed,  was  treacher- 
ously shot  in  the  neck  by  the  British  crew  after  they  had  offered  to  surrender. 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  the  United  States  and  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Captain,  and  at  three  different  periods  held  commands  in  South 
American  waters.  In  1817  he  took  possession  of  the  newly  acquired  territory 
of  Oregon.  In  1826  he  signed  the  commercial  treaty  with  Turkey.  1838- 1842, 
he  held  the  position  of  Governor  of  the  Naval  Asylum  at  Philadelphia.  In  1845, 
he  commanded  the  East  India  squadron,  and  exchanged  the  ratifications  of  the 
first  treaty  with  China,  as  United  States  Commissioner  to  that  country.  During 
the  Mexican  War  he  took  command  of  the  Pacific  naval  force,  having  long  since 


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been   promoted   to  the   rank   of   Commodore.      He   returned   to   Philadelphia   in 
March,   1848,  and  died  there  October  i,   1848.     He  was  never  married. 

John  Biddle,  son  of  William  and  Lydia  (Wardell)  Biddle,  born  at  the  ances- 
tral home  of  the  family,  "Monnt  Hope",  New  Jersey,  1707,  left  there  with  his 
brother  William,  (whose  descendants  are  traced  in  the  preceding  pages),  in  1730, 
and  located  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  a  successful  business  man  many  years. 
He  married,  March  3,  1736,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Owen  Owen,  a  wealthy  farmer  in 
the  present  limits  of  Montgomery  county,  a  descendant  of  the  family  of  Owen  of 
Dolly  Sene,  Wales,  one  of  the  most  ancient  in  Great  Britain,  whose  ancestry  and 
descendants  of  the  name  are  noted  in  another  part  of  this  volume. 
Issue  of  John  and  Sarah  (Owen)  Biddle: — 

Owen,  b.  in  Phila.  in  1737,  d.  March  10,  1799.  m.  Sept.  29.  1760.  Sarah  Parke;  of 
whom  presently ; 

Clement,  b.  Phila.,  May  10,  1740,  d.  July  14,  1814.  m.  (first)  Mary  Richardson,  and  (sec- 
ond)  Rebecca  Cornell :  of  whom  later ; 

Ann,  m.  Gen.  James  Wilkinson,  U.  S.  A. ; 

Sarah,  m.   (first)  James  Penrose;   (second)  John  Shaw;   (third)   Rudolph  Tellier ; 

Lydia,  m.  Dr.  James  Hutchinson,  b.  Bucks  county ;  Surgeon  in  Revolutionary  War  and 
later  distinguished  physician  in  Phila. 

OwEX  Biddle,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Sarah  (Owen)  Biddle.  born  at  the  old 
Biddle  residence.  Market  street,  1737.  on  arriving  at  manhood  engaged  in  the 
clock  and  watch-making  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  later  entered  into  the  ship- 
ping and  importing  business  with  his  brother  Clement.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
scholastic  attainments.  He  joined  early  in  life  the  "Junto",  which  was  a  continu- 
ation of  the  literary  circle  founded  by  Dr.  Franklin,  and,  1763,  was  appointed 
with  Isaac  Paschall  to  revise  the  laws  of  the  society,  which  then  adopted  the  name 
of  the  "American  Society  for  the  Promoting  and  Propogation  of  Useful  Knowl- 
edge", which  fused  with  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  1768.  and  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  members,  among  whom  were  his  brother 
Clement  Biddle,  Edmund  Physick,  Isaac  and  Moses  Bertram,  Nicholas  Wain,  and 
David  Rittenhouse.  At  the  time  of  the  transit  of  Venus,  June  3,  1769,  Owen 
Biddle  was  assigned  to  the  observatory  at  Cape  Henlopen,  and  his  observations 
were  favorably  commented  upon  by  the  most  noted  astronomers  of  Europe  and 
America.  He  also  conducted  observations  of  the  eclipse  of  the  sun,  June  24, 
1778.  He  was  elected  one  of  the  curators  of  the  Philosophical  Society.  January  5, 
1770:  one  of  its  secretaries.  January  i,  1773;  delivered  the  annual  oration.  March 
2,  1 78 1,  and  was  elected  one  of  the  councillors,  January  4.  1782.  He  was  an  original 
member  of  the  Company  for  Encouraging  the  Culture  of  Silk  in  America.  1770- 

He  was  from  the  first  an  ardent  patriot  in  opposition  to  the  oppressive  measures 
of  the  mother  country.  Both  he  and  his  brother  Clement  were  among  the  earliest 
signers  of  the  Non-importation  Agreement  of  1765,  he  was  a  delegate  to  Provin- 
cial Conference  held  at  Philadelphia,  Tanuar)-  23.  1775,  became  a  most  active 
member  of  Committee  of  Safety,  and  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  July  and  September,  1776,  which  framed  the  constitution  under 
which  Pennsylvania  was  governed  from  that  date  until  1790.  He  had  charge  of 
the  publication  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  in  the  counties  of  Bucks,  Ches- 
ter. Lancaster,  Berks  and  Northampton.  Became  a  member  of  first  Board  of 
War,  March  13,  1777,  and  was  a  member  of  Council  of  Safety,  organized  the 


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same  date.  On  July  6,  1775,  he  was  one  of  the  Committee  appointed  by  Com- 
mittee of  Safety,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  to  superintend  the  construction  of 
armed  boats  and  obstructions  for  the  defense  of  the  Delaware,  and  on  July  14, 
1775,  was  ordered  to  secure  four  tons  of  grape  shot  in  possession  of  the  city.  On 
August  31,  1775,  he  was  directed  to  procure  a  seal  for  the  Board  of  War,  "the  size 
of  a  Dollar  with  a  Cap  of  Liberty,  and  the  motto  'This  is  my  right  and  I  will 
defend  it.'  "  He  was  constantly  on  committees  to  procure  ammunition,  stores  and 
clothing  for  the  use  of  the  army  in  the  field,  and  in  this  work  co-operated  with  his 
brother  Dement  who  had  actively  entered  the  ranks  and  was  Deputy  Commis- 
sioner of  Forage  and  Supplies  for  the  Pennsylvania  Militia.  He  was  one  of  the 
eighty  merchants  who  became  personally  responsible  for  260,000  pounds  of  sup- 
plies for  the  army.  He  was  appointed,  February  11,  1782,  to  run  the  boundary 
line  between  Pennsylvania  and  Virginia,  which  settled  the  long  standing  dispute 
on  that  question  with  Virginia.  In  his  ardent  support  of  the  rights  of  his  country- 
men, his  financial  interest,  largely  centered  in  the  foreign.  West  India  and  Coast 
trade,  was  completely  wrecked.  Three  of  his  vessels  being  captured  and  destroyed 
vvith  their  cargoes,  he  made  an  assignment  of  all  his  property  for  the  benefit  of 
his  creditors,  January  8,  1783,  but  his  assets  proved  more  than  sufficient  to  pay 
his  debts  and  left  him  a  small  surplus.  He  had  been  disowned  by  the  Society  of 
Friends  for  his  activity  in  warlike  measures,  and,  1781,  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  society  of  "Free  Quakers",  with  about  one  hundred  others.  However,  on 
May  30,  1783,  he  sought  re-instatement  in  the  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  and 
again  became  one  of  its  active  members.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  educational 
matters  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  agitate  the  question  of  establishing  a  boarding 
school  for  instruction  in  the  higher  branches ;  which  led  to  the  establishing  of 
Westtown  Boarding  School  in  Chester  county,  under  the  care  of  Friends,  and  he 
was  one  of  the  first  committee  in  charge  of  the  school,  October  3,  1794,  and  served 
until  his  death,  March  10,  1799.  He  had  married,  September  29,  1760,  Sarah 
Parke,  born  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  March  29,  1742,  died  August  16,  1794, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Edge)  Parke,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Parke,  born  in  Ireland,  1660,  who  with  the  greater  part  of  his  family  came  to 
Pennsylvania   in    1724. 

Thomas  Parke  Sr.,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  was  living  in  1720,  at 
either  Ballilean,  Blaughmoor,  or  Coolis  Nachtah,  Ireland,  (being  a  landholder  in 
all  three  places)  with  wife  Rebecca  and  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  accompanied 
him  to  America.  They  embarked  from  Dublin,  Ireland,  May  21,  1724,  in  ship 
"Sizargh",  of  White  Haven,  and  arrived  in  the  Delaware  at  Chester,  August  21, 
1724.  After  remaining  about  three  months  at  Chester,  he  purchased  500  acres 
of  land  in  East  Cain  township,  Chester  county,  and  removed  thereon.  He  was  an 
elder  of  Cain  Meeting  and  active  in  their  affairs.  He  died  imo.  31,  1738,  and  his 
widow  survived  him  about  twelve  years. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  Parke: — 

Mary,  b.  July  18,  1693,  m.  Thomas  Valentine,  and  preceded  her  parents  to  Pennsylvania ; 
Robert,  b.  Jan.  23,   1695,   a   storekeeper  at   DubHn,    1720-1,  accompanied  his  parents  to 

Pennsylvania,  and  d.  unm.  Feb.  9,  1737; 
Susanna,  b.  Oct.  22,  1696.  remained  in  Ireland ; 
Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  22,   1698-9,  m.   Hugh  StaII<er ; 
Rachel,  b.  Oct.  26,  1700,  m.  John  Robison  ; 


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Jean.  b.   Feb.  6.    1703.   d.   Feb.   12,   1705,   and   is  bur.   at  the   Friends'  burying  ground   at 

Ballikaely,   Ireland ; 
Thomas,  b.  Jan.   13,  1704-5.    m.  April  26,   1739,    Jane  Edge,    was  a    farmer  in    Chester 

county,  d.  there,  Oct.  17,  1758; 

Abel,  b.  Dec.  22,  1706,  d.  July  1757,  m.  Deborah  ; 

Jonathan,  b.  Feb.  18,  1709,  m.  Deborah  Taylor ; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  5,  1710,  d.  .A.pril  16,   1746,  m.  John  Jackson. 

Issue  of  Thomas  Jr.  and  Jane  (Edge)  Parke: — 

Robert,  b.  1740,  m.  Oct.  18,  1770,  Ann  Edge;  d.  Oct.  14,  1777, 

Sarah,  b.  March  29,  1742,  d.  Aug.  16,  1794,  m.  Owen  Biddle ; 

Rebecca,  b.  1744,  m.  William  Webb,  a  ship  builder; 

Hannah,  b.  1747,  m.  Benjamin  Poultney; 

Thomas,   b.   Aug.   6,    1749,   became   a   distinguished   physician   of   Phiki.     Was   one 

of  the  founders  of  the  Phila.  College  of  Physicians,  m.  Rachel  Pemberton ; 
James,  d.  inf. ; 
Jacob,  d.  unm.  March  10,  1877. 

Owen  Biddle  and  his  family  resided  during  the  Revolution  at  "Peel  Hall,"  oc- 
cupying the  present  site  of  Girard  College.  His  wife  failing  in  health,  removed  to  the 
place  of  her  nativity  at  Downington,  Chester  county,  where  she  died  1794. 
Issue  of  Ozven  and  Sarah  (Parke)  Biddle: — 

Jane,  b.  July  29,  1761,  d.  Sept.  28,  1793,  unm.; 

John,  b.  Oct.  2,   1763,  d.  Aug.   16,   1815,  m.   Sept.   15,   1796,   Elizabeth  Canby,  of  whom 

presently; 
Rebecca  Owen,  b.  Jan.  26,  1766,  m.  1796,  Peter  Thompson ; 
Sarah,  b.  Jan.  19,  1767,  d.  Sept.  1795,  unm.; 
Tacy,  b.  April  8,  1770,  d.  March  3,  1778; 
Thomas,  b.  Nov.  13,  1772,  d.  Dec.  17,  1773; 
Owen,  b.  April  28,  1774,  d.  May  25,  1806,  m.  Elizabeth  Rowan; 
Robert,  b.  March  3,  1776,  d.  July  15,  1777; 
Clement,  b.  Aug.  6,  1778,  m.  1810,  Mary  Canby;  (second)   1851,  Sarah  (Morris)  Tyson; 

d.  Feb.  ID,  1856;  of  whom  presently; 
Anne,  b.  July  23,  1780,  m.  John  Tatum. 

John  Biddle,  eldest  son  of  Owen  and  Sarah  (Parke)  Biddle,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia October  3,  1763,  was  an  apothecary  and  druggist,  and  died  August  16, 
1815.  He  married,  September  15,  1796,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Frances  (Lea)  Canby,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware,  granddaughter  of  Oliver  Canby, 
the  pioneer  miller  of  Wilmington,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Shipley,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Canby,  the  eminent  Friend  of  Bucks  county,  many 
years  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly,  by  his  second  wife  Mary,  daughter  of 
Evan  Olver,  who  came  from  Wales  and  settled  in  Philadelphia  county.  Eliza- 
beth (Canby)  Biddle  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  26,  1832. 
Issue  of  Joint  and  Elizabeth  (Canby)  Biddle: — 

Samuel  Canby  Biddle,  b.  June  10,  1797,  d.  unm.  Feb.  14,  1826; 
Sarali   Biddle,  b.   Feb.   28,   1799,  d.  Jan.  22,   1879; 

Joseph  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  26,   1801,  d.  Aug.  26,  1835,  m.  April  27,  1831,  Ann  P.  Hopkins; 
they  had   issue  : — 

Elizabeth  M.   Biddle,  m.  April   17,   1866,  Matthew  Baird,  and  d.  July  9,   1871. 
Joseph  Biddle,  Jr.,  d.  s.  p.,  Sept.  23,  1865. 


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James   Canby   Biddle,   b.   Dec.   23,    1802,   d.    March   31,    1841 ;     m.   April   27,    1828,   Sallie 

,   b.   in    Phila.,   May  9,    1803,   d.   there   April  3,    1828,   dau.   of   Henry   Sandwith 

Drinker,  of  Phila.,  and  of  "Drinker's  Folly",  Penn's  Manor,  Bucks  county,  Pa.,  by 
his  wife  Hannah,  dau.  of  James  Smith,  of  Burlington,  N.  J.,  by  his  wife  Esther 
Hewlings;  and  granddaughter  of  Hon.  John  Smith,  of  Phila.  and  Burlington,  N.  J., 
by  his  wife  Hannah,  youngest  dau.  of  James  Logan,  Proprietary  Secretary,  etc.  On 
the  paternal  side  Mrs.  Biddle  was  descended  from  John  Drinker,  and  his  wife  Ruth 
Balch,  (whose  father  Benjamin  Balch,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony)  who  came  to  Phila.  from  Beverly,  Mass.,  where  Philip  Drinker,  from 
Exeter,  England,  the  grandfather  of  John,  had  settled  with  his  family  in  1635. 

James  Canby  Biddle  went  to   Montrose,   Susquehanna  county.   Pa.,  as  agent  of  the 
Drinker  estate. 

Issue  of  James  C.  and  Sallie  (Drinker)  Biddle: — 

Elizabeth   Hannah   Biddle,  b.   March   11.   5830.  d.  July   19,   1881,  m.   Oct.  22,   1861, 

Rev.  William  F.   Halsey,  rector  of  St.  David's  Radnor,   1866-1882; 
Henry   Drinker   Biddle,  b.  July   17,   1831 ; 
Emily  Biddle,  b.  March  29,  1833,  d.  Aug.   16,  1834; 
Hetty  Drinker  Biddle,  b.  Oct.  31,   1834; 
Frances  Garrett  Biddle,  b.  Dec.  16,  1835,  d.  Dec.  15,  1841 ; 
Mary   Drinker   Biddle,   b.   July   II,    1838. 
Frances  Biddle,  b.   Nov.  29,   1803,  d.  Sept.  S,   1873;    m.   Oct.   18,   1827,  Thomas  C.   Gar- 
ret, b.  in  Phila.  March  30,  1805,  d.  there  Nov.  18,  1888.     Was  a  number  of  years  mem- 
ber of  firm  of  Garrett,  Eastwick  &  Harrison,  machine  manufacturers  in  Phila. ;    later, 
with  his  father  Philip  C.  Garrett,  the  founder  of  the  watch  and  jewelry  business,  since 
close  of  the  Civil  War  carried  on  by  their  successors,  Bailey.  Banks  &  Biddle.    Philip 
C.  and  John  B.  Garrett,  sons  of  Thomas  C.  and  Frances   (Biddle)   Garrett,  composed 
the  prominent   manufacturing  firm   of   P.   C.   &  J.    B.   Garrett,   succeeded   in   1873,  by 
firm  of   Philip   C.   Garrett  &  Co.     Philip   C.   Garrett,  elder  of  the  brothers,  has  been 
many  years  prominently  identified   with   numerous   business   and   financial   institutions 
of    Phila.,    as   well   as    with   leading  philanthropic   and    charitable    institutions   of   the 
city; 
William   Biddle,  b.  May   17,   1806,  d.  June  7,  1887;    m.  May  8,   1828,  Elizabeth  Cres- 

son  Garrett ;    of  whom  presently ; 
Edward  C.  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  5,  1808,  m.  May  14,  1832,  Hetty  H.  Foster;    founder  of  firm 
of  E.  C.  &  J.  B.  Biddle,  publishers  and  booksellers— later  Key,  Mielke  &  Biddle,  and 
E.   C.   Biddle  &   Co. ;    1857-1884  president  West  Moreland   Coal   Co. ;    many  years  a 
director    of    Northern    Central    R.    R.    Co.,    and   a    director   and   controller    of   public 
schools  of  Phila. ; 
Margaret  Biddle,  b.  June  8,  1810,  d.  Sept.  25,  1810. 
Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  8,  1812;    m.  Oct.  14,  1851,  Alfred  Cope  of  firm  of  Henry  &  Alfred  Cope, 

proprietors  of  a  line  of  Packet  ships  plying  between  Philadelphia  and  Liverpool ; 
John  Biddle,  b.  June  28,  1814,  d.  Oct.  19,  1884;  m.  Dec.  15,  1852,  Mary  B.  Foster;  in 
early  life^agent  at  Calcutta  of  firm  of  Foster  &  Chapman;  1841  became  member  of 
firm  of  E.  C.  &  J.  Biddle ;  several  years  secretary  of  Board  of  Managers  of  House 
of  Refuge;  1859-1884  president  of  Locust  Mountain  Coal  &  Iron  Co.;  one  of  founders 
of    night    schools    in    Philadelphia ; 

Owen  Biddle,  second  surviving  son  of  Owen  and  Sarah  (Parke)  Biddle,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  April  28,  1774,  died  there  May  25,  1806,  was  an  architect  and 
builder,  and  designed  and  built  the  first  permanent  bridge  over  the  Schuylkill 
at  Market  street.  He  was  author  of  the  "Young  Carpenter's  Assistant",  designed 
for  the  instruction  of  young  mechanics  in  the  art  of  building,  published  in  1805. 
He  married  in  1798,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Hannah  (Jackson) 
Rowan,  who  after  his  decease  married (  second)  John  Broadbent,  from  York- 
shire, England,  and  had  five  children  by  him.  She  died  November  26,  1832. 
Issue  of  Owen  and  Elizabeth  (Rozvan)  Biddle: — 

John  Rowan  Biddle,  b.  Feb.  15,  1799,  d.  Oct.  26,  1854;    m.  Nov.  21,  1821,  Jane  Marsh; 
Anne   Biddle,  b.   Jan.  2,   1801,  d.   Nov.  30,   1850; 
Rebecca   Biddle,  b.   Aug.   30,   1802,   d.   March  25,   1804; 


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Owen  Biddle,  b.  July  21,  1804,  d.  Oct.   19,   1884,  m.   (first),  March  4,  1831,  Mary  Ann 

Thompson;    (second),  June  15,  1851,  Sarah  Lavery; 
Elizabeth  Biddle,  b.  May  6,  1806,  d.  July  17,  1833. 

Clement  Biddle,  youngest  son  of  the  distinguished  patriot  Owen  Biddle,  by 
his  wife  Sarah  Parke,  born  in  "Peel  Hall",  on  the  present  site  of  Girard  College, 
Philadelphia,  August  6,  1778,  was  educated  in  Philadelphia,  and  on  the  comple- 
tion of  his  education,  being  threatened  with  a  pulmonary  disease,  he  made  sev- 
eral voyages  to  the  West  Indies  and  South  America  1800-05.  Having  entirely 
ergained  his  health,  he  returned  home,  and  in  1807,  engaged  in  the  sugar-refining 
business  for  twenty-five  years.  Clement  Biddle  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  of  which  he 
was  an  Overseer  and  Elder  for  many  years  prior  to  his  death.  He  was  one  of 
the  active  promoters  of  Friend's  Asylum  for  the  Insane,  at  Frankford,  first  insti- 
tution of  its  kind  in  America,  and  served  as  its  clerk  until  the  division  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  disrupted  its  management,  and  its  control  passed  into  the 
hands  of  the  Orthodox  branch.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  philanthropic 
and  educational  enterprises  instituted  and  supported  by  Friends,  until  his  death, 
February  10,  1856. 

Clement  Biddle  married,  November  2,  1810,  Mary  Canby,  born  at  Wilming- 
ton, Delaware,  February  11,  1780,  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  12,  1849;  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Alartha  (Marriott)  Canby  of  Wilmington,  and  granddaughter 
of  Oliver  and  Elizabeth  (Shipley)  Canby;  first  cousin  to  Elizabeth  Canby,  who 
had  married  his  elder  brother  John  Biddle.  He  married  (second),  1851,  Sarah 
Saunders  (Morris)  Tyson,  born  in  Philadelphia  November  22,  1790,  died  there, 
February  26,  1883,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Alarshall)  Morris,  of  Phila- 
delphia, granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Saunders)  Morris;  a  descendant 
of  Anthony  Morris,  the  pioneer  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  and  widow  of  Elisha 
Tyson. 

Issue  of  Clement  and  Mary  (Canby)  Biddle: — 

Martha,  b.  Oct.  21,  181 1;  d.  Jan.  25,  1833,  unm. ; 

Robert  Biddle,  b.  Aug.  10,  1814;  founder  of  firm  of  R.  &  W.  C.  Biddle,  now  the  Biddle 

Hardware  Co.     Many  years  Treasurer  of  Swathmore  College  and  was  succeeded  by 

his  son  Charles  M.  Biddle,  the  present     treasurer;  m.  Anna  Mliler; 
William   Canby  Biddle,  b.   Sept.  25,   1816,  d.   Dec.  22,   1887;  m.   Feb.  21.   1838,  Rachel 

Miller,  b.  Oct.  11,  1818; 
Henry  Biddle,  d.  young; 
Clement  Biddle,  b.  Nov.   17,   1819;  m.    (first)    Susan  T.   Walton;    (second)    Susan  W. 

Cadwalader ; 
Anne  Biddle,  b.  Nov.   18,   1822. 

William  C.xnby  Biddle,  second  son  of  Clement  and  Mary  (Canby)  Biddle, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  September  23,  1816,  was  educated  in  Friends'  schools  of 
Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  and  was  with  his  elder  brother  Robert  Biddle.  founder 
of  the  firm  of  R.  &  W.  C.  Biddle,  now  the  Biddle  Hardware  Company,  with  which 
one  of  the  sons  and  two  of  the  grandsons  of  Robert  Biddle  are  still  associated. 
William  Canby  Biddle  was  known  in  business  circles  as  a  man  of  business  ability, 
energy,  and  integrity.  He  was  an  influential  member  of  Society  of  Friends,  and  a 
promoter  and  supporter  of  Swathmore  College,  of  which  he  was  many  years  a 
trustee.     He  was  also  one  of  the  managers  of  Preston  Retreat,  and  associated 


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with  other  philanthropic  and  charitable  institutions.     He  married,  February  21, 
1838,  Rachel,  born  October  11,  1818,  died  October  7,  1892,  daughter  of  Daniel  L. 
and  Hannah  (Nicholson)  Miller.    William  Canby  Biddle  died  December  22,  1887. 
Issue  of  William  Canby  and  Rachel  (Miller)  Biddle: — 

Clement  Miller  Biddle,  b.  Dec.  24,  1838;  m,  Oct.  11,  i860,  Lydia  Cooper,  b.  Jan.  4,  1841 ; 
and  they  had  issue : 

Lucy,  b.  Sept.  26,  1861 ;  m.  Sept.  25,  1884,  J.  Rcece  Lewis ; 
William  Canby  Biddle,  Jr.,  b.  June  2,   1864; 
Robert  Biddle,  Jr.,  b.  May  31,   1867; 
Caroline  Cooper,  b.  March   13,  1871 ; 
Lydia.  b.   Sept.   13,   187 — ; 
Clement  M.  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  22,   1876. 
Frances  Canby  Biddle,  b.  Aug.   11,   1840;  m.  June   18,   1862,  Clement  Acton  Griscom,  b. 

March  15,  1841 ; 
Helen  Biddle,  b.  March  25,   1844,  d.  March  28,   1877;  m.  Sept.  17,   1866,  George  Brinton 

Thomas; 
Mary,  b.  Dec.  17,  1849;  m.  Jan.  28,   1869,  Howard  Wood; 
Hannah  Nicholson,  b.  April  18,  1855,  m.  Oct.  18,  1877,  Charles  William,  b.  Nov.  22,  1851. 

The  Garrett  Family,  from  which  Thomas  C.  Garrett,  who  married  Frances 
Biddle,  and  Elizabeth  Cresson  Garrett,  who  married  William  Biddle,  are  de- 
scended, was  founded  in  this  country  by  William  Garrett,  or  "Garrat"  (as  his 
name  is  spelled  in  the  old  family  Bible,  printed  1634,  which  he  brought  to  this 
country  with  him)  who  came  from  Harby,  county  of  Leicester,  England,  1684, 
and  settled  in  Upper  Darby,  Chester  county,  removing  shortly  prior  to  his  death, 
to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  1724.  He  was  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  Garrat,  born 
August  21,  1643,  and  baptized  September  3  following.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  married,  April  ig,  1668,  Ann  Kirke,  born  March  19, 
1642.  They  resided  at  Harby,  1672-84,  and  by  deeds  of  lease  and  release,  dated 
August  9  and  10,  1684,  he  and  Samuel  Levis,  also  of  Harby,  an  account  of  whom 
and  some  of  his  descendants  is  given  in  these  pages,  purchased  of  William  Penn, 
one  thousand  acres  of  land  to  be  laid  out  in  Pennsylvania.  Both  families  obtained 
certificates  from  Friends  at  Harby,  dated  5mo.  (July)  20,  1684,  and  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania the  same  year ;  Samuel  Levis  locating  in  Springfield,  Chester  county,  and 
William  Garrett  in  Upper  Darby,  the  same  county.  William  Garrett  was  a  prom- 
inent member  of  Darby  Meeting  of  Friends  for  thirty-seven  years,  his  wife  was 
buried  there  April  7,  1721,  after  which  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died, 
as  before  stated,  1724.  He  was  member  of  Provincial  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania, 
1706-7. 

Issue  of  William  and  Ann  (Kirke)  Garrett: — 

Anne,  b.   Feb.  4,   1668-9,  at  "Hosse"   England,  bur.   at   Harbv,   Leicestershire,   Nov.    10, 

1672; 
Mary,  b.  Nov.  1670,  at  "Hosse"  d.  in  Pennsylvania,  January   16.   1703-4;  m.  Abel  Noble 

of  Warminster,  Bucks  county.  Pa. ; 
Samuel,  b.   at   Harby,  Leicestershire,   July  7,    1672.   d.  on  the   old  homestead  at   Upper 

Darby,  March  4,  1743-4;  was  elected  to  Provincial  Assembly  in  the  years  1714-15-17; 

m.  1698,  Jane,  b.  July  13,  1678,  d.  Aug-.  27,  1736;  dau.  of  Robert  and  Hannah  Pennell, 

of  Middletown,  Chester  county;    of  their  descendants  later. 
Hannah,  b.  June  23.  1674;  m.   (first)  George  Emlen :   (see  Emlen  Family)   and   (second) 

William  Tidmarsh ; 
Sarah,  b.  June  23,  1676;  m.  Randal  Croxon ; 
Alice,  b.  June  24,  1678;  d.  Sept.  13,  1748;  m.  Joseph  Pennell; 

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William,  b.  Harby,  Leicestershire,  England,  April  4,  1679,  d.  March  5,  1726-7,  in  Darby, 
Chester  county.  Pa.;  m.  Nov.,  1709,  Mary,  b.  at  Darby,  Nov.  i,  1686,  d.  there,  Feb.  11, 
1742-3,  dau.  of  John  and  Elinor  (Dolby)  Smith,  of  Darby,  who  came  from  Leicester- 
shire in  1684,  and  both  of  whom  were  ministers  of  Society  of  Friends. 

Isaac,  second  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Smith)  Garrett,  b.  Oct.  19,  1714,  d.  in 
Birmingham,  Chester  county,  Jan.  19,  1793;  m.  (first),  1742,  Elizabeth  Hatton ; 
(second)  1757,  Agnes  Lewis,  and  was  for  a  time  resident  in  Philadelphia;  was 
great  grandfather  of  Edwin  Thatcher  -Garrett,  and  Casper  S.  Garrett  and  Sylves- 
ter Garrett,  composing  at  different  periods  firm  of  commission  merchants  of  C. 
S.  &  E.  T.  Garrett,  C.  S.  Garrett  &  Bro.  and  C.  S.  Garrett  &  Son.  The  latter 
firm  also  owned  and  operated  the  Keystone  Paper  Mill,  and  the  Marley  Paper 
Mill,  in  Chester  county,  with  store  and  offices  in  Philadelphia ;  and  both  Casper 
S.  (jarrett  and  his  son  and  successor,  William  Garrett,  have  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  business  and  financial  institutions  of  the  city; 
Thomas,  b.  Harby,  Leicestershire,  Jan.,  1681-2;  d.  Chester  county.  Pa.,  Feb.  1716-17;  m. 

Rebecca  Vernon ; 
John  Garrett,  the  only  child  of  William  and  .\nn   (Kirke)   Garrett  to  be  b.  in   Pennsyl- 
vania was  b.  at  Darby,  March  22,  1685-6,  d.  unm.  Oct.  21,   1713. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Jane  {Pcnncll)   Garrett,  of  Upper  Darby: — 

Mary,  b.  June  7,   1699,  m.   (first)   Thomas  Oldman ;    (second)   Obadiah  Eldridge ; 
Joseph,  b.   April  25,   1701 ;   m.   April  25,   1722,  Mary  Sharpless,  and  settled  in   Goshen, 

Chester  county,   where  he   was   a   farmer  and  weaver.     D.   about   1770,   leaving  three 

sons  and  three   daughters ; 
Hannah,  b.  Sept.  17,  1704;  m.  1728,  William  Lewis: 
Samuel,  b.  Oct.  22,  1708,  d.  Jan.  29,  1747;  m.  1731.  Sarah  Hibberd.  who  after  his  death, 

became  the  second  wife  of  Amos  Yarnal! ; 
Nathan,  b.  Feb.  13,  1711-12,  d.  Sept.  16.  1802;   m.  Ann  Knowles;   of  whom  presently; 
James,  b.  June  17,  1714,  d.  Aug.  13,  1736,  unm.; 
Thomas,  b.  Dec.  26,  1717,  d.  March  16,  1748-9;  m.  Rebecca  Sykes; 
Jane,  b.   June   20,    1719.   m.   Jacob   Hibberd. 

Nathan  Garrett,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Pennell)  Garrett,  and  grandson  of 
William  and  Ann  (Kirke)  Garrett,  born  in  Darby  February  13,  171 1-2,  was  the 
owner  of  200  acres  of  land  in  Upper  Darby,  on  which  he  resided  until  his  death. 
September  16,  1802.  He  married,  1739,  Ann,  born  1710,  died  1787,  daughter  of 
John  and  Ann  (Paul)  Knowles  of  Oxford,  Philadelphia  county;  and  they  were 
parents  of  five  children,  viz. : — 

Hannah,  b.  1740,  d.  1746; 

Jane,  b.  July  12,  1742;  m.  1765,  David  Jones; 

Nathan,  b.  May  18,  1745,  d.  April  9,  1827;  m.  first,  Jime  9,  1768,  Elizabeth,  dau. 
of  Hon.  John  Sellers  of  Phila.,  and  Darby,  by  his  wife  Ann  Gibson ;  and  second, 
July  6,  1780,  Hannah  Rhoads;    third,  June  26,  1799,  Elizabeth   (Davis)   Dunn; 

Thomas,  b.  March  9,  1749-50,  d.  Aug.  24,  1839;    of  whom  presently; 

Ann,  b.  Sept.  24,  1752;  m.  May  24,  1770,  Henry  Paschall. 

Thomas  Garrett,  youngest  son  of  Nathan  and  Ann  Knowles  Garrett ;  married, 
first,  at  Springfield  Meeting.  November  18,  1773,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Thompson)  Levis  of  Springfield,  who  died  August  11,  1776,  leaving 
one  son,  Samuel  Garrett,  born  July  19,  1775,  who  married  Hannah  Davis.  Thomas 
Garrett  married  (second),  at  Darby  Meeting,  .April  15,  1779,  Sarah  Price,  born 
at  Kingsessing,  Philadelphia,  June  30,  1759.  died  at  Darby,  May  30,  1839,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Price  of  Kingsessing,  by  his  wife  Hannah  Bonsai,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Martha  (Fisher)  Bonsai  and  granddaughter  of  Richard  and  Mary 
Bonsai,  who  came  from  Derbyshire,  England,  1682,  and  settled  at  Kingsessing. 
Philip  Price,  the  grandfather  of  the  above  named  Philip,  was  born  in  Wales,  1623. 


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came  to  Pennsylvania  with  the  first  Welsh  Colony,  and  settled  on  the  borders  of 
the  Welsh  Tract  in  Haverford  township,  where  he  died  1720-1.  His  son  Isaac, 
also  born  in  Wales,  married,  March  4,  1696-7,  Susanna  Shoemaker,  born  in 
Cresham,  Germany,  daughter  of  George  and  Susanna  Shoemaker,  and  accom- 
panied her  widowed  mother  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Jefferies",  1685  ;  and  settled 
in  Plymouth  township,  Philadelphia  county,  where  Isaac  Price  died,  February, 
1706-7.  Isaac  Price  Jr.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Susanna,  born  1705,  died  1738,  married 
Margaret,  born  October  17,  1700,  daughter  of  Henry  Lewis,  member  of  Colonial 
Assembly,  1715-1718,  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  Robert  Taylor,  who  came  from 
Cheshire,  England,  in  the  "Endeavor,"  1683 ;  and  granddaughter  of  Henry  and 
Margaret  Lewis,  who  came  from  Narbeth,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  1682.  ,and 
settled  in  Philadelphia  county ;  Henry  Lewis  being  a  member  of  the  first  Grand 
Jury  drawn  for  Philadelphia  county. 

Philip  Price,  only  surviving  child  of  Isaac  and  Margaret  (Lewis)  Price,  born 
at  Plymouth,  Philadelphia  county,  January  5,  1730-1,  married  Hannah  Bonsai, 
May  13,  1752,  and  they  settled  on  the  Bonsai  homestead  in  Kingsessing,  where 
they  resided  half  a  century,  Mrs.  Price  dying  May  17,  1802,  and  Philip,  Septem- 
ber 17,  181 1.  Their  home  was  the  headquarters  of  Gen.  William  Howe  for  two 
weeks,  December,  1777.  They  were  parents  of  five  children,  Margaret,  married 
to  Edward  Garrigues ;  Sarah,  wife  of  Thomas  Garrett,  above  mentioned ;  Philip, 
who  with  his  wife,  Rachel  Kirk,  superintended  Westtown  Boarding  School,  1818- 
1850;  and  later  established  Price's  Boarding  School  for  Girls  at  West  Chester; 
Benjamin,  who  married  Ruth  Kirk;  and  Isaac,  who  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1798, 
during  the  yellow  fever  epidemic,  while  serving  on  the  Board  of  Health  then 
created  to  assist  in  stamping  out  the  dread  disorder.  Eli  K.  Price,  late  eminent 
member  of  Philadelphia  Bar,  was  a  son  of  Philip  and  Rachel  (Kirk)  Price.  Sarah 
(Price)  Garrett  died  in  Upper  Darby,  May  30,  1839,  and  her  husband  Thomas 
Garrett,  survived  her  three  months. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Price)  Garrett: — 

Philip  C.  Garrett,  b.  May  13,  1780,  d.  Feb.  14,  1851;  m.  Rebecca  Cresson;  of  whom 
presently ; 

Sarah,  twin  to  Philip ; 

Thomas,  d.  in  childhood ; 

Charles,  b.   April  4,   1785;    m.   1811,  Mary  Hibberd; 

Margaret,  b.    Oct.   8,   1787,   m.   George   Malin; 

Thomas,  b.  Aug.  21,  1789,  d.  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  Jan.  25,  1871 ;  a  most  prom- 
inent and  unselfish  AboUtionist,  his  house  being  one  of  the  stations  of  the  under- 
ground railroad,  and  it  is  said  nearly  three  thousand  slaves  passed  through  his 
hands  to  freedom.  He  was  prosecuted,  1848,  for  assisting  slaves  to  escape  their  mas- 
ters, and  was  so  heavily  fined  as  to  sweep  away  his  worldly  possessions.  He  was 
assisted  by  friends  to  again  establish  himself  in  the  iron  and  coal  business,  in  which 
he  was  quite  successful,  and  continued  his  activity  in  behalf  of  the  runaway  slaves. 
M.  (first),  Mary  Sharpless,  1813;  she  d.  1827,  and  he  m.  (second),  Rachel  Menden- 
hall; 

Benjamin,  b.  Oct.  17,  1791,  d.  in  Delaware,  April  4,  1884;  m.  Mary  Haines,  and  had 
three  sons,  David  Haines,  Isaac  Price,  several  years  a  representative  of  Delaware 
county  in  the  State  Legislature,  cashier  of  the  Custom  House  at  Philadelphia,  dur- 
ing Pres.  Harrison's  administration,  and  since  1897,  Postmaster  of  Landsdowne ;  and 
Thomas   Pugh   Garrett ; 

John  Knowles,  b.  Dec.  4,  1793;    m.  in  1816,  Henrietta  Levis; 

Isaac  Price,  b.  Jan.   18,   1796,  d.  Jan.  24,  1869;    m.  1838,  Phebe  Rhoads ; 

Ann,  b.  May  5,  1798,  d.  Feb.  17,   1892,  unm.; 

Edward,  b.  Dec.  17,  1800,  d.  Sept.  16,  1863;  m.  1837,  Abigail  Sellers,  dau.  of  George 
and   Ann    (Ash)    Sellers   of   Darby. 


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Philip  C.  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Price)  Garrett,  born  in  Dela- 
ware county,  Pennsylvania,  was  reared  and  educated  in  that  county,  but  on 
attaining  man's  estate,  came  to  Philadelphia,  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  car  wheels  and  other  machinery,  in  partnership  with  Andrew  M.  Eastwick 
and  Joseph  Harrison,  under  the  firm  name  of  Garrett,  Eastwick  &  Harrison. 
He  later  engaged  in  the  watch  and  jewelry  business  with  his  eldest  son  Thomas 
C.  Garrett,  which  continued  until  his  death  as  the  result  of  an  accident,  while 
crossing  the  tracks  of  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  at  Green  Tree,  Chester  county, 
February  14,  1851. 

Philip  C.  Garrett  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  Cresson. 
Issue  of  Philip   C.  and  Rebecca    (Cresson)    Garrett: — 

James  C,  b,  Oct.  13,  1802; 

Sarah,  b.  Feb.  22,  1804; 

Thomas   C,  b.   in   Phila.   March  30,   1805 ;    learned  trade  of  machinist  in  his   father's 

manufacturing   establishment,    and    later   entered    into    business   with    him.      M.    Oct. 

18,   1827,   Frances,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth   (Canby)    Biddle,  b.   Nov.  29,   1803,   d. 

Sept.  5,  1875-     D-  Nov.   18,  1888; 
Elizabeth  Cresson,  b.  Sept.  18,  1806,  d.  Jan.  21,  1881 ;  m.  May  8,  1828,  William  Biddle, 

of  whom  presently; 
Hannah,  b.  Jan.  i,  1808; 
Margaret,  b.  Feb.  11,  1809; 
Rebecca,  b.  April  10,  1810; 
Martha  H.,  b.  June  25,   181 1; 
.A.nne,  b.  July  5,  1813; 
James  C,  b.  Dec.  26,  1814; 
Susan  H.,  b.  June   15,   1817; 

Philip  C.  Garrett,  son  of  Thomas  C.  and  Frances  (Biddle)  Garrett,  born  in 
Philadelphia  November  i,  1834,  graduated  at  Haverford  College  1851,  and  after 
a  short  mercantile  experience  in  Philadelphia,  1854,  became  member  of  firm  of 
Wood,  Starr  &  Garrett,  who  operated  a  cotton  mill,  dye  works  and  bleachery 
at  Millville,  N.  J.  In  1879,  with  his  brother  John  B.,  under  the  firm  name  of 
P.  C.  and  J.  B.  Garret,  he  engaged  in  the  textile  manufacturing  business  in 
Philadelphia,  the  firm  later  becoming  known  as  Philip  C.  Garrett  &  Co.  Philip 
C.  Garrett  was  identified  with  numerous  financial  and  business  institutions, 
and  active  in  civic  affairs. 

William  Biddle,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Canby)  Biddle,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, May  17,  1806,  married,  May  8,  1828,  Elizabeth  Cresson  Garrett,  whose 
ancestry  is  given  above,  and  became  associated  with  her  brother  Thomas  C.  Gar- 
rett, in  the  watchmakng  and  jewelry  business,  was  doubly  his  brother-in-law, 
having  married  his  sister  Frances  Biddle.  He  was  actively  interested  in  the 
affairs  and  institutions  of  his  native  city.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  City 
School  Board,  1834,  and  continued  a  member  for  many  years,  for  a  time  filling 
the  position  of  Controller  of  Schools. 

In  1840  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Magdalen 
Asylum,  and  filled  that  position  for  upward  of  forty  years.  The  same  year  he 
was  selected  as  one  of  the  Directors  of  Girard  College,  and  held  that  position  for 
fourteen  years,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  organization  and  management  of  the 
college.  In  1849  '^^  ^^'^^  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  Pennsyl- 
vania Hospital,  and  continued  an  active  member  of  that  board  for  nearly  thirty- 


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eight  years,  during  the  last  fifteen  of  which  he  was  its  president.  Becoming 
interested  in  the  development  of  the  mining  interests  in  the  Schuylkill  region,  he 
was  in  1855,  elected  Secretary  of  the  Mine  Hill  and  Schuylkill  Haven  Railroad 
Company,  1882,  became  its  president,  and  held  that  position  until  his  death,  June 
7,   1887.     His  wife  died  January  21,   1881. 

Issue  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Cresson  (Garrett)  Biddle: — 

Samuel,  b.  Aug.  17,  1829,  d.  Nov.  2,  1842 ; 

Rebecca  G.,  b.  July  17,  1831,  d.  Dec.  4.  1842; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  21,  1833,  d.  inf. ; 

John  W.,  b.  Aug.  2,  1835;  of  whom  presently; 

Philip  G.,  b.  Nov.  30,  1839,  d.  March  10,  1855 ; 

Samuel,  b.  July  10,  1844 1  many  years  member  of  firm  of  Bailey,  Banks  &  Biddle ;  Presi- 
dent of  German  American  Title  Trust  Co.,  and  connected  with  a  number  of  other  in- 
stitutions, of  Philadelphia ;  m.  (first)  Aug.  3,  1865,  Katharine  T.  Harned,  b.  April 
26,  184s,  d.  July  12,  1892;  (second)  June  8,  1899,  Elizabeth  Harned,  b.  June  19,  1850; 
for  issue  see  forward. 

John  W.  Biddle,  eldest  surviving  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Cresson  (Gar- 
rett) Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  2,  1835,  is  an  active  business  man  of 
Philadelphia,  with  offices  at  119  South  Fourth  street,  and  summer  residence  at 
Media,  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania.  He  has  been  for  many  years  a  director 
and  treasurer  of  Mine  Hill  and  Schuylkill  Haven  Railroad  Company;  a  manager 
of  Pennsylvania  Hospital ;  a  director  of  Mortgage  Trust  Company  of  Pennsyl- 
vania; and  was  twenty  years  treasurer  of  Magdalen  Society  of  Philadelphia. 
He  married.  May  5,  1861,  Mary,  born  lomo.  26,  1842;  died  5mo.  25,  1874;  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  C.  Hewes,  by  his  wife,  Sarah  S.  Garrett,  and  they  have  issue : 

William  Biddle,  Jr.,  b.  May  28,  1863 ;  m.  Oct.  8,  1885,  Caroline  C.  Scattergood,  of  West- 
chester, b.  Aug.  19,  1862 ;  issue  : — 

John  W.  Biddle,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1887,  d.  April  18,  1905. 
James  G.  Biddle,  b.  Oct.   13,   1868;  m,  Oct.   11,   1894,   Mary  Hutton,  b.   Sept.    11,   1869; 
issue : — 

Elizabeth  R.  Biddle,  b.  March  22,  1897 ; 

Mary  Hewes  Biddle,  b.  Aug.   10,   1898; 

Dorothy  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  25,    1900; 

Rebecca  Hutton  Biddle,  b.  June  8,   190! ; 

Addison  Hutton  Biddle,  b.  Dec.  11,  1903; 

Ruth   Biddle. 

Samuel  Biddle,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Cresson  (Garrett)  Biddle,  by  his 
first  wife,  Katharine  T.  Harned,  had  issue: — 

Elizabeth  S.  Biddle,  b.  June  25,  1866;  m.  Nov.  5,  1890,  Samuel  R.  Carter,  b.  July  2,  1863; 
and  they  have  issue : — 

Katharine  Harned  Carter,  b.  Sept.  20,  1890; 
Mary  Harned  Biddle,  b.   Aug.  7,   1872 ; 
Helen  Biddle,  b.  Sept.  23,   1874. 

Clement  Biddle,  second  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Owen)  Biddle,  was  born 
at  the  Biddle  homestead,  Market  street  between  Second  and  Third  streets.  May 
10,  1740.  He  engaged  in  the  shipping  and  importing  business  with  his  father 
and  brother  Owen,  which  continued  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  during  the  continuance  of  which  nearly  his  whole  time  was  given  to  the  ser- 


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vice  of  his  country.  He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Non-importation  Agreement 
of  1765.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  "Quaker  Light  Infantry",  orig- 
inally formed  to  defend  the  Conestogo  Indians  from  the  Paxton  boys,  1763-4, 
and  ser\'ed  in  the  Jersey  Campaign  of  1776-7.  July  8,  1776,  he  was  appointed 
Deputy  Quartermaster  General  of  the  Flying  Camp,  composed  of  the  militia 
companies  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  On 
October  15,  1776,  Gen.  Greene,  then  at  Amboy,  appointed  Col.  Biddle  on  his 
staff  as  aid-de-camp,  and  during  November,  1776,  he  was  stationed  at  Fort  Lee 
on  the  Hudson,  but  returned  to  the  Delaware  in  time  to  participate  in  the  battle 
of  Trenton,  when  he  was  deputed  by  Washington  to  receive  the  swords  of  the 
Hessian  officers  who  had  surrendered.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Prince- 
ton, Germantown,  Brandywine  and  Monmouth,  and  shared  the  sufferings  of 
the  camp  at  Valley  Forge,  where  he  was  accompanied  by  his  wife.  He  was 
appointed  by  Pres.  Washington  United  States  Marshal  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
was  Quartermaster  General  of  Pennsylvania  Militia  for  many  years,  officiating 
as  such  during  the  Whiskey  Insurrection  of  1794.  He  was  appointed  Prothono- 
tary  of  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Philadelphia  county,  September  23,  1788, 
and  served  until  made  Judge  of  Common  Pleas  Court,  1791.  He  died,  Phila- 
delphia, July  14,  1814.  He  married  (first)  at  Arch  Street  Friends'  ^Meeting, 
June  6,  1764,  Mary  Richardson,  daughter  of  Francis,  who  died  1773.  Their 
only  child,  Francis,  died  in  infancy.  He  married  (second),  August  18,  1774, 
Rebekah,  only  daughter  of  Gideon  Cornell,  Lieutenant  Governor  and  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  Rhode  Island  at  the  time  of  his  death,  1765. 

Issue  of  Clement  and  Rebekah   (Cornell)   Biddle: — 

Francis  R.,  b.  May  20,  1775,  d.  June  16,  1775; 

Thomas,  b.  May  20.  1776,  d.  June  3,   1857,  m.  Christine  Williams ;  of  whom  presently ; 

George  Washington,  b.  Feb.  21,  1779,  d.  at  Macoa,  China,  Aug.  16,  1812; 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  12,  1781,  d.  March  13,  1850,  m.  June  25,  1804,  Gen.  Thomas  Cadwalader; 

Rebeckah,  b.  Nov.  7,  1782,  d.  Sept.  2,  1870,  m.  Sept.  i,  1808,  Prof.  Nathaniel  Chap- 
man, M.  D.,  of  whom  later; 

Clement  Cornell,  b.  Oct.  24,  1784,  d.  Aug.  21,  1855,  m.  March  10,  1814,  Mary  Searle 
Barclay,  of  whom  later; 

Anne,  b.  Dec.  24,  1785,  d.  July  21,  1786; 

Lydia   H.,  b.   May   12,   1787,  d.   March  5,   1826; 

Sarah  T,  b.  Oct.  21,  1789,  d.  Aug.   11,  1805; 

Anne  Wilkinson,  b.  June  12,  1791,  d.  1878;    ni.  June  2,  1822,  Thomas  Dunlap ; 

John  Gideon,  b.  June  10,  1795,  d.  Aug.  30,  1826,  m.  May  22,  1820,  Mary  Biddle,  dau. 
of   Hon.    Charles    Biddle; 

James  Cornell,  b.  Dec.  29.  1796,  d.  Aug.  30,  1838,  m.  March  2,  1825,  Sarah  Cadwalader 
Kepple ; 

Edward  Robert,  b.   Feb.  7,  1798. 

Thomas  Biddle,  A.  M.,  eldest  son  of  Clement  and  Rebekah  (Cornell)  Bid- 
dle, born  in  Philadelphia,  June  4,  1776,  entered  University  of  Pennsylvania 
1788,  and  graduated  in  the  class  of  1791.  He  was  a  broker  and  banker  in 
Philadelphia ;  a  trustee  of  the  LTniversity  of  Pennsylvania  from  1837  to  his  death, 
June  3,  1857.  He  was  an  active  member  of  American  Philosophical  Society.  He 
married,  February  12,  i8o6,  Christine,  daughter  of  Gen.  Jonathan  Williams,  who 
was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1752,  and  was  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Benjamin 
Franklin.  In  his  youth  he  made  several  commercial  voyages  to  the  West  Indies 
and  Europe.     In   1773  he  went  to  England  with  important  messages  and  com- 


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munications.  In  1777,  as  Commercial  Agent  of  United  States  Government,  he 
went  to  France,  and  remained  there  until  1785,  returning  to  the  United  States 
with  Franklin.  He  was  for  several  years  Judge  of  court  of  Common  Pleas  of 
Philadelphia;  was  appointed  February  16,  1801,  Major  of  Artillery  and  on 
December  4,  1801,  Inspector  of  Fortifications  and  Superintendent  of  West 
Point  Military  Academy;  July  8,  1802,  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Engineers;  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1808,  Colonel;  July  31,  1812,  General  of  New  York  Militia;  elected 
to  Congress  from  Philadelphia,  1814;  Vice-President  Philosophical  Society,  etc. 
He  was  author  of  "Memoir  on  the  Use  of  the  Thermometer  in  Navigation," 
1799;  "Elements  of  Fortification",  1801 ;  "Koscuisko",  and  Movements  for 
Horse  Artillery,"   1808. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Christine  (Williams)  Biddle: — 

Clement,  b.  Sept.   14,   1810,  d.   1879; 

Thomas  Alexander,  b.  Aug.  22,  1814,  d.  Feb.   i,   1888;  m.  July   i,   1845,  Julia  Cox,  of 

whom  presently ; 
Henry  Jonathan,  b.  May  16,   1817,  d.  Richmond,  Va.,  July  20,   1862;   m.  June   i.   1854, 

Mary   Deborah   Baird ;   of  whom   later ; 
Alexander,  b.  April  29,  1819,  m.  Oct.  11,  1855,  Julia  Williams  Rush,  of  whom  later; 
Jonathan  Williams,  b.  Aug.   12,   1821,  d    Apr.  21,   1856;  m.   April   16,   1846,  Emily  S. 

Meigs,  of  whom  later. 

Thomas  Alexander  Biddle,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Christine  (Williams) 
Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia  August  22,  1814;  died,  Philadelphia,  February  i, 
1888 ;  was  a  broker  and  founder  of  firm  of  Thomas  A.  Biddle  Co.  He  married, 
July  I,  1845,  Julia,  daughter  of  John  Cox,  Esq.,  by  his  wife  Martha,  daughter  of 
Gen.  William  Lyman  of  Massachusetts,  U.  S.  Consul  to  London.  John  Cox, 
A.  M.,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  Jan.  24,  1788,  d.  there  Feb.  6,  1864;  son  of  James 
S.  and  Charlotte  (Sitgreaves)  Cox,  Pres.  Lehigh  Coal  &  Nav.  Co.,  Philadelphia, 
1822-9  and  1 84 1 -4. 

Issue  of  Thomas  Alexander  and  Julia  (Cox)  Biddle: — 

-J_John  Cox,  b.  April  21,   1846,  d.  Jan.  29,   1865; 
Henry  Williams,  b.  April  7,  1848; 

Anna  Sitgreaves,  b.  Jan.  31,  1850.  m.   1872,  Andrew,  son  of  General  Francis  P.  Blair; 
Alfred,  b.  Dec.  15,  1851,  d.  Dec.  21,  1884; 
William  Lyman,  b.  Oct.  8,   1853; 
Francis,  b.  Oct.  31,  1855,  d.  Jan.   17,   1887; 
Julia,  b.   Mav  16,   1858.  m.   Nov.   18,   1S80,   Arthur,   son  of  George  W.  and  grandson   of 

Col.  Clement  C.  Biddle; 
Frances,  b.  1862,  d.  inf. 

Henry  Jonathan  Biddle,  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Christine  (Williams) 
Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  16,  1817,  graduated  from  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania 1834.  He  was  a  cadet  at  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West 
Point.  Followed  the  business  of  a  civil  engineer,  until  breaking  out  of  the  Civil 
War,  when  he  was  commissioned,  August  3,  1861,  Captain  and  Assistant  Adjutant 
General  of  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  serving  on  the  stafif  of  Gen.  McCall.  He 
was  mortally  wounded  and  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Charles  City,  or  New 
Market  Cross  Roads,  June  30,  1862,  and  carried  by  the  Confederates  to  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  where  he  died  July  30,  1862.     Gen.  McCall,  in  his  report  of  the 


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action,  says  among  other  things; — "Here  fell  the  fearless  Biddle,  my  Adjutant- 
General." 

He  married,  June  i,  1854,  Mary  Deborah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Baird  of  Read- 
ing, Pennsylvania. 

Issue  of  Henry  Jonathan  and  Deborah  (Baird)  Biddle: — 

Jonathan  Williams  Biddle,  b.  Aug.  i,  1855;  appointed  Aug.  31,  1876,  Second  Lieutenant  of 
Seventh  Regiment,  U.  S.  Cavalry;  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Snake  River,  Montana, 
Sept.  30,  1877; 

Lydia  McFunn  Biddle,  b.  April  9,  1857 ;  m.  April  22,  1880,  Moncure  Robinson,  Jr.,  of 
Philadelphia; 

Spencer  Fullerton  Baird  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  12,  1859; 

Christine  Williams  Biddle,  b.  Aug.  28,  i860; 

Henry  Jonathan  Biddle,  Jr.,  b.  May  14,  1862. 

Alexander  Biddle,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and  Christine  (Williams)  Biddle, 
born  in  Philadelphia  April  29,  1819,  entered  University  of  Pennsylvania  1834, 
graduated  1838.  He  was  some  years  president  of  the  Board  of  City  Trusts  and 
member  of  board  of  managers  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  He  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  America  Philosophical  Society,  of  Franklin  Institute,  Academy  of  Natural 
Sciences  and  of  a  number  of  other  scientific  institutions  and  societies.  He  was 
a  member  of  Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  a  vet- 
eran of  the  Civil  War,  having  served  successively  as  Major,  Lieutenant  Colonel 
and  Colonel  of  the  121st  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  1862-4.  He  mar- 
ried, October  11,  1855,  Julia  WilHams,  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Rush  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Issue  of  Alexander  and  Julia  IVilliams  (Rush)  Biddle: — 

Alexander  Williams  Biddle,  M.  D.,  b.  July  4,  1856;  graduated  at  Uni.  of  Pa.,  studied 
medicne  and  received  degree  of  M.  D.  at  Jeflferson  Medical  College ;  served  a  time  as 
Surgeon  of  First  City  Troop,  and  was  a  number  of  years  connected  with  a  number 
of  institutions  of  his  native  city;  now  living  retired  at  265  South  22d  street,  Philadel- 
phia. He  m.  June  19.  1879,  Anne.  dau.  of  Hon.  William  McKennan.  by  his  wife  Paul- 
ine Gertrude  de  Fontiveaux,  and  they  had  issue : — 

Pauline   Biddle.  b.   Aug.  7,   1880 ;  m.  April  25,   1906,  John   Penn   Brock,  of  Phila- 

adelphia ; 
Christine   Alexander   Biddle.   b.   Oct.   20,    1883; 
Julia  Rush  Biddle,  b.  Aug.  16,  1886; 
Isabel  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  6,   1888; 
Alexander   Biddle,   b.   April   4.    1893. 
Henry  Rush  Biddle,  b.  March  25,  1858,  d.  Jan.  2,  1877; 
Julia  Rush  Biddle,  b.  July  25,  1859; 
Louis  Alexander  Biddle,  b.  March  12,  1863 ; 
Marianna   Biddle.   b.   Nov.   8,    1866; 
Lyndford  Biddle,  b.  .Aug.  26,  1871. 

Jonathan  Williams  Biddle,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Christine  (Wil- 
liams) Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia  August  12,  1821,  died  there  April  21,  1856. 
He  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsylvania  1830,  studied  law,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  that  city  until 
his  death.  He  married,  April  16,  1846,  Emily  S.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  1824, 
daughter  of  Charles  Dulcena  Meigs,  M.  D.,  born  in  Georgia  February  17,  1792, 
and  located  in  Philadelphia  in  1820,  where  he  filled  the  position  of  Professor 
of  Medicine  at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  1820-62.     He  was  author  of  a  num- 


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ber  of  works  on  medical  science,  among  them,  "Midwifery",  (1838);  "Lectures 
on  the  Female",  (1847)  !  "Remarks  on  Spasmodic  Cholera",  (1848)  ;  "Obstertics", 
(1849)  ;  and  "Diseases  of  Children",  (1850).  After  the  death  of  her  husband, 
Mrs.  Emily  (Meigs)  Biddle  resided  many  years  on  Walnut  street  west  of 
Twelfth,  and  later  at  122  South  Twenty-second  street,  but  spent  much  of  her 
time  in  European  travel,  probably  one  of  the  most  extensive  travellers  in  for- 
eign parts,  of  the  women  of  Philadelphia.  She  died  at  her  summer  home,  Len- 
nox,  Massachusetts,  November  22,    1905. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Williams  and  Emily  (Meigs)  Biddle: — 

Christine  Williams  Biddle,  b.  Feb.  14,  1847,  d.  1901  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1873,  Richard  McCall 
Cadwalader.   Esq.,  of   Philadelphia ; 

Charles  Meigs  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  10,  1849,  d.  young ; 

Williams   Biddle,  b.  July   16,   1850,  d.  young; 

Mary  Biddle,  b.  Dec.  7,   1851,  d.  young; 

Thomas  Biddle,  M.  D.,  b.  July  7,  1853,  residing  at  122  South  22d  street ;  graduated  from 
Medical  Dept.  of  Univ.  of  Pa.  1876,  and  began  active  practice  of  medicine  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  is  a  Fellow  of  College  of  Physicians,  Philadelphia;  member  of  Executive 
Committee  of  St.  Christopher  Hospital  for  Children ;  chairman  of  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  Zoological  Society  of  Philadelphia ;  member  of  Council  of  Academy  of  Nat- 
ural Sciences  of  Philadelphia,  and  prominently  associated  with  a  number  of  other 
scientific  institutions  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  an  honorary  member  of  First  City  Troop, 
Philadelphia  City  Cavalry,  life-member  of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  member 
of  Philadelphia  and  Rabbit  Clubs  of  Philadelphia,  and  other  social  organizations.     He 

Emily  Williams  Biddle,  b.  March  15,  1855,  unm. 

Rebecca  Cornell  Biddle,  second  daughter  of  Col.  Clement,  and  Rebecca 
(Cornell)  Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  7,  1782,  died  September  2, 
1870.  She  married,  September  i,  1808,  Prof.  Nathaniel  Chapman,  M.  D.,  born 
near  Alexandria,  Virginia,  May  28,  1780,  and  died  in  Philadelphia  July  i,  1853. 
His  paternal  ancestor  came  to  Virginia  with  the  first  colonists  of  that  Province, 
and  was  a  relative  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 

Dr.  Chapman  finished  his  medical  studies  in  London  and  Edinburgh,  taking 
his  degree  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh.  He  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Philadelphia,  1804,  and  became  one  of  the  most  eminent  practitioners  of 
medicine  and  surgery  of  his  day.  He  was  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  1813-1816,  and  of  Practice  Institutes  and  Clinical  Medicine, 
1816-50.  He  founded  Medical  Institute  of  Philadelphia,  1817,  and  lectured  there 
during  the  summer  months  for  twenty-five  years.  During  the  cholera  epidemic 
of  1820,  he  had  charge  of  the  City  Hospital,  and  he  was  many  years  lecturer  on 
Clinical  Medicine  and  Surgery  at  the  City  Almshouse.  He  was  author  of  many 
valuable  works  on  medical  science,  among  them,  "Lectures  on  the  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Medicine",  "Eruption  Fevers",  "Elements  of  Therapeutics  and  Ma- 
teria Medica",  "Select  Speeches  and  Critical  and  Illustrative  Remarks"  (1817), 
and  was  also  a  considerable  contributor  to  the  Portfolio,  under  nom  de  plume 
of  "Falkland".  He  was  also  editor  of  Philadelphia  Journal  of  Medical  and  Phy- 
sical Sciences,  many  years. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Nathaniel  and  Rebeckah  Cornell  (Biddle)  Chapman: — 

Emily  Chapman,  b.  Aug.  5,  1810,  d.  July  20,  1852,  m.  Nov.   i,  1833,  John  Montgomery 

Gordon,  Esq.,  of  Va. ; 
John  Biddle  Chapman,  b.  June  3,  1811,  d.  Feb.  28,  1845,  m.  Mary  Randolph  of  Va. ; 


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George  William  Chapman,  b.  Dec.  lo,  1816,  d.  Feb.  19,  1853;  m.  June  6,  1838,  Emily 
Markoe.  daughter  of  John  Markoe.  Entered  U.  S.  N.  as  Midshipman,  1832 ;  Passed 
Midshipman.   1838;   Lieutenant,   1841  ;   issue: — 

Mary   Randolph    Chapman,   b.    May   22,    1839;     m.   Oct.    13,    1859,   John   Borland 

Thayer,  Esq.,  of   Phila. ; 
Elizabeth  Camac  Chapman,  b.  April   19,  1842,  m.  June  10.   1862.  William  Davis 

Winsor,  of  Boston,  Mass. ; 
Henry  Cadwalader  Chapman,  b.  Aug.  17,  1845,  m.  Dec.  3,  1876,  Hannah  Megar- 

gee; 
Rebecca   Chapman,   b.    Dec.   2,    1848,   m.    May  30,    1872,   James   Davis   Winsor   of 

Boston,   Mass. ; 
George  Chapman,  b.  July  5,  1852,  d.  Aug.  1853. 

Issue  of  William  Davis  and  Elicabcth  Camac  (Chapman)   Winsor: — 

Emily  Chapman  Winsor,  b.  April  4,   1863; 
Louisa  Brooks  Winsor,  b.  Aug.   12,   1868. 

Issue  of  James  Daz'is  and  Rebecca  (Chapman)  Winsor: — 

May  Winsor,  b.  March  28,   1873; 
Henry  Winsor,  b.  March  29,  1875; 
James  Davis  Winsor,  Jr.,  b.   Sept.  6,  1876; 
Ellen  Winsor,  b.  Nov.  30,  1878. 

Colonel  Clement  Cornell  Biddle,  fourth  son  of  Col.  Qement  and  Rebekah 
(_ Cornell)  Biddle,  born  October  24,  1784,  died  August  21,  1855,  entered  U.  S.  N. 
ds  midshipman  February  12,  1799,  but  resigned  March  30.  1804.  Returning  to 
Philadelphia,  he  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  practised  some  years. 
Believing  that  a  war  with  England  would  immediately  result  from  the  Chesapeake 
outrage,  1807,  he  entered  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States  as  captain  of  a 
company  in  the  Regiment  of  Light  Dragoons,  was  commissioned  May  3,  1808.  but 
when  the  affair  was  amicably  settled  he  sent  in  his  resignation,  dated  September 
30,  1809,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession.  When  the  war  did  break 
out,  in  1812,  he  raised  a  company  known  as  "State  Fencibles",  of  which  he  was 
elected  captain,  and  took  them  into  the  service.  He  was,  however,  soon  commis- 
sioned Colonel  of  the  First  Regiment.  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
served  throughout  the  war.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  devoted  much  time  to 
study  of  political  economy,  and  became  an  eminent  authority  on  that  subject.  He 
married,  March  10,  1814.  Mary  Searle,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Barclay  of  Phila- 
delphia, by  his  second  wife  Mary  Searle. 

Hon.  John  Barclay  came   from   Ballyshannon,   Ireland,  to  Philadelphia,    1767, 
died  in  Philadelphia  August,  1816.     He  was  Mayor  of  the  city  1791. 
Issue  of  Col.  Clement  Cornell  and  Mary  Searle  (Barclay)  Biddle: — 

Dr.  John  Barclay  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  3.  1815,  d.  Jan.  19,  1879,  m.  Nov.  7.  1850,  Caroline 
Phillips;  Dean  of  Jefferson  Medical  College;  professor  of  Materia  Medica;  visiting 
physician  of  Girard  College  and  of  Philadelphia  County  Prison  and  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Asylum ; 

Hon.  George  Washington  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  11,  1818,  ni.  Maria  McMurtrie,  of  Burling- 
ton, N.  J.,  of  whom  presently ; 

Col.  Chapman  Biddle,  b.  Jan.  22,  1822.  d.  Dec.  9,  1880;  m.  Aug.  14.  1849.  Mary  Living- 
ston, dau.  of  Capt.  Walter  Livingston  Cochran  of  New  York,  and  granddaughter  of 
Dr.  John  Cochran  of  Chester  Co.,  Pa.,  who  m.  Gertrude  Schuyler  of  New  York.  Col. 
Biddle  raised  I2ist  Regiment,  Pa.  Vol.,  and  in  command  of  the  brigade  of  which  it 
formed  a  part,  served  during  part  of  Civil  War.  His  regiment  was  cut  to  pieces  at 
battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  Col.   Biddle  wounded.     He  held  high   rank  as  a   lawyer  at 


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Philadelphia  Bar  and   served   some  years   as  counsel  for  the   Pennsylvania  Railroad 
Company. 

George  Washington  Biddle,  second  son  of  Col.  Clement  C.  and  Mary  Searle 
(Barclay)  Biddle,  born  in  Philadelphia  January  11,  1818.  prominent  member  of 
Philadelphia  Bar,  was  Chancellor  of  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia,  1880-91. 
The  University  of  Pennsylvania  conferred  upon  him  degree  of  LL.D.,  1882. 

He  married  Maria  McMurtrie,  daughter  WilHam  McMurtrie,  and  had  issue : — 

Georgx;,  b.  Aug.  21,   1843,  m.  Mary  Hosack,  daughter  of  F.  Kearney  Rodgers  of  New 
York,  and  had  issue : — 

Electrode   Kearney ; 

Constance  Elizabeth ; 

Alice    McMurtrie ; 

Maria  Georgina. 
Algernon  Sydney,  b.  Oct.  11,  1847,  m.  June  28,  1879,  Frances  Robinson;  had  issue; — 

Moncure,  b.  1882 ; 

George  Washington ; 

Francis; 

Sydney  Geoffrey. 
Arthur,  b.  Sept.  23,  1852,  m.  Nov.  18,  1880,  Julia,  dau.  of  Thomas  Alexander  and  Julia 
(Cox)  Biddle;  and  had  issue: — 

Edith  Frances,  b.  Oct.  8.  1881  ; 

Julia  Cox.  b.   Dec.   16,   1882,  d.  same  day ; 

Alfred  Alexander,  b.  Dec.  19,   1885 ; 

Julian  Cornell,  b.  April  19th,  1890. 

Anne  Wilkinson  Biddle,  daughter  of  Col.  Clement  and  Rebeckah  (Cornell) 
Biddle,  born  June  12,  1791,  married  June  2,  1822,  Thomas  Dunlap,  of  Philadel- 
phia, several  years  president  of  the  Bank  of  the  United  States. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Anne  Wilkinson  (Biddle)  Dunlap: — 

Sallie   Biddle   Dunlap,   b.   March    ig,    1823; 

Juliana  Dunlap,  b.   Oct.   19.   1825 ; 

Lydia  Biddle  Dunlap,  b.  Sept.  i,  1826,  d.  young; 

Mary  ,  d,   young; 

Rebeckah  Biddle  Dunlap,  b.  March   10,  1829; 

Nannie  Dunlap,  b.  Nov.  21,  1830,  m.  George  Mecum  Canarroe,  Esq.,  of  Phila. ; 
Thomas  Dunlap,  b.  Aug.  25,  1832,  m.  July  10,  1856,  Margaret  A.  Lewis,  of  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Nannie  Dunlap,  daughter  of  Thomas  Dunlap,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia  Bar, 
by  his  wife  Anne  Wilkinson,  daughter  of  Col.  Clement  Biddle,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, November  21,  1830,  married  Feb.  4,  1868,  George  Mecum  Conarroe,  Esq., 
a  most  prominent  and  able  member  of  Philadelphia  Bar,  bom  in  Philadelphia, 
November  9,  1831,  died  at  his  summer  residence  near  York  Harbor,  Maine, 
August  25,  1896. 

From  "Report  of  the  Nineteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation"  (1896),  pp.  675-677,  we  quote  the  following  Memorial  of  Mr.   Conar- 


"GEORGE   M.   CONARROE. 
"The   late   George   Mecum   Conarroe,   died   from   an   attack   of  bronchial   pneumonia   on 
August   25,    1896,   in   the   sixty-fifth  year  of  his   age,   near  York  Harbor,   Maine,   where   he 
possessed  an  extensive  and  beautiful  place,  high  on  the  bold  rocks  of  the  coast  overlooking 


the  sea,  in  which,  (luring  his  later  years,  after  he  had  retired  from  active  professional  life, 
he  took  the  greatest  interest  and   delight. 

"He  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  November  9,  1831.  He  was  the  son  of  George  W. 
Conarroe,  an  artist  of  prominence.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  and  under  the  guidance  of 
Charles  E.  Lex,  Esq.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Philadelphia  on  May  14,  1853.  He 
was  a  most  careful  and  accurate  student  and  acquired  that  real  knowledge  of  legal  prin- 
ciples which  is  sure  to  bring  success,  and  what  is  more,  gain  the  recognition  of  one's  pro- 
fessional brothers.  He  was  pre-eminently  learned  in  the  law  of  real  estate  and  of  trusts. 
He  was  the  legal  mentor  rather  than  the  advocate.  He  acquired  a  large  practice  especially 
in  the  management  of  estates,  and  his  experience  was  such  that  he  would  have  made  an 
admirable  judge  in  a  probate  court.  His  mind  was  clear  and  logical  and  his  use  of  the  Eng- 
lish language  exact,  as  shown  in  his  able  opinions  which  treat  of  many  intricate  and  import- 
ant questions.  His  guidance  to  clients  when  in  financial  difficulties  often  saved,  where  in 
other  hands  there  would  have  been  failure,  for  in  addition  to  his  legal  attainments  he  was, 
contrary  to  the  opinion  generally  held  of  lawyers,  an  able  business  man,  and  managed  the 
interests  of  others  as  well  as  his  own,  with  much  profit  and  advantage. 

"In  politics  he  had  always  been  a  Republican  even  before  the  war-times  and  never 
wavered  in  his  allegiance  to  that  party,  believing  in  its  principles  and  aims.  He  was  one  of 
the  early  members  of  the  Union  League  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  an  indefatigable  worker 
for  the  cause  of  the  Union. 

"He  was  never  a  politician,  preferring  personally  the  life  of  a  private  citizen,  but  took 
the  greatest  interest  in  public  affairs  with  which  he  was  thoroughly  conversant,  and  was  on 
terms  of  intimacy  with  many  public  men  of  the  day.  His  interest  in  the  country's  welfare 
continued  unabated  even  when  an  invalid.  He  was  most  anxious  for  the  election  of  Mr. 
McKinley,  but  did  not  live  to  see  its  accomplishment,  dying  in  the  midst  of  the  campaign. 

"His  interest  in  everything  American  made  him  proud  of  our  history.  He  was  one  of 
the  early  members  of  the  Society  of  Sons  of  the  Revolution  being  the  descendant  of  an 
officer,  and  particularly  gave  his  aid  to  those  undertakings  of  the  Society  which  tended  to 
keep  alive  the  memory  of  the  Revolutionary  times  as  giving  the  best  lessons  in  patriotism.  He 
was  also  one  of  its  Board  of  Managers  until  his  death. 

In  religion  he  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  by  conviction  as 
well  as  by  inheritance,  and  was  what  in  old  times  would  have  been  called  a  high  churchman. 
He  was  very  prominent  in  its  affairs  and  was  repeatedly  a  delegate  to  its  conventions. 
where  he  was  a  leading  figure,  and  it  has  been  truly  said  that  it  will  be  hard  to  fill  his 
place.  He  was  learned  in  ecclesiastical  law  and  was  sought  as  an  advisor  by  bishops  and 
clergy.  The  position  that  he  occupied  in  the  church  was  evidenced  by  the  large  number  of 
clergymen  from  various  places  who  showed  him  the  last  mark  of  respect  in  their  presence  at 
his  funeral,  which  took  place  at  the  Church  of  St.  James  the  Less  at  Philadelphia,  and 
where  amidst  its  solemn  rural  beauty  he  now  rests. 

"His  wife  who  survives  him  was  Miss  Nannie  Dunlap,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Thom- 
as Dunlap,  Esq.,  a  leading  lawyer  of  Philadelphia  of  half  a  century  ago.  This  union  was 
one  of  those  which  are  truly  helpful,  for  they  did  all  things  together,  mutually  aiding  one 
another  and  sharing  their  sorrows  and  joys.  Mr  Conarroe  was  won't  to  speak  with  feeling 
of  the  goodness  and  sweetness  of  his  wife  whose  helpful  sympathy  he  proudly  acknowledged. 
"In  all  that  Mr.  Conarroe  undertook  he  was  earnest  and  persevering— no  labor  and  trou- 
ble was  too  great;  and  in  anything  that  he  believed  should  be  done,  he  was  markedly  de- 
termined of  purpose  and  would  not  be  turned  aside. 

"He  was  one  of  the  truest  of  friends.  His  friendship  was  not  only  that  of  sentiment, 
but  he  ever  bore  in  mind  what  would  be  to  the  real  advantage  of  those  for  whom  he  cared, 
and  spared  no  effort  to  advance  their  hopes  and  ambitions.  Many  a  friend  owes  his  eleva- 
tion to  a  position  of  honor  and  reward  or  to  success  of  some  other  kind  to  the  aid  which 
Mr.  Conarroe  has  given  him.  He  has  left  an  example  which  all  might  well  imitate,  both  in 
his  private  life  and  in  adorning  the  profession  of  his  choice. 

"George  Mecum  Conarroe  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
March  26,  1889,  becoming  a  life  member,  and  was  elected  to  the  Board  of  Managers,  1892. 
In  the  annual  report  of  the  Board  for  1896,  there  is  an  obituary  notice,  much  shorter  than 
the  above,  which   says  in  part : 

"Akhough  a  man  of  retiring  and  domestic  tastes,  he  took  an  active  interest  in  public 
affairs,  and  in  the  affairs  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  to  whose  conventions  he  was 
repeatedly  elected  a  delegate.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Mark's  Church,  and  of  the 
Church  of  St,  James-the-Less,  Philadelphia,  and' a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  and  Penn 
Clubs." 

George  Mecum  Conarroe  is  said  to  have  been  a  descendant  of  Luigi  Cornaro,  a 
noble  \'enetian,  descended  from  one  of  the  most  noble  and  illustrious  families  of 
Venice,  who  died  at  Padua,  1565,  at  about  the  age  of  one  hundred  years.  .At  the 
age  of  four  score,  he  published  a  book  on  the  advantages  of  temperance,  in  Italian, 
translated  into  Latin  by  Leonard  Lessius,  a  Professor  of  Philosophy  and  Divinity 
in  the  Jesuit  College  at  Louvain,  who  died  January  5,  1623,  aged  sixty-nine  years ; 


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translated  into  English  by  Timothy  Smith,  an  Apothecary  of  London,  and  pub- 
lished in  that  city,  1743.  An  original  copy  of  this  quaint  old  book  can  be  found 
in  the  Philadelphia  Library. 

As  a  preface  to  this  quaint  little  volume,  is  given  an  "Extract  from  Collier's 
Historical  Dictionary",  which  gives  the  following  account  of  the  author : — 

"Lewis  Cornaro,  descended  from  one  of  the  most  noble  and  illustrious  Families  of 
"Venice,  was  born  in  the  isth  Century.  He  wrote  a  Book  of  the  Advantage  of  Temperance, 
"translated  into  Latin,  by  Lessius.  He  died  at  Padua  in  1565,  being  about  a  hundred  Years 
"old.  Thaunus  in  the  38th  Book  of  his  History  gives  a  Character  of  him  Part  of  which  I 
"shall  transcribe  for  the  Reader :  'Lewis  Comoro'  says  he,  'was  an  extraordinary  and  admir- 
"able  instance  of  Long  Life ;  for  he  lived  a  hundred  Years  without  any  Decay  in  his 
"Health  or  Understanding.  By  his  Temperance  and  the  Regimen  he  observed,  he  recovered 
"his  Constitution  from  some  Infirmities,  the  Liberty  of  his  Youth  had  brought  upon  him ; 
"and  likewise  by  the  Force  of  Thought  and  Care  conquered  his  natural  Propensity  to 
"Choler;  insomuch  that  when  he  came  to  be  old,  he  enjoyed  an  extraordinary  Degree  of 
"Health,  and  was  remarkable  for  the  Equahty  and  Sedateness  of  his  Temper,  as  he  had 
"been  formerly  for  his  Passion.  He  wrote  Books  on  this  Argument  in  his  Old  Age,  in 
"which  he  mentions  the  Disorder  of  his  Youth,  and  promisses  himselfe  a  great  many  Years 
"to  come :  Neither  was  he  deceived  in  his  Expectation ;  for  he  held  out  to  above  a 
"Hundred,  and  then  died  a  very  easy  Death.  His  Wife  who  was  no  less  aged  than  him- 
"self   survived   him." 

The  following  quotation  from  the  Spectator,  vol.  IH,  No.  195,  is  also  given : 

"The  most  remarkable  Instance  of  the  Efficacy  of  Temperance  towards  the  procuring 
"of  Long  Life,  is  what  we  meet  with  in  a  little  Book  published  by  Lewis  Cornaro,  the 
"Venetian;  which  I  rather  mention,  because  it  is  of  undoubted  Credit,  as  the  late  Venetian 
"Ambassador,  who  was  of  the  same  family  attested  more  than  once  in  Conversation,  when 
"he  resided  in  England.  Cornaro,  who  was  the  Author  of  the  little  Treatise  I  am  mention- 
"ing,  was  of  infirm  Constitution  till  about  Forty;  when  by  obstinately  persisting  in  an 
"exact  Course  of  Temperance,  he  recovered  a  perfect  State  of  Health ;  insomuch  that  at 
"Fourscore  he  published  his  Book.  He  lived  to  give  a  Third,  or  Fourth  Edition  of  it; 
"and  after  having  passed  his  Hundredth  year  died  without  Pain  or  Agony  and  like  one 
"who   falls   asleep." 

"The  Treatise  I  mention,  has  been  taken  notice  of  by  several  eminent  Authors ;  and  is 
"written  with  such  Spirt  of  Cheerfulness,  Religion,  and  good  Sense,  as  are  natural  Con- 
"comitants  of  Temperance  and  Sobriety.  The  Mixture  of  the  old  Man  in  it,  is  rather  a 
"Recommendation  than  a  Discredit  to  it." 


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In  the  town  of  Shepton  Mallett,  Somersetshire,  England,  stands  the  old  parish 
church  of  Saint  Peter  and  Saint  Paul,  on  whose  registers  the  name  of  Emlen,  with 
its  various  spellings,  frequently  occurs.  Of  these  the  earliest  is  in  the  "Perfect 
Register  of  the  names  of  all  those  that  are  now  placed  in  the  fore  mentioned  new 
erected  seats  by  ye  fore  named  persons  to  that  purpose  deputed  and  designed, 
made  the  29th  day  of  March,  1619,  .  .  .  North  Aisle  on  the  East  Side,  Seat 
no.  4,  Thomas  Emblin,  for  his  life:  payment,  10  s." 

According  to  tradition  the  Emlen  family  came  into  England  from  Wales,  on  the 
early  records  of  which  country  the  name  has  been  found. 

The  name  Emlen  can  be  traced  to  ancient  dates.  In  Gibson's  Camden's  Britannia 
reference  is  made  to  "the  old  British  name  of  Emlin" — "which  was  common  among  the 
Britains  anciently,  and  is  partly  yet  retained."  "It  was  Roman  and  is  the  same  with 
^milinus  mentioned  in  Denbigshire,  which  the  Inscription  calls  Aimilini."  "Not  far 
from  Klokainog  we  read  this  inscription  on  a  stone  (which  is  doubtless  an  epitaph  of  some 
soldier  of  note,  who  can  be  but  very  little,  if  at  all,  later  than  the  Romans) 
'Aimilini 
Tovisag'  " 
"The  name  Aimilinus  we  are  to  understand  as  the  same  with  .^-^milinus  and  that  no  other 
than  .^milianus.  As  for  the  second  word  .  .  .  Tovisag  or  Tovisaci :  if  the  former,  it  is 
British  and  signifies  a  leader  or  general ;  and  if  the  latter,  it  seems  only  the  same  word 
Latinised.  "The  place  where  this  stone  lies  is  called  Rryn  y  Bedheu,  which  signifies  the 
Hill  of  Graves,  and  .  .  .  there  is  near  it  an  artificial  mount  .  .  .  also  .  .  .  there 
are  several  circles  of  stones ;  and,  in  the  same  neighborhood,  a  place  called  Rhys  y  Gadva, 
or  Battle-field."  In  "Arch:eologia  Cambrensis,"  this  stone  is  called  "The  Sepulchral  Stone 
of  Emlyn" ;  after  some  explanation  it  is  there  stated  that:  "The  late  Mr.  Aneurin  Owen, 
one  of  the  most  eminent  Welsh  scholars  and  archaeologists,  considered  this  stone  to  be 
the  memorial  of  a  Welsh  prince  or  leader,  Emlyn ;  .  .  .  .  The  tradition  of  the  place 
seems  constantly  to  have  been  in  favor  of  this  being  the  grave  of  a  prince  or  nobleman 
named  Emlyn ;  .  .  .  I  think  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  this  Emlyn  Inscription  is  a  very 
early  one  and  that  it  dates  from  the  fifth  or  sixth  century." 

This  stone  has  now  been  removed  for  safety  to  Pool  Park."  As  to  the  Roman  origin 
of  the  name,  further  information  can  be  educed  (see  Century  Dictionary  and  Encyclo- 
pedia). Down  as  late  as  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,  we  find  on  the  Emlen  family 
records  in  England  such  names  as  Maximilian  and  Dionysius.  In  a  history  of  Pembroke- 
shire, ve  read  that  Wales  was  "in  Ancient  tyme  devided  into  Cantredes  and  Comotts" 

.  .  "of  these  "Emlyn  Cantred  containeninge  three  Comottes"  ...  In  this  Cantred 
was  New  Castle  Emlyn ;  called  New  Castle  on  account  of  having  been  rebuilt  by  Sir  Rhys 
ap  Thomas.     Its  ruins  remain  to  this  day,  and  concerning  it,  accounts  have  been  written. 

Our  earliest  information  in  regard  to  the  founder  of  the  family  in  Pennsyl- 
vania is  taken  from  an  "Account  of  the  life  of  George  Emlen,  late  of  Philadel- 
phia", as  given  by  his  sons,  Joshua  and  Samuel  Emlen,  which  locates  the  birth- 
place of  their  father  at  Shepton  Mallett. 

.According  to  the  "Account",  the  parents  of  George  Emlen,  who  are  unfortun- 
ately not  named,  died  while  he  was  young,  and  in  consequence  George  was  placed 
"under  the  care  and  tuition  of  an  .'\unt,  who  was  a  Presbyterian.  He  was  one  of 
that  people  till  he  arrived  at  mature  age,  when  .  .  .  turning  a  Friend,  he  was 
deprived  of  his  Aunt's  favor,  or  expectations  from  her,  who  was  a  Person  of 
considerable  substance  in  the  World.  When  meeting  her  displeasure,  he  was 
necessitated  to  provide  for  himself,"  and  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1682.  "with 
William  Penn,"  as  the  account  states. 

On  i2mo.  3,  t(>87-8,  George  Emlen  "A'intner",  received  a  Proprietory  grant  of 


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property  on  the  north  side  of  Chestnut  street,  between  Second  and  Third  streets. 
He  subsequently  acquired  additional  land  adjoining  and  also  on  Sassafras  street, 
by  which  name  Race  street  was  formerly  known. 

On  3mo.  (May)  3,  1690,  he  and  five  others  petitioned  the  Commissioners  of 
Property  for  a  reduction  of  the  quitrents  on  their  lots  on  Chestnut  street,  which 
was  granted  them. 

George  Emlen  married  first,  gmo.  12,  1685,  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Penn's 
commissioner,  Nathanial  Allen.  She  died  imo.  22,  1690.  He  married  second, 
Hannah  Garrett,  June  5,  1694 ;  she  was  born  in  Harby,  Leicestershire,  England, 
June  2},,  1674,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Kirk)  Garrett,  of  Darby,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

George  Emlen  died  lomo.  24,  17 10.  Concerning  his  death,  his  sons  wrote  as 
follows :  "The  evening  after  he  had  settled  his  worldly  affairs  and  made  his  will, 
he  called  for  his  four  sons,  and  his  wife  being  present,  he  addressed  himself  to 
them  after  the  following  manner :  'Children  I  have  been  appointing  somewhat 
for  you,  and  do  now  advise  you,  to  live  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord,  and  to  be  dutiful 
and  obedient  to  your  mother,  and  to  keep  to  truth  and  plainness ;  to  be  loving 
and  kind  to  your  sisters;'  with  diverse  other  weighty  expressions,  and  the  next 
morning  quietly  departed  this  life,  being  on  a  Christmas  day,  so  called,  and  on 
the  7th  of  the  week,  and  the  day  following  was  decently  interred  in  Friends'  bury- 
ing ground,  after  the  afternoon  meeting,  the  Corpse  being  first  carried  to  the 
meeting  house  and  from  thence  to  the  burying  ground,  accompanied  by  a  large 
number  of  Friends  and  others." 

Hannah,  widow  of  George  Emlen,  married,  lomo.  20,  1716,  William  Tidmarsh, 
of  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  6mo.  24,  1738.  Of  Hannah  Emlen  her  sons 
Joshua  and  Samuel  wrote:  "she  was  a  noble  example  to  them  [her  children]  in 
all  that  was  good  and  laudable  ...  an  entire  friend  to  the  Poor  and  Dis- 
tressed ;  undaunted  in  danger,  an  easy  mistress  and  good  neighbor,  neither  lavish 
nor  penurious,  but  an  example  of  industry  as  well  to  her  own  children  as  ser- 
vants    .     .     .     and  dyed  in  peace." 

Issue  of  George  and  Hannah  (Garrett)  Emlen: 

George  Emlen,  b.  5mo.  7,  1695,  d.  lomo.  24,  1754;    m.  Mary  Heath; 

Samuel  Emlen,  b.  2mo.  15,  1697;    d.  lomo.  28,  1783;    m.  Rachel  Hudson; 

Caleb  Emlen,  b,  4mo.  9,  1699,  d.   lomo.  13,  1748;  unm. ; 

Joshua  Emlen.  b.  2mo.  14,  1701,  d.  smo.  22,  1776;  m.  first,  Mary  (Helton)  Hud- 
son ;  second,  Deborah  Powell ; 

Hannah   Emlen,  b.    i2mo.  3,   1703-4,  d.  8mo.  6,   171 1 ; 

Ann  Emlen,  b.  3mo.  19,  1705 ;  m.  4mo.  15,  1732,  William  Miller,  of  Chester  county, 
Pa. ;  born  within  the  verge  of  Grange  Monthly  Meeting,  Tyrone,  Ireland,  in  the  2d 
mo.,   1698;    son  of  John  and  Mary  Miller; 

Mary  Emlen,  b.  iimo.  i,  1707-8,  d.  s.  p.,  2mo.  18,  1791 ;  m.  1728,  John  Armitt,  b.  lomo. 
8,   1702,   died  smo.   20,   1762,   son  of  Richard  and   Sophia   Armitt ; 

Sarah  Emlen,  b.  imo.  19,  1709-10,  d.  8mo.  2,  1752,  at  the  home  of  her  brother,  Joshua 
Emlen;  m.  3mo.  25,  1738,  James,  son  of  Solomon  and  Anna   (Watson)    Cresson. 

George  Emlen  (George),  born  5mo.  7,  1695,  died  lomo.  24,  1754;  married. 
2mo.  24,  1717,  Mary,  born  in  England,  4mo.  11,  1692,  died  6mo.2,  1777;  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Susannah  Heath, who  came  from  Staffordshire, England,  about  1701. 

Of  George  Emlen,  the  second,  his  brothers  wrote  that  "being  the  oldest  son  he 
became  a  tender  father  to  his  brothers  and  sisters."    He  served  his  apprenticeship 


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with  a  brewer,  in  the  later  following  of  which  business  he  greatly  prospered.  He 
took  a  prominent  part  in  public  aflfairs,  being  a  member  of  Common  Council  of 
the  city  from  1730  to  1739,  then  an  office  of  some  distinction.  In  1731,  when  the 
Philadelphia  Library  was  founded,  George  Emlen  was  one  of  the  charter 
members. 

In  1735  he  purchased  property  at  Fifth  and  Chestntt  streets,  opposite  Inde- 
pendence Hall,  the  family  home  for  many  years.  It  is  not  known  whether  he 
built  the  house  near  Camp  Hill,  Montgomery  county,  which,  in  the  possession  and 
occupancy  of  his  son,  George  Emlen  the  third,  became  famous  as  Washington's 
headquarters.  Recorded  deeds  show  that  George  Emlen,  "brewer",  did  own  land 
in  that  neighborhood,  to  which  he  was  no  doubt  attracted  because  of  its  nearness 
to  his  brother-in-law,  Morris  Morris,  living  at  "Hope  Lodge,"  a  fine  old  mansion 
which  still  stands,  a  well  preserved  example  of  early  Colonial  architecture. 

"Emlenton,"  near  Tacony,  recently  taken  down  by  Henry  Disston  and  Sons, 
was  also  family  property,  the  first  owner  of  which  may  have  been  this  George 
Emlen,  or  his  son  George  Emlen,  third  of  the  name. 

Mary  (Heath)  Emlen  was  a  highly  esteemed  minister  in  the  Society  of  Friends 
for  nearly  fifty  years,  and  in  this  calling  visited  New  England  and  other  places. 
Issue  of  George  and  Mary  (Heath)  Emlen: — 

George  Emlen,  b.  6ino.  21,  1718,  d.   imo.  3,   1776;    m.  Anne  Reckless; 

Hannah  Emlen,  b.  4mo.  I,  1722,  d.  irao.  30,  1777:  m.  imo.  24,  1740,  at  Philadelphia 
Meeting,  William,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  (Read)  Logan.  It  was  to  Hannah 
(Emlen)  Logan  that  the  pewter  plate  (see  illustration)  belong.  The  plate  is 
one  of  a  number  of  dishes  so  marked,  now  owned  by  Mr.  Sidney  Logan.  Burke's 
General  Armory,  under :  "Emline  or  Emley,  Helmdon,  county  Hants.  Sa.  a  wild 
man  statant,  wreathed  about  the  loins  and  temples,  holding  with  both  hands  a  tree 
eradicated,  all  ppr.  Crest:  A  demi  wild  man,  as  in  the  arms,  holding  with  both  hands 
a  club  over  the  right  shoulder,  all  ppr.  Motto :  Honestum  praetulit  utili."  The 
supposition  is  that  the  set  to  which  the  plate  belonged  was  part  of  the  outfit  of  Han- 
nah Emlen  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  in  1740  to  William  Logan.  Several  seals  of 
the  arms  and  crest,  as  above  described,  are  in  possession  of  different  members  of  the 
Emlen  family  in  America,  and  the  same  crest  appeared  on  the  envelope  enclosing  a  let- 
ter recently  received  from  Dr.  Charles  W.  Emlyn,  of  London,  whose  "great  uncle.  Arch- 
itect to  George  IV..  is  buried  in  St.  George's  Chapel,"  Windsor,  where  is  a  tablet  to 
his  memory.  'The  Helmdon  branch  of  the  family  appears  about  the  middle  of  the  i6th 
century,  when  Thomas  Emylie.  Esq..  "Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Netherbury.  in  the  Par- 
ish of  Helmedon,  County  Northampton,"  married  Joyce,  daughter  of  Thomas  God- 
wyn,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells.  This  marriage  may  afford  some  explanation  for  the 
appearance  of  Emlens  in  the  county  of  Somersetshire.  The  fact  that  Dionysius  Emylie 
of  Helmedon  (who  was  apparently  a  brother  of  said  Thomas)  went  to  Wales  to 
live,  and  there  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six  years,  may  account  for  the  tra- 
dition that  the  family  came  from  that  part  of  the  country,  although  other  Emlyns  ap- 
pear on  Welsh  records.  Said  Dionysius  had  a  son  Thomas,  baptized  1588,  who  could 
have  been  the  same  person  who  in  1619.  made  payment  for  Seat  No.  4  "for  his  life"  in 
the  Parish  Church  at  Shepton  Mallet,  as  hereinbefore  described.  Another  tradi- 
tion in  the  American  branch  is  that  a  family  connection  existed,  by  marriage,  with  the 
Dryden  family,  which  is  explained  from  the  facts  that  Thomas  and  Joyce  Emylie's  eldest 
daughter  married  Nicholas  Dryden,  brother  of  Erasmus  Dryden.  'The  granddaughter 
of  this  Erasmus  Dryden  married  Sylvester  Emlyn,  father  of  Thomas  Emlyn,  the  noted 
"champion  of  Arianism."  Sylvester  Emlyn  was  therefore  brother-in-law  to  the  Poet 
Laureate,  John  Dryden. 

Joseph  Emlen,  b.  smo.  i,  1728,  d.  iimo.  17,  1750;    unm. 

S.\MUEL  Emlen  (George),  born  2mo.  15,  1697,  died  lomo.  28.  1783;  married, 
lomo.  2,  1731,  Rachel,  born  9mo.  11,  1707,  died  gmo.  12,  1771  :  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  (Richardson)  Hudson.  Samuel  Emlen,  "the  Elder",  was 
described  as,  "through  life  a  remarkably  healthy  man,  about  middle  stature,  not 


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corpulent,   very   temperate   in   living."     His   will    indicates   that  he  left  a  large 
estate. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Rachel  (Hudson)  Enilcn: — 

Hudson   Emlen,   merchant,   3mo.    26,    1768;     unm. ; 

Sarah   Emlen,  d.   s.  p.,   i2mo.    16,   1813,  in  the  eightieth  year  of  her  age ;    m.   imo.   12, 

1773!   Thomas,  son  of   Richard  and   Margaret    (Preston)    Moore,  and   great-grandson 

of  Gov.   Thomas   Lloyd. 

Joshua  Emlen  (George),  born  21x10.  14,  1701,  died  smo.  22,  1776;  married 
soon  after  gmo.  25,  1726  (at  which  date  they  "passed  Meeting")  Mary  (Holton), 
widow  of  Samuel  Hudson,  and  daughter  of  Arthur  and  Elizabeth  (Guest)  Holton. 
She  died  i2mo.  23,  1726.  He  married  second,  soon  after  gmo.  29,  1728, 
Deborah,  born  8mo.  24,  1706,  died  imo.  16,  1729-30;  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Abigail    (Wilcox)    Powell. 

Joshua  Emlen,  "tanner",  became  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  of  the  city 
in  1742,  and  served  at  intervals  until  1756.    He  lived  at  the  upper  end  of  Second 
street,  in  the  Northern  Liberties,  beyond  the  then  limits  of  the  city. 
Issue  of  Joshua  and  Deborah  (Powell)  Emlen: — 

Samuel  Emlen,  b.  imo.  15,  1730,  d.  i2mo.  30,  1799;  m.  first,  7mo.  6,  1761,  at  Phila- 
delphia Meeting,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  Moode.  He  married  second,  2  mo.  I, 
1770,  Sarah,  who  d.   lomo.   26,   1796;    dau.  of  Asher   Mott. 

Samuel  Emlen  was  one  of  the  most  noted  ministers  among  Philadelphia  Friends, 
and  is  known  as  Samuel  Emlen  "the  minister"  and  "the  seer."  He  is  described  as  a 
slender,  neatly  built  man,  with  a  light,  quick  step.  He  was  an  apt  scholar,  being 
acquainted  with  Latin  and  Greek,  and  so  well  versed  in  the  modern  languages  that 
he  was  able  in  his  ministry  abroad  to  address  his  listeners  in  their  own  tongues.  After 
finishing  his  education,  he  became  apprentice  in  the  counting-house  of  James  Pem- 
berton,  but  having  sufficient  means  was  never  in  business  on  his  own  account.  He 
first  spoke  in  the  ministry  in  1756,  at  a  meeting  in  Ireland,  while  on  his  first  visit 
abroad.  Many  anecdotes  are  told  of  his  wonderful  insight  into  the  character  and 
condition  of  those  with  whom  he  came  into  contact,  and  the  startling  words  addressed 
to  them.     He  visited  England  si.x  times,  also  Ireland,  Holland  and  the  Barbadoes. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Moode)  Emlen: — 

William  Emlen,  b.  smo.   17,   1765,  d.  under  age ; 

Samuel  Emlen,  b.  gmo.  4,  1766,  d.  s.  p.,  i2mo.  29,  1837;  m.  4mo.  16,  1795,  Sus- 
annah, dau.  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Smith)  Dillwyn.  They  lived  at 
"West  Hill",  Burlington  county,  N.  J.,  (afterward  the  home  of  Eliza  Gurney). 
After  his  wife's  death,  Samuel  Emlen  resided  in  the  town  of  Burlington. 
The  Emlen  Institute  for  the  education  of  orphan  boys  of  African  and  Indian 
descent,  first  organized  in  Ohio,  but  finally  removed  to  Bucks  county,  Pa.,  was 
founded  by  Samuel  Emlen.  At  present  the  foundation  is  vested  in  the  colored 
school  at  Cheyney,   Chester  co..   Pa. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Mott)  Emlen: — 

Deborah  Emlen,  d.  4mo.  17,  1789,  aged  seventeen  years; 

Elizabeth  Emlen,  d.  6mo.  19,  1820,  aged  forty-seven  years ;  m.  9mo.  20,  1800, 
Philip    Syng    Physick,    M.    D. 

George  Emlen  (George,-  George),  styled  "the  Elder"  or  "merchant,"  born 
in  Philadelphia,  6mo.  21,  1718,  died  imo.  3,  1776;  married  at  Chesterfield  Meet- 
ing, Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  i2mo.  25,  1740,  Anne,  born  lomo.  4,  1720, 
died  2mo.  4,  1816;  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (Satterthwaite)  Reckless. 


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Joseph  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Reckless,  iron-monger,  of  county  of  Nottingham, 
England,  who  in  1678  purchased  one-fifteenth  of  a  proprietary  in  West  Jersey. 
Samuel's  father,  John  Reckless,  was  the  Nottingham  sheriff  referred  to  in  the 
Journal  of  George  Fox. 

The  following  obituary  notice  appeared  in  Paulson's  American  Daily  Adver- 
tiser, February  10,  1816: 

"Died,  on  the  fourth  instant,  in  the  ninety-sixth  year  of  her  age,  Anne  Emlen,  widow,  rehct 
of  George  Emlen,  formerly  of  this  city,  whom  she  survived  about  forty  years.  Of  their 
posterity  (several  of  whom  have  held  conspicuous  stations  in  civil  and  religious  society, 
and  departed  before  her),  one  hundred  and  forty-seven  yet  survive  in  the  relation  of 
children,  grandchildren,  and  great-grandchildren.  She  herself  long  occupied  the  rank  of 
an  exemplary  and  charitable  citizen,  fulfilling  with  much  propriety  the  duties  of  parent, 
friend,  neighbor  and  mistress.  She  retained  her  faculties  to  the  last;  and  very  shortly 
before  her  departure,  sensible  of  its  approach,  warmly  recommended  to  her  numerous 
descendants  to  live  in  harmony  and  moderation.  Her  remains,  attended  by  a  very  numerous 
train  of  relations  and  friends,  were  interred  on  the  6th  in  Friends'  Burial  Ground,  Mul- 
berry Street."  She  was  buried  from  "Her  late  dwelling  No.  179  [old  number]  Chestnut 
St." 

George  Emlen's  Place,  near  Camp  Hill,  Whitemarsh  Valley,  which  still  stands, 
was  the  headquarters  of  General  Washington  from  November  2d  to  December  11, 
1777.  The  first  purchase  was  apparently  made  by  his  father  and  subsequently 
added  to  by  George  Emlen,  third,  "merchant."  His  city  residence  was  at  Chestnut 
and  Fifth  streets,  opposite  Independence  Hall,  formerly  occupied  by  his 
father. 

Issue  of  George  and  Anne  (Reckless)  Emlen: — 

George  Emlen,  b.  4mo.  25,   1741,  d.   ilmo.  23,   1812;    m.   Sarah  Fishbourne; 

Caleb  Emlen,  b.   lamo.   15.   I744,  d-  7mo.   13,  1797;    m.  Mary  Warder; 

Mary  Emlen.  b.  i2mo.  19,  1746,  d.  gmo.  19,  1820,  without  issue;  m.  David  Beveridge, 
an  Englishman  by  birth.  During  the  latter  part  of  her  life  Mrs.  Beveridge  lived  at 
"Emlenton"  on  the  Schuylkill.  Handsome  portraits  of  David  and  Mary  Beveridge, 
painted  by  Peale  are  owned  by  a  member  of  the  family; 

Joseph    Emlen,    b.    i2mo.    28,    1748,    d.    i2mo.    29,    1783;     unm. ; 

Margaret  Emlen,  b.  4mo.  15,  1750,  d.  smo.  4,  1822;  m.  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  smo.  23. 
1771,  Samuel  Howell  Jr.,  merchant,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Stretch)  Howell. 
Samuel  Howell  Jr.  "participated  early  in  the  dangers  and  fatigues  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  on  a  variety  of  occasions  showed  himself  ready  and  willing  to  render 
service  to  his  country.  The  integrity  of  his  heart  and  benevolence  of  his  disposition, 
endeared  him  to  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances."  He  was  buried  in  Friends' 
Burial   Ground   at  Frankford ; 

Anne  Emlen,  b.  4mo.  30,  1755.  d.  3mo.  21,  1S15 ;  m.  lomo.  9,  1788,  Warner,  son  of  Daniel 
and   Mary    (Warner)    Mifflin,   of   Accomac  co.,   Va. ; 

Samuel  Emlen,  b.  8mo.  28,   1757,  d.  9mo.  4,  1807;    unm.; 

James  Emlen,  b.  6mo.  26,  1760,  d.  lomo.  3,  1798 ;    m.   Phebe  Peirce. 

George  Emlen  (George,  George,  George),  "merchant,"  born  4mo.  25. 
1741-2,  died  iimo.  23,  1812;  married,  2mo.  i,  1775,  Sarah,  born  gmo.  11,  1755, 
died  8mo.  29,  1823;  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Tallman)  Fishbourne. 
William  Fishbourne  was  grandson  of  Ralph  and  Sarah  (Lewis)  Fishbourne,  of 
Talbot  county,  Maryland,  and  son  of  William  Fishbourne,  born  in  Maryland, 
who  came  to  Philadelphia  about  1702,  where  he  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Carpenter,  Provincial  Councillor.  William  Fishbourne  Sr.  was  a  member 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1716,  and  from  1718  to  1720;  and  a  member  of 
Provincial  Council,  1723  to  1731.  He  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  city  in  1719-20-21. 
In   1725-26  he  filled  the  position  of   City  Treasurer.     Mary  Fishbourne,  the 


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"Polly  Fishbourne"  of  "Sallie  Wister's  Journal,"  and  later  the  wife  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Powel  Griffitts,  was  a  younger  sister  of  Sarah  (Fishbourne)  Emlen.  Elizabeth 
Fishbourne,  an  elder  sister,  was  second  wife  of  President  Thomas  Wharton. 
These  families  all  belonged  to  Philadelphia's  aristocratic  Quaker  set  of  the  pros- 
perous days  before  the  Revolution. 

George  Emlen  and  his  family  lived  at  103  (old  number)  south  Fourth  street. 
Issue  of  George  and  Sarah  (Fishbourne)  Emlen: — 

Anne  Emlen,  b.  7mo.  6,   1777,  d.  2mo.  4,  1851 ;    m.  at  "Powelton,"  by  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop 

White,  Smo.  29,  1801,  Charles  Willing,  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  (Willing)   Hare; 
Elizabeth    Emlen,    d.    Smo.    13,    1847;     m.   at   "Emlenton",   by   Rt.    Rev.    Bishop    White, 

lomo.    13,    1808,   George,   son   of   George   and   Thomazine   Mickle    (Fox)    Roberts; 
Sarah   Emlen,   d.   6mo.   29,   1787,   aged   seven   years ; 
George   Emlen,   b.    1784,  Smo.  27,   1850; 
William    Fishburne    Emlen,   b.    5mo.   30,    1787,   d.   2mo.    i,    1866;     m.    Mary    Parker 

Norris; 
Mary  Emlen,  b.    1788,  d.  2mo.   18,   1789; 
Hannah  Emlen,  b.  2mo.  6,   1790;    m.  4mo.  6,   1820,  Joseph  Mickle,  son  of  Samuel  and 

Sarah    (Pleasants)    Fox; 
Mary  Emlen,  b.  lomo.  4,  1795 ;    m.  smo.  15,  1817,  John  Morin,  son  of  Lewis  Allaire  and 

Juliana   (Sitgreaves)    Scott. 

Caleb  Emlen  (George,  George,  George),  born  i2mo.  15,  1744,  died  /mo.  13, 
1797;  married,  2mo.  25,  1773,  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah and  Mary  (Head)  Warder.  She  was  born  iimo.  23,  1746-7,  died  5mo.  16, 
1811. 

The  wife  of  Jeremiah  Warder  was  a  daughter  of  John  Head  and  Rebecca 
Mace,  who  were  married  in  England  in  1712. 
Issue  of  Caleb  and  Mary  (Warder)  Emlen: — 

Mary  Emlen,  d.  s.  p.,  i2mo.  14,  1849;    m.  iimo.  29,  1798,  Thomas  Greaves,  merchant; 
Ann  Emlen,  d.  6mo.  29,  1844,  aged  sixty-nine  years;  m.  4mo.   19,  1796,  Charles,  son  of 

Samuel  and  Mary   (Pemberton)    Pleasants; 
Warder  Emlen,  d.  5mo.  6,  1809 ;    unm. ; 

Caleb  Emlen,  d.  4mo.  6,  1810;  m.  Maria,  dau.  of  John  and  Maria  (French)  Graeflf.  Issue: 
Mary   Emlen,   m.    Dr.    Squire   Littell ; 

Calebina  Emlen,  m.  William  H.  Newbold,  b.  1810;    d.   1872; 
Lydia  Emlen ; 

Samuel  W.   Emlen,   d.   unm. ; 
Jeremiah   Emlen,  b.   1783,  d.  9mo.   1785; 
Jeremiah    Emlen,    d.    1826 ;     unm. ; 
Sarah  Emlen,  b.  6mo.  19,  1787,  d.  3mo.  28,  1870;    m.  6mo.  4,  1807,  Caleb,  son  of  Caleb 

and  Sarah   (Hopkins)    Cresson ; 
Deborah  Emlen,  d.  1871 ;    unm.; 

James  Emlen  (George,  George,  George),  born  6mo.  26,  1760,  died  lomo.  3, 
1798,  of  yellow  fever ;  married,  4mo.  23,  1783,  at  Concord  Meeting,  Delaware 
county,  Phebe  Peirce,  born  i2mo.  11,  1758,  died  of  yellow  fever,  lomo.  25,  1793, 
daughter  of  Caleb  and  Ann  (Mendenhall)  Peirce. 

Caleb  Peirce  was  grandson  of  George  Peirce,  who  with  his  wife,  Anne  (Gainer) 
Peirce,  came  from  England  in  1684,  and  that  same  year  had  surveyed  to  him  a 
tract  of  four  hundred  and  ninety  acres  in  Thornbury  township,  Chester  county, 


196  EMLEN 

Pennsylvania.  On  his  arrival  he  presented  two  certificates  to  a  meeting  of 
Friends  "att  the  Governor's  house",  one  from  "the  Monthly  Aleeting  at  ffrenshay 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester",  and  the  other  from  Thornbury  in  the  same  county. 
George  Peirce  represented  Chester  county  in  the  Provincial  Assembly  in  1706  and 
was  very  active  in  the  community  meetings  of  Friends.  "He  was  one  of  a  com- 
pany who  erected  the  Concord  Mill,  the  first  mill  built  in  the  neighborhood." 

James  Emlen,  after  his  education  was  completed,  declined  to  travel  abroad,  as 
his  parents  had  intended,  preferring  to  stay  with  his  relative,  Hannah,  widow  of 
William  JMiller,  of  New  Garden,  Chester  county.  "He  assumed  the  management 
of  her  mill  without  an  assistant  and  declined  compensation,  stipulating  only 
that  he  might  grind  for  some  of  the  poorer  customers  without  taking  toll.  In 
this,  however,  he  was  careful  not  to  let  the  left  hand  know  wkat  the  right  hand 
did."  He  removed  to  Middletown  in  1782,  where  he  became  owner  of  consider- 
able land.  Although  but  about  thirty-eight  years  of  age  when  he  died  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  Meeting  and  served  as  clerk,  recorder,  etc.  He  was  appointed 
one  of  the  first  standing  committee  to  give  attention  to  the  condition  of  the 
Indian  natives,  and  which  committee,  by  successive  re-appointments,  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  time. 

Issue   of  James  and  Phebe    (Peirce)    Eiiilen: — 

Anne  Emlen,  b.  6mo.  9,   1784,  d.   1852;    m.  "mo.    13,   1802,  Judge   Walter  Franklin,  of 

Lancaster,   Pa. ; 
Joshua  Emlen,  b.  i2mo.  22,  1785;   m.  Abigail  (Smith)  widow  of  William  Emlen  Howell, 

and  had  one  child,  Phebe,  m.  James  Hillyer; 
Mary  Emlen,  b.  8mo.   13,   1787,  d.  5mo.   12,   1820;    m.   lomo.   I,   1807,  George  Newbold, 

of   New   York   City;    merchant,   son  of   Clayton   and   Mary    (Foster)    Newbold; 
Samuel  Emlen,  M.  D.,  b.  3mo.  6,   1789,  d.  4mo.   17,  1828;    m.  Beulah  S.  Valentine; 
Phebe   Emlen,  b.  8mo.  30,   1790,  d.   lomo.   5,   1826 ;    unm. ; 
James  Emlen,  b.   6mo.    17,   1792,   d.  9mo.  20,   1866;    m.   Sarah    (Foulke)    Farquhar; 

WiLLi.\M  FisHBOuRNE  Emlen  (Gcorge,  George,  George,  George),  born 
5mo.  30,  1787,  died  2mo.  i,  1866;  married  at  Friends'  Meeting  House,  Mul- 
berry street,  Philadelphia,  iimo.  11,  1813,  Mary  Parker,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Parker  and  Elizabeth  Hill    (Fox)   Norris. 

One  of  his  immediate  family  writes  of  William  Fishbourne  Emlen :  "He  had 
a  charming  personality  and  was  a  delightful  companion.  He  was  most  kindly, 
and  with  a  very  spiritual  turn  of  thought."  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  Presidents 
of  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  R.  R. 

Issue  of  William  F.  and  Mary  P.  (Norris)  Emlen: — 

George  Emlen,  b.  9mo.  25,  1814,  d.  6mo.  7,  1853 ;  m.  smo.  6.  1840,  Ellen,  dau.  of  John 
and  Hitty  (Cox)  Markoe.  He  entered  the  Univ.  Pa.  in  1828,  where  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Zelosophic  Society,  and  at  graduation  in  1831,  was  valedictorian  of  class. 
Studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  bar.  Was  president  of  Law  .Academy 
of  Phila. ;  secretary  Board  of  Trustees  Univ.  Pa.,  1841-53;  president  Public  School 
Comptrollers,  etc.     Issue : 

Mary  Emlen,  b.  May  29,  1842 ;    m.  June  12,  1869,  James  Starr.     Issue : 

James  Starr,  b.  Apr.  6,   1870;    m.  Oct.   15,  1901,  Sarah  Logan  Wister ;  u.jHr : 

Sarah  Logan   Starr,  b.  June   13,  1903; 
George   Emlen    Starr,   b.    Oct.   23,    1871 ;     m.    Nov.   7,    1899,   Karoline    Nixon 

Newhall ; 
Ellen  Markoe  Starr,  b.  May  12,  1873;    m.  Feb.  9,  iqoi,  Edward  Shippen  Wat- 
son  Farnum;    issue:     Edward   Shippen   Watson   Farnuni.   b.   Jan.   26,   1902; 
James  Starr,  b.  May  26,  1903;  Ralf  Farnum,  b.  Jan.  I,  1905; 


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Lydia  Starr,  b.  May  18,  1876;    m.  Dec.  12,  1901,  Oliver  Boyce  Judson; 
Theodore  Ducoing  Starr,  b.  Jan.  14,  1880;    m.  Feb.  7,  1901,  Sarah  Carmalt; 
issue :      Charlotte   Churchill    Starr,   b.   April   22,    1902 ;    Theodore   Ducoing 
Starr,  b.  April  12,  1907 ; , 
George   Emlen,  Attorney-at-Law,  b.   Nov.  27,   1843;    d.  Nov.  25,   1907;    m.  April 
22,    1874,    Helen    Rotch,    d.    July   7,    1900;     dau.    of   Daniel    Clarke   and    Anne 
(Morgan)    Wharton.     Issue: 
Anne  Wharton  Emlen,  b.  June  15,  1875,  d.  July  17,  1875 ; 
Ellen    Markoe    Emlen,   b.    Jan.    21,    1877,   d.    Mar.    19,    1900; 
Dorothea   Emlen,  b.   Feb.  20,   1881 ; 
Harry  Emlen,  b.  Mar.  31,  1847,  d.  Mar.   17,  187 1 ;    unm. ; 
Ellen  Emlen,  b.  Feb.   13,  1850; 
Joseph  Norris  Emlen,  b.  Sept.  4,  1816,  d.  unm. ; 

Elizabeth    Norris    Emlen,    b.    Jan.    26,    1825;    m.    Dec.    22,    1847,    James    A.    Roosevelt, 
(an  uncle  of  President  Theodore  Roosevelt),  b.  June  12.  1825,  d.  July  15,  1898.    Issue: 
Mary  Emlen  Roosevelt,  b.  Sept.  27,  1848,  d.  Dec.  19,  1885; 
Leila  Roosevelt,  b.  Feb.  S,  1850;    m,  Edward  R.  Merritt; 
Alfred  Roosevelt,  b.  April  2,  1856,  d.  July  3,  1891 ;   m.  Dec.  5,  1882,  Katherine, 
dau.  of  Augustus  Lowell,  of  Boston,  Mass.     Issue : 

Elfrida   Roosevelt,  b.   Dec.   22,    1883;    m.   June  9,   1905,   Owen   B.   Clark, 

of  England;    issue:    Humphrey  Owen  Clark,  b.  July  6,  1906; 
James  Alfred  Roosevelt,  b.  Feb.  23,  1885; 
Katherine  Lowell  Roosevelt,  b.  April   18,   1887; 
William   Emlen  Roosevelt,  b.  April  30,   1857;    m.  Oct.  4,   1883,  Christine   G. 
Kean.  Issue: 
Christine  Kean  Roosevelt,  b.  Aug.  3,   1884; 
George  Emlen  Roosevelt,  b.  Oct.   13,   1887 ; 
Lucie   Margaret  Roosevelt,  b.   Nov.  7,   1888; 
John   Kean  Roosevelt,  b.   Sept.   22,   1889; 
Philip  James  Roosevelt,  b.   May   15,   1892; 
Sarah  Emlen,  b.  June  15,  1832 ;   m.  Oct.  15,  1862,  James  Casey  Hale.    Issue : 

Mary  Emlen   Hale,  b.   Aug.  9,   1863;   m.  Oct.  24,   1883,   James  Lowell   Jr.,   of 
Boston,  Mass.     Issue : 
Mary  Emlen  Lowell,  b.  July  31,  1884;    m.  Oct.  15,  1904,  Francis  Vernon 

Lloyd ; 
■John  Lowell,  b.  March  21,  1887; 

William  Emlen  Lowell,  b.  Oct.  25,  1888,  d.  July  28,  1889; 
Ralph  Lowell,  b.  July  23,  1890 ; 
James  Hale  Lowell,  b.  May  3,  1892; 
Olivia   Lowell,  b.   Aug.   2,    1898. 

Samuel  Emlen,  M.  D.  (James,  George,  George,  George),  born  3010.  6, 
1789,  died  4mo.  17,  1828;  married,  iimo.  4,  1819,  Beulah  Sansom,  daughter  of 
Jacob  Valentine,  of  New  York,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Ann,  daughter  of  Col. 
Benjamin  George  Eyre. 

Although  Dr.  Samuel  Emlen  died  in  the  prime  of  life,  he  was  one  of  the 
most  eminent  physicians  of  his  day.  He  studied  under  Dr.  Parrish,  of  Phila- 
delphia; graduated,  and  in  June,  181 2,  sailed  for  England.  After  a  stay  of 
over  two  years  abroad,  during  which  time  he  continued  his  studies,  he  returned 
to  this  country  and  took  up  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia.  He 
soon  became  prominent  as  a  physician ;  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Guardians 
of  the  Poor ;  of  the  Magdalen  Asylum ;  the  Orphan  Asylum  and  the  Friends' 
Asylum  for  the  Insane.  He  was  secretary  of  College  of  Physicians  and  one  of 
the  physicians  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  He  was  buried  at  Sixteenth  and 
Cherry  streets,  Philadelphia. 


Issue  of  Samuel  and  Beulah  S.    (Valentine)    Emlen: — 

James  V.  Emlen,  M.   D.,  b.  pmo.  21,   1820,  d.  s.  p.,  2mo.  29,   1880;    m.   Ann  Armour; 
Elizabeth  Ann  Emlen,  b.   lOmo.  4,   1822,  d.   I  mo.   16,   1907;    m.   lomo.   17,  1850,  William 

Rockhill,   M.   D.,   son  of  John   and   Rachel    (Griscom)    Bullock.   This  branch   of  the 

family    owns    the    old    Emlen    Bible,    printed    in    1603,    one   page    of   which    is    here 

re-produced. 
Caleb    Emlen,   b.   8mo.    20,    1824.    d.    3mo.    20,    1895;    m.    first,    i2mo.    5,    1848,    Hannah 

E.   Dever,  b.  2mo.   28,   1824,   d.  7mo.    17,    1873;   second,   Mary  L.    (Wright)    Reese,   b. 

1836,   d.    1888;    dau.   of   Alexander   Wright. 

Issue   of  first   marriage: — 

Samuel   Emlen,  b.    10,  3,    1849,   d.    i,  3,    1883 ;    unm. ; 
Mary  Dever   Emlen,  b.  8,    17,   1852; 

Charles  Emlen,  b.  9,  17,  1854,  d.  10,  24,  1901 ;    m.  Ellen  G.  Ewing; 
John    Emlen,    b.    2,    24,    1859; 
James  Emlen,  b.  2,  24,  1859,  d.  11,  19,  1874, 

Marion  L.  Emlen,  b.  6,   15,   1867;    m.  3,  23,   1893,  George  Worthington  Scott. 
Issue  of  second  marriage: — 

Clement   H.  Emlen,  b.   4,  17,   1877; 

Anna  Wright  Emlen,  b.  2,   14,   1881 ;    m.  Warren  Hubley; 
Mary  Cresson  Emlen,  b.  lomo.  16,  1827;    m.  4mo.  12,  1849,  Clement  H.,  son  of  Stephen 
W.  and  Mary  N.    (Jones)    Smith;    no  issue. 

James  Emlen  (James,*  George,  George,  George),  born  6mo.  17,  1792,  died 
9mo.  20,  1866;  married,  imo.  11,  1816,  at  Middletown  Meeting,  Sarah  (Foulke) 
Farquhar,  daughter  and  only  child  of  Cadwalader  and  Phebe  (Ellis)  Foulke, 
and  widow  of  William  Farquhar,  born  4mo.  27,  1787,  in  Upper  Freehold,  New 
Jersey. 

James  Emlen  left  an  orphan  at  six  years  of  age ;  was  educated  at  West- 
town  School  and  subsequently  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  resided  until 
his  majority,  with  his  sister  Mary,  who  had  married  George  Newbold.  He  was 
twenty-one  years  old  when  he  removed  to  Middletown,  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  occupied  one  of  his  father's  farms,  living  in  the  old  home  called  the 
"Upper  House."  Here  he  became  a  plain  Friend;  married;  and  after  the  birth 
of  his  third  child,  moved  to  the  "Lower  House",  close  at  hand,  also  owned  by  his 
father,  where  the  rest  of  his  children  were  born  and  where  he  remained 
until  his  removal  to  Westtown  School,  in  the  spring  of  1836.  During  this 
period  he  was  appointed  Elder  of  Society  of  Friends,  a  position  which  he  con- 
tinued to  hold  as  long  as  he  lived.  It  was  also  at  this  time,  that,  in  harmony  with 
his  inclination  for  a  quiet  but  useful  life,  he  conducted  a  private  school  for  boys, 
to  accommodate  which  he  erected  a  building  on  his  farm,  which  was  used  as  a 
Meeting  house  by  Orthodox  Friends  at  the  time  of  "the  Separation  in  1827," 
until  a  new  Meeting  house  was  built. 

After  moving  to  Westtown  School,  he,  with  his  family,  occupied  one  of  the 
dwellings  on  the  grounds  of  that  Institution.  In  the  spring  of  1848  he  removed 
to  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  passed  in  retirement,  the  last  eighteen 
years  of  his  life.  His  wife  (for  many  years  a  recorded  minister  of  the  Society 
of  Friends)  during  the  family's  residence  at  Westtown,  went  on  a  religious  visit 
to  England,  where  she  remained  about  two  years.     Her  death  occurred  in  the 


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year  following  the  removal  to  West  Chester.  The  impulses,  ideals  and  prin- 
ciples of  James  Emlen's  character  are  well  illustrated  by  the  following  con- 
cluding expressions  in  his  will : 

"Feeling  grateful  for  the  love  and  harmony  that  has  always  prevailed  amongst 
my  children,  I  much  desire  the  same  may  be  continued  and  descend  to  children's 
children,  and  this  will  be  the  case  in  proportion  as  it  becomes  the  love  and 
fellowship  of  the  Gospel." 

Issue  of  James  and  Sarah   (Foidke)   Emlen: — 

James  Emlen,  b.   lomo.   16,  1816,  d.  imo.  25,  1827; 

Mary  Emlen,  b.  at  "Upper  House,"  3mo.  21,  1818,  died  3mo.  16,  1893;    m.  4mo.  14,  1842, 

Chalkley,  son  of  Hughes   Bell,   farmer,  and  moved  to  the   State  of  Illinois; 
Phebe   Emlen,   b.   at   "Upper   House,"   4mo.    12,    1820,   d.   s.   p.,    imo.    14,    1887;   m.   first, 
J.   Rowland   Howell,   of   Chester   co..    Pa.;    second,   Cyrus   Mendenhall,   of   Cincinnati, 
O. ;  third,  William  B.  Cooper,  of  Camden,  N.  J.; 
Sarah  Cresson  Emlen,  b.  at  the  "Lower  House"  4mo.  19,  1822,  d.  lomo.  7,  1901 ;   m.  6mo 

4,    1846,    William    P.    Bangs,    from   Dover,    N.    H.,   merchant; 
Anne  Emlen,  b.  at  "Lower  House"   lomo.  7,   1824,  d.  8mo.  23,   1905;    m.   I  imo,  4,  1852, 

Joseph,   son    of   Joseph   and    Sarah    (Dillwyn)    Howell,    merchant; 
Susan  Dillwyn  Emlen,  b.  at  "Lower  House"  9mo.  20,  1826,  d.   imo.  28,  1887 ;    unm. ; 
Samuel  Emlen,  b.  at  "Lower  House"  3mo.  23,  1829;    m.  9mo.  30,   1851,  Sarah,  dan.  of 
George   Guest   and   Hannah    (Newlin)    Williams.     He   is  an  eminent  minister   among 
Friend.''    living  in  Germantown,  Phila. ;    has  issue : 

C.;orge  Williams  Emlen,  b.  5,  4,  1853;    m.  Eleanor,  b.  9,  15,  1854;    dau.  of  Thomas 
Pim  and   Elizabeth   S.   Cope,  of  "Awbury,"   Germantown,   Phila.     Issue : 
Mary  Cope  Emlen,  b.  7,  3,  1878;  m.  4,  27,  1904,  Alfred  Garret,  son  of  Thomas 

Scattergood.     Their  dau.,  Elizabeth  Cope  Scattergood,  was  b.  4,  5,  1907 ; 
Samuel    Emlen,   b.   3,  27,    1880;     m.    6,   7,    1906   Marian   Hartshorne    Haines.' 

Their  son,   Samuel  Emlen,  3d,  was  b.  3,  27,   1907; 
Arthur  Cope  Emlen,  b.  4,  9,  1882 ; 
George  Williams  Emlen,  b.  5,  7,   1887; 
Esther  Margaret  Emlen,  b.  4,  27,  1890; 
James  Emlen,  b.  II,  12,  1854;    m.   12,  13,  1877,  Susan  Trotter,  b.  11,  27,  1853,  d. 
I,  18,  1879;    dau.  of  John  J.  and  Elizabeth  Hough  (Trotter)  Thompson.    Issue: 
John  Thompson  Emlen,  b.    12,  28,    1878;    m.  3,  6,   1906,  Mary  Carpenter,  b. 
8,  20,  1881 ;  dau.  of  Woodruff  and  Sara  Elizabeth  Jones.    Issue : 
Susan   Thompson  Emlen,  b.   11,   19,   1907; 
John   Thompson  Emlen,  b.   12.  28,   igo8. 
Samuel   Emlen,   b.    12,   20,    1856,   d.  2,   24,    i860; 
Hannah   Williams  Emlen,  b.   12,  20,   1859,  d.    i,  22,   i860; 

Sarah   Emlen,  b.  4,   15,   1861 ;    m.  5,   14,   1896,  Walter  Thomas  Moore,  of  Lehigh 
Valley  Railroad   Company,  b.  4,  8,   1854;    son  of  Calvin  and  Sarah    (Walter) 
Moore,   of  O. ; 
Mary  Emlen,  b.  6,  25,  1863;    m.  6,  19,  1890,  Joseph  Stokes,  M.  D.,  b.  4,  8,  1862; 
son  of  Dr.  N.  Newlin  and  Martha  E.  Stokes,  of  Moorestown,  N.  J.     Issue : 
Eleanor  Stokes,  b.  9,  16,   1892; 
Samuel  Emlen  Stokes,  b.  7,  i,  1894; 
Joseph    Stokes,    b.    2,    22,    1896; 
Anne  Emlen,  b.  11,  24,  1865;    m.  10,  17,  1889,  Walter  Penn  Shipley,  Attorney-at- 
Law,  b.  6,  20,  i860;  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza  Drinker  Shipley.     Issue: 
Thomas   Emlen   Shipley,  b.    12,   25,   1890; 
James   Emlen   Shipley,   b.   4,  4,    1894; 
Walter  Penn  Shipley,  b.   11,  2,  1897. 


IVALN  FAMILY 

Of  Nicholas  Wain,  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  family  of  that 
name,  as  well  as  of  a  number  of  other  families  who  were  prominent  in  Colonial 
history  of  Philadelphia  and  vicinity,  friend  and  counselor  of  William  Penn, 
and  a  fellow  passenger  with  him  in  the  "Welcome"  in  1682.  much  has  been 
written.  Until  recently,  however,  nothing  was  known  of  his  parentage  or  place 
of  residence  in  England,  but  we  are  now  able  to  give  some  account  of  his  parents 
and  the  place  of  his  birth. 

Richard  Wain  and  Jane  his  wife,  who  lived  in  the  small  village  of  Burholme, 
in  district  called  Bolland,  in  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  England,  were  among 
the  earliest  converts  to  Quakerism,  in  Yorkshire.  They  belonged  to  Bolland 
Meeting,  a  branch  of  Settle  Montly  Meeting,  as  early  as  1654,  a  date  ver>' 
shortly  after  the  rise  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

The  exact  limits  of  the  district  called  Bolland  were  somewhat  indefinite,  and 
even  seem  to  have  varied  from  time  to  time,  or  at  least  to  have  been  variously 
apprehended  by  different  authorities.  Before  Richard  Wain's  time  there  had 
been  a  forest  here  called  "Bolland  Forest"  and  there  were,  no  doubt,  remains 
of  it  even  in  his  day,  though  no  longer  a  forest  in  the  official  sense.  It  is  pre- 
sumed that  the  Bolland  of  the  old  records  was  Bolland  Liberty,  and  that  it  coin- 
cided with  the  ancient  extent  of  the  Forest.  Baines'  "Gazetteer  of  the  County 
of  York,"  1822,  speaks  of  Burholme  as  in  the  parish  of  Bolland,  but  this  was 
doubtless  an  error,  as  no  other  authorities  mention  a  parish  of  that  name,  while 
several  show  conclusively  that  Burgolme  was  in  the  parish  of  Slaidburn.  The 
name  Bolland,  now  spelt  Bowland,  which  probably  represents  its  proper  pro- 
nunciation formerly  as  well  as  now,  also  applied  to  three  townships  included 
in  the  same  region ;  one  of  these  being  High  Bowland-Forest,  a  township 
entirely  in  the  parish  of  Slaidburn  and  wapentake  of  Staincliffe  and  Ewcross, 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire ;  another.  Low  Bowland-Forest,  partly  in  the  same 
parish  and  wapentake,  and  partly  in  the  parish  of  Whalley,  Blackburn  Hundred, 
Lancashire:  and  the  third  altogether  in  the  latter  parish,  hundred  and  shire. 
High  and  Low  Bowland-Forest  together  constituted  Bowland  Liberty,  which  as 
abovesaid  was  no  doubt  what  was  meant  by  the  Bolland  in  the  old  records. 

Burholme  itself,  called  "Borholme"  in  Baines'  Gazetteer  above  referred  to, 
and  "Burham  in  Bolland"  in  the  registers  of  Settle  Monthly  ]\Ieeting  of  Friends, 
can  be  definitely  located.  It  was  about  eight  miles  northwest  of  Clitheroe,  and  in 
the  parish  of  Slaidburn  and  Liberty  of  Bolland,  most  probably  in  the  fownship 
of  High  Bowland-Forest,  as  that  was  all  within  said  parish  and  most  certainly 
in  Yorkshire. 

Of  the  personal  affairs  of  Richard  and  Jane  Wain  we  have  little  record.  In 
1664  Richard  Wain  was  sued  at  \\'hitwell  Court  for  tithes  and  had  a  mare  taken 
from  him  worth  four  pounds.  Jane  Wain  was  daughter  of  Edward  Rudd,  of 
Knowmeare,  Yorkshire,  a  place  at  present  not  identified,  but  doubtless  also  in 
parish  of  Slaidburn.  As  to  her  family  besides  her  father,  we  know  of  two 
sisters,  Dorothy  and  Mary  Rudd,  who  married  respectively  the  brothers,  \\'illiam 


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and  Cuthbert  Hayhurst  Jr.,  sons  of  Cuthbert  and  Alice  Hayhurst,  of  Easington, 
in  the  same  parish  of  Slaidburn,  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire;  also  an  undoubted 
cousin,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Giles  Rudd,  probably  brother  of  Edward,  of 
Mouldhils,  in  the  same  locality,  who  married  Thomas  Walmsley,  of  Wadington 
Eaves,  in  the  same  wapentake  as  all  of  the  above  Stainclifife  and  Ewcross,  but  in 
a  different  parish,  Milton.  All  of  these  parties  will  be  mentioned  later  as  most 
of  them  accompanied  Nicholas  Wain  to  Pennsylvania. 

Richard  Wain  died  April  7,  1659,  and  his  widow,  Jane  Wain,  then  of  Slain- 
merow,  parish  of  Slaidburn,  married,  October  31,  1667,  at  the  house  of  Robert 
Walbancke,  Newton,  same  parish,  William  Birket,  of  Newton.  Their  subse- 
quent residence  was  her  house  in  Slaidberow,  instead  of  his  house  in  Newton, 
and  here  a  number  of  her  relatives  or  connections  were  married.  In  the  records 
of  some  of  these  marriages  her  residence,  or  that  of  her  husband,  is  given  dif- 
ferently, but  the  duplicate  or  complementary  entries  show  that  Slaidl)erow  con- 
tinued to  be  her  home.  Thus  at  the  marriage  of  Elizabeth  Rudd  and  Thomas 
Walmsley,  which  took  place  there  November  13,  1665,  her  residence  in  one  entry 
is  given  as  "Smelfats",  which  is  also  given  as  Elizabeth  Rudd's  own  residence, 
out  the  duplicate  entry  shows  it  to  have  been  as  above  (though  a  copyist's  error 
made  it  "Rainemerow".  In  one  record  of  Jane  Birket's  son  Nicholas  Wain's 
marriage  at  the  same  house,  October  i,  1673,  it  is  called  "Will""  Birket's,  Qiapel- 
CToit,"  the  latter  place  being  really  Nicholas  Wain's  own  residence ;  but  two 
iounter  entries  give  it  correctly,  "Will™  Birket's  Slainmerow".  If  she  was  the 
same  Jane  Birket,  at  whose  house  in  Slainmerow,  Jenet  Stackhouse  and  Richard 
Scott  were  married,  April  9,  1696,  and  she  probably  was,  as  the  Stackhouse 
family  were  connected  by  marriage,  she  must  have  survived  her  first  husband 
thirty-seven  years,  living  all  that  time  in  this  place. 

On  the  register  of  Settle  Monthly  Meeting  occur  the  births  of  two  children 
of  Richard  and  Jane  (Rudd)  Wain,  Anne,  born  August  15,  1654,  and  Edward, 
September  22,  1657.  Of  Edward  we  know  nothing  further,  but  Anne  married 
James  Dilworth  and  came  to  Pennsylvania  as  will  be  shown  below.  Richard  and 
Jane  are  known  to  have  had  an  elder  son  Nicholas,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania 
and  founded  the  family  which  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  there  are  sup- 
posed to  have  had  another  and  still  older  son  Richard  Wain,  also  an  early 
settler  in  Philadelphia  county,  and  perhaps  other  children,  the  births  having 
occurred  before  the  parents  joined  Friends,  and  hence  their  births  are  not  entered 
on  Friends  records. 

Richard  Waln,  supposed  to  have  been  eldest  son  of  Richard  and  Jane  (Rudd) 
Wain,  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  1682,  and  settled  in  what  was  afterwards  Chel- 
tenham township,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends.  About  this  time  there  was  filed  in  the  Philadelphia 
Monthly  Meeting  a  certificate  for  one  Richard  IVall  from  a  Monthly  Meeting 
"held  at  the  House  of  Edward  Edwards  of  Stock  Orchard,  in  ye  County  of 
Gloucester"  dated  4mo.  26,  1682,  but  whether  this  was  our  Richard  Wain 
(whose  name  was  as  frequently  spelled  Wall  as  Wain  in  the  early  records  here), 
or  another,  is  not  certain ;  nor  does  it  suggest  any  relationship  to  Richard  and 
Jane  Wain,  of  Burholme,  for  Gloucestershire  is  not  very  near  to  Yorkshire.  In 
lomo.,  1683,  a  meeting  was  established  at  the  house  of  Richard  Wain  in  Chelten- 
ham, which  was  the  nucleus  of  Abington  Particular  Meeting.     There  were  two 


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other  meetings  in  the  vicinity  at  that  time,  one  at  Tacony,  afterwards  called 
Oxford  Meeting,  and  one  at  John  Hart's  called  Poquessing  and  later  Bybery 
Meeting ;  these  three  formed  a  monthly  meeting  early  called  indiscriminately  by 
either  of  these  names,  but  in  1702  definitely  named  Abington  Monthly  Meeting. 
Richard  Wain  was  a  leading  spirit  in  the  organization  and  served  on  many  of 
the  committees  of  this  monthly  meeting,  and  was  frequently  its  representative  in 
Quarterly  2\leeting.  On  gmo.  24,  1690,  he  was  granted  a  certificate  to  travel  to 
Maryland,  no  doubt  on  a  religious  visit.  He  died  ^larch  26,  1698,  and  was 
buried  the  28th,  at  Cheltenham.  His  wife  Joan  died  February  2,  1701-2,  and 
was  buried  the  4th,  also  at  Cheltenham.  They  were  accompanied  to  Pennsyl- 
vania by  their  son,  Richard  Wain  Jr.,  and  the  latter's  daughter  Sarah.  Richard 
Jr.  died  April  6,  1689,  and  Sarah  married,  February  14,  1694-5,  at  her  grand- 
father's house  in  Cheltenham,  George  Shoemaker.  There  seems  to  have  been  no 
other  descendants  of  Richard  Wain  Sr.  except  Sarah  Shoemaker,  who  was 
made  sole  executor  of  her  grandfather's  will,  dated  March  15,  1697-8,  proved 
February  9,  1701-2,  which  mentioned  no  other  relatives  except  his  wife  Joan. 

Anne  Wain,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Jane  (Rudd)  Wain,  born  August  15, 
1654,  became  a  minister  in  the  Society  of  Friends.  She  married,  about  1680, 
James  Dilworth,  of  Yorkshire,  also  a  minister,  and  they  afterwards  went  to 
Pennsylvania,  at  about  the  same  time  as  her  brother,  Nicholas  Wain.  An 
account  of  him  in  "The  Friend,"  (Philadelphia,  vol.  xxvii,  gives  some  personal 
particulars  as  to  both :  "James  Dilworth,  was  an  inhabitant  of  Thornby  in  York- 
shire before  his  removal  to  Pennsylvania,  and  was  convinced  of  the  Truth  there. 
For  a  meeting  held  at  his  house  on  the  13th  of  Tenth  Month,  1676,  a  fine  was 
imposed  on  him,  to  satisfy  which  he  had  two  oxen  taken.  At  what  time  he  came 
forth  in  the  ministry  we  cannot  tell,  but  he  laboured  faithfully  therein  according 
to  his  measure,  having  a  loving  helpful  companion  in  his  wife  Ann,  who  was  also 
a  minister  of  the  Gospel. 

"James  Dilsworth  and  Ann  Wain  were  married  about  the  year  1681,  and  some 
time  after  removed  to  this  country,  and  settled  in  Bucks  county.  He  was  in 
public  life  for  a  time,  representing  his  neighbors  in  the  Assembly.  In  their 
religious  labors,  he  and  his  wife  travelled  much  together,  visiting  in  this  way, 
in  1689,  the  meetings  of  Friends  in  New  England.  In  1697  and  perhaps  the 
early  part  of  1698,  they  travelled  southward  through  Maryland,  Virginia  and 
Carolina,  having  with  both  these  visits  the  unity  of  the  Yearly  Meeting  of 
Ministering  Friends." 

On  7mo.  26,  1698,  Abington  Monthly  Meeting  granted  Ann  Dilworth  alone  a 
certificate  to  visit  Friends  in  England,  by  way  of  Barbados;  the  Yearly  Meeting 
of  Ministers,  in  March,  1698-9,  approved  her  certificate,  and  she  left  about  the 
end  of  the  month,  "The  parting  from  her  husband  was  a  final  one.  A  few 
months  after  her  departure  the  yellow  fever  broke  out  in  Philadelphia,  and 
among  the  valuable  Friends  removed  by  it  from  works  to  rewards  was  James 
Dilworth.  He  died  in  the  Seventh  Month  (September),  1699,  being  buried  on 
the  15th,  the  First-day  before  Yearly  Meeting." 

James  Dilworth  appears  to  have  served  but  one  term  in  .Assembly,  that  of 
1685.  About  1693  he  removed  to  Bristol  township,  Philadelphia  county,  where 
he  died.  In  his  will  dated  September  8,  1699,  proved  December  10,  1700,  he 
named  his  wife  Ann,  sole  executrix,  and  mentioned  his  children:  William,  Rich- 


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ard,  Jane,  Hannah,  Jennett,  Rebecca  and  James  Dilworth(  brother-in-law,  Nich- 
olas Wain,  and  friend,  Edmund  Orpwood. 

Ann  (Wain)  Dilworth  married  (second)  in  1701,  probably  in  November, 
Christopher  Sibthorp,  of  Philadelphia,  a  large  landholder  in  the  Northern  Lib- 
erties, whose  will  dated  December  25,  1707,  proved  January  24,  1707-8,  men- 
tioned his  wife  Ann  and  children,  not  named,  sister  Elizabeth  Whitwort,  and  her 
daughter  Mary,  and  friends  Joshua  Fisher,  Barbara  Wright  and  her  daughter 
Rebecca  Corker.  Ann  (Wain)  Sibthorp's  own  will,  dated  August  27,  1710,  men- 
tioned her  children:  James,  William,  Richard  and  Rebecca  Dilworth,  making 
the  sons  William  and  Richard  executors  and  Nicholas  Wain  and  Edmund  Orp- 
wood overseers. 

James  and  Ann  (Wain)  Dilworth  had  eight  children,  as  given  below,  the 
record  of  the  births  of  the  first  six  appearing  on  the  register  of  Middletown 
Monthly  Meeting  in  Bucks  county,  and  those  of  the  last  two  at  Abington 
Monthly   Meeting  in    Philadelphia   county : 

William  Dilworth,  b.   in   England,  July  25,   1681 ; 

Richard  Dilworth,  b.  July  8,  1683;    m.  1707,  Elizabeth  Worrell; 

Jane  Dilworth,  b.  March  18,  1684-5,  d.  1701 ;  m.  May  8,  1701,  at  Oxford  Meeting, 
Phila.  CO.,  Thomas  Hodges,  of  Oxford  twp.,  Phila.  co.,  who  d.  March  28,  1708;  he 
m.  (second)  his  first  wife's  cousin,  Hannah  Wain,  dau.  of  Nicholas,  of  whom  here- 
after;   Jane   (Dilworth)   Hodges  had  no  issue; 

Hannah  Dilworth,  b.  Feb.  25,  1688-9;  m-  June  9,  1709,  at  Oxford  Meeting,  John  Wor- 
rell, of  Oxford  twp,.   brother  of  Elizabeth,  wife   of  her  brother,  Richard  Dilworth; 

Jennett   Dilworth,  b.   March   20,   1690- 1 ;    m.    1710,   Samuel   Bolton; 

Ann  Dilworth,  b.  Feb.  9,  1691-2; 

Rebecca    Dilworth,    m.    Dec,    1711,    George    Shoemaker; 

James  Dilworth,  b.  Nov.  3,  1695;    m.  1718,  Sarah  Worrell. 

Nicholas  Waln,  son  of  Richard  and  Jane  (Rudd)  Wain,  of  Burholme,  Hol- 
land, parish  of  Slaidburn,  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  England,  was  born  there 
about  the  year  1650,  doubtless  before  his  parents  joined  the  Society  of  Friends, 
as  his  birth  does  not  appear  of  record  on  the  register  of  any  Monthly  Meeting  in 
Yorkshire. 

Before  the  date  of  his  marriage,  he  had  removed  to  Qiapelcroft,  same  locality. 
On  June  7,  1682,  Settle  Monthly  Meeting  issued  a  joint  certificate  to  Nicholas 
Wain  and  family,  together  with  a  number  of  other  persons,  mostly  connected 
with  him  by  ties  of  more  or  less  remote  kinship,  all  intending  to  remove  to  Penn- 
sylvania. The  persons  included  in  this  certificate,  besides  Nicholas  Wain,  his 
wife  and  three  children,  were:  Cuthbert  and  Wilham  Hayhurst,  his  uncles  by 
marriage,  mentioned  above  as  having  married  Mary  and  Dorothy  Rudd,  sisters 
to  Nicholas  Wain's  mother,  and  the  former's  wife,  Mary  and  children,  William's 
wife,  Dorothy,  having  died  in  1676,  and  their  daughter  Ann,  in  1678 ;  the  Hay- 
hurst's  sisters,  Alice  and  Margery,  and  their  husbands,  Thomas  Wigglesworth 
and  Thomas  Stackhouse:  Thomas  Walmsley  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Rudd  before 
mentioned  as  having  married  in  1665  at  Nicholas  Wain's  mother's,  whose  cousin 
she  was ;  Widow  Ellen  Cowgill,  perhaps  a  sister  of  Thomas  Stackhouse,  and  her 
children ;  Thomas  Croasdale,  Agnes,  his  wife,  and  six  children,  whose  relation- 
ship is  not  so  clear.  A  more  particular  account  of  this  certificate  and  these 
people  is  given  in  the  Cowgill  descent  of  the  Pemberton  family  in  these  volumes. 

This  whole  party  embarked  on  the  ship,  "Welcome",  within  a  few  months  of 


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the  date  of  their  certificate,  accompanying  William  Penn,  Lord  Proprietary  of 
Pennsylvania,  on  his  first  voyage  to  his  Province,  and  arrived  at  New  Castle, 
Delaware  river.  Territories  of  Pennsylvania,  October  27,  1682.  All  these  allied 
families  proceeded  to  Bucks  county,  where  the  heads  of  the  families,  having 
already  purchased  land  from  the  proprietary,  had  their  land  laid  out  to  them. 
Here  they  took  up  their  residences  and  laid  the  foundation  for  a  considerable 
section  of  the  local  aristocracy  of  Colonial  times,  while  the  family  connection 
already  existing  on  their  arrival  was  further  strengthened  by  a  number  of  inter- 
marriages between  their  descendants. 

By  deeds  of  lease  and  release  dated  April  21  and  22,  1682,  Nicholas  Wain 
bought  of  William  Penn  1,000  acres  of  land  in  Pennsylvania.  A  Patent  for  500 
acres  of  this  was  issued  to  him  by  the  Commissioners  of  Property,  January  29, 
1684-5,  the  land  having  been  laid  out  in  two  tracts  of  250  acres  each,  (the 
warrant  for  one  bearing  date  March  21,  1683-4)  on  Neshaminy  creek,  one  in 
Middletown  township,  and  one  across  the  creek  in  Northampton  township,  Bucks 
county.  Both  of  these  tracts  are  shown  on  Holme's  Map  of  the  Province.  Wain 
sold  all  of  this  500  acres,  200  to  Edmund  Cutler  and  50  to  Thomas  Stackhouse 
in  1686;  50  to  William  Hayhurst  in  1689,  and  200  to  John  Stackhouse  in 
1695-6.  Of  the  other  half  of  his  1,000  acres  purchase,  the  land  was  apparently 
never  laid  out  in  his  name,  he  having  sold  his  rights,  150  acres  to  Henn,' 
Walmsley;  100  to  Thomas  Walmsley,  brother  of  Henry;  230  to  Jedediah  Allen, 
of  Shrewsbury,  East  Jersey,  all  in  1686;  and  to  John  Goodson  his  right  to  the 
Liberty  Land  in  the  County  of  Philadelphia  appurtenant  to  his  purchase,  which 
under  the  original  conditions  would  have  been  20  acres,  completing  the  purchase 
of  1,000  acres.  These  Liberty  Lands,  by  a  later  ruling  reduced  to  16  acres,  were 
ordered  to  be  surveyed  to  John  Goodson,  by  the  Commissioners  of  Property, 
July  6,  1692.  Besides  these  tracts  Nicholas  Wain  purchased  three  other  tracts  in 
Bucks  county,  118  acres  of  Thomas  Holme's  tract  in  Bristol  township  in  1686, 
which  he  sold  to  John  Town  in  1697 ;  340  acres  in  the  same  township  of  Eliza- 
beth, relict  of  Edmund  Bennett  in  1692,  which  he  sold  to  Robert  Heaton  in 
1697;  and  250  acres  of  Thomas  Croasdale,  which  he  sold  to  Robert  Heaton  in 
1702. 

On  the  tract  laid  out  to  Nicholas  Wain  on  the  Neshaminy  in  Middletown 
township  he  erected  a  dwelling  for  himself,  and  here  on  January  i,  1682-3,  the 
first  Friends  Meeting  of  the  locality  was  held,  for  some  years  known  as  Ne- 
shaminy and  afterwards  down  to  the  present  as  Aliddletown  Meeting.  It  con- 
tinued to  be  held  at  the  house  of  Nicholas  W^aln,  and  that  of  Robert  Hall  alter- 
nately until  the  Meeting-House  was  ready  for  use  nearly  five  years  later.  The 
Bucks  County  Quarterly  Meeting,  gmo.  (November)  4,  1684,  met  at  Wain's 
house,  and  afterwards  alternated  between  that  and  William  Biles's  house  in 
Falls,  for  a  time,  and  continued  to  be  held  with  him  at  least  once  a  year  until 
1695,  after  which  it  convened  at  Falls  and  Middletown  Meeting-houses. 

Nicholas  Wain  was  unquestionably  the  leader  of  the  little  party  which  had 
accompanied  him  into  the  wilderness  along  the  Neshaminy.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  first  Assembly,  which  met  at  Philadelphia,  March  12,  1682-3,  and  repre- 
sented Bucks  county  in  that  body  in  1687-88-89-92-95.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Grand  Jury  empaneled  October  25,  1683,  was  Sheriff  of  Bucks  county  in 
1685,  and  Justice  of  the  Courts  of  that  County. 


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In  1696  he  removed  to  Philadelphia  county,  taking  up  his  residence  in  what 
was  then  known  as  the  Northern  Liberties,  which  embraced  at  that  time  a  much 
larger  part  of  the  county  than  was  comprised  within  the  district  subsequently 
incorporated  under  that  name,  extending  a  few  squares  above  Vine  street.  His 
new  neighbors  placed  the  same  value  upon  his  abilities  as  had  those  of  Bucks 
county,  for  he  was  immediately  chosen  a  representative  from  Philadelphia  county 
in  the  Assembly  and  served  during  the  sessions  of  1696-97-1700-01-13-14-15-17. 
He  was  also  named  as  one  of  the  directors  of  the  public  school  with  James 
Logan,  Isaac  Norris,  Edward  Shippen  and  others  in  1711.  As  already  shown 
Nicholas  Wain  was  active  in  the  councils  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  was 
practically  the  founder  of  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  as  above  shown,  and 
on  his  removal  to  Philadelphia  became  active  and  prominent  in  the  Monthly 
Meeting  there.  In  1702  that  meeting  authorized  him  in  conjunction  with  John 
Goodson  to  purchase  for  the  use  of  Friends,  four  acres  of  Liberty  Lands,  and 
here  was  established  the  Fair  Hill  Burying  Ground,  and  about  1706  or  1707, 
erected  Fair  Hill  Meeting  House  on  the  Germantown  road.  He  continued 
active  in  the  Society  of  Friends  until  his  death  in  1721. 

An  extended  account  of  him  was  published  in  "The  Friend,"  vol.  xxviii,  from 
which  we  quote  : — 

"Sometime  in  the  year  1682,  Nicholas  Wain,  Jane  his  wife  and  their  children  reached 
Pennsylvania,  and  settled  in  Bucks  County,  near  the  Neshaminy.  They  probably  were 
located  before  midsummer  for  before  the  end  of  that  year  he  was  elected  one  of  the  mem- 
bers of  Assembly,  which  met  in  the  First  Month  1683.  At  this  time,  although  noted  among 
the  'faithful  Friends',  it  does  not  appear  that  he  had  received  a  gift  in  the  ministry.  It 
was  not  long  however,  before  he  was  called  to  labour  by  word  and  doctrine  for  the  ever- 
lasting good  of  his  fellow  men.  In  this  service  he  was  much  employed  by  his  Divine 
Master  at  home  and  abroad,  and  he  endeavored  to  acquit  himself  of  the  duties  that 
devolved  upon  him,  as  respected  his  own  self,  the  claims  of  his  family,  and  of  the  public. 
This  last  was  no  light  task,  being  fourteen  times  elected  as  a  legislator  of  the  new 
Colony. 

"Early  in  the  year  1689,  with  the  approbation  and  unity  of  Friends  Nicholas  Walln 
paid  a  religious  visit  to  Maryland.  He  was  accompanied  by  James  Radclifif.  On  returning 
from  this  visit  he  could  gratefully  acknowledge  the  comforting  presence  of  their  divine 
Master  in  the  journey,  and  that  they  had  had  'many  good  meetings.' 

"Nicholas  Walln  had  a  share  of  the  labour  with  George  Keith,  being  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  the  Meeting  of  Ministers  to  advise  with  and  admonish  him.  He  bore  his  testi- 
mony against  the  spirit  under  which  Keith  was  acting,  and  signed  various  of  the  docu- 
ments issued  by  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  Ministers  and  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  business, 
relative  to  that  opposing  and  contentious  one.  About  1696  he  removed  to  the  neighborhood 
of  Philadelphia  and  became  a  member  of  that  Monthly  Meeting.  He  was  soon  much 
employed  by  the  meeting  in  transacting  its  businss,  and.  like  his  friend  Griffith  Owen,  was  a 
member   of  almost  all  committees   on  important   subjects. 

"In  the  First  Month,  1699,  he  informed  his  Friends  of  the  Select  Meeting,  that  he  had  a 
concern  to  visit  'New  England  and  thereaway'  on  religious  service.  This  visit  appears  to 
have    occupied    several    months." 

TJte  Friend  publishes  a  letter  from  him  soon  after  his  return  from  this  journey,  to 
William  Ellis,  in  England,  telling  him  of  the  death  of  many  Friends  in  Philadelphia  from 
yellow  fever  in  this  year,  among  them  his  own  brother-in-law,  James  Dilworth,  and 
requests  Ellis  to  remember  him  and  his  son  Richard  to  their  sister  and  aunt  Ann  Dil- 
worth, then  also  in  England,  and  "to  all  our  relations  and  friends  in   Bolland." 

"After  the  Yearly  Meeting  in  the  Seventh  Month  1702,  Nicholas  Wain,  in  company 
with  John  Lea,  visited  Friends  in  East  and  West  Jersey  and  Long  Island."  In  1706  he 
was  one  of  the  representatives  from  the  Quarterly  Meeting  that  had  charge  of  bringing  that 
body's  resolution  against  tombstones  before  the  Yearly  Meeting,  recommending  the  latter 
to  make  a  rule  of  discipline  against  their  erection.  At  the  same  Yearly  Meeting  he  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  to  draw  up  an  epistle  of  instruction  etc.  to  the  Quarterly  Meet- 
ing and   Monthly   Meetings,  which   is  printed   at   length   in   The  Friend. 

"Nicholas  Wain  continued  to  be  much  employed  in  visiting  neighboring  meetings, 
and  in  fulfilling  the  various  appointments  laid  on  him  by  his  Friends.  Respected  for  his 
devdtion  to  the  Truth ;  honoured  for  his  faithfulness  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty  as  a 
minister  of  the  gospel,   he  passed  along  comfortably   to  a   green  old   age.     He  was  useful 


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in  the  church,  and  in  the  world,  almost  to  the  very  end  of  his  days,  taking  an  active  share 
in  the  business  of  his  Monthly  Meeting  only  nine  days  before  his  death." 

On  his  removal  to  Philadelphia  county,  Nicholas  Wain  immediately  began  to 
invest  in  land,  principally  in  Liberty  Lands,  which  he  bought  up  in  small  quanti- 
ties, afterwards  taking  out  patents  for  the  consolidated  tracts.  During  the  years 
1696-97-98,  he  purchased  altogether  of  many  different  persons,  651  acres,  of 
which  he  sold  at  different  periods  before  a  patent  was  made  to  him,  in  small  lots 
an  aggregate  of  163  acres,  leaving  him  a  right  to  488  acres  in  one  contiguous 
tract.  This  tract  on  a  re-survey  was  found  to  contain  520  acres,  for  which  a 
patent  was  issued  by  the  Commissioners  of  Property  bearing  date  January  24, 
1703-4.  Besides  this  tract  he  had  purchased  before  removing  to  Philadelphia 
county,  from  the  executor  of  George  Wilcox,  400  acres  in  Bristol  township, 
Philadelphia  county,  being  one-half  of  the  800  acres  originally  granted  to  Barna- 
bas Wilcox,  father  of  George ;  the  deed  therefor  bearing  date  September  10, 
1695.  In  right  of  his  1,000  acre  purchase  Nicholas  Wain  was  entitled  to  two  lots 
in  the  city  of  Philadelphia  which  he  never  took  up.  They  were  claimed  by  his 
descendants  and  in  1834-35  were  patented  to  his  great-great-grandson,  Jacob  S. 
Wain. 

Nicholas  Wain  died  in  the  Northern  Liberties  of  Philadelphia,  February  4, 
1721-2.  His  will  dated  January  30,  and  proved  March  19,  1721-2,  named  his 
wife  Jane  and  his  son  Richard  as  executors,  and  mentioned  the  following  chil- 
dren: Nicholas,  William,  Jane,  Hannah,  Mary,  Sarah  and  Elizabeth;  Nicholas 
receiving  the  homestead  of  300  acres  and  3  negroes ;  \\'illiam  fifty  pounds  and  2 
negroes,  and  the  daughters  five  shillings  each.  His  wife  survived  him  but  the 
date  of  her  death  is  not  known. 

According  to  the  certificate  granted  by  Settle  Monthly  Meeting,  before  referred 
to,  Nicholas  Wain  was  accompanied  to  Pennsylvania  by  his  wife  Jane,  nee 
Turner,  and  three  children.  The  register  of  Settle  Monthly  Meeting  shows  the 
dates  of  birth  of  the  following  children  of  Nicholas  and  Jane  (Turner)  Wain  ■ 

Jane  Wain,  b.  smo.  16,  1675 ; 
Margaret  Wain.  b.  8mo.  3,  1677,  d.  inf.; 
Richard  Wain,  b.   i  mo.  6,  1678; 
Margaret  Wain,  b.  iimo.  12,  1682. 

The  register  of  births  at  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  in  Bucks  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, gives  the  dates  of  birth  of  the  three  children  who  accompanied  their 
parents  to  Pennsylvania,  and  those  of  five  others  born  in  Bucks  county.  Two 
of  the  three  dates  relative  to  the  older  children  differ  slightly  from  those  given 
on  the  Settle  register ;  the  date  of  birth  of  the  second  Alargaret,  given  on  the 
Middletown  records  as  "iimo.  10,  1680,"  is  more  likely  correct  than  that  given 
on  the  Settle  registry,  since  at  the  date  given  on  the  Settle  Register  the  family 
had  already  left  England,  in  which  case  the  birth  could  hardly  have  been  recorded 
in  Settle. 

The  three  youngest  of  the  twelve  children  of  Nicholas  and  Jane  Wain  were 
born  in  Philadelphia  county  and  the  dates  of  their  birth  given  below  are  from  the 
birth  registry  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting.  To  avoid  confusion  as  to  old 
and  new  style,  the  names  of  the  month  are  given  instead  of  the  number  as  used 


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on  Friends'  records,  and  in  all  cases  where  the  date  occurs  between  January  i 
and  March  21,  the  double  year  is  given. 

Issue  of  Nicholas  and  Jane  (Turner)   Wain: — 

Jane  Wain,  b.  Yorkshire,  July  16,  1675 ;  m.  May  27,  1691,  at  "Neshamina",  now 
Middletown  Meeting,  Samuel  Allen  Jr.,  of  Neshamina,  Bucks  co.,  Pa. ;  son  of  Samuel 
Allen,  who  with  his  family  came  from  England  in  the  ship  "Bristol  Factor,"  arriving 
at  Chester,  Dec.  11,  1681.  The  Aliens  were  prominent  in  early  times  in  Bucks  CO.,  and 
intermarried  with  the  leading  county  families ;  they  were  settled  on  Neshaminy 
creek  in  Bensalem  twp.,  then  included  in  a  rather  indefinite  region  known  as  Neshamina 
or   Neshamina   creek; 

Margaret  Wain,  b.  Yorkshire,  Oct.  3,  1677,  d.  inf. ;  on  the  register  of  Settle  Meeting 
the  date  of  her  death  is  given  as  March  28,  1676,  but  this  is  impossible  as  that  date 
precedes  the  date  of  her  birth,  perhaps  1678  was  intended; 

Richard  Waln,  b.  Yorkshire,  June  6,  1678;  m.  Anne  Heath,  of  them  presently; 

Margaret  Wain,  b.   Yorkshire,  Jan.   10,   1680-1,  d.  unm.  before  her  father; 

Hannah  Wain,  b.  Bucks  co.,  Pa.,  Sept.  21,  1684;  m.  (first)  March,  1704,  Thomas 
Hodges,  who  had  previously  married  her  cousin,  Jane  Dilworth,  before  mentioned; 
he  died  March  28,  1708;  she  m.  (.second)  Nov.,  1712,  Benjamin  Simcock;  she  had 
issue   by    both   husbands,    who    have    left   descendants ; 

Mary  Wain,  b.  Bucks  co.,  Pa.,  April  7,  1687,  d.  July  19,  1721,  m.  1706,  John  Simcock, 
brother  of  Benjamin;  she  was  a  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  an  account 
of  her  published  in   The  Friend,  vol.  xxxv,  begins  as  follows : 

"Mary  Walln,  a  daughter  of  that  worthy  minister  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  Nicholas 
Walln  and  Jane  his  wife,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Bucks  County,  in  the  year  1686  or 
1687.  Her  parents  soon  after  her  birth,  removed  into  the  limits  of  Philadelphia 
Meeting,  and  there  she  was  brought  up.  Being  tenderly  visted  in  early  life  by  the 
Spirit  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  and  giving  up  thereto,  the  pious  precepts  and  example  of  her 
parents  were  blessed  to  her,  and  she  was  enabled  to  manifest  by  conduct  and  con- 
versation that  her  soul  was  enamored  with  the  beauty  of  holiness,  and  the  blessed 
consistancy  of  the  Truth.  Early  in  the  year  1706,  when  about  nineteen  years  of  age 
she  was  married  to  John  Simcock,  the  son  of  that  eminent  minister  of  that  name  who 
resided  near  Chester.  The  newly  married  couple  resided  near  Abington  for  many 
years,  where  Mary  received  a  gift  in  the  ministry  which  she  exercised  to  the  comfort 
of  Friends.  After  passing  many  years  of  usefulness  in  that  neighborhood,  both  in  the 
church  and  in  the  world,  they,  about  the  year,  1740  removed  to  Kingwood,  New 
Jersey."  Then  follows  a  memorial  of  her  husband  too  long  for  insertion  here.  She 
d.  at  Kingwood,  May  19,  1771,  "in  the  8oth  year  of  her  age,  as  Minister  upwards  of 
50  years";  and  her  husband  d.  there  April  23,  1773,  "in  the  86th  year  of  his  age"; 
on  the  records  of  Kingwood  Monthly  Meeting  appear  tender  and  eloquent  memorials 
of  both ; 

Ellen  Wain,  b.  Bucks  co.,  March  27,  1690,  d.  unm.  Jan.  4,  1707-8; 

Sarah  Wain,  b.  Bucks  co.,  June  9,  1692;  m.  (first)  in  171 1,  Jacob  Simcock,  brother 
of  Benjamin  and  John  above  mentioned.  These  three  brothers  were  sons  of  Jacob 
and  Alice  (Maris)  Simcock,  and  grandson  of  John  Simcock,  and  George  Maris,  both 
members  of  the  Provincial  Council  and  otherwise  prominent  in  the  early  history  of 
Pa.,  and  founders  of  two  very  prominent  and  aristocratic  Chester  county  families. 

Sarah  (Wain)  Simcock  m.  (second)  Feb.  27,  1721-2,  Jonathan  Palmer,  whose 
family  occupied  in  Bucks  co.  a  position  similar  to  that  of  the  Simcocks  and  Marises 
in    Chester   co. ; 

Jacob   Simcock  was  b.   Sept.   28,   1686,  and   d.   Feb.    1716-17,   leaving  issue ; 

John  Wain,  b.  Bucks  co..  Pa.,  Aug.  10,  1694,  d.  1720,  and  is  therefore  not  mentioned  in 
his  father's  will;  he  m.  Aug.  30,  1717,  Jane,  b.  1696,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Hardy)  Mifflin,  of  "Fountain  Green",  now  part  of  Fairmount  Park,  Phila.,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  Mifflin,  of  Warminster,  Wiltshire,  England,  b.  1638,  who 
came  to  America  between  1676  and  1679,  settling  among  the  Swedes  on  the  Delaware 
river,  and  in  1680  took  up  the  "Fountain  Green"  plantation  on  the  Schuylkill ; 
(see  Life  and  Ancestry  of  Warner  Mifflin,  by  Hilda  Justice,  Phila.  1805,  abstracts 
from  which  are  given  in  our  sketch  of  the  Justice  Family  in  these  volumes.  In 
which  publication,  however,  the  name  of  Jane  Mifflin's  husband  is  given  as  John 
Waller,  instead  of  Wain.)  Their  dau.  and  probably  only  child,  Elizabeth  Wain, 
m.  June  11,  1741,  at  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting,  Robert  Worrel,  of  Phila.,  son  of  Rich- 
ard Worrell,  of  Lower  Dublin  twp.,  Phila.  co..  Pa. ; 
Elizabeth  Wain,  b.  Northern  Liberties,  Phila.,  March  27,  1697,  is  supposed  to  have 
been  the  Elizabeth  Wain  who  m.  April  24,  1719,  James  Duberry,  (properly  Dub- 
ree),  son  of  Jacob  and  Jane,  b.  June  22,   1698; 


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Nicholas  Wain,  b.  Northern  Liberties,  Phila.,  March  24,  1698-9,  d,  there,  unm.,  Feb. 
II,  1721-2;  his  will,  which  states  that  he  is  a  son  of  Nicholas  Wain,  late  of  North- 
ern Liberties  of  Phila.,  was  signed  Feb.  6,  1721-2,  two  days  after  his  father's 
death,  and  probated  March  19;  it  mentioned  his  brothers  William  and  Richard,  and 
his  sisters,  but  not  by  name;  his  mother  Jane  and  brother  Richard  were  named 
as  executors ;  a  "friend  Hannah  Maris"  was  also  mentioned,  who  was  most  likely 
his  fiance;  if  they  had  married  this  would  have  been  four  marriages  of  Nicholas 
Wain's    children    with    the   Maris    family,    but    death    canceled    the    engagement ; 

William  Wain,  b.  Northern  Liberties,  Phila.,  March  15,  1700-1 ;  m.  .^nn  Hall,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Mary,  of  Springfield  twp.,  Chester  co..  Pa. ;  they  appear  to  have 
had  but  one  child,  Samuel  Wain,  who  m.  (first)  Nov.  13,  1747,  Ann  Rushton; 
(second)  June  II,  1767,  Sarah  Steel;  he  had  eight  children,  all  by  his  first  wife, 
concerning  whom  we  have  little  data,  aside  from  the  fact  that  the  fourth  child, 
Hannah,  b.  March  24,  1754,  m.  at  Christ  Church,  April  24,  1773,  Jonathan  Matlack. 

Richard  Waln,  eldest  son  of  Nicholas  and  Jane  (Turner)  Wain,  born  at 
Burholme,  parish  of  Slaidburn,  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  England,  June  6, 
1678,  although  not  as  prominent  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  day  as  his  father, 
was,  however,  keenly  alive  to  the  developing  conditions  in  the  Northern  Liber- 
ties, where  he  continued  to  reside  after  his  father's  death  for  a  number  of  years. 
The  Provincial  Council  at  a  meeting  held  September  20,  1734,  appointed  him, 
together  with  Isaac  Norris,  Thomas  Griffitts,  Thomas  Masters,  James  Steel  and 
Benjamin  Eastburn,  all  conspicuous  men  in  that  section  of  Philadelphia  county, 
a  commission  to  review  Germantown  road  from  the  boundary  of  the  city  to 
Cohocksink  creek,  "&  make  such  Alterations  therein  as  may  best  suit  the  Pub- 
lick  Service,  with  as  little  damage  as  possible  to  any  private  Persons." 

Richard  Wain  married,  prior  to  September  30,  1706,  at  Abington  Meeting, 
Anne,  daughter  of  Robert  Heath.  The  minutes  of  the  monthly  meeting  of  that 
date,  at  which  the  marriage  was  reported  as  having  been  accomplished  pre- 
viously, evidently  since  the  last  Monthly  Meeting,  state  that  he  was  a  son  of 
Nicholas  Wain,  and  belonged  to  Fair  Hill  Particular  Meeting. 

Richard  Wain  later  removed  to  Norriton  township,  Philadelphia,  now  IMont- 
gomery  county,  where  he  resided  several  years,  and  where  he  died  in  1756.  In 
his  will  dated  December  i,  1753,  proved  June  16,  1756,  he  mentioned  his  chil- 
dren :  Richard,  Robert,  Nicholas,  Joseph,  Ann,  Susanna  and  Mary ;  also  his 
grandchildren,  but  not  by  name;  his  son  Joseph  being  named  as  executor.  The 
dates  of  birth  of  the  children  of  Richard  and  Anne  Wain  as  given  below  are 
taken  from  the  register  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting. 
Issue  of  Richard  and  Anne   (Heath)    Wain: — 

Nicholas   Wain,   b.   Aug.   25,    1707;    bur.   Sept.   3,    1707; 

Nicholas  Waln,  b.  March   19,   1709-10;    m.   Mary  Shoemaker,  of  whom  presently; 

Jane  Waln,  b.  Aug.  6,  1711,  d.  Aug.   17,  1711; 

Jane  Waln,  b.  Feb.  20,  1712-13.  d-  Oct.  4,   1714; 

Anne  Waln,  b.  Feb.  16,  1714-15;  m.  May,  1753,  Jonathan  Maris,  grandson  of  George 
Maris,    Provincial    Councillor,    before    mentioned ; 

Richard  Waln,  b.  June  S,  1717,  of  whom  presently; 

Susanna  Waln,  b.  June  9,   1719;    m.   Nov.,   1739,  Joseph  Levis; 

Robert   Waln,   b.   March  21,   1720-1;    m.   Rebecca   Coffin,   of  whom   hereafter; 

Joseph  Waln,  b.  Dec.  18,  1722,  d.  in  1760,  on  the  plantation  inherited  from  his  father; 
m.  Dec.  31.  1747,  at  Abington  Meeting,  Susannah,  dau.  of  James  Paul,  of  .\bing- 
ton  twp.,  then  of  Northern  Liberties,  Phila. ;  they  had  no  issue ;  Joseph  Wain's 
will  dated  March  S,  1759.  proved  Oct.  13,  1760,  mentioned  his  wife  Susannah, 
brothers  Nicholas,  Richard,  and  Robert ;  sisters  Susanna  Levis,  Anne  Maris,  and 
Mary  Brown ;  nephews  and  nieces,  Richard  and  Nicholas  Waln,  William  Levis, 
Jesse   and   Joseph    Waln,   and    Sarah,   Ann,    and    Mary   Waln ;     father-in-law,   James 


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Paul,   who    with    testator's    brother's    Richard    and    Robert    Wain    was    named    as 
executor; 
Mary  Wain,  b.   Aug.    15,   1724;   m.   Joseph   Brown, 

Nicholas  Waln,  eldest  son  of  Richard  and  Anne  (Heath)  Wain,  was  born 
March  19,  1709-10,  died  in  August,  1744,  having  been  born  and  passed  most  of 
his  life  on  the  old  Wain  estate  in  the  Northern  Liberties,  which  he  inherited; 
though  in  his  later  years  he  resided  in  the  city  proper.  He  does  not  appear  to 
have  been  active  in  public  affairs.  His  will  dated  August  16,  probated  August 
3,  1744,  named  his  wife  Mary,  brother  Robert,  and  children:  Richard,  Ann, 
Nicholas  and  Rebecca,  naming  as  executors  Mary  Wain,  Jacob  Shoemaker  and 
Robert  Wain. 

Nicholas  Wain  married.  May  23,  1734,  under  the  care  of  Philadelphia  Monthly 
Meeting,  Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Rebecca  (Dilworth)  Shoemaker.  She 
was  a  distant  cousin  to  her  husband,  her  mother,  Rebecca  (Dilworth)  Shoe- 
maker, being  the  youngest  daughter  of  James  Dilworth  by  his  wife  Anne  Wain, 
sister  to  Nicholas  Wain,  emigrant,  grandfather  of  the  Nicholas  Wain  now  under 
consideration. 

After  her  husband's  death,  Mary  (Shoemaker)  Wain  resided  on  his  Northern 
Liberties  property  and  died  there  in  1756.  Her  will  dated  January  19,  1745-6, 
proved  June  23,  1756,  mentions  her  children:  Ann,  Rebecca,  Richard  and  one 
other  (Nicholas)  not  by  name;  her  parents,  George  and  Rebecca  Shoemaker, 
and  her  brother,  Jacob  Shoemaker. 

Issue  of  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Shoemaker)   Wain: — 

Ann   Wain,  eldest  child,  d.  unm. ; 

Richard   Waln,    b.    about    1737;     m.    Elizabeth    Armitt,   of   whom   presently; 

Rebecca  Waln,  m,  Abraham  Howell;  their  only  child  who  survived  infancy,  Mary 
Howell,  m.  Henry  Drinker,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Rachel  (Rynear)  Drinker, 
and  nephew  of  Henry  Drinker,  whose  wife  was  Elizabeth  Drinker,  the  diarist.  His 
father,  John  Drinker,  was  one  of  the  most  active  of  the  Quakers  in  opposing  the 
Revolution,  on  religious  grounds,  and  being  of  a  literary  turn,  he  published  some 
pamphlets  on  this  and  other  subjects,  as  well  as  some  poems.  He  was  one  of  the 
victims  of  the  mob  that  started  the  "Fort  Wilson"  riot  on  Oct.  4,  1779,  and  was  ill- 
treated  by  another  mob  in  1781.  Henry  and  Mary  (Howell)  Drinker  had  five  chil- 
dren :  John  Drinker,  of  the  Philadelphia  bar ;  Henry  Waln  Drinker,  of  Luzerne 
Co.,  Pa.,  where  he  owned  very  extensive  tracts  of  land  which  he  developed  and 
opened  up  for  settlement ;  Rebecca  Drinker ;  Richard  Drinker,  of  Bloomsburg, 
Pa.,  afterwards  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  who  like  his  grandfather  was  "possessed  of  a 
turn  for  poetry,  and  wrote  and  published  several  poems ;  William  Waln  Drinker,  a 
member  of  the  New  York  bar,  who  also  "Possessed  a  poetical  gift."  All  four  of 
the  sons  married  and  left  issue,  their  numerous  descendants  being  now  widely 
scattered  throughout  the  country ; 

Nicholas  Waln,  b.   Nov.   14,   1742;    m.   Sarah  Richardson,  of  whom  later, 

Richard  Waln,  eldest  son  of  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Shoemaker)  Waln,  was 
born  about  1737,  died  May  23,  1809.  He  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in 
Philadelphia  and  acquired  considerable  wealth.  He  removed  in  1774  to  Mon- 
mouth county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  near  the 
Burlington  county  line,  adjacent  to  the  village  of  Crosswicks,  where  he  built  his 
mansion,  a  large  frame  dwelling,  still  standing.  A  recent  historical  sketch  of 
that  part  of  New  Jersey  says  of  his  purchase,  "This  entire  section  of  the  State 
was  purchased  from  the  Lahwah  Indians,  many  years  ago,  by  a  man  of  the 
name  of  Waln,  for  a  barrel  of  cider  and  a  few  beads."  "The  grotesqueness  of 
this  statement",  writes  a  more  careful  historian,  "will  be  appreciated  by  all  stu- 


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dents  of  New  Jersey  history.  For  an  hundred  years  prior  to  Wain's  advent  in 
New  Jersey,  the  Indians  of  that  Colony  had  very  little  land  to  dispose  of,  for 
cider,  beads  or  articles  of  great  intrinsic  value." 

Richard  Wain  named  his  place  Walnford,  a  name  it  bears  to  this  day.  Here 
he  lived  during  the  Revolutionary  period,  and  sometime  after  its  close  returned 
to  Pliiladelphia,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  Walnford  being  his 
summer  home.  He  married,  December  4,  1760,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Armitt,  a  Philadelphia  merchant,  but  of  an  old  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 
family,  from  which  descended  Henry  Armitt  Brown,  the  eloquent  orator  and 
able  lawyer  of  Philadelphia  a  generation  ago.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Armitt)  Wain 
died  in   1790. 

Richard  Wain  and  his  wife  are  referred  to  a  number  of  times  in  the  "Extracts 
from  the  Journal  of  Elizabeth  Drinker,"  edited  by  Henry  D.  Biddle,  Philadel- 
phia, 1889,  Mrs.  Drinker  and  her  husband,  Henry  Drinker,  being  among  their 
close  friends.    Some  of  these  references  are  as  follows,  the  initials  H.  D.  and  E. 

D.  referring  to  the  journalist's  husband  and  herself : 

"1774.  June  6.  H.  D.  and  E.  D.  went  in  our  chaise  as  far  as  Frankford  with 
our  neighbors  Rich''  and  Eliz^  Wahi  who  are  on  their  way  to  their  mill  near  Cross- 
wicks,  N.  J.,  where  they  are  going  to  reside.  Rob'  Wain  and  wife  went  with  them  as  far 
as   Bristol.     We  took  leave  of  them  at  our  place  at   Frankford." 

"1776,    September    12.      H.    D.,    E.    D.    and    Billy    left    home    fifth-day    after    breakfast 

*     *     *     came    to    R.    Wain's    after    dark.      Sept.    13^     *     *     *     vve    walked    about    Richd 

Wain's   place ;     examined   ye    Mill    and    got    weighed ;     E.    D.    weighed    130    lbs.,    Billy,    56, 

E.  W.  116,"  (the  last  being  Richard  Wain's  wife)  "Sept.  16,  Left  Walnford  after  12 
o'clock.  Betsy  Wain  in  the  chaise  with  me", — after  spending  the  night  at  Joseph  Smith's 
near  Burlington,  the  Drinkers  returned  to  Philadelphia,  having  evidently  parted  with 
Mrs.    Wain,    though    the   Journal    does    not    say    so. 

"October  23.  Fourth-day  H.  D.  and  E.  D.  left  home  about  half  past  7  o'clock  *  *  * 
and  reached  Rd  Wain's  before  dark.  Found  R.  W.  very  unwell.  Oct.  24,  R.  W.  better 
to-day.  and  our  prospect  is  to  set  off  in  his  waggon,  with  his  Betsy  on  seventh  day  morn- 
ing; his  health  and  weather  permitting.  Oct.  25.  Spent  this  day  at  R.  W's — he  being 
very  unwell  *  *  *.  Oct.  26.  As  R.W.  is  very  feverish,  tho'  somewhat  better,  he  declines 
attending  Shrewsbury  meeting.  We  set  out  in  his  wagon  with  his  son  Nicholas,  and  his 
negro  Peter  as  a  driver,  about  9  o'clock.  *  *  *  .  Oct.  30.  Breakfasted  at  R.L's, 
and  began  our  return  homewards ;  *  *  *  and  came  to  R.W's  about  5,  found  Richard 
much  better  November  I.  Between  9  and  10  this  morning  the  weather  being  fine,  we 
left  our  Friends  and  proceeded  homeward."  Richard  Wain  being  a  Friend  was  a  non- 
combatant,  and,  as  is  well  known,  non-combatants  were  in  those  days  classed  as  Tories. 
The  Journal  has  this  entry  under  date  of  Oct.  22,  1777,  a  month  after  the  British  had 
taken  possession  of  Philadelphia : — "Richard  Wain  is  taken  up,  and  sent  to  New  York. 
He  had  his  choice  of  3  things,  either  to  go  to  jail,  take  ye  Test,  or  go  within  ye  English 
lines.      Ye   latter    was    chosen." 

"1777,  Dec.  II.  Near  10  o'clock  this  evening,  who  should  come  in  but  Rich.  Wain — he 
came  from  New  York  in  a  vessel  with  a  number  of  others.  He's  hearty  and  well."  He 
seems  to  have  stayed  in  Philadelphia  for  some  months  after  this  as  he  is  mentioned  among 
callers  at  Drinker's  on  February  17  and  April  2.  1778,  and  dined  there  May  8;  his  family, 
however,  stayed  at  Walnford.  "June  14,  First-day.  Richard  Wain  dined  with  us.  He 
seems  at  a  loss  how  to  determine,  whether  to  stay  here  or  go"  This  was  when  the  Brit- 
ish were  withdrawing  from  Philadelphia.  "June  17,  Richard  Wain  took  leave  of  us  today" 
"Sept.  4,  H.D.  received  a  letter  yesterday  from  Richd  Wain,  dated  from  Walnford.  We 
are  pleased  to  find  he  is  with  his  Family  but  we  do  not  yet  know  upon  what  terms." 
Thereafter  he  remained  at  Walnford  until  the  end  of  the  Revolution.  "1783,  June  16. 
Sally,  Nancy,  and  Billy  were  to  leave  Middletown  this  day  for  Richd  Wain's,  near  Cross- 
wicks,  in  ye  Jerseys."  "June  28.  or  thereabouts  our  children  returned  from  R.  Wain's." 
"1785,  July  28.  Fifth-day.  Left  home  after  dinner  *  *  *  July  29,  came  to  Richard 
Wain's  before  dark,  should  have  got  there  sooner,  but  were  delayed  sometime  on  the 
road,  about  3  miles  from  R.W's  by  the  oversetting  of  ye  chaise.  Henry  drove.  *  *  * 
Found  R.W's  family  well.  July  30.  Betsy  Wain  and  her  daughter  set  off  with  us  for 
Shrewsbury,  H.D.,  E.W.,  H.D.Jr,  and  E.D.  in  R.W's  waggon;  Nancy  Drinker  and  Polly 
Wain  in  our  chaise,  *  *  *  July  31  *  *  *  journeyed  on  to  Lippincott's  at  Shrews- 
bury. II  o'clock  H.D.  his  son,  and  ye  girls  went  to  meeting,  E.W.  and  self  staid  at  ye 
Tavern,   where   we   dined,    *    *    *    Rode   down   to   ye   Bath   house   in   ye  evening.     Polly 


Wain  and  our  Nancy  went  into  ye  water.  August  I.  E.W.,  myself  and  our  daughters 
went  into  ye  Bath  this  morning.  *  *  *  Aug.  4.  *  *  *  We  set  off  after  Breakfast 
for  Long  Branch  on  ye  Sea  Shore.  H.D.E.W..  and  E.D.  went  round  in  ye  waggon^ 
George  Eddy  and  wife,  Nancy,  Henry  and  Polly  Wain,  and  John  Fry  went  in  a  Boat. 
*  *  *  August  5.  Betsy  Wain  and  daughter,  G.Eddy  and  wife  left  us  this  morning 
for  their  respective  homes.  *  *  *  We  shall  miss  Betsy  Wain  very  much."  Polly  Wain 
mentioned  in  the  Journal  was  the  one  who  afterwards  married  Thomas  Wister.  "August 
ID.  Left  John  Corlas'  this  morning  *  *  *  arrived  at  Richard  Wain's  towards  even- 
ing, 40  miles.  *  *  *  Richard  Wain  gone  to  Philad^  with  our  Horse  and  Chaise,  which 
detained  us  there  a  day  longer  than  we  intended.  Aug.ii,  Spent  this  day  at  R.W's  Rich- 
ard returned  home  this  evening,  bringing  us  word  that  all  were  well  at  home.  Aug  12, 
Left    R.W's    after    Breakfast." 

The  will  of  Richard  Wain,  "of  Philadelphia,  Gent.",  signed  June  3,  1808, 
proved  June  7,  1809,  mentioned  his  sons,  Joseph ;  Nicholas,  to  whom  he  devised 
his  estate  in  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  "commonly  called  Walnford" ;  his 
daughter  Rebecca  Harrison ;  son-in-law  Thomas  Wister ;  daughters,  Elizabeth 
Wain  and  Hannah  Ryers,  and  the  latter's  father-in-law  J.  Ryers ;  and  appointed 
Joseph,  Nicholas  and  Jacob  Wain  executors ;  a  codicil  dated  May  14,  1809,  adds 
his  daughter  Elizabeth  Wain  and  son-in-law  Thomas  Wister  to  the  executorship. 
Issue  of  Richard  and  Elisabeth  (Armitt)  Wain: — 

Joseph  Wain,  b.  1761,  d.  either  Sept.  10  or  Oct.  9,  1824,  aged  sixty-three ;  m.  Feb. 
12,  1801,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John  Stokes,  of  a  well-known  Burlington  county 
family.  They  resided  in  Darby,  Delaware  co..  Pa.,  and  had  no  children;  after 
her  husband's  death,  Mrs.  Wain  m.  (second)  April  g,  1829,  at  Upper  Darby 
Friends  Meeting  House,  Hon.  Thomas  Pirn  Cope,  of  Philadelphia,  son  of  Caleb  and 
Mary  Cope,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  one  of  the  most  successful  merchants  of  his  day, 
an  eminent  philanthropist ;  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  legislature,  and  otherwise 
prominent  in  public  life.  Elizabeth  (Stokes)  Wain  was  his  second  wife,  and  had  no 
children  by  him. 

On  Dec.  10,  1794,  Joseph  Wain  was  a  groomsman  at  the  wedding  of  Henry  Drinker 
Jr.  son  of  Elizabeth  Drinker,  the  diarist,  in  whose  journal  he  is  mentioned  a  few  days 
later ; — "Feb.  13.  *  *  *  As  our  son  Henry  was  desirous  of  having  the  young 
people  invited  here  after  his  marriage,  this  afternoon  was  appointed,  tho'  we  are 
not  fond  of  such  parties,  *  *  *  ye  other  two  (groomsmen)  Isaac  Morris  and 
Joe  Wain  were  absent." 
Mary  Wain,  b.  1765,  d.  1844;  m.  1786,  Thomas  Wister,  b.  1764,  d.  1851,  son  of  Richard 
and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar  and  brother  of  Caspar  Wistar,  M.D.,  the  eminent 
physician  and  scientist  of  a  century  ago ;  see  Wistar  Family  in  these  volumes,  where 
an  account  of  the  twelve  children  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Wain)  Wistar  is  given; 
the  death  of  one  of  whom  is  mentioned  in  Elizabeth  Drinker's  Journal,  before  quoted 
in   regard  to   Mary    (Wain)    Wister,  referred  to  therein  as   "Polly  Wain". 

"Sept.  7,  1793,  Nobody  here  to  day  but  H.M.  and  Betsy  Emlen  who  drank  tea 
with  us ;  Henry  and  Molly  went  with  them  this  evening  over  to  Hesser's  to  see 
Molly  Wharton,  who  has  returned  here  with  her  Baby,  4  weeks  old.  She  informed 
M.D.  that  about  a  week  past,  a  little  son  of^  Tommy  Wister  who  was  at  his  grand- 
father's Richd  Wain's,  as  unfortunately  drowned  in  the  mill-pond."  The  Molly 
Wharton  mentioned  was  daughter  of  Jesse  Wain,  Richard's  first  cousin,  who  will  be 
mentioned   hereafter. 

Among  the  more  recent  descendants  of  Thomas  and   Mary   (Wain)    Wistar  were: 
Richard    Vaux,    Mayor    of    Philadelphia,   and    Member    of    Congress;     General    Isaac 
Jones  Wistar   et   al. ; 
Elizabeth  Wain,  b.  about   1767,  lived  mostly  in  Phila. ;    was  one  of  her  father's  execu- 
tors in  1809 ;    d.  unm.  in   Phila.,  Dec.  22,   1837,  aged  seventy  years.     Her  will  dated 
May  5,  1834,  proved  Jan.  4,  1838,  was  of  unusual  form  and  evidently  drawn  by  her- 
self, it  devised  everything  she  possessed  except  a  few  persona!  articles  to  her  niece, 
Elizabeth    Wain    Smith,    daughter    of    her    sister,    Hannah    Ryers,    and    named    her 
nephews,  Joseph  W.  Ryers  and  S.  Morris  Wain,  as  executors ; 
Hannah  Wain,  m.   John  Ryers,  and  had  issue : 
Adrian   Ryers,   d.   y. ; 
Eliza  Ryers,  d.   y. ; 

Elizabeth   Wain   Ryers,   m.   Aug.   4,   1819,   by  Rev.   William   White,    (afterwards 
Bishop    of    Pennsylvania)  ^  rector    of    (Thrist    Church,    Phila.,    to    Thomas    W. 
Smith ;    she  was  the  principal  devisee  of  her  aunt,  Elizabeth  Wain,  above  men- 
tioned ; 
Joseph  Wain  Ryers,  m.  two  of  his  cousins,  (first)  June  3,  1830,  by  Bishop  White, 


Susan,  dau.   of  Congressman  Robert  Wain;     (second)    her  sister,  Ann  Wain; 
a  fuller  account  of  Hon.  Robert  Wain  will  be  given  later ; 
Richard  Wain,  d.  y.; 

Rebecca  Wain,  b.  1772,  d.  March  17,  1854,  in  her  eighty  second  year ;   m.  (as  his  second 
wife)   Matthias  Harrison,  b,  March  2,  1759,  d,  June  17,  1817,  son  of  Henry  Harrison, 
mayor  of  Phila.,  in  1762,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Aspden ;    they  had  no  issue; 
Nicholas  Waln,  of  whom  presently; 
Jacob  Shoemaker  Waln,  b.  at  Walnford,  N.  J.,  1776;   m.  Sarah  Morris,  of  whom  later; 

Nicholas  Waln,  second  surviving  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Armitt) 
Wain,  succeeded  his  father  in  the  ownership  of  Walnford,  where  his  entire  life 
was  spent,  he  having  assumed  charge  of  the  estate  there  on  his  father's  return  to 
Philadelphia,  after  the  Revolution,  and  inherited  it  under  his  father's  will  in 
1809. 

He  married  Sarah,  born  November  8,  1779,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Wright)  Ridgway,  of  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  an  account  of  whom  and 
their  ancestry  and  descendants  is  given  in  these  columns  under  the  title  of  "The 
Ridgway  Family". 

Issue  of  Nicholas  and  Sarah   (Ridgzvay)    Waln: — 

Richard  Waln,  m.   (first)   Mary  Ann  Allein,   (second)   Caroline  Mount,  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 
Elizabeth  Waln,  d.   unm.  about  the  age  of  twenty-one  years; 

Joseph  Waln,  of  the  city  of  Burlington,  N.  J. ;    m,  and  was  the  father  of  Robert  Wood 
Waln,   a   member   of   the   Philadelphia   and   Burlington  county   bars,   with   law   offices 
at   204    West    Washington    square,    Phila.,    and    residence    320    Wood    St.,    Burlington, 
where  he  was  an  elder  of  Presbyterian  church,  and  active  in  philanthropic  work.     He 
died  suddenly  in   Phila.,  Jan.  23,   1908;  also  of  Dr.  Ryers  Wain,  of  Peoria,   111.,  who 
died    suddenly    at    a    Christmas    dinner,    1907,    and    was    buried    at    Crosswicks,    New 
Years   Day,    1908 ;    and   of  two  daughters  one  of  whom  died  suddenly  a  few  years 
ago,  the  other  being  Miss   Lillian  Waln,  now  of   Burlington,   N.  J. ; 
John  Waln,  of  near  Walnford,  N.  J. ;    m.  Maria  Kirby,  and  had  among  other  children, 
Henry  C.  Wain,  of  near  Walnford,  N.  J. ; 
Mary  E.   Waln; 
S.   Morns  Waln,  a  member  of  the   Phila.  bar,   residing  at   1730   Mount  Vernon 

St.,   Phila.; 
Annie  Waln ; 

Dr.  Emma  C.  Waln,  of  2602  Ridge  ave.,  Phila. ; 
Sarah    Waln; 
Maria    (Waln)    Wolle; 
Nicholas  Waln,  m.  twice,  and  had  by  first  wife  three  sons, 

George   Waln,   a   retired   merchant   of   759   No.   40th   St.,   Phila. ; 
Richard   C.   Waln,  of  Allentown,   N.  J.; 
Thomas  Ridgway  Waln ; 

Nicholas  Waln  married  (second)  Mary ,  who  survived  him  afterwards  living  with 

her  daughter  at  1708  Vine  St.,  Phila.,  where  she  d.  Aug.  6,  1907,  and  was  buried 
at  Crosswicks;  this  branch  of  the  family  still  retaining  their  membership  in  the 
Society  of  Friends ;    the  only  child  of  the  second  marriage  was, 

Emma  Waln,  a  well-known  instructress  in  the  Friends  Central  School,  Phila., 
at  isth  and  Race  streets; 
Sarah  Waln,  b.  1816,  d.  at  Walnford,  March  15,  1907;  m.  about  1855,  Jacob  Hendrick- 
son,  who  died  of  blood  poisonnig  within  a  year  of  their  marriage;  they  had  no 
children ;  she  became  the  owner  of  the  family  estate  of  Walnford,  which  at  the  time 
of  her  death  consisted  of  162  acres,  on  which,  beside  the  family  mansion,  were  a  grist 
mill    and    several    tenement    houses. 

Richard  Waln,  eldest  son  of  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Ridgway)  Waln,  lived 
at  Walnford.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Riley  and  Sarah 
(Warren)  .'\llen,  and  said  to  have  been  a  niece  of  Col.  Ethan  Allen,  of  Revolu- 
tionary fame.     They  had  issue  : 


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Nicholas  Wain,  m.  Ada  Allmendinger,  of  Phila.,  and  had  two  daughters,  both  of  whom 

married;    several  sons  who  died  in  childhood;    the  mother  d.  May  27,  1807,  and  was 

bur.  the  31st,  from  their  residence  at  Hornerstown,   N.  J.; 
Elizabeth    Waln,    m.    John   Gaskill    Meirs,   of   whom   presently; 
Anna  Wain,  m.  Judge  Benajah  P.  Wills,  of  Mt.  Holly,  N.  J.,  whose  family  has  been 

prominent   in   Burlington   county  since   its   first  settlement;    they  had  one   daughter, 

and  one  son,  Richard  Wain  Wills. 

Elizabeth  Waln,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Mary  Ann  (Allen)  Wain,  was 
born  at  Walnford.  She  married  John  Gaskill  Meirs,  son  of  John  and  Lucretia 
(Gaskill)  Meirs,  of  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey.  John  Gaskill  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  belonged  to  Springfield  Meeting,  though  his  father 
was  probably  not  a  Friend,  as  he  as  John  Meirs,  Esq.,  was  appointed  December 
15,  1823,  (commission  dated  April  i,  1824)  Adjutant  of  the  Monmouth  Squad- 
ron, Third  Regiment  of  Cavalry  Brigade  of  the  Militia  of  New  Jersey.  John  G. 
and  Elizabeth  (Waln)  Meirs  lived  near  Walnford,  the  family  estate  of  the 
Waln    family. 

Issue  of  John  G.  and  Elisabeth  (Wain)  Meirs: — 

Sarah   Meirs,   d.    inf.; 

Mary  Anna  Meirs,  d.  inf. ; 

Richard  Waln  Meirs,  of  whom  presently ; 

Job  Hillman  Gaskill  Meirs  was  adopted  by  an  uncle,  Job  Hillman  Gaskill,  (for  whom 
he  was  named)  a  wealthy  resident  of  Pemberton,  N.  J.,  and  sometime  State  Senator 
for  N.  J.;  Job  Hillman  Gaskill  Meirs,  by  right  of  an  Act  of  Assembly,  dropped  the 
surname  Meirs,  leaving  his  name  the  same  as  that  of  his  uncle  and  adopted  father. 
He  m.  his  cousin,  Helen  Meirs,  dau.  of  Collen  Butterworth  Meirs  and  his  wife, 
Louisa    Butterworth,    who    were    also    cousins ; 

John  Meirs,  a  member  of  the  Camden,  N.  J.,  bar; 

Mary    Anne    Meirs,    unm.    (1908)  ; 

Fanny   Campbell   Meirs,   d.   unm. ; 

Lucretia   Gaskill    Meirs,   unm.    (1908); 

Elizabeth  Waln  Meirs,  unm.    (1908); 

David  Allen   Meirs,  unm.    (1908),   living  with  his  three  sisters  near   Walnford.   N.  J. 

Richard  Waln  Meirs,  son  of  John  Gaskill  and  Elizabeth  (Waln)  Meirs, 
born  July  26,  1866,  near  Walnford,  New  Jersey,  entered  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  at  Princeton,  class  of  '88,  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B., 
after  which  he  removed  to  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Markham, 
University,  Corinthian  Yacht,  Racquet  and  Princeton  clubs  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  the  Metropolitan,  Princeton,  and  Stroller's  clubs  of  New  York ; 
also  a  member  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry,  National 
Guard  of  Pennsylvania ;  a  life  member  of  Philadelphia  Academy  of  Fine  Arts, 
of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania; one  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Franklin  Institute  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania;  director  of  Trust  Company  of  North  America,  Philadelphia;  and 
of  Winifred  Railroad  Company  and  Winifred  Coal  Company,  in  West  Virginia. 

Richard  Waln  Meirs,  of  Philadelphia,  married,  October  31,  1894,  Anne 
Walker,  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Weightman  Jr.  and  his  wife,  Sabine  d'lnvil- 
liers,  and  granddaughter  of  the  late  William  Weightman,  a  prominent  Philadel- 
phia manufacturer. 

Issue  of  Richard  Waln  and  Anne  Walker  (Weightman)  Meirs: — 

William   Weightman   Meirs,   b.   Sept.    18,    1895; 


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Anne  Walker  Meirs,  b.  Aug.  25,   1898; 
Jarvis  Meirs,  b.  June  12,  1901. 

Jacob  Shoemaker  Waln,  youngest  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Armitt) 
Wain,  born  at  Walnford,  New  Jersey,  1776,  chose  a  mercantile  career,  and 
entered  the  counting  house  of  his  relatives,  Jesse  and  Robert  Wain,  Philadel- 
phia, and  in  time  became  one  of  Philadelphia's  most  prominent  and  prosperous 
merchants.  He  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  serving  for  several  years  in 
City  Council,  and  later  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  Philadelphia.  He 
died  in  Philadelphia,  April  4,   1850. 

He  married,  August  5,  1804,  Sarah,  born  September  2,  1788,  died  May  18, 
1862,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Wistar  Morris,  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Wells,  an  account  of  whom  and  their  ancestry  is  given  in  "The  Morris 
Family"  in  these  volumes.  They  had  nine  children,  all  of  whom  lived  to 
mature  years,  yet  but  two  of  them  married,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The  second 
child,  Samuel  Morris  Wain,  born  October  24,  1807,  was  the  head  of  the  firm  of 
S.  Morris  Wain  &  Compan}',  and  one  of  Philadelphia's  most  conspicuous  mer- 
chants for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hos- 
pital, and  also  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Animals,  and  was  widely  known  for  his  benevolence.  He  died  unmarried  De- 
cember 22,    1870. 

Edward  Wain,  another  son  of  Jacob  S.  and  Sarah  (Morris)  Wain,  born 
October  22,  181 1,  (only  son  who  married)  was  married,  November  29,  1843,  to 
Ellen  Cora  Nixon,  born  September  5,  1825,  who  still  survives  him,  residing  at 
"Williamstowe",  Cheltenham  township,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania.  She 
is  a  daughter  of  Henry  Nixon,  born  in  Philadelphia,  1776,  died  1840,  by  his  wife, 
Maria,  daughter  of  Robert  Morris,  the  "Financier  of  the  Revolution"  and  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  She  is  also  a  granddaughter  of  Col.  John 
Nixon  of  the  Revolution,  who  read  the  Declaration  of  Independence  to  the 
assembled  people  at  the  State  House,  Philadelphia,  July  8,  1776.  Edward  Wain 
was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Philadelphia  bar  a  generation  ago.  He  died  Oc- 
tober I,  1891.  Edward  and  Ellen  Cora  (Nixon)  Wain  had  twelve  children,  six 
sons  and  six  daughters ;  of  the  sons,  the  eldest,  Jacob  Shoemaker  Wain,  who 
resides  at  Haverford.  and  Edward  Wain,  of  The  Burlington,  are  the  only  ones 
who  reside  in  or  near  Philadelphia.  Ellen  Nixon  Wain,  the  second  and  eldest 
married  daughter,  is  wife  of  Charles  Custiss  Harrison,  provost  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  they  reside  at  1618  Locust  street,  Philadelphia.  Another 
daughter  is  Mrs.  Peter  Meredith  Graham,  of  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia;  and 
the  youngest  daughter,  Rebecca  Wain,  is  wife  of  Rev.  Richard  Bow  den  Shep- 
pard,  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Riverton,  New  Jersey.  Another  son,  Samuel 
Morris  Wain,  was  murdered  by  his  guide  in  1881,  while  hunting  in  Wyoming. 
Among  the  married  grandchildren  of  Edward  Wain  are:  Charles  C.  Harrison 
Jr.,  Henry  Wain  Harrison,  Mrs.  C.  Emory  McMichacl,  Mrs.  Edward  K.  Row- 
land, Mrs.  Walter  Abbott  Wood,  Mrs.  John  Baird,  Mrs.  Alfred  P.  Morris,  and 
the  Baroness  de  Saint  Marc. 

The  only  daughter  of  Jacob  Shoemaker  and  Sarah  (Morris)  Wain  who  mar- 
ried was  Mary  Morris  Wain,  who  became  the  wife  of  Richard  Vaux,  himself 
a  descendant  of  Nicholas  Wain,  the  emigrant  as  heretofore  shown.  He  was 
Mayor  of  Philadelphia  in  1856-7,  and  later  a  member  of  Congress.     His  surviv- 


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ing  children  are:  Mrs.  Edward  Buckley,  of  1508  Spruce  street;  Mrs.  Harry  Con- 
nelly, of  731  South  Broad  street,  and  Misses  Meta  and  Elizabeth  Wain  Vaux, 
of  "Westleigh"  Chestnut  Hill.  The  sons  and  daughter  of  Jacob  Wain  Vaux, 
deceased,  are  his  grandchildren. 

Nicholas  Waln,  second  son  of  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Shoemaker)  Wain,  born 
September  19,  1742,  was  one  of  the  most  striking  characters  of  his  day  and  gen- 
eration in  Philadelphia,  although  not  directly  identified  with  public  life  in  any 
manner.  He  was  educated  at  the  Penn  Charter  School,  and  began  the  study  of 
law  at  a  very  early  age,  being  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar  before  attaining 
his  majority.  In  1763,  however,  he  went  to  England  and  renewed  his  studies  at 
the  Temple.  After  an  absence  of  a  little  more  than  a  year,  he  returned  to  Phil- 
adelphia and  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in  that  and  Bucks  counties.  He  speedily 
became  one  of  the  most  distinguished  lawyers  in  Pennsylvania.  After  prac- 
ticing for  less  than  ten  years  and  when  in  the  zenith  of  professional  success,  he 
suddenly  abandoned  the  law  and  became  a  Quaker  preacher.  Many  references 
to  him  and  his  standing  as  a  lawyer  are  found  in  contemporary  records  and 
correspondence.  Under  date  of  August  28,  1774,  John  Adams,  who  had  just 
arrived  in  Philadelphia  to  attend  the  first  session  of  Continental  Congress, 
writes  thus  in  his  diary:  "Jo  Reed  is  at  the  head  of  his  profession  in  Philadel- 
phia, Fisher  is  next.  Wain  and  Dickinson  have  retired."  Mrs.  Joseph  Reed, 
nee  Esther  de  Berdt,  wife  of  the  "Jo  Reed"  referred  to  by  Mr.  Adams,  writing 
to  her  father  in  England,  February  29,  1772,  said :  "Out  of  the  four  greatest  law- 
yers in  the  city,  three  have  resigned  practice,  Mr.  Galloway,  being  a  good  deal 
advanced  in  life,  and  having  a  very  large  fortune,  cares  very  little  about  it.  Mr. 
Dickinson,  also  married  a  wife  worth  £30,000,  is  improving  and  building  on  his 
estate,  and  Mr.  Wain,  whom  you  may  remember  in  the  Temple  with  Mr.  Reed, 
has  on  a  sudden  turned  Quaker  preacher.  He  had  a  very  great  business,  they 
say  near  i2,ooo  a  year,  but  he  has  resigned  on  principle,  as  he  says  no  good  man 
can  practice  law."  Janney,  the  Quaker  historian,  tells  of  an  incident  marking 
the  beginning  of  the  radical  change  of  life  as  follows:  "His  friend  Thomas  Aus- 
tin, who  resided  near  Pennypack,  on  the  Middle  Road  from  Philadelphia  to  New- 
town, informed  a  friend  that  Nicholas  called  at  his  house,  on  his  way  to  New- 
town, where  the  courts  of  Bucks  county  were  then  held,  and  in  the  course  of  the 
conversation  told  Thomas  'that  he  was  engaged  in  an  important  case  that  was  to 
come  before  the  court  relative  to  property.'  Austin  requested  him  to  stop  at  his 
house  on  his  return.  He  did  so,  and  when  Austin  asked  him  how  the  case  he 
had  spoken  of  was  issued,  Nicholas  replied,  T  did  the  best  I  could  for  my  client, 
gained  the  cause  for  him,  and  thereby  defrauded  an  honest  man  out  of  his  just 
due.'  "  It  was  at  this  juncture,  February  4,  1772,  that  Wain  attended  service  at 
the  Market  Street  Meeting  House.  He  had  been  a  man  of  the  world,  and  had 
not  been  in  the  habit  of  attending  Friends'  meetings,  though  nominally  a  Quaker. 
At  this  particular  meeting,  greatly  to  the  surprise  of  those  in  attendance,  he 
walked  to  the  preacher's  gallery,  knelt  and  poured  forth  this  supplication,  "O 
Lord  God !  arise,  and  let  thine  enemies  be  scattered !  Baptise  me,  dip  me  yet 
deeper  in  Jordan.  Wash  me  in  the  lava  of  regeneration.  Thou  hast  done  much 
for  me,  and  hast  a  right  to  expect  much ;  therefore  in  the  presence  of  this  con- 
gregation, I  resign  myself,  and  all  that  I  have,  to  thee  O  Lord — it  is  Thine!  and 
I  pray  Thee,  O  Lord  to  give  me  grace  to  enable  me  to  continue  firm  in  this  reso- 


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lution.  Wherever  Thou  leadest  me  O  Lord,  I  will  follow  Thee ;  if  through  per- 
secution, or  even  to  martyrdom.  If  my  life  is  required,  I  will  freely  sacrifice  it. 
Now  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth,.  and  the  mountains  of  difficulty  are 
removed,  Hallelujah !  Teach  me  to  despise  the  shame,  and  the  opinions  of  the 
people  of  the  world.  Thou  knowest  O  Lord  my  deep  baptisms.  I  acknowledge 
my  manifold  sins  and  transgressions.  I  know  my  unworthiness  of  the  many 
favors  I  have  received :  and  I  thank  Thee  O  Father,  that  Thou  hast  hid  Thy 
mysteries  from  the  wise  and  prudent,  and  revealed  them  to  babes  and  sucklings. 
Amen." 

In  commenting  upon  this  wonderful  scene  a  Quaker  writer  has  said :  "Slowly, 
sentence  by  sentence  came  forth,  and  while  breathing  the  spirit  of  humble  sup- 
plication or  bursting  forth  in  a  hallelujah  of  praise,  they  baptised  the  hearers 
into  tears." 

From  that  time  Nicholas  Wain,  throwing  aside  the  fashionable  garments  of 
the  day  and  arraying  himself  in  the  subdued  garb  of  the  Friends,  withdrew  from 
the  scenes  of  his  former  achievements  and  devoted  himself  solely  to  the  work  of 
the  Quaker  ministry.  He  became  renowned  as  a  great  preacher,  not  only  in  his 
own  land,  but  also  in  England,  where  he  visited  Friends  and  ministered  to  them. 
A  local  writer,  belonging  to  his  own  sect,  referring  to  his  power  as  a  preacher, 
illustrates  with  an  incident  which  occurred  at  a  meeting  held  at  Abington,  August 
II,  1797: 

"After  a  solemn  pause,  Nicholas  Wain  rose  on  his  feet.  His  heart  seemed  filled 
with  Gospel  love,  to  which  his  richly-melodious  voice  gave  utterance,  while  the  baptizing 
power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  accompanying  the  word  preached,  softened  the  hearts  and 
moistened  the  eyes  of  those  there  gathered.  He  stood  and  ministered  for  about  an  hour; 
after  which,  upon  his  knees,  he  lifted  up  the  voice  of  prayer  and  praise.  A  solemnity  very 
unusual  covered  those  assembled,  as  he  ceased  to  offer  on  their  behalf  supplication  to  the 
God  of  Mercy  and  grace.  The  solemnity  continued,  and  they  remained  sitting  together, 
baptized  into  oneness  of  feeling.  Those  at  the  head  of  the  gallery  at  last  shook  hands  in 
token  that  the  meeting  had  closed.  The  solemnity  was  still  unbroken  and  no  one  seerned 
willing  to  depart.  A  pause  ensued ;  Nicholas  then  spoke  out :  'Under  the  solemn  covering 
we  are  favored  with,  perhaps  Friends  Tiad  better  separate'.  A  few  young  rnen  near 
the  door  then  rose  on  their  feet,  but  the  solemnity  was  still  over  them,  and  observing  none 
follow  their  example,  they  sat  down  again.  Sweet,  awful  silence  continued,  until  Richard 
Jordan,  standing  up  broke  forth  with  the  song  of  triumph,  which  greeted  our  Saviour's 
entrance  into  Jerusalem,  'Hosanna !  blessed  be  he  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord !' 
A  few  sentences  followed,  setting  forth  the  blessedness  of  those  merciful  visitations,  these  sea- 
ons  of  fervor,  wherein  the  Saviour  makes  Himself  known  among  his  people.  He  sat  down, 
and   again   shaking  hands   with  the   Friend   by  his   side  the  meeting  was  ended." 

One  of  his  contemporaries  who  had  frequently  sat  in  meeting  with  him,  thus 
commented  upon  him  in  after  years :  "Nicholas  Wain  appeared  at  all  times  with 
a  smile  of  sunshine  upon  his  countenance." 

During  the  Revolution  it  is  needless  to  say,  Nicholas  Wain  in  no  way  partici- 
pated in  the  pending  strife ;  but  he  was  one  of  the  party  of  six  Friends  who,  act- 
ing as  a  committee  on  behalf  of  the  Yearly  Meeting  held  October  4,  1777,  while 
the  battle  of  Germantown  was  in  progress,  waited  on  General  Washington  and 
General  Howe  a  few  days  afterwards  in  the  interest  of  peace.  Twelve  years 
later,  almost  to  the  day,  October  3,  1789,  it  fell  to  the  lot  of  Nicholas  Wain  as 
clerk  of  the  Yearly  Meeting,  to  address  another  communication  to  General 
Washington,  then  in  the  first  year  of  his  first  term  as  President  of  the  United 
States,  in  which  he  set  forth : 


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"We  take  the  liberty  to  assure  thee  that  we  feel  our  hearts  affectionately  drawn 
towards  thee,  and  those  in  authority  over  us,  with  prayers  that  thy  Presidency  may,  under 
the  blessing  of  Heaven,  be  happy  to  thyself  and  to  the  people.  And  it  is  our  earnest  con- 
cern, that  He  may  be  pleased  to  grant  thee  every  necessary  qualification  to  fill  thy  weighty 
and  important  station  to  his  glory;  and  that  finally,  when  all  terrestial  honours  shall  fall 
and  pass  away,  thou  and  thy  respectable  consort  may  be  found  worthy  to  receive  a  crown 
of  unfading  righteousness   in  the  mansions  of  peace  and  joy  forever." 

Nicholas  Wain  died  September  29,  1813,  having  just  passed  his  seventy-first 
milestone.  By  his  vfWl  dated  April  8,  181 1,  proved  October  13,  1813,  he  gave 
legacies  to  James  Simson,  Benjamin  White,  of  Bucks  county,  John  Townsend, 
the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Philadelphia,  Southern  District,  to  be  paid  to  Jesse 
Williams ;  the  children  of  his  first  cousin,  Mary  Drinker,  wife  of  Henry ;  Jane 
Halfpenny,  and  his  servant  Tom ;  and  the  residue  of  his  estate  to  his  wife  Sarah, 
making  his  sons  William  and  Nicholas,  executors. 

Nicholas  Wain  married.  May  22,  1771,  Sarah,  only  child  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(Morris)  Richardson,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Anthony  Morris,  the  founder 
of  the  family  in  America,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  Coddington.  She  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  October  11,  1746,  died  April  13,  1825.  George  Ross,  son  of 
George  Ross,  the  "Signer",  in  commenting  on  Nicholas  Wain  as  an  early  prac- 
titioner at  the  Lancaster  county  courts,  makes  this  reference  to  his  marriage: 
"And  to  crown  his  brilliant  career  at  the  Bar,  he  married  Sarah  Richardson,  an 
only  child  of  Joseph  Richardson  of  Philadelphia  of  large  fortune,  and  what  was 
of  infinitely  more  value,  possessed  of  every  endowment  that  could  render  the 
married  state  agreeable  and  happy." 

She  was  an  exceedingly  small  woman,  and  there  is  a  tradition  in  the  family 
that  her  father  balanced  her  in  a  pair  of  scales  with  a  bag  of  gold  coin,  which  was 
to  be  her  dowry,  she  being  thus  literally  "worth  her  weight  in  gold."  Before 
her  marriage  she  moved  in  the  most  fashionable  circles  in  Philadelphia  and  had 
all  the  luxuries  her  wealthy  and  doting  parent  could  supply ;  but  after  her  mar- 
riage she  was  obliged  to  conform  to  the  more  simple  tastes  of  her  husband.  This 
was  not  agreeable  to  her,  and  she  complained  to  him  of  not  being  able  to  ride  in 
the  same  style  as  formerly  with  a  footman  to  open  and  close  the  carriage  door. 
In  advanced  life  Sarah  is  described  as  "a  small  thin  old  lady,  with  rather  mas- 
culine features  and  great  vivacity  of  manner."  Ann  Warder  in  her  diary  under 
date  of  June  21,  1786,  writes:  "Dined  with  Nicholas  Wain's  wife,  (he  is  in  New 
England  with  John  Townsend).  We  had  a  truly  comfortable  and  agreeable  visit. 
Friend  Wain  is  a  woman  whose  acquaintance  will  enrich  anybody,  she  is  lively 
and  sprightly,  but  much  of  the  Friend  and  gentlewoman  and  nothing  in  her  dress 
or  house  or  conduct  bespeaks  that  gaiety  we  had  been  told  in  England  she 
possessed."  (Ann  Warder  had  recently  come  from  London,  where  she  had  mar- 
ried John  Warder,  the  son  of  a  rich  Philadelphia  merchant,  representing  his 
father's  house  there). 

Issue  of  Nicholas  and  Sarah   (Richardson)    Wain: 

Mary  Wain,  b.   May   11,   1772,  d.   same  day; 

Joseph  Richardson  Wain,  b.  May  8,  1773,  d.  Dec.  13,  1783 ; 

William   Waln,   b.   March    16,    1775;    m.    Mary   Willcocks,   of  whom   presently; 

Nicholas  Wain,  b.   Oct.    14,   1778,   d.   unm.   July  4,    1849; 

Jacob  Shoemaker  Wain,  b.  August  19,  1783,  d.  unm.  June  30,   1847; 

Sarah  Wain,  b.  January  6,  1788,  d.  July  20,  1788; 

A   male  child,  b.   Oct.   28,   1790,   d.   "at  birth". 


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William  Waln,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Richardson)  Wain,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  March  i6,  1775,  died  there  February  11.  1826.  He  was  married 
March  4,  1805,  by  Rev.  William  White,  (afterwards  Bishop)  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Philadelphia,  to  Mary,  born  1781,  died  December  3,  1841,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Willcocks,  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  JVilliain  and  Mary  (IViUcocksj   Wain: — 

Sar.^h   Waln,  b.   May  22,  1806;    m.  Benjamin  Chew  Willcocks.  of  whom  presently; 

John  Willcocks  Waln,  d.  unm.   Aug.   26,   1824; 

Nicholas  Waln,  b.  Dec.   15,  1810,  d.  unm.  Sept.  22,  1820;    bur.  Sept.  24,  in  St.   Peter's 

churchyard,   3d  and    Pine   sts. ; 
Mary  Ann  Willcocks  Waln,  b.  May  12,   1818,  d.  Sept.  12,  1821 ; 
Mary  Willcocks  Waln,  b.  Sept.  28,  1821,  d.   Nov.  23,   1821  ; 
William   Waln,   d.   unm.,   March,    1861 ; 
Mary  Waln,  d.  about  1889;    m.  Richard  Maxwell,  M.  D.,  and  had  one  dau.,  Ella  Mid- 

dleton  Maxwell,  b.  Feb.  8,  1845,  d.  March,  1869. 

Sarah  Waln,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Willcocks)  Waln.  born  in 
Philadelphia,  May  22,  1806,  died  June  6,  1886.  She  married,  October  10,  1842, 
her  cousin,  Benjamin  Chew  Willcocks,  born  December  13,  1776,  died  December 
I,  1845,  son  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Chew)  Willcocks,  and  grandson  of  Chief 
Justice  Benjamin  Chew.     They  had  issue : 

Mary   Waln   Willcocks,  b.   July   13,   1843 :    m.   Alexander  Dallas  Campbell,  of  whon» 

presently; 
Helen  Julia  Willcocks,  b.   Jan.   20,   1845,   d.   March,   1868;    m.   Chandler  Robbins. 

Mary  Waln  Willcocks.  daughter  of  Benjamin  C.  and  Sarah  (Waln)  Will- 
cocks, born  July  13,  1843,  was  married  October  20,  1870,  by  Rev.  John  Andrews 
Harris,  in  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia, 
to  Alexander  Dallas  Campbell,  of  the  Philadelphia  bar,  son  of  St.  George  Tucker 
Campbell,  of  a  noted  Virginia  family.  They  lived  at  1522  Pine  street,  Philadel- 
phia, and  had  issue : 

Helen  Campbell,  b.  July  20,  1871 ;  m.  1892,  James  Cheston  Morris  Jr.,  b.  April  i,  1861, 
son  of  James  Cheston  Morris,  M.  D.,  of  1514  Spruce  St.,  Philadelphia,  one  of  Phila- 
delphia's distinguished  physicians,  member  of  numerous  medical  societies,  etc.,  by  his 
wife,  Hannah  Ann  Tyson,  of  Baltimore  branch  of  old  Germantown  family  of  Tyson, 
an  account  of  which  is  given  in  these  volumes.  James  Cheston  Morris  Jr.  is  a 
descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  from  .Anthony  Morris,  founder  of  that  family  in 
Phila.,  from  which  his  wife,  Helen  Campbell,  is  also  descended  through  her  ancestress, 
Sarah  (Richardson)  Waln,  whose  mother,  Sarah  Morris,  was  a  daughter  of  William 
and  Sarah  (Dury)  Morris  and  granddaughter  of  Anthony,  the  founder.  James 
Cheston  and  Helen  (Campbell)  Morris,  had  one  daughter: 
Mary   Campbell   Morris,  b.   Sept.   30,   1893 ; 

Elizabeth  Mason  Campbell,  b.  Jan.  12,  1875;  m.  Dec.  10,  1896,  at  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension,  Phila..  by  the  rector,  Rev.  George  Woolsey  Hodge,  assisted  by  Rev.  John 
Andrews  Harris,  of  St.  Paiil's,  Chestnut  Hill,  to  Percy  Child  Medeira.  b.  in  Phila.,  son 
of  Louis   Cephas  and  Abeline  Laura    (Powell)    Madeira.     She  was  his  second  wife. 

Richard  Waln,  second  surviving  son  of  Richard  and  Anne  (Heath)  Waln, 
was  born  June  5,  1717,  died  August,  1764.  He  resided  on  the  Waln  plantation 
in  the  Northern  Liberties,  (where  he  was  doubtless  born)  until  his  marriage, 
after  which  he  followed  his  father  to  Norriton  township,  now  Montgomery 
county.     This  section  was  within  the  compass  of  Gwynedd  Monthly  Meeting,  on 


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the  minutes  of  which  for  August  28,  1744,  it  is  stated  that  "Richard  Wain,  Junr. 
produced  a  certificate  for  self  and  wife  from  Philadelphia,  dated  29th  of  4th 
month  last."  He  lived  in  Norriton  about  eleven  years.  At  the  Monthly  Meet- 
ing of  August  26,  1755,  a  certificate  was  granted  to  Richard  Wain  and  wife  to 
Abington,  which  he  presented  to  and  was  accepted  by  the  latter  monthly  meet- 
ing, January  26,  1756.  This  removal  was  to  Germantown,  and  he  resided 
there  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

As  Richard  Wain  did  not  reside  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  his  name  does  not 
figure  so  often  in  the  "Journal  of  Elizabeth  Drinker"  as  do  those  of  some  of  his 
relatives,  but  he  appears  to  be  mentioned  at  least  once;  on  November  26,  1777, 
Mrs.  Drinker  records  Richard  Wain  as  one  of  their  callers,  and  at  this  date  the 
Drinkers  were  intimate  friends,  Richard  Wain,  of  Philadelphia  and  Walnford, 
New  Jersey,  was  in  New  York,  so  the  caller  referred  to  was  probably  his  uncle, 
Richard  Wain,  of  Germantown.  The  death  of  the  latter's  daughter,  Ann 
(Nancy)  Thomas,  and  the  marriage  of  another  daughter  Mary,  are  also  noted 
by  Mrs.  Drinker. 

In  his  will  dated  August  10,  1764,  proved  September  5,  1764,  Richard  WaJn 
mentioned  his  wife  Hannah;  children:  Sarah,  Jesse,  Mary  and  Ann  Thomas; 
grandchild,  Richard  Thomas ;  brother,  Robert ;  cousin,  Thomas  Livezey ;  son-in- 
law,  Elisha  Thomas ;  and  named  as  executors,  Robert  Wain  and  Thomas  Livezey. 

Richard  Wain  married,  about  1740,  Hannah ,  and  they  had  issue: — 

Sarah  Wain,  living  at  her  father's  death,  nothing  further  known  of  her; 

Ann  Wain,  m.  Elisha  Thomas,  probably  son  of  Robert  Thomas,  of  Lower  Dublin 
twp.,  Phila.  CO.  After  their  marriage  they  lived  in  Moreland  twp.,  now  Montgomery 
CO.  From  Elizabeth  Drinker's  Journal  under  date  of  July  26,  we  quote  the  following, 
"Nancy  Thomas  was  this  afternoon  buried  from  neighbor  Wain's.  She  had  been  a 
long  time  very  ill  and  suffered  more  than  any  one  that  has  come  within  my  knowl- 
edge of  a  disorder  of  ye  nature  hers  was."  The  "Neighbor  Wain,"  was  Rebecca, 
widow   of  Robert   Wain,  uncle  to   Nancy  Thomas,  a   son   of   Elisha  and   Ann ; 

Jonathan  Thomas  lived  in  Northern  Liberties;  he  m.  Nov.  17,  1808,  at  Abington 
Meeting,  Sarah  Mather,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  .^nn,  of  Cheltenham  twp. ;  both 
Elisha  and   Ann   Thomas   were   deceased   at   the  date  of  this  marriage ; 

Mary  Wain,  m.  Feb.  11,  1777,  Charles  MifHin,  son  of  George  and  Anne  (Eyre) 
Mifflin,   of   Phila,; 

Jesse  Waln,   m.   Rebecca   .   of   whom  presently; 

Joseph   Wain,  d.  y.,  before  his  father. 

Jesse  Waln,  born  about  1750,  died  March  29,  1806,  was  the  only  surviving 
son  of  Richard  and  Hannah  Waln.  He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
successful  merchants  of  Philadelphia  in  his  day,  having  associated  with  him  in 
business  his  cousin,  Robert  Waln,  Congressman,  hereafter  mentioned.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  and  first  directors  of  the  Insurance  Company  of  Penn- 
sylvania, established  in  1794.  In  1791  he  was  living  in  Germantown,  as  shown 
by  extracts  from  the  "Journal  of  Elizabeth  Drinker,"  quoted  above,  we  have  the 
following,  under  June  20  of  that  year:  "There  are  a  number  of  Philadelphians 
at  Germantown,  Pattison  Vanhorne's  family,  John  Prout's  family,  Jerem'' 
Warder's,  Jessy  Wain's  &c.  &c."  The  Pattison  Vanhorne  mentioned  married 
Jesse  Wain's  cousin  Susannah,  daughter  of  Robert  Waln.  The  Journal  also 
records  Jesse  Wain's  death:  "1806,  March  29,  Jessy  Waln  is  dead.  He  died 
rather  suddenly ;  some  say  of  pleurisy,  others  of  an  apoplexy". 

Jesse  Waln  married  Rebecca ,  who  died  November  4,   1820.     "Eliza- 


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beth  Drinker's  Journal"  mentions  her  during  the  yellow-fever  year,  1793,  Octo- 
ber 3 ;  "Becky  Wain,  Jessy's  wife,  came  to  see  us.    She  informed  us  of  the  death 
of  several  persons  whom  we  do  not  know." 
Issue  of  Jesse  and  Rebecca   IVahi: — 

Mary  Wain,  m.  William  Moore  Wharton,  b.  June  24,  1768,  son  of  Thomas  Wharton 
Jr.,  President  of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  Pa.,  by  his  wife,  Susannah 
Lloyd.  She  was  his  first  wife.  EHzabeth  Drinker,  whose  previous  mention  of  her 
has  been  quoted  in  our  account  of  her  cousin.  Polly  (Wain)  Wistar,  records  Mrs. 
Wharton's  burial  in  1800 ;  "July  10,  Molly  Wharton,  wife  of  Mayor  Wharton,  and 
daughter  of  Jesse  Wain,  was  buried  this  afternoon  from  the  country,  11  or  12 
carriages,  and  several  chairs  attended.  They  passed  our  door.  She  died  of  a 
consumption — an  old  acquaintance  of  our  Molly's."  Mayor  Wharton  is  a  mistake, 
an    error    for    Moore    Wharton. 

By  his  second  wife  Deborah  Shomaker,  Moore  Wharton  had  eight  children,  one  of 
whom,   Daniel  Clark  Wharton,  b.   July  9,   1808,  m.   Feb.   i,   1843,  Ann  Wain,  dau.  of 
Thomas   Wain   Morgan,   who   was    son   of   Thomas   Morgan,   by   his   wife,   Ann,  dau. 
of   Robert   Wain,    mentioned    hereafter ; 
Sarah    Wain,    m.    April    26,     1797,    at    Christ    Church,    Thomas    Buckley.    Elizabeth 
Drinker's  Journal  under  date   of  April  27,   1797,  says:     "Jesse  Wain's  daughter  was 
married  last  night  to  T.  Buckley,  she  is  going  with  him  to  Lisbon,  where  he  and  his 
parents   resided — to   the   great  grief  of  her  mother —     No   wonder,   perhaps   never  to 
see  her  more;" 
Jesse  Wain,  b.   March   17,   1784,  d.   unm.   May  2,   1848; 
Ann  Wain,  b.   1788,  d.  Jan.   12,   1789; 

Ann  Wain,  b.  Feb.  25.  1790,  d.  Oct.  26,  1875;  m.  Jan.  2,  1811.  at  Pine  St.  Meeting 
House,  Samuel  Burge  Rawle,  of  Phila.,  son  of  William  and  Sarah  C.  Rawle.  She 
was  b.  July  i,   1787,  d.  Sept.  2,  1858.     They  had  five  children,  viz: 

William   S.  Rawle,  m.   Nov.   12,   1831,  Maria,  dau.  of  Count  Jose  Elcorrobarutia, 

of  Lima,  Peru ; 
Mary    Wharton    Rawle,    d.    unm.    1886; 

Rebecca   Shoemaker   Rawle,   m.   James    Smith  Lewis,   in    1833; 
Burge   Rawle,   d.   inf. ; 

Elizabeth    M.    Rawle,    m.     1835,    Thorndike    Deland ; 
Rebecca  Wain,  b.    1792,  d.   July   15,    1796: 

Rebecca  Wain,  m.  Edward  Tilghman,  b.  Feb.  27,  1779,  d.  Jan.  17,  1826,  son  of  Edward 
Tilghman.  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Chew,  dau.  of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew,  and 
grandson  of  Col.  Edward  Tilghman,  of  Wye,  Talbot  CO.,  Md.,  and  his  second  wife, 
Elizabeth  Chew,  sister  of  the  Chief  Justice. 

Robert  Waln,  third  surviving  son  of  Richard  and  Ann  (Heath)  Wain,  born 
on  the  Wain  plantation  in  the  Northern  Liberties  of  Philadelphia,  March  21, 
1720-1,  died  in  Philadelphia,  July  12,  1784.  He  established  a  successful  mercan- 
tile business  in  Philadelphia,  which  was  continued  by  his  son  of  the  same  name. 
Like  most  of  the  merchants  of  his  day.  he  was  also  a  ship  owner;  among  the 
ship-registers  for  the  port  of  Philadelphia  his  name  occurs  as  owner  of  the 
40-ton  brigantine,  "Rebecca",  built  at  Marcus  Hook,  registered  in  1753 ;  the 
49-ton  brigantine,  "Lark",  built  at  Sussex  on  Delaware,  registered  in  1754;  the 
90-ton  brigantine,  "Rebecca  and  Susannah"  registered  1757;  the  30-ton  sloop, 
"Nancy",  built  in  "Queen's  County,  Maryland"  (Queen  Anne's  county?)  regis- 
tered 1758;  the  75-ton  brigantine.  "Lark",  built  in  Philadelphia,  registered  1758. 
These  were  fair-sized  vessels  for  that  time,  very  few  on  the  registers  then 
exceeding  100  tons.  In  1765  he  affixed  his  signature  to  the  Non-importation 
agreement,  which  had  so  much  influence  in  precipitating  the  Revolution. 

Robert  Wain  married,  about  1750,  Rebecca,  who  died  in  1799,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Rachel  (Rakestraw)  Coflin,  of  Philadelphia.  Her  father  had  died  in 
1736.    Her  mother,  Rachel,  was  a  daughter  of  William  Rakestraw,  of  Philadel- 


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phia,  whose  will  dated  August  28,  1736,  proved  October  5,  1736,  mentions  his 
wife  Anne ;  children,  William,  Grace  and  Rachel ;  grandchildren,  Rebecca  and 
Hannah,  daughters  of  Rachel ;  and  makes  Anne  and  William  Rakestraw,  execu- 
tors. Rebecca  (Coffin)  Wain's  sister  Hannah,  mentioned  with  her  in  the  above 
quoted  will,  married,  October  17,  1758,  at  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  Isaac 
Cathrall ;  she  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  Journal  of  Elizabeth  Drinker,  above 
quoted. 

For  a  great  part  of  their  married  life  Robert  and  Rebecca  Wain,  with  their 
family,  resided  on  Front  street,  below  Sassafrass,  now  Race  street,  near  to 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  Drinker,  who  lived  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Front 
street  and  Drinker's  alley,  and  they  are  frequently  mentioned  in  the  latter's  Jour- 
nal, from  which  the  following  are  some  of  the  extracts : 

"June  6,  1774,  when  Richard  Wain  and  family  removed  to  Wahiford,  as  noted  above, 
"Robert  Wain  and  wife  went  with  them  as  far  as  Bristol"  "June  22,  our  children,  Nancy 
Wain,  Hannah  and  Polly  Drinker,  went  in  our  waggon  to  Kensington.  *  *  *  Aug.  26, 
Rebk  Wain  and  her  daughter  Nancy,  M.S.E.D.,  Sally,  Nancy  and  Billy  went  to  see  the 
Waxworks  made  by  Mrs.  Wells,  "opposite  ye  Royal  White  Oak."  1777,  Nov.  7.  "Sally 
and  Nancy  went  this  afternoon,  with  Hannah  Drinker  and  Nancy  Wain,  up  to  Phillips 
Rope-Walk,  to  see  ye  Redoubts  which  are  erected  thereabouts."  Nov.  12  "Robt  Wain,  C. 
West,  and  Edwd  Drinker's  widow  called."  Nov.  21.  "C.  West,  Sam'  Smith,  and  Reb* 
Wain  were  here.  Ye  last  came  in  ye  evening;  she  is  afraid  to  go  to  Bed,  as  there  is  talk 
of  Washington  making  an  attack  on  ye  city  before  morning."  Dec.  9.  "Neighbor  Wain 
sent  a  Horse  and  Chaise  here  this  afternoon  to  put  into  our  stable,  which  Patterson's 
sisters  came  with  from  Bristol".  Patterson  was  probably  Pattison  Hartshorne,  Robert 
Wain's  son-in-law.  1778,  Feb.  23.  "Robt  Wain,  Jos^  Howell,  and  John  Drinker  called" 
March  5,  "Old  Edward  Drinker  and  Rob'  Wain  called."  Sept.  6.  Robt  Wain,  myself  my 
two  sons,  Bob  Wain,  Neddy  Howell,  and  Anna  Wain  took  a  walk  this  afternoon  to 
Springettsbury  to  see  ye  Aloes  Tree.  We  stopped  on  our  return  at  Bush-Hill  and  walked 
in  ye  Garden.  We  came  home  after  sunset  very  much  tired  *  *  *  Sept.  18,  Rebecca 
Wain  came  over.  With  her  I  went  to  ye  Burial  of  my  old  friend  and  acquaintance  Nancy 
Potts,    formerly    Mitchell,    whom    I    much    valued. 

1779,  Feb.  19.  "R.  Wain  here  this  evening.  She  proposed  my  being  an  overseer  with 
her  at  C.  Howell's  approaching  Nuptials.  She  is  to  pass  meeting  on  third  day  next  with 
Johns  Hopkins  from  Maryland  *  *  *  .  Feb.  23.  "Went  to  Monthly  Meeting  this 
morning  with  Johns  Hopkins  and  Caty  Howell ;  Rebecca  Wain  is  my  partner  on  ye  occa- 
sion—felt a  little  comical  on  going  into  ye  men's  meeting."  May  2.  "On  Third  day  last, 
at  Monthly  Meeting  Hannah  Cathrall  made  a  minute,  (that  one  of  ye  Friends  who  attended 
ye  marriage  of  Johns  Hopkins  &c.  reported  that  it  was  orderly  accomplished)  which  as 
Rebecca  Wain  was  the  person  who  spoke  and  I  only  stood  up,  made  it  necessary  for  me  to 
repeat  what  she  had  before  said,  or  to  ye  same  effect,  which  was  something  trying  to  me, 
as  I  do  not  remember  an  instance  of  its  being  required  of  both,  as  my  appearance  fully 
attested  to  what  4.2.  delivered."  1782.  "February  5.  Sally,  Nancy,  Nancy  Wain,  Jacob 
Downing,  Ezra  Jones  and  Billy  Sansom  went  over  y^  River  on  the  ice  before  dinner." 
1784.  "July  12.  This  morning  about  2  o'clock,  our  neighbor  Rob'  Wain  departed  this 
Life,   after   a   lingering   illness,   aged   63   years — second    day." 

1785.  "May  17,  Went  with  neighbor  Wain  to  ye  funeral  of  Pully  Garrigues  formerly 
Mitchell.  *  *  *  May  20,  J.  Downing,  and  Sally  Drinker,  Rob'  Wain  and  Nancy  Drinker, 
T.  Morgan  and  Nancy  Wain.  B.  Morris  and  Polly  Wells,  Henry  Drinker  and  Hannah  Wells, 
and  Gideon  Wells,  on  horseback,  ye  rest  in  chaises,  went  to  our  place  at  Frankford."  1793. 
Aug.  20,  the  Drinkers  living  then  in  Germantown ;  "Neighbor  Wain  and  Anna  Wells  paid 
us  a  visit  this  morning — say  tis  very  sickly  in  Philadelphia" —  This  is  one  of  the  years 
of  the  yellow-fever  epidemic.  Aug.  28.  "P.  Hartshorne's  family  and  Neighr  Wain's  are 
also  out ;  the  inhabitants  are  leaving  the  city  in  great  numbers."  Sept.  2,  Neighbor 
Wain  and  Nancy  Morgan  came  to  visit  us  this  forenoon.     R.W.  stays  with  her  son  Robert." 

Several  other  notices  of  visits  from  "Negh""  Wain.  Tommy  and  Nancy  Mor- 
gan" et  al,  in  October,   1793. 

The  will  of  Robert  Wain  "of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  Merchant"  signed  April 
6,  1782,  probated  July  26,  1784,  devised  property  in  several  counties  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  New  Jersey;  it  provides  for  his  wife  Rebecca;  children,  Susanna,  Re- 
becca, Ann,  Hannah  and  Robert ;  nieces,  Mary  Mififlin,  widow,  and  Ann  Thomas ; 


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and  negroes.  Jack  and  Toney ;  a  bequest  is  given  to  trustees  for  supporting  a  free 
negro  school ;  Rebecca  Wain  and  his  nephew,  Nicholas  Wain,  are  named  as 
guardians  for  his  daughter  Hannah ;  the  latter  as  trustee,  and  son-in-law,  Patti- 
son  Hartshorne,  and  son  Robert  as  executors. 

The  will  of  Rebecca  Wain,  widow  of  Robert,  dated  imo.  9,  1797,  probated 
November  26,  1799,  mentions  her  children,  Susanna  Hartshorne,  Ann  Morgan, 
Robert  Wain  and  Hannah  Wells ;  sister,  Hannah  Cathrall,  son-in-law,  Pattison 
Hartshorne,  brother-in-law,  Isaac  Cathrall,  and  nephews  and  nieces,  Rachel 
Elfreth  and  Edward  and  Hannah,  children  of  her  sister  Hannah;  it  also  makes 
bequests  to  Hannah,  sister  of  Isaac  Cathrall  Sr. ;  Hannah  Lloyd;  Sarah,  wife  of 
Duncan  Roberts ;  Rebecca  Griscom ;  the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Philadelphia,  for  poor  Friends,  and  to  her  grandson,  Robert 
Wain  Hartshorne.  Her  son,  Robert  Wain,  and  son-in-law,  Pattison  Hartshorne, 
are  named  as  executors. 

Issue  of  Robert  and  Rebecca  (Coffin)   Wain: — 

Susannah  Waln,  m.   Pattison  Hartshorne,  of  whom  presently ; 

Joseph  Wain,  b.  1754,  d.  April  10,  1770; 

Hannah  Wain,  b.  1756,  d.  Jan.  18,  1770;  (E.  Drinker's  Journal,  has,  1770,  "i8th  Jany., 
Hannah  Wain  died")  ; 

Richard  Wain,  m.  and  had  one  son,  who  was  perhaps  Robert  Wain,  Esq.,  who,  accord- 
ing to  Poulson's  American  Daily  Advertiser,  d.  at  Norristown,  Dec.  24,  1827,  in  his 
38th  year; 

Ann  Wain,  b.  about  1760,  d.  June  2,  1814,  mentioned  frequently  in  Elizabeth  Drinker's 
Journal  as  Nancy  Wain ;  m.  Thomas  Morgan ;  many  well-known  Philadelphians  of 
the  present  day  are  descended  from  them,  including  William  Moore  Wharton,  of  1616 
Pine  St.,  grandson  of  William  Moore  Wharton,  who  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Jesse  and  Re- 
becca Wain,  mentioned  above ;  Clark  W.  Churchman,  Wain  M.  Churchman,  and 
Charles  W.  Churchman,  of  Jenkintown,  various  representatives  of  the  Morgan.  Draper 
and  Rotch  families  et  al.  Among  other  representatives  may  be  noted  Mary  Tevis 
Morgan,  who  m.  Sir  Francis  Richard  Plunkett,  son  of  the  ninth  Earl  Fingail,  a  dis- 
tinguished British  diplomat,  minister  to  Japan,  Sweden  and  Belgium,  etc.  One  of  the 
daughters  of  the  latter  m.  Count  A.  Fersen  Gyldenstoipe,  of  Sweden. 

A  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Wain)  Morgan,  Thomas  Wain  Morgan,  m.  Feb.  10. 
1814,  Hannah  Griffitts,  a  descendant  of  Anthony  Morris,  before  mentioned,  and  a 
grandson  of  theirs,  is  Colonel  Thomas  Wain-Morgan  Draper,  a  member  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State  of  New  York,  who  during  the  war  with  Spain, 
1898,  was  Captain  in  the  Second  Regiment,  U.  S.  Vol.  Engineers,  stationed  in  Honolu- 
lu, and  was  afterwards  Colonel  in  the  Colorado  National  Guard ; 

Rebecca  Wain,  b.  176 — ,  d.  July  29,  1785;  m.  Nov.  16,  1784,  Ezra  Jones;  Elizabeth 
Drinker's  Journal  of  the  latter  date,  has  "Sally  and  Nancy  at  ye  marriage  of  Ezra 
Jones  and  Becky  Wain."  Her  death  is  also  mentioned  in  the  Journal,  while  Mrs. 
Drinker  was  on  a  trip  to  Walnford  and  Shrewsbury,  1785,  August  I  :  "John  Fry,  came 
about  this  time,  left  Philadelphia  on  Seventh  day  last;  he  brings  us  ye  .afflicting  ac- 
count of  the  death  of  our  neighbor  Wain's  daughter,  Becky  Jones,  who  we  suppose  died 
on  fifth  or  sixth  day  last,  as  she  was  ill  and  her  mammy  with  her,  when  we  left  home." 
August  10.  "Received  two  letters ;  one  from  our  son  Billy — all  well  at  home,  another 
from  Betsy  Wain,  giving  some  particulars  relating  to  poor  Becky  Jones.  She  expired 
on  Sixth  day  morning,  ye  29th,  and  was  buried  the  same  evening.''  Her  husband  did 
not  long  survive  her,  dying  within  a  year ;  they  left  no  issue :  his  will  dated  i2mo. 
27,  1785,  probated  March  22,  1786,  mentioned  his  sisters  Priscilla  and  Mary;  his  moth- 
er-in-law, Rebecca  Wain,  brother  Israel,  Isaiah  and  John ;  brother-in-law,  Robert  Wain, 
sisters-in-law,  Susannah  Hartshorne,  and  Ann  and  Hannah  Wain ; 

Hannah  Wain,  m.  May  11,  1790,  Gideon  Hill  Wells,  b.  Sept.  25,  1765,  d.  March  26. 
1827,  son  of  Richard  and  Rachel  (Hill)  Wells,  and  grandson  of  Dr.  Gideon  Wells,  of 
London,  England.  Their  eldest  son,  Richard  Wain  Wells,  m.  Abigail  Griffitts,  sister 
to  Hannah  Griffitts.  who  m.  his  cousin.  Thomas  Wain  Morgan ;  Gideon  Hill  Wells  was 
a  distinguished  Philadelphia  merchant:  one  of  his  grandsons,  the  late  Francis  Wells, 
was  for  years  editor  of  the  Philadelphia  Evening  Bulletin. 

Susannah  Waln,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Rebecca  (Coffin)  Wain,  married, 


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February  10,  1776,  Pattison  Hartshorne,  son  of  Hugh  and  Hannah  Hartshorne, 
and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Hartshorne,  an  early  Governor  of  East  Jersey.  The 
"Journal  of  Elizabeth  Drinker"  makes  frequent  mention  of  the  Hartshorne 
family.  "1776,  December  10,  H.  D.  and  E.  D.  were  this  day  at  ye  wedding  of 
P.  Hartshorne  and  S.  Wain"  "1777,  Nov.  25,  S.  Hartshorne  came  over  this 
morning  to  go  on  ye  top  of  our  House  to  see  ye  Fleet  come  up ;  2  or  3  20-Gun 
Ships,  and  a  great  number  of  smaller  vessels  came  up  to  day"  1778,  Jan.  28. 
"Chalkley  James,  Patt"  and  Sucky  Hartshorne  called." 

The  Hartshornes  spent  the  summer  of  1791  in  Germantown ;  in  the  yellow- 
fever  summer  of  1793  they  were  also  out  of  the  city.  In  August,  1796,  Mrs. 
Drinker  was  much  excited  by  the  runaway  marriage  of  her  daughter  Mary  to 
Samuel  Rhoads ;  on  August  10,  she  wrote,  "Day  before  yesterday  the  8th  inst. 
Molly  was  gone  as  I  thought  with  Sally  Large  shopping.  *  *  *  jj-jg  j^g^^^ 
day  the  9th  *  *  *  sister  went  over  to  R.  Wain's  to  enquire  if  she  had  heard 
where  Molly  was.  She  informed  her  that  Pattison  Hartshorne  had  been  told  in 
ye  morning  by  Sally  Large  that  there  would  be  trouble  in  the  neighborhood  to  day 
— that  Molly  Drinker  was  married  last  night  to  S.  R.  at  the  Widow  Pemberton's 
House  in  Chestnut  St."  Both  Pattison  and  Susannah  Hartshorne  died  in  the 
year  1828. 

Issue  of  Pattison  and  Susannah   (Wain)   Hartshorne: — 

Robert  Wain  Hartshorne,  b.  June  17,  1779;  mentioned  in  E.  Drinker's  Journal  in  1798; 

Hannah  Hartshorne.  b.  Aug.  15,  1781,  d.  June  24,  1795,  unm. ;  an  account  of  her  death 
is  given  in  Mrs.  Drinker's  Journal,  which  concludes ;  "She  has  been  near  a  twelve 
month  in  a  decline ;  would  have  been  14  years  of  ag'e  had  she  lived  till  Eighth  month 
next ;  she  was  an  innocent  good  little  girl — the  trial  is  great  to  her  poor  mother — who 
has  always  been  anxious  for  and  very  fond  of  her  children  ;" 

Rebecca  Hartshorne,  b.  Oct.   i,  1783,  d.  before  1787; 

Susan  Hartshorne,  b.  Aug.  23.  1784 ; 

Rebecca  Hartshorne,  b.  June  11,  1787;  m.  June  10,  1806.  John  Large,  the  Journal  for 
June  II,  says,  "John  Large  and  Becky  Hartshorne  were  married  yesterday  at  the 
North  Meeting  House." 

Among  their  descendants  were  the  late  James  Large,  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  Pennsylvania ;  George  G.  Meade  Large,  of  "Elsinore," 
Abington,  Pa.,  a  member  of  the  Markham  Club,  etc. ;  Robert  Hartshorne  Large,  of 
22i8  Locust  St.,  also  a  member  of  the  Markham  Club,  and  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
Ninth  Regiment,  Penna.  Vol.  Inf.  in  the  war  with  Spain,  1898;  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison, 
nee  Margaretta  S.  Large,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Fox,  nee  Mary 
Large,  of  Penllyn;  and  Miss  Large  and  John  B,  Large  of  338  So.  21st  st.,  Phila. 

Hon.  Robert  Waln,  son  of  Robert  and  Rebecca  (Coffin)  Wain,  was  born 
February  22,  1765,  died  January  25,  1836,  being  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Philadelphia,  Southern  District,  Monthly  Meeting.  He  attained  the 
widest  distinction  in  public  life  of  any  of  the  descendants  of  Nicholas  Wain, 
Colonist.  He  became  associated  with  his  cousin,  Jesse  Wain,  as  before  stated, 
and  for  years  they  transacted  an  extensive  business  as  importers  and  merchants ; 
the  house  of  Jesse  and  Robert  Wain  ranking  with  those  of  Girard,  Ridgway, 
Williams,  etc.  Later  in  Hfe  he  became  interested  in  other  business  enterprises. 
In  1812  he  erected  a  cotton  factory  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  said  to  have  been 
one  of  the  largest  as  well  as  one  of  the  earliest  in  America.  He  was  also  exten- 
sively interested  in  the  iron  industry  at  Phoenixville,  Pennsylvania. 

No  man  was  more  active  in  his  day,  in  all  that  relates  to  civic  or  national 
progress  than  Robert  Wain.    We  find  him  in  attendance  at  many  conferences  at 


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the  State  House,  the  Coffee  House  and  elsewhere,  called  to  advance  the  interests 
of  Philadelphia  and  the  nation  at  large,  especially  during  the  stirring  period  be- 
tween 1790  and  1820,  embracing  the  first  years  under  the  Federal  Constitution 
cind  the  War  of  1812-14.  He  also  served  upon  various  committees  appointed  to 
carry  out  the  resolves  emanating  from  such  public  conferences. 

He  was  for  several  terms  a  member  of  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  in  1796  was  nominated  by  the  Federalists  as  their  candidate  for  Congress. 
He  was  defeated,  however,  by  Blair  McClenachan,  by  a  vote  of  1,182  to  910. 
Two  years  later  Wain  was  again  a  candidate  and  was  this  time  elected.  After  his 
congressional  service  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  City  Council  and  was  several 
times  re-elected,  serving  as  President  of  Select  Council,  1816-19.  He  also  filled 
at  various  times,  the  presidency  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Philadelphia  In- 
surance Company,  Atlantic  Insurance  Company,  and  Mercantile  Library  Com- 
pany. He  was  also  a  director  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  Bank  of  North  America, 
and  Philadelphia  Library  Company ;  and  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  University 
of  Pennsylvania  from  181 1  until  his  death,  and  a  trustee  under  the  will  of 
Stephen  Girard. 

Robert  Wain's  residence  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life  was  at  138  (old  num- 
ber) South  Second  street,  above  Spruce,  on  the  site  of  the  famous  "Governor's 
House"  or  "Shippen's  Great  House",  as  it  was  originally  denominated.  His 
country  seat  was  "Wain  Grove",  Frankford.  He  married,  October  10,  1787,  at 
Pine  street  Friends'  Meeting  House,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Ellis  and  Mary  (Desh- 
ler)  Lewis,  and  sister  to  David  Lewis,  who  lived  next  door  to  him.  She  was 
born  May  17,  1768,  died  April  16,  1845.  See  Lewis  Family  in  these  volumes. 
Issue  of  Robert  and  Phebe  (Lewis)  Wain: — 

Mary  Lewis  Wain,  b.  Aug.  17,   1790; 

Robert  Wain,  b.  Oct.  20,  1794;  he  devoted  his  hfe  largely  to  literary  pursuits;  published 
"The  Hermit  in  America  on  a  Visit  to  Philadelphia."  1819;  "American  Bards,"  a 
satire,  1820;  "Sisyphi  Onus,  or  Touches  at  the  Times,  with  Other  Poems,"  1820; 
"Life  of  Lafayette,"  1825-6;  "History  of  China,"  etc.  He  also  edited  all  except  the 
first  three  volumes  of  Sanderson's  Biography  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,"  1829-27.     He  d.  unm.  July  4,  1825 ; 

Lewis  Wain,  b.  Jan  23.  1796,  d.  Dec.  20,  1863;  inherited  "Wain  Grove"  from  his  father 
and  left  it  to  his  next  surviving  brother,  William ;  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Philadelphia  Board  of  Trade,  1833;  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophi- 
cal Society  in  1846;  was  a  director  of  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia  for  many 
years,  and  trustee  of  Univ.  of  Pa.  from  1837  to  his  death ;  he  was  unm. ; 

Francis  Wain,  b.  Oct.  28,  1799,  d.  July  10,  1822; 

Rebecca  Ann  Wain,  b.  Jan.  5,  1802,  d.  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y..  Aug.  18,  1846;  m.  Dec. 
6,  1821,  Jeremiah  Fisher  Leaming,  an  eminent  citizen  of  Philadelphia,  descended  from 
a  prominent  family  of  Cape  May  co.,  N.  J.;  their  eldest  son,  Robert  \\'aln  Leaming,  a 
graduate  of  Univ.  of  Pa.  in  1844.  inherited  "Wain  Grove"  from  his  uncle,  William 
Wain; 

William  Wain,  b.  June  29,  1805,  d.  unm.  in  Jan.  1864;  inherited  "Wain  Grove"  from  his 
brother  Lewis;  his  city  residence  being  914  Walnut  street;  by  his  will  dated  January  II, 
and  probated  January  30,  1864.  he  devised  all  his  estate  in  trust  for  the  use  of  his 
sister,  Phebe  L.  Walii,  she  to  have  the  use  of  "Wain  Grove"  in  the  23d.  Ward  (Frank- 
ford),  during  her  life,  and  at  her  death  to  go  to  his  nephew,  Robert  Wain  Leaming; 
the  rest  of  his  estate  to  go  to  nephews  and  nieces,  Robert  W.  Ryers.  Rebecca  L.  Tutt, 
Susan  Israel,  and  Francis  W.  Leaming;  Robert  W.  Leaming  the  principal  legatee  to 
pay  over  a  sum  to  be  invested  for  the  use  of  testator's  nieces,  Phebe  W.  Bell,  Mary  L. 
Smith  and  Susan  Israel ; 

Susan  Wain.  b.  Sept.  i,  1806,  d.  July  21,  1832;  m.  June  3.  1830,  by  Rev.  William  White, 
then  rector  of  Christ  Church,  to  her  cousin,  Joseph  Wain  Ryers.  son  of  John  Ryers, 
by  his  wife,  Hannah  Wain,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Arniitt)  Wain,  mentioned 
earlier  in  this  sketch ;  they  probably  lived  during  their  short  married  life  at  her  father's 


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country  place,  "Wain  Grove,"  she  at  least  died  there,  as  shown  by  Poulson's  American 
Daily  Advertiser,  of  July  25,  1832;  "Died  21st  inst.  at  her  father's  residence  near 
Frankford,  in  her  26th  year,  Susan  W.  Ryers,  wife  of  Joseph  W.  Ryers,  and  daughter 
of  Robert  Wain."  Later  Joseph  W.  Ryers  had  a  fine  country  place  near  Fox  Chase, 
which  from  its  name,  "Burholme,"  would  seem  that  he  may  have  named  it  for  the 
Wain  home  in  Yorkshire  by  reason  of  his  own  Wain  ancestry.  His  only  son  by  Susan 
Wain,  Robert  Wain  Ryers,  b.  March  8,  1831  or  1832,  a  graduate  of  the  Univ.  of  Pa., 
class  of  '51,  inherited  "Burholme"  in  1868,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  there, 
and  at  his  death  bequeathed  the  estate  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia  for  a  park.  At  one 
corner  of  the  property  is  a  station  of  Newtown  branch  of  the  Reading  railroad,  called 
"Ryers" ; 

After  the  death  of  his  wife  Susan,  Joseph  W.  Ryers  m.  her  sister,  Ann  Wain,  as 
noted  below ; 

Phebe  Lewis  Wain,  b.  Jan.  2,  1808,  d.  unm. ;  she  inherited  a  life  interest  in  "Wain 
Grove"  from  her  brother,  William  Wain,  1864; 

Ann  Wain,  b.  Sept.  6,  1813,  became  the  second  wife  of  her  cousin,  Joseph  Wain  Ryers, 
former  husband  of  her  elder  sister  Susan,  but  they  had  no  children ;  they  lived  at  922 
Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  and  at  "Burholme,"  near  Fox  Chase,  in  co.  of  Philadelphia; 
by  his  will  dated  Dec.  24,  1866,  probated  Jan.  27,  1868,  Joseph  W.  Ryers  devised 
these  two  residences  and  all  that  they  contained  to  his  wife  Ann,  for  life,  and  after 
her  death,  they,  together  with  all  the  residue  of  his  estate  to  go  to  his  son  Robert, 
in  fee. 


WARNER  FAMILY. 

John  Warner,  of  Draycott,  in  the  Parish  of  Blockley,  Worcestershire,  England, 
was  of  a  family  long  seated  in  that  locality,  and  was  possibly  the  John  Warner 
baptized  at  the  Parish  Church  of  Blockley,  April  22,  1582,  who  was  the  son  of 
Richard  Warner.  The  register  of  Blockley  Parish  Church  shows  the  baptism  of 
six  children  of  Richard  Warner,  but  the  record  of  that  of  the  five  eldest  of  them 
omits  the  name  of  the  mother.  The  baptismal  record  of  the  youngest  child, 
Ursula,  gives  the  name  of  Richard  Warner's  wife  Margaret,  and  as  some  years 
intervened,  she  was  possibly  a  second  wife.  No  record  of  the  marriage  of  John 
Warner  has  been  found,  but  the  baptismal  record  of  his  children  shows  that  his 
wife's  name  was  likewise  Margaret. 

The  children  of  John  and  Margaret  Warner,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  Block- 
ley  Parish  Church,  were  as  follows : 

Jane  Warner,  bap.  Nov.  29,  1612;  no  further  record; 

Mary  Warner,  bap.  Nov.  29,  1613;  no  further  record; 

Thomas  Warner,  bap.  Oct.  30,  1616;  probably  the  Thomas  Warner  who  married  Ursula 

^ — ,  and  had  five  children  bap.  at  Blockley  Parish  Church,  viz.:     Thomas,  Aug.  17, 

1651;  Jane,  March  27,  1653;  John,  June  17,  1655;  Daniel,  Sept.  5,  1658;  and  Isaac, 
March  2,  1661 ; 

Richard  Warner,  bap.  Jan.  20,  1621;  probably  the  Richard  Warner  who  married  Sarah 

.  and  had  three  children  bap.  at  Blockley  Parish  Church,  viz.:     Richard,  Jan.  23, 

1647;  Sarah,  Nov.  30,  1631  ;  and  Hannah,  July  15,  1655; 

Robert  Warner,  bap.  March  i,  1624;  possibly  the  Robert  Warner  who  married  Ellenor 

,  and  had  the  following  children  bap.  at  Blockley  Parish  Church :     Margaret. 

June  5,  1663;  Mary,  Dec.  26,  1663;  and  probably  Anne,  Sept.  6,  1665;  mother's  name 
not  given ; 

William  Warner  (i),  bap.  July  8,  1627;  came  to  America,  probably  in  1675;  of  whom 
presently; 

Edward  Warner,  bap.   Nov.  3,  1629;  probably  the  Edward  Warner  who  married  Ann 

,  and  had  four  children  bap.  at  Blockley  Parish  Church,  viz.:     John,  Sept.  21, 

1657;  Edward,  April  9,  1659;  .Anne,  April  13,  1661 ;  and  Isaac,  .April  3,  1663.  Edward 
and  Ann  Warner  removed  to  Gloucestershire,  became  members  of  Society  of  Friends, 
and  had  three  more  children  born  there,  viz.:  James,  lomo.  (Dec.)  26,  1664;  Mary, 
8mo.  (Oct.)  28,  1666;  and  Elizabeth,  7mo.  (Sept.)  17,  1668.  It  seems  likely  that  they 
were  the  Edward  and  "Annie"  Warner,  Friends,  who  subsequently  resided  in  county 
Essex,  and  who  had  four  children  born  there,  viz.:  Jacob,  3mo.  (May)  8,  1670;  Sarah, 
6mo.  (Aug.)  9,  1672;  Joseph,  3mo.  (May)  17,  1674;  and  Hester,  6nio.  (.Aug.)  25,  1676. 
Some  of  Edward  Warner's  children  probably  came  to  Pa.  late  in  eighteenth  century. 
The  name,  Jacob  Warner,  appears  in  list  of  burials  of  persons,  "not  Friends,"  in  the 
records  of  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street),  under  date  of  4mo.  (June)  16,  1717; 
and  there  is  a  tradition  that  William  Roberts,  of  Merion  and  Blockley,  m.  (first)  Eliz- 
abeth Warner,  whom  he  met  on  shipboard  while  coming  to  America; 

John  Warner,  bap.  July  26,  1632;  no  further  record; 

Anthony  Warner,  bap.  Jan.  i,  1634;  no  further  record; 

Isaac  Warner,  bap.  Aug.  22,  1636;  doubtless  d.  before  June  24,  1638,  when  a  second  Isaac 
was  bap. ; 

Isaac  Warner,  bap.  June  24,  1638;  probably  living  at  Draycott,  Parish  of  Blockley, 
Worcestershire,  England,  Sept.  8,  1703,  date  of  his  brother  William  Warner's  will,  by 
terms  of  which  he  was  to  be  paid  "five  Pounds  Sterling  money  of  England"  by  VVill- 
iam's  son,  Robert  Warner  (5).  of  whom  hereafter. 

Note. —  Another  Isaac  Warner  who  came  to  America,  had  a  survey  of  400  acres  of  land, 
one-third  in  Chester  county.  Pa.  (in  that  part  which  is  now  embraced  within  Bethel 
township,  Delaware  county),  and  two-thirds  in  New  Castle  county,  Smo.  (Oct.)  28, 
1683  (identified  in  "Smith's  Atlas  of  Delaware  County,"  1880).  This  was  a  rectangular 
tract  lying  lengthwise,  northeast  and  southwest,  crossed  at  Booth's  Corners  by  the  road 
to  Naaman's  Creek.     Perhaps  this  was  also  the  Isaac  Warner  whose  name  appeared 


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on  first  general  tax  list  for  county  of  Philadelphia,  Sept.  26,  1693,  when  he  was  assessed 
to  pay  a  tax  of  2  shillings  6  pence,  on  property  valued  at  £30.  Among  the  "Old 
Rights"  papers  in  Land  Office  was  No.  49,  a  warrant  and  return  of  survey  for  city 
lots,  to  Isaac  Warner  &  Co.,  dated  2mo.  (April)  26,  1690.  This  referred  to  a  warrant 
dated  2mo.  (April)  26,  1690,  by  virtue  of  which  there  was  laid  out  by  the  Surveyor- 
General's  order  of  2mo.  (April)  25,  1691,  a  lot  on  the  west  side  of  Strawberry  Alley, 
Phila.,  the  patent  for  which  was  issued  Feb.  24,  1692-3,  to  Isaac  Warner,  and  which  he 
assigned  to  John  White,  wool-comber,  March  2,  of  the  latter  year.  This  Isaac  Warner, 
of  Phila.,  was  a  currier  by  trade,  while  Isaac  Warner,  of  Chester  county,  appears  to 
have  been  a  carpenter. 

The  name  of  Isaac  Warner,  of  Chester  county,  appears  a  number  of  times  in  the 
records  of  that  county  prior  to  1698,  in  which  year  he  and  Joseph  Holt  were  drowned, 
while  coming  in  a  boat  from  New  Castle,  and  their  bodies  found  on  Tinicum  Island. 
The  Coroner's  inquest,  held  7mo.  (Sept.)  23,  1698,  is  reported  on  the  docket  of  Chester 
County  Court,  under  date  of  8mo.  (Oct.)  4,  same  year,  when  the  Court  investigated 
the  circumstances  attending  the  finding  of  the  bodies,  Isaac  Warner's  name  appears  in 
the  list  of  burials  of  persons,  "not  Friends,"  in  the  records  of  Phila,  Monthly  Meeting 
(Race  street),  8mo.  (Oct.)  9,  1698,  and  letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  were 
granted  at  Phila.,  Dec.  10,  1700,  to  Catherine  Warner,  his  widow  and  relict.  No  will 
or  administration  of  the  Isaac  Warner  drowned  in  1698  are  on  record  in  Chester 
county,  and  the  delay  in  the  appointment  of  the  widow  as  administratrix  may  have 
been  due  to  her  removal  to  Phila.,  and  also  to  the  fact  that  Isaac  Warner  had  a  son 
who  survived  him  nearly  a  year,  as  in  the  list  of  burials  of  persons,  "not  Friends."  in 
the  records  of  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street)  appears  the  name  of  John  War- 
ner, 6mo.  (Aug.)  9,  1699,  (son  of)   Isaac  and  Katherine. 

Isaac  and  Catherine  Warner  had  a  dau.  Anne,  m.  at  "Skool  Creeke"  Meeting  House, 
4mo.  (June)  6,  1695,  James  Thomas,  of  Merion,  Phila.  county.  Anne  was  then  of 
"Skookill  Creek,"  same  county,  spinster.  Catherine  Warner  and  Isabell  Thomas  signed 
the  marriage  certificate  just  below  the  contracting  parties,  and  among  the  other  wit- 
nesses were  John  Warner,  Isaac  Warner,  James  Kite  and  a  second  Isaac  Warner. 
James  Thomas  was  a  widower,  having  buried  his  first  wife  Margaret  9mo.  (Nov.)  2, 
1694.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  at  least  one  son,  Thomas,  born  8mo.  (Oct.)  28, 
1690;  by  his  second  wife  Anne  (Warner)  he  had  a  son  Nathan,  born  2mo.  (April)  13, 
1696. 

William  Warner,  son  of  John  and  Margaret,  was  born  at  Draycott,  Parish 
of  Blockley,  Worcestershire,  England,  and  baptized  in  the  Parish  Church  there 
July  8,  1627.  The  family  tradition  is  that  he  "had  been  a  captain  under  Oliver 
Cromwell,  and  had  to  leave  his  native  land  when  the  Protector  died,  which  was  in 
1658."  This  story  was  repeated  to  the  late  John  Fanning  Watson  in  June,  1833, 
by  Mrs.  Anne  (Roberts)  Warner,  then  about  seventy-one  years  of  age,  and  was 
committed  to  writing  by  him,  but  is  not  included  in  his  published  "Annals."  She 
was  widow  of  another  and  later  William  Warner  whose  great-grandfather  Isaac 
Warner  came  to  America  with  the  first  William  Warner  or  about  the  same  time 
and  was  one  of  his  sons.  There  is  certainly  nothing  unlikely  in  this  tradition,  as 
many  officers  under  the  Commonwealth  are  known  to  have  come  to  America  after 
the  Restoration,  and  no  trace  of  William  Warner  and  of  his  children  who  came  to 
America  has  been  found  in  England  subsequent  to  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth 
century. 

Thomas  Allen  Glenn,  in  his  work  "Merion  in  the  Welsh  Tract,"  states  that  "it 
seems  apparent  that  William  Warner  settled  first  in  New  England,  or  at  least 
remained  there  some  time,"  and  that  "it  may  be  presumed  that  he  drifted  into 
Pennsylvania  by  way  of  New  Jersey."  The  suggestion  has  also  been  made  that 
William  Warner  went  from  New  England  to  the  settlements  on  the  Delaware  by 
way  of  New  York,  with  Sir  Robert  Carre's  expedition,  1664,  in  which  he  may 
have  obtained  his  military  title,  (if  he  had  one).  But  none  of  the  Warners  in 
New  England,  so  far  as  known,  were  from  the  county  of  Worcester,  and  no  evi- 
dence has  been  produced  to  connect  them  with  the  Warners  who  came  to  New 
Jersey  about  the  time  of  its  first  settlement  by  the  English. 


228  WARNER 

The  first  English  ship  that  brought  permanent  settlers  to  West  Jersey  was  the 
"Joseph  and  Benjamin,"  Matthew  Paine,  master.  This  vessel  landed  passengers 
on  the  south  side  of  the  Asamohacking  River,  (now  Salem  Creek,)  at  a  point 
three  miles  from  its  mouth,  March  13,  1674-5.  The  month  and  day  have  been 
variously  stated,  partly  owing  to  the  confusion  caused  by  the  difference  between 
the  old  style  calendar  then  used  by  the  English  and  the  new  style  followed  by  the 
Dutch.    The  vessel  was  bound  for  Maryland. 

Major  John  Fenwick  and  others  arrived  at  or  near  the  same  place,  on  the  ship 
"Griffin,"  Robert  Griffin,  master,  November  23,  1675,  (Old  Style,)  and  estab- 
lished there  a  town,  which  he  called  New  Salem.  Fenwick,  in  order  to  carry  out 
his  plans  for  a  colony,  had  borrowed  money  of  Edmund  (or  Edmond)  Warner, 
citizen  and  poulterer,  of  London,  and  John  Eldridge  (or  Edridge,)  conveying  to 
them  the  ten  parts  which  he  had  drawn  as  his  tenth  interest  in  one-half  of  New 
Jersey,  as  security,  with  the  right  to  sell  lands  therefrom  for  the  satisfaction  of  his 
debts  to  them.  Fenwick  also  conveyed  lands,  absolutely,  to  Edmund  Warner.  It 
is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  Edmund  Warner  sought  to  interest  his  wealthiest 
and  most  influential  relatives  in  his  ventures  in  the  New  World,  and  that  he  may 
have  solicited  the  active  participation  of  the  Warners  of  the  Parish  of  Blockley  in 
the  settlement  of  Fenwick's  Colony,  if  they  were  related  to  him, — circumstances 
concerning  which  we  are  without  information. 

In  any  event  it  seems  probable  that  William  Warner,  his  wife  Anne,  his  chil- 
dren John,  William,  Mary,  Robert  and  Isaac,  and  several  other  members  of  the 
Warner  family  of  Draycott,  Worcestershire,  England,  arrived  at  the  Delaware 
River  plantations  during  the  summer  or  autumn  of  1675,  either  in  the  first 
English  ship  that  brought  permanent  settlers  to  West  Jersey,  or  with  Fenwick,  or 
several  months  later,  when  the  "Griffin"  stopped  at  New  Salem  a  second  time,  it  is 
said,  with  emigrants,  after  having  returned  to  England,  and  while  on  a  voyage  to 
Maryland.  For  before  April  i,  1677,  William  Warner's  son  Wilham  was  a  land- 
owner in  West  Jersey,  as  will  appear  hereafter,  and  there  is  no  record  of  any 
vessel  having  arrived  within  the  capes  after  the  "Griffin,"  until  August,  1677, 
when  the  "Kent"  came  with  companies  of  Quakers  from  London  and  Yorkshire. 
The  improbability  that  any  English  family  would  have  emigrated  for  the  special 
purpose  of  settling  among  the  Swedes  or  Dutch,  adds  force  to  the  presumption 
that  the  Warners  did  not  come  earlier  than  1675 ;  and  in  the  absence  of  good  evi- 
dence to  the  contrary  it  may  be  assumed  that  they  arrived  in  West  Jersey  in  that 
year. 

Many  of  those  who  originally  intended  to  take  up  land  in  the  vicinity  of  New 
Salem  went  elsewhere,  owing  to  the  unsatisfactory  state  of  affairs  in  Fenwick's 
colony,  particularly  as  affecting  surveys  and  titles  to  land.  Edmund  Warner  and 
his  associates  had  become  involved  in  a  dispute  with  Fenwick,  about  the  time  of 
the  latter's  departure  from  England,  and  Edmund  Andros,  Governor  of  New 
York,  caused  the  Proprietor  to  be  thrown  into  prison  late  in  1676,  where  he 
remained  until  August,  1677.  Assuming  that  William  Warner  originally  intended 
to  settle  in  Fenwick's  colony,  the  conditions  which  existed  at  New  Salem,  and  the 
troubles  which  others  were  having  there,  doubtless  caused  him  to  change  his  plans 
and  seek  a  residence  free  from  turmoil  and  uncertainty,  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river. 

The  name  William  Warner  appears  attached  to  "The  Concessions  and  Agree- 


WARNER  229 

ments  of  the  Proprietors,  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  the  Province  of  West 
New  Jersey,  in  America,"  a  document  executed  in  London,  March  3,  1676-7,  and 
subsequently  brought  to  West  Jersey  and  circulated  for  additional  signatures. 
Perhaps  this  William  Warner  was  the  William  Warner,  cordwainer  and  planter, 
of  Alloway's  Creek  and  elsewhere  in  Salem  county,  whose  wife  was  Jane,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Curtice,  of  Crewkerne,  county  of  Somerset,  England,  and  who  had 
a  son  Simon  Warner, — a  name  found  also  among  the  Warners  of  the  Parish  of 
Blockley. 

It  may  be  presumed  that  the  Warners  remained  in  West  Jersey,  though  prob- 
ably not  in  Fenwick's  colony,  at  least  until  September,  1677,  as  their  names  are 
not  on  the  list  of  taxables  who  were  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Upland  Court 
at  that  time.  There  is  no  mention  of  any  of  them  on  the  west  side  of  the  river, 
in  any  known  extant  records,  until  the  June  term  of  the  Upland  Court,  1678, 
when  "William  Warner  desiering  of  the  Court  a  grant  to  take  up  one  hundered 
acres  of  Land,  The  Court  granted  y'=  same  hee  seating  &  Improoveing  y'  same 
according  to  the  Regulacons  of  his  bono''  the  governo"' ;".  The  date  of  this  grant 
has  been  frequently  erroneously  stated  as  April  3,  1678.  The  mistake  arose  by  the 
loss  of  four  pages  of  the  original  docket  covering  the  end  of  the  April  term  and 
the  beginning  of  the  June  term,  so  that  in  the  printed  record  all  appears  to  be  the 
April  proceedings,  but  internal  evidence  shows  that  the  part  after  the  hiatus 
belonged  to  the  June  proceedings,  though  the  exact  day  is  uncertain. 

At  a  court  held  March  10,  1679-80,  "Upon  the  Peticon  of  william  warner 
senior ;  The  Court  doe  grant  and  permitt  him  to  take  up  on  the  west  syde  of  this 
River  w."'in  the  Limits  of  this  Court,  Twoo  hundered  acres  of  Land,  w'^'^ :  here- 
tofore hath  not  ben  granted  taken  up  or  improved :  Provyded  the  s."*  Peticon' : 
makes  p''sent  Settlement  &  Improovement  thereof  according  to  Lawe  Regulacons 
and  orders ;". 

The  statement  of  some  writers  that  the  first  of  these  grants  was  located  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Schuylkill  River  (and  formed  part  of  the  plantation  called  Block- 
ley)  is  not  warranted  by  the  record.  Nor  was  the  second  one  any  more  certainly 
in  that  place;  "the  west  syde  of  this  River"  referred  to  the  Delaware;  the  grants 
were  not  for  lands  already  seated,  but  only  conferred  the  right  to  take  up  so  much 
land,  the  selection  of  site  and  survey  to  be  made  later.  Besides,  it  is  very  probable 
that  William  Warner  never  located  any  tracts  under  the  first  of  these  grants,  for 
at  a  Court  held  November  12,  1678,  Gov.  Andros's  order  was  proclaimed  declar- 
ing that  those  who  had  obtained  grants  and  not  yet  seated  and  improved  the  lands 
should  forfeit  their  rights. 

The  statement  that  William  Warner  was  the  first  English  settler  on  Pennsyl- 
vania soil  is  not  substantiated  by  the  above  facts.  There  were  many  other  English- 
men living  there  before  Warner  appeared  at  all.  Particularly  erroneous  is  the 
statement  of  Watson,  who  in  his  "Annals  of  Philadelphia,"  speaks  of  Warner's 
settlement,  but  the  date  he  gives  is  obviously  too  early,  and  the  place  of  actual 
settlement  is  too  far  out,  though  the  place  mentioned  was  within  Warner's  pur- 
chase. "But  the  chief  pioneer  must  have  been  Warner,  who,  as  early  as  the  year 
1658,  had  the  hardihood  to  locate  and  settle  the  place,  now  Warner's  Willow 
Grove,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Lancaster  Road,  two  miles  from  the  city  bridge." 
But  as  we  have  seen,  Warner's  first  grant  was  obtained  in  1678,  a  date  easily  con- 
fused with  1658  on  account  of  the  family  tradition.     Again,  we  know  that  War- 


230  WARNER 

ner's  house  was  only  a  few  hundred  feet  back  from  the  river,  just  north  of  the 
present  Girard  avenue,  while  the  spot  indicated  by  Watson  was  the  residence  of  a 
much  later  Warner,  and  was  no  doubt  the  house  marked  "Warner"  on  Ellet's  map 
of  1839,  on  the  southwest  side  of  Lancaster  Road,  about  half  a  mile  east  of  Hes- 
tonville,  and  so  about  two  miles  from  Market  street  bridge,  the  "city  bridge"  of 
Watson. 

The  estate  which  Warner  called  Blockley  was  part  of  a  large  purchase  made  by 
him  and  others  direct  from  the  Indians,  and  not  obtained  by  grant  from  the  Up- 
land Court,  though  the  Court  had  to  be  appealed  to  for  collection  of  some  of  the 
purchase  money.  On  June  14,  1681,  the  Court,  upon  the  request  of  William  War- 
ner and  William  Orian,  ordered  that  the  several  people  who  held  lands  which  the 
petitioners  had  bought  of  the  Indians,  lying  on  the  Schuylkill,  repay  to  the  petitioners 
their  proportion  of  the  335  guilders  which  Warner  and  Orian  had  paid  for  the 
whole ;  the  following  persons  holding  the  lands  within  the  limits  of  the  purchase : 
Andries  Inckoren,  200  acres;  Andries  Homman,  200  acres;  Pelle  Laersen  alias 
Put  Pelle,  100  acres  ;  Peter  Erikson,  200  acres  ;  William  Warner,  100  acres  ;  Will- 
iam Orian,  100  acres ;  John  Booles  and  John  Schoeten,  400  acres ;  and  Swen  Lorn, 
300  acres;  making  in  all  1600  acres.  Reed,  in  the  Explanation  to  his  Map  (Phila- 
delphia, 1774,),  calculated  the  amount  of  the  "Swedes'  land"  actually  laid  out  on 
the  west  side  of  the  Schuylkill  by  about  1683  to  have  been  1506  acres.  Of  the 
original  purchase  from  the  Indians,  Warner's  share  was  only  100  acres,  as  above 
recited,  but  it  will  be  seen  that  he  and  his  family  eventually  obtained  much  more 
than  this,  his  main  plantation  on  the  river  having  been  300  acres  in  extent,  and  his 
lands  further  inland  over  200,  while  his  son  John  had  100  acres  on  the  river,  all 
shown  on  Reed's  Map  as  having  been  within  this  purchase.  This  may  be  ex- 
plained by  the  very  likely  supposition  that  some  of  the  original  subscribers  did  not 
pay  their  proportion,  and  that  Warner  and  his  son  John  took  up  their  shares.  It 
was  land  so  obtained  that  constituted  the  estate  Warner  called  Blockley,  by  patent 
of  1702  stated  to  be  about  300  acres.  This  was  confirmed  to  Warner  by  Penn's 
Commissioners  of  Property,  at  whose  meeting  i2mo.  (February)  23,  1701  (o.  s.), 
a  warrant  was  signed  for  him,  it  being  shown  that  he  had  settled  on  a  tract  of  land 
on  the  Schuylkill  before  the  grant  of  the  Province  (to  Penn),  which  tract  was  re- 
puted 300  acres,  and  he  craving  a  resurvey  so  that  if  it  prove  deficient  it  may  be 
made  out  of  the  adjoining,  according  to  the  Proprietor's  promise.  At  the  meeting 
3mo.  (May)  4,  1702,  William  Warner,  having  obtained  a  resurvey,  and  survey  of 
the  deficiency,  of  300  acres  of  land  in  Blockley  township,  produced  a  return  of  it, 
and  a  patent  for  it  was  granted  him,  which  was  signed  3mo.  (May)  19,  1702. 

Among  the  Old  Rights  papers  in  the  Land  Office  were :  No.  215.  a  warrant  for 
William  Warner  for  200  acres,  dated  4mo.  (June)  19,  1684;  No.  47,  a  return  of 
200  acres  of  his  land,  dated  July  12,  1684;  and  No.  46,  a  description  of  his  288 
acres  in  Philadelphia  county,  not  dated.  The  latter  is  undoubtedly  his  Blockley 
estate,  showing  a  deficiency  of  12  acres;  the  other  two  papers  were  doubtless  for 
the  same  land,  the  200  acres  being  more  or  less,  as  shown  by  a  recital  from  the 
patent  (the  patent  itself  not  being  extant  so  far  as  known),  in  a  deed  from  Will- 
iam Warner,  grandson  of  the  original  William  and  wife,  to  their  son  Isaac,  dated 
January  17,  1758,  to  the  effect  that  the  Commissioners  of  Property  by  patent  of 
May  18,  1702,  had  granted  to  William  Warner,  of  Blockley  township,  300  acres  in 
said  township,  in  two  pieces,  one  of  about  200  acres  more  or  less,  and  the  other  of 


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12  acres  and  40  perches.  (The  200  acres  more  or  less  should  have  been  288  to 
make  up  300  acres). 

The  value  of  William  Warner's  lands  beyond  Schuylkill,  September  26,  1693, 
the  date  of  the  first  general  tax  list  for  the  county  of  Philadelphia,  was  £120, 
according  to  the  report  of  the  Assessor,  Thomas  Paschall,  Junior.  On  this  the  tax 
was  10  shillings.  As  John  Warner's  lands  were  valued  at  £40,  in  the  same  list,  it 
is  evident  that  he  held  one-third  as  much  land  in  value,  and  doubtless  in  extent,  as 
William.    John's  tax  was  3  shillings,  4  pence. 

By  his  will,  William  Warner,  besides  the  Blockley  estate  proper,  devised  200 
acres  of  "backward  land"  (also  mentioned  in  the  inventory),  and  an  uncertain 
quantity  of  meadow  attached  to  it,  which  lay  to  the  northwest  of  the  main  planta- 
tion, but  not  adjoining,  which  included  the  site  of  Hestonville ;  and  another  100 
acres  where  his  son-in-law  James  Kite  lived,  presumably  adjoining  the  home- 
stead. Whether  some  of  these  were  taken  up  under  the  old  grants  from  the  Up- 
land Court,  or  were  later  purchased  from  previous  settlers,  remains  unknown,  as 
deeds  or  patents  for  them  are  missing.  The  "backward  land"  is  stated  in  a  deed 
of  James  Kite  to  Isaac  Warner,  January  18,  1717  (o.  s.),  to  have  been  269  acres. 

Warner's  estate,  including  Blockley,  stretched  from  the  Schuylkill  River  half 
way  to  Cobb's  Creek,  some  distance  north  of  Haverford  Road  (now  Haverford 
avenue)  and  on  both  sides  of  Lancaster  avenue  and  of  the  main  line  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad,  including  a  great  part  of  Blockley  township,  now  the  northern 
part  of  West  Philadelphia  (24th  and  34th  Wards).  It  embraced  the  site  of  the 
old  village  of  Hestonville,  situated  around  S2nd  street  where  it  is  crossed  by  Lan- 
caster avenue.  Blockley  township,  originally  laid  out  by  another  name,  was  soon 
renamed  after  Warner's  plantation. 

On  June  14,  1681  (the  same  day  the  payment  for  the  Indian  lands  was  ordered), 
the  Upland  Court  granted  to  the  following  persons  the  quantity  of  land  men- 
tioned :  Reynier  Petersen,  200  acres ;  Andries  Boon,  200  acres,  William  Warner, 
Senior,  400  acres ;  Richard  Tucker,  100  acres.  Otto  Ernest  Koch,  400  acres,  Lionel 
Brittain,  200  acres  ;  and  Jan  Claassen,  200  acres.  These  were  separate  grants,  and 
not  necessarily  all  in  any  one  locality.  Reynier  Petersen  had  125  acres,  partly  in 
Chester  and  partly  in  New  Castle  county,  July  26,  1695  ;  Andries  Swanson  Boon 
had  in  1688  a  tract  in  Darby  of  250  acres,  laid  out  for  Andries  Boon  as  200  acres 
in  1680,  and  he  and  Otto  Ernest  Koch  had  many  separate  tracts  in  Darby  and 
Kingsessing  by  1688;  Richard  Tucker  had  a  tract  on  both  sides  of  Darby  Creek 
surveyed  in  1690;  but  which  of  these  came  under  the  above  grants  is  now  uncer- 
tain. Lionel  Brittain  and  Jan  Claassen  located  theirs  in  Bucks  county.  William 
Warner  probably  sold  his  rights  under  this  grant,  as  none  of  his  known  holdings 
can  be  traced  to  it. 

William  Warner  was  Under  Sheriff  (or  as  now  called,  Deputy  Sheriff),  of  the 
county  of  Upland  in  1679  and  1680,  probably  succeeding  Michael  Yzard,  who  was 
spoken  of  as  "Late  tindersherrife"  on  November  25,  1679.  From  the  fact  that  he 
was  then  mentioned  simply  as  William  Warner,  and  elsewhere  as  William  War- 
ner, "Senior,"  some  writers  have  inferred  that  it  was  his  son  William  who  was 
Under  Sheriff,  but  such  was  not  the  case,  as  the  son  resided  in  Gloucester  county, 
New  Jersey ;  moreover,  the  "Senior"  was  omitted  in  some  other  places. 

It  was  when  William  Markham  assumed  the  government  as  Penn's  Deputy 
Governor  that  Warner  became  most  prominent  politically.     Arriving  probably 


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late  in  June,  1681,  Markham  proceeded  to  appoint  Council  to  assist  him  in  admin- 
istering the  affairs  of  the  newly  established  Province  of  Pennsylvania ;  and  of  the 
nine  members  so  chosen,  who  took  the  oath  of  office  August  3,  1681,  ^^'illiam  War- 
ner was  one.  A  fac-simile  of  the  oath  with  signatures  attached,  is  to  be  found  in 
the  edition  of  the  "Duke  of  York's  Laws,"  published  by  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1879.  The  capital  of  the  Province  was  established  at  Upland,  its  name 
being  changed  to  Chester,  and  on  September  13,  1681,  Markham  reorganized  the 
Upland  Court,  as  the  Chester  Court,  by  commissioning  a  new  set  of  Justices. 
William  Warner  was  one  of  these.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  second  Pro- 
vincial Assembly,  which  met  at  Philadelphia  March  10,  1683-4. 

William  Warner  was  living  on  his  plantation  west  of  the  Schuylkill  River  at 
least  as  early  as  6mo.  (August)  24,  1684,  when  he  was  one  of  the  subscribing  wit- 
nesses at  the  marriage  of  Paul  Saunders  and  Edith  Hand,  which  was  under  care 
of  Haverford  (now  Radnor)  Monthly  Meeting.  The  region  was  then  covered  by 
a  stately  forest,  the  growth  of  centuries,  and  "great  quantities  of  rabbits,  squirrels, 
pheasants,  partridges,  and  others  of  the  same  kind"  continued  to  infest  the  dense 
wilds  for  many  years  thereafter.  In  the  midst  of  these  primitive  surroundings 
Warner  resided  until  his  death,  which  occurred  probably  early  in  October,  1706. 
His  house,  the  first,  perhaps,  erected  west  of  the  Schuylkill,  was  situated  a  short 
distance  north  of  Girard  avenue,  in  that  portion  of  the  West  Park  which  is  called 
"Eglesfeld."  Near  by  was  the  landing  place  from  which,  according  to  a  family 
tradition,  he  rowed  out  in  his  boat  with  his  guns,  to  a  rock  near  the  bank  of  the 
river,  where  he  fished  and  shot  ducks, — his  large  dog  usually  accompanying  him 
and  recovering  the  birds.  Warner's  Rock,  the  point  alluded  to,  is  no  longer  visible 
since  the  building  of  the  dam  at  Fair  Mount. 

By  his  will,  dated  September  8,  1703,  proved  at  Philadelphia  October  18,  1706, 
William  Warner  left  a  life  interest  in  half  the  Blockley  estate  to  his  wife  Anne, 
also  a  life  interest  in  half  of  his  "backward  meadow,"  and  some  personal  estate; 
to  his  son  John  Warner  he  left  100  acres  of  his  "backward  land"  and  the  half  of 
the  meadow  belonging  to  said  "backward  land"  (that  is,  to  the  whole  of  it,  not  half 
of  the  100  acres  only),  also  20  pounds  and  the  use  of  some  implements,  etc. ;  to  his 
son  Isaac  Warner,  50  acres  of  "backward  land"  without  any  meadow  (all  the 
meadow  being  disposed  of  above),  also  half  the  plantation  (Blockley),  and  on  his 
mother's  death  the  balance  of  the  plantation  and  of  the  meadow  left  to  her  above, 
at  Isaac's  death  all  these  to  go  to  Isaac's  eldest  son ;  to  Isaac  also,  some  personal 
estate,  and  the  use  of  some  implements;  to  his  son  William  Warner,  10  pounds 
and  an  annual  allowance  for  eight  years,  of  three  bushels  of  wheat  and  three  of 
rye;  to  his  son-in-law  James  Kite,  50  acres  of  "backward  land"  without  any 
meadow,  and  100  acres  where  Kite  then  dwelt,  for  life,  and  after  his  decease  to 
whichever  of  his  sons — James  or  Abraham — he  should  nominate  (this  land  having 
been  on  the  Schuylkill  south  of  and  adjoming  the  Blockley  estate)  ;  to  his  son  Rob- 
ert Warner,  two  houses  in  Draycott,  Worcestershire,  England,  he  paii-ing  the 
testator's  brother  Isaac  Warner  "five  Pounds  Sterling  money  of  England  ;"  and  he 
ordained  his  wife  Anne  and  son  Isaac  executrix  and  executor.  Thus  the  principal 
plantation,  Blockley,  was  left  a  life  interest,  half  of  it  to  his  wife  Anne  and  half 
to  his  son  Isaac,  and  after  his  wife's  decease,  a  life  interest  in  the  whole  to  his  son 
Isaac,  the  whole  eventually  to  descend  to  his  grandson,  the  eldest  son  of  Isaac 
(who  was  William  \\''arner,  the  "Baron,"  of  whom  hereafter). 


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According  to  the  records  of  Blockley  Parish  Church,  "William  Warner  and 
Mary  George  were  married  on  the  6th  of  November,  1642;"  and  if  William,  son 
of  John  and  Margaret  Warner,  was  not  an  infant  at  the  time  of  his  baptism,  July 
8,  1627,  he  may  have  been  the  William  who  was  Mary  George's  husband,  in  which 
case  she  was  his  first  wife,  as  the  maiden  name  of  William  Warner's  wife  who 
survived  him  was  Anne  Dide  (or  Dyde). 

William  and  Mary  (George)  Warner  had  six  children  baptized  at  Blockley 
Parish  Church,  as  follows : 

Jane  Warner,  bap.  July  16,  1643; 
Henrie  Warner,  bap.  April  8,  1646; 
John  Warner,  bap.  March  16,  1646-7; 
Samuel  Warner,  bap.  Jan.  20,  1650-51; 
William  Warner,  bap.  Oct.  9,  1653; 
Alice  Warner,  bap.  Dec.  23,  1657. 

William  and  Anne   (Dide)   Warner  were  probably  Puritans  or  Independents 
for  a  time,  if  he  was  in  the  Parliamentary  Army ;  but  some  of  his  children  married 
Quakers,  and  later  generations  were  mostly  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
William  Warners  children  mentioned  in  his  zanll  were: — 

John  W.^rner,  m.  Anne  Campden;  of  whom  presently; 

William  Warner,  m.  Christian ;  of  whom  hereafter; 

Mary  Warner,  m.  James  Kite;  of  whom  hereafter; 

Robert  Warner,  probably  m.  Sarah ;  of  whom  hereafter; 

Isaac  Warner,  m.  Anne  Craven;  of  whom  hereafter. 

According  to  a  tradition  recorded  by  one  of  his  descendants,  John  Warner  (2) 
was  born  in  1649.  If  this  statement  is  correct,  Anne  Dide  was  probably  the  only  wife 
of  his  father  William  Warner  (i),  but  if  John  was  the  John  Warner  baptized  in 
1646,  Mary  George  was  the  mother  of  John  and  William,  and  possibly  of  Mary 
and  Robert,  while  Anne  Dide  was  probably  the  mother  of  Isaac,  who  was  the  most 
favored  child  in  his  father's  will. 

Notr.—The  Warners  of  the  Parish  of  Blockley,  Worcestershire,  England,  were  not  the 
only  persons  bearing  the  Warner  name  who  settled  in  Philadelphia  at  an  early  period,  as 
shown  by  the  following  facts : 

Edmund  (or  Edmond)  Warner,  citizen  and  poulterer  of  London,  whose  transactions 
with  Major  John  Fenwick  and  possible  relationship  to  the  Warners  of  Blockley  have  been 
mentioned  previously,  married,  gmo.  (November)  14,  1671,  Rachel  Middleton,  at  Peel  Monthly 
Meeting,  according  to  Friends'  records  preserved  at  Devonshire  House,  London.  He  had  a 
warrant  for  a  city  lot  in  Philadelphia,  3mo.  (May)  29,  1683,  but  died  in  less  than  a  year 
thereafter,  as  letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  were  granted  at  Philadelphia  to  Silas 
Crispin,  l2mo  (February)  7,  1683-4.  About  a  year  later,  lomo.  (December)  2,  1684,  the 
Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  took  under  consideration  the  business  of  Edmund  Warqer's 
widow,  and  recommended  that  William  Clark,  William  Berry  and  William  Southerby  be 
appointed  for  administrators,  "that  the  said  widow  and  children  may  not  suffer  for  want  of 
Relief,  and  her  Estate  run  to  Ruin  for  want  of  looking  after."  On  the  19th  of  the  same 
month,  William  Bury,  "desiering  to  take  out  Letters  of  Administracon  upon  the  estate  of 
Edmond  Warner  deceased  As  also  by  the  approbation  and  appointment  of  friends  of  Phila- 
delphia," was  granted  letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  by  William  Clark,  Deputy 
Register  of  the  counties  of  Sussex  and  Kent,  in  Delaware.  Letters  of  administration  on 
Edmund  Warner's  estate  in  New  Jersey  were  granted  April  6,  1688,  to  James  Nevill,  as 
attorney  of  Nathaniel  Lowe,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  James,  "Clarbonwell"  (Clerkenwell), 
county  of  Middlesex,  England,  innholder,  jointly  with  whom  "Edmund  Warner  late  of  the 
P'vince  of  Pennsiluania  deceased"  was  bound  for  the  payment  of  £50  to  Thomas  Arrow- 
smith,  of  the  Parish  of  Northweald  Bassett,  county  of  Essex,  England,  which  the  latter  had 
been  paid  by  Nathaniel  Lowe  as  security  for  Edmund  Warner.     Rachel,  widow  of  Edmund 


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Warner,  married  (second)  Henry  Jones,  of  Philadelphia,  merchant,  imo.  (March)  8,  1687. 
Nothing  is  known  of  the  descendants  of  Edmund  and  Rachel  (Middleton)  Warner,  except 
that  they  had  a  son  Edmund  Warner  buried  6mo.  (August)  29,  1694,  according  to  the  records 
of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street). 

Several  other  families  of  Warners  settled  in  Philadelphia  early  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
one  from  Bristol,  Gloucestershire,  England;  one  from  Maryland,  and  one  from  Germany, 
which  got  the  name  by  adopting  it. 

John  Warner,  eldest  son  of  William  Warner,  was  born  in  England,  in  1649, 
according  to  a  family  tradition,  in  which  case  Anne  Dide  (or  Dyde)  was  probably 
his  mother;  but  if  he  was  the  John  Warner  who  was  baptized  at  Blockley  Parish 
Church  March  16,  1646  (o.  s.),  his  mother's  maiden  name  was  Mary  George,  as 
heretofore  shown.  He  came  to  America  in  1675,  probably,  with  his  father  and 
other  relatives,  and  located  land  on  the  west  side  of  the  Schuylkill  River,  above 
his  father's  Blockley  estate,  and  separated  from  it  by  William.  Orian's  tract.  This 
was  no  doubt  part  of  the  purchase  of  his  father  and  others  from  the  Indians  in 
1681,  which  John  obtained  by  paying  for  an  unpaid  interest,  though  there  are  no 
known  papers  extant  which  show  this  to  be  a  fact.  John  Warner's  tract  should 
have  been  100  acres,  but  the  return  of  survey  quoted  in  the  "Explanation  to 
Reed's  Map"  gave  it  as  93  acres,  and  the  tract  as  shown  on  Reed's  Map  is  called 
94  acres.  On  the  same  map  is  shown,  in  his  name,  a  smaller  tract,  to  the  north  of, 
but  not  directly  adjoining,  the  western  part  of  this;  no  quantity  given,  but  appar- 
ently about  20  acres.  John  Warner  afterwards  acquired  William  Orian's  tract  of 
about  94  acres  between  his  own  land  and  his  father's  estate  of  Blockley.  In  the 
Schuylkill  River,  on  the  line  between  John  Warner  and  William  Orian,  was  an 
island  of  12  acres  (the  island  now  just  below  the  Belmont  Water  Works),  belong- 
ing half  to  each,  making  up  their  quota  of  lOO  acres  each.  John  Warner  acquired 
Orian's  share  in  the  island  also.  He  had  thus  200  acres  on  the  Schuylkill  next 
above  the  Blockley  plantation.  His  father  also  left  him  100  acres  of  his  "back- 
ward land"  (described  above)  near  Hestonville,  with  the  proportional  share  of 
meadow  which  belonged  to  it,  in  all  about  135  acres. 

John  Warner  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly,  1713-14-15.  He  resided 
on  his  plantation  on  the  Schuylkill  until  his  death,  living  in  the  style  of  a  gentle- 
man of  landed  estate  of  that  time ;  and  he  built  there  a  large  log  house  which  con- 
tinued in  the  possession  of  his  descendants  until  1799,  in  which  year  it  was  torn 
down  by  his  grandson  Col.  Edward  Warner  Heston.  The  massive  timbers  were 
then  found  in  such  an  excellent  state  of  preservation,  that  Col.  Heston  utilized 
them  in  the  construction  of  his  own  house  the  following  year,  and  they  were  still 
in  fair  condition  when  this  building  was  demolished,  1901. 

John  Warner  died  2mo.  (April)  12,  1717.  By  his  will,  dated  September  17, 
1716,  proved  May  20,  1717,  he  directed  his  plantation  to  be  divided  equally  be- 
tween his  sons  William  Warner  and  Isaac  Warner;  to  his  son  John  Warner  he 
left  the  100  acres  of  "Back  Land  where  he  now  lives,  with  all  the  meadow  and 
wood"  belonging  to  it  (which  John  Warner,  Senior,  inherited  from  his  father 
William  Warner),  John  paying  10  pounds  to  the  testator's  daughter  "Margaret 
Roades;"  to  his  daughters,  Mary  Warner,  Esther  Warner,  Sarah  Warner  and 
Jane  Warner,  and  his  son  Joseph  Warner,  all  stocks  on  the  plantation,  household 
goods,  etc. ;  and  the  executors  were  his  "son  Swen  Warner,"  John  Warner  and 
Mary  Warner.  It  has  long  been  taken  for  granted  that  this  "son  Swen  Warner" 
was  John  Warner's  eldest  son,  already  provided  for,  and  so  not  otherwise  men- 


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tioned  in  his  will,  and  this  has  been  a  source  of  confusion  in  accounts  of  the  fam- 
ily, but  it  is  now  known  that  he  was  not  a  son  but  a  son-in-law,  and  also  a  nephew, 
having  been  the  husband  of  John  Warner's  daughter  Esther,  and  the  son  of  John 
Warner's  brother,  William  Warner,  of  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey. 

John  Warner  married  Anne  Campden.  Her  surname  suggests  that  her  family 
was  of  Chipping-Campden,  where  some  of  the  Warners  were  prominent,  a  town 
situated  about  three  miles  beyond  the  limits  of  the  Parish  of  Blockley.  According 
to  the  records  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street)  she  was  buried 
Smo.  (July)  19,  1715. 

Issue  of  John  and  Anne  (Campden)  Warner: — 

Edward  Warner,  b.  Smo.  (Oct.)  29,  1680,  according  to  records  of  Haverford  (now 
Radnor)  Monthly  Meeting,  which  give  the  dates  of  birth  of  four  eldest  children  of 
John  and  Anne  Warner;  probably  the  Edward  Warner  who  was  a  witness  to  John 
Warner's  will  Sept.  17,  1716,  though  not  otherwise  mentioned  in  it,  possibly  for  the 
reason  that,  as  his  eldest  son,  he  had  already  been  provided  for.  Presumed  to  have  d. 
before  Feb.  15,  1723  (o.  s.),  as  in  a  deed  of  that  date  (Phila.,  Book  H,  15,  page  190), 
from  his  uncle  Isaac  Warner,  and  Abraham  Kite,  to  his  brother  John  Warner,  of 
whom  hereafter;  John  Warner  is  described  as  eldest  son  of  John  Warner,  eldest  son  of 
William  Warner  (doubtless  meaning  eldest  living  son). 

If  evidence  furnished  by  the  above-mentioned  deed  is  to  be  accepted  as  conclusive, 
this  Edward  Warner  could  not  have  been  the  Edward  Warner  who  was  "living  at 
James  Poultis's  in  the  Second  street  in  Philadelphia"  in  July,  1723,  who  was  after- 
wards one  of  the  earliest  elected  members  of  the  Carpenters'  Co.,  and  member  of 
Provincial  Assembly  continuously  for  nineteen  years.  1735-1754  (see  The  Pennsylvania 
Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  vol.  i.,  pp.  358-9)  ; 

Margaret  Warner,  b.  imo.  (March)  23,  1683-4;  m.  Jacob  Rhoads,  b.  Feb.  16,  1670-71,  son 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  Rhoads,  and  had  five  children,  viz. :  Jacob ;  Margaret,  d.  7mo. 
(Sept.)  25,  1 741;  Abraham,  b.  about  1706,  d.  1746,  m.  7mo.  (Sept.)  24,  1733,  Eleanor, 
b.  Smo.  (Oct.)  7,  1708,  dau.  of  John  and  Hannah  Rees;  Isaac;  Anne,  m.  Nov.  24,  1729, 
William,  son  of  William  Coulston,  of  Plymouth  Meeting.  Among  the  living  descend- 
ants of  Abraham  and  Eleanor  (Rees)  Rhoads  are  Charles  Woods  Coulston,  Esq.,  and 
Samuel  Castner,  Jr.,  of  Phila.; 

Mary  Warner,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.)  3,  1684;  unm.  in  1716; 

Esther  Warner,  b.  6mo.  (Aug.)  18,  1686;  m.  her  first  cousin,  Swen  Warner,  son  of  her 
uncle  William  Warner,  of  Gloucester  county,  N.  J.;  see  forward; 

Sarah  Warner,  b.  1688;  unm.  in  1716; 

John  Warner,  b.  pmo.  (Nov.)  26,  1689,  according  to  a  pedigree  compiled  by  Silas  Warner, 
of  Harford  county,  Maryland,  in  which  all  the  children  of  John  and  Anne  Warner  are 
mentioned,  except  Edward.  This  would  make  John  the  eldest  son,  agreeing  with  the 
deed  of  1723,  previously  cited;  but  as  has  been  shown,  he  was  not  the  eldest  son;  see 
Edward  Warner. 

John  Warner  m.  Smo.  (Oct.)  20,  1715,  Mary,  b.  i2mo.  (Feb.)  12,  1694-5,  d.  imo. 
(March)  n,  1782-3,  dau.  of  John  Kirk,  of  Darby  township,  Chester  county.  Pa., 
who  m.  Joan,  of  the  same  place,  dau.  of  Peter  Elliott.  He  was  Ijuried  Qmo.  (Nov.)  19, 
1748,  in  Friends'  Grave  Yard,  at  Merion  Meeting  House,  and  letters  of  administration 
on  his  estate  were  granted  at  Phila.,  Nov.  26,  of  same  year,  to  his  widow  Mary  and 
Jacob  Heston. 

John  and  Mary  (Kirk)  Warner  had  eight  children,  as  follows:  Mary,  m.  iimo. 
(Jan.)  II,  1739-40,  Jacob  Heston,  of  Wrightstown,  Bucks  county,  Pa.,  b.  May  20,  1713, 
son  of  Zebulon  and  Dorothy  Heston,  and  their  son  Edward  Warner  Heston  was 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Revolution  and  founder  of  the  ancient  village  of  Heston- 
ville,  and  d.  in  1824,  aged  78  years ;  Edward,  probably  the  Edward  Warner  buried  gmo. 
(Nov.)  II,  1749,  in  Friends'  Grave  Yard,  at  Merion  Meeting  House;  Sarah,  m.  Thomas 
Pollin ;  Elizabeth;  Esther,  m.  lomo.  (Dec.)  7,  1748,  Joseph  Lacey,  of  Buckingham, 
Bucks  county.  Pa.;  Joseph,  m.  Charity  Moore;  Rachel,  m.  lomo.  (Dec.)  14,  1750, 
Thomas  Williams,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Reed)  Williams;  and  Benjamin,  m. 
(first)  Sarah  Ely,  (second)  Sarah  Terry,  (third)  Ellen  Holland; 

William  Warner,  b.  1694; 

Isaac  Warner,  b.  1696;  m.  by  Friends'  authorization,  dated  i2mo.  (Feb.)  24,  1715-16, 
Veronica  de  la  Plaine  Cassell;  d.  Smo.  (Oct.)  25,  1748.  Letters  of  administration  on 
his  estate  were  granted  at  Phila.  to  his  widow  Veronica  Warner,  Nov.  21,  1748;  she  d. 
May  2,  1769,  aged  71  years. 

Isaac  and  Veronica  (Cassell)  Warner  had  ten  children,  viz. :    John,  m.  Sarah , 

who  after  his  death  (which  occurred  in  1749,  leaving  children  Jacob,  Arnold,  Susanna 


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and  Jane)  m.  (second)  gmo.  (Nov.)  9,  1750,  at  Goshen  Meeting,  Samuel,  son  of 
Thomas  Hall,  of  Willistown ;  Arnold,  m.  Nov.  10,  1753,  Margery  Hall;  Susanna,  by 
Pa.  license  dated  July  13,  1748,  m.  James  Skerrett;  Anne,  m.  3mo.  (May)  26,  1741,  at 
Phila.  Monthly  Meeting,  Thomas  Tilbury,  of  Wissahickon,  son  of  Thomas  Tilbury,  of 
the  Parish  of  Garlick  Hill,  London,  England,  then  deceased;  Jane,  m.  Jan.  24,  1753, 
Jacob  Widdovk's  (or  Widdos);  Elizabeth,  m.  Joab  Walker;  Lydia ;  Isaac;  Hannah,  d. 
at  the  age  of  9  years;  and  Margaret,  d.  young; 

Jane  Warner,  b.  1698;  unm.  in  1716; 

Joseph  Warner,  b.  2mo.  (April)  15,  1701,  d.  1746;  m.  2mo,  (April)  16,  1723,  Agnes 
Croasdale;  settled  in  Wrightstown  township,  I5ucks  county.  Pa.,  and  was  founder  of 
Warner  family  of  that  county  Joseph  and  Agnes  (Croasdale)  Warner  had  nine 
children,  as  follows:  John,  b.  i2mo.  (Feb.)  16,  1723-4;  Mary,  b.  Iimo.  (Jan.)  28. 
1725-6;  Joseph,  b.  iimo.  (Jan.)  10,  1727-8;  Croasdale,  b.  l2mo.  (Feb.)  5,  1729-30;  Ruth, 
b.  8mo.  (Oct.)  8,  1732;  Abraham,  b.  7mo.  (Sept.)  14,  1735;  Sarah,  b.  iimo.  (Jan.)  7, 
■737-8;  Nancy,  b.  gmo.  (Nov.)  28,  1741,  d.  Nov.  28,  1829;  and  Thomas,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.) 
6,  1746,  d.  Feb.  19,  1821. 

William  Warner,  son  of  William  Warner,  was  possibly  the  William  Warner 
whose  mother's  maiden  name  was  Mary  George,  and  who  was  baptized  at  Block- 
Icy  Parish  Church  October  9,  1653,  as  already  stated ;  but  it  seems  more  likely  that 
his  mother  was  Anne  Dide  (or  Dyde)  or  an  earlier  wife  of  his  father  of  whom  we 
have  no  knowledge.  In  any  event  he  was  born  in  England,  doubtless  before  1656, 
and  came  to  America,  probably  in  1675  with  his  father  and  other  relatives.  He 
was  a  landowner  in  West  Jersey  at  least  as  early  as  April  i,  1677,  as  evidenced  by 
a  receipt  of  that  date  from  Thomas  Pearson  and  Joseph  Helmsley,  for  the  pur- 
chase money.  On  March  24,  1681-2,  William  Warner,  who  was  then  of  "Red- 
hooke,"  West  Jersey,  gave  a  memorandum  of  deed  for  1-24  share  in  the  First 
Tenth,  to  William  Beard  of  Mansfield,  this  being  part  of  the  share  bought  of 
Pearson  and  Helmsley. 

In  November,  1683,  Henry  Trad  way  and  William  Warner  had  a  return  of 
survey  for  300  acres  at  "Redbanck  alias  Bachelours  Banck"  on  the  Delaware 
River,  from  the  mouth  of  Long  Harries  Creek  to  Richard  Lawrence's ;  and  by 
deed  of  March  2,  1685-6  Thomas  Matthews  conveyed  to  William  Warner  400 
acres  on  the  northeast  side  of  Woodbury  Creek,  in  the  Fourth  Tenth,  part  of 
AJatthews'  %  share  which  he  purchased  November  14  and  15,  1681,  of  Edward 
Byllinge  and  his  trustees. 

Red  Bank  appears  to  have  been  divided  into  upper  Red  Bank  and  lower  Red 
Bank.  It  was  at  the  latter  place  that  Tradway  and  Warner  settled  in  1683.  Long 
Harries  Creek  was  then  "vulgarly  called  Redbank  Creek,"  but  soon  came  to  be 
known  as  Woodbury  Creek,  the  name  which  it  now  bears. 

By  deed  of  April  24,  1697,  John  Healy,  "late  of  Pennsylvania,  now  of  Ireland, 
mariner,"  by  his  attorneys  Charles  Saunders  and  John  Duplouvy  of  Philadelphia, 
sold  William  Warner  484  acres  on  Woodbury  Creek,  bought  of  John  Test,  June 
3,  1693.  But  Warner  soon  parted  with  all  but  100  acres  of  this  tract,  conveying 
180  acres  of  it  to  James  Ward,  April  10,  1698,  and  204  acres  of  it  to  John  Tatem 
by  deed  of  December  i,  1699. 

May  25,  1696,  William  Warner,  Thomas  Gardiner,  of  Grovely,  Esq.,  and 
Joshua  Lord,  by  deed  of  John  Wood,  of  Woodbury  Creek,  were  conveyed  a  lot, 
100  by  70  feet,  near  John  Wood's  dwelling  place,  to  be  used  as  a  graveyard  by  the 
inhabitants  of  the  county  between  Gloucester  River  and  Great  Mantus  Creek. 

William  Warner  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly  from  the  Fourth  Tenth, 
with  Peter  Dalboe,  May  and  November,  1685;  he  was  High  Sheriff  of  Gloucester 
county.  May,  1697,  and  December,  i()99;  and  Justice,  May,  1700,  and  May,  1701. 


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The  plantation  which  Warner  had  on  Woodbury  Creek  was  conveniently  acces- 
sible from  the  Schuylkill,  by  means  of  small  boats,  and  it  may  be  taken  for 
granted  that  there  was  much  visiting,  back  and  forth,  between  the  Warners  of 
Bleckley  township,  Pennsylvania,  and  their  kindred  in  Gloucester  county,  New 
Jersey.  In  the  will  of  William  Warner  of  Philadelphia,  dated  1703,  proved  1706,, 
there  is  the  following  reference  to  his  son  William :  "I  give  and  bequeath  unto 
my  son,  William  Warner  the  sum  of  ten  Pounds  to  be  paid  to  him  by  my  Execu- 
tors within  one  year  after  my  decease;  as  also,  six  bushels  of  corn  each  year,  for 
eight  years,  next  after  my  decease,  to  wit,  three  bushels  of  wheat  and  three  of 
Rye  by  my  executors."  The  word  "corn"  is  still  generally  applied  to  wheat,  rye, 
oats  and  barley,  in  England. 

William  Warner  died  about  P'ebruary  16,  1713-14,  on  which  date  he  was  owed 
debts  amounting  to  i126.10.03,  according  to  the  inventory  of  his  personal  estate, 
appraised  February  20,  1713-14,  by  John  Ladd,  Henry  Tredaway  (or  Tradway) 
and  Richard  Bull.  This  sum  included  "Dubious  Debts"  amounting  to  £37.08.05. 
His  goods  and  chattels  and  other  personal  property,  were  valued  at  £266.04.00, 
in  addition,  making  his  entire  personal  estate  £392.14.03,  as  shown  by  the  inven- 
tory, which  was  certified  by  the  executors,  June  16,  1714.  This  included  a  white 
servant,  Robert  Downey,  £15.,  and  a  negro  woman  called  Ann,  £40.10.00. 

In  his  will,  dated  December  10,  1712,  proved  June  18,  1714,  William  Warner 
left  legacies  to  Ann  Hartman,  widow,  William  Tatem,  Robert  Lord,  George 
Ward,  and  Nathaniel  Chew,  "and  to  my  son  William  Six  Shillings,"  and 
bequeathed  the  bulk  of  his  estate  to  his  wife  Christian,  and  children  Swen,  Isaac, 
Hannah  and  Jacob.  The  executors  were  his  son  Swen,  wife  Christian,  Thomas 
Nixon  and  Joshua  Lord,  and  the  witnesses  were  Jacob  Willis,  Elias  Rambo  and 
James  Whiteall. 

Though  William  Warner's  wife  is  called  Christian  in  his  will,  her  name  was 
doubtless  Christina,  as  it  is  known  that  she  was  of  Swedish  descent  or  birth. 
She  was  possibly  a  daughter  of  Lieut.  Swen  Schute  (or  Swann  Skuuta),  who 
emigrated  to  New  Sweden  with  one  of  the  first  five  Swedish  expeditions,  and  was 
the  officer  in  command  at  Fort  Elssborgh  when  John  Printz,  the  Governor,  made 
his  second  report,  dated  at  Christina,  June  20,  1644,  and  who  subsequently  took 
an  important  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  colony.  In  recognition  of  his  services  to 
the  crown  he  was  granted  lands  by  Queen  Christina,  August  20,  1653.  These 
were  located  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Delaware,  and  extended  some  distance  up 
the  Schuylkill  River  and  Darby  Creek,  and  were  almost  opposite  Red  Hook,  West 
New  Jersey,  where  William  Warner  settled,  but  they  were  a  short  distance 
further  up  the  Delaware.  If  Swen  Schute  settled  upon  this  tract,  he  and  his 
family  were  the  first  white  inhabitants  of  any  portion  of  the  site  of  Philadelphia, 
as  the  Dutch  grant  to  the  Swansons,  at  Wickaco,  was  not  made  until  more  than 
ten  years  later.  The  surname  of  Swen  Schute's  wife  was  Christina,  it  is  believed, 
and  by  her  he  had  an  eldest  son  Swen  Schute,  born  1653 ;  a  second  son  John 
Schute,  born  September  4,  1654,  of  "Nitapkung"  on  the  Schuylkill  River,  who 

married  Armgott  ,  and  had  a  daughter  Christina  Schute,  born  September 

4,  1687,  who  married  John  Johnson  of  Philadelphia  county;  and  a  daughter 
Magdalen  Schute,  born  March  25,  1660,  who  married  Peter,  son  of  Peter  Gun- 
nersonn  Rambo.  Swan  and  Christina  Schute  probably  had  several  other  children, 
and  it  is  presumed  that  one  of  these,  an  eldest  daughter,  Christina  Schute,  named 


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after  her  mother  and  also  in  honor  of  the  Queen  of  Sweden,  was  the  wife  of 
William  Warner. 

The  late  John  Clement,  in  his  "Sketches  of  the  First  Emigrant  Settlers  in 
Newton  Township,  Old  Gloucester  County,  West  New  Jersey,"  (page  329,) 
states  that  Walla  Swanson  of  Wickaco  in  his  will  dated  1692  gave  lands  about 
the  mouth  of  Woodbury  Creek  to  his  children,  among  them  "Mary,  wife  of 
William  Warner;"  but  the  authorities  quoted  by  Clement  fail  to  support  his 
assertion  that  William  Warner  had  a  wife  named  Mary.  This  mistake  probably 
arose  from  Clement's  having  adopted  the  very  likely  supposition  that  William 
Warner's  son  Swen  Warner  derived  his  Christian  name  from  his  mother's  family 
name,  and  the  circumstances  that  Walla  Swanson,  who  had  a  brother  Swan 
Swanson,  had  200  acres  near  Warner's  plantation.  It  is  now  known,  however, 
that  Walla  Swanson's  daughter  Mary  died  in  her  minority,  doubtless  unmarried, 
whereupon  her  share  of  a  tract  of  land  in  Philadelphia,  being  an  interest  which 
she  inherited  under  her  father's  will,  became  vested  in  her  surviving  brothers  and 
sisters,  as  recited  in  certain  deeds  dated  April  21  and  26,  1709.  (Philadelphia 
Deed  Book  E  5,  pages  346  and  349,  mentioned  in  the  Brief  of  Title  to  the  Old 
Navy  Yard.) 

Among  William  Warner's  neighbors  was  Michael  Laican,  who  had  a  daughter 
Christina,  born  February  17,  1684.  (O.  S.,)  whom  he  called  Christian  in  his  will 
dated  August  17,  1703,  proved  September  24,  1707.  Another  daughter  was 
Yearteo  (Gertrude)  Cock,  born  December  16,  1675.  The  inventory  of  Laican's 
personal  property  was  made  by  Peeter  Cock  and  William  Warner,  November  17, 
1704,  and  there  may  have  been  some  connection  among  these  families.     Michael 

Laican  was  born  in  Sweden  in  1644,  and  married  in  1670,  Helena  ,  who 

was  born  in  1650.  He  was  a  son  of  Nils  Laican,  of  Sweden,  who  possibly  emi- 
grated to  New  Sweden  with  his  sons  in  1654  or  1656.  The  names  Nicholas 
Laycon,  Widdow  Laycon  and  Mickall-Laycon  are  in  the  list  of  persons  who  owed 
debts  to  William  Warner  at  the  time  of  his  decease.  The  name  Laican  or  Laycon 
would  have  been  Nilsson  had  the  Swedish  custom  been  followed  of  making  the 
Christian  name  of  the  father  the  surname  of  his  children. 

Christina  Laican  was  unmarried  when  her  father  made  his  will  in  1703,  and 
it  is  highly  improbable  that  she  subsequently  became  the  wife  of  William  Warner. 
She  certainly  was  not  the  mother  of  his  eldest  children,  but  in  the  event  of  her 
having  been  a  second  wife  who  survived  him,  she  was  young  enough  to  have  been 
the  Christian  Warner  who  married  John  Smith  at  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia, 
December  20,  1731.  The  most  likely  explanation  of  the  Christ  Church  record, 
however,  is  that  the  name  Warner  should  have  been  Warmer,  as  a  family  which 
bore  that  name  was  connected  with  that  congregation,  and  Christian  was  a  bap- 
tismal name  among  them. 

In  view  of  the  above  facts,  and  as  the  name  Swen  was  a  Christian  name  among 
William  Warner's  descendants  for  several  generations,  and  as  Elizabeth  Shutc 
(Schute)  was  among  the  relatives  and  subscribing  witnesses  at  the  marriage  of 
one  of  his  family,  it  may  be  assumed  in  absence  of  further  evidence,  that  William 
Warner's  wife  Christian  or  Christina  was  a  daughter  of  Swen  Schute,  and  that 
by  their  union  the  blood  of  the  first  Swedish  and  English  proprietors  of  the  site 
of  the  city  of  Philadelphia  became  the  common  heritage  of  their  descendants. 


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Issue  of  William  and  Christian  {Schute?)   Warner: 

Swen  Warner,  b.  1688,  removed  to  Phila.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  at  the  age  of  73  years,  the  records  of  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street) 
giving  date  of  his  burial  at  Friends'  Burying  Ground,  Phila.,  i2mo.  (Dec.)  8,  1761  ;  m. 
before  1714  first  cousin  Esther,  dau.  of  his  father's  brother,  John  Warner,  of  Blockley 
township,  Phila  county,  who  m.  Anne  Campden.  Esther  Warner  was  b.  6mo.  (Aug.) 
18,  1686,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  Haverford  (now  Radnor)  Monthly  Meeting,  d. 
April  9,  1740,  according  to  family  records  kept  by  son-in-law  Philip  Syng,  in  his  Bible, 
buried  7mo.  (Sept.)  10,  1740,  according  to  records  of  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race 
street).  Swen  Warner  m.  (second),  by  license  dated  Feb.,  1747,  Sarah  Hastings,  who 
survived  him. 

By  deed  dated  Dec.  3,  1723,  Swen  Warner,  of  Phila.,  and  John  Bayley,  of  same  city, 
and  Hannah,  his  wife,  Swen  being  "eldest  son,"  and  Hannah,  a  daughter  of  William 
Warner,  deceased,  conveyed  to  Isaac  Warner,  of  Gloucester  county,  N.  J.,  land  sur- 
veyed to  William  Warner;  and  by  deed  dated  the  following  day,  Isaac  Warner  and 
Mary,  his  wife,  conveyed  the  same  property  to  John  Bayley. 

Swen  Warner  and  his  wife  Esther,  by  deed  dated  May  12,  1733,  conveyed  to  John 
Wood,  of  Gloucester  county,  N.  J.,  for  a  consideration  of  £100,  100  acres  (more  or 
less),  late  the  estate  and  hereditaments  of  William  Warner,  deceased,  father  of  Swen 
Warner. 

In  his  will,  written  by  himself,  dated  July  2,  1759,  proved  Dec.  11,  1761,  Swen 
Warner  left  property  to  his  wife  Sarah  and  children  Joseph  Warner  and  Elizabeth 
Syng.  The  executors  were  his  son  Joseph  Warner,  his  son-in-law  Philip  Svng,  Joseph 
Stretch  and  Joseph  Norris.  The  witnesses  were  James  Graisburry  (or  Graysbury), 
William  Craig  and  William  Colladay. 

The  children  of  Swen  and  Esther  ( Warner)  Warner  tvere : 
Isaiah  Warner,  d.  7mo.  (Sept.)  15,  1716; 
Elizabeth  Warner,  b.  Jan.  29,  1714-1.S,  m.  Philip  Syng,  Jr.,  the  famous  silversmith, 

and  had  eighteen  children  (see  forward) ; 
Joseph  Warner,  by  license  dated  Dec,  1747,  m.  Jan.  2,  1747-8,  at  Christ  Church, 
Phila.,  Anne,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Graysbury,  granddaughter  of  James 
Graysbury,  ship-carpenter,  who  came  to  Phila.  from  Bermuda  in  1682,  and  set- 
tled on  south  side  of  main  branch  of  Newton  Creek,  in  Gloucester  county,  N.  J., 
with  his  brothers  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  the  following  year.  Joseph  Warner  was 
buried  lomo.  (Oct.)  20,  1780,  in  Friends'  Ground  (Race  street).  His  will, 
signed  June  27,  1780,  proved  Oct.  31,  the  same  year,  mentions  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren. The  executors  were  his  wife  Ann  Warner,  Joseph  Graisbury  (or  Grays- 
bury) and  Benjamin  Paschall;  the  witnesses  were  Benjamin  Conay  and  Jacob 
Mayer.     Joseph  and  Ann    (Graysbury)    Warner  had  five  children,  as   follows: 

Joseph,  m.  Charity  ,  and  had  issue,  William,  Hester  and  Joseph;  Ann,  m. 

Christian  Wiltberger,  survived  her  husband,  and  d.  1805;  Mary,  m.  Joseph  Pole; 
Elizabeth:  and  Swen. 

Swen  Warner,  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Graysbury)  Warner,  b.  Dec.  3,  1760, 
d.  Jan.  30,  1799.  His  body  was  interred  with  military  honors  in  Christ  Church 
Ground,  near  the  graves  of  his  relatives,  the  Syngs  and  Graysburys  (section  N, 
No.  Ixi). 

In  the  inscription  on  his  tomb  he  is  referred  to  as  Major  Siven  Warner,  and 
there  are  the  following  lines : 

Let  undisturb'd  his  ashes  lay 

Until  the  joyful  sound 
Shall  him  awake  upon  the  day 

When   blessed   souls   are   crowned. 
In  strains  of  perfect  harmony 

The  Savior's  praises  .sing. 
Then,  Grave,  where  is  thy  victory! 

Oh  Death,  where  is  thy  sting! 

Major  Swen  Warner  m.   (first)   Eley  Edwards,  June  6,  1785,  (second)   Mary 

Hawkins,  Jan.  17,  1799.    He  had  two  sons,  Joseph  and  Mark,  who  survived  him, 

and  a  son  Alexander  and  dau.  Ann  previously  buried  in  Christ  Church  Yard. 

Swen  Warner  buried  there  July  28,  1831,  was  doubtless  a  descendant. 

Isaac  Warner  removed  to  Phila.,  m.  gmo.   (Nov.)   25,  1714,  at  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting 

(Race  street),  Mary  Salway,  sister  of  Hannah  Salway,  who  m.  before  1719,  Thomas 

Skelton.    Among  subscribing  witnesses  at  Isaac  Warner's  marriage  were  Swan  War- 


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ner,  John  Warner,  John  Warner,  Jr.,  Isaac  Warner,  John  Warner,  William  Warner, 
Hannah  Warner  and  James  Kite,  including,  as  will  be  seen,  several  of  the  Phila. 
cousins. 

William  Salway,  father  of  Mary  (Warner)  and  Hannah  (Skelton),  had  a  removal 
certificate  to  Phila.,  from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at  Taunton,  county  Somerset.  England, 
6mo.  (Aug.)  13,  1683,  and  one  from  Abington  Monthly  Meeting,  dated  6mo.  (Aug.)  22, 
1688,  to  marry  Sarah,  dau.  of  Christopher  and  Mary  (Collet)  Pennock.  Among  the 
"Old  Rights"  papers  in  the  Land  Office  were  five  warrants  to  William  "Salloway," 
the  earliest  dated  iimo.  (Jan.)  7,  1681-2.  He  also  had  land  in  West  Jersey,  as  Revel's 
Book  of  Surveys  (page  61)  contains  a  record  of  200  acres  for  Godfrey  Hancock,  sold 
to  William  "Sallaway"  imo.  (March),  1684.  At  a  meeting  of  Provincial  Council  of 
Pa.,  held  at  Phila.,  April  27,  1693,  William  Salway  took  his  place  at  the  board  by  order 
of  Benjamin  Fletcher,  Capt.  Gen.  and  Governor.  On  May  5,  1693,  William  Salway 
gave  his  promise  to  execute  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  "throughout  the  whole 
province  and  Countrey."  It  was  while  he  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council  that 
William  Salway  was  appointed  Commissioner  to  represent  Pennsylvania  and  to  meet 
the  commissioners  of  the  neighboring  colonies  at  New  York,  to  concert  and  agree  upon 
a  quota  of  men  and  money  or  other  assistance  to  be  given  by  each  colony  or  province 
for  the  defense  of  the  frontier  of  New  York  against  the  French  and  Indians.  The 
date  of  his  election  to  this  important  mission  was  Oct.  I,  1693.  He  continued  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  until  his  death,  1695. 

Elizabeth  Warner,  daughter  of  Swen  and  Esther  (Warner)  Warner,  born 
January  29,  1714,  died  October  3,  1786;  married,  February  5,  1730,  Philip  Syng 
Jr.,  silversmith,  of  Philadelphia,  who  was  born  (probably  in  Ireland,)  September 

29,  1703.  At  the  age  of  eleven  years  he  accompanied  his  father  Philip  Syng  Sr., 
to  a  goldsmith,  to  Philadelphia,  arriving  in  that  city  September  29,  1714.  Philip 
Syng  Jr.,  was  a  Warden  of  Philadelphia,  1753;  Trea.surer  of  the  City,  1759-69; 
a  founder  of  Philadelphia  Library  Company ;  an  original  member  of  American 
Philosophical  Society,  inventing  an  electrical  machine  and  experimenting  along 
with  Dr.  Franklin,  who  acknowledges  his  valuable  suggestions  and  discoveries. 
Mr.  Syng  was  the  promoter  of  the  "Association  Battery,"  organized  for  the 
defence  of  the  city  1748.  He  was  Provincial  Commissioner  of  Appeals  for  Phil- 
adelphia, under  Gov.  John  Penn,  1765;  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church, 
1747-9;  and  a  trustee  of  the  College  and  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  from  its 
organization  1755,  and  a  member  of  Franklin's  "Junto."  He  was  an  original 
member  of  the  "Colony  in  Schuylkill,"  the  ancient  fishing  company  organized  May 
I,  1732,  now  "The  Schuylkill  Fishing  Company  of  the  State  in  Schuylkill,"  the 
name  it  adopted  after  the  signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  He  took 
an  active  interest  in  the  institutions  of  the  city;  was  a  Director  of  the  Hand  in 
Hand  Insurance  Company,  1752,  and  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Non-importation 
Resolutions,  1765.  He  died  May  8,  1789,  and  is  buried  at  Christ  Church.  He 
was  a  Contributor  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and  was  Grand  Junior  Warden 
of  first  Masonic  Lodge  organized  in  America.  He  made  the  silver  inkstand  used 
at  signing  of  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Esther  Svng,  daughter  of  Philip  Syng  Jr.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Warner,  born 
July  28,  1736,  died  September  21,  1813;  married  (first)  at  Christ  Church,  April 

30,  1762,  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  Bunting  who  came  to  Philadelphia  from 
England  in  1722,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Fearne ;  he  was  born  in  Philadelphia  1743. 
died  in  North  Carolina  August  20,  1767,  and  was  buried  at  New  Berger  Creek, 
Pasquotank  county,  North  Carolina.  Esther  (Syng)  Bunting  married  (second) 
Tobias  Rudulph. 

William  Warner,  probably  living  in  Gloucester  county,  N.  J.,  as  late  as  May  27,  1729. 
when  his  name  appeared  in  an  account  of  estate  of  Henry  Tredway,  whose  will  was 
proved  March  6,  1726-7.     It  seems  probable  that  he  was  father  of  Swan  Warner,  de- 


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ceased,  lomo.  (Dec.)  28,  1758,  son  of  William,  according  to  the  records  of  Phila. 
Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street).  It  is  possible  that  he  was  the  William  Warner  who 
m.  9mo.  (Nov.)  25,  1731,  at  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race  street),  Mary,  dau.  of  John 
Welton,  of  Southampton  township,  Bucks  county.  Pa.,  witnesses  John  Welton,  Chris- 
tian Warner,  Elizabeth  Shute  (doubtless  Schute),  William  Robinson  and  27  others. 
William  and  Alary  (Welton)  Warner  were  not,  however,  the  parents  of  Swan  Warner; 

Hannah  Warner,  m.  before  Dec.  3,  1723,  John  Bayley,  of  Phila.; 

Jacob  Warner,  possibly  the  Jacob  Warner  whose  marriage  to  Charity  Purdy  took  place 
at  Christ  Church,  Phila.,  Sept.  10,  1730,  by  banns. 

Philip  Syng  Bunting,  son  of  Samuel  and  Esther  (Syng)  Bunting,  born  in 
1763.  died  September  5,  1822.     He  married,  1788,  Elizabeth  Tomkins. 

Joshua  Bunting,  son  of  Philip  Syng  and  Elizabeth  (Tomkins)  Bunting,  born 
December  15,  1797,  died  March  31,  1850.  He  married,  June  6,  1831,  Henrietta 
Barron  Wade. 

Joshua  Bunting,  son  of  Joshua  and  Henrietta  Barron  (Wade)  Bunting,  born 
December  i,  1837,  died  December  19,  1882;  married  Anne  Elizabeth  Bunting 
Jones,  and  they  had  issue : — 

Mabel  Syng  Bunting,  b.  at  Claymont,  Del.,  Jan.  5,  1869; 
Joshua  Bunting,  b.  at  Claymont,  Del.,  Nov.  26,  1871; 

Henrietta  Bunting,  b.  at  Claymont,  Del.,  Nov.  20,  1873;  m.  June  14,  1900,  Porter  Far- 
quharson  Cope,  b.  June  14,  1869,  in  Phila.  (see  Cope  Family)  ;  they  have  issue: 

Millicent  Syng  Bunting  Cope,  b.  April  25,  1901 ; 

Loretta  Porter  Cope,  b.  Feb.  17,  1905. 
Lawrence  Bunting,  b.  at  Claymont,  Del.,  May  24,  1880,  d.  there  Jan.  18,  1882. 

Mary  Warner,  daughter  of  William  Warner,  was  born  in  England,  and  came 
to  America  probably  in  1675  with  her  father  and  other  relatives.  She  married 
before  1680,  James  Kite  (Keyt,  Keyte  or  Keite).  He  also  probably  came  from 
Worcestershire,  or  from  the  adjoining  county  of  Gloucester,  as  the  name  seems 
indigenous  there.  In  the  baptismal  records  of  Blockley  Parish  Church,  under 
date  of  April  26,  1645,  appears  the  name  of  Zacharius,  son  of  Zachary  Kite  and 
Mary  Warner;  and  in  the  register  of  the  nearby  Parish  Church,  of  Bretfort,  is 
recorded  the  marriage  of  Thomas  Kitchen  and  Sarah  Keyt,  of  Blockley,  in  1678. 
William  Keyt,  Esq.,  of  Ebrington,  in  Gloucestershire,  buried  October  12,  1632, 
"was  High  Sheriff  of  the  county  of  Worcester,  and  rich  in  good  works,  as  well  as 
in  worldly  estate,  being  not  only  charitable  to  the  poor  in  his  lifetime  but  also  at 
his  death ;  he  ordered  the  milk  of  ten  cows  to  be  given  every  year,  May  lo-Novem- 
ber  I,  unto  the  poor  of  Ebrington,  for  ever."  He  belonged  to  "an  ancient  and 
worshipful  family,"  the  members  of  which  bore  as  their  arms  "Azure,  a  cheveron, 
between  three  Kites'  Heads,  eras'd.  Or."  The  statement  in  an  old  pedigree  (pub- 
lished in  The  Literary  Era,  volume  iv.,  page  212)  to  the  effect  that  Mary  Warner's 
husband  was  a  son  of  Sir  George  Kite,  Baronet,  Admiral  under  Oliver  Cromwell 
and  Charles  H.,  is  probably  not  correct. 

James  Kite  had  a  sister  Grissel  (Griselda)  in  Philadelphia,  who  married  John 
Simonds.  The  latter's  will,  dated  October  2,  1699,  proved  March  i,  1699-1700, 
mentions  his  wife  Grizegon,  and  makes  bequests,  among  others,  to  kinsman  John 
and  kinswoman  Grize,  children  of  his  "brother  James  Kite  living  on  west  side  of 
Schuylkill,"  who  was  also  made  sole  executor. 

Mary  (Warner)  Kite  was  buried  imo.  (March)  3,  1686-7,  at  "Skoolkill  Buring 
Place  west  side,"  and  it  is  probable  that  there  was  an  element  of  tragedy  in  con- 


242  WARNER 

nection  with  the  causes  that  led  to  her  death,  as  at  the  Friends'  Quarterly  Meeting 
held  at  Philadelphia  imo.  (March)  7,  1686-7,  it  was  "reported  to  this  meeting 
concerning  the  necessity  of  James  Kite,  he  having  received  of  late  great  damage 
by  fire,"  and  at  a  Monthly  Meeting  held  3mo.  (May)  27,  1687,  "Thomas  Duckett 
&  Henry  Lewis  having  made  Enquiry  into  James  Kite's  necessity,  make  Report 
to  this  meeting  that  his  condition  is  very  low,  and  his  loss  according  to  their  infor- 
mation about  £60."  The  records  of  this  and  several  later  meetings  show  that 
Friends  throughout  the  county,  and  elsewhere,  subscribed  freely  to  Kite's  relief; 
and  his  receipts  for  the  sums  paid  him  were  reported  to  the  Quarterly  Meeting 
held  at  Philadelphia  imo.  (March)  5,  1687-8.  He  gradually  retrieved  his  for- 
tunes, and  in  the  tax  list  dated  September  26,  1693,  his  property  beyond  Schuyl- 
kill was  valued  at  £40,  on  which  he  was  assessed  to  pay  3  shillings,  4  pence. 

Mary  (Warner)  Kite  having  died  before  the  date  of  her  father's  will,  was 
not  mentioned  in  it ;  but  the  will  contained  bequests  to  her  husband  and  two  sons. 
After  her  death  James  Kite  married  (second)  3mo.  (May)  13,  1698.  Martha, 
widow  of  Daniel  Medlicott,  of  Merion,  Philadelphia  county.  At  the  head  of  the 
names  of  relatives,  on  their  marriage  certificate,  is  the  name  John  "Simandes" 
(Simonds).  Daniel  Medlicott's  certificate  of  removal  dated  2mo.  (April)  16, 
1683,  from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at  Salop,  England,  was  received  at  Philadelphia 
Monthly  Meeting  gmo.  (November)  4,  1684.  James  Kite  was  buried  gmo.  (No- 
vember) 6,  1713,  according  to  the  records  of  Race  Street  Monthly  Meeting.  Mar- 
tha, his  widow,  married  (third)  8mo.  (October)  13,  1715,  Jonathan  Cockshall 
(or  Cogshall). 

The  Kite  family  which  descended  from  Mary  Warner  has  long  been  prominent 
in  West  Philadelphia,  and  its  members  have  intermarried  with  many  other  noted 
families  of  Blockley  Township  and  vicinity,  among  them  the  Sellers  family  of 
"Sellers'  Hall"  in  Upper  Darby. 

Issue  of  James  and  Mary  (Warner)Kite: — 

James  Kite,  Jr.,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.)  12,  1682;  lived  in  Phila;  inherited  the  100  acres  on  the 
south  side  of  Blockley  plantation  which  William  Warner  had  devised  to  James  Kite, 
Sr.,  and  conveyed  same,  Jan.  18,  1717  (o.  s.),  to  his  cousin  Isaac  Warner,  son  of  William 
Warner;  d.  unm.,  buried  in  Friends'  Grave  Yard  at  Merion,  smo.  (July)  31,  1745: 

Abraham  Kite,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.)  19,  1685,  d.  Oct.,  1748;  m.  /mo.  (Sept.)  9,  1708,  Mary, 
dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Peters,  of  the  celebrated  family  of  that  name,  whose 
estate  of  Belmont  lay  about  a  mile  above  Blockley,  on  the  Schuylkill.  Abraham  Kite 
was  buried  in  Friends'  Grave  Yard  at  Merion,  gmo.  (Nov.)  9,  1748.  Mary,  his  widow, 
was  buried  at  same  place  i2mo.   (Feb.)   12,  1750-51; 

Grizzel  Kite,  by  Friends'  authorization  dated  i2mo.  (Feb.)  26,  1706  (o.  s.),  in.  Samuel 
Lewis; 

John  Kite,  d.  young,  May  25,  1701. 

Robert  Warner,  son  of  William  Warner,  was  born  in  England,  probably 
before  1668,  and  if  he  came  to  America  with  his  father  and  other  relatives  in  1675, 
it  seems  likely  that  he  returned  to  his  native  land,  as  by  his  father's  will,  dated 
September  8,  1703,  he  was  bequeathed  two  houses  in  Draycott,  Robert  Warner 
paying  "unto  my  brother,  Isaac  Warner,  five  Pounds  Sterling  money  of  England, 
or  to  his  assigns." 

The  records  of  Blockley  Parish  Church  contain  the  names  of  a  number  of  chil- 
dren of  "Robert  and  Sarah  Warner,"  as  follows : 

Robert  Warner,  bap.  Jan.  12,  1690;  probably  d.  inf.,  as  another  Robert  was  bap.  later; 
Anne  Warner,  bap.   Oct.   10,   1692;   doubtless  the   ".'\nn   Warner  of   Draycott"   who   m. 


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William  Minchin,  in  1714,  according  to  register  of  Bleckley  Parish  Church,  and  whose 
remains  lie  buried  in  Blockley  Church  Yard,  her  grave  having  borne  the  following 
inscription  :  "Anne  Minchin,  relict  of  William  Minchin,  died  February  23,  1773,  at  the 
age  of  80  years;" 

Maria  Warner,  bap.  Aug.  4,  1695; 

Ellenor  Warner,  bap.  May  23,  1697; 

Robert  Warner,  bap.  April  8,  1700;  probably  d.  inf.,  like  the  first  Robert,  as  another 
Robert  was  bap.  later; 

Isaac  Warner,  bap.  June  22,  1701  ;  believed  to  have  been  the  Isaac  Warner  who  came  to 
America  probably  about  1725,  d.  in  Phila.  soon  after  his  arrival.  By  his  will,  dated 
Jan.  17,  1725-6,  and  proved  at  Phila.  March  8,  following,  he  devised  all  his  lands  in 
Parish  of  Blockley,  England,  to  his  sister  Anne  Minchin,  of  Blockley,  and  also  the 
accumulated  rents  of  houses  in  Draycott,  the  title  to  which  he  devised  to  his  sister 
Mary  Warner,  of  Blockley.  To  his  "Cousin  Mary  Warner"  residing  with  him  in 
Phila.,  he  devised  all  his  personal  estate  in  Phila.,  and  also  that  that  had  been  sent  to 
sea,  and  he  made  her  the  executrix  of  his  will. 

As  there  is  no  mention  of  a  wife  or  children  in  Isaac  Warner's  will,  and  as  he  was 
doubtless  about  twenty-five  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  it  is  evident  that  he 
was  unmarried.  His  "Cousin  Mary  Warner,"  residing  with  him,  may  have  been  his 
first  cousin  Mary,  dau.  of  John  and  Anne  (Campden)  Warner,  who  was  forty-two 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  or  less  probably  was  his  first  cousin  once  removed, 
Mary,  dau.  of  his  great-uncle  Edward  Warner,  brother  of  WiUiam  Warner,  or  some 
other  more  remote  relative; 

Robert  Warner,  bap.  Sept.  24,  1703;  apparently  third  son  of  that  name. 

The  recurrence  of  the  name  Robert  in  the  above  list  was  probably  due  to  the 
decease  in  infancy  of  the  first  and  second  sons,  but  it  is  possible  that  another  Rob- 
ert Warner,  of  Draycott,  who  was  the  son  of  Edward  and  Mary,  may  also  have 
had  a  wife  Sarah,  and  have  been  the  father  of  some  of  the  children  mentioned 
above. 

Isaac  Warner,  son  of  William  Warner,  was  possibly  the  youngest  son,  though 
his  father  made  him  heir  to  his  principal  landed  estate.  He  was  born  in  England, 
doubtless  before  1670,  and  came  to  America  probably  in  1675  with  his  father  and 
other  relatives.  By  his  father's  will  he  inherited  on  the  death  of  his  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Anne  Dide  (or  Dyde),  the  whole  of  the  plantation  called 
"Blockley,"  consisting  of  300  acres  on  the  west  side  of  the  Schuylkill  River  (in 
two  pieces,  288  acres  in  one,  and  12  acres  and  40  perches  in  another)  ;  also  fifty 
acres  of  the  "backward  land"  and  half  of  all  the  "backward  meadow"  (about  35 
acres)  ;  these  last,  however,  were  only  to  be  held  by  him  for  life,  and  were  to 
descend  to  his  eldest  son.  Isaac  Warner  added  to  these  tracts  by  purchase  50 
acres  on  the  Schuylkill,  being  44  acres  of  mainland  and  6  acres  on  an  island  which 
he  bought  of  his  brother  John  Warner,  which  was  originally  part  of  William 
Orian's  share  in  the  Indian  purchase  previously  mentioned;  16  acres  on  the  west  side 
of  the  Schuylkill  River  in  the  Liberties  of  Philadelphia,  adjoining  Isaac  Warner's 
other  lands,  bought  of  John  Powell  (no  doubt  part  of  the  "Powelton"  estate)  ;  9 
acres  in  Kingsessing  township,  Philadelphia  county  (but  formerly  called  6  acres 
and  60  perches),  adjoining  Widow  Rambo's  and  Capt.  Roach's  lands,  bought  of 
John  Powel  October  15,  1700;  100  acres  adjoining  Blockley,  bought  January  18, 
1717,  from  his  cousin  James  Kite,  Jr.,  inherited  by  the  latter  from  Isaac's  father 
William  Warner,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  James  Kite,  Jr. ;  and  67  acres 
bought  of  Philip  Howell,  near  to  or  adjoining  the  Blockley  plantation. 

Isaac  Warner  died  2mo.  (April)  10,  1727.  By  his  will  dated  April  6,  1727, 
proved  May  6,  1727,  he  left  his  wife  Anne  Warner  the  plantation  of  100  acres 
bought  of  James  Kite,  Jr.,  with  the  dwelling  house  on  it,  etc.,  during  her  life  if 
she  should  so  long  remain  a  widow,  and  after  her  death  or  marriage  to  his  son 


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John  Warner;  the  67  acres  bought  of  Philip  Howell  he  also  devised  to  his  wife, 
and  after  her  death  or  marriage,  to  his  son  Isaac  Warner:  to  his  son  William 
Warner  he  devised  the  50-acre  tract  bought  of  Daniel  Pegg  (really  of  John  War- 
ner) and  16  acres  bought  of  John  Powell  and  9  acres  in  Kingsessing  township, 
adjoining  the  estates  of  Widow  Rambo  and  Capt.  Roach;  to  his  sons  John  Warner 
and  Isaac  Warner,  he  devised  the  meadow  lying  against  "Persion,"  containing 
about  30  acres,  to  be  divided  between  them  equally;  to  his  wife  Anne  Warner  he 
bequeathed  a  negro  woman  Sarah ;  to  his  son  William  Warner,  a  negro  boy  Cuffe 
and  a  negro  man  Fortune,  William  paying  yearly  to  his  mother  Anne  Warner 
three  pounds  during  her  life  or  widowhood ;  to  his  son  John  Warner,  a  negro  boy 
Sambo ;  to  his  son  Isaac  Warner,  a  negro  boy  Primus ;  to  his  daughter  Esther 
Humphreys,  a  negro  girl  Hagar ;  to  his  daughter  Hannah  Warner,  a  negro  girl 
Zilpha  ;  and  cattle,  money,  etc.,  he  bequeathed  to  his  wife,  son  William,  and  daugh- 
ters Esther,  Hannah  and  Anne,  with  the  residue  to  his  wife  for  life  or  widowhood, 
and  then  to  his  four  daughters,  Mary,  Esther,  Hannah  and  Anne.  The  executors 
were  his  wife  Anne  and  son  William  Warner. 

Isaac  Warner  and  Anne  Craven  were  authorized  to  marry,  by  Philadelphia 
Monthly  Meeting,  lomo.  (December)  30,  1692.  She  was  probably  a  daughter  of 
James  Craven,  a  native  of  Limerick,  Ireland,  who,  it  is  supposed,  was  granted  1,000 
acres  of  land  by  William  Penn.  May  3-4,  1682,  and  whose  name  appears  in  several 
warrants  and  returns  of  survey  of  later  date.  James  Craven,  with  others,  had  a 
patent  dated  i2mo.  (February)  24,  1700  (o.  s.),  for  100  acres  of  Liberty  Lands, 
in  West  Philadelphia,  on  Alill  Creek,  adjoining  Benjamin  Chambers  and  John 
Penington's  lands,  and  lying  some  distance  back  of  Blockley  plantation,  though  in 
Blockley  township,  near  Haverford  Road,  in  what  was  afterwards  called  the 
Valley  of  West  Philadelphia. 

The  will  of  Anne  Warner,  of  Blockley  township,  widow  of  Isaac,  who  survived 
her  husband  about  twenty-seven  years,  was  dated  iimo.  (January)  23,  1746-7, 
and  proved  October  17,  1754.  By  it  she  devised  to  her  son  William  Warner  three 
pounds  out  of  the  annual  sum  he  was  to  pay  her  for  the  negro  man  named  Tom 
Fortune,  under  his  father's  will ;  to  her  son  John  Warner,  rents  due  her  from  him 
for  her  plantation  at  Schuylkill,  3mo.  (May),  1745;  to  her  son  Isaac  Warner, 
twenty  shillings  and  the  stone  house  she  had  built  at  a  great  charge  of  trouble,  on 
the  land  that  was  to  go  to  him  at  her  death,  by  her  husband's  will ;  to  her  daugh- 
ter Anne  Wynne,  a  feather  bed,  etc. ;  and  the  residue  of  her  estate  she  divided 
among  her  four  daughters  Mary,  Esther,  Hannah  and  Anne.  Her  son-in-law 
Richard  George,  of  Merion,  in  the  county  of  Philadelphia,  was  named  as  the  sole 
(xecutor.  The  witnesses  were  Hugh  Evans  and  Edward  William. 
Issue  of  Isaac  and  Anne  (Craven)  Warner: — 

William  Warner,  eldest  son;  m.  Anne  ;  of  whom  presently; 

John  Warner,  inherited  plantation  which  his  father  bought  of  James  Kite.  Jr..  containing 
loi  acres  and  140  perches  according  to  a  mortgage  John  Warner  executed  to  Rebecca 
Edgell,  of  Phila.,  widow,  Sept.  18,  1747;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Hart,  of 
Phila..  and  had  a  number  of  children,  si.x  of  whom  survived  their  mother  according  to 
a  deed  of  her  son  James  Warner  to  Samuel  Burge,  dated  March  12,  1755.  The  known 
children   of  John   and   Mary    (Hart)    Warner  were:     Simeon   Warner,   eldest  son,  b. 

about  17.32,  d.  Nov.  9,  1772,  m.  Jane  ;  Mercy  Warner,  m.  2mo.  (April)  24.  1741, 

George  Gray,  who  was  admitted  to  Colony  in  Schuylkill,  May  i,  1754;  Elizabeth  War- 
ner, m.  2mo.  (April)  18.  1745.  John  Elliott,  of  Darby.  Chester  county,  son  of  Thomas 
Elliott,  of  St.  George,  New  Castle  county;  James  Warner,  m.  April  14.  1757.  at  Old 


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Swedes'  Church,  Sybilla  Battle;  John  Warner,  m.  Jan.  27,  1758,  Edith,  dau.  of  William 
and  Mary  Jackson,  and  d.  early  in  1763,  after  which  his  widow  m.  (second)  William 
Shute;  Thomas  Warner,  living  March  29,  1760,  when  he  witnessed  a  codicil  to  the  will 
of  George  Gray,  who  m.  his  sister  Mercy  Warner;  and  Benjamin  Warner,  probably 
d.  before  1755; 

Isaac  Warner,  m.  (first)   lomo.   (Dec.)   2,  1731,  EHzabeth,  dau.  of  Abraham  Lewis,  of 

Darby,  Chester  county,  and  after  her  death  m.    (second)   Jane  ,  who  survived 

him.  Buried  Nov.  13,  1757,  in  Friends'  Meeting  Ground  at  Haverford.  His  will,  dated 
Nov.  13,  1757,  proved  Dec.  3,  1757,  mentions  eight  children,  viz.:  Hannah  Warner, 
William  Warner,  Mary  Warner,  Abraham  Warner,  Isaac  Warner,  Jacob  Warner,  An- 
thony Warner  and  Ann  Warner. 

Anthony  Warner,  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Lewis)  Warner,  m.  Rachel  Evans, 
and  had  a  number  of  children,  three  of  whom  are  still  living  (1908),  viz.:  Gardiner 
Latch  Warner,  resident  of  Haverford  more  than  seventy-two  years ;  C.  Anderson 
Warner,  Ardmore,  Pa.;  and  Mrs.  Charles  Arthur,  Rosemont,  Pa.; 

Mary  Warner,  m.  (first)  by  Friends'  authorization  dated  lomo.  (Dec.)  28,  1723,  Thomas 
Wynne,  who  was  devised  a  plantation  in  Blockley  township  by  his  father  Jonathan 
Wynne,  son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne.  After  death  of  her  first  husband,  Mary  (Warner) 
Wynne  m.  (second)  1762,  James  Jones,  of  Blockley  township,  widower.  An  account 
of  her  descendants  is  given  in  these  volumes  under  the  title  of  "The  Wynne  Family;" 

Esther  Warner,  m.  (first)  by  Friends'  authorization  dated  12  mo.  (Feb.)  24,  1726  (o.  s.), 
Benjamin  Humphrey,  b.  iimo.  (Jan.)  7,  1701-2,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Wynne) 
Humphrey,  and  grandson  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Rees)  Humphrey  and  also  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Wynne.  After  death  of  her  first  husband,  Esther  (Warner)  Humphrey  m. 
(second)  lomo.  (Dec.)  19,  1740,  Richard  George,  of  Merion.  An  account  of  some  of 
her  descendants  is  given  in  these  volumes  under  title  of  "The  Tunis  Family;" 

Hannah  Warner,  living  April  6,  1727,  date  of  her  father's  will; 

Anne  Warner,  m.  6mo.  (Aug.)  16.  1730,  Jonathan  Wynne,  Jr.,  younger  brother  of  Thomas 
Wynne,  who  m.  her  sister  Mary  Warner,  and  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne. 
Anne  (Warner)  Wynne  d.  after  April  9,  1788,  the  date  of  her  will,  but  before  19th  of 
same  month,  when  her  husband  d.  on  same  day  her  will  was  proved. 

William  Warner,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Anne  (Craven)  Warner,  in- 
herited the  Blockley  plantation  and  other  lands  under  the  will  of  his  grand- 
father William  Warner,  as  well  as  lands  under  his  father's  will,  all  of  which 
he  and  his  wife  conveyed  to  their  son  Isaac  Warner  by  deed  of  gift  dated 
January  17,  1758.  The  "History  of  the  Schuylkill  Fishing  Company  of  the  State 
in  Schuylkill,"  (the  oldest  social  club  in  the  world,  which  was  known  as  "The 
Colony  in  Schuylkill"  until  October  11,  1782),  states  that  WilHam  Warner  was  a 
member  of  the  Colony  from  the  date  of  its  inception,  May  i,  1732,  and  says  in 
regard  to  him:  "He  granted  the  Company  the  right  to  build  the  Court  House  or 
Castle  on  his  property,  and  gave  for  the  use  of  the  members  about  an  acre  of 
ground.  For  this  favor  'the  lord  of  the  soil,'  who  was  dubbed  by  the  citizens  of 
the  Colony  in  Schuylkill,  Baron  Warner,  received  in  the  month  of  June  three  sun 
perch,  which  were  carried  to  his  house  on  the  large  Penn  Platter."  This  history 
also  says,  erroneously,  that  he  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Weiton,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1 73 1,  and  that  he  died  September  12,  1794.  But  the  William  Warner  who 
married  Mary  Weiton  was  another  William,  possibly  a  son  of  William  Warner,  of 
Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey. 

"Baron"  William  Warner's  will,  dated  April  19,  1762,  was  proved  September 
13,  1766,  doubtless  within  a  few  days  after  his  death.  By  it  he  devised  to  his  wife 
about  50  acres  in  Blockley  township  "on  which  premises  I  now  Intend  to  Build  a 
House,"  to  her  for  life  or  widowhood,  and  then  to  his  youngest  son  William  War- 
ner (the  balance  of  his  land  having  been  previously  conveyed  to  his  eldest  son 
Isaac  Warner,  by  the  deed  of  1758)  ;  he  gave  his  old  negro  man  called  Cuff  his 
freedom,  and  gave  his  other  negroes  Nann,  Primus,  Sam,  Virgil,  Cuff,  Sarah, 
Zilpha  and  Lucy,  to  his  wife  and  children;  and  left  legacies  to  his  daughters  Bar- 


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bara,  Catherine  and  Anne.  William  Warner's  wife  Anne  and  son  William  were 
named  as  executors,  and  the  will  was  witnessed  by  Rebecca  Humphreys,  Edward 
Humphreys  and  Charles  Humphreys. 

The   family  name  and  ancestry  of  Anne,  wife  of  William  Warner,  are  not 
known,  neither  has  the  date  of  her  death  been  ascertained. 
Issue  of  "Baron"  William  and  Anne  Warner: — 

Isaac  Warner,  eldest  son,  m.  Lydia  Coulton;  of  whom  presently; 

William  Warner,  Jr.,  m.  Dec.  12,  1765,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  Pearson,  of 
Darby,  and  had  a  son,  Pearson  Warner,  who  d.  May  22,  1760,  aged  8  months.  By 
deeds  dated  June  13,  1768,  and  Feb.  15,  177S,  William  Warner,  Jr.,  conveyed  to  Stephen 
Paschall  the  use  of  a  quantity  of  land  sufficient  for  a  mill  race  and  dam,  part  of  the 
land  which  he  inherited  from  his  father,  the  whole  of  which  was  by  estimation  50  acres, 
more  or  less.  In  the  first  of  these  deeds  there  is  a  reference  to  "a  Run  or  Rivulet  of 
Water  passing  through  the  said  Land;" 

Barbara  Warner,  d.  unm.,  buried  Oct.  6,  1771,  in  Friends'  Grave  Yard  at  Merion  Meet- 
ing House;  letters  of  administration  on  her  estate  were  granted  to  her  brother  Isaac 
Warner  and  sister  Anne  Warner,  Nov.  2,  1771; 

Anne  Warner,  unm.  in  1771,  when  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  sister  Barbara  Warner; 

James  Warner,  d.  gmo.  (Nov.)  29,  1723; 

Susanna  Warner,  d.  8mo.  (Oct.)  30,  1725; 

John  Warner,  probably  also  son  of  "Baron"  Warner,  though  his  name  appears  in  the 
list  of  persons,  "not  Friends,"  in  the  burial  records  of  Phila.  Monthly  Meeting  (Race 
street)  5mo.   (July)   15,  1726. 

Isaac  Warner,  eldest  son  of  William  Warner,  the  "Baron"  of  the  Fishing 
Company  of  "The  Colony  in  Schuylkill,"  acquired  the  original  Blockley  estate  and 
much  other  land  by  deed  of  gift  and  sale  from  his  father  and  mother,  January  17, 
1758.  He  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  Colony  May  i,  1748.  and  upon  the  death 
of  his  father  in  1766  he  succeeded  him  as  "lord  of  the  soil"  on  which  the  "Castle" 
was  built,  and  became  second  "Baron."  After  the  Revolution  the  Fishing  Com- 
pany was  reorganized  as  the  "new  State  in  Schuylkill"  and  the  office  of  "Baron" 
was  discontinued,  but  on  October  11,  1782,  when  the  old  code  of  laws  was  amend- 
ed so  as  to  be  adapted  to  the  altered  circumstances  of  affairs  of  government,  it 
was  resolved  that  "Isaac  Warner  be  during  his  natural  life  Chief  Warden  of  the 
Castle  and  its  dependencies,  who  shall  have  a  seat  and  vote  in  Council,  and  shall  be 
entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of  a  member  of  this  State." 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution  Isaac  Warner  was  a  member  of  Haverford 
(now  Radnor)  Monthly  Meeting,  but  he  conceived  it  his  duty  to  take  part  in 
measures  for  the  defense  of  his  native  soil  against  invasion  by  the  British  army, 
and  became  active  among  the  "associators."  This  led  to  his  being  disowned  by  the 
Society  of  Friends,  5mo.  (July)  10,  1776,  for  persisting  in  the  practice  of  bearing 
arms.  Early  in  1777  he  was  commissioned  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Seventh 
Battalion,  Philadelphia  County  Militia,  and  later  in  the  same  year  he  became  Colo- 
nel of  the  battalion,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  operations  for  the  defense  of 
Philadelphia,  in  September.  He  also  rendered  important  service  to  the  patriot 
cause  as  Deputy  Commissary  General  of  Forage  and  in  other  useful  capacities. 

Isaac  Warner  married  Lydia  Coulton,  license  for  their  marriage  having  been 
issued  August  25,  1757,  in  New  Jersey,  though  both  the  contracting  parties  were 
Pennsylvanians.  She  was  then  a  member  of  Darby  Monthly  Meeting.  Col.  War- 
ner died  1794,  and  was  buried  September  20  of  that  year.  His  will,  dated  July  9, 
1794,  was  proved  November  20  following.     In  it  he  left  bequests  of  personal 


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property  to  his  wife  Lydia  and  daughters  Tacy  Roberts  and  Lydia  Cress,  and  of 
cash  to  his  grandsons  John  Roberts,  Isaac  Roberts  and  John  Cress ;  to  his  son 
Wilham  Warner  he  gave  his  black  boy  Joe,  part  of  the  Blockley  plantation,  land 
bought  at  Sheriff's  sale  of  Thomas  Proctor,  and  part  of  his  tract  in  Kingsessing 
township ;  and  to  his  sons  Joseph  Warner  and  John  Warner  he  devised  the  re- 
mainder of  his  Blockley  estate  and  of  the  Kingsessing  tract,  also  a  lot  in  Northern 
Liberties  bought  of  Andrew  Supplee.  Lydia  (Cqulton)  Warner,  widow  of  Col. 
Isaac  Warner,  died  August  9,  1797.  Her  will,  dated  March  10,  1798,  was  proved 
January  18,  1800. 

Ten  years  previous  to  his  death,  by  deed  dated  July  20,  1784,  Col.  Warner  and 
Lydia  his  wife,  for  a  consideration  of  £1039  .10  .10,  conveyed  to  Hon.  John  Penn, 
Jr.,  Esq.,  between  15  and  16  acres,  the  southeast  part  of  the  Blockley  plantation. 
This  land  afterwards  constituted  Penn's  estate  called  "Solitude,"  now  the  Zoologi- 
cal Gardens. 

The  share  of  Col.  Warner's  real  estate  which  he  devised  to  his  sons  Joseph 
Warner  and  John  Warner,  consisting  of  about  132  acres,  was  conveyed  by  them 
to  Robert  Eglesfeld  Griffith,  by  deed  dated  April  2,  1798  (in  which  their  mother 
Lydia  Warner  joined),  and  now  forms  that  portion  of  the  West  Park  which  is 
known  as  "Eglesfeld." 

Issue  of  Col.  Isaac  and  Lydia  (Coiilton)  Warner: — 

Ann  Warner,  b.  Jan.  30,  1758,  m.  Clement  Smith,  of  Darby; 

William  Warner,  b.  Sept.  14,  1759,  m.  May  10,  1790,  at  Old  Swedes'  Church  (Gloria 
Dei),  Ann  Roberts,  b.  about  1762,  d.  Oct.,  1842.  She  was  dau.  of  William  and  Han- 
nah Roberts,  and  sister  of  Joseph  Roberts,  Esq.,  first  teller  of  Stephen  Girard's  bank, 
who  succeeded  George  Simpson  as  Girard's  cashier  after  Mr.  Simpson's  death,  Dec, 
1822,  and  was  also  one  of  the  five  executors  of  Girard's  estate  to  whom  letters  testi- 
mentary  were  granted  Dec.  31,  1831. 

William  and  Ann  (Roberts)  Warner  by  deed  dated  Oct.  13,  1795,  conveyed  to  Jacob 
Lincoln  the  land  in  Kingsessing  township  which  William  Warner  had  received  under 
will  of  his  father. 

The  historic  house  in  which  the  widow  of  William  Warner  resided  until  her  death 
stood  on  the  southwest  side  of  Lancaster  Road  (now  Lancaster  avenue),  near  its  pres- 
ent intersection  by  Forty-fifth  street.  It  was  a  spacious  mansion,  designed  according 
to  the  best  standards  of  the  Colonial  period,  and  it  is  said  that  it  was  built  1747.  A 
picture  of  the  old  house  was  drawn  by  Miss  Beck,  an  artist,  at  the  instance  of  John 
Fanning  Watson,  the  annalist,  but  it  has  not  been  found  among  his  papers.  Watson 
left  a  manuscript  account  of  an  interview  which  he  had  with  Mrs.  Ann  (Roberts) 
Warner  when  he  called  on  her  in  June,  1833.  The  building  was  sold  about  1845,  and 
in  the  course  of  time  became  a  hotel,  known  as  the  "Warner  House." 
William  Warner's  will,  dated  April  28,  1812,  was  proved  Oct.  7,  1813;  no  children; 

Tacy  Warner,  b.  Oct.  11,  1761,  d.  May  9,  1828,  m.  Jan.  18,  1781,  at  Old  Swedes'  Church 
(Gloria  Dei),  Algernon,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Jones)   Roberts;  had  ten  children; 

Rachel  Warner,  b.  March  6,  1763;  probably  d.  young; 

Isaac  Warner,  b.  March  24,  1765;  probably  d.  young; 

Joseph  Coulton  Warner,  b.  Nov.  15,  1767,  m.  Sarah  Powell;  of  whom  presently; 

John  Warner,  b.  April  2,  1770,  d.  Dec,  1816,  unm.  In  his  will,  dated  Nov.  28,  1816, 
proved  Dec.  14,  of  same  year,  he  described  himself  as  a  lumber  merchant,  and  left 
legacies  to  sister  Lydia  Cress,  nephews  John  Cress,  Peter  Cress,  William  Cress,  Isaac 
Cress,  nieces  Eliza  Cress,  Lydia  Warner,  Mary  Warner,  Rebecca  Warner,  and  the 
ten  children  of  Algernon  Roberts,  late  brother-in-law; 

Lydia  Warner,  b.  Jan.  2,  1772,  m.  (first)  John  Cress,  had  a  number  of  children;  m. 
(second)  Lloyd  Jones. 

Joseph  Cxiulton  Warner,  son  of  Col.  Isaac  Warner,  of  Blockley,  by  his  wife 
Lydia  Coulton,  resided  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Race 
Street  (Orthodox)  Meeting  of  Friends.     He  married  out  of  meeting,  however, 


248  WARNER 

at  the  First  Baptist  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  William  Rogers,  Pastor,  on  April  i6, 
1795,  Sarah,  daughter  of  William  Powell,  a  private  in  Capt.  Peter  Z.  Lloyd's 
company.  Col.  Atlee's  Battalion,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Long  Island, 
August  27,  1776.  William  Powell  enlisted  March  5,  1776.  He  had  married,  by 
license,  at  his  house  in  Arch  street,  January  3,  1765,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jenkyn 
Thomas,  who,  like  himself,  was  of  Welsh  descent.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Morgan  Edwards,  then  pastor  of  First  Baptist  Church  of  Philadelphia.  Mary 
(Thomas)  Powell  died  at  her  residence  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Eighth  and 
Arch  streets,  Philadelphia,  December  23,  1817,  aged  seventy-five  years,  and  was 
buried  on  Christmas  day.  Sarah  (Powell)  Warner,  their  youngest  child,  was 
born  October  9,  1771.  She  died  at  the  residence  of  her  daughter  Mrs.  John  P. 
Harrison,  on  Race  street  above  Fourth  street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  November  24, 
1845,  having  survived  her  husband  more  than  forty-two  years,  Joseph  Coulton 
Warner  having  died  in  Philadelphia,  January  20,  1803.  He  did  not  leave  a  will, 
and  letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  were  granted  to  his  widow  Sarah  \\'ar- 
ner  and  Algernon  Roberts,  February  10,  1803. 

By  a  deed  dated  April  2,  1798,  Joseph  Coulton  Warner  and  Sarah  his  wife, 
John  Warner,  and  Lydia  Warner,  widow,  the  mother  of  Joseph  Coulton  Warner 
and  John  Warner,  conveyed  to  Robert  Egglesfield  Griffith,  in  consideration  of 
£4,762  10.  00,  the  132  acres  of  land  which  Isaac  Warner,  the  father  of  Joseph 
Coulton  Warner  and  John  Warner,  had  devised  to  them.  This  was  the  property 
on  which  the  "Castle"  of  the  State  in  Schuylkill  was  located. 
Issue  of  Joseph  Coulton  and  Sarah  (Powell)  Warner: — 

Lydia  Coulton  Warner,  b.  Feb.  16,  1796,  m.  Nov.  17,  1829,  Isaac  Stewart; 
Mary  Thomas  Warner,  b.  Sept.  26,  1798,  m.  Dr.  John  P.  Harrison,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio; 
REBECCA  AsHTON  Warner,  b.   Sept.   14,   1800,  m.  June  26,   1823,   Henry  Erwin,  d.   .^ug 
7,  1881 ;  of  whom  presently. 

John  Erwix,  the  grandfather  of  Henry  Erwin,  who  married  Rebecca  Ashton 
Warner,  before  mentioned,  according  to  an  entry  made  in  his  Edinburgh  Bible, 
presumably  by  himself,  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  in  the  year  1727.  He  is 
supposed  to  belong  to  the  same  family  as  Hugh,  Arthur,  William,  Nathan  and 
.Alexander  Erwin,  who  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  or  about  the  year  1760, 
but  nothing  is  known  to  the  writer  of  these  lines  to  confirm  this  theory  or  to  show 
where  he  was  born.  He  was  a  strict  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  was  Assistant  Burgess  of  Wilmington  in  1763,  and  held 
that  position  almost  continually  until  about  the  year  1788,  possibly  until  his  death, 
at  Wilmington,  May  30,  1797.  He  is  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Wilmington.  He  married  Letitia,  maiden  name  unknown,  and 
they  had  issue  as  follows : 

Henry  Erwin.  b.  June  24,   1751,  d.   Dec.  23,  1776,  buried  at  First  Presbyterian  Church 

of  Wilmington; 
Samuel  Erwin.  b.  Aug.  29,  1755,  d.  Aug.  30  or  31,  1798.  of  yellow  fever,  buried  at  First 

Presbyterian  Church,  Wilmington:  m.  Aug.,  1781,  Lydia  Stowe,  b.  April  17,   1753,  d. 

Oct.   14,   1798,  of  yellow  fever,  and  was  also  buried  at   First   Presbyterian   Church, 

Wilmington; 
Hannah  Erwin.  b.  June  24,  1756,  d.  prior  to  181 7;  m.  at  Holy  Trinity   (Old  Swedes') 

Church,  Wilmington.  Delaware,  Sept.  7,   1775,  Israel   Israel,  d.   Phila.  in  1822;  mayor 

of  Phila.  and  Sheriff,  1800-1803,  and  a  very  large  landowner  in  and  near  Phila.,  of 

whose  descendants  presently; 


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John  Erwin,  b.  Nov.  16,  1761,  d.  July  24,  1764; 

William  Erwin,  b.  Jan.  13,  1763,  living  in  1817,  mentioned  in  will  of  Israel  Israel; 

John  Erwin,  b.  Sept.  9,  1764,  d.  Sept.  24,  1823;  m.  and  had  children;  mentioned  in  will 

of  Israel  Israel; 
Margaret  Erwin,  b.  Jan.   10,   1766,  d.  April  8,   1797,  m.   Benjamin   Laforge,  b.   1761,  d. 

April  8,  1796,  buried  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Wilmington. 

Samuel  Erwin,  second  son  of  John  and  Letitia  Erwin,  married  Lydia  Stowe; 
and  had  issue : 

John  Erwin,  b.  May  12,  1782,  d.  June  26,  1783; 

Mary  Erwin,  b.  Nov.  10,  1783,  d.  Oct.  14,  i8og;  m.  Feb.  14,  1807,  Francis  Borden;  his 

first  wife; 
Letitia  Erwin,  b.  Nov.  21,  1785,  d.  June  10,  1836;  m.  Francis  Borden;  his  second  wife; 
Samuel  Erwin,  b.   Sept.  6,   1787,  d.   Dec.  31,   1841,  unm.,   buried  at   First   Presbyterian 
Church,    Wilmington ;    was   sea    captain    in   merchant    service    and    had    command    of 
vessels  owned  by  Stephen  Girard; 
Lydia  Erwin,  b.  Nov.  23,  1789,  d.  Aug.  29,  1790; 

Charles  Erwin,  b.  June  2,  1791,  d.  at  sea,  Oct.  16,  1828;  m.  Nov.  17,  1812,  Eliza  Spooner; 
Henry  Erwin,  b.  Sept.  9,  1794,  d.  June  10,  1845,  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  buried  at  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Wilmington,  Del.;  m.  June  23,  1823,  Rebecca  Ashton  Warner. 
Issue  of  Henry  and  Rebecca  Ashton   (Warner)   Erwin: 
Joseph  Warner  Erwin,  b.  Sept.  12,  1824,  d.  Oct.  27,  1890;  m.  Caroline  A.  Borden; 

of  whom  presently; 
Lydia  Warner  Erwin,  b.  Feb,  14,  1827,  d.  April  5,  1864;  m.  June  14,  1853,  Edward 
J.  Maginnis,  of  Phila.;  one  child: 

Rebecca  Erwin  Maginnis,  m.  O.  W.  Vail. 

Joseph  Warner  Erwin,  only  son  of  Henry  Erwin,  by  his  wife  Rebecca  Ash- 
ton Warner,  married,  July  23,  1850,  Caroline  A.,  born  November  19,  1830,  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  daughter  of  Samuel  Borden,  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  2,  1807, 
died  at  Cold  Spring,  Kentucky,  March  i,  1898,  by  his  wife  Catharine  Dudley 
Upjohn,  who  died  at  Cold  Spring,  Kentucky,  July  12,  1871 ;  and  whom  he  had 
married  July  2,  1828. 

Gen.  Samuel  Borden,  father  of  the  above  named  Samuel  Borden,  belonged  to 
the  prominent  New  Jersey  family  of  the  name,  for  whom  Bordentown  was  named, 
and  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  May  2,  1781.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  early  in  life, 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  was  a  captain  in  the  regular  U.  S.  A.,  during 
the  war  of  1812-1814;  but  tiring  of  the  inactive  military  routine,  after  the  close 
of  the  war,  resigned  from  the  army,  in  1816,  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits  there.  He  was  an  active  public-spirited  man,  and 
held  a  number  of  city  and  county  offices.  He  also  took  an  active  interest  in  mili- 
tary afifairs,  and  passed  through  the  various  grades  of  militia  service,  to  the  office 
of  Brigadier  General  of  State  Militia  of  Ohio,  which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  October  22,  1834,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three  years. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Warner  and  Caroline  A.  (Borden) Erwin: — 

Ida  Warner  Erwin,  b.  May  14,  1851,  m.  Dec.  12,  1876,  Joseph  Ingersoll  Doran.  of  whom 

presently; 
Marie  Louise  Erwin,  b.  Dec.  10,  1854,  m.  Russell  Hinman,  Nov.  6,  1883;  four  children, 

Caroline  Borden,  Katharine  Duble,  Russell,  Jr.,  and  Eunice  Bowditch  Hinman. 

Joseph  Ingersoll  Doran,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  who  married  Ida  Warner 
Erwin,  whose  descent  from  the  Warner  family  of  Blockley  has  been  previously 
given,  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  earliest  Colonial  families  of  America.  Through 


250  WARNER 

his  mother  Ann  Luker  (Callahan)  Doran,  he  is  a  Hneal  descendant  of  Sir  George 
Yeardley,  or  Yardley,  Governor  and  Captain  General  of  Virginia,  1619-1627. 

The  Yardley  Family,  three  representatives  of  which  settled  in  America,  was 
a  very  ancient  one  in  county  Stafford,  England,  and  is  spoken  of  in  "Patronymica 
Brittanica"  as  one  of  the  ancient  families  of  Staffordshire,  whose  heads  were 
called  "Lords  of  Yardley."  Their  coat-of-arms,  were  "Argent  on  a  chevron  azure 
three  garbs  or,  on  a  canton  gules,  a  fret  or,"  and  their  crest,  "a  buck,  courant,  gu. 
attired  or." 

The  first  of  the  family  of  which  any  definite  record  has  been  found  was  "Will- 
iam Yardley,  L.  M.,"  a  witness  to  the  signing  of  the  first  Magna  Charta  given  by 
John  I.  to  England,  dated  June  15,  1218.  From  this  date,  however,  to  1400,  no 
clear  record  of  the  line  of  descent  has  been  obtained ;  from  the  latter  date  down 
to  the  emigration  to  America  the  line  is  as  follows : 

John  Yardley,  of  county  Stafford,  married,  1402,  a  daughter  of  Marbury,  of 
Dadesbury,  and  had  a  son, 

John  Yardley,  of  Killingsworth,  county  Warwick,  who  married  a  daughter  of 
Tickens,  and  had  a  daughter  Margaret,  his  sole  heiress,  who  married  John  Yard- 
ley,  son  of  Oliver  Yardley,  of  Yardley,  a  contemporary  of  Henry  \'l.,  and  had  a 
son  and  heir, 

John  Yardley,  of  Yardley,  county  Stafford,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  William  Birkes,  of  county  Stafford,  and  their  son, 

William  Yardley,  of  county  Stafford,  living  in  1583,  married  Eliabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Alice  (Brereton)  Morton,  of  Morton,  Cheshire,  and  had  five 
sons : 

William  Yardley,  m.  Margery  Lawton,  dau.  of  John  Lawton,  of  Lawton;  had  sons  John 
and  William;  the  latter  by  his  wife  Dorothy,  dau.  of  Sir  John  Drake,  being  father  of 
William  Yardley,  of  Ransclough,  b.  1632,  m.  Jane  Heath;  emigrated  to  America  in 
1682,  and  settled  in  Bucks  county,  Pa.;  was  a  member  of  Assembly,  Provincial  Coun- 
cillor, etc.  He  and  all  his  family  d.  prior  to  1704,  and  were  succeeded  by  his  nephew 
Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Yardley,  of  Rushton  Spencer,  county  Stafford,  another  son 
of  William  and  Dorothy  (Drake)   Yardley. 

Richard  Yardley,  who  came  to  N.  J.  about  the  same  date  that  Thomas  settled  in 
Bucks  county,  is  with  Thomas,  ancestor  of  the  numerous  and  prominent  family  of 
Bucks  county,  whose  representatives  in  nearly  every  generation  to  the  present,  have 
been  prominent  in  official  life  of  the  county,  state  and  province.  Richard  is  supposedly 
a  descendant  of  John  Yardley,  b.  1579  (another  son  of  William  and  Dorothy  (Drake) 
Yardley),  who  m.  Alice,  dau.  of  Richard  Sutton,  of  Rushton  Spencer,  county  Stafford; 

Ralph  Yeardley,  of  Caldecot,  Chester,  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Randal!  Dodd,  of  Edge, 
county  Chester.  Was  a  druggist  in  London  in  1627,  when  he  administered  on  the 
estate  of  Sir  George; 

John  Yardley,  m.  Mary,  another  dau.  of  Randall; 

Sir  George  Yeardlev,  of  Virginia,  m.  Temperance  West;  of  whom  presently; 

Randall  Yardley,  of  whom  we  have  no  further  record. 

Sir  George  Yeardley  (for  some  reason  Sir  George  Yeardley,  after  his  settle- 
ment in  Virginia,  adopted  that  form  of  spelling  the  name  and  in  that  form  it  was 
borne  by  his  descendants)  was  born  in  England,  between  1577  and  1580.  He 
was  a  captain  in  the  British  army,  and  served  with  distinction  in  Holland,  in  the 
war  with  Spain.  He  was  a  subscriber  to  the  Virginia  Company  of  London,  and 
a  champion,  from  the  first,  of  the  rights  of  Jamestown  pioneers,  as  opposed  to  the 
Court  Party  in  the  Company,  who  looked  upon  the  colonists  as  servants  of  the 
Company,  employed  to  do  its  bidding  and  entitled  to  no  political  rights.     Capt. 


WARNER  251 

Yeardley  sailed  for  Virginia  in  the  "Deliverance,"  June,  1609,  as  one  of  Her 
Majesty's  Council  of  Virginia,  but  was  wrecked  on  the  Bermuda  Islands,  and  did 
not  land  at  Jamestown  until  May,  1610.  He  was  a  "man  of  wealth  and  of  well  de- 
served influence."  Serving  as  President  of  Colonial  Council  until  1616,  he  was 
enabled  to  form  a  just  estimate  of  the  needs  of  the  colonists,  and  a  true  conception 
of  their  rights.  "His  character  and  modes  of  thought  made  him  the  friend  and 
supporter  of  popular  rights,"  and  he  was  greatly  loved  and  respected  by  the  colon- 
ists. On  the  departure  of  Gov.  Dale  for  England,  1616  (with  John  Rolfe  and  his 
wife  Pocahontas),  Capt.  Yeardley  was  made  Deputy  Governor.  His  mild  and 
popular  rule  alarmed  and  enraged  the  Court  Party  in  the  Company,  and  Capt. 
Samuel  Argall,  a  relative  and  the  commercial  agent  of  President  Thomas  Smith, 
of  the  Virginia  Company,  was  appointed  to  succeed  him.  This  action  was  re- 
ceived by  the  colonists  as  a  public  calamity  and  Capt.  Yeardley  went  to  England 
to  intercede  for  them  with  the  Crown  and  the  Company.  He  was  successful,  the 
Court  party  was  overthrown  and  Capt.  Yeardley  was  named  Governor  General  of 
the  Colony  of  Virginia.  James  I.  assented  to  the  new  policy,  sent  for  the  Gov- 
ernor elect,  accorded  him  a  lengthy  interview,  and  finally  as  a  signal  mark  of 
favor  conferred  upon  him  the  honor  of  knighthood,  November  22,  1618. 

As  Governor  General  of  Virginia,  Sir  George  Yeardley  sailed  for  the  Colony  on 
January  29,  1619,  with  his  commission  and  instructions  from  his  sovereign  and 
the  Virginia  Company  to  confer  on  Virginia  the  right  of  local  self-government. 
Arriving  at  Jamestown  he  entered  upon  his  duties  as  Governor  April  19,  16 19, 
and  from  that  date,  says  Bancroft,  "dates  the  real  life  of  the  Colony."  Early  in 
June  he  sent  out  summons  to  the  members  of  the  Council  to  attend,  and  ordered 
an  election,  the  first  in  America,  of  representatives  of  the  people  to  the  House  of 
Burgesses.  July  30,  1619,  the  twenty-two  newly  elected  Burgesses  convened  at 
Jamestown,  the  first  representative  governmental  body  in  America,  and  to  Sir 
George  Yeardley  is  universally  accorded  the  honor  and  title  of  "Father  of  Repre- 
sentative Government  in  America."  He  continued  as  Governor  General  until 
1621,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Sir  Francis  Wyatt,  but  continued  a  member  of 
the  "Counsel  of  State"  until  1626.  He  was  named  as  Deputy  Governor  in  the 
absence  of  Wyatt,  September  18,  1625,  was  again  commissioned  Governor  Gen- 
eral by  Charles  I.,  April  19,  1626,  entered  upon  his  duties  May  17,  1626,  and  con- 
tinued in  office  until  his  death,  November,  1627.  Bancroft  says,  "The  reappoint- 
ment of  Yardley,  was  in  itself  a  guarantee  that  representative  government  would 
be  maintained ;  for  it  was  Yardley  who  had  introduced  the  system." 

Sir  George  Yeardley  married,  1618,  Temperance  West,  who  had  come  to  Vir- 
ginia in  the  "Falcon,"  1609.  In  January,  1625,  they  were  living  in  Jamestown  with 
their  three  children,  Elizabeth,  Argall,  and  Francis,  but  at  the  date  of  the  will  and 
codicil  of  Sir  George  in  October,  1627,  they  were  living  in  James  City,  the  new 
capital,  as  he  bequeathed  to  his  wife  Temperance  "all  and  evry  prt  &  p'cell  of  all 
such  houshold  stufife,  plate,  linen,  woolen,  or  any  other  goods  moveable  or  imove- 
able  of  what  nature  or  quality  soever  as  to  me  are  belonging  and  wch  now  att  the 
tyme  of  the  date  hereof  are  being  and  remayning  within  this  house  in  James  Citty 
wherein  I  now  dwell."  His  lands  in  James  City  were  devised  to  his  son  Argall, 
but  by  the  codicil  were  directed  to  be  sold  by  Temperance  as  executrix.  She  did 
not  long  survive  him  and  letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  both  her  estate 


252  WARNER 

and  that  of  Sir  George,  to  his  brother  Ralph  Yardley,  of  London,  to  settle  the 
estate  abroad,  February  14,  1628-9. 

Issue  of  Sir  George  and  Temperance  (West)  Ycardley:— 

Elizabeth  Yeardley,  probably  eldest  child;  if  she  lived  to  mature  age  and  married,  it  was 
probably  in  England,  as  the  Court  records  of  Virginia  mention  nothing  of  her.  We 
have  no  record  of  her  after  appointment  of  her  uncle  Ralph  Yardley,  of  London,  as 
her  guardian,  1629: 

Argall  YeardlEV,  eldest  son.  b.  about   1621,  of  whom  presently; 

Francis  Yeardley  was  appointed  Captain  of  Militia  during  the  Indian  scare  on  the 
eastern  shore,  and  was  a  bold  and  dashing  officer,  held  in  high  esteem  by  Governor 
and  Council,  as  well  as  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  Colony.  He  later  became  Colonel. 
He  married  widow  of  Capt.  John  Gookin,  who  was  a  Sarah  Offley,  of  London,  when 
she  m.  (first)  Capt.  Adam  Thorogood,  who  d.  before  April  27,  1640,  leaving  four 
children:  Lieut.-Coi.  Adam  Thorogood;  Ann,  wife  of  Job  Chandler,  of  Maryland; 
Sarah,  also  m.  a  Maryland  gentleman;  and  Elizabeth,  m.  John  Michael.  Sr..  of  Board 
of  Commissioners  of  Northampton  county,  Virginia.  Sarah  (Offley)  Thorogood 
m.  (second)  Capt.  John  Gookin;  (third),  about  1645,  Col.  Francis  Yeardley.  She  d. 
1657.  It  is  not  known  that  Col.  Yeardley  left  issue.  (See  Thorogood  and  Michael 
families,  later  in  this  narrative). 

Col.  Argall  Yeardley,  eldest  son  of  Sir  CJeorge  and  Temperance  (W'est) 
Yeardley,  born  at  Jamestown,  Virginia,  about  1621,  was  a  very  prominent  man  in 
affairs  of  the  infant  Colony  in  Virginia.  He  was  appointed,  by  Sir  William 
Berkely,  Commander  of  Accomac  (later  Northampton)  county,  then  comprising 
the  whole  eastern  shore  of  Virginia,  on  June  30,  1642,  probably  on  his  coming  of 
age;  and  was  a  member  of  Council  of  State,  December  20,  1643.  He  died  intestate. 
He  married  (first)  about  1640,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  is  unknown.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  in  1649,  while  on  a  visit  to  Europe,  Ann,  daughter  of  John  and 
Joane  Custis,  natives  of  England,  but  then  living  in  Rotterdam. 
Issue  of  Col.  Argall  Yeardley: — 

Capt,  Argall  Yeardley,  of  whom  presently; 

Edmund  Yeardley,  of  whom  we  have  no  record  after  1657;  supposedly  d.  s.  p.,  no  trace 

of  descendants  being  found; 
Rose  Yeardley,  m.   (first)  Jan.  4,  1662,  Thomas  Ryding,  of  Nassawadox,  Northampton 

county,  \irginia.     M.  (second)  prior  to  1684,  Robert  Peale ;  no  record  of  issue; 
Henry  Yeardley,  also  supposedly  d.  s.  p.,  no  record  of  him  being  found  after  1657,  when 

yet  a  boy; 
Frances   Yeardley,   m.    Lieut. -Col.   Adam   Thorogood,   eldest   son   of   Capt.   Adam   and 

Sarah  (Offley)  Thorogood,  before  mentioned.    They  lived  at  Lynnhavcn  Bay,  Norfolk 

county,  Va.,  where  he  became  prominent;  was  Burgess   from  that  county,  1666,  and 

Justice,  1669.     D.  1685. 

Captain  Argall  Yeardlev,  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Col.  Argall  Yeardley,  and 
grandson  of  Sir  George  and  Temperance  (West)  Yeardley,  was  very  prominent 
in  Northampton  county,  Virginia,  and  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  county  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  1682.  He  married,  about  January  23,  1678,  Sarah,  eldest  daughter 
of  John  Michael,  Sr.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Thorogood,  daughter  of  Capt.  Adam 
Thorogood  and  Sarah  Offley. 

The  ancestry  of  Capt.  Adam  Thorogood  traces  back  to  John  Thorogood.  of 
Chelston  Temple,  county  Hertford,  England,  who  had  sons,  Nicolas  and  John 
Thorogood,  the  latter  of  whom  had  a  son  John  Thorogood,  of  Felsted,  county 

Essex,  who  married  Luckin,  and  was  father  of  William  Thorogood.  of 

Gumstone,  Norfolk,  official  of  the  diocese  of  Norwich,  who  married  .Ann  Ed- 
wards, of  Norwich,  and  had  issue: — 


WARNER  253 

Sir  Edward  Thorogood; 

Sir  John  Thorogood.  Knight,  a  Pensioner  of  his  Majesty,  named  as  overseer  in  will  of 

brother  Capt.  Adam  Thorogood,  of  Va.,  1640,  as  "Sir  John  Thorogood,  of  Kensington, 

near  London;"  m.  Frances  Mentes; 
Thomas  Thorogood; 
Edmund  Thorogood; 
Capt.  Adam  Thorogood; 
William  Thorogood. 

Capt.  Adam  Thorogood  wab  born  in  1603,  and  came  to  Virginia  in  1621,  in  the 
"Charles"  in  his  eighteenth  year.  He  was  patentee  of  large  tracts  of  lands  and 
was  a  representative  in  the  Assembly  from  Elizabeth  City,  from  1629,  for  several 
consecutive  years;  member  of  Monthly  Court  of  Elizabeth  City,  1632;  member 
of  Council  of  State  of  Colony  of  Virginia,  1637  to  his  death,  and  President  of 
Court  of  Lower  Norfolk.  Bruce's  History  of  Virginia  says  of  him,  "He  was  one 
of  the  principal  figures  in  the  History  of  Virginia  in  the  17th  Century."  He  left 
a  large  estate  in  lands  and  cattle.  His  will,  dated  February  17,  1639-40,  was  pro- 
baled  April  27,  1640.  Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  named  by  him  after  his  birthplace 
and  home  in  England.  He  married  Sarah  Offley,  who  married  (second)  Capt. 
John  Gookin,  (third)  Capt.  Francis  Yeardley,  son  of  Sir  George  and  Temperance. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Adam  and  Sarah  (Offley)  Thorogood: — 

Capt.  Adam  Thorogood,  before  mentioned,  m.  Francis  Yeardley  about  1648; 
Ann  Thorogood,  m.  Job  Chandler,  of  Maryland,  Provincial  Councillor; 
Sarah  Thorogood,  also  m,  a  Marylander; 
Elizabeth  Thorogood,  m.  Capt.  John  Michael. 

Capt.  John  Michael,  supposed  to  have  come  originally  from  England,  came 
to  Virginia  about  1652,  from  Graft,  Holland,  where  he  had  been  a  merchant.  He 
was  very  prominent  on  the  eastern  shore  of  Virginia,  was  Commissioner  of  Ac- 
comac,  and  Justice  of  the  Peace,  1665,  and  later.  He  married  (second)  Mary, 
widow  of  John  Culpepper,  and  had  a  son  Yeardley  Michael.  His  children  by 
Elizabeth  Thorogood  so  far  as  known  were : — 

Adam  Michael,  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Southey  Littleton,  who  subsequently  m.  John  Custis,  of 

Wilsonia,  Northampton  county; 
Margaret  Michael,  m.  John  Custis,  of  Wilsonia; 
Sarah  Michael,  m.  Capt.  Argall  Yeardley,  above-mentioned; 
John  Michael,  Jr.; 
Simon  Michael. 

Sarah  (Michael)  Yeardley,  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband,  Capt. 
Argall  Yeardley,  married  (second)  John  Watts,  and  had  a  son  John  Watts;  she 
married  (third)  Thomas  Maddox.  Her  will  is  dated  March  20,  1694,  and  was 
probated  in  Northampton  county,  Virginia. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Argall  and  Sarah  (Michael)  Yeardley: — 

Argall  Yeardley,  said  to  have  d.  young,  unm.; 

John  Yeardley,  also  supposedly  d.  young; 

Elizabeth    Yeardley,   ni.    George   Harmanson,   and   lived   at   a   place   called   "Yeardley," 

homestead  of  Yeardley  family,  d.  there,  1734-    They  had  seven  children  who  have  left 

numerous  descendants  among  prominent  families  of  Va.; 
Sarah  Yeardley,  m.  John  Powell,  of  whom  presently; 


254  WARNER 

Frances  Yeardley,  m.  Major  John  West;  had  nine  children;  youngest  dau.  Sarah,  m. 
Isaac  Smith,  whose  son  Isaac  (1734-1813),  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Custis  Teackle  (1743- 
1822),  was  father  of  Isaac  Smith,  who  m.  Maria,  dau.  of  Judge  Francis  Hopkinson, 
of  Phila.,  and  they  were  grandparents  of  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  the  eminent  novehst, 
lecturer  and  artist. 

Sarah  Yeardley,  second  daughter  of  Capt.  Argall  and  Sarah  (Michael)  Yeard- 
ley, married  John  Powell,  of  Northampton  county,  Virginia,  great-grandson  of 
Thomas  Powell,  born  prior  to  1579,  came  to  Virginia  in  the  "Sampson,"  1618, 
and  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  eastern  shore  as  early  as  1624.  He  was 
living  in  1662,  and  a  deposition  dated  May  25,  1659  entered  among  records  of 
Northampton  county,  states  that  he  was  "four  score  and  odd"  at  that  date.  By 
his  wife  Elizabeth,  he  had  a  son  John  Powell,  who  was  father  of  John  Powell, 
who  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Wilkins,  and  had  two  sons,  Nathan- 
iel Powell,  died  in  1732,  and  John  Powell,  married  Sarah  Yeardley  prior  to  1698. 
John  Powell,  last  mentioned,  was  Sheriff  of  Northampton  county  in  1702,  and 
Justice  of  the  Peace  at  that  date  and  later.  His  will  was  dated  June  i,  1718. 
Issue  of  John  and  Sarah  (Yeardley)  Pozvell: — 

Sarah  Powell,  m.  John  Haggoman ; 
Yeardley  Powell; 

Margaret  Powell,  m.  Clark  Jacobs; 
Mary  Powell; 

Rose  Poweli..  m.  (first)  Dr.  Michael  Christian;  (second)  William  Digby  Seymour;  had 
descendants  by  both  marriages. 

Rose  Powell  and  Dr.  Michael  Christian  were  married  December  7,  1722,  and 
he  died  prior  to  February  10,  1736,  the  date  of  the  Marriage  Bond  for  her  second 
marriage  with  William  Digby  Seymour,  filed  in  Clerk's  Office,  Eastville,  Mrginia. 
Dr.  Michael  Christian  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Captain  William  Christian,  of 
Ronaldsway,  Isle  of  Man,  popularly  known  as  "William  Dhome,"  who  was  executed 
in  1663  for  the  patriotic  part  he  took  in  protecting  his  countrymen's  laws  and  lib- 
erties. He  was,  as  is  well  known,  one  of  the  characters  in  Sir  Walter  Scott's 
"Peverill  of  the  Peak." 

Issue  of  Rose  and  Dr.  Michael  Christian: — 

Michael  Christian,  Jr.,  m.  Dec.  30,  1747,  Patience  Michael; 

William   Christian,   m.   June  7,    1750,   Keziah   Blair,  widow;   their   grandson    Col.   Wm. 

Armistead  Christian,  m.  Elizabeth  Seymour,  granddaughter  of  Rose  Powell  by  second 

marriage; 
Sarah  Christian; 

Elizabeth  Christian,  m.  Robert  James,  Dec.  15,  1753; 
Susannah  Christian,  m.   (first)   Luke  Luker  (second)  James  Cox,  of  town  of  Shel- 

bourne.  Nova  Scotia;  d.  prior  to  1784. 

Luke  Luker  was  a  Tobacco  Inspector  at  Addison  Landing,  in  Accomac  county, 
Virginia,  residing  in  St.  George's  parish  in  the  lower  end  of  the  county,  and  served 
for  many  years  as  a  vestryman  of  that  parish  prior  to  his  death ;  his  will  is  dated 
December  17,  1773,  and  he  died  prior  to  October  24,  1774,  when  the  records  of 
the  parish  of  St.  George  show  the  election  of  a  successor  as  vestryman.  He  mar- 
ried Susannah  Christian,  September  8,  1755. 

Issue  of  Luke  Luker  and  Susannah  Christian: — 

Elizabeth  Luker,  m.  Thomas  Custis; 

Rose  Luker,  m.  Dr.  John  C.   Martin,  of  Snow   Hill,  Maryland; 


WARNER  255 

Anne  Luker,  d.  unm.; 

Sarah  Luker,  m.  Tully  Wise; 

Susan  Lukek,  rn.  Rev.  Griffin  Callahan. 

Rev.  Griffin  Callahan,  born  in  1759,  was  a  popular  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Travelhng  Connection  of  that  Church, 
September  10,  1788,  preached  in  the  Frederick,  Maryland,  Circuit  in  1788,  and 
later  on  the  eastern  shore  of  Virginia  and  Maryland;  living  for  a  considerable 
time  at  a  place  called  "Mockhorn,"  near  Drummondstown,  later  at  Folly  Creek, 
and  finally  at  Locust  Mount,  Accomac  county,  Virginia,  where  he  died  August  22, 
1833,  aged  seventy-four  years,  and  is  buried  at  Burton's  Meeting  House,  near 
Locust  Mount. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Griffin  and  Snsan  (Luker)  Callahan: — 

Elizabeth  Luker  Callahan,  m.  Jan.  23,  1842,  at  St.  Paul's  M.  E.  Church,  Phila.,  Gustavus 
Henry  Kreegar,  of  Phila.,  native  of  Germany.  He  d.  April  9,  1872,  and  she  April  16, 
1888.  Both  buried  at  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  Phila.; 
Griffin  Wesley  Callahan,  m.  Dec.  28,  1828,  Leah  Ashby,  at  Locust  Mount,  Accomac 
county,  Virginia.  D.  in  Accomac  county,  March  i,  1841,  and  she  Feb.  26,  1895.  Their 
eldest  son,  John  Wesley  Callahan,  b.  Oct.  22,  1833,  m.  Jan.  20,  1856,  Prudence  Ann, 
dau.  of  James  Sweeney,  of  Phila.,  by  his  wife  Prudence  Sisom,  of  Burlington,  N.  J., 
and  had  issue : 

Annie  Maryland  Callahan,  b.  Nov.  6,  1856,  m.  July  19,  1878,  Charles  T.  Graham, 

of  Phila.; 
Leah   Virginia   Callahan,  b.  July   19,   1859,  m.   Feb.   20,    1886,   Thomas   Auner,   of 

Phila.,  who  d.  Aug.  23,  1896; 
Griffin  Clay  Callahan,  of  Phila.,  has  devoted  much  attention  to  historical  research, 
b.  Nov.  29,  1861;  m.  Feb.  6,  1883,  Ida  Virginia,  b.  March  4,  1864,  dau.  of  Charles 
and  Bella  (Reisner)  Williams,  of  Phila.; 
John  Wesley  Callahan,  b.  March  11,  1864; 
Kate  Eliza  Callahan,  b.  April  11,  1866,  d.  Jan.  9,  1885; 
Lillie  Sisom  Callahan,  b.   1868,  d.  1880; 

George  West  Callahan,  b.  Dec.  16,  1871,  m.  Dec.  4,  1895,  Renta  Louise  Glenz; 
Mary  Susan  Callahan,  b.  Aug.  19,  1873; 
Florence  Selby  Callahan,  b.  Jan.  8,  1877. 
Susan  Christian  Callahan,  m.  July  29,  1839,  George  Osborne  Sneath,  of  Phila.     D.  s.  p., 
he  June  2,  1842,  and  she  Nov.  3,  1892.     Both  buried  at  St.  Paul's  M.  E.  Church,  Phila.; 
Sarah  Callahan,  m.  William  Farson,  of  Phila. ;  d.  s.  p. ; 
John  Wesley  Callahan,  d.  young,  unm.; 

Ann  Luker  Callahan,  m.  at  St.  George's  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Phila.,  Dec.  15, 
1830,  Joseph  Michael  Doran. 

Joseph  Michael  Doran,  born  Philadelphia,  November  10,  1800,  was  a  son  of 
Michael  Doran,  from  Mountreath,  Queens  county,  Ireland,  by  his  wife  Mary 
Lalor,  of  Kings  county,  Ireland.  Michael  Doran  arrived  in  Philadelphia  January 
5,  1795,  and  resided  in  that  city  until  his  death.  Joseph  Michael  Doran  graduated 
at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1820,  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Joseph 
Reed  Ingersoll,  and  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar  April  3,  1824.  He  was 
Solicitor  of  the  District  of  Southwark  in  1835 ;  member  of  Constitutional  Con- 
vention of  1837,  President  of  Repeal  Association  of  Philadelphia,  and  Judge  of 
Court  of  General  Sessions,  of  Philadelphia,  1840-1843.  He  died  June  6,  1859, 
and  his  wife  Ann  Luker  Callahan  died  April  30,  1883.  Both  are  buried  at  St. 
Mary's  Roman  Catholic  Churchyard,  Fourth  street,  above  Spruce,  Philadelphia. 
Issue  of  Joseph  Michael  and  Ann  L.  (Callahan)  Doran: — 

Alice  Lalor  Doran,  b.  Feb.  28,  1842,  d.  Feb.  10,  1861  ; 
Joseph  Ingersoll  Doran,  of  whom  presently; 


256  WARNER 

Virginia  Doran,  b.  April  9,  1846,  d.  March  18,  1857; 
John  Ashley  Doran,  b.  March  23,  1848,  d.  Dec.  31,  1855; 
Four  other  children,  d.  inf. 

Joseph  Ingersoli.  Dor^s.n,  born  Philadelphia,  January  17,  18J4,  only  surviving 
issue  of  Joseph  Michael  and  Ann  Luker  (Callahan)  Doran,  received  his  prelimi- 
nary education  in  private  schools,  principally  at  the  well-known  school  of  Dr. 
John  \V.  Faires,  where  he  prepared  to  enter  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He, 
however,  remained  but  a  short  time  at  the  university,  and  in  the  autumn  of  i860, 
entered  the  office  of  John  C.  Bullitt,  Esq.,  first  as  clerk  and  later  as  student  at 
law.  He  was  admitted  as  a  member  of  Philadelphia  Bar  in  April,  1865,  and  two 
years  later  to  practice  in  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania.  He  has  devoted  his 
attention  principally  to  railroad  and  corporation  law,  and  is  well  known  in  that 
branch  of  his  profession.  He  is  Consulting  Counsel  for  a  great  number  of  corpor- 
ations, and  has  been  General  Solicitor  for  the  Norfolk  &  Western  Railroad  Com- 
pany since  the  organization  of  that  company.  Since  1880  he  has  been  closely 
identified  with  the,  since  then,  rapid  development  of  the  coal  and  iron  districts  of 
West  Virginia  and  Virginia.  Retaining  his  habits  of  industry,  study  and  close 
application  to  business,  and  devoting  himself  with  a  commendable  zeal  and  earn- 
estness to  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  and  the  adniinistration  of  his 
manifold  business  interests,  he  has  built  up  a  large  practice  and  has  been  eminently 
successful  in  his  business  operations.  In  the  midst  of  an  extraordinarily  busy  life 
he  has  found  time  to  devote  to  subjects  of  national  and  local  interest.  In  1876  he 
read  an  interesting  paper  before  the  American  Social  Science  Convention  on 
"Building  Associations,"  which  was  extensively  commented  on.  In  1888,  he  pub- 
lished a  pamphlet  on  "Our  Fishery  Rights  in  the  North  Atlantic,"  which  showed 
an  exhaustive  investigation  of  that  intricate  and  most  important  subject.  It  was 
received  generally  as  a  forcible  argument,  and  the  best  statement  of  the  American 
side  of  the  much  debated  fishery  question.  The  Philadelphia  Ledger  referred  to  it 
as  a  "brief,  pungent  and  able  pamphlet,"  and  the  Boston  Evening  Transcript  spoke 
of  it  as  "one  of  the  most  satisfactory  contributions  to  the  literature  of  the  Fishery 
controversy." 

Joseph  I.  Doran  married,  December  12,  1876,  Ida  Warner,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Warner  Erwin,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Caroline,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Catharine  D.  (Upjohn)  Borden,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  granddaughter  of  Henry 
Erwin,  by  his  wife  Rebecca  Ashton  Warner,  whose  paternal  ancestry  back  to  John 
Warner,  of  Blockley,  Worcestershire,  England,  through  his  son  William  Warner, 
first  settler  of  Blockley,  West  Philadelphia,  is  traced  in  preceding  pages. 
Issue  of  Joseph  I.  and  Ida  Warner  (Erwin)  Doran: — 

Marie  Louise  Doran,  b.  Sept.  16,  1877;  of  whom  presently; 

Joseph  Erwin  Doran,  b.  Nov.  I,  1878,  d.  Feb.  24,  1887; 

Alice  Therese  Doran,  b.  March  16,  1881  ; 

John  Henry  Doran,  b.  May  31,  1883; 

Caroline  Borden  Doran,  b.  Sept.  24,  1884; 

Josephine  Lalor  Doran,  b.  March  31,  1886; 

Warner  Erwin  Doran,  b.  Dec.   18,  1887. 

Marie  Louise  Doran  (eldest  child  of  Joseph  L  Doran  and  Ida  Warner  Doran").  mar- 
ried, April  28,  1903,  John  Williams,  of  Rosemont,  Pennsylvania,  and  they  have  children 
as  follows : 

Louise  Erwin  Williams,  b.  Feb.  17,  1904; 

Fredericka  Williams,  b.  Aug.  23,  1905. 


WISTAR-WISTER  FAMILY. 

Hans  Caspar  Wvtster,  ancestor  of  the  Wistar  and  Wister  families,  prominent 
in  the  Colonial  history  of  Philadelphia,  was  "Jager"  or  Forester  to  the  Prince 
Palatine,  an  office  that  had  been  hereditary  in  the  family.  He  resided  in  the  rural 
village  of  Hilspach,  six  miles  from  Heidelberg,  in  the  then  Electorate  of  the 
Rhenish  Palatinate.  Hans  Caspar  Wiister  died  at  Hilspach,  January  13,  1726,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-five  years,  less  three  months.  By  his  wife  Anna  Catharina  Wiister 
he  had  issue : — 

Maria  Wiister,  b.   Hilspach,   1690,  m.   David  Deshler,  Aide-de-camp  to  Prince  Palatine, 

whose  son  David  Deshler  came  to  Pa.,  about  1730,  and  entered  the  counting  house  of 

his  uncle  John  Wister; 
Caspar  Wuster,  b.  Hilspach,  Feb.  3,  1696,  came  to  Pa.  1717,  d.  at  Phila.,  March  21,  1752, 

m.  May  25,  1726,  Katharine  Johnson,  of  whom  presently; 

Maria  Barbara  Wiister,  b.  Feb.  26,  1700,  m.  Hitner,  came  to  Pa.  about  1727; 

Anna  Barbara,  b.   1702,  m.  George  Bauer,  a  Councillor  at  Hilspach,  came  to  Pa.  and 

settled  in  Tulpehocken  township,  Berks  county; 
Albertina  Wiister,  b.  Dec.  26,  1703,  m.  Ulmer,  son  Martin  Ulmer,  mentioned  in 

will  of  Caspar  Wistar; 

Dorothea  Wiister,  b.  1705,  m.  Dushorn,  mentioned  in  will  of  Caspar  Wiister; 

Maria  Margaretha,  b.  June  10,  1707,  no  further  record; 

Johannes   (John)   Wuster,  b.  at  Hilspach,  Nov.  7,  1708,  came  to  Phila.  1727,  d.  there 

1789,  m.    (iirst)    Salome  Zimmerman,  and    (second)    Anna  Catharine   Rubenkam,  of 

whom  later; 
Johan  Ludovick  Wiister,  b.  Jan.  29, 171 1,  remained  in  Hilspach,  but  is  said  to  have  d.  s.  p.; 
George  Bernhardt  Wiister,  b.  Sept.  18,  1713,  no  further  record. 

Caspar  Wuster,  as  he  always  wrote  his  name,  though  at  the  time  of  his  natural- 
ization it  was  recorded  "Wistar,"  and  in  that  form  has  been  borne  by  his  descend- 
ants to  the  present  time,  was  born  as  above  shown,  in  the  village  of  Hilspach,  in  a 
quaint  old  house  still  standing,  February  3,  1(396.  On  attaining  his  majority,  1717, 
his  father  offered  to  resign  his  position  of  Huntsman  to  the  Prince  Palatine  and 
have  Caspar  appointed  in  his  stead,  but  the  ambitious  youth,  doubtless  hearing  of 
the  success  of  some  of  his  countrymen  in  Penn's  colony  in  America,  decided  to 
seek  his  fortune  in  the  new  country  beyond  the  seas.  Bestowing  his  patrimony  on 
the  younger  members  of  the  family,  he  sailed  for  Philadelphia,  where  he  arrived 
September  16,  1717,  without  other  worldly  goods  than  his  clothes,  a  double-barreled 
rifle  still  in  possession  of  the  family,  and  a  single  pistareen  (nine  pence  Sterling). 
His  first  employment  was  in  assisting  to  gather  apples  from  an  orchard  on  Arch 
street,  for  which  he  was  paid  in  a  portion  of  the  fruit,  and  his  first  meal  in  Amer- 
ica was  made  from  bread  and  apples,  a  fact  that  was  commemorated  many  years 
after  by  his  distinguished  descendant,  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar,  who  entertained  a  num- 
ber of  distinguished  guests  at  his  house  with  a  menu  of  bread  and  apples  only. 
He  later  found  regular  employment  with  a  button-maker  and  learned  the  art  of 
making  buttons  of  metal,  wood  and  horn,  and  eventually  took  up  that  business  on 
his  own  account.  He  also  evidently  engaged  in  the  mercantile  trade  within  a  few 
years  of  his  arrival,  as  in  1726,  he  is  named  in  a  list  of  "the  principal  Merchants 
of  the  City"  in  the  "Weekly  Mercury,"  who  had  signified  their  willingness  to 
accept  "New  Castle  and  Kent  Bills." 


258  WISTAR-WISTER 

He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British  crown  in  1721,  and  as  early  as 
1725,  was  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  iron.  About  1729,  while  travelling  in 
the  southern  part  of  West  Jersey,  he  noticed  a  deposit  of  sand  similar  to  that  used 
in  his  native  country  for  the  manufacture  of  glass,  and  securing  the  necessary 
capital,  purchased  a  tract  of  land  near  Salem,  and  established  the  first  glass  mak- 
ing establishment  in  America.  His  several  business  ventures  proved  successful 
and  he  became  a  prosperous  merchant  and  manufacturer  and  a  considerable  land- 
owner in  various  parts  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey.  Among  his  other  pur- 
chases was  a  large  tract  in  Northampton  county,  which  he  sold  in  smaller  tracts 
to  German  settlers  at  a  considerable  profit.  He  also  owned  large  tracts  in  Berks 
and  Lancaster  counties,  on  part  of  which  he  settled  his  brothers-in-law,  whom  he 
had  induced  to  emigrate  to  Pennsylvania.  His  home  was  for  many  years  on  Front 
street,  near  that  of  Anthony  Morris,  but  in  1743,  he  purchased  a  house  on  Market 
street  between  Second  and  Third,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  on  March  21, 
1752,  at  that  date  one  of  the  wealthiest  men  in  the  Province.  He  was  one  of  the 
earliest  contributors  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and  was  present  at  the  first 
meeting  of  the  contributors.  May  1751. 

Caspar  Wistar,  married,  at  Germantown  Friends'  Meeting,  May  25,  1726,  Cath- 
arine Jansen,  or  Johnson,  as  the  name  came  to  be  spelled  at  about  this  date.  She 
was  born  at  Germantown,  September  20,  1703,  and  died  i2mo.  18,  1786,  daughter 
of  Dirck  and  Margaret  (Millan)  Jansen,  both  natives  of  the  Palatinate  and  early 
settlers  in  Germantown.  Her  maternal  grandfather,  Hans  Millan,  came  to  Ger- 
mantown in  1683,  and  was  a  considerable  land  owner  there.  He  erected  the  Wyck 
house  about  1700. 

Issue  of  Caspar  and  Katharine  (Johnson)  Wistar: — 

Richard,  b.  July  6,  1727,  d.  Aug.  4,  1781,  m.  (first)   1751,  Sarah  Wyatt,  (second)   Mary 

(Bacon)  Gilbert,  of  whom  presently; 
Margaret,  b.  Jan.  26,  1728-9,  d.  Oct.  3,  1793,  m.  Reuben  Haines,  b.  1727,  d.  1793,  and  had 
issue : 

Catharine,  b.  1761,  d.  1809,  m.  1798,  Richard  Hartshorne: 
Caspar  Wistar,  b.  1762,  d.  1801,  m.  1785,  Hannah  Marshall; 
Josiah,  b.  1764,  d.  i795.  m.  Sarah  Ball; 
Reuben,  b.  1765,  d.  s.  p.  1794; 
Martha,  b.  1769,  d.  1781,  unm. 
Catharine,  b.  Dec.  19,  1730,  d.  1771,  m.  i2mo.  6,  1753,  Isaac  Greenleaf,  b.  1715.  d.  1771, 
son  of  Isaac  Greenleaf,  of  Ipswich,  Suffolk;  issue: 

Elizabeth,  b.  1754,  d.  181 2,  m.  1774,  Joseph  Shotwell; 
Catharine,  b.  1756,  d.  1783,  unm.; 
Sarah,  b.  1757,  d.  1758; 
Caspar,  b.  i759.  d.  1759; 

Sarah,  b.  1760,  d.  1813,  m.  1784.  Hugh  Davids. 
Joshua,  b.  Dec.  14,  1732,  d.  June,  1734; 

Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  25,  1735-6,  d.  Jan.  22,  1791,  m.  Dec.  11,  1755,  Capt.  Samuel  Morris; 
Sarah,  b.  Nov.  8,  1738,  d.  181 5,  unm.; 

Caspar,  b.  Feb.  3,  1740,  d.  at  Brandy  wine  Farm,  Pennsbury  township,  Chester  county, 
Pa.,  Oct.  31,  181 1 ;  m.  Nov.  7,  1765,  Mary  Franklin,  of  N.  Y.,  where  he  resided  some 
years.  Removed  to  Chester  county,  1784.  Mrs.  Wistar,  b.  Feb.  26,  1736,  d.  March  28, 
1804;  issue: 

Johnson,  b.  June  20,  1766; 
Thomas,  b.  8mo.  23,  1767,  d.  7mo.  1814; 

Catharine,  b.  2mo.  27,  1769,  d.  7mo.  11,  1824,  m.  i2mo.  16,  1802.  Abraham  Sharp- 
less,  of  Sarum  Forge.  Chester  county; 


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Sarah,  b.  March  5,  1770,  d.  July  5,   1845,  m.   1790,  George  Pennock,  of  Chester 

county ; 
Mary,  b.  Feb.  10,  1772,  d.  Nov.  11,  1810,  unm.; 
Deborah,  b.  Oct.  22,  1775; 
Samuel,  b.  May  7,  1780,  d.  1812,  unm. 

Richard  Wistar,  eldest  son  of  Caspar  and  Katharine  (Johnson)  Wistar,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  July  6,  1727,  was  devised  by  his  father's  will  the  glass  works  and 
equipment  in  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  on  condition  that  he  render  to  his  brother 
Caspar,  700  feet  of  glass  of  specified  sizes,  and  three  and  a  half  dozen  bottles. 
He  later  established  a  manufactory  of  glass  and  bottles  in  Philadelphia,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death,  which  occurred  August  4,  1781.  He  married  (first),  No- 
vember 27,  1 75 1,  Sarah  Wyatt,  daughter  of  Bartholomew  Wyatt,  of  Salem  county, 
New  Jersey,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Tomlinson.  She  was  born  August  6,  1733,  and 
died  September  i,  1771.  He  married  (second)  Mary  (Bacon)  Gilbert,  a  widow. 
Issue  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar: — 

Caspar  Wistar,  b.  Sept.  i,  1752,  d.  Nov.  19,  1756; 

Bartholomew  Wistar,  b.  Aug.  26,  1754,  d.  March  5,  1796,  unm.; 

Richard  Wistar,  Jr.,  b.  July  29,  1756,  d.  June  6,  1821 ;  m.  Sarah  Morris;  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 

John  Wistar,  b.  May  7,  1759,  d.  March  16,  1815;  m.  Charlotte  Newbold;  of  whom  later; 
'  Caspar  Wistar,  M.  D.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1761,  d.  Jan.  22,  1818;  m.  (first)  Rebecca  Marshall; 
(second)  Elizabeth  Mifflin;  of  whom  later; 

Thomas  Wistar,  b.  March  17,  1764,  d.  Nov.  25,  1815;  m.  Mary  Wain;  of  whom  pres- 
ently; 

Elizabeth  Wyatt  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  22,  1766,  d.  1855;  m.  Richard  Miller; 

Catharine  Wistar,  b.  Jan.  29,  1770,  d.  Nov.  22,  1820;  m.  William  Bache,  M.  D. 

Richard  Wistar,  son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, July  29,  1756,  turned  his  attention  in  early  life  to  mercantile  pursuits,  in 
which  he  was  very  successful.  He  established  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  hard- 
ware business  in  Philadelphia,  which  he  carried  on  many  years.  He  invested 
largely  in  real  estate  in  and  near  Philadelphia,  which  later  became  very  valuable. 
He  was,  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
but  was  disowned  for  too  active  participation  in  warlike  measures,  contrary  to  the 
discipline  of  the  Society.  He  became  a  Free  Mason  August  27,  1779,  and  achieved 
high  rank  in  the  order.  The  "Silk  Stocking  Lodge"  was  created  for  him  and  he 
became  its  first  Worthy  Master.  He  was  an  early  supporter  of  Philadelphia 
Library  and  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  serving  as  a  manager  of  the  latter  institution, 
1803-6.  His  country  seat,  which  he  named  "Hilspach"  from  the  birthplace  of  his 
grandfather,  Caspar  Wiister,  extended  from  Fifteenth  street  to  Broad,  and  from 
Spring  Garden  to  Wallace  street.    He  died  June  6,  1821. 

Richard  Wistar  married,  March  14,  1782,  Sarah,  born  January  19,  1758,  died 
January  7,  1831,  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Morris  and  his  wife  Rebecca  Wistar, 
daughter  of  Caspar  and  Katharine,  above  mentioned.  An  account  of  her  ancestry 
is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes. 

Issue  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Morris)  Wistar: — 

Catharine  Wistar,  b.  1783,  d.  1822,  unm.; 
Rebecca  Wistar,  b.  1784,  d.  1812,  unm.; 
Sarah  Wistar,  b.  1786,  d.  1866,  unm.; 


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Richard  Wistar,  b.  Oct.  3,  1790,  d.  in  Phila.,  Nov.  3,  1863;  m.  June  23,  1824,  Hannah 
Owen  Lewis,  b.  June  6,  1793,  d.  Jan.  24,  1857,  dau.  of  William  and  Rachel  (Wharton) 
Lewis,  and  granddaughter  of  Joseph  Wharton,  and  his  wife  Hannah  (Owen)  Ogden. 
They  had  issue : 

Rachel  Wistar,  d.  1825,  unm.; 

Sarah  Wistar,  m.  (first)  Oct.  23,  1851,  Joseph  Hopkinson,  M.  D.,  (second)  James 

Gillilan ; 
Rachel  Lewis  Wistar,  b.  May  27,  1828,  d.  April  15,  1893;  m.  May  24,  1865,  Alex- 
ander E.  Harvey; 
Richard  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  4,  1829,  d.  April  8,  1894; 
William  Lewis  Wistar,  b.  March  2,  1831,  d.  July  21,  1894; 
Frances  Anna  Wistar,  m.  June  25,  1857,  Lewis  Allaire  Scott,  of  Phila. 

John  Wistar,  fourth  son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, May  7,  1759,  died  there  March  16,  1815,  was  a  prominent  business  man 
of  Philadelphia,  and  identified  with  business  and  industrial  interests  elsewhere. 
He  married,  1781,  Charlotte  Newbold,  born  1762,  died  1819. 
Issue  of  John  and  Charlotte  (Newbold)  Wistar: — 

Sarah  Wistar,  b.  1782,  d.  1794; 

Elizabeth  Wistar,  b.  1788,  d.  1799; 

Mary  Wistar,  b.  1786,  d.  1864;  m.  Isaac  Davis; 

Bartholomew  Wistar,  b.  1790,  d.  1841,  m.  1815,  Susan  N.  Lawrie;  issue: 

Mary  Ann  Wistar,  b.  1816,  d.  1875;  m-  William  Bunker  Case; 

Bartholomew  Wyatt  Wistar,  b.  1818,  d.  1869,  m.  Annabelle  Elliott  Cresson,  of 
whom  presently; 

Emma  Wistar,  b.  1820,  d.  1852,  m.  Richard  S.  Fellowes; 

Susan  Wistar,  b.  1824,  d.  1895;  m.  Ellerslie  Wallace,  M.  D.; 

Laura  Wistar,  b.  1835,  m.  1863,  William  Bispham. 
Cleayton  Wistar,  b.   1793,  d.   1840,  m.   (first)    1814,  Mary  Stevenson,   (second)   in  1827, 

Martha  Reeve ; 
Caspar  Wistar,  b.  1795,  d.  1850;  m.  1817,  Rebecca  Bassett; 
Charlotte  Newbold  Wistar,  b.  1797,  d.  1850;  m.  1827,  Jonathan  Freeland; 
Hannah  Wistar,  b.  1800,  d   1864;  m.  1820,  Theophilus  Beasley,  M.  D. ; 
Catharine  Wistar,  b.  1802,  d.  1871;  m.  1834,  Thomas  Evans; 
John  Wistar,  b.  1804,  d.  1880;  m.  1828,  Margaret  Newbold. 

Bartholomew  Wyatt  Wistar  (2),  of  Philadelphia,  born   1818,  died  1869; 
married,  1841,  Annabelle  Elliott  Cresson.     They  had  issue: — 

Dillwyn  Wistar,  Esq.,  of  Phila.  Bar,  b   Oct.  4,  1844;  m.  Sept.  13,  1871,  Elizabeth  Buck- 
ley Morris;  issue: 
Annabelle  Cresson  Wistar,  b.  Aug.  26.  1872;  m.  Feb.  17,  1897,  Horatio  Curtis  Wood,  of 
Phila.;  and  had  issue: 

Morris  Wistar  Wood,  b.  June  2,  1899; 
Annabelle  Bonnyman  Wood,  b.  Jan.  5,  1902; 
Horatio  Curtis  Wood,  b.  Nov.  3,  1903. 
Edith  Wistar,  b.  April  10,  1874;  m.  Oct.  15,  1896,  William  Marriott  Canby,  Jr.;  and  had 
issue : 

Marjorie  Wistar  Canby,  b.  April  13,  1899; 
William  Marriott  Canby  (3d),  b.  July  7,  1903. 
Joshua  Morris  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  6,  1879; 

Caleb  Cresson  Wistar,  b.  July  21,  1846;  graduated,  Haverford  College,  1865;  thirty  years 
engaged  in  wholesale  oil  business  in  Phila.;  member  of  Union  League;  Secretary  of 
Howard  Hospital;  member  of  Board  of  Managers  of  Phila.  Bourse;  member  German- 
town  Cricket  Club  and  Phila.  Cricket  Club;  member  of  Germantown  Science  and  Art 
Club,  and  of  Site  and  Relic  Society  of  Germantown.  M.  Nov.  22,  1876,  Mary  Emlen 
Cresson;  issue: 

Wyatt  Wistar,  b.  Oct.  14,  1877,  d.  Jan.  I,  1886; 


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Frederic  Vaux  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  3,  1878; 
Caleb  Cresson  Wistar,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1880 ; 
Elizabeth  Vaux  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  11,  1883. 
Emma  Wistar,  b.  Jan.  23,  1847,  d.  Feb.  10,  1899,  unm.; 

Bartholomew  Wyatt  Wistar  (3),  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  b.  Dec.  22,  1849;  m.  May  29,  1872, 
May  Dorland,  b.  1852;  issue: 

Emma  Mabel  Wistar,  b.  March  2,  1873;  m.  1894,  Malone  Terrell;  issue: 
Harrison  Malone  Terrell,  b.  April  2,  1895 ; 

Claudia  Mary  Terrell,  b.  July  16,  1897;  d.  Dec.  26,  1901 ; 
Arthur  Wistar  Terrell,  b.  May  14,  1904; 
John  Walter  Terrell,  b.  April  26,  igo6. 
John  Dorland  Wistar,  b.  Oct.  25,  1874,  m.  1900,  Nellie  E.  Douglass;  issue: 
Eleanor  Frances  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  30,  1901; 
Ruth  Alice  Wistar,  b.  June,  1904. 
Bartholomew  Wyatt  Wistar  (4),  b.  Sept.  3,  1876,  m.  1905,  Jane  Sladden ; 
Bessie  Louisa  Wistar,  b.  Sept.  24,  1879;  m.  1895,  Charles  Coffin  Hubbard; 
Mary  Emlen  Smith   Wistar,  b.   Aug.  24,   1881 ;  m.   1903,   Frank   Herbert  Reeves; 
issue : 

Frank  Wistar  Reeves,  b.  Feb.  23,  1806. 
Dillwyn  Caspar  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  14,  1883; 
Charles  Emlen  Wistar,  b.  April  6,  1886; 
Robert  Warder  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  16,  1889; 
Helen  Marjorie  Wistar,  b.  Feb.  2,  1895. 
Charles  Cresson  Wistar,  b.  1852,  d.  1853. 

Caspar  Wistas,  M.  D.,  son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  September  13,  1761,  died  there  January  22,  1818.  He  was  educated 
at  Friends'  schools  of  Philadelphia,  and  received  a  thorough  classical  training 
under  private  tutors.  He  became  interested  in  medical  science  through  assisting 
in  caring  for  wounded  soldiers  after  the  battle  of  Germantown,  and  studied  medi- 
cine under  Dr.  John  Rodman,  also  taking  a  regular  course  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  received  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine, 1782.  After  receiving  his  degree  he  went  to  Europe  and,  after  spending  a 
year  in  London,  went  to  Edinburgh,  and  entered  University  of  Edinburgh,  from 
which  he  received  his  degree  1786.  He  was  for  two  years  President  of  the  Royal 
Medical  Society  of  Edinburgh.  Returning  to  Philadelphia,  1786,  he  at  once  took 
up  the  practice  of  medicine  there  and  became  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  success- 
ful physicians  in  America. 

Dr.  Wistar  was  made  a  Fellow  of  Philadelphia  College  of  Physicians  1787,  and 
was  one  of  its  censors  from  1794  until  his  death.  He  was  many  years  physician 
of  Philadelphia  Dispensary ;  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1789-92;  Professor  of  Anatomy,  Midwifery,  and  Surgery,  1792-1808;  and 
at  the  death  of  his  associate,  Dr.  William  Shippen,  Jr.,  1808,  took  the  chair  of 
Anatomy  at  the  university,  which  he  filled  until  his  death,  1818.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  from  1787,  its  vice-president  1795-1815, 
and  president  from  the  latter  date  to  his  death.  He  was  also  president  of  the 
Society  for  the  Abolition  of  Slavery.  He  was  much  interested  in  natural  science 
and  gave  a  great  deal  of  time  to  scientific  researches.  His  house  at  Fourth  and 
Locust  streets  was  a  notable  gathering  place  for  students,  scientists,  and  travellers 
and  scholars  of  all  grades.  The  "Wistar  Parties"  maintained  in  Philadelphia  for 
many  years  had  their  origin  in  his  custom  of  keeping  "open  house"  once  every 
week  during  the  winter  months,  when  kindred  spirits  gathered  around  his  table 


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and  discussed  science,  literature  and  questions  of  the  day.  The  noted  travellers 
that  visited  Philadelphia  were  likewise  his  guests.  Baron  Von  Humboldt  was 
entertained  there,  1804. 

Caspar  Wistar,  M.  D.,  married  twice,  (first)  May  15,  1788,  Isabella,  daughter  of 
Christopher  Marshall,  Jr.,  and  Ann  Eddy,  granddaughter  Christopher  Marshall, 
Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Thompson.  She  was  born  March  7,  1763,  and  died  1790, 
without  issue.  Dr.  Wistar  married  (second),  November  28,  1798,  Elizabeth 
Mifflin. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Caspar  and  Elizabeth  (Mifflin)  Wistar: — 

Richard  Mifflin  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  11,  1805,  d.  unm.  1883;  was  a  distinguished  and  success- 
ful physician; 

Mifflin  Wistar,  M.  D.,  b.  June  30,  181 1,  d.  Sept.  19,  1872;  was  also  a  successful  and  prom- 
inent physician  of  Phila.;  m.  Dec.  13,  1832,  Esther  Fisher,  born  Sept.  26,  181 5,  dau.  of 
James  and  Hannah  (Fisher)  Smith;  they  had  no  issue; 

Elizabeth  Wistar,  b.  March  20,  1816,  d.  unm.  Oct.  1834. 

Thomas  Wistar,  youngest  son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Wyatt)  Wistar,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  March  17,  1764,  died  November  25,  1851.  He  married.  May  24, 
1786,  Mary,  born  November  27,  1765,  died  December  15,  1844,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Elizabeth  (Armitt)  Wain. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (IValn)  Wistar: — 

Richard  Wistar,  b.  Aug.  16,  1787,  d.  Dec.  11,  1787; 

Elizabeth  Wain  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  12,  1788,  d.  Nov.  6,  1880; 

Sarah  Wyatt  Wistar,  b.  March  5,  1790,  d.  April  16,  1791 ; 

Richard  Wistar,  b.  April  6,  1701; 

Margaret  Wistar,  b.  Jan.  30,  1792,  d.  July  21,  1886;  m.  Roberts  Vaux; 

Wyatt  Wistar,  b.  Jan.  8,  1795,  d.  July  20,  1795; 

Mary  Wistar,  b.  March  30,  1796,  d.  March  22,  1804; 

Thomas  Wistar,  b.  June  2i,  1798,  d.  Jan.,  1876;  m.   (first)    Elizabeth   Buckley  Morris; 

(second)   Mary  Richardson; 
Bartholomew  W>att  Wistar,  b.  May  17,  1800,  d.  Sept.  9,  1800; 

Caspar  Wistar,  b.  June  5,  1801,  d.  April  4,  1867;  m.  Lydia  Jones;  of  whom  presently; 
Joseph  Wistar,  b.  Dec.  27,  1802,  d.  March  3,  1879;  m.  Sarah  Elizabeth  Comfort; 
Sarah  Wistar,  b.  Oct.  27,  1804,  d.  April,  1872;  m.  Marmaduke  Cooper  Cope; 
Mary  Wistar,  b.  May  10,  1807,  d.  July  3,  1840;  m.  Moses  Brown. 

Caspar  Wistar,  M.  D.,  tenth  child  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Wain)  Wistar,  born 
June  5,  1801,  died  April  4,  1867,  was  a  physician  in  Philadelphia.     He  married, 
June  8,  1826,  Lydia  Jones,  born  October  24,  1804,  died  February  9,  1878,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Cooper  Jones  and  his  wife  Hannah  Firth. 
Issue  of  Dr.  Caspar  and  Lydia  (Jones)  Wistar: — 

Isaac  Jones  Wistar,  b.  Nov.  14,  1827,  d.  Sept.  18,  1905;  m.  1863,  Sarah  Toland; 
Mary  Wain  Wistar,  b.  June  8,  1829,  d.  Jan.  26,  igoi ;  m.  Sept.  5,  1855.  Moses  Brown,  b. 
Feb.  IS,  1829,  d.  May  23,  1883,  son  of  Moses  and  Mary  Wain  (Wistar)  Brown,  above 
mentioned ;  had  issue  : 

William  Wistar  Brown,  b.  1856,  d.  1887; 

Thomas  Wistar  Brown,  b.  Feb.  7,  1858;  m.  1890,  Margaret  Meirs  Coldstream,  and 

had  issue,  two  sons  and  four  daughters; 
Moses  Brown,  b.  April  7,  i860;  m.  March  4,  1886,  Mary  Louise  Coxe,  b.  July  13, 
1866,  dau.  of  John  Redman  and  Catharine  Clifton   (Bridges)    Coxe;  they  had 
issue: 

Thomas  Wistar  Brown,  b.  June  23,  1887. 


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Mary  Wain  Wistar  Brown,  b.  Nov.  23,  1861,  d.  Nov.  17,  1905;  m.  Feb.  9,  1888, 
Thomas  Story  Kirkbride  Morton,  M.  D. 
Margaret  Vaux  Wistar,  b.  Sept.  21,   1831 ;  m.  April  8,  1852,  Robert  Bowne  Haines,  b. 
Feb.  16,  1827,  d.  Aug.  9,  1895;  issue: 

Caspar  Wistar  Haines,  b.  Feb.  11,  1853; 

Robert  Bowne  Haines,  b.  April  10,  1857;  m.  June  18,  i8go,  Mary  West,  b.  March 
19,  1858,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Isabella  (Pennock)   Huston;  issue,  two  sons  and 
two  daughters ; 
Mary  Morton  Haines,  b.  April  2,  i860; 

William  Jones  Haines,  b.  Oct.  14,  1865;  m.  May  26,  1903,  Katharine  Wirt,  b.  Dec. 
•29.  1873,  dau.  of  Dr.  D.  Murray  and  Ellen  Rosa  (Randall)  Cheston;  issue,  one 
son  and  two  daughters; 
James  Bowne  Haines,  b.  July  18,  1869; 

Diedrich  Jansen  Haines,  b.  April  4,  1871;  m.  Oct.  20,  1904,  Ella  Eustis  Wister,  b 
Aug.  30,  1879,  dau.  of  William  Rotch  and  Mary  (Eustis)  Wister.  and  a  descend- 
ant of  John  Wister,  brother  of  Caspar,  the  emigrant,  an  account  of  whom  and 
some  of  his  descendants  is  given  below;  issue: 
Caspar  Wistar  Haines,  b.  Oct.  18,  1905. 

Caspar  Wistar,  b.  1833,  d. ; 

Hannah  Jones  Wistar,  b.  April  zy,  1835;  m.  Dec.  16,  1858,  William  Hacker,  b.  April  2, 

1834,  d.  March  11,  1898,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Beulah  (Morris)  Hacker;  they  had  issue: 

Edward  Hacker,  b.  April  7,  1863;  m.  Oct.  18,  1905,  Mary  Foster  Lycett;  issue: 

William  Hacker,  b.  Nov.  23,  1907. 
William  Estes  Hacker,  b.  Sept.  12,  1867;  m.  April  27,  1897,  Mabel  Radcliffe  Tilton; 
Caspar  Wistar  Hacker,  b.  Oct.  9,  1869; 

Arthur  Heathcote  Hacker,  b.  Jan.  15,  1871;  m.  April  10,  1902,  Emily,  b.  Feb.   13, 
1880,  dau.  of  William  Piatt  and  Alice  (Lyman)   Pepper;  they  have  issue: 
Arthur  Heathcote  Hacker,  Jr.,  b.  July  17,  1903; 
William  Piatt  Hacker,  b.  Dec.  7,  1904. 
William  Wilberforce  Wistar,  b.  March  23,  1837,  d.  May  13,  1866;  m.  1864,  Anna  Mary, 
dau.  of  Harrison  and  Emma  (Botham)  Alderson ;  they  had  issue: 

Emma  Alderson  Wistar,  b.  Sept.  2,  1865;  m.  1888,  John  Shaw,  and  had  issue: 
Mary  Violet  Alderson  Shaw,  b.  1890; 
John  Valentine  Wistar  Shaw,  b.  1894. 
Thomas  Wistar,  M.  D.,  b.  March  23,  1837;  m.  Oct.  15,  1898,  Theodora  Feltwell; 
Sarah  Wistar,  b.  Feb.  27,  1839;  m-  Nov.  28,  1866,  William  Gibbons,  b.  March  26,  1838,  d. 
April  28,  1880,  son  of  Samuel  and  Anna  (Gibbons)  Rhoads;  issue: 
Lydia  Wistar  Rhoads,  b.  June  29,  1868; 

Jane  Gibbons  Rhoads,  b.  May  i,  1870;  m.  June  8,  1897,  Marriot  Canby  Morris,  b. 
Sept.  7,  1863,  son  of  Elliston  Perot  Morris  and  his  wife  Martha  Canby;  they 
had  issue: 

Elliston  Perot  Morris,  b.  May  17,  1899; 
Marriot  Canby  Morris,  b.  Dec.  29,  1900; 
Janet  Morris,  b.  April  7,  1907. 
Ethel  Rhoads,  b.  June  18,  1871 ;  m.  Feb.  12,  1907,  Thomas  Charles  Potts,  b.  Oct. 
IS,  1871 ;  have  issue: 
Sarah  Rhoads  Potts,  b.  Nov.  26,  1897. 
Edward  Rhoads,  b.  Oct.  8,  1873,  d.  July  4,  1903; 

William  Gibbons  Rhoads,  b.  July  10,  1876;  m.  Nov.  11,  1903,  Ellen  Nora  Ward,  b. 
April  5,  1883;  have  issue: 

Nora  Ward  Rhoads,  b.  Jan.  21,  1906. 
Samuel  Rhoads,  b.  Feb.  16,  1878. 
Lydia  Jones  Wistar,  b.  May  17,  1841 ;  ni.  April  3,  1879,  Edward  Hale  Kendall,  b.  July  31, 
1842,  d.  May  10,  1892;  issue: 

Isaac  Wistar  Kendall,  b.   Dec.  12,  1879; 

Edward  Hale  Kendall,  Jr.,  b.  July  16,  1881;  m.  Nov.  19,  1902,  Rebecca  Stevens,  b. 
Aug.  15,  1881,  dau.  of  Henry  Wolcott  and  Helen  L.  (Stevens)  Thomas;  issue: 
Edward  Hale  Kendall,  b.  Sept.  s,  1903,  d.  Dec.  23,  1903; 
Edward  Hale  Kendall,  b.  Oct.  16,  1904; 
Thomas  Wistar  Kendall,  b.  May  17,  1906. 
Katharine  Jansen  Wistar,  b.  July  29,  1843,  d.  March  14,  1902. 


THE  IVISTER  FAMILY. 

John  Wuster,  second  son  of  Hans  Caspar  and  Anna  Catharina  W'uster,  born 
in  Hilspach,  Rhenish  Palatinate,  November  8,  1708;  remained  with  his  father  in 
Hilspach  until  the  latter's  death  in  1726,  when  he  at  once  made  preparations  to 
join  his  brother  Caspar  in  Pennsylvania.  In  May,  1727,  he  embarked  for  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  arrived  in  September  of  the  same  year.  Like  his  brother,  he 
brought  little  of  this  world's  goods  with  him,  and  for  the  first  few  years  of  his 
residence  in  the  city  was  probably  employed  in  connection  with  some  of  the  in- 
dustries established  by  his  brother.  He  later  engaged  in  the  business  of  a  wine 
merchant.  In  1731,  he  purchased  a  lot  on  Market  street  between  Third  and 
Fourth  streets,  and  having  married,  April  9,  1731,  Salome  Zimmerman,  of  Lan- 
caster county,  also  a  native  of  Germany,  he  took  up  his  residence  on  his  new  pur- 
chase, which  continued  to  be  the  city  home  of  the  family  for  three  generations. 
Like  his  brother  Caspar,  John  Wister  prospered  in  his  bnsmess  undertakings  and 
acquired  a  comfortable  fortune,  becoming  the  owner  of  several  dwelling  and 
business  places  in  the  city,  and  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Germantown  and  Bristol 
townships,  including  "Wister's  Woods"  still  owned  by  his  descendants,  and  a  large 
tract  on  Shoemaker's  Lane  and  Germantown  Road.  On  the  latter  tract,  purchased 
1 74 1,  he  erected  1744,  the  old  mansion,  ever  since  occupied  by  his  descendants, 
which  they  have  christened  "Grumblethorpe,"  now  occupied  by  his  great-grand- 
son Charles  J.  W'ister,  Jr.  He  also  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Lancaster  county, 
\-,'hich  remained  in  the  family  three  generations.  He  made  the  Germantown  Man- 
sion his  summer  residence,  retaining  his  fine  city  residence  on  Market  street, 
where  he  died  January  31,  1789. 

John  W'ister  was  a  man  of  the  strictest  uprightness  and  integrity,  of  a  kindly 
and  charitable  disposition.  For  many  years  he  kept  up  communication  with  his 
relatives  in  Germany  and  sent  them  financial  assistance.  He  also  dispensed  a 
liberal  charity  in  his  own  city.  Becoming  on  his  marriage  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  during  the  Revolution  he  took  no  active  part  in  the  contest,  though 
there  is  evidence  that  he  was  in  sympathy  with  the  cause  of  independence.  He 
remained  in  Philadelphia  during  its  occupation  by  the  British,  occupying  the  house 
at  325  Market  street,  long  afterwards  occupied  by  his  sons  and  grandsons.  As 
before  stated,  he  married,  April  9.  1731,  Salome  Zimmerman.  She  died  1736.  Of 
her  four  children  only  one  lived  to  mature  years,  Salome,  who  married  William 
Chancellor.  On  November  10,  1737,  John  Wister  married  (second)  Anna  Cath- 
arine Rubenkam,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Wanfried,  Germany,  and  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Philip  Rubenkam,  a  clergyman  of  that  city.  She  died  May  17, 
1770,  having  borne  her  husband  five  children  of  whom  three  lived  to  maturity.  Mr. 
W^ister  married  (third)  Anna  Thoman,  who  had  come  to  Pennsylvania  with  her 
father.  Durst  Thoman.  1736.  By  her  he  had  no  children.  John  W'ister  was  at 
one  time  much  inclined  towards  Moravianism  and  became  the  intimate  friend  of 
Count  Zinzendorf,  who  during  his  visit  to  Pennsylvania  in  1741.  was  a  frequent 
visitor  at  the  Wister  home  in  Philadelphia,  and  two  chairs  presented  by  him  to 
John  Wister  are  still  prized  possessions  of  his  descendants. 


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Issue  of  John  and  Anna  Catharine  (Rubenkam)  Wister: — 

Daniel,  b.  Feb.  4,  1738-9,  d.  Feb.  15,  1804,  m.  May  5,  1760,  Lowry  Jones;  of  whom  pres- 
ently: 
Catharine,  b.  Jan.  2,  1742-3,  m.  Samuel  Miles; 
William,  b.  March  29,  1746,  d.  1800,  unm.,  was  a  wholesale  merchant  of  Phila. 

Daniel  Wister,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Anna  Catharine  (Rubenkam)  Wister, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  February  4,  1739  (N.  S.),  on  coming  of  age  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  the  mercantile  business,  residing  during  the  earlier  days 
of  his  married  life  in  the  old  homestead  at  325  Market  street,  where  all  his  chil- 
dren were  born;  spending  the  summer  months  at  the  Germantown  house.  After 
the  death  of  his  father,  however,  he  made  Germantown  his  permanent  residence. 
He  became  one  of  the  prominent  merchants  of  Philadelphia.  Both  he  and  his 
father  were  signers  of  the  Non-importation  Agreement,  but  like  his  father,  Daniel 
Wister  took  no  part  in  the  active  struggle. 

Daniel  Wister,  married,  by  Friends'  ceremony,  5mo.  5,  1760,  Lowry  Jones, 
born  in  Lower  Merion,  lomo.  30,  1742,  daughter  of  Owen  and  Susanna  (Evans) 
Jones,  of  Lower  Merion,  later  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  She  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  Jonathan  and  Gainor  (Owen)  Jones,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Dr. 
Edward  Jones,  the  pioneer  of  the  colony  of  Welsh  settlers  in  Merion  and  Haver- 
ford  townships,  who  came  from  the  neighborhood  of  Bala,  Merionethshire,  Wales, 
1682.  The  wife  of  Dr.  Edward  Jones  was  Mary  Wynne,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Wynne,  of  Caerways,  Flintshire,  Wales,  an  early  minister  among  Friends,  who 
with  his  second  wife  Elizabeth  Mode,  came  to  Pennsylvania  with  William  Penn, 
in  the  "Welcome,"  1682,  and  was  Speaker  of  the  first  Pennsylvania  Assembly. 
While  Daniel  Wister  was  of  pure  German  descent,  his  wife  Lowry  Jones  was  of 
pure  Welsh  stock,  and  descended  through  a  long  line  of  worthy  ancestors  from 
the  ancient  princes  of  Britain.  Her  grandmother  Gainor  Owen,  was  a  daughter 
of  Robert  Owen,  and  Rebecca  Humphrey,  of  Merion,  who  came  from  Fron  Goch, 
Merionethshire,  to  Pennsylvania,  1690,  and  whose  descent  from  the  Twelfth  Cen- 
tury chieftain,  Rhirid  Flaid,  is  given  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Her  mother  Sus- 
anna Evans,  born  1719,  died  181 1,  was  a  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Lowry  (Will- 
iams) Evans,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Rees  John  Williams,  who  with  his  wife 
Hannah  Price  (ap  Rhys),  a  descendant  of  Owen  Glendower  Tudor,  and  of  Ed- 
ward L,  came  to  Pennsylvania  1684,  and  settled  near  Gwynedd.  Hugh  Evans, 
maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Wister,  born  1682,  died  1772,  many  years  a  repre- 
sentative in  the  Provincial  Assembly,  was  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Evans,  who 
emigrated  from  Wales,  1698,  and  settled  at  Gwynedd;  and  a  descendant  of  Owen, 
Prince  of  Gwynedd  and  of  Bleddyn,  Prince  of  Wales. 

In  the  autumn  of  1776,  Daniel  Wister  removed  his  family  to  the  Foulke  home- 
stead near  the  present  Pennlynn  station  on  the  North  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  then 
occupied  by  Hannah,  the  widow  of  William  Foulke,  and  her  three  unmarried  chil- 
dren, Jesse,  Priscilla  and  Lydia.  An  elder  son  Amos,  had  married  Hannah  Jones, 
sister  to  Mrs.  Wister,  which  may  account  for  the  selection  of  the  Foulke  home- 
stead for  a  place  of  refuge  during  the  period  when  Philadelphia  was  threatened 
and  occupied  by  an  armed  force  of  the  enemy.  The  family  of  Daniel  Wister  then 
consisted  of  his  wife  Lowry,  and  five  children — his  eldest  daughter  Sarah,  aged 
fifteen,  the  "Sallie  Wister"   whose  delightful  "Journal,"  written  at  the   Foulke 


266  WISTER 

homestead,  during  her  exile  from  her  girl  friends  in  the  city,  to  one  of  whom, 
"Debby  Norris,"  later  Mrs.  George  Logan,  it  was  addressed,  has  been  printed ; 
Elizabeth  ("Sister  Betsy"  of  the  Journal),  then  in  her  thirteenth  year;  Hannah, 
aged  nine  years ;  Susannah,  in  her  fourth  year :  and  John,  a  toddler  of  ten  months. 
Their  residence  at  Pennlynn  covered  the  period  of  the  battles  of  Germantown  and 
Brandywine,  and  the  encampment  of  Washington  and  his  army  at  White  Marsh, 
but  a  few  miles  away,  and  the  "Journal"  covers  the  period  from  September  24, 
1777,  to  the  return  of  the  family  to  Philadelphia,  August,  1778,  aftei  its  evacu- 
ation by  the  British,  during  a  great  portion  of  which  time  the  Foulke  house  was 
the  headquarters  of  Gen.  Smallwood  of  the  Maryland  Troop  and  his  staff,  with 
whom  and  many  other  officers  of  the  Continental  army,  "Sally  Wister"  was  closely 
associated  and  on  intimate  terms.  Sally  Wister  was  a  bright,  intellectual  girl,  just 
budding  into  womanhood,  and  her  journal,  somewhat  in  the  nature  of  a  series  of 
letters  to  her  girl  friend,  recorded  her  everyday  impressions  of  the  scenes  and 
happenings  of  that  eventful  period,  and  its  reference  to  her  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances gives  us  delightful  glimpses  of  the  social  life  of  that  period.  Both  Sally  and 
her  sister  Elizabeth,  developed  into  fine  types  of  womanhood,  they  both  wrote 
poetry  of  more  than  ordinary  merit  and  were  contributors  to  the  Portfolio,  Sally, 
under  the  nom-de-plume  of  "Laura"  and  Elizabeth  under  that  of  "Elvira." 
Neither  ever  married.  Sally  was  ardently  devoted  to  her  accomplished  and  charm- 
ing mother  and  at  the  latter's  death,  2mo.  15,  1804,  was  so  broken  hearted  over 
her  loss  that  she  did  not  long  survive  her,  dying  4mo.  21,  1804.  Daniel  Wister 
died  lomo.  27,  1805,  at  his  Germantown  residence,  where  the  family  had  perma- 
nently resided  after  the  death  of  his  father,  1789. 
Issue  of  Daniel  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Wister: — 

Sarah  (Sally  Wister),  b.  7mo.  30,  1761,  d.  unm.  4mo.  21,  1804; 

Elizabeth,  b.  2mo.  27,  1764,  d.  unm.  in  1812; 

Hannah,  b.  iimo.  19,  1767,  d.  unm.  in  1827; 

Susannah,  b.  2mo.  24,  1773,  d.  iimo.  27,  1862,  m.  3mo.  10,  1796,  John  Morgan  Price; 

John.  b.  3mo.    20,  1776,  d.  i2mo.  12,  1862,  m.  1798,  Elizabeth  Harvey,  of  whom  presently; 

Charles  Jones,  b.  4mo.  12,  1782,  d.  7mo.  23,  1865,  m.  (first)  Rebecca  Bullock,  and  (sec- 
ond) Sarah  Whitesides;  of  whom  later; 

William  Wynne,  b.  4mo.  16,  1784,  d.  iimo.  16,  1896,  unm.  He  was  an  accomplished 
scholar,  an  intimate  friend  of  Dr.  Darlington,  of  West  Chester,  the  eminent  botanist. 

John  Wister,  eldest  son  of  Daniel  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Wister,  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  uncle  William  Wister  in  the  wholesale  mercantile  trade  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  at  his  uncle's  death  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother  Charles 
under  firm  name  of  John  &  Charles  Wister  and  continued  the  business  until  1819, 
their  brother-in-law,  John  Morgan  Price,  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  also,  a 
short  time  after  its  organization.  In  1819,  the  firrn  closed  out  the  business  and 
both  brothers  retired  to  their  Germantown  hoines,  John  to  "Vernon"  and  Charles 
J.  to  "Grumblethorpe,"  both  in  the  same  immediate  neighborhood.  The  brothers 
were  devotedly  attached  to  each  other  and  kept  up  theclosest  associations  through- 
out their  long  life.  Both  had  retired  with  ample  fortunes,  and  devoted  much  of 
their  time  to  literary  and  scientific  pursuits.  John,  in  early  life,  was  convivially 
inclined  and  took  much  delight  in  fox-hunting,  belonging  to  an  aristocratic  fox- 
hunting club,  and  also  to  the  celebrated  "Denny  Club,"  founded  by  Joseph  Denny, 
the  accomplished  editor  of  the  Portfolio.    The  club  was  composed  of  a  number  of 


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literary  gentlemen  of  Philadelphia,  who  were  in  the  habit  of  entertaining  each 
other  and  foreigners,  and  others  of  distinction,  when  visiting  the  city.  Thomas 
Moore,  while  in  Philadelphia  in  1804,  was  entertained  by  this  congenial  club,  and 
to  its  members  addressed  the  lines  in  the  Letter  to  Spencer,  beginning, — 

"Yet  ye  forgive  me,  O  you  sacred  few, 
Whom  late  by  Delaware's  green  banks  I  knew : 
Whom  known  and  loved  thro'  many  a  social  eve, 
'Twas  bliss  to  live  with  and  'twas  pain  to  leave." 

In  a  note  to  the  poem  he  states  that  it  was  in  the  society  of  Mr.  Denny  and  his 
friends,  that  he  passed  the  few  agreeable  moments  of  his  tour. 

John  Wister,  however,  later  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
adopted  the  plain  dress  and  address  common  to  that  sect,  and  was  extremely  do- 
mestic and  retired  in  his  habits,  seldom  seeking  society  beyond  his  own  fireside 
and  the  circle  of  his  closest  and  immediate  friends,  by  whom  he  was  greatly  be- 
loved. The  obituary  notice  of  him  at  the  time  of  his  death  most  happily  and  truly 
portrays  the  estimation  he  was  held  in  by  his  acquaintances.  "Mr.  John  Wister 
was  the  head  of  a  large,  influential  and  wealthy  family;  and  his  name  and  posi- 
tion were  as  familiar  to  this  community  for  half  a  century,  though  living  in  close 
retirement,  as  if  his  life  had  been  the  most  ostentatious  and  prominent.  Few  of 
our  citizens  can  remember  when,  more  than  forty  years  ago,  he  retired  with  a 
very  large  fortune  to  his  late  residence  in  Germantown,  where  he  found,  during 
that  long  period,  those  enjoyments,  in  the  midst  of  a  devoted  fireside,  which  few 
.«o  fondly  appreciated,  and  with  which  fewer  have  been  blessed  to  the  same  extent. 
His  peace  appeared  to  be  round  his  own  hearth.  His  home  was  his  paradise,  and 
all  were  made  happy  who  came  within  its  gates.  Mr.  Wister  affected  no  display; 
there  was  not  a  grain  of  factitious  pride  in  his  nature.  He  possessed  a  firm  and 
manly  will,  and  had  a  decided  opinion  upon  all  questions ;  but  in  it  all  there  was  an 
ever-flowing  spring  of  geniality,  extremely  pleasing  and  at  once  putting  everybody 
at  ease.  If  the  acts  of  Mr.  Wister  are  to  be  received  as  the  best  evidence  of  char- 
acter, then  there  was  no  better  Christian  than  he.  Indeed  his  whole  life  was  a 
beautiful  model  for  example.  To  an  austere  uprightness  he  added  an  unchange- 
able consistency,  and  a  religious  affluence  that  pervaded  his  well  balanced  mind, 
and  illustrated  his  daily  practices.  No  charity  passed  under  his  eye  unassisted; 
and  no  one  deserving  pity  left  him  empty  handed.  Thus  while  he  shut  himself  up, 
technically,  from  'society'  and  the  'world,'  no  one  fulfilled  his  allotted  duty  more 
studiously,  more  usefully,  and  more  in  accordance  with  the  truest  dictates  of  a 
discriminating  wisdom  and  humanity.  From  our  personal  knowledge  of  the  de- 
ceased, we  are  warranted  in  thus  speaking  of  him.  His  memory  requires  no 
eulogium  at  the  hands  of  any  one.  Sufficient  be  it  to  say  no  man  passed  through 
life  more  scatheless,  so  entirely  unafifected  with  its  worldliness  and  heresies ;  or, 
when  laid  in  the  receptacle  of  all  living,  was  more  devoutly  regretted  than  John 
Wister."  He  died  at  "Vernon,"  his  Germantown  seat,  i2mo.  27,  1862,  in  his 
eighty-seventh  year,  after  a  residence  there  of  half  a  century. 

John  Wister  married,  1798,  Elizabeth  Harvey,  of  Bordentown,  New  Jersey. 
Issue  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Han'ey)  Wister: — 

Sarah  Wister,  b.  April  4,  1800,  d.  March  9,  1848;  m.  1821,  John  Stevenson  and  had  issue: 
Elizabeth  Wister  Stevenson; 


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Susan  Stevenson ; 

William  Crook  Stevenson; 

Anna  Wister  Stevenson. 
William   Wister,  b.  Feb.  2,   1803,  d.   Nov.   10,   1891;   m.   Sept.   26,   1826,   Sarah   Logan 

Fisher;  of  whom  presently; 
John  Wister,  b.  Dec.  2,  1804,  d.  at  "Vernon,"  Jan.  28,  1893;  unm.; 
Anne  Wister,  b.  Dec.  29,  1808,  d.  Jan.  3,  1888,  unm. 
Charles  Wister,  b.  1810,  d.  Aug.  Q,  1893,  unm.; 
Jones  Wister,  b.  1813,  d.  at  Paris,  France,  Nov.  14,  1857,  unm.; 
Mary  Wister,  b.  1815,  d.  Oct.  24,  1886,  unm.; 
Louis  Wister,  b.  1818,  d.  May  5,  1902;  m.  July  3,  1850,  Elizabeth  Randolph,  and  had  issue: 

Elizabeth  Harvey  Wister,  m.  Dec.  13,  1883,  Charles  P.  Keith; 

Sara  Edythe  Wister,  m.  Dec.  3,  1901,  Gershom  Chichester. 
Susan  Wister,  b.  May  23,  1820,  d.  Nov.  14,  1884;  m.  April  28,  1846,  Dr.  John  Dickinson 
Logan,  of  "Stenton,"  and  had  issue : 

Algernon  Sydney  Logan,  m.  Mary  Wynne,  dau.  of  William  Wynne  and  Hannah 
(Lewis)  Wister,  and  granddaughter  of  Charles  Jones  Wister. 

William  Wister,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Harvey)  Wister,  born  in 
Germantown,  February  2,  1803,  married,  August  26,  1826,  Sarah  Logan  Fisher, 
born  at  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts,  May  18,  1806,  daughter  of  William  Logan 
and  Mary  (Rodman)  Fisher,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Logan) 
Fisher,  whose  ancestry  on  both  paternal  and  maternal  lines  is  given  elsewhere  in 
these  volumes.  She  was  to  an  eminent  degree  an  estimable  woman,  and  exercised 
through  life  a  potent  influence  for  good  in  the  community  in  which  she  lived.  A 
testimony  to  her  worth,  written  after  her  death,  December  26,  1891,  says,  among 
other  things,  "Her  power  of  making  others  happy  came  from  a  strong  spring  of 
happiness  in  herself,  and  its  source  was  goodness.  *  *  *  No  word  or  deed  of 
hers  had  a  double  motive,  and  she  never  said  anything  for  effect.  *  *  *  She 
was  religious,  but  her  strong,  unspoken  piety  found  no  other  expression  than  in 
acts  of  love  and  devotion  to  those  around  her,  and  in  lifelong  regular  attendance 
at  Friends'  Meeting,  to  which  she  belonged  from  birth.  =t  *  *  She  helped  to 
build  up  a  home  with  a  tradition  of  popularity  beyond  any  we  have  ever  known." 
Issue  of  WiUiam  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher)  IVlster: — 

WiLLi.^M  RoTCH  Wister,  b.  Dec.  7,  1827;  m.  Mary  Eustis;  of  whom  presently; 

John  Wister,  b.  July  15,  1829;  m.  1864,  Sarah  Tyler  Boas;  of  whom  later; 

Harvey  Langhorne  Wister,  b.  July  17,  1831,  d.  Aug.  24,  1852; 

Col.  Langhorne  Wister,  b.  Sept.  20,  1834,  d.  March  19,  1891 ;  commissioned,  June  4,  1861, 
Capt.  of  Co.  B,  Forty-second  Regiment,  Pa.  Volunteers;  promoted  Col.  of  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fiftieth  Regiment,  Pa.  Volunteers,  Sept.  5,  1862;  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg,  July  i,  1863;  brevetted  Brigadier-General  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
service;  resigned  Feb.  22,  1864; 

Elizabeth  Harvey  Wister,  b.  July  20,  1836,  d.  Feb.  16,  1838; 

Jones  Wister,  b.  Feb.  9,  1839;  m.  (first)  Caroline  de  Tousard  Stocker;  (second)  Sabine 
(d'Villiers)  Weightman;  of  whom  later; 

Francis  Wister.  b.  June  2,  1841,  d.  Nov.  23,  1905;  m.  Mary  Tiers;  of  whom  later; 

Rodman  Wister,  b.  Aug.  10,  1S44;  m.  Betty  Black;  of  whom  later. 

William  Rotch  Wister,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher") 
Wister,  born  at  "Belfield,"  Germantown,  December  7,  1827,  was  educated  at  Ger- 
mantown Academy  and  University  of  Pennsylvania ;  entering  the  University  in 
the  sophomore  class  1846,  and  graduating  1848.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia Bar,  October  6,  1849,  and  has  since  practiced  his  profession  in  Philadel- 


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phia.      He   was    Lieutenant-Colonel   of   the   Twentieth    Regiment,    Pennsylvania 
Cavalry,  June,  1863-January,  1864. 

He  married,  March  4,  1868,  Mary,  daughter  of  Frederick  A.  and  Mary  (Chan- 
ning)  Eustis,  of  Massachusetts,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  William  Ellery  Channing, 
D.  D. 

Issue  of  William  Rotch  and  Mary  (Eustis)  Wister: — 

Mary  Channing  Wister,  b.  March  30,  1870;  m.  April  21,  1898,  Owen  Wister,  author  of 
"The  Virginian"  and  other  popular  stories,  son  of  Dr.  Owen  Wister,  of  Germantown, 
hereafter  mentioned,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Butler;  had  issue: 
Mary  Channing  Wister,  b.  Sept.  20,  1899; 
Frances  Kemble  Wister,  b.  Sept.  20,  1901 ; 
Owen  Jones  Wister,  b.  Sept.  20,  1901 ; 
William  Rotch  Wister,  b.  Feb.  18,  1904. 
William  Rotch  Wister,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  22,  1871,  d.  July  23,  1872; 
Frances  Anne  Wister,  b.  Nov.  26,  1874; 

Ella  Eustis  Wister,  b.  Aug.  30,  1879;  m.  Oct.  20,  1904,  Diedrich  Jansen  Haines,  b.  April 
4,  1871,  son  Eobert  Bowne  Haines,  by  his  wife  Margaret  Vaux,  dau.  of  Dr.  Caspar 
and  Lydia  (Jones)  Wistar,  and  descendant  of  Caspar  Wistar,  emigrant  brother  of  John 
Wister,  as  shown  in  the  earlier  part  of  this  sketch;  they  had  issue: 
Caspar  Wistar  Haines,  b.  Oct.  18,  1905. 

John  Wister,  second  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher)  Wister,  born 
at  "Belfield,"  Germantown,  July  15,  1829,  was  for  many  years  interested  in  iron 
mines  and  furnaces  in  Pennsylvania.    He  married,  October  19,  1864,  Sarah  Tyler, 
daughter  of  Daniel  D.  and  Margaret  (Bates)  Boas. 
Issue  of  John  and  Sarah  Tyler  (Boas)  Wister: — 

John  Boas  Wister,  b.  March  28,  1866,  d.  Jan.  12,  1869; 

Elizabeth  Wister,  b.  Sept.  i,  1870; 

Sarah  Logan  Wister,  b.  Dec.  7,  1873; 

Margaret  Wister,  b.  Jan.  13,  1882; 

John  Caspar  Wister,  b.  March  19,  1887,  is  a  student  at  Harv. 

Jones  Wister,  fifth  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher)  Wister,  born  at 
"Belfield,"  Germantown,  February  9,  1839,  is  an  iron  merchant  in  Philadelphia 
and  largely  interested  in  the  family  iron  furnaces  and  forges.  He  was  a  member 
of  First  Troop,  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry,  and  served  with  it  at  Gettysburg,  July, 
1863.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers ;  a  charter 
member  of  the  Germantown  Cricket  Club;  president  of  Belfield  Country  Club; 
vice-president  of  the  Egypt  Mills  Club ;  president  of  the  Colonial  Club,  etc. 

Jones  Wister  married  (first),  October  6,  1868,  CaroHne  de  Tousard  Stocker, 
daughter  of  Anthony  B.  and  Jane  f  Randolph)  Stocker.  She  died  June  18,  1884, 
and  he  married  (second),  June  20,  1895,  Sabine  (d'Villiers)  Weightman,  widow 
of  William  Weightman,  of  Philadelphia,  and  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary 
(Baursock)  d'Villiers. 

Issue  of  Jones  and  Caroline  de  Tousard  (Stocker)  Wister: — 

Ella  Middleton  Maxwell  Wister,  b.  July  13,  1870,  d.  Feb.  15,  1871; 
Alice  Logan  Wister,  b.  Dec.  9,  1871,  d.  Dec.  i,  1881 ; 

Anna  Wister,  b.  Aug.  28,  1875;  m.  Oct.  19,  1897,  William  Littleton  Barclay,  of  N.  Y., 
and  had  issue : 

Caroline  Stocker  Barclay,  b.  Sept.  12,  1898; 


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William  Littleton  Barclay,  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  30,  1899; 
Anne  Wister  Barclay,  b.  Aug.  30,  1901 ; 
Charles  Walter  Barclay,  b.  Dec.  29,  1905. 
Ethel  Langhorne  Wister,  b.  July  12,  1881. 

Francis  Wister,  fifth  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher)  Wister,  born 
at  the  old  family  mansion,  "Belfield,"  Germantown,  June  2,  1841,  was  educated  at 
Germantown  Academy  and  University  of  Pennsylvania,  graduating  at  the  latter 
institution,  class  of  i860.  He  responded  to  the  first  call  for  volunteers  to  put 
down  the  Rebellion,  and  was  commissioned  Captain,  in  the  Twelfth  Regiment, 
U.  S.  Infantry,  August  5,  1861.  He  was  promoted  to  Colonel  of  the  Two  Hun- 
dred and  Fifteenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers  April  21,  1865,  was  mus- 
tered out  of  the  volunteer  service  August  28,  1865,  and  resigned  from  the  regular 
army  service  April  5,  1866.  While  serving  with  the  Twelfth  U.  S.  Infantry,  he 
was  brevetted  Major  for  gallant  and  meritorious  service  at  the  battle  of  Chan- 
cellorsville.  May  3,  1863,  and  on  July  2,  1863,  was  brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel, 
for  gallant  and  meritorious  service,  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  After  resigning 
from  the  army  at  the  conclusion  of  peace,  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  and  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  and  coke  business  there  until  attacked  with  an  incurable  disease 
a  few  months  before  his  death.  He  died  November  25,  1905.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 29,  1880,  Mary  Chancellor,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Chancellor 
(Twells)  Tiers,  who  survives  him.     They  had  no  children. 

Rodman  Wister,  youngest  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Logan  (Fisher)  Wister, 
born  at  "Belfield,"  August  10,  1844,  is  an  iron  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  identified 
with  family  iron  industries.  He  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Marks  Biddle's  Company, 
"Home  Guards,"  of  Germantown,  saw  active  service  in  the  Antietam  campaign  of 
the  Civil  War,  in  1863  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Harry  Landis'  Battery,  U.  S.  Vols., 
and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  discharged,  1863, 
on  account  of  illness.  He  is  first  Vice-president  of  Germantown  Cricket  Club ; 
member  of  Art  Club  and  Belfield  Country  Club.  He  married,  April  17,  1872, 
Eliza  Irwin,  daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  Wiley  and  Eliza  Ann  (Irwin)  Black,  of 
Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania. 

Issue  of  Rodman  and  Eliza  Irzvin  (Black)  Wister: — 

Emily  Wister,  b.  Dec.  10,  1885,  d.  April  30,  1886; 
Langhorne  Harvey  Wister,  b.  April  12,  1887; 
Rodman  Mifflin  Wister,  b.  June  20,  1890. 

Charles  Jones  Wister,  second  son  of  Daniel  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Wister,  born 
at  the  old  Wister  house,  325  Market  street,  Philadelphia,  April  12,  1782,  in  the 
house  upon  which  Benjamin  Franklin  erected  his  first  lightning  rod — still  in 
possession  of  the  Wister  family — connecting  it  with  a  bell  which  gave  an  alarm 
whenever  the  atmosphere  was  surcharged  with  electricity.  The  bell  so  annoyed 
Mrs.  Daniel  Wister,  that  it  was  removed  at  her  request.  Charles  Jones  Wister's 
first  educational  effort  was  in  a  private  school  on  Arch  street,  and  at  the  age  of 
nine  years  he  entered  the  "Quaker  Academy"  on  Fourth  street,  below  Walnut, 
then  under  the  charge  of  Jeremiah  Paul,  and  when,  during  the  summer  months, 
the  family  were  domiciled  at  the  Germantown  residence,  he  attended  Germantown 
Academy,  at  that  tiine  presided  over  by  Col.  Thomas  Dungan.     He  continued  at 


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school  until  his  seventeenth  year,  when  he  was  apprenticed  to  his  uncle  William 
Wister,  who  had  succeeded  his  father  John  Wister,  the  pioneer,  as  a  merchant  at 
the  old  store,  now  325  Market  street,  and  after  a  year's  experience  in  the  store 
was  sent  on  collecting  tours  for  the  firm,  his  trips  extending  as  far  west  as  Pitts- 
burg, and  south  to  Winchester,  Virginia.  Many  novel  experiences  in  these  jour- 
neys, made  on  horseback  through  a  sparsely  settled  country,  are  narrated  in  letters 
exchanged  between  him  and  his  sisters  and  mother  at  Germantown,  still  in  posses- 
sion of  his  son,  Charles  J.  Wister,  Jr.,  of  Germantown.  Many  of  those  written  to 
him  by  his  talented  sisters,  Sally  and  Elizabeth,  were  couched  in  rhyme,  and  pos- 
sess real  merit,  both  for  poesy  and  humor.  In  the  winter  of  1801  he  attended  a 
course  of  lectures  on  chemistry  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  delivered  by  Pro- 
fessor James  Woodhouse,  and  thought  seriously  of  preparing  himself  for  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine.  He  later  associated  himself  with  Dr.  Seybert,  apothecary  and 
protege  of  his  distinguished  cousin  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar,  who  was  an  enthusiastic 
chemist,  and  they  conducted  a  number  of  experiments  for  their  mutua'  enlighten- 
ment. Seybert  was  also  an  expert  mineralogist,  having  studied  that  science  in  his 
native  country,  Germany,  with  Werner  and  Blumenbach,  of  Freiberg,  and  had 
brought  with  him  to  America  the  first  mineralogical  specimens  ever  introduced 
into  this  country.  Through  him  Mr.  Wister  became  greatly  interested  in  that 
science,  and  in  his  collecting  tours,  and  many  solitary  rambles  among  his  native 
hills,  with  specimen  box  and  hammer,  laid  the  foundation  of  a  mineralogical 
cabinet  of  which  he  might  be  justly  proud.  In  1814  Mr.  Wister  further  advanced 
his  knowledge  of  chemistry  and  mineralogy,  by  attending  a  course  of  lectures 
delivered  by  the  distinguished  Professor  Parker  Cleveland,  of  Bowdoin  College, 
Maine,  with  whom  he  formed  an  intimacy  that  lasted  many  years,  and  Mr.  Wister 
gave  him  material  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  his  work  on  mineralogy,  first 
on  the  subject  ever  published  in  America,  and  is  profusely  quoted  therein. 

In  1803  Charles  J.  Wister,  having  attained  his  majority,  and  his  uncle  William 
being  deceased,  became  a  partner  in  the  firm,  with  his  brother  John,  under  title 
of  John  &  Charles  Wister,  and  later  their  brother-in-law  John  Morgan  Price,  was 
admitted  and  the  firm  name  changed  to  Wister,  Price  &  Wister.  He  likewise 
inherited  from  his  uncle  and  his  grandfather  John  Wister,  considerable  landed 
property,  including  the  old  mansion,  woods  and  farm  at  Germantown,  where  he 
ever  after  made  his  home.  He  had  a  birthright  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  but  was 
disowned  for  paying  a  militia  tax,  iimo.  25,  1803.  He  married,  December  15, 
1803,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hester  (Baynton)  Bullock,  of  Philadel- 
phia. Her  mother,  Hester,  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Chevelier) 
Baynton,  who  were  married  December  17,  1747,  and  granddaughter  of  Peter 
Baynton  (son  of  Benjamin  Baynton,  of  England),  born  December  27,  1695,  who 
came  to  Philadelphia  and  engaged  in  the  business  of  a  shipping  merchant  about 
1720,  and  was  drowned  in  the  Delaware,  1723.  Mr.  Wister  continued  to  reside 
with  his  family  in  Philadelphia  during  the  winter  months  until  1812,  when  he  re- 
moved permanently  to  Germantown.  In  1819,  the  firm  of  Wister,  Price  &  Wister 
dissolved,  and  the  mercantile  business  so  successfully  conducted  in  Philadelphia 
by  the  family  for  three  generations  and  covering  nearly  a  century,  passed  into 
other  hands.  Mr.  Wister  was  one  of  the  little  coterie  of  young  business  men 
calling  themselves  the  "Twilight  Club,"  who  formed  the  habit  of  gathering  at  the 
store  of  a  mutual  friend,  J.  Pemberton  Parke,  after  the  close  of  their  daily  labor 


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and  discussing  questions  of  the  day,  as  well  as  science  and  literature,  from  which 
gatherings,  it  is  said,  sprang  the  foundation  of  Academy  of  Natural  Science,  insti- 
tuted August  I,  1815.  He  was  also  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  "Debby  Club." 
Charles  J.  Wister  became  a  member  of  Philadelphia  Library  Company,  1806;  of 
Library  Company  of  Germantown,  December  i,  1808,  of  which  he  was  a  director 
and  many  years  secretary  and  treasurer.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  "Linnxan 
Society  of  Philadelphia,"  instituted  in  1806,  '"for  the  cultivation  of  natural 
sciences;"  of  the  "Humane  Society  of  Philadelphia,"  "for  the  recovery  of  per- 
sons from  suspended  animation,"  1806;  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts, 
May,  1809;  "Philadelphia  Society  for  Promotion  of  Agriculture:"  "American 
Philosophical  Society  of  Philadelphia,"  trustee  of  Germantown  Academy,  May 
7,  1810;  member  of  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia,  imo.  11,  1814. 
He  was  elected  secretary  of  first  board  of  directors  of  Bank  of  Germantown, 
instituted  1814,  and  served  as  a  director  for  half  a  century.  He  was  likewise  one 
of  the  most  active  trustees  of  Germantown  Academy,  from  his  election,  1810,  until 
the  revocation  of  its  charter,  1837.  In  1820  and  again  in  1821,  he  delivered  a 
course  of  lectures  for  its  benefit  on  mineralogy  and  geology.  He  kept  in  close 
touch  with  the  institutions  of  Philadelphia  and  vicinity,  and  enjoyed  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance with  the  learned  men  and  scholars  of  his  day.  He  was  an  ardent 
student  of  botany  and  an  authority  on  local  flora.  The  plant  named  in  his  honor, 
Coralerhiza  Wisteriana,  by  Professor  Nuttal,  was  a  discovery  of  Mr.  Wister's. 

Charles  Jones  Wister  died  July  23,  1865,  universally  lamented.  His  first  wife, 
Rebecca  Bullock,  died  September  20,  1812,  shortly  after  the  conclusion  of  a  tour 
through  western  Pennsylvania,  undertaken  for  her  health.  On  December  4,  181 7, 
he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Whitesides,  of  Philadelphia,  at 
St.  Luke's  Church,  Germantown.  Mrs.  Wister  survived  her  husband,  and  died 
May  31,  1869,  in  the  seventy-first  year  of  her  age. 

Issue  of  Charles  Jones  and  Rebecca  (Bulloch)  Wister: — 

William  Wynne  Wister,  b,  March  25,  1807,  d.  Dec.  16,  1808;  m.  Hanna  Lewis  Wilson; 

of  whom  presently; 
Mary  Baynton  Wister,  b.  April  8,  1808,  d.  Nov.  i,  1893;  m.  Oct.  23,  1839,  Dr.  W.  S.  W. 
Ruschenberger,  t)g  years  a  Surgeon  in  U.  S.  N. ;  they  had  issue : 
Kate  Ruschenberger,  b.  Jan.  29.  1841,  d.  July  15,  1842; 
Emily  Ruschenberger,  b.  Sept.  7,  1842,  d.  Jan.  11,  1844; 
Fanny  Ruschenberger,  b.  May  27,  1844,  d.  March  3,  1883; 

Charles  Wister  Ruschenberger,  b.  Sept.  24,  1847;  entered  U.  S.  N.  July  23.  1864, 
resigned  July  31,  1895,  after  thirty  years  service;  m,  Dec.   18,  1888,  Katharine 
Wentworth. 
Emily  Wister,  b.  Dec.  3,  1809,  d.  Aug.,  1831,  unm. 

Issue  of  Charles  Jones  and  Sarah  (Whitesides)  Wister: — 

Casper.  Wister,  M.  D.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1818,  d.  Dec.  21,  1888;  m.  (first)  Lydia  H.  Simmons; 

(second)  Anna  Lea  Furness;  of  whom  presently; 
Susan  Wister,  b.  Oct.  2,  1819,  d.  July  23,  1843,  unm. ; 
Charles   Jones   Wister,  b.   April  6,   1822;   living  at  "Grumblethorpe,"   the  old   family 

mansion  on   Main  street,  Germantown;  unm.;  author  of   "Memoir  of  Charles  Jones 

Wister,"  and  a  number  of  reminiscences  of  the  Wister  family  and  old  Germantown; 
Owen  Jones  Wister,  M.  D.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1825;  m.  Oct.  i,  1859,  Sarah  Butler;  of  whom 

later; 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Wister,  b.  Nov.  19,  1827,  d.  Aug.  I,  1859. 


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William  Wynne  Wister,  eldest  son  of  Charles  Jones  and  Rebecca  (Bulloch) 
Wister,  born  in  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  March  25,  1807,  died  there  December 
16,  1898.  He  was  educated  at  Germantown  Academy,  graduating  in  the  class  of 
1824;  was  thoroughly  proficient  in  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages,  and  an  ardent 
student  of  the  classics  all  his  life.  He  also  taught  himself  the  German  language, 
in  which  he  attained  such  fluency,  that  he  was  often  taken  for  a  native  of  Ger- 
many. He  was  a  good  botanist  and  collected  a  valuable  herbarium,  to  which  refer- 
ence was  often  sought  by  his  townsmen,  when  they  wished  to  classify  plants  and 
flowers  of  rare  varieties.  In  disposition  he  was  most  retiring,  averse  to  publicity 
and  preferred  to  devote  himself  to  his  books  in  his  well  selected  library  to  any 
other  pastime.  With  unimpaired  faculties  and  a  clear  intellect  he  attained  the  age 
of  ninety  years,  and  was  known  among  his  intimates  in  Germantown,  as  the 
"Grand  Old  Man"  of  the  town.  He  was  vice-president  and  later  president  of 
National  Bank  of  Germantown,  from  1862  until  his  death  in  1898. 

William  Wynne  Wistar  was  married,  October  23,   1830,  by  the  Rev.  George 
Scheetz,  of  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia,  to  Hanna  Lewis  Wilson. 
Issue  of  William  Wynne  and  Hanna  Lewis  (Wilson)  Wister: — 

Rachel  Wilson  Wister,  b.  Jan.  22,  1835;  m.  Nov.  12,  1862,  William  B.  Rogers,  who  d. 
March  15,  1893;  they  had  issue: 

Barton  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  14,  1863,  d.  Jan.  11,  1867; 
Henry  D.  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  2,  1865;  m.  Jan.  26,  1899,  Marianna  Allen; 
Mabel  Rogers,  b.  May  20,  1872;  m.  April  15,  1896,  Edgar  W.  Baird,  an  account  of 
whose  ancestry  is  given  in  these  volumes;  they  had  issue: 
Edgar  W.  Baird,  Jr.,  b.  April  5,  1897; 
Gainer  Owen  Baird,  b.  Oct.  27,  1898; 
Marian  Wister  Baird,  b.  July  i,  1900. 
William  Wynne  Wister,  Jr.,  b.  May  II,  1838,  d.  May  27,  1900,  unm,;  enlisted  in  Co.  G, 
Eighth  Pa.  Volunteers,  at  outbreak  of  Civil  War;  graduated  from  Univ.  of  Pa.,  class 
of  1875;  studied  law,  and  admitted  to  Phila.  Bar,  of  which  he  became  a  prominent  and 
popular  member,  by  reason  of  exceptional  abilities;  was  a  director  in  a  number  of 
Phila.'s  financial  institutions,  etc.; 
Alexander  Wilson  Wister,  b.  March  28,  1840;  m.  Susan  A.  Wilson;  of  whom  presently; 
Hannah  Lewis  Wister,  b.  Aug.  12,  1841,  unm.; 

Mary  Wynne  Wister,  b.  Feb.  22,  1847;  m.  Nov.  4,  1873,  Alexander  Sydney  Logan;  issue: 
Robert  Restalrig  Logan,  b.  Dec.  3,  1874;  m.  June  6,  1898,  Sara  Wetherill;  issue: 
Deborah  Logan,  b.  Feb.  16,  1900. 
Emily  Wynne  Wister,  b.  Jan,  18,  1848,  unm. 

Alexander  Wilson  Wister,  second  son  and  third  child  of  William  Wynne 
and  Hanna  Lewis  (Wilson)  Wister,  born  March  28,  1840,  enlisted  in  Company  G, 
Pennsylvania  Militia,  Capt.  Marks  Biddle,  in  Eighth  Pennsylvania  Militia  (Emer- 
gency) Regiment,  in  1862,  and  saw  service  in  the  Antietam  campaign.  He  is  a 
member  of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania ;  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ;  Penn- 
sylvania Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution;  The  Welcome  Society,  Philadelphia 
Club,  and  Germantown  Cricket  Club,  being  one  of  the  fifteen  boys  who  organized 
the  latter  club,  1854. 

He  was  married,  December  3,  1862,  by  the  Right  Rev.  William  Bacon  Stevens, 
Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  to  Susan  A.  Wilson. 

Issue  of  Alexander  Wilson  and  Susan  A.  (Wilson)  Wister: — 

Lewis  Wynne  Wister,  b.  Jan.  21,  1864;  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  class  of  1885;  m.  Feb. 
16,  1887,  Elizabeth  Wolcott,  dau.  of  T.  Charlton  and  Mary  (Jackson)  Henry,  and  had 
issue : 


274  WISTER 

Lewis  Caspar  Wistar,  b.  Feb.  24,  1888: 
Charlton  Henry  Wister,  b.  Aug.  23,  1890,  d.  Jan.  24,  1892. 
Alexander  Wilson  Wister,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1869;  m.  Dec.  i,  1906,  Emma  Huey  Moses; 
Charles  Jones  Wister,  Jr.,  b.  May  26,  1869;  m.  June  5,  1894,  Elizabeth  English  Morgan; 
issue: 

Elizabeth  English  Wister,  b.  Sept.  15,  1895; 
William  Wynne  Wister,  b.  Dec.  29,  1900. 
James  Wilson  Wister,  M.  D.,  b.  May  30.  1874;  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  class  of  1897; 
now  practicing  medicine  in   Phila.;   Fellow  of   Phila.   College  of   Physicians,  member 
Phila.  County  Medical  Society,  and  Pathological  Society  of  Phila.;  m.  Jan.  23,  1901, 
Elizabeth  Bayard  Dunn,  and  had  issue: 
Sozanna  Wister,  b.  July  31,  1906, 

Caspar  Wister,  M.  D.,  eldest  son  of  Charles  Wister,  by  the  second  marriage 
with  Sarah  Whitesides,  was  born  .September  15,  1818.  He  was  a  student  at  Ger- 
mantown  Academy  until  his  fifteenth  year,  and  was  then  sent  to  Dr.  Bolmer's 
French  School  at  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania.  He  completed  his  academic  educa- 
tion at  Samuel  Gummere's  Academy  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  became  a 
civil  engineer.  Several  years  he  followed  a  roving  life.  Going  to  Texas,  he  served 
with  the  Texan  patriots  in  their  struggle  for  independence,  under  Gen.  Sam  Hous- 
ton, in  the  Texas  Mounted  Rifles,  all  through  the  desperate  conflict.  He  later 
came  east  and  travelled  back  and  forth  several  years,  meeting  with  many  adven- 
tures and  hair-breadth  escapes.  He  finally  gave  up  his  wanderings  and  entered 
the  Medical  Department  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  received  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine  in  1847,  and  settled  down  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Phila- 
delphia. He  became  one  of  the  foremost  successful  physicians  of  the  city. 
He  was  president  of  Rittenhouse  Club,  formerly  Social  Art  Club,  director  of 
Philadelphia  Library  Company,  president  of  Board  of  Inspectors  of  County 
Prison,  manager  of  House  of  Refuge,  director  of  Philadelphia  Savings  Fund 
Society,  Examining  Surgeon  of  New  York  Life  Insurance  Company,  member  of 
.American  Philosophical  Society,  as  well  as  member  of  a  number  of  other  scientific, 
philanthropic,  social  and  business  societies  and  associations. 

Dr.  Wister  was  struck  down  at  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  station,  1879,  and 
his  skull  fractured,  but  he  recovered  and  resumed  his  life  work,  though  a  large 
part  of  the  frontal  bone  had  to  be  removed  on  the  right  side  of  his  forehead,  so 
that  the  pulsations  of  his  brain  were  plainly  visible.  Though  he  lived  for  nine 
years  after  the  accident,  his  death  is  thought  to  have  been  due  to  the  injuries  then 
received.    He  died  December  28,  1888. 

A  testimonial  of  him  adopted  by  the  government  of  the  Rittenhouse  Club  says 
of  him:  "Open,  frank,  decided,  and  truthful,  his  convictions,  from  their  sincerity, 
impressed  themselves  upon  every  one  he  met,  and,  though  you  might  not  agree 
with  him,  it  was  impossible  not  to  respect  him.  With  the  sternest  sense  of  honor, 
he  had  the  gentleness  of  a  woman  towards  those  whose  weaker  nature  had  been 
their  cause  of  deviation  from  the  path  of  rectitude.  While  he  could  not  under- 
stand it,  he  could  always  pity  it.  To  the  young  and  the  old,  to  the  man  of  business, 
and  to  the  man  of  leisure,  at  the  hospital  and  in  the  prison,  his  presence  was 
always  welcome  as  at  the  play-ground,  where  he  mingled  with  the  most  youthful 
of  his  friends." 

Dr.  Wister  married  (first),  July  20,  1846,  Lydia  H.  Simmons,  who  died  in 
1848,  leaving  a  daughter,  Lily  Wister,  who  married,  October  31,   1878,  Clifford 


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Rossel.     Dr.  Wister  married  (second),  June  26,  1854,  Anna  Lea,  daughter  of 
Rev.  William  H.  Furness,  D.  D.,  who  survives  and  is  an  eminent  translator. 

Owen  Wister,  son  of  Dr.  Owen  Jones  Wister  and  his  wife  Sarah  Butler,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  July  14,  i860.  He  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  University,  class  of  1882, 
with  degree  of  A.  M.,  and  from  Harvard  Law  School  with  degree  of  LL.  B.,  in 
1888.  He  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar  in  1889,  but  soon  after  devoted  his 
time  to  literary  pursuits,  taking  up  literary  work  exclusively  in  1891.  He  is  author 
of  "The  Dragon  of  Wantley ;  His  Tail,"  1892;  "Red  Man  and  White,"  1896;  "Lin 
McLean,"  1898;  "The  Jimmy  John  Boss,"  1900;  "U.  S.  Grant,  a  Biography," 
1900;  "The  Virginian,"  a  novel,  for  which  he  is  chiefly  famous,  1903;  "Philoso- 
phy," 1903 ;  "A  Journey  in  Search  of  Christmas,"  1904.  He  has  also  written  much 
prose  and  some  verse  for  magazines,  and  was  collaborator  on  Musk-Ox,  Bison, 
Sheep  and  Goat,  for  Whitney's  American  Sportsman's  Library,  1904.  He  resides 
in  Philadelphia. 


FEMBERTON  FAMILY. 

Lower  in  his  Patronymica  Brittanira  states  that  the  family  name  of  Pemberton 
is  derived  from  the  chapelry  of  that  name  in  the  parish  of  Wigan,  hundred  of 
West  Derby,  Lancashire,  and  it  is  certain  that  Pembertons  are  found  at  a  very 
early  period  as  lords  of  the  manor  of  Pemberton,  in  Wigan  parish,  within  a  few 
miles  of  Aspull.  Lower  is  perhaps  not  quite  accurate;  the  manor  of  Pemberton 
must  have  existed  long  before  the  chapelry  became  an  entity,  and  the  family  took 
their  name  from  their  manor,  which  afterwards  gave  the  name  to  the  chapelry. 
Of  these  early  Pembertons  it  will  suffice  to  mention  Adam  de  Pemberton,  who 
was  living  in  the  reign  of  Richard  L,  and  whose  son,  Alan  de  Pemberton.  3  John, 
paid  ten  marks  to  have  seizin  of  his  lands  in  Pemberton,  and  for  his  relief,  etc. 

Others  of  the  name  at  a  later  date  were :  Adam  de  Pemberton ;  Henry,  son  of 
Lawrence  de  Pemberton ;  Alan,  son  of  Aldich  de  Pemberton ;  and  another  Adam 
de  Pemberton,  who  was  living  24,  Edward  L  The  eldest  branch  of  this  line  ended 
in  co-heiresses,  who  acquired  the  estates,  but  descendants  of  younger  sons  con- 
tinued in  the  neighborhood  of  Wigan. 

The  first  Lancashire  Pemberton,  known  with  absolute  certainty  to  have  been  an 
ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pembertons,  and  the  first  of  the  line  concerning 
whom  we  have  reliable  information,  was  William  Pemberton,  born  in  the  town- 
ship of  Aspull,  parish  of  Wigan,  county  Lancaster,  England,  circa,  1580.  If  the 
register  of  the  parish  church  of  Wigan  could  be  searched  and  the  wills  of  various 
Pembertons  examined,  the  pedigree,  no  doubt,  could  be  carried  much  farther  back 
than  this  William  Pemberton,  with  whom  we  begin  the  Pennsylvania  line,  and  who 
was,  doubtless,  a  descendant  of  those  persons  of  the  name  who  appear  early  in  the 
history  of  Lancashire. 

Mr.  Townsend  Ward,  on  page  141,  of  ms.  "Genealogy  of  the  Lloyd,  Pemberton, 
Hutchinson  and  Kirkbride  Families,"  says : 

"After  much  research,  all  the  particulars  respecting  its"  (the  Pemberton  Fam- 
ily's) "members  that  could  be  collected,  are  comprised  in  an  account  of  the  family 
in  ms.  by  J.  P.  P."  (James  Pemberton  Parke).  See  also  "Memoirs  of  Samuel 
Fothergill,"  by  George  Crosfield,  page  160,  and  "The  Friend,"  vol.  xxi.,  pp.  46,  61, 
et  scq.  Lieut.  Col.  Thomas  Allen  Glenn,  in  his  printed  edition  of  Mr.  Townsend 
Ward's  ms.,  mentioned  above,  with  additions,  says: 

"The  information  here  given  is  from  the  above  sources,  and  from  'Friends 
Miscellany,'  vol.  vii.,  p.  i;  'The  Pemberton  Family'  (of  New  England),  by  Walter 
K.  Watkins,  Boston,  1892;  'The  Pemberton  Papers,'  in  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania;  vol.  i.,  the  publications  of  the  Haeleian  Society,  London,  and  Public 
Records.  It  is  curious  to  note  that  there  was  at  least  one  other  family  of  Pember- 
ton in  Pennsylvania,  whose  connection,  if  any,  with  the  Pembertons  under  consid- 
eration does  not  appear.  John  Pemberton  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  1717, 
and  his  wife  in  Newton  Clanebois,  Ireland;  they  settled  at  Abington  and  were 
Friends.  They  had  issue,  several  children,  who  are  believed  to  have  left  descend- 
ants." 

William  Pemberton,  named  above  as  first  of  this  branch  of  the  Pemberton  fam- 


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ily,  of  whom  we  have  any  account,  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  considerable 
estate.  By  a  "lease  for  three  lives"  dated  May  30,  1625,  it  appears  that  a  messuage 
and  its  "crofts  or  slosures  of  land,  gardians,  pastures,  feedings,"  etc.,  in  Aspull, 
were  let  to  him  by  Roger  Hindley,  of  Hindley  Hall,  during  the  lives  of  Ralph, 
Alice  and  Margery,  his  children,  and  the  survivors  of  them.  Two  years  later,  this 
lease  was  assigned  by  William  to  his  son  Ralph. 

William  Pemberton  married,  December  10,  1602,  Ann  ,  who  died  De- 
cember 23,  1642.  He  died  at  Aspull,  November  26,  1642.  Their  children,  so  far 
as  known,  were: 

Alice  Pemberton,  d.  at  Aspull,  Jan.  29,  1675.    An  Alice  Pemberton,  and  six  others,  were 
committed  to  the  House  of  Correction  (at  Manchester?),  for  three  months  in  1664,  for 
attending  Quaker  worship  (Besse's  Suffering,  i.,  p.  315); 
Margery  Pemberton,  d.  in  1670; 

Ralph  Pemberton,  b.  June  3,  161 1,  of  whom  presently; 

Ellen  Pemberton,  m.  before  Dec.  4,  1674,  John  AUred;  she  d.  in  England,  Dec.   (22?), 
1684;  they  had  issue: 
Alice  Allred; 
Phineas  Allred; 

John  Allred,  m.  and  had  issue; 
Owen  Allred,  b.  1674; 
Theophilus  Allred,  b.  1686; 
Solomon  Allred,  b.  1689,  m. . 

"Nothing  further  is  known  of  these,"  says  Mr.  Parke. 

Ralph  Pemberton,  son  of  William  and  Ann  Pemberton,  was  born  in  the  town- 
ship of  Aspull,  parish  of  Wigan,  county  Lancaster,  England,  January  3,  161 1,  died 
in  Bucks  county,  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  "in  the  American  Plantations"  July 
17,  1687.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable  property,  and  seems  to  have  been  well 
thought  of,  and  trusted  in  Aspull  and  its  neighborhood.  In  1673  he  was  living  at 
Eoulton-le-Moors,  generally  called  Bolton,  also  in  parish  of  Wigan,  and  from  here 
he  removed  in  1676  to  Radcliffe  Bridge,  finally  going  with  his  son  Phineas  and 
the  latter's  wife  and  children  to  Pennsylvania,  in  1682,  dying  there  five  years  later. 
He  was  probably  a  member  of  Society  of  Friends ;  while  living  at  Bolton,  he,  in 
1673-74,  rendered  an  account  of  money  distributed  to  the  poor  (Friends?)  of 
Aspull. 

Referring  to  the  "Armorial  Devices"  of  the  Pembertons,  Mr.  Parke  gives  sev- 
eral coats  of  different  families,  as  mentioned  in  "Burke's  General  Armory."  He 
also  speaks  of  a  seal  used  by  John  Pemberton,  on  a  letter  dated  Woburn,  March 
16,  1789,  viz:  Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  Ar.  a  chevron  vert  between  three 
buckets  sa.  Second  and  third,  Ar.  three  dragons'  heads  erect,  couped.  Crest,  A 
dragon's  head  erect,  couped.    Motto :    Nee  temere  nee  timide. 

Glenn,  already  quoted,  says :  "An  ancient  steel  seal  in  the  possession  of  Henry 
Pemberton,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  bears  the  following  arms:  Argent,  a  chevron 
sable  (instead  of  vert),  between  three  water  bougets  of  the  second,  hooped  and 
handled  or.  Crest,  A  dragon's  head  couped,  proper."  Glenn  mentions  a  steel 
seal,  but  Mr.  Pemberton,  whom  he  names,  wrote  in  1906:  "The  earliest  mention 
that  I  have  found  of  their  Coat-of-Arms,  is  on  a  letter  written  in  1740,  bearing 
the  imprints  of  seals,  some  of  which  (Carnelian  and  Gold)  are  in  my  possession. 
The  Arms  are,  'Argent  a  chevron  between  three  buckets ;  Sa.  hooped,  and  handled, 
Or. ;  Crest,  a  Dragon's  Head,  sa.  couped  and  langed.'     I  enclose  my  book  plate 


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thereof ;  also  an  imprint  from  one  of  the  old  seals.  In  1864  I  met  in  Quebec  the 
Hon.  Henry  Pemberton,  there  residing,  and  he  showed  me  his  Arms,  similar  to 
ours,  but  bearing  a  motto,  which  ours  never  had.  In  1864,  in  the  Heralds'  Office, 
London,  I  saw  the  Arms  of  Sir  Francis  Pemberton,  Lx)rd  Chief  Justice  of  Eng- 
land. His  father  had  been  a  merchant,  named  Ralph  Pemberton,  from  Lancashire ; 
they  told  me  the  Arms  had  been  granted  some  years  before  to  the  said  Ralph  Pem- 
berton. They  were,  first  and  fourth.  Argent ;  a  chevron  between  three  buckets ; 
Sa.  couped,  and  handled.  Or.  Second  and  third,  three  dragon-heads,  erect  sa, 
couped  and  langued,  Gu.    Crest,  a  Dragon's  Head,  as  above." 

Mr.  Pemberton  continues:  "Notwithstanding  the  similarity  of  names,  of  times, 
of  places,  and  apparently  of  social  positions,  I  could  never  trace  any  connection. 
The  Pembertons  of  Boston  arrived  there  in  1638,  and  appear  to  be  of  the  same 
stock,  and  have  the  same  Arms,  except  that  their  Crest  is  a  Boar's  head.  Some 
of  the  works  on  Heraldry  state  that  the  Arms — (buckets,  dragons,  crest)  were 
granted  originally  to  one  of  the  Pembertons  of  Pemberton,  in  the  County  of  Lan- 
cashire, in  the  12th  Century,  who  was  then  Mayor  of  London,  for  his  efficiency 
in  saving  the  town  from  one  of  its  dangerous  fires.  The  Family  is  unquestionably  a 
very  old  one,  and  the  Epitaph  on  Sir  Francis  Pemberton's  monument  states  that 
he  was,  'Generoso,  Ex  Antiqua  Pembertonorum  Prosopia  in  Com.  Palat  Lan- 
castriae,  Oriundo.'  The  name  is  derived  locally  from  Anglo-Saxon,  and  was  no 
doubt  originally  'Pen-Berton,' — signifying  the  Berton,  or  walled-in-farm-enclosure 
on  the  Pen  or  Hill-top.  Euphony  and  verbal  structure  has  unavoidably  changed 
the  N  to  an  M." 

Ralph  Pemberton  married,  June  7,  1648,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas  Sed- 
don,  of  Warrington ;  she  died  September  2,  1655.    The  Seddon  family  was  an  old 
one  in  Wigan,  and  in  the  neighboring  parishes  of  Leigh  and  Rochdale,  and  the 
Seddons  of  Seddon  Hall  were  noted  non-conformists. 
Issue  of  Ralph  and  Margaret  (Seddon)  Pemberton: 

Phineas  Pemberton,  b.  Jan.  30,  1650;  of  whom  presently; 
Joseph  Pemberton,  b.  April  12,  1652,  d.  Aug.  3,  1655; 
Probably  other  children  who  d.  inf. 

Phineas  Pemberton,  son  of  Ralph  and  Margaret  (Seddon)  Pemberton,  was 
born  January  30,  1650,  in  parish  of  Wigan,  and  probably  in  township  of  Aspull, 
Lancashire,  England,  and  died  on  his  plantation,  called  "Bolton,"  Bucks  county. 
Province  of  Pennsylvania,  March  i,  1702.  In  1665,  being  aged  fifteen  years,  he 
went  to  Manchester  to  live,  and  in  1672  to  Bolton,  and  lived  there  until  1682,  when 
with  his  wife  and  three  children,  and  his  father,  Ralph  Pemberton,  he  embarked 
for  Pennsylvania,  in  the  ship,  "Submission,"  from  Liverpool,  7mo.  5,  and  arrived 
at  Choptank,  Maryland,  gmo.  2,  1682,  thus  making  the  voyage  in  fifty-eight  days 
from  port  to  port. 

A  more  extended  account  of  this  voyage  appears  later.  After  landing,  Phineas 
Pemberton  and  his  father-in-law,  James  Harrison,  left  their  families  at  the  house 
of  William  Dickinson,  at  Choptank,  and  proceeded  by  land  to  their  original  desti- 
nation, the  "ITalls  of  the  Delaware,"  in  Rucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  Penn  had 
arrived  in  his  province  October  24,  and  Pemberton  and  Harrison  had  hoped  to 
find  him  at  New  Castle,  but  when  they  arrived  there,  Penn  had  gone  to  New 
York.    When  they  arrived  at  the  present  site  of  Philadelphia,  they  could  not  pro- 


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cure  accomodations  for  their  horses,  so  "spancelled"  them  and  turned  them  into 
the  woods ;  the  next  morning  they  sought  for  them  in  vain,  they  having  wandered 
so  far  into  the  woods  that  one  of  them  was  not  found  until  the  following  January ; 
after  two  days  searching  the  men  were  obliged  to  proceed  up  the  river  in  a  boat. 
An  uncle  of  Pemberton's  wife,  William  Yardley,  had  arrived  a  few  weeks  before, 
and  had  taken  up  land  at  the  Falls,  where  he  commenced  to  build  a  house.  They 
stopped  at  Yardley 's  and  Pemberton  concluded  to  settle  in  the  vicinity.  In  the 
spring  of  1683,  Harrison  and  Pemberton  brought  their  families  and  household 
goods  from  Maryland  to  Bucks  county,  Harrison  stopping  on  the  way  south  at 
L'pland,  now  Chester,  to  attend  the  first  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  which  he  had  been  elected.  Until  Phineas  Pemberton  could  erect  a  house 
in  Bucks  county,  he  and  his  family  stayed  at  the  house  of  Lyonel  Brittain,  who 
had  arrived  in  Bucks  county,  4mo.  (June),  1680.  On  11  mo.  17,  1683,  Phineas 
Pemberton  purchased  a  tract  of  500  acres  on  the  Delaware,  opposite  Grecian's 
(later  Biles')  Island,  and  built  a  house  there.  It  must  have  been  a  satisfaction 
to  iiim  after  the  storms  at  sea  and  wanderings  by  land  to  have  his  family  at  last 
under  his  own  roof-tree.  This  plantation  he  called  "Grove  Place."  He  appears, 
however,  at  first  to  have  called  it  "Sapasse"  since  letters  to  him  from  friends  in 
England  in  1684  were  addressed  "Sapasse,  Bucks  County."  It  was  part  of  a  tract 
of  over  8000  acres  of  land,  purchased  by  Penn  of  an  old  Indian  king  and  had  once 
been  a  royalty  called  "Sepessin."  (On  Peter  Lindstrom's  map  of  1654,  in  Sharp 
and  Westcott's  "History  of  Philadelphia"  vol.  i.,  p.  75,  the  name  appears  as 
'Sipaessing  Land").  The  old  burying-ground  of  the  Pemberton  family,  hereafter 
referred  to,  was  on  this  tract.  Being  desirous  of  erecting  a  more  comfortable 
home  for  his  family,  Phineas  Pemberton  finished  one  in  1687.  On  the  lintel  of  the 
door  was  this  inscription  : 

P. 

P.  P. 

7  D  2  mo.  1687 

The  initials  signifying  Phineas  and  Phebe  Pemberton.  This  lintel  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia.  This  house  Pem- 
berton moved  after  his  second  marriage  to  another  tract  of  land,  five  miles  distant, 
and  more  in  the  interior;  It  was  taken  down  in  1802  by  his  grandson,  James 
Pemberton.  In  1687  a  great  deal  of  sickness  prevailed  in  the  Colony,  and  Phineas 
Pemberton  lost  his  father,  Ralph  Pemberton,  and  his  father-in-law,  James  Harri- 
son. The  father  of  James  also  died.  Three  years  later  Anne  (Heath)  Harrison, 
widow  of  James  died;  and  in  1696  Phineas  lost  his  wife,  Phebe,  who  died  8mo. 
30,  1696,  exactly  fourteen  years  after  her  arrival  in  Patuxent  river,  Maryland. 

On  his  estate  opposite  Biles'  Island,  Pemberton  laid  out  a  burial-ground,  ten 
rods  square ;  walling  in  two  square  rods  as  a  family  plot,  which  is  still  preserved 
and  is  one  of  the  oldest  burial  lots  in  existence  in  Bucks  county.  Four  generations 
of  Harrisons  and  Pembertons  lie  therein.  The  original  tombstones,  small  with  only 
initials  on  them,  having  almost  entirely  disappeared  (in  1904  only  two  could  be 
found,  much  broken,  and  only  one  with  initials  "Ph.  P,"  very  faint),  Mr.  Henry 
Pemberton,  of  Philadelphia,  a  descendant  of  Phineas,  in  1905  had  erected  on  the 
lot  a  large  granite  slab,  with  the  names  engraved  on  it  of  all  the  family  known  to 
have  been  buried  there,  as  follows: 


28o  ^  PEMBERTON 

"Agnes,  wife  of   Immanuel  Harrison, 

Born  1601,  died  August  6,  1687" 
"HER  SON— JAMES  HARRISON 

Born  1628  Died  Oct,  6,  16S7 

HIS  WIFE  ANNE  HARRISON  « 

Born  Feb.  13,   1623-4  Died  March  s,  1689-90 

THEIR  CHILD  PHOEBE 

WIFE  OF  PHIXEAS  PEMBERTON 

Born  Apr.  7,  1660  Died  Oct.  30,  1696 

RALPH  PEMBERTON 

Born  Jan.  3,  1610  Died  July  17,  1687 

HIS  SON  PHINEAS  PEMBERTON 

Born  Jan.  30,  1649-50  Died  March  i,  1702 

FIVE  OF  HIS  CHILDREN 

May  II,   1682— JOSEPH— Nov.   1702 

Feb.  3,  1686— SAMUEL— Jan.  23,  1691-2 

Feb,  26,  1689-90— PHOEBE— May  30,  1699 

Tuly  15,  1694— RALPH— Nov.  18,  1694 

April  17,  1686-PHINEAS— JENINGS-1701 

HERE  ALSO   REST  THEIR  FRIENDS 

ROGER  LONGWORTH,  B.  1631  D.  Aug.  7,  1687 

LYDIA  WHARMSBY,  B.  1640  D.  Sept.  3,  1696" 

Phineas  Pemberton,  like  his  father-in-law,  Harrison,  as  well  as  his  own  father 
and  other  relatives,  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  was  frequently 
imprisoned  and  fined  for  attendance  at  their  worship.  The  "Annals  of  the  Pem- 
berton Family,"  before  referred  to,  says  of  him :  "Phineas  Pemberton,  as  he  grew 
up  in  the  innocent  life  in  those  days,  was  visited  with  religious  impressions,  to 
which,  as  he  rendered  obedience,  he  became  confirmed  in  the  principles  of  an  up- 
right and  holy  conversation."  "The  serious  impressions  on  the  mind  of  Phineas 
Pemberton,  inducing  him  to  refuse  compliance  with  the  empty  forms  of  the  estab- 
lished church,  he  became  a  mark  for  those  in  power,  and  was  several  times  im- 
prisoned in  Chester  and  Lancaster  castles,  for  his  attendance  of  the  religious  meet- 
ings of  Friends."  "In  the  nth  month,  i66g,  Phineas  Pemberton  and  Roger  Long- 
worth  with  some  others,  were  carried  before  three  justices,  for  holding  a  meeting 
at  Nehemiah  Pool's  house,  and  on  the  ist  of  2d  month,  he  was  imprisoned;  re- 
maining nineteen  weeks  and  five  days  in  Lancaster  Castle."  "But  through  all 
these  trials  and  difiiculties,  by  his  uprightness  and  integrity,  Phineas  became  much 
respected  by  his  friends,  and  many  of  his  neighbors.  He  held  the  office  of  over- 
seer of  the  poor  at  Bolton,  and  was  for  many  consecutive  years  a  delegate  for 
Friends  to  Hardshaw  Monthly  Meeting."  It  was  from  this  Hardshaw  Monthly 
Meeting  that  he  took  his  certificate  on  going  to  Pennsylvania. 

Phineas  Pemberton  took  an  active  part  in  the  public  aflfairs  of  the  Colony  as 
well  as  of  Bucks  county.  He  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1685-87-95-97-99,  was  a  member  of  Assembly,  1689-94-98  (filling  the  posi- 
tion of  Speaker  in  the  latter  year),  and  in  1700-01. 

It  was,  however,  in  the  affairs  of  Bucks  county,  where  he  lived,  that  his  activity 
and  usefulness  were  the  greatest,  and  his  work  of  the  most  value.  He  was  beyond 
doubt  the  most  prominent  man  of  his  time  in  the  county,  and  the  most  efficient,  as 
shown  by  the  mass  of  records  he  has  left  behind  him  in  his  own  handwriting,  and 
by  the  number  of  official  positions  he  filled.  In  addition  to  filling  the  office  of 
Clerk  of  the  County  Court,  he  held  the  position  of  Deputy  Master  of  Rolls,  Deputy 
Register-General,  and  Receiver  of  Proprietary  Quit  Rents  for  Bucks  county.  The 
records  of  the  county  up  to  the  time  of  his  fatal  illness  are  entirely  in  his  hand- 
writing, and  are  models  worthy  the  imitation  of  officials  of  our  day.    The  records 


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of  the  different  courts  left  by  him  are  invaluable  to  the  historian,  and  greatly 
superior  to  those  of  his  successors  in  office  in  the  matter  of  lucidity  and  complete- 
ness. Many  of  our  historians  have  noticed  and  acknowledged  this  fact,  which  is 
apparent  to  all  that  have  had  access  to  them.  Buck,  in  his  "History  of  Bucks 
County,"  referring  to  records  left  by  Pemberton,  says,  "they  comprise  the  earliest 
records  of  Bucks  County  offices,  and  though  they  have  been  referred  to  by  diff'er- 
cnt  writers,  comparatively  little  has  been  heretofore  published  from  them.  To  us 
they  have  rendered  valuable  aid  and  we  must  acknowledge  our  indebtedness  for 
information  that  could,  possibly,  from  no  other  source  have  been  obtained." 

The  original  Record  of  Arrivals  in  Bucks  county,  now  in  the  custody  of  Bucks 
County  Historical  Society,  but  long  part  of  records  of  Register  of  Wills'  Office, 
at  Doylestown,  is  also  in  the  handwriting  of  Phineas  Pemberton. 

Phineas  Pemberton  died  March  i,  1701-2,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two  years,  and  was 
buried  in  the  old  graveyard  above  described.  "Poor  Phineas"  wrote  Penn  to 
Logan,  on  September  9,  1701,  "is  a  dying  man  and  was  not  at  the  election,  though 
he  crept  (as  I  may  say)  to  Meeting  yesterday.  I  am  grieved  at  it;  for  he  has  not 
his  fellow,  and  without  him  this  is  a  poor  country  indeed."  Again  in  a  letter  from 
London  to  Logan  in  1702,  Penn  writes,  "I  mourn  for  poor  Phineas  Pemberton, 
the  ablest  as  well  as  one  of  the  best  men  in  the  Province.  My  dear  love  to  his 
widow  and  sons  and  daughters."  Samuel  Carpenter  in  a  letter  to  Penn,  quoted 
in  J.  Pemberton  Parke's  ms.,  writes,  "Phineas  Pemberton  died  the  ist  month  last 
and  will  be  greatly  missed,  having  left  few  or  none  in  these  parts  or  adjacent  like 
him  for  wisdom,  integrity  and  general  service,  and  he  was  a  true  friend  to  thee 
and  the  government.  It  is  a  matter  of  sorrow  when  I  call  to  mind  and  consider 
that  the  best  of  our  men  are  taken  away,  and  how  many  are  gone  and  how  few 
to  supply  their  places." 

Logan  wrote  to  Penn,  3mo.  7,  1702:  "That  pillar  of  Bucks  County,  Phineas 
Pemberton,  worn  away  with  his  long-afilicting  distemper,  was  removed  about  the 
5th  of  1st  month  last.  Hearing  he  was  past  hopes,  I  went  to  visit  him  the  day 
before  he  departed.  He  was  sensible  and  comfortable  to  the  last,  and  inquiring 
solicitously  about  thy  affairs  and  the  parliament ;  gave  his  last  offering,  his  dear 
love,  to  thee  and  thine,  and  particularly  recommended  the  care  of  his  estate  to  me 
in  thy  behalf,  desiring  that  his  services  in  collecting  the  rents  with  Samuel  Jen- 
nings might  be  considered  in  his  own,  otherwise  he  should  be  wronged ;  and  that 
his  attendance  at  Newcastle  Assembly,  when  his  plantation  and  business  so  much 
suffered  by  it,  might  according  to  thy  promise,  be  paid,  with  his  overplus  in  War- 
minster, which  he  said  was  but  little,  and  not  valuable.  I  was  with  him  when  he 
departed  and  coming  to  Philadelphia  that  day,  returned  to  his  burial.  He  lies 
interred  in  his  plantation  on  the  river,  with  the  rest  of  his  relations.  His  daugh- 
ter, they  say,  is  to  be  married  to  Jeremiah  Langhorne."  This  last  sentence  is 
doubtless  what  led  Gen.  Davis  to  say,  in  his  "History  of  Bucks  County,"  (First 
Edition,  p.  86)  that  one  of  Pemberton's  daughters  married  Jeremiah  Langhorne 
(afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Province)  but  the  mar- 
riage did  not  take  place.  On  the  same  page  Davis  says,  "No  doubt  the  Pember- 
ton's lived  on  the  fat  of  the  land.  His  daughter  Abigail  wrote  him  in  1697,  -^at 
she  had  saved  twelve  barrels  of  cider  for  the  family;  and  in  their  letters  frequent 
mention  is  made  of  meat  and  drink."     "He  lived  in  good  style  and  had  a  'side- 


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board'  in  his  house.  He  owned  land  in  several  townships  in  Bucks."  He  left  a 
considerable  estate ;  one  part  of  it  was  "Grove  Place,"  which  was  afterwards  sold 
to  Willoughby  Warder,  another  was  the  plantation  of  354  acres  on  which  he  last 
resided  and  which  was  left  to  his  son  Israel,  who  named  the  two  divisions  of  it 
"Bolton"  and  "Wigan,"  in  remembrance  of  the  country  of  his  father;  about  forty 
acres  in  Bristol  township,  and  eight  hundred  acres  in  Wrightstown  township ;  also 
a  lot  on  High  street,  Philadelphia.  Of  course  much  of  this  land  was  his  wife's 
heritage  from  her  father,  James  Harrison. 

Phineas  Pemberton  married  (first)  January  i,  1676-7,  at  the  house  of  John 
Haydock,  in  CoppuU,  near  Standish,  Lancashire,  under  the  care  of  Hardshaw 
Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends,  Phoebe,  daughter  of  James  and  Anne  (Heath) 
Harrison,  of  Stiall-Green,  Cheshire,  England.  James  Harrison  was  a  son  of  Im- 
manuel  Harrison,  who  died  August  8,  1658.  Immanuel  Harrison  and  Agnes  his 
wife  had  issue,  as  follows : 

Anne  Harrison; 

James  Harrison,  b.  1628,  d.  Oct.  6,  1687;  m.  March  5,  1655-6,  Anne  Heath;  of  whom 

presently; 
Robert  Harrison; 

Mary  Harrison,  m.  Joseph  Endon,  and  had  issue: 
Mary  Endon,  m.  John  Clark; 
Margaret  Endon,  m.  John  Walker. 
Perhaps  others,  now  unknown.    Some  accounts  have  added  a  Jane,  m.  William  Yardley, 

on  the  strength  of  Phineas  Pemberton's  calling  Yardley  "uncle,"  but  Yardley's  wife 

was  Jane  Heath,  which  e-xplains  the  relationship. 

James  Harrison,  son  of  Immanuel  and  Agnes,  became  an  eminent  minister  in 
the  Society  of  Friends  and  suffered  much  persecution  for  his  faith.  In  1660  he 
and  several  others  were  imprisoned  in  Burgas-gate  prison,  Shrewsbury,  for  nearly 
two  months ;  he  and  his  friends,  among  whom  was  his  brother-in-law,  William 
Yardley,  were  released  from  this  place  in  consequence  of  a  royal  proclamation, 
dated  at  Whitehall,  May  11,  1661 ;  in  1663  he  was  imprisoned  in  the  county  gaol 
of  Worcester;  in  1664-65-66,  in  Chester  Castle.  Among  other  persecutions  of 
Harrison  related  in  Besse's  "Sufferings  of  Friends,"  Lancashire  Chapter,  is  the 
following  in  1679:  "On  the  9th  of  November,  as  James  Harrison  was  preaching 
at  a  Meeting  in  his  own  House,  the  Constables  came  and  plukt  him  away.  They 
caused  him  to  be  fined  and  by  a  Warrant  from  Thomas  Laver  and  John  Kenyon 
Justices,  made  a  Seizure  of  Leather  and  other  Goods  to  the  Value  of  £10  19s. 
Phineas  Pemberton,  for  himself  and  wife  being  at  said  Meeting,  had  Goods  taken 
from  him  to  the  value  of  £4  15s.  4d."  At  this  time  he  lived  at  Stiall-Green,  in 
Cheshire.  In  1655  he  had  travelled  in  the  service  of  the  Gospel,  in  the  north  of 
England,  one  of  his  earliest  religious  services. 

From  several  evidences  and  allusions,  it  appears  that  Phineas  Pemberton  wrote 
a  narrative,  describing  the  early  sufferings  of  James  Harrison  and  his  wife,  and 
of  himself  also,  in  England,  on  account  of  their  religious  principles;  and  of  their 
subsequent  migration  to  this  country  to  seek  an  asylum  from  persecution.  James 
Pemberton  once  had  this  book  in  his  possession,  but  having  lent  it  to  some  person 
whom  he  could  not  recollect,  it  was  lost.  His  brother  John  had,  however,  made 
some  extracts  from  it  previously.  The  letters  following  were  written  while  James 
Harrison  was  confined  in  Chester  Castle ;  one  is : 


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"Most  dear,  and  right  dearly  beloved  wife,  whom  I  love  in  the  Lord  our  Saviour, 
Jesus  Christ,  for  thy  reverent,  courteous  behaviour  in  gesture  and  words  towards 
me  and  the  Lord,  whom  we  serve.  Thy  words  are  penetrating  words  and  have 
entered  my  heart  with  impressions  that  can  never  be  blotted  out ;  and  thus,  with  a 
real  acknowledgement  of  thy  spiritual  and  lively  testimony  that  breaks  and  tenders 
my  heart,  I  rest  thy  very  loving  husband.  JAMES  HARRISON. 

Castle  of  Chester,  26th  of  8th  mo.  1666." 

The  other : 

"J.  H.  Dear  Love, — I  had  a  great  desire  to  come  to  see  thee,  with  my  little  child, 
if  it  were  the  will  of  the  Lord ;  but  as  yet  I  see  little  way  made ;  but  this  I  believe, 
that  neither  death  nor  life,  nor  any  other  thing,  shall  be  able  to  separate  us ;  so, 
dear  heart,  farewell.    Let  us  hear  from  thee  as  often  as  thou  can. 

ANNE  HARRISON." 

In  1668  James  Harrison  removed  out  of  Cheshire,  and  probably  lived  some- 
where in  the  neighborhood  of  Phineas  Pemberton,  at  Bolton  or  Manchester. 
When  William  Penn  received  his  grant  of  Pennsylvania  in  168 1,  his  intentions 
of  founding  a  colony  there  were  often  made  the  subject  of  conversation  among 
the  persecuted  Friends,  the  attention  of  their  minds  directed  to  a  spot  where  they 
might  seek  an  asylum  for  the  security  of  their  civil  and  religious  privileges.  In  a 
letter  from  James  Harrison  to  Roger  Longworth,  dated  8mo.  4,  1681,  is  the 
following  hint  given  by  him  of  these  views :  "I  am  about  to  bargain  for  my 
house  in  case  I  should  go  with  William  Penn."  And  he  expressed  a  wish  that 
Eleanor  Lowe,  a  valued  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  might  purchase  it,  that 
it  might  be  "preserved  for  the  Lord's  service,"  having  been  frequently  used  for  a 
place  of  Friends'  worship,  "for  I  do  not  question  but  our  testimony  will  be  of 
force,  when  we  are  gone." 

This  prospect  of  removing  to  Pennsylvania  gradually  grew  brighter  in  their 
view,  till  at  length  resolutions  were  taken  accordingly.  Harrison  was  with  Penn, 
and  the  latter  made  the  former  his  agent  in  England  for  the  sale  of  his  American 
lands.  In  1682  James  Harrison,  his  son-in-law,  Phineas  Pemberton,  and  some 
others  chartered  the  ship,  "Submission,"  and  sailed  for  Pennsylvania,  September 
5,  of  that  year.  The  passengers  in  this  ship  were  fifty-two  persons,  among  whom 
were  Ralph  Pemberton,  aged  seventy-two;  Phineas  Pemberton,  his  son,  aged 
thirty-three;  Phebe  the  latter's  wife,  aged  twenty-three;  Abigail  and  Joseph,  their 
infant  children;  Agnes  Harrison,  aged  eighty-one  years;  James  Harrison,  her  son, 
aged  fifty-seven;  Anne,  his  wife,  aged  fifty-eight;  Robert  Bond,  aged  sixteen; 
Lydia  Wharmsby  aged  forty-two;  Randall  Blackshaw,  and  Alice  his  wife,  with 
their  four  children;  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne's  wife,  and  her  two  daughters,  Jane  and 
Margery  Maud ;  James  Clayton,  Jane  his  wife,  and  six  children.  Lydia  Wharms- 
by, above  mentioned,  had  long  lived  in  the  capacity  of  housekeeper  in  James 
Harrison's  family;  and  being  much  attached  to  them  determined  to  remove  with 
them  to  the  new  country.  Robert  Bond  was  a  youth  whom  his  father  had  confided 
to  the  protection  and  tuition  of  James  Harrison.  According  to  the  original  terms 
between  the  passengers  and  the  master  of  the  "Submission,"  they  were  to  have 
been  transported  to  the  "Delaware  river,  or  elsewhere  in  Pennsylvania,  to  the  best 


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conveniency  of  freighters."  But  through  fraud  on  the  master's  part,  as  it  is 
claimed,  or  perhaps  on  account  of  a  severe  storm  which  they  are  known  to  have 
encountered,  they  sailed  up  Chesapeake  bay,  arrived  in  the  Patuxent  river,  on 
8mo.  (October)  30,  1682,  and  disembarked  at  Choptank,  Maryland,  on  gmo.  2, 
and  James  Harrison  and  Phineas  Pemberton  proceeded  thence  to  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  as  detailed  above,  in  the  account  of  Phineas  Pemberton.  Here 
James  Harrison  had  laid  out  a  large  part  of  the  5000  acres  of  land  that  he  had 
bought  of  William  Penn,  most  of  it  immediately  adjoining  the  latter's  Manor  of 
Pennsbury.  In  the  county,  and  in  the  affairs  of  the  Colony  at  large,  Harrison  at 
once  took  place  as  a  leader,  still  continuing  to  act  as  Penn"s  land  agent  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  member  of  first  Provincial  Council  that  met  in  Philadelphia, 
tenth  day  of  first  Month,  1682-3.  In  the  same  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee to  draw  up  the  charter  of  the  colony.  In  1685  he  was  appointed  by  Penn 
as  Chief  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of  the  Province,  but  declined  to  serve.  The 
following  year,  however,  he  accepted  the  position  of  Associate  Justice  of  the  same 
Court.  On  April  6.  1685,  he  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  Bucks  County  Court, 
and  probably  still  acted  as  such  after  his  appointment  to  the  Supreme  Bench. 
Proud,  the  historian,  says  of  him:  "He  was  one  of  the  Proprietor's  first  Commis- 
sioners of  Property,  was  divers  years  in  great  esteem  with  him.  and  his  agent  at 
Pennsbury,  being  a  man  of  good  education  and  a  preacher  among  the  Quakers." 
Among  the  Penn  mss.  "Domestic  Letters,"  in  the  Library  of  the  Historical  Soci- 
ety of  Pennsylvania,  there  are  many  original  letters  from  Penn  to  Harrison,  some 
of  them  written  before  Penn  left  England.  Many  of  these  letters  from  Penn  are 
interesting  in  that  they  contain  reference  to  matters  current  in  the  earliest  days  of 
the  colony,  and  also  occasionally  give  a  picture  of  political  life  in  England.  Gen. 
Davis  in  "History  of  Bucks  County,"  (p.  86)  says:  "James  Harrison  was  much 
esteemed  by  William  Penn,  who  placed  great  reliance  on  him.  Before  leaving 
England  Penn  sold  him  five  thousand  acres  of  land,  which  he  afterwards  located 
in  Falls,  Upper  Makefield,  Newtown,  and  Wrightstown."  *  *  *  -jj,  J585 
ri686)  he  was  made  one  of  three  provincial  judges,  who  made  their  circuit  in 
boats  rowed  by  a  boatman  paid  by  the  province."  *  *  *  "Harrison's  certifi- 
cate from  Hartshaw  Monthly  Meeting,  gives  him  an  exalted  character,  and  his 
wife  is  called  'a  mother  in  Israel'."  He  died  October  6,  1687,  during  the  time  of 
great  sickness  in  the  county,  mentioned  above.  "James  Harrison  being  also  seized 
with  the  prevailing  disorder,  sunk  under  it,  and  departed  this  life  on  the  6th  of  the 
8th  month.  He  also  was  an  example  of  patience  under  suffering,  even  to  the  last, 
and  died  in  a  state  of  calmness  and  Christian  composure.  He  was  a  firm  and 
strenuous  advocate  for  civil  and  religious  liberty,  having  suffered  much  in  his 
native  land  for  the  cause  of  truth,  and  his  character  stood  high  for  integrity  and 
religious  usefulness.  The  commissions  he  received  from  the  Governor,  his 
friend,  William  Penn,  show  the  confidence  placed  in  his  talents  and  uprightness 
of  conduct ;  and  many  letters  from  the  latter,  giving  minute  directions  concerning 
the  management  of  the  estate  at  Pennsbury,  are  yet  preserved  among  the  papers 
of  the  family.  A  memorial  concerning  him  is  also  found  in  the  printed  collection 
of  memorials  concerning  deceased  Friends,  published  by  the  Society  in  1787, 
written  by  William  Yardley  and  Phineas  Pemberton." 

James  Harrison  married,  imo.  (March)  5,  1655-6,  Anne  Heath,  born  February 
13,  1624,  died  March  5,  1690.     Some  account  of  her  by  her  son-in-law,  Phineas 


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Pemberton,  has  been  given  above.  Her  sister,  Margery  Heath,  married  Thomas 
Janney,  of  Stiall-Green,  Cheshire,  a  minister  of  Friends,  who  also  removed  to 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  became  a  Provincial  Councillor,  and  a  large  landowner  in 
Bucks  county.  And  it  seems  more  probable  that  William  Yardley's  wife  was 
another  sister,  Jane  Heath,  rather  than  James  Harrison's  sister  Jane,  a  supposi- 
tion mentioned  above. 

James  and  Anne  (Heath)  Harrison  had  issue: 

Phoebe  Harrison,  b.  April  7,  1660.  d.  Oct.  30,  1696;  m.  Jan.  i,  1677,  Phineas  Pemberton; 

Joseph  Harrison,  b.  June  20,  1662,  d.  an  infant,  before  1665; 

Other  children  of  James  and  Anne  (Heath)   Harrison  died  in  childhood. 

Phineas  Pemberton  (second).  May  18,  1699,  at  Falls  Monthly  Meeting,  Alice 
Hodgson,  "of  Burlington,  in  the  Province  of  West  Jersey,  spinster,  daughter  of 
Robert  Hodgson,  late  of  Rhode  Island,  deceased."  They  had  no  issue.  Their 
marriage  certificate  is  now  in  possession  of  Henry  Pemberton,  of  Philadelphia, 
(>ne  of  the  descendants  of  Phineas  by  his  first  wife.  Alice  (Hodgson)  Pemberton 
married  (second)  in  1704,  Thomas  Bradford,  being  also  his  second  wife,  and  they 
had  issue.  She  died  August  28,  171 1.  Thomas  Bradford  was  elected  a  member 
of  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  October  2,  1705. 
Issue  of  Phineas  and  Phoebe  (Harrison)  Pemberton: 

Ann  Pemberton,  b.  Ov;t.  22,  1677.  d.  July  3,  1682;  she  was  buried  at  Langtree,  about 

eleven  miles  southwest  of  Bolton,  England; 
Abigail  Pemberton,  b.  June  14,  1680.  d.  Nov.  2,  1750,  bur.  Nov.  4,  in  Abington  Meeting 
Burying  Ground;  m.  Nov.  14,  1704,  Stephen  Jenkins,  of  Abington  twp.,  Phila.,  now 
Montgomery  co..  Pa.,  b.  in  Tenby,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  d.  Sept.  14,  1761,  buried  in 
Abington  Friends'  Burying  Ground:  he  was  a  son  of  William  Jenkins  and  Elizabeth 
Griffith,  his  wife,  who  came  from  Tenby,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  and  settled  in  Haver- 
ford  twp.,  Chester  co.,  about  1686.  William  Jenkins  was  an  active  and  influential 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  had  sufifered  persecution  in  his  native  country. 
He  was  a  member  of  Assembly  from  Chester  co.,  1690-95,  and  was  commissioned  a 
Justice  of  the  Chester  County  Court,  1691-92.  In  1697  he  moved  to  Abington  twp., 
where  he  purchased  400  acres  of  land,  including  the  present  site  of  Jenkintown,  named 
in  honor  of  the  family.  He  had  purchased  1000  acres  of  land  of  William  Penn  in 
1681,  before  leaving  Wales.  He  d.  June  7,  1712,  aged  about  54  years,  leaving  a  son 
Stephen,  above  named,  and  Margaret,  wife  of  Thomas  Paschall.  Stephen  Jenkins  in- 
herited his  father's  lands  at  Abington  and  continued  to  reside  there  until  his  death  in 
1761.  He  was  an  active  and  prominent  member  of  Abington  Monthly  Meeting  of 
Friends. 
Stephen  and  Abigail  (Pemberton)  Jenkins  had  issue: 
William  Jenkins,  b.  8mo.  16,  1705;  m.  Lydia  Roberts; 

Phineas  Jenkins,  b.  8mo.   16,   1707,  d.   1791;  m.    (first)    Isabel   Mather;    (second) 
Mary  Roberts;  his  dau.  Sarah,  born  7mo.  6,  1731,  m.  in  1753,  John  Brock,  son 
of  Richard  Brock,  whose  mother  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Brock,  of  Falls,  Bucks 
CO.,  is  thought  to  have  been  a  sister  to  Anne  (Heath)   Harrison; 
Phoebe  Jenkins,  b.  6mo.  14,  1709,  d.  y. ; 
Sarah  Jenkins,  b.  imo.  19,  1711;  rn.  Isaac  Tyson; 

Abigail  Jenkins,  b.  iimo.  9,  1712;  m.  Hugh; 

Stephen  Jenkins,  b.  iimo.  14,  1714;  removed  to  Phila.,  1740; 
Charles  Jenkins. 
Joseph  Pemberton,  b.  May  11,  1682,  d.  Nov.,  1702; 
Israel  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  20,  1684;  of  whom  presently; 
Samuel  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  3,  1686,  d.  Jan,  23,  1692; 
Phoebe  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  26,  1689,  d.  May  30,  1698; 

Priscilla  Pemberton,  b.  April  23,  1692,  d.  April  29,  I77i;  rn.  1709,  Isaac  Waterman,  of 
Abington  twp.,  Phila.  CO.,  who  d.  Jan.  16,  1748-9,  aged  67  years  and  8  months.  They 
had  issue : 

Humphrey  Waterman,  b.  6mo.  2,  1710;  m.  Hannah  Thomas; 


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Margaret  Waterman,  b.  6nio.  29,  1719;  m.  Patrick  McGarrigal,  or  Megargee; 

Rachel  Waterman,  b.  8mo.  8,  1722;  m.  Alberic  Bird;  see  below, 

John  Waterman,  b.  4mo.  6,  1725;  m.  Hannah  Bettle; 

Priscilla  Waterman,  b.  lomo.  25,  1728;  m.  Evan  Evans. 
Ralph  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  20,  1694,  d.  Nov.  18,  1694; 

Phineas  Jennings  Pemberton,  b.  April  17,  1696;  while  he  was  an  infant  his  mother 
was  very  ill  and  he  was  taken  to  nurse  by  one  of  her  friends,  wife  of  Samuel  Jennings, 
sometime  Deputy-Governor  of  New  Jersey,  on  which  account  he  was  given  the  middle 
name  of  Jennings,  middle  names  being  unusual  at  that  time.  He  is  said  to  have  died 
in  1 701. 

IsR.-\EL  Pemberton,  only  surviving  son  of  Phineas  and  Phoebe  (Harrison) 
Pemberton,  born  at  the  newly  erected  mansion  at  "Grove  Place,"  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  February  20,  1684-5,  was  carefully  educated  and  trained  in  his 
childhood  by  his  pious  parents.  Part  of  his  elementary  education  was  obtained 
in  Philadelphia,  but  in  1698,  he  had  a  serious  difference  with  his  schoolmaster, 
Pastorius,  and  his  father  took  him  back  to  Bucks  county. 

When  a  young  man  Israel  Pemberton  removed  from  Bucks  county  to  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  entered  the  counting  house  of  his  father's  friend,  Samuel  Car- 
penter, and  he  later  became  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  best  known  merchants  of  the 
city.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  the  city,  October  7,  1718;  Alder- 
man, October  4,  1720,  and  these  offices  being  then  of  life  tenure,  probably  served 
until  his  death  in  1754.  He  was  at  least  an  Alderman,  October  2,  1722,  and 
October  2,  1733.  He  was  one  of  the  city's  two  members  of  Provincial  Assembly 
twenty  years,  nineteen  of  them  being  consecutive,  his  first  term  beginning  in  1718, 
when  he  succeeded  Richard  Hill,  who  for  several  years  held  that  position.  He, 
however,  served  but  a  single  session  at  this  time,  and  was  not  again  elected  until 
thirteen  years  later,  in  1731,  when  he  was  returned  together  with  Dr.  John  Kers- 
ley,  and  was  returned  annually  thereafter  until  the  session  of  1749-50,  when  his 
public  service  closed.  He  occupied  a  position  of  great  importance  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Society  of  Friends ;  was  largely  employed  in  looking  after  its  property,  in 
supervising  its  schools,  and  in  adjusting  differences  between  its  members.  An 
account  of  him  in  "The  Friend,"  xxxi.,  141,  says  in  part:  "When  he  reached 
maturity,  he  entered  into  business  for  himself,  and,  having  an  excellent  talent  for 
mercantile  pursuits  and  being  industrious  in  his  habits,  he  soon  was  as  extensively 
engaged  in  trade  as  was  desirable.  In  the  year  1708  he  visited  Barbadoes  and 
other  West  India  Islands  for  purposes  of  traffic,  and  doubtless  to  enter  into  busi- 
ness arrangements  with  men  of  standing  there,  as  consignees  or  factors.  On  this 
occasion,  although  expecting  to  be  absent  from  Philadelphia  but  a  few  months, 
he  thought  it  right  to  take  a  certificate  of  membership  with  him,  which  says :  'He 
hath  been  of  a  good  conversation  from  his  childhood,  having  been  brought  up 
amongst  us,  and  is  well  beloved  for  his  innocent  life  and  good  behaviour  in  the 
Truth.  We  desire  his  growth  and  preservation  therein  to  the  end  of  his  days,  that 
the  same  may  be  the  portion  of  God's  People  everywhere,  is  our  sincere  and  hearty 
prayer.' 

"The  honorable  business  habits  of  Israel  Pemberton,  and  his  sterling  integrity 
won  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens  generally.  This  was 
manifested  in  the  public  offices  placed  upon  him.  *  *  *  He  was  rnuch  employed 
in  the  church,  in  looking  after  its  property,  in  watching  over  the  interest  of  the 
schools  under  its  care,  in  treating  with  those  who  had  violated  its  discipline,  and  in 


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composing  and  ending  differences  which,  from  the  clashing  of  pecuniary  interests, 
sometimes  arose  amongst  its  members.  He  appears  to  have  been  peculiarly 
gifted  as  a  clerk,  and  held  that  office  in  several  meetings  for  discipline,  for  many 
years.  He  was  an  overseer  by  appointment  of  the  meeting,  and  in  1729,  an  elder 
and  filled  that  station  with  honesty,  firmness  and  love  to  the  close  of  his  earthly 
existence." 

From  the  "Annals  of  the  Pemberton  Family,"  we  get  some  information  supple- 
mental to  that  in  "The  Friend."  On  his  trip  to  Jamaica,  in  1708,  "he  became  ac- 
quainted with  John  Fothergill  and  William  Armistead,  who  were  travelling  on  the 
island  in  the  service  of  Truth,"  and  also  that  it  was  at  the  funeral  of  the  wife  of 
Richard  Hockley,  in  the  Baptist  burial-ground,  in  Second  street,  that  he  was  seized 
with  the  apoplectic  fit,  "which  notwithstanding  the  prompt  application  of  medical 
aid,  soon  terminated  his  valuable  life." 

In  July,  1718,  we  find  Israel  Pemberton  spoken  of  as  "of  the  Northern  Liber- 
ties," soon  after  his  city  residence  was  situated  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Front 
and  Market  streets ;  in  the  middle  of  the  life  and  bustle  of  the  city.  He  remained 
in  that  house,  which  afterwards  became  the  London  Coffee  House,  until  1745, 
when  he  purchased  the  mansion  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Third  and  Chestnut 
streets,  known  as  "Clarke  Hall."  This  property  was  bounded  on  the  west  by 
house  and  grounds  of  William  Hudson.  A  lot  on  the  south,  extending  westward, 
later  purchased  by  Israel  Pemberton,  gave  an  outlet  on  the  passage  afterward 
known  as  Whalebone,  or  Hudson's  Alley.  There  was  space  sufficient  in  the 
grounds  appurtenant  to  the  mansion  to  render  it  exceedingly  attractive.  The 
ground  rose  gently  from  Dock  creek  toward  Chestnut  street  in  a  succession  of 
terraces  or  platforms,  which  allowed  a  full  view  of  the  gardens,  upon  which  care 
and  attention  were  spent.  Graydon  in  his  "Memoirs"  thus  describes  their  condi- 
tion about  the  year  1767:  "Israel  Pemberton's  garden  was  laid  out  in  the  old- 
fashioned  style  of  uniformity,  with  walks  and  alleys  nodding  to  their  brothers, 
and  decorated  with  a  number  of  evergreens  carefully  clipped  into  pyramidal  and 
conical  forms.  Here  the  amenity  of  the  view  usually  detained  me  for  a  few 
minutes ;  thence  turning  into  Chestnut  Street  corner  to  the  left,  and  passing  a  row 
of  dingy  two-story  houses,  I  came  to  the  whalebones  which  gave  name  to  the  alley 
at  the  corner  of  which  they  stood." 

During  Israel  Pemberton's  occupancy  of  "Clarke  Hall"  it  was  the  general  resort 
of  Friends  from  Europe,  and  indeed  of  all  strangers  of  note.  We  are  told  that 
"the  mansion  was  large  and  was  the  scene  of  a  hospitality  not  often  surpassed  in 
the  Province."  Under  Israel  Pemberton's  will  this  house  became  the  property  of 
his  son  John. 

As  became  a  gentleman  of  means  and  position  in  society  of  that  day,  Israel 
Pemberton  had  his  country  house.  In  February,  1738,  he  bought  of  Thomas 
Masters,  seventy  acres  of  land,  just  south  of  the  angle  of  Twenty-third  and  South 
streets  and  Gray's  Ferry  Road.  Here  he  built  a  mansion  house  before  1751, 
which  he  called  "Evergreen."  By  his  will  Israel  Pemberton  devised  "Evergreens" 
to  his  son  James. 

Israel  Pemberton  married,  April  12,  1710,  Rachel,  born  1691,  died  February 
24,  1765,  daughter  of  Charles  Read,  merchant,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  second 
wife.  Amy  (Child)  Stanton  (whom  he  had  married  in  1690).  Her  younger 
sister,  Sarah  Read,  became  the  wife  of  James  Logan,  William  Penn's  confidential 


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friend  and  adviser.  Israel  Pemberton  is  mentioned  in  "The  Courtship  of  Hannah 
Logan,"  where  he  is  called  "uncle."  Rachel  Pemberton's  half-brother,  Charles 
Read,  was  Sheriff  and  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  and  Pro- 
vincial Councillor.  Her  father,  Charles  Read,  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
England  in  later  life  (though  married  at  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  in  Bucks 
county),  but  was  much  respected  by  the  Quakers.  He  was  an  Alderman  of  the 
city  in  1701,  and  a  representative  in  Provincial  Assembly  in  1704.  He  died  about 
1705.  The  "Friend",  vol.  xxxii.,  p.  156,  has  a  sketch  of  Rachel  (Read)  Pember- 
ton, which  is  in  part,  as  follows : 

"RACHEL  PEMBERTON. 
"Rachel  Read  was  born  at  Burlington,  West  Jersey,  in  the  year  1691.  She  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  Read  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Pennsylvania  under  the  grant  to  William 
Penn.  About  the  eighteenth  year  of  her  age  she  was  married  to  our  worthy  friend.  Israel 
Pemberton.  *  *  *  After  his  death  she  continued  her  house  open  for  the  reception  of 
Friends  near  and  from  remote  parts,  as  it  had  been  in  her  husband's  time,  particularly  for 
the  entertainment  of  those  who  came  from  Europe  on  religious  visits  to  America,  with 
whom  she  was  often  dipt  into  much  feeling  sympathy  under  their  weighty  travail  and  exer- 
cise.    *     *     *." 

The  death  of  Israel  Pemberton  took  place  January  18  (or  19),  1754,  in  the 
sixty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  His  wife  departed  this  life  February  24,  1765,  aged 
about  seventy-four  years.  There  is  an  obituary  notice  of  him  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Gazette  of  January  22,  1754,  and  one  of  her  in  the  same  paper  for  February  28, 

1765- 
.    Issue  of  Israel  and  Rachel  (Read)  Pemberton: 

Sarah  Pemberton,  b.  Dec.  13,  171 1,  d.  Aug.  23,  1712; 
Phineas  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  23,  1713,  d.  May  23,  1714; 
IsR.\EL  Pemberton,  Jr.,  b.  May  10,  1715;  of  whom  presently; 
Charles  Pemberton,  b.  Oct.  23,  1716,  d.  March  23,  1720; 
Mary  Pemberton,  b.  Dec.  I,  1717,  d.  Feb.  27,  1731 ; 
Phineas  Pemberton,  b.  Dec.  4.  1719,  d.  Jan.  i,  1725; 
Rachel  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  29,  1721,  d.  Dec.  11,  1721  ; 
James  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  26,  1723,  of  whom  later; 
John  Pemberton,  b.  Nov.  25,  1727,  of  whom  later; 
Charles  Pemberton,  b.  July  4,  1729,  d.  May  21,  1748. 

Although  the  family  might  have  seemed  likely  to  become  extensive  in  descend- 
ants, yet  in  1812  it  was  reduced  to  one  male  representative. 

Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  son  of  Israel  and  Rachel  (Read)  Pemberton,  was  born 
May  10,  1715.  He  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  with  his  father  and  attain- 
ed a  large  measure  of  success.  He  also  became  very  active  and  conspicuous  in 
the  councils  of  the  Friends,  to  such  a  degree  indeed,  that  he  became  known  by  the 
nickname  of  "The  King  of  the  Quakers."  He  stood  in  the  van  with  those  of  that 
faith  who  battled  with  the  Proprietaries  (no  longer  so  tender  toward  Quaker  inter- 
ests as  the  Founder),  as  represented  by  the  several  governors  of  his  day.  As  a 
result  of  his  criticisms  of  Gov.  George  Thomas,  the  latter  had  him  arrested  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1739-40,  but  obtaining  a  writ  of  habeus  corpus,  he  was  released  on  bail. 
This  difficulty  arose  from  a  controversy  respecting  a  proposed  alteration  in  the 
charter  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  concerning  the  imposition  of  taxes. 

Throughout  his  life  Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  was  a  staunch  friend  of  the  Indian. 
He  was  one  of  the  six  signers  of  a  vigorous  address  presented  to  Gov.  Robert 


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Hunter  Morris  and  the  Provincial  Council,  April  12,  1756,  protesting  against  a 
declaration  of  war  against  the  Delawares,  which,  however,  was  issued  two  days 
later. 

In  the  same  year,  1756,  Pemberton  was  one  of  the  principal  promoters  in  the 
formation  of  "The  Friendly  Association  for  Preserving  Peace  with  the  Indians," 
which  was  established  and  almost  entirely  supported  by  the  Quakers.  Later  in 
the  same  year,  he  was  largely  responsible  for  bringing  about  the  famous  confer- 
ence at  Easton,  which  resulted  in  a  treaty  of  peace,  whereby  the  difficulties  with 
the  Indians  were  adjusted  and  further  bloodshed  averted.  He  was  also  a  founder 
of  the  "Friendly  Association  for  regaining  and  preserving  peace  with  the  Indians 
by  pacific  measures."  By  reason  of  his  prominence  in  all  matters  affecting  the 
welfare  of  the  red  men  he  was  sometimes  designated  as  "King  Wampum." 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  like  most  of  the  conspicuous  and  influ- 
ential Quakers,  he  took  as  strong  a  stand  against  precipitating  the  impending 
struggle,  and  because  of  his  vigorous  efforts  to  prevent  hostilities  he  was  treated 
as  a  Tory,  and,  without  trial,  was  imprisoned  in  1777,  and  finally  exiled  to  Vir- 
ginia, together  with  his  two  brothers  and  a  score  of  prominent  Quakers,  where 
he  was  compelled  to  remain  for  a  period  of  eight  months. 

Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  succeeded  his  father  in  the  Assembly  immediately  upon 
the  latter's  withdrawal,  being  elected  from  the  county  of  Philadelphia  in  1750, 
but  he  was  not  disposed  to  continue  in  that  body.  His  influence  in  Pennsylvania 
was  very  great,  but  it  was  exercised  in  moulding  the  policy  of  the  Quaker  party 
outside  of  the  Assembly.  He  gave  great  attention  and  constant  activity  to  the 
councils  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  wherein  he  very  frequently  found  himself 
arrayed  against  the  proprietary  policy.  The  Quaker  party  and  the  anti-proprietary 
party  were  not  identical,  but  their  interests  and  policies  so  often  lay  in  the  same 
direction  as  not  to  interfere  with  Pemberton  being  a  leader  in  both. 

Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  22,  1779.  He  married,  March 
30,  1737,  Sarah,  born  1714,  died  July  31,  1746,  daughter  of  Joseph  Kirkbride,  of 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  by  his  second  wife,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Mahlon  Stacy, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  Province  of  New  Jersey,  Kings'  Councillor, 
Assemblyman,  Justice  of  the  Courts,  etc.  Her  father,  Joseph  Kirkbride,  a  prom- 
inent figure  in  the  Colonial  history  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  first  half  century  after 
its  founding,  was  three  times  married,  his  first  wife  being  Phebe,  daughter  of 
Randall  Blackshaw,  who  was  the  ancestor  of  later  generations  of  the  Pemberton 
family  as  shown  later. 

Israel  Pemberton  married  (second)  December  10,  1747,  Mary  (Stanbury)  Tor- 
dan,  widow  of  Robert  Jordan,  and  of  Capt.  Richard  Hill,  and  daughter  of  Nathan 
and  Mary  (Ewer)  Stanbury,  early  members  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting. 
She  was  the  Mary  Pemberton  whose  coach  Gen.  Howe  seized  and  appropriated  to 
his  own  use  during  the  British  occupancy  of  Philadelphia  in  1777.  She  died  Octo- 
ber 25,  1778. 

/.y.fi(i:  of  Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  and  his  first  imfc,  Sarah  Kirkbride: 

Mary  Pemberton,  b.  Oct.  17,  1738;  m.  Samuel  Pleasants,  and  through  her  dau.  Sarah 
Pleasants,  was  the  ancestress  of  a  branch  of  the  Fox  family  of  Phila.,  as  well  as  of 
the  Emlens  of  Phila.,  as  shown  by  accounts  of  these  respective  families,  in  these 
volumes; 

Rachel  Pemberton,  b.  April,  1740,  d.  June  21,  1753; 

Sarah  Pemberton,  b.  July  9>  I74i;  m.  Samuel  Rhoads; 


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Israel  Pemberton,  b.  1743,  d.  Aug.  30,  1764; 

Phineas  Pemberton,  b.  1744,  d.  1746; 

Joseph  Pemberton,  b.  1745;  m.  Ann  Galloway;  of  whom  presently; 

Jane  Pemberton,  b.  July  17,  1746,  d.  Aug.  23,  1747. 

Issue  of  Israel  Pemberton,  Ir.,  by  liis  second  tvife,  Mary  (Stanbury)  Jordan: 

Charles  Pemberton,  b.  Oct.  9,  1748,  d.  April  8,  1772;  m.  March  8,  1770,  Esther  House, 
dau.  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth,  and  had  issue,  one  child : 

Mary  C.  Pemberton,  b.  March  25,  1771,  d.  July  2,  1801  ;  became  the  first  wife  of 
Hon.  George  Fox,  of  "Champlost,"  a  brother  to  Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  who  mar- 
ried her  cousin,  Sarah  Pleasants.  She  had  issue,  three  children,  only  one  of 
whom,  Elizabeth  Mary  Pemberton  Fox,  m.,  she  becoming  the  wife  of  John 
Roberts  Tunis,  and  the  ancestress  of  the  Tunis  family  of  Phila.,  an  account  of 
which  is  given  in  these  volumes. 

James  Pemberton,  another  son  of  Israel  Pemberton,  the  elder,  by  his  wife, 
Rachel  Read,  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  26,  1723,  was  educated  at  Friends 
School  in  Philadelphia;  travelled  to  the  Carolinas  in  1745;  visited  Europe  in  1748, 
and  travelled  much  through  England.  Like  his  brother,  Israel,  Jr.,  he  was  largely 
and  successfully  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  like  him  also  displayed  an 
active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  Indians.  He  was  likewise  friendly  to  the 
negroes  in  slavery,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Abolition 
Society,  of  which  he  became  President  in  1790,  upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Franklin. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  in  1756,  when  Gov.  Morris  published  his 
proclamation  of  war  against  the  Delaware  Indians,  whereupon,  June  10,  1756,  he 
resigned  his  seat  because  of  his  antagonism,  as  a  matter  of  conscience,  to  war 
measures.  He  was  also  a  founder  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital  and  was  a  manager 
from  1758  to  1780,  and  secretary  from  1759  to  1772. 

In  1757  he  published  "An  Apology  for  the  People  called  Quakers,  containing 
some  Reasons  for  their  not  complying  with  Human  Injunctions  and  Institutions 
in  Matters  relative  to  the  Worship  of  God."  Like  his  elder  brother,  James  Pem- 
berton, he  vigorously  opposed  the  popular  movements  aimed  at  armed  opposition 
to  the  British  government,  and  he,  too,  was  banished  to  Virginia,  in  1777,  for  his 
religious  convictions  and  opposition  to  war  measures. 

James  Pemberton's  town  house  was  on  Second  street,  adjoining  the  residence 
at  the  northwest  corner  of  Second  street  and  Lodge  alley,  afterwards  Gothic 
street,  erected  by  William  Logan,  son  of  Secretary  James  Logan,  between  1750 
and  1760.  His  country  seat  was  "The  Plantation,"  originally  the  property  of 
Chief  Justice  John  Kinsey,  purchased  by  James  Pemberton  at  sheriff's  sale  in 
T758.  It  remained  in  the  family  only  during  the  purchaser's  lifetime,  being  sold 
by  his  executors  in  1809,  and  since  1826  has  been  the  site  of  the  L^nited  States 
Naval  Asylum,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Schuylkill.  He  also  inherited  from  his 
father  "The  Evergreens,"  the  country  seat  of  the  latter,  on  the  opposite  side  of 
Gray's  Ferry  road. 

During  the  winter  of  1777-8,  while  James  Pemberton  was  an  exile  in  \'irginia, 
and  the  British  were  in  possession  of  Philadelphia,  Mrs.  Pemberton  was  in  charge 
of  the  "Plantation."  As  was  the  case  generally  with  all  the  property  within  the 
zone  of  occupancy,  the  Pemberton  estate  suffered  severely  at  the  hands  of  the 
soldiers,  who  became  so  destructive,  that  Mrs.  Pemberton  was  compelled  to  appeal 
to  Lord  Howe,  to  wit: 


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"Esteemed  Friend,  I  am  extreamly  concerned  that  I  am  once  more  obliged  to  Trouble 
Gen'I.  Howe  with  any  affair  of  mine,  when  his  own  important  engagements  no  doubt  engross 
his  time  and  thoughts;  but  by  the  cruel  Banishment  of  my  Husband  his  business  necessarily 
devolves  upon  me,  and  being  possessed  of  two  small  farms  near  the  city,  on  one  of  which 
there  is  a  small  piece  of  wood.  Intended  for  Firing  for  myself  and  children,  with  a  few  of 
the  Inhabitants,  some  of  whom  are  not  able  to  pay  for  it,  but  have  constantly  partook  of 
My  Beloved  Husband's  bounty,  by  supplying  them  in  the  Winter  season  with  a  small  quan- 
tity, which  I  shall  be  rendered  incapable  of  doing,  as  the  soldiers  are  taking  it  away,  and  say 
they  do  it  by  permission  of  the  General's  Secretary.  *  *  *  The  General's  kind  inter- 
position in  this  matter  will  Greatly  oblige.  THY  ASSURED  FRIEND." 

Later,  February  14,  1778,  Mrs.  Pemberton  found  occasion  to  write  to  a  certain 
British  officer,  one  Lord  Murray,  as  follows : 

"I  was  yesterday  informed  that  a  certain  officer  of  the  Guard  who  passes  by  the  name 
or  style  of  Lord  Murray,  being  stationed  at  my  Husband's  Plantation  near  Scuylkill,  did 
there  behave  himself  in  an  ungentlemanly  manner  by  abusing  part  of  the  effects  on  said 
place,  and  also  breaking  open  the  doors  of  that  part  of  the  house  occupied  by  my  tenants, 
and  treating  the  family  with  barbarous  and  unbecoming  behaviour,  very  unworthy  of  a 
British  nobleman  and  officer,  after  being  previously  shown  Genl.  Howe's  protection  posted 
up  in  the  house,  at  which  sight  he  used  several  expressions  highly  insulting  and  derogatory 
to  the  General's  honour.  I  take  this  method  of  informing  the  said  Lord  Murray,  that  if  he 
dont  think  proper  to  make  some  suitable  acknowledgements,  I  shall  immediately  enter  A 
complaint  at  Headquarters.  Phoebe  Pemberton." 

James  Pemberton,  long  after  the  Revolution,  cherished  the  costume  of  his 
fathers,  and  Watson  says  of  him:  "He  was  almost  the  last  of  the  race  of  cocked 
hats,  and  certainly  one  of  the  very  best  illustrations  of  bygone  times  and  primitive 
men." 

James  Pemberton  married  (first)  October  15,  1751,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Mor- 
decai  and  Hannah  (Fishbourne)  Lloyd,  born  April  17,  1734,  died  April  17,  1764; 
(second)  March  22,  1768,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Smith,  of  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  who  died  November  28,  1770;  (third)  July  12,  1775,  Mrs.  Phoebe  (Lewis) 
Morton,  widow  of  Samuel  Morton,  and  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  Lewis. 
She  was  born  March  11,  1738,  died  August  22,  1812. 
Issue  of  James  and  Hannah  (Lloyd)  Pemberton: 

Phineas  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  4,  1753,  d.  May  20,  1778,  unm.; 

Rachel  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  4,  1754;  m.  April  13,  1775,  Thomas  Parke,  M.  D.,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Jane  (Edge)  Parke,  b.  Aug.  6,  1749,  d.  Jan.  9,  1835;  he  was  an  eminent 
physician,  having,  after  graduating  from  the  College  of  Philadelphia  in  1770,  spent 
two  years  in  the  leading  hospitals  of  London  and  Edinburgh.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  president  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  a  director 
of  the  Philadelphia  Library,  and  from  1777  to  1823,  a  period  of  nearly  half  a  century, 
a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital; 

Hannah  Pemberton,  b.  Oct.  27,  1755,  d.  Sept.  4,  1788;  m.  Oct.  14,  1784,  Robert  Morton, 
son  of  her  father's  third  wife,  Phoebe  Lewis,  by  her  first  husband,  Samuel  Morton. 
He  was  b.  in  1760,  d.  Aug.  17,  1786,  without  issue;  Hannah  (Pemberton)  Morton  was  a 
girl  of  keen  intellect,  and  possessed  no  meager  literary  genius.  While  on  a  visit,  dur- 
ing the  Revolution,  and  before  her  marriage,  to  "Bolton  Farm,"  a  part  of  the  original 
Phineas  Pemberton  tract,  in  Bristol  twp.,  Bucks  co.,  now  the  property  of  a  descendant, 
Effingham  B.  Morris,  President  of  the  Girard  Trust  Company,  she  wrote  some  verses 
to  her  sister  Sarah,  from  which  the  following  lines  are  extracted : 

"The  muse  inspires,  from  Bolton  Farm  I  write, 
"Whose  varied  prospects  please  th'  admiring  sight. 
"There,  at  a  distance  on  rising  ground, 
"Stands  beauteous  Clifton,  with  each  charm  around; 
"Here  Roxborough  Manor,  elegantly  gay, 
"With  smiling  neatness,  owns  the  master's  sway; 
"Whose  plenteous  gardens,  rich  with  fruits,  appear; 
"The  peach,  all  luscious  and  delightful  pear; 
"The  cantaloupe,  with  yellow  verdure  shines; 


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"And  cooling  Melons  deck  the  circling  vines ; 
"Oft  have  I  here  some  pleasing  moments  past, 
"And  shared  with  pleasure  in  the  sweet  repast." 

Sarah  Pemberton,  b.  Nov.  14,  1756,  d.  July  24,  1819;  unm. ; 
James  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  27,  1758,  d.  June  17,  1758; 
Mary  Pemberton,  b.  March  12,  1759,  d.  Oct.  11,  1765. 

Issue  of  James  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Pemberton: 

Mary  Smith  Pemberton,  b.  Nov.  19,  1770,  d.  1808;  m.  May  13,  1790,  Anthony  Morris,  son 
of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Wistar)  Morris,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Anthony 
Morris,  second  Mayor  of  Phila.  under  the  charter  of  1701.  Anthony  Morris,  the  hus- 
band of  Mary  Smith  Pemberton,  was  b.  Feb.  10,  1766,  d.  Nov.  3,  i860;  he  established 
himself  in  business  as  a  merchant  in  Phila.,  and  in  the  meantime,  July  27,  1787,  was 
admitted  to  the  Phila.  bar.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  at  an  early  age,  and 
in  1793.  succeeded  Samuel  Powell  as  Speaker,  being  the  third  to  fill  that  position,  under 
the  constitution  of  1790;  from  1813  to  1815  he  was  United  States  Minister  to  Spain. 

Anthony  and  Mary  Smith  (Pemberton)  Morris  had  four  children,  three  of  whom 
married,  two  daughters,  and  a  son,  James  Pemberton  Morris.  Phineas  Pemberton 
Morris,  an  able  lawyer,  who  d.  March  i,  1888,  was  a  son  of  the  latter. 

John  Pemberton,  third  surviving  son  of  Israel  and  Rachel  (Read)  Pemberton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  November  25  (or  27),  1727,  like  his  brothers  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits  in  his  native  city,  and  attained  a  large  degree  of  success.  He 
wras  also  a  conspicuous  Quaker,  rather  more  so,  indeed,  than  either  of  his  brothers. 
John  Pemberton  devoted  much  of  his  life  to  religious  work,  largely  abroad.  He 
made  three  voyages  to  Europe,  in  1750-82-94,  spending  several  years  in  Great 
Britian,  Holland  and  Germany,  preaching  and  proselyting  in  those  countries.  He 
published  numerous  journals  and  accounts  of  his  travels  and  services  in  foreign 
lands,  mainly  in  the  "Friends'  Miscellany." 

In  1783,  while  returning  from  England  in  the  ship  '"Apollo,"  Dr.  Benjamin 
Barton,  the  eminent  naturalist,  was  a  fellow  passenger,  and  has  left  us  a  very 
interesting  account  of  a  series  of  conversations  with  John  Pemberton  on  ship- 
board, in  which  the  latter  furnished  much  valuable  information  concerning  old 
Philadelphia  and  old  Philadelphians. 

In  1777,  John  Pemberton,  being,  like  his  brothers,  a  non-combatant,  and  open 
in  his  opposition  to  the  belligerent  position  taken  by  the  popular  party  in  Phila- 
delphia, was  subjected  to  arrest,  imprisonment  and  exile  with  his  two  brothers  and 
other  leading  Quakers.  His  journal  containing  an  account  of  his  experiences  dur- 
ing the  exile  in  Virginia  is  extant.  Sabine,  in  his  "Loyalists  of  the  American 
Revolution,"  says  of  John  Pemberton,  "His  offense  was  the  publication  of  a  sedi- 
tious paper  in  behalf  of  certain  persons  in  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey,  which 
attracted  the  attention  of  Congress." 

John  Pemberton  married  Hannah  Zane,  but  had  no  issue.  He  died  January  31, 
1795,  at  Pyrmont,  Westphalia,  Germany,  during  his  last  religious  journey- abroad. 
He  left,  we  are  told,  a  large  estate,  much  of  which  he  gave  by  his  will  to  several 
charitable,  benevolent  and  religious  organizations,  with  which  he  had  been  asso- 
ciated, and  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  in  the  formation  of  like  organizations. 
L'nder  the  will  of  his  father,  John  Pemberton  inherited  "Clarke  Hall,"  and  he 
made  it  his  residence  during  his  lifetime;  his  widow  continuing  to  live  there  some 
time  after  his  death.  The  mansion,  however,  was  much  larger  than  was  necessary 
for  her  accommodation,  and  she  withdrew  to  the  western  portion,  and  the  eastern 


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portion  was  rented  to  the  United  States  Treasury  Department,  and  was  occupied 
in  1795-96  by  Oliver  Wolcott,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  and  his  staff.  It  re- 
mained in  that  tenancy  until  the  removal  of  the  Federal  government  to  the  city  of 
Washington. 

Joseph  Pemberton,  son  of  Israel  Pemberton,  Jr..  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Kirk- 
bride,  born  in  1745,  married,  June  2,  1767,  Ann,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann 
Galloway,  of  West  River,  Anne  Arundel  county,  Maryland ;  granddaughter  of 
Samuel  and  Anne  (Webb)  Galloway,  of  the  same  place;  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Richard  Galloway,  who  was  in  America  about  1650.  She  was  a  cousin  of 
Joseph  Galloway,  the  famous  Bucks  county  Loyalist  of  the  Revolutionist. 

Though  both  Joseph  Pemberton  and  his  wife  came  of  strict  Quaker  families, 
they  appear  to  have  renounced  the  plain  dress  of  their  ancestors,  as  attested  by 
two  handsome  oil  paintings  of  them  now  in  possession  of  their  grandson,  Henry 
Pemberton,  which  show  them  attired  in  the  height  of  the  mode  of  their  day.  It 
was  in  their  time,  too,  that  the  name  of  Pemberton  first  appeared  on  the  list  of 
the  Philadelphia  Dancing  Assemblies. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Galloway)  Pemberton: 

Sarah  Pemberton,  b.  July  23.  1769,  d.  April  11,  1797,  unm. ; 
Ann  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  27,  1770,  d.  May  12,  1841,  unm.; 
Israel  Pemberton,  b.  Nov.  16,  1771,  d.  Nov.  29,  1784; 
Joseph  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  I,  1774,  d.  April  3,  1809,  unm.; 
Charles  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  2,  1776,  d.  Jan.  29,  1788; 
Mary  Pemberton,  b.  July  8,  1778,  d.  April  7,  1803,  unm.; 
Elizabeth  Pemberton,  b.  Dec.  27,  1780;  m.  Henry  L.  Waddell; 
_  John  Pemberton,  b.  April  9,  1783;  m.  Rebecca  Clifford;  of  whom  presently. 

John  Pemberton,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Galloway)  Pemberton, 
born  April  9,  1783,  died  January  12,  1847;  was,  in  1812,  the  only  male  descendant 
of  Phineas  Pemberton,  bearing  the  name.  He  was  sometime  Collector  of  the 
Port  of  Philadelphia.  He  married,  July  15,  1812,  Rebecca,  born  January  i,  1792, 
c'aughter  of  John  and  Anna  (Rawle)  Clifford,  of  Philadelphia. 
Issue  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pemberton: 

Israel  Pemberton,  b.  May  11,  1813,  d.  s.  p.,  Sept.  13,  1885; 

John  Clifford  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  10,  1814;  m.  Martha  O.  Thompson;  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 

Anna  Clifford  Pemberton,  b.  May  17,  1816;  m.  Samuel  L.  Hollingsworth,  M.  D.;  of 
whom  later; 

Mary  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  5,  1818,  d.  Sept.  25,  1820; 

Rebecca  Clifford  Pemberton,  b.  April  22,  1820;  m.  Charles  Newbold;  of  whom  later; 

Mary  Pemberton,  b.  May  8,  1822,  d.  Dec.  13,  1848,  unm.; 

Henry  Segeant  Pemberton,  b.  June  23,  1824,  d.  May  21.  1825; 

Henry  Pemberton,  b.  Feb.  11,  1826;  m.  (first)  Caroline  T.  Hollingsworth;  (second) 
Agnes  Williams; 

Frances  Pemberton,  b.  Nov.  12,  1827,  d.  July  17,  1858,  unm.; 

Sarah  Pemberton  b.  Aug.  23,  1829,  d.  July  17,  1847,  unm.; 

Andrew  Jackson  Pemberton,  b.  Aug.  8,  1831,  was  a  member  of  the  First  Troop  Phila- 
delphia City  Cavalry,  and  served  in  the  Civil  War  w-ith  that  organization,  afterwards 
obtaining  the  rank  of  Captain  in  one  of  the  three-year  regiments.  During  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  he  resided  in  New  York  City,  but  died  in  Phila.,  unm. ; 

Clifford  Pemberton,  b.  March  30,  1835,  d.  May  6,  1897;  also  went  to  the  Civil  War  as  a 
member  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry;  he  m.  April  29,  1862,  Helen 
Augusta  Ann  Fryer,  and  had  issue : 


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Helen  Clifford  Pemberton,  b.  March  i8,  1863,  d.  July  17,  1896,  unm.; 

Rebecca  Clifford  Pemberton,  m.  Hobart  A.  Hare,  M.  D.,  of  Phila.; 

Mary  Pemberton,  m.  Alfred  Thornton  Baker; 

John  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  14,  1873,  d.  Feb.  23,  1900,  unm.; 

Augusta  Pemberton,  m.  Harry  EHwood  Keller; 

Frances  Rawle  Pemberton,  m.  Francis  Cadwallader  Dade,  Jr. 

Lieutenant  General  John  Clifford  Pemberton,  C.  S.  A.,  second  son  of 
John  and  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pemberton,  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  10,  1814, 
died  at  Penllyn,  Pennsylvania,  July  13,  1881.  He  was  appointed  to  the  United 
States  Military  Academy,  on  his  own  application,  by  President  Jackson,  who  had 
been  a  friend  of  his  father.  After  his  graduation  in  1837,  he  was  assigned  to  the 
Fourth  Artillery,  and  served  against  the  Indians  in  Florida  in  1837-9,  and  on  the 
northern  frontier  during  the  Canada  border  disturbances  in  1840-2.  He  was  pro- 
moted First  Lieutenant  March  19,  1842,  and  was  on  garrison  duty  until  the  Mexi- 
can War,  during  which  he  served  with  credit  as  aide  to  Gen.  Worth,  receiving  the 
brevet  as  Captain  for  gallantry  at  Monterey,  and  that  of  Major  for  services  at 
Molino  del  Rey.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  presented  with  a  sword  by  citi- 
zens of  Philadelphia,  and  was  thanked,  with  other  Pennsylvania  officers  by  resolu- 
tion of  the  Legislature  of  that  State. 

He  was  promoted  Captain,  September  16,  1850,  took  part  in  operations  against 
the  Seminole  Indians  in  1849-50,  and  1856-7,  and  served  at  Fort  Leavenworth 
during  the  Kansas  troubles,  and  in  the  Utah  expedition  of  1858.  At  the  beginning 
cf  the  Civil  War  he  was  ordered  from  Fort  Ridgely,  Minnesota,  to  Washington, 
and  after  his  arrival  there,  in  spite  of  the  personal  efforts  of  Gen.  Winfield  Scott 
to  prevent  him,  resigned  his  commission  and  was  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel 
of  Virginia  State  Troops,  to  date  from  April  28,  1861.  He  was  intrusted  with 
the  organizing  of  the  artillery  and  cavalry  of  the  state  and  became  Colonel  on 
May  8,  1861.  On  June  15,  1861,  he  was  made  Major  of  Artillery  in  the  C.  S.  A., 
and  two  days  later  Brigadier  General.  On  February  13,  1852,  he  was  promoted 
Major  General  and  at  the  request  of  Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee,  whom  he  succeeded,  was 
appointed  to  command  the  department  that  included  South  Carolina,  Georgia  and 
Florida,  with  headquarters  at  Charleston.  Here  he  strengthened  the  harbor  de- 
fences, planning  and  beginning  Fort  Wagner  and  Battery  B,  and  planting  sub- 
marine obstructions.  On  October  13,  1862,  he  was  promoted  to  Lieutenant  Gen- 
eral, and  assigned  to  the  charge  of  the  department  that  comprised  Mississippi, 
Tennessee  and  eastern  Louisiana,  with  headquarters  at  Jackson,  Mississippi. 
Pemberton's  operations  around  Vicksburg  and  his  defense  of  that  city  against 
Gen.  Grant,  are  described  in  all  histories  of  the  Civil  War  of  any  note.  After  his 
surrender  of  the  city  and  garrison  of  Vicksburg  on  July  4,  1863,  he  returned  on 
parole  to  Richmond,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  duly  exchanged.  After  his 
exchange,  finding  no  command  that  was  commensurate  with  his  rank,  he  resigned 
and  was  reappointed  as  Inspector  of  Ordinance,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  then  retired  to  a  country  estate 
near  Warrenton,  Virginia,  but  in  1876  returned  to  Philadelphia,  which  was  the 
home  of  his  brothers  and  sisters,  two  of  the  former  having  served  on  the  Union 
side  in  the  late  conflict.  In  the  spring  of  1881  his  health  began  to  fail,  and  he 
removed,  with  the  hope  of  benefiting  it,  to  Penllyn,  Montgomery  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  died  July  13,  1881. 


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Gen.  John  C.  Pemberton  married,  January  18,  1848,  Martha  O.,  born  1825,  died 
August  14,  1907,  daughter  of  William  H.  Thompson,  of  Norfolk,  Virginia.  After 
her  husband's  death  she  lived  some  time  in  Philadelphia,  and  afterward  in  New 
York  City,  where  she  died,  and  was  buried  in  South  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  Phila- 
delphia. 

Issue  of  Gen.  John  C.  and  Martha  0.  (Thompson)  Pemberton: 

A  son,  d.  inf.; 

Martha  Pemberton,  b.  Jan.  14,  1850;  m.  (first)  Jan.  7,  1874,  John  C.  Baylor,  of  Norfolk, 

Va.;   (second)   Dec.  14,  1880,  Isadore  Bermann,  M.  D.; 
Mary  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  2,  1851,  d.  Sept.  9,  1853; 
John  Clifford  Pemberton,  Jr.,  b.  Jan.  31,  1853; 
William  H.  Pemberton,  b.  Dec.  15,  1864;  m.  Dec.  23,  1880,  Jane  Crowell,  of  Perth  Am- 

boy,  N.  J.,  in  which  city  they  reside; 
Francis  Rawle  Pemberton,  b.  May  3,  1856;  m.  June  25,  1890,  Josephine  Stanard,  b.  Aug. 

19,  1865,  dau.  of  Judge  William  H.  Lyons,  of  Richmond,  Va.; 
Anna  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  5,  1858. 

Anna  Clifford  Pemberton,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Clififord)  Pem- 
berton, born  May  17,  1816,  married,  October  12,  1848,  Samuel  Lovering  Hollings- 
worth,  M.  D.,  born  May  22,  1816,  died  December  14,  1872,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Jane  Porterfield  (Smith)  Hollingsworth.  Some  account  of  his  ancestry  will  be 
given  later  in  our  account  of  the  Shallcross  ancestry  of  the  later  Pembertons. 
Mrs.  Hollingsworth  survived  her  husband  and  died  June  28,   1884.     They  had 


Clifford  Hollingsworth,  b.  Aug.  20,  1849,  d.  April  20,  1853; 

Samuel  Hollingsworth,  b.  Dec.  13,  1851,  d.  April  20,  1853; 

Rebecca  Clifford  Hollingsworth,  b.  Nov.  13,  1854;  m.  William  Logan  Fox,  a  member  of 
Co.  D,  Gray  Reserves,  afterward  Co.  D,  First  Reg.  Inf.,  N.  G.  P.,  and  served  with 
it  in  the  emergency  calls  during  the  Civil  War;  they  had  no  issue; 

Pemberton  Hollingsworth,  b.  March  13,  1856;  m.  (first)  Dec.  28,  1897,  Marianna  M. 
Morris;  (second) ; 

Anna  R.  Hollingsworth,  b.  April  17,  1859,  d.  Dec.  23,  1862. 

Rebecca  Clifford  Pemberton,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pem- 
berton, born  April  22,  1820,  died  August  i,  1883;  married,  November  28,  1844, 
Charles  Newbold,  born  August,  1816,  died  December  23,  1863. 
Isstie  of  Charles  and  Rebecca  C.  (Pemberton)  Nezvbold: 

Rebecca  Clifford  Newbold,  b.  Oct.  22,  1845,  d.  1900,  unm.; 

John  Pemberton  Newbold.  b.  Jan.  27,  1848;  m.  March  23,  1876,  Ann  Pauline,  dau.  of 
Albert  and  Sarah   (Glentworth)   Denckla; 

Elizabeth  Ross  Newbold,  d.  inf.; 

Charles  Ross  Newbold,  b.  Feb.  5,  1851  ;  removed,  sometime  before  his  parents  decease, 
to  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  residing  there  and  elsewhere  in  the  south  until  the  outbreak  of 
Spanish-American  War,  when  he  enlisted  in  Co.  G,  Third  Reg.  Inf.,  N.  G.  P.,  April  27, 
1898,  and  May  10,  his  company  was  mustered  into  the  U.  S.  service  as  Co.  G,  Third 
Penn.  Vol.  Inf.;  the  company  was  under  the  command  of  his  personal  friend,  Capt. 
Caldwell  K.  Biddle,  and  the  regiment  was  commanded  by  his  cousin,  Robert  Ralston; 
he  was  mustered  out  with  the  company,  Oct.  22,  1898.  and  rejoined  it  on  its  organiza- 
tion in  the  N.  G.  in  Dec,  i8g8,  and  was  made  corporal;  he  was  honorably  discharged 
in  1899.  After  the  war  he  was  engaged  in  railroad  construction  with  the  Penn.  R.  R. 
Co.  at  Uniontown  and  Brownsville,  Pa.,  Acme,  W.  Va.,  and  Long  Island  City,  N.  Y.; 

Mary  Newbold,  b.  Jan.  27,  1853;  unm.; 

Caleb  Newbold,  b.  Sept.  17,  1854,  d.  Jan.  6,  1873,  unm.; 

Alice  Newbold,  b.  May  30,  1859,  unm.; 

Edith  Newbold,  b.  Feb.  26,  1861,  unm. 


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Henry  Pemberton,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pemberton,  born  Feb- 
ruary II,  1826,  married,  June  3.  1851,  Caroline  T.,  born  May  9,  1823,  died  No- 
vember 24,  1862,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Porterfield  (Smith)  Hollings- 
worth. 

Issue  of  Henry  and  Caroline  T.  (Holli)igszi'orth)  Pemberton: 

John  Pemberton,  b.  May  9.  1852,  d.  July  19,  1853; 

Samuel  HoUingsworth  Pemberton,  b.  June  II,  1854,  d.  April  30,  1855; 

Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1855;  of  whom  presently; 

Caroline  HoUingsworth  Pemberton,  b.  Jan.  20,  1857,  unm.;  engaged  in  philanthropic 
work:  was  secretary  of  the  Children's  Aid  Society  for  12  years;  served  one  term  as 
School  Director  in' the  Eighth  Ward,  April,  1898,  to  April,  1901 ;  author  of  "Your 
Little  Brother  James,"  and  "Stephen  the  Black;" 

CHfiford  Pemberton,  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1859;  B.  A.,  class  of  '81,  College  Department  of 
Univ.  of  Pa.;  many  years  Treasurer  of  the  Univ.  of  Pa.  Athletic  Association;  also 
Treasurer  of  Cobb's  Creek  Park  Association;  recruit  with  First  Troop  Philadelphia 
City  Cavalry  in  Homestead  riots,  1892,  and  Spanish-American  War,  1898;  member  of 
Rittenhouse  and  University  clubs,  Phila. ;  is  unm.; 

Anna  HoUingsworth  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  13,  1861,  unm.; 

Samuel  Lovering  HoUingsworth  Pemberton,  known  as  Samuel  L.  Pemberton,  b.  Nov 
17.  1862:  educated  at  Protestant  Episcopal  Academy,  Phila.,  class  of  '79,  and  Phila 
delphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  1879-82;  won  15  mile  race  in  Univ.  of  Pa.  sports,  1882; 
served  about  10  years  (1890-1900)  as  an  election  officer  in  Fourteenth  Divisioii  of 
Eighth  Ward,  and  one  term,  1896,  as  a  member  of  Republican  Executive  Committee 
of  his  ward;  enlisted  in  Co.  D,  First  Inf.,  N.  G.  P.,  Oct.  2,  1893,  and  was  honorably 
discharged,  May  8,  1895;  in  1897,  wrote  three  short  stories,  published  in  the  Sunday 
edition  of  Philadelphia  Inquirer;  Director  of  Cobb's  Creek  Park  Association;  member 
of  Markham  Club,  and  University  Barge  Club,  Phila. 

Henry  Pemberton  married  (second)  October  10,  1867,  Agnes,  born  May  3, 
1840,  died  January  25,  1900,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Reynolds)  Will- 
iams, of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania.    They  had  issue : 

Sarah  W.  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  7,  1870;  m.  May  12,  1896,  Quincy  Adams  Shaw,  Jr.,  of 
Boston,  Mass.; 

A  daughter,  b.  Nov.  24,  1875,  d.  inf.; 

Ralph  Pemberton,  b.  Sept.  14,  1877,  M.  D.,  Univ.  of  Pa.;  appointed  Registrar  of  Four- 
teenth Division,  Eighth  Ward,  July  2,  1907. 

Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.,  son  of  Henry  and  Caroline  T.  (HoUingsworth)  Pem- 
berton, born  in  Philadelphia,  September  13,  1855,  was  in  the  class  of  'jO,  Western 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Pittsburg,  and  afterwards  took  a  special  course  in 
Chemistry  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia.  He  had  charge  of 
chemical  statistics  at  Philadelphia,  census  of  1890.  Is  a  member  of  Franklin 
Institute  of  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  of  the  Chemical  Section  of  the  same; 
president  of  the  section  1889,  and  vice-president  1891-94;  a  manager  of  the 
Institute  for  two  terms,  1891-96.  He  contributed  a  number  of  papers  to  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  chemical  section,  the  most  important  being  that  describing  a 
method  originated  by  him  for  the  volumetric  determination  of  phosphoric  acid. 
This  paper  was  published  in  the  "Journal  of  the  Franklin  Institute,"  vol.  136,  p. 
362.  The  method  received  much  favorable  notice  and  was  taken  into  general 
use  by  chemists.  He  is  a  member  of  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
latter ;  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Society. 

Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.,  married  at  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  March  28,  1894, 


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Susan,  born  August  14,  1868,  daughter  of  Joseph  S.  and  Mary  Barratt  (Cowgill) 
Levering,  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Henry,  Jr.,  and  Susan  (Lovering)  Pemberton: 

Joseph  Lovering  Pemberton,  b.  April  6,  1895,  d.  Jan.  18,  1896; 
Carolin  Hollingsvvorth  Pemberton,  b.  June  14,  1896; 
Henry  Rawle  Pemberton,  b.  April  27,  1898; 
Robert  Pemberton,  b.  Oct.  16,  1900. 

Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.,  and  his  wife,  Susan  Lovering,  both  being  descendants 
from  the  Cowgill  and  Shallcross  families,  an  account  of  both  these  families  is 
appended  hereto,  which  includes  the  Pemberton  descent  from  the  Blackshaw, 
Clifford  and  Hollingsworth  families. 

The  first  knowledge  we  have  of  the  Cowgill  family  in  America  is  contained  in 
a  certificate  issued  by  Settle  Monthly  Meeting  of  Society  of  Friends  in  Yorkshire, 
England,  dated  4mo.  7,  1682,  to  a  number  of  persons,  probably  all  related,  intend- 
ing to  emigrate  to  Pennsylvania,  among  whom  were  Ellen  Cowgill,  a  widow,  and 
her  children.  These  children  are  not  named  in  the  certificate,  nor  are  their  births 
to  be  found  on  the  registers  of  any  Monthly  Meeting  in  Yorkshire.  The  Certifi- 
cate is  as  follows : 

"These  are  to  Certify  all  whom  it  may  concern  that  it  is  manifested  to  us  that  a  neces- 
sity is  laid  upon  severall  friends  belonging  to  this  Monthly  Meeting,  to  remove  into  Pensyl- 
vania,  and  particularly  our  dear  friends  Cuthbert  Hayhurst,  his  wife  and  family,  who  hath 
been  and  is  a  laborer  in  yc  truth,  for  whose  welfare  and  prosperity  we  are  unanimously  con- 
cerned, and  also  for  our  friends  Nicholas  Wain  his  wife  and  three  children;  Thorn:  Wiggles- 
worth  and  Alice  his  wife;  Thorn:  Walmsley,  Elizabeth  his  wife;  and  Tho :  Croasdale,  Agnes 
his  wife  and  six  children;  Tho:  Stackhouse,  his  wife;  Ellin  Cowgill  widdow  and  her  chil- 
dren: Win™  Hayhurst,  who  wee  believe  are  faithful  friends  in  their  measures  and  single  in 
intentions  to  remove  into  the  aforesaid  America  there  to  if  the  Lord  permit,  and  we  do 
certify  our  unity  with  their  said  intentions,  and  desire  their  prosperity  in  the  lord,  and  hope 
what  is  done  by  them  will  tend  to  the  advancement  of  the  truth  in  which  we  are  unanimously 
concerned  with  them. 
Samuel  Watson  francis  Tennent  George  Blande  Nicholas  Franklyn 

George  Atkinson        John  Moore  Junior        John  Hill  John  Driver 

Thomas  Rudd  Anthony  Overend  Christopher  Jonson 

The  children  mentioned  as  coming  with  Ellen  Cowgill,  though  not  named  in  the 
certificate,  are  believed  with  great  assurance  of  certainty  to  have  been  four, 
namely,  Jane,  Jennett,  John  and  Edmund  Cowgill ;  her  elder  son,  Ralph  Cowgill,  is 
with  equal  sureness,  taken  to  be  the  Ralph  Cowgill  who  came  over  in  the  "Friends 
Adventure"  earlier  in  the  same  year.  The  dates  of  the  marriage  of  these  five 
Cowgills  within  the  next  twenty  years  show  that  they  must  have  all  been  born 
before  Ellen's  emigration,  and  all  minors  at  that  time ;  Edmund,  in  fact  only  an 
infant;  this  by  itself,  constitutes  a  strong  argument  that  four  of  them  were  the 
"children"  who  came  over  with  their  mother  Ellen  Cowgill.  These  five  generally 
signed  each  other's  marriage  certificates  close  to  the  signatures  of  the  principals. 
That  Ralph  was  positively  a  brother  of  Jennett  is  proved  by  the  latter's  daughter, 
Sarah  Lane,  choosing  her  "uncle,  Ralph  Cowgill"  as  her  guardian,  the  relation- 
ship being  so  stated  in  the  paper  attesting  her  choice  filed  with  her  father's  will. 
Similar  relationship  of  the  others  is  therefore  almost  unquestionable. 

The  name  of  Ellen  Cowgill's  husband  is  unknown ;  no  record  of  their  marriage 


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has  been  found  on  the  register  of  any  monthly  meeting  in  Yorkshire.  If  he  was 
alive  when  the  holders  of  the  Settle  certificate  first  determined  to  remove  to  Amer- 
ica, and  had  intended  to  accompany  them,  he  would  most  likely  have  purchased 
land  from  William  Penn  as  they  did,  but  there  is  no  record  of  him  in  the  early 
Philadelphia  deed  books,  which  contain  the  record  of  leases  and  releases  and 
patents  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  whole  province;  nor  is  the  name  of  Ellen  herself 
or  any  other  Cowgill  attached  to  any  plot  of  land  on  Holme's  map.  Ellen's  maiden 
name  was  possibly  Stackhouse,  as  Thomas  Stackhouse,  who  came  over  with  her, 
mentions  in  his  will  his  sisters  Ellen  and  Jennett,  though  not  their  surnames.  That 
Ellen  had  a  daughter  Jennett  strengthens  this  theory.  If  she  was  a  sister  of 
Thomas  Stackhouse,  the  fact  would  doubtless  settle  the  question  of  her  residence ; 
she  had  no  land  of  her  own,  and  his  wife  died  without  issue  within  a  few  months 
of  their  arrival  in  Bucks  county.  His  plantation  was  on  Neshaminy  creek  in  the 
present  Middletown  township,  and  is  shown  on  Holme's  map  under  the  name  of 
Thomas  Stackhouse,  Senior,  and  it  would  have  been  most  natural  for  the  widowed 
sister  to  live  with  him.  We  have  no  record  of  the  death  of  Ellen  Cowgill;  but  it 
was  doubtless  before  1701,  in  which  year  Thomas  Stackhouse  went  to  live  with 
Margaret  Atkinson,  widow  of  Christopher,  in  Bensalem  township,  whom  he  after- 
wards married.  By  this  time  all  of  Ellen  Cowgill's  children,  except  Edmund,  were 
married. 

An  account  of  the  children  of  Ellen  Cowgill  compiled  by  some  descendant  in 
the  State  of  Delaware,  leaves  out  Edmund  and  Jennett,  and  gives  her  two  elder 
children,  Ezekiel,  who  moved  to  Virginia,  and  was  supposed  ancestor  of  the  Cow- 
gills  of  Ohio,  and  Thomas,  who  settled  in  New  Jersey,  and  had  descendants  there. 
But  investigations  of  this  story  show  that  the  Ezekiel  and  Thomas  Cowgill  were 
really  great-grandsons  of  Ellen,  through  her  son  John,  being  sons  of  the  latter's  son 
Thomas,  by  his  wife,  Sarah  Clayton.  Another  account,  current  among  the  Ohio 
Cowgills  above  mentioned,  asserts  that  the  brothers,  John  and  Thomas  Cowgill 
(the  latter  stated  to  be  the  ancestor  of  the  Ohio  branch),  came  to  America  in  1667, 
and  that  a  younger  brother,  Ralph,  came  in  1684.  This  is  easily  seen  to  be  a 
variation  of  the  Ezekiel  and  Thomas  romance,  the  names  of  more  recent  ancestors 
having  been  placed  about  a  century  too  early,  the  date  of  their  arrival,  1667,  being 
entirely  imaginary.  The  known  issue  of  Ellen  Cowgill,  father's  name  unknown, 
were : 

Ralph  Cowgill,  of  whom  presently; 

Jane  Cowgill,  buried  Nov.  26,  1699;  m.  Oct.  25,  1685,  Stephen  Sands,  of  Bucks  co.,  Pa., 
and  had  several  children  who  have  left  numerous  descendants  in  Bucks  co.,  Phila.,  and 
elsewhere; 

Jennett  Cowgill,  m.  Feb.  2,  1687-8,  Bernard  Lane,  of  N.  J.,  and  left  issue; 

John  Cowgill.  m.  (first)  Oct.  19,  1693,  Bridget  Croasdale;  (second)  Jan.,  1703-4,  Rachel 
(Baker)   Bunting;  of  him  later; 

Edmund  Cowgill,  m.  (first)  May  29,  1702,  Catharine  Blaker;  (second)  (Dot,  1707,  Ann 
Osborne;  lived  for  a  time  in  Newtown,  Bucks  CO.,  Pa.,  removing  after  his  second  mar- 
riage to  N.  J.,  where  he  died  prior  to  1743. 

Ralph  Cowgill,  born  in  England  about  the  year  1668,  came  to  Pennsylvania  in 
the  ship,  "Friends'  Adventure,"  which  arrived  in  Delaware  river,  September  28, 
1682,  as  shown  by  Register  of  Arrivals,  made  by  Phineas  Pemberton,  as  Clerk  of 
Bucks  county.     In  order  to  obtain  his  passage,  he  had  engaged  himself  to  Randall 


P  EM  BERT  ON  299 

Blackshaw  for  four  years  without  pay,  and  therefore  designated  on  the  Register 
as  "Servant"  to  Blackshaw.  Those  so  called  who  came  with  the  early  settlers  to 
Pennsylvania,  were,  however,  in  no  sense  domestic  servants,  as  we  understand 
the  term,  nor  in  any  way  menials,  many  of  them  being  closely  related  to  and  fully 
social  equals  of  their  masters,  indeed,  Ralph  Cowgill  afterward  married  Randall 
Blackshaw's  daughter.  They  simply  took  this  means  when  unable  to  pay  their 
own  passage,  to  accompany  more  prosperous  relatives  or  friends  to  the  new  world, 
and  at  the  termination  of  their  term  of  service  received  an  allotment  of  land,  at 
least  fifty  acres;  the  amount  received  by  Ralph  Cowgill;  Penn  having  guaranteed 
the  granting  of  that  much  land  to  all  who  came  as  servants,  in  order  to  secure  a 
class  of  settlers  trained  to  work  for  a  livelihood  to  assist  in  developing  his  new 
Province,  and  avoid  the  difficulties  experienced  by  the  Virginia  Colonists,  where 
too  many  were  "Gentleman,"  unskilled  and  otherwise  unfitted  for  the  labors  re- 
quired to  maintain  a  settlement  in  the  wilderness.  These  early  servants  were  of 
a  different  status  from  the  numerous  indentured  servants  of  "redemptioners"  who 
followed  in  later  years,  and  sold  themselves  or  were  sold  by  the  masters  of  the 
ships  that  brought  them  to  strangers  among  the  settlers. 

Ralph  Cowgill  no  doubt  received  his  fifty  acres  out  of  Blackshaw's  500  acres  in 
Falls  township,  Bucks  county,  though  no  record  of  its  assignment  to  him  or  his 
disposal  thereof  has  been  found  of  record,  unless  it  was  included  in  the  112  acres 
more  or  less  which  Randall  Blackshaw  conveyed  to  him  on  March  i,  1694-5,  part 
of  the  tract  on  which  Blackshaw  then  lived,  purchased  of  James  Harrison.  On 
March  i,  1696-7,  Cowgill  sold  this  tract  to  Joseph  Kirkbride,  and  removed  to  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey.  He  had  married  in  1689,  Sarah  Blackshaw,  daughter  of 
Randall  and  Alice;  she  was  born  in  England  about  1668,  died  September  15,  1694. 
On  the  date  of  the  deed  from  Randall  Blackshaw  for  the  112  acres,  Ralph  Cow- 
gill executed  a  bond  to  his  brother-in-law,  Nehemiah  Blackshaw,  and  Joseph  Kirk- 
bride, securing  the  tract  that  day  conveyed  to  his  children  by  his  late  wife  Sarah, 
daughter  of  said  Randall  Blackshaw,  viz. :  Abraham,  Nehemiah  and  Sarah  Cow- 
gill. On  the  same  day  that  Ralph  Cowgill  executed  the  deed  to  his  brother-in-law, 
Joseph  Kirkbride,  Randall  Blackshaw  made  a  conveyance  of  200  acres  of  land 
in  Wrightstown  to  his  grandsons,  Abraham  and  Nehemiah  Cowgill,  sons  of  Ralph 
Cowgill,  and  inasmuch  as  Joseph  Kirkbride  conveyed  to  his  father-in-law,  Randall 
Blackshaw,  the  112  acres,  with  other  land,  and  the  latter  immediately  conveyed  it 
to  his  son  Nehemiah,  it  is  probable  that  these  several  conveyances  absolved  Ralph 
Cowgill  from  the  terms  of  his  bond. 

As  before  stated  Ralph  Cowgill  removed  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  at  about 
the  date  of  his  sale  of  his  Bucks  county  land.  He  married  (second)  at  Burlington 
Meeting  House,  September  2,  1697,  Susannah,  of  the  town  of  Burlington,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Pancoast,  late  of  Burlington,  deceased,  formerly  of  Ashton,  North- 
amptonshire, England,  who  had  presented  a  certificate  to  Burlington  Meeting 
dated  3mo.  (May)  13,  1680,  from  the  Men's  Monthly  Meeting  at  Ugbrooke,  coun- 
ty of  Northampton.  The  will  of  John  Pancoast,  of  Mansfield,  Burlington  county, 
dated  November  30,  1694,  proved  December  22,  1694,  mentions  his  wife  Jane,  and 
children :  Mary,  Ann,  William,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Hannah  and  Susannah. 
These  children  were  doubtless  by  a  former  wife,  as  he,  was  dealt  with  by  Burling- 
ton Monthly  Meeting,  September  8,  1689,  for  marrying  before  his  former  wife 
had  been  dead  five  months. 


300  PEMBERTON 

Shortly  after  his  seconci  marriage  Ralph  Cowgill  removed  to  that  part  of  Bur- 
lington county  lying  below  the  town,  as  when  the  road  from  the  present  town  of 
Pemberton  to  the  river  Delaware  was  laid  out  in  December,  1712,  it  is  described  as 
extending  "along  the  old  path  as  it  is  marked  in  the  township  of  Wellingborough 
to  the  Salem  Road ;  thence  along  the  same  over  the  bridge  to  the  upland ;  thence 
as  it  is  marked,  by  Ralph  Cowgill's  house;  thence  as  it  is  marked,  to  Ferry  Point." 
This  residence  was  within  the  compass  of  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting,  and  Au- 
gust 6,  1716,  that  meeting  granted  a  certificate  for  Ralph  Cowgill  and  his  wife 
to  Chesterfield  Meeting,  they  having  already  removed  to  Chesterfield  township, 
where  they  were  living  in  1717,  at  the  time  of  the  marriage  of  his  son  Nehemiah, 
and  in  1721,  when  he  was  one  of  the  appraisers  of  the  estate  of  John  Fisher  of  that 
township,  deceased.  He  was  Overseer  of  the  Highway  for  Chesterfield  township 
in  1722,  and  Overseer  of  the  Poor  in  1729.  Sometime  after  this  latter  date  Ralph 
Cowgill,  with  perhaps  his  two  youngest  children,  Jacob  and  Susannah,  his  wife 
being  deceased,  and  his  other  children  grown,  removed  with  his  grown  son  Isaac, 
within  the  compass  of  Haddonfield  Monthly  Meeting,  probably  somewhere  in 
Gloucester  county.  On  December  14,  1741,  Haddonfield  Meeting  granted  him  a 
certificate  to  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting,  and  he  returned  with  his  son  Isaac 
to  Springfield  township.  A  letter  from  Isaac  Cowgill  to  his  nephew,  Thomas 
Clifford,  in  Philadelphia,  dated  at  Springfield,  7mo.  17,  1756,  indicates  that  Ralph 
Cowgill's  death  had  occurred  before  the  30th  of  the  preceding  month.  The  letter 
states  that  Isaac  had  been  a  good  child  to  his  father  and  latterly  his  main  support, 
and  describes  his  father's  last  days  and  death,  saying  these  days  began  "last  first 
day,  being  the  13th  of  this  instant,"  but  the  previous  and  following  text  of  the 
letter  indicate  that  it  was  13th  ultimo  that  was  meant,  and  no  doubt  referred  to 
his  father's  "last  First  day." 

Capt.  Blackshaw,  paternal  grandfather  of  Sarah  (Blackshaw)  Cowgill,  com- 
manded a  company  in  the  army  of  King  Charles  I.,  in  the  early  part  of  the  Civil 
War  in  England,  1642-60.  He  was  gentleman  of  good  estate  in  Cheshire,  his  seat 
being  Hollingee  Manor,  parish  of  Mobberly,  Bucklow  Hundred,  which  in  his  day 
had  a  moat  and  draw-bridge.  He  was  probably  the  "Ralph  Blackshaw,  of  the 
Hollingee  within  Mobberly"  whose  inventory  was  filed  at  Chester,  in  1669.  He 
presumably  died  intestate,  though  if  his  property  were  entailed  no  will  was  neces- 
sary. 

Randall  Blackshaw,  son  of  Capt.  Blackshaw,  born  about  1622,  inherited 
Hollingee  Manor  from  his  father;  it  had  formerly  belonged  to  Sir  John  RadclifTe, 
of  Ordsall,  as  stated  in  George  Ormond's  "History  of  Cheshire,"  London,  1882 
(Helsby's  edition),  vol.  i.,  which  after  reciting  the  owners  of  the  township  of 
Mobberly  in  the  parish  of  the  same  name,  continues  (p.  418),  "The  other  moiety 
of  Mobberly,  lately  belonging  to  the  Radcliffes,  of  Ordsall  in  Lancashire,  nigh 
Manchester,  was  sold  away  by  Sir  John  Radcliffe,  about  the  beginning  of  King 
James's  reign  over  England,  to  his  tenants  there.  The  names  of  the  freeholders 
in  Radcliffe's  part,  since  the  several  purchases  from  Radcliffe,  as  they  now  stand, 
1672,  '"  *  *  Randle  Blackshaw.  This  was  bought  from  Sir  John  Radcliffe, 
of  Ordsall,  by  deed  dated  the  eighth  day  of  August,  161 1,  and  is  said  to  be  the 
ancient  demain-house  of  Mobberly,  which  did  belong  to  Radcliffe." 

Randall  Blackshaw  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  and  was  persecuted  for  his 
religion.     Besse's  "Sufferings  of  Friends,"  vol.  ii.,  Cheshire  chapter,  p.  90,  says, 


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"In  the  year  1665  James  Harrison  of  Hanford,  Randal  Blackshaw  (and  others) 
of  Mobberly  *  *  *  were  arrested  at  a  peaceable  meeting"  and  "imprisoned 
two  months  in  the  house  of  correction  at  Middlewick." 

Randall  Blackshaw  sold  Hollingee  to  his  wife's  brother,  Peter  Burgess,  and  after 
paying  his  father's  debts  moved  to  Pennsylvania  in  1682.  He  sailed  with  his  wife 
and  seven  children  in  the  ship,  "Submission,"  from  Liverpool,  September  5,  1682, 
arriving  in  the  Choptank  river,  Maryland,  November  2,  1682.  The  log  of  the 
vessel  has  been  printed  in  the  "Publications  of  the  Genealogical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania," vol.  i.,  p.  7,  et  seq.  In  the  same  vessel  were  James  Harrison,  Phineas 
Pemberlon,  James  Clayton  and  Ellis  Jones  with  their  families  and  dependants. 
In  "A  Registry  of  all  the  people  in  the  county  of  Bucks  within  the  Province  of 
Pennsilvania  that  have  come  to  settle  the  sd  County"  kept  by  Phineas  Pemberton, 
is  this  entry: 

"Randulph  Blackshaw  of  Hollingee  in  the  county  of  Chester  arrived  in  Maryland  the 
2d  of  the  gth  mo.  1682  in  the  ship  Submission  of  Liverpool,  Randulph  arrived  in  this  province 
att  Apoquemene  the  gth  3d  mo.  1683.  Phebe  arrived  in  this  Province  with  her  father,  Sarah. 
Jacob,  Mary,  Nehemiah,  Martha  arrived  in  this  province  with  their  mother.  Abraham  dyed 
att  sea  the  2d  8th  mo.  1682." 

Randall  Blackshaw  bought  1500  acres  of  unlocated  land  of  James  Harrison, 
500  acres  of  which  he  located  in  Falls  township,  Bucks  county,  near  where  the 
Meeting  House  was  afterwards  built,  part  of  which  he  conveyed  to  his  son-in-law, 
Joseph  Kirkbride,  on  which  the  latter  lived  ;  part  to  his  son-in-law,  Ralph  Cowgill ; 
and  the  remainder  to  his  son  Nehemiah ;  the  latter  also  becoming  the  owner  of  the 
Cowgill  tract  as  before  recited ;  200  acres  of  the  1500  were  located  in  Wrightstown, 
and  conveyed  to  his  grandsons,  Abraham  and  Nehemiah  Cowgill,  in  1697;  300 
acres  were  located  on  the  Neshaminy,  in  what  became  Warwick  township,  and  also 
passed  to  Nehemiah,  and  500  acres  in  Solebury,  the  greater  part  of  which  passed 
to  his  son-in-law,  Ephraim  Fenton. 

No  record  of  the  death  of  Randall  Blackshaw  has  been  found;  he  was  still 
living,  aged  about  seventy-seven  years,  at  the  second  marriage  of  Phineas  Pember- 
ton (to  Alice  Hodgson),  May  18,  1699,  and  signed  the  certificate. 

Randall  Blackshaw  married,  in  England,  about  1665,  Alice  Burghes  or  Burgess, 
born  about  1639,  died  January  18,  1688-9,  of  a  family  of  some  local  importance 
in  Mobberly  parish,  Cheshire.  The  dates  of  births  of  the  children  of  Randall  and 
Alice  Blackshaw  as  given  in  the  following  list  are  calculated  from  their  ages  as 
given  in  Register  of  Arrivals. 

Issue  of  Randall  and  Alice  (Burgess)  Blacksliazv: 

Phebe  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1666,  d.  1701;  m.  March  13,  1687-8,  at  the  house  of  Randall 
Blackshaw,  Joseph  Kirkbride,  who  by  his  second  wife,  Sarah  Stacy,  was  the  father  of 
Sarah  Kirkbride,  who  became  the  wife  of  Israel  Pemberton,  Jr.,  as  heretofore  men- 
tioned; 

Sarah  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1668,  d.  Sept.  15,  1694;  m.  about  1689,  Ralph  Cowgill,  above 
mentioned;  an  account  of  their  descendants  follows; 

Abraham  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1672,  d.  Oct.  2,  1682,  at  sea;  from  the  log  of  the  "Submis- 
sion," "2d  day  of  8th  Month — the  sea  was  very  rough,  the  wind  high,  about  4  in  the 
morning  dyed  Abraham  the  son  of  Randulph  Blackshaw,  about  6  in  the  morning  a 
great  head  sea  broke  over  the  ship  and  staved  the  boat  *  *  *  at  9  in  the  morning 
the  boy  was  put  overboard;" 

Jacob  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1674; 

Mary  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1676;  m.  Oct.  1710,  Ephraim  Fenton,  and  has  left  numerous 
descendants ; 


302  P  EM  BERT  ON 

Nehemiah  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1679,  d.  Dec.  25,  1731;  m.   (first)   Aug.,  1703,  Elizabeth 

Bye;  (second)  Feb.  20,  1716-17,  Mary  Linton; 
Martha  Blackshaw,  b.  about  1681;  m.  Sept.,  1697,  George  Biles. 

The  record  of  the  births  of  the  children  of  Ralph  and  Sarah  (Blackshaw) 
Cowgill's  children,  appear  on  Register  of  births  at  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting, 
Bucks  county,  and  with  the  exception  of  that  of  John,  the  second  son,  who  died  in 
infancy,  also  are  entered  in  Ralph  Cowgill's  Bible.  This  Bible  was  published  in 
1716,  and  the  child  being  long  since  deceased  no  record  of  him  seems  to  have  been 
made.  The  date  of  his  birth  as  copied  from  the  Register  for  the  Historical  Soci- 
ety is  incorrectly  given  as  "lomo.  30,  1692"  that  being  the  date  of  his  death. 

Issue  of  Ralph  and  Sarah  (Blackshaw)  Cowgill: 

Abraham  Cowgill,  b.  May  15,  1600;  m.  1725,  Dorothy  Turner; 
John  Cowgill,  d.  inf.,  Dec.  30,  1692; 

Nehemiah  Cowgill,  b.  March  13,  1692-3;  m.  Nov.  21,  1717,  Joyce  Smith; 
Sarah  Cowgill,  b.  Sept.  3,  1694,  d.  Aug.  i,  1724;  m.  in  1715,  Thomas  Clifford;  of  whom 
presently ; 

The  births  of  the  children  of  Ralph  and  Susannah   (Pancoast)   Cowgill,  are 
given  from  Ralph  Cowgill's  Bible  above  mentioned. 
Issue  of  Ralph  and  Susannah  (Pancoast)  Cowgill: 

Rebecca  Cowgill,  b.  Oct.  to,  1698,  d.  March  15,  1768;  m.  (first)  in  1726,  Richard  Gibbs, 

son  of  Isaac;  declared  intentions  second  time  at  Chesterfield  Meeting,  March  3,  1725-6; 

married  (second)  Richards; 

Mary  Cowgill,  b.  Jan.  7,  1700-1,  d.  Nov.  3,  1767;  m.  April  14,  1720,  Archibald  Silver; 
Isaac  Cowgill,  b.  June  4,  1703,  d.  Dec.  6,  1766;  m.  Dec.  31,  1730,  Rachel  Briggs; 
Rachel  Cowgill,  b.  Sept.  5,  1705,  d.  Sept.  8,  1750;  m.  Sept.  16,  1728,  Samuel  Woodward; 
Jane  Cowgill,  b.  Feb.  20,  1707-8,  d.  Oct.  28,  1791;  m.  April  19,  1733,  Benjamin  Linton,  of 

Bucks  CO.; 
Jacob  Cowgill,  b.  May  29,  1710,  d.  May  18,  1735; 
Susanna  Cowgill,  b.  Jan.  16,  1718-19,  d.  Jan.  19,  1764;  m.  Sept.  24,  1737,  John  King,  of 

Monmouth  cc,  N.  J. 

Sarah  Cowgill,  youngest  child  and  only  daughter  of  Ralph  Cowgill  by  his 
first  wife,  Sarah  Blackshaw,  was  born  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  September 
3,  1694,  died  August  i,  1724.  She  married,  in  1715,  Thomas  Clifford,  a  man  of 
some  means,  and  good  connection  in  England,  who  had  settled  in  Falls  township, 
Bucks  county,  sometime  previous  to  his  marriage,  and  died  there  March  20, 
1737-8.  His  descendants  living  in  Philadelphia  corresponded  with  some  relatives 
of  the  name  who  were  merchants  in  Bristol,  England,  and  Amsterdam,  Holland, 
and  elsewhere,  among  them  one  Edward  Clifford,  a  kinsman,  living  in  Warwick- 
shire in  1750,  some  of  whose  letters  are  preserved  in  the  Clifford  Correspondence 
in  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Cowgill)  Clifford: 

Elizabeth  Clifford,  b.  Jan.  20,  1716-17;  m.  May  24,  1743,  John  Nutt,  of  Falls  twp..  Bucks 

CO.; 
John  Clifford,  b.  April  26,  1720;  m.  and  settled  in  Burlington,  N.  J.; 
Thomas  Clifford,  b.  April  8.  1722;  m.  Ann  Guest;  of  whom  presently; 
James  Clifford,  b.  July  31,  1724,  d.  Oct.  31,  1724. 

Thomas  Clifford,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Cowgill)  Clifford,  born  in  Bucks 


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county,  Pennsylvania,  April  8,  1722,  removed  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  where  he 
became  an  eminent  merchant  and  was  a  signer  of  the  non-importation  agreement 
in  1765.  He  had  a  country  seat  on  the  Delaware  river  in  Falls,  of  Bristol  township, 
Bucks  county,  which  he  inherited  from  his  father.  He  married,  about  1745,  Ann 
Guest,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  of  the  family  prominent  in  the  early  settlement 
of  Philadelphia.  Thomas  Clifford  and  his  wife  and  family  were  all  members  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  He  died  in  1793,  and  his  wife  in  1803,  and  both  are  buried 
in  Friends'  Burying-Ground  in  Philadelphia.  The  will  of  Anna  Clifford,  the 
widow,  dated  January  11,  1790,  was  proved  November  29,  1803. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Guest)  Clifford: 

Sarah  Clifford,  b.  March  10,  I74S-6; 

Elizabeth  Clifford,  b.  May  25,  1747;  m.  Sept.  22,  1772,  Thomas  Smith,  of  Phila.,  son  of 

William  and  Elizabeth  Smith,  of  Bermuda; 
Thomas  Clifford,  b.  Dec.  10,  1748;  m.  a  Miss  Dowell,  of  Bristol,  England: 
John  Clifford,  b.  March  8,  1750-1 ;  of  whom  presently; 
George  Clifford,  b.  June  6,  1753; 
Ann  Clifford,  b.  Jan.  16,  1755;  m.  Oct.  7,  1773,  Jacob  Giles,  of  Phila.,  son  of  Jacob  and 

Joanna  Giles,  of  Baltimore  cc,  Md. ; 
Edward  Clifford,  b.  June  28,  1756; 
Deborah  Clifford,  b.  March  29,  1759; 
Thomazine  Clifford,  b.  Oct.  7,  1760. 

John  Clifford,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Clifford,  by  his  wife,  Ann 
Guest,  born  March  8,  1750,  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Francis  Rawle,  of  Phila- 
delphia, by  his  wife,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Anna  (Coleman)  Warner. 
Her  father,  Francis  Rawle,  born  in  1729,  was  accidentally  killed  in  1761,  when 
Anna  was  a  mere  infant,  and  her  mother  married  (second)  Samuel  Shoemaker 
"the  loyalist,"  City  Treasurer,  Justice  of  City  Courts,  and  Mayor  of  Philadelphia 
during  the  British  occupancy  of  Philadelphia. 

Thomas  and  Anna  (Rawle)  Clifford,  had  one  child,  Rebecca  Clifford,  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1792,  married,  July  15,  1812,  John  Pemberton,  grandfather  of  Henry 
Pemberton,  Jr.,  whose  wife  Susan  Lovering's  descent  from  the  Cowgill  family  is 
as  follows : 

John  Cowgill,  brother  of  Ralph  Cowgill,  ancestor  of  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pem- 
berton, as  heretofore  shown,  both  being  sons  of  Ellen  Cowgill,  who  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania in  the  ship,  "Welcome,"  in  1682,  was  born  in  England  and  came  to  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  with  his  mother,  when  a  child.  After  living  for  some  years 
in  Bucks  county  with  his  mother,  John  Cowgill  married,  in  1693,  Bridget  Croas- 
dale,  who  had  come  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  same  ship  with  him.  He  probably  went 
to  live  on  a  part  of  the  Croasdale  tract  on  his  marriage,  as  February  20,  1698-9, 
he  purchased  of  his  brothers-in-law  197  acres,  part  of  a  larger  tract  laid  out  to 
Thomas  Croasdale,  and  after  his  decease,  patented  by  the  Commissioners  of  Prop- 
erty, June  28,  1692,  to  his  heirs.  This  tract  was  located  in  Middletown  township, 
Bucks  county,  fronting  on  Neshaminy  creek,  and  appears  on  Holme's  map  in  the 
name  of  "Widow  Croasdal."  John  Cowgill's  purchase  included  the  creek  from  the 
whole  width  of  the  tract.  It  was  afterwards  resurveyed  and  found  to  contain  232 
acres,  and  as  such  was  patented  by  the  Commissioners  of  Property,  June  14,  1712. 
Two  days  after  the  date  of  this  patent,  John  Cowgill,  who  had  already  removed 
to  New  Castle  county,  conveyed  this  tract  to  Nicholas  Bernardson,  of  Bergen 


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county,  New  Jersey.  He  had,  however,  probably  on  his  second  marriage  in  1704, 
removed  from  his  Middletown  farm,  and  in  1707  was  Hving  at  Trevose,  in  Ben- 
salem  township,  as  shown  by  the  deed  dated  December  18,  1707,  by  which  he  and 
his  wife  Rachel,  widow  and  executrix  of  Job  Bunting,  conveyed  200  acres  of  land 
in  Bristol  township,  to  Edward  Radcliffe.  Trevose,  part  of  the  old  Growdon 
estate,  was  probably  his  residence  from  his  second  marriage  until  his  removal  to 
New  Castle  in  1712. 

From  his  arrival  in  Bucks  county  until  his  removal  in  1712,  John  Cowgill  was 
a  member  of  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends,  and  served  on  numerous 
committees  of  that  meeting.  On  May,  i,  1707,  he  was  appointed  an  Overseer.  At 
a  meeting  held  November  6,  1712,  John  Cowgill  requested  a  certificate,  he  having 
previously  removed  to  New  Castle  county,  in  the  "Territories  of  Pennsylvania" 
now  the  state  of  Delaware.  On  January  i,  1712-13,  a  certificate  for  him  was 
ordered  to  be  signed  and  sent  to  him  which  was  produced  at  Duck  Creek  Monthly 
Meeting,  on  the  19th  of  the  same  month.  When  Little  Creek  was  set  off  from 
Duck  Creek  as  a  separate  meeting,  he  belonged  to  that  particular  meeting,  which 
remained  a  constituent  of  Duck  Creek  Monthly  Meeting,  and  he  served  on  numer- 
ous committees  for  the  Monthly  Meeting  and  was  very  active  in  its  business. 
From  John  Cowgill  descend  the  present  Delaware  branch  of  the  Cowgill  family. 

John  Cowgill  married  (first)  October  19,  1693,  at  "Neshamina"  (now  Middle- 
town)  Meeting,  Bridget,  born  in  England,  October  7,  1671,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Agnes  (Hathornthwaite)  Croasdale,  "of  Neshamina,  in  Middletown  town- 
ship," who  were  named  in  the  same  certificate  from  Settle  Monthly  Meeting,  and 
came  over  in  the  "Welcome"  with  Ellen  Cowgill  and  her  children.  Thomas  Croas- 
dale and  Agnes  Hathornthwaite  were  married  May  i,  1664.  They  settled,  on 
their  arrival,  on  the  plantation  in  Middletown  before  referred  to,  where  he  died 
November  2,  1684,  and  his  wife,  October  23,  1684. 

Bridget  (Croasdale)  Cowgill  died  April  26,  1701,  and  John  Cowgill  married 
(second)  in  1703-4,  Rachel  (Baker)  Bunting,  widow  of  Job  Bunting,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Baker,  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  Bucks  county.  She  was 
born  in  West  Darby,  Lancashire,  April  23,  1669,  and  came  to  Pennsylvania  with 
her  parents  in  1684. 

Issue  of  John  and  Bridget  (Croasdale)  Cowgill: 

Elizabeth  Cowgill,  b.  Aug.  24,  1694;  m.  in  1715.  William  Brown; 

Thomas  Cowgill,  b.  June  21,  1696;  m  1727,  Sarah  Clayton,  of  New  Castle  cc,  and  was 
the  father  of  Ezekicl  and  Thomas  Cowgill,  before  referred  to,  the  latter  supposed  to 
be  the  ancestor  of  the  Cowgills  of  Ohio; 

John  Cowgili,  b.  July  8,  1698;  m.  1720,  Lydia  Clayton;  of  whom  presently; 

Ellen  Cowgill,  b.  Dec.  14,  1700,  d.  Jan.  15,  1772;  m.  (first)  1719,  Thomas  Brown;  (sec- 
ond) Lewis  Clothier. 

Issue  of  John  and  Rachel  (Baker)  Cowgill: 

Henry  Cowgill,  h.  about  1704;  m.  (first)  June  4,  1724,  Mary  Boulton;   (second)  June  i, 

1741,  Alice  Pain; 
Rachel  Cowgill,  b.  May  3,  1706,  d.  Dec.  19.  1729;  m.  Thomas  Sharp; 
Mary  Cowgill,  b.  Jan.  23,  1707-8;  m.  1724,  Alexander  Adams,  Jr.; 
Ebenezcr  Cowgill,  b.  Dec.  19,  1709,  d.  1743,  m.  1742; 
Eleazer  Cowgill,  b.  March  21,  1711;  m.  Aug.  29,  1739,  Martha  Pain. 


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John  Cowgill,  son  of  John  and  Bridget  (Croasdale)  Cowgill,  born  in  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  July  8,  1698,  removed  with  his  father  to  New  Castle  county 
in  1712,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  there.  He  was  an  active  member  of 
Duck  Creek  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends.  He  married,  December  16,  1720, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Joshua  Qayton,  of  Little  Creek  Hundred,  Kent  county,  on  the 
Delaware,  and  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Clayton,  of  Clayton  Hall,  parish  of  High- 
hoyland,  county  York,  England.  Lydia  was  a  sister  to  Sarah  Clayton,  who  mar- 
ried Thomas  Cowgill,  brother  of  John.  The  will  of  Joshua  Clayton  dated  Septem- 
ber 2,  1760,  probated  at  Dover,  January  6,  1761,  devises  to  his  granddaughter, 
Eunice  Osbourne,  wife  of  Jonathan  Osbourne,  his  dwelling  plantation,  being  part 
of  tract  called  "Higham's  Ferry"  and  part  of  tract  called  "Wilton  Creek"  and  de- 
vised lands  and  slaves,  etc.,  to  grandchildren,  John  Cowgill,  Clayton  Cowgill, 
Ezekiel  Cowgill,  Thomas  Cowgill,  Sarah,  wife  of  John  Register,  of  Talbot  county, 
Maryland,  Elizabeth  Neal,  Jean  Smith,  Lydia  Durborrow,  and  the  said  Eunice  Os- 
bourne. Joshua  Clayton,  the  testator,  was  a  minister  among  Friends;  his  only 
other  child,  beside  Sarah  and  Lydia  Cowgill,  was  Elizabeth,  who  married  Mark 
Manlove,  Jr.,  August  19,  1730. 

Issue  of  John  and  Lydia  (Clayton)  Cowgill: 

John  Cowgill,  m.  Mary  Worrall; 

Henry  Cowgill,  of  whom  presently; 

Clayton  Cowgill; 

Eunice  Cowgill,  m.  Jonathan  Osbourne;  probably  others. 

Henry  Cowgill^  son  of  John  and  Lydia  (Clayton)  Cowgill,  married  El-izabeth 
Osbourne,  and  resided  in  Kent  county,  Delaware.  Their  children  as  given  in  an 
incomplete  family  record  were : 

Lydia  Cowgill,  m.  David  West; 

Jonathan  Cowgill ; 

Eunice  Cowgill,  d.  y.; 

Elizabeth  Cowgill,  m.  Joseph  Corbit ; 

Clayton  Cowgill,  d.  y. ; 

John  Cowgill,  m.  Mary  Ann  Corbit;  of  whom  presently; 

Joshua  C.  Cowgill,  m.  Martha  Newlin. 

John  Cowgill,  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Osbourne)  Cowgill,  of  Kent 
county,  Delaware,  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Ann  (Lea)  Corbit, 
of  Kent  county,  and  resided  in  that  county.    They  had  issue : 

Lydia  Cowgill,  m.  Robert  B.  Wilson; 

Ann  Lea  Cowgill,  m.  her  second  cousin,  Charles,  son  of  John  and  Martha  (Stout)  Cow- 
gill; 
Henry  Cowgill,  m.  his  second  cousin,  Angelina,  dau.  of  John  and  Martha  (Stout)  Cow- 

gill; 

Sarah  Cowgill; 

Daniel  Clayton  Cowgill,  of  whom  presently. 

Daniel  Clayton  Cowgill,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ann  (Corbit)  Cowgill,  lived 
in  Dover,  Delaware.  He  married  Susan  Smithers  Green,  who  died  at  Dover,  De- 
cember 14,  1907,  in  her  eighty-fifth  year,  and  they  had  issue: 


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Thomas  Cowgill; 

Joseph  C.  Cowgill ; 

Mary  Barratt  Cowgill,  b.  Oct.  12,  1847;  of  whom  presently; 

Eliza  Cowgill; 

Edgar  Lea  Cowgill; 

Alice  Clark  Cowgill,  unm.,  living  at  Dover; 

Robert  P.  Cowgill; 

Susan  Cowgill. 

Mary  Barratt  Cowgill,  daughter  of  Daniel  C.  and  Susan  S.  (Green)  Cowgill, 
born  in  Dover,  Delaware,  October  12,  1847,  married,  October  10,  1867,  Joseph 
Shallcross  Lovering,  of  Philadelphia,  born  April  27,  1832,  died  December  10, 
1882,  son  of  Joseph  Samuel  and  Ann  (Corbit)  Lovering,  and  grandson  of  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  (Cowgill)  Corbit,  above  mentioned;  they  being  second  cousins 
through  two  lines,  both  being  descended  from  the  Cowgill  and  Corbit  families : 
Mrs.  Lovering's  mother's  father  and  Mr.  Lovering's  mother  having  been  double 
first  cousins.  The  full  list  of  their  children  will  be  given  later  in  the  Shallcross 
line,  one  of  them  was, 

Susan  Lovering,  m.  Henry  Pemberton,  Jr. 

About  the  year  1700,  perhaps  as  early  as  1698,  two  brothers,  Leonard  and  John 
Shallcross,  arrived  in  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania.  They  undoubtedly  came 
from  England,  but  in  what  part  of  that  kingdom  they  had  lived  before  their  de- 
parture we  have  no  present  knowledge,  for  no  contemporary  account  of  their  arrival 
has  been  handed  down.  They  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  as 
such,  no  doubt,  brought  the  customary  certificate  from  some  meeting  of  that  Society 
in  England,  but  the  earliest  archives  of  Oxford  Meeting  in  Philadelphia  county 
(to  which  John  certainly  belonged  and  most  likely  Leonard  also,  before  he  moved 
on  further),  among  which  these  certificates  would  most  likely  have  been  filed,  are 
now  missing;  it  is  said  that  they  were  forwarded  to  the  London  Yearly  Meeting 
early  in  the  eighteenth  century.  It  is  presumed  that  they  were  of  a  younger  branch 
of  the  family  of  Shallcross,  of  Shallcross,  in  the  High  Peak  of  Derbyshire,  in 
which  the  name  Leonard  was  a  favorite ;  but  none  of  the  records  of  Friends'  meet- 
ings in  Derbyshire  have  any  mention  of  them,  so  it  seems  that  their  branch  must 
have  lived  in  some  place  remote  from  the  ancestral  home. 

A  tradition  has  long  been  prevalent  in  the  comparatively  modern  generation  of 
the  family  (for  of  course  the  first  four  or  five  generations  knew  better)  that  three 
brothers  came  over,  the  youngest,  Joseph,  settling  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania. 
But  we  know  now,  as  the  earlier  members  of  the  family  knew,  that  Joseph  was 
not  a  brother,  but  the  grandson  of  Leonard,  born  over  thirty  years  after  the  arrival 
of  his  grandfather  and  granduncle.  This  tradition  also  makes  John  the  older 
brother,  but  our  present  knowledge  gives  this  claim  to  Leonard. 

Leonard  Shallcross,  born  in  England,  about  1675,  died  in  Pennsylvania,  1730. 
He  came  to  the  latter  province  about  1700,  and  probably  lived  a  short  time  in  Ox- 
ford township,  Philadelphia  county,  where  his  brother  John  located  permanently, 
but  by  1702  he  had  removed  to  Bucks  county.  For  the  plantation  he  became  pos- 
sessed of  there,  no  deed  has  been  found  on  record  to  show  the  date  of  its  purchase, 
its  location  or  how  many  acres  there  were,  but  a  mortgage  from  John  Fisher  to 
Samuel  Baker,  November  8,  1713,  secured  upon  land  in  Makefield  township,  men- 


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tions  Leonard  Shallcross's  land  adjoining,  and  a  deed  for  the  Fisher  tract  in  1722 
shows  that  Shallcross  still  owned  the  same  place  at  that  date. 

Leonard  Shallcross  was  a  member  of  Falls  Monthly  Meeting  of  Society  of 
Friends,  and  was  appointed  on  a  committee  of  that  meeting  on  December  5,  1722. 
By  his  will  dated  February  28,  1729-30,  proved  November  16,  1730,  he  left  his 
house  and  plantation  to  his  son  Leonard;  £10.  each  to  his  sons  William  and 
Joseph ;  £20.  each  to  his  daughters  Rebecca  and  Rachel ;  one  shilling  to  his  son 
John;  and  made  his  wife  Sarah  sole  executrix. 

Leonard  Shallcross  married  (first)  January,  1702-3,  Ann,  daughter  of  William 
Ellet,  of  Bucks  county.  They  declared  their  intentions  of  marriage  before  Falls 
Monthly  Meeting,  December  2,  1702,  "passed  second  meeting"  January  6,  1702-3, 
and  were  married  within  the  month.  Her  father,  William  Ellet,  was  a  brother  of 
Andrew  Ellet,  a  prominent  early  settler  in  Bucks  county,  from  whom  he  obtained 
100  acres  of  land  there.  They  were  from  Somersetshire,  England.  William 
Ellet,  by  will  dated  December  13,  1714,  proved  September  15,  1721,  left  his  estate 
to  his  son-in-law,  James  Downey,  subject  to  the  life  interest  of  his  widow,  and 
legacies  to  his  daughters,  Elizabeth  Downey,  Ann  Shallcross,  Mary  Hawkins  and 
Sarah  Bidgood.  (The  son-in-law,  James  Downey,  was  not  the  husband  of  the 
daughter  Elizabeth,  but  of  a  deceased  daughter  Hannah;  Elizabeth  was  the  wife 
of  William  Downey,  relationship  to  James  unknown). 
Issue  of  Leonard  and  Ann  (Ellet)  Shallcross: 

John  Shallcross,  Jr.,  m.  May,  1728,  Sarah  Knowles; 

William  Shallcross,  m.  1733,  Ruth  (Palmer)  Hulme;  of  whom  later; 

Joseph  Shallcross,  d.  Oct.  11,  1787;  m.  April,  1737,  Sarah  Worth;  of  whom  later; 

Leonard  Shallcross,  d.  Feb.  14,  1813;  m.  Nov.  14,  1752,  Judith  Wood:  of  whom  later; 

Rebecca  Shallcross,  living  unm.  1754; 

Rachel  Shallcross,  living  unm.  1754. 

Leonard  Shallcross  married  (second)  in  1724,  Sarah  (Hough)  Atkinson,  widow 
of  Isaac  Atkinson,  of  Bristol  township,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Margery  (Clows) 
Hough,  of  Makefield  township,  Bucks  county;  they  had  no  issue.  Her  father, 
Richard  Hough,  was  a  Provincial  Councillor  of  Pennsylvania,  Member  of  Assem- 
bly, and  a  Justice  of  the  Bucks  County  Court. 

John  Sh.'Xllcrgss,  born  in  England,  1677,  died  in  Pennsylvania,  September  4, 
1758,  and  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  Oxford  Meeting  House.  He  came  to 
Pennsylvania  with  his  brother  Leonard  about  1700,  and  settled  in  Oxford  town- 
ship, Philadelphia  county.  Being  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  he  joined 
Oxford  Meeting,  one  of  the  constituents  of  Abington  Monthly  Meeting. 

By  deed  dated  December  4,  1708,  John  Shallcross  bought  of  the  widow,  Mary 
Fletcher,  two  tracts  in  Oxford  township,  one  of  265  acres,  extending  from  the 
Bristol  pike  to  and  beyond  the  present  Bustleton  pike,  which  was  then  only  a 
private  lane;  and  the  other  112I/2  acres  adjoining  this  and  lying  on  both  sides  of 
the  Bustleton  pike.  The  first  mentioned  of  these  was  left  to  John  Fletcher,  hus- 
band of  Mary,  by  his  kinsman,  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  late  of  the  Parliamentary 
Army  of  England,  Surveyor-General  of  Pennsylvania,  and  sometime  President 
of  the  Provincial  Council.  The  deed  mentions  a  house  already  standing  on  this 
tract,  but  it  was  no  doubt  a  log  house,  and  it  was  almost  certainly  John  Shallcross 
who  built  the  stone  mansion  still  standing  and  still  owned  by  a  Shallcross.     It  is 


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on  the  southeast  side  of  the  Bustleton  pike  about  two  miles  from  the  old  village 
of  Frankford,  and  is  now  occupied  (1907)  by  George  M.  Shallcross,  a  descendant 
of  John's  brother  Leonard. 

On  August  12,  1718,  John  Shallcross  bought  from  his  wife's  cousin,  Paul  Wil- 
merton,  twelve  and  three-quarters  acres,  adjoining  his  265  acres  tract  on  the 
northeast ;  and  at  another  time  from  Sarah  Busby,  he  bought  seventy-five  acres  on 
the  northwest  side  of  the  present  Bustleton  pike,  opposite  his  265  acre  tract  and 
adjoining  that  part  of  the  \12y2  acre  tract  which  lay  on  that  side  of  the  said  wood. 
Besides  these,  John  Shallcross,  from  time  to  time,  made  other  purchases  of  land 
in  Oxford  township,  mostly  adjoining  the  above  tracts,  and  one  of  about  200  acres 
in  the  adjacent  township  of  Lower  Dublin.  He  also  held  mortgages  on  many 
lands  mostly  in  Bucks  county,  though  he  does  not  appear  to  have  obtained  full 
possession  of  any  of  them  by  default  in  payment.  From  all  of  this  we  infer  that 
he  was  quite  a  wealthy  man  for  his  time  and  locality.  These  lands  have  gone 
through  a  number  of  divisions  among  the  different  branches  of  the  Shallcross  fam- 
ily, descendants  of  John's  brother  Leonard,  many  of  whose  representatives  are 
still  living  on  some  of  the  subdivisions.  John  Shallcross  had  also  three  lots  in 
Philadelphia. 

John  Shallcross  was  very  active  in  the  affairs  of  Abington  Monthly  Meeting,  of 
which  Oxford,  his  particular  meeting,  was  a  part.  He  was  appointed  to  represent 
it  at  Abington  Quarterly  Meeting,  first  on  2nd  month  29,  1717,  and  twenty-seven 
times  thereafter,  the  last  being  on  5th  month  27,  1747,  after  which  advancing  age 
compelled  him  to  inactivity,  although  he  continued  to  attend  the  monthly  meeting 
several  years  longer.  On  imo.  25,  1723,  he  was  appointed  one  of  three  trustees 
for  the  real  estate  belonging  to  Oxford  Meeting,  and  was  reappointed  8mo.  31. 
1726,  when  a  new  board  of  six  trustees  was  named.  He  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  committee  to  visit  families  of  members  of  Oxford  Meeting,  i2mo.  24,  1717, 
and  reappointed  eight  times,  the  last  being  iimo.  30,  1748.  He  also  served  on 
numerous  minor  committees,  and  became  an  Elder  of  Oxford  Meeting  by  appoint- 
ment of  Monthly  Meeting,  8mo.  28,  1723.  At  the  Monthly  Meeting  held  i2mo.  22, 
1724,  it  was  reported  that  he  had  been  chosen  an  Overseer  of  Oxford  Meeting, 
and  again  lomo.  1741  ;  he  served  until  his  nephew,  Joseph  Shallcross,  was  chosen 
his  successor,  as  reported  at  the  Monthly  Meeting,  of  imo.  30,  1747. 

By  his  will  dated  June  13,  1754,  proved  September  21,  1758,  John  Shallcross 
named  his  wife  Hannah,  and  his  nephew,  Leonard  Shallcross  (son  of  his  brother 
Leonard  Shallcross,  deceased)  as  his  executors.  He  devised  to  his  wife  Hannah 
a  lot  in  Philadelphia,  between  Second  and  Third  streets,  adjoining  lots  formerly 
belonging  to  Israel  Pemberton,  which  he  had  purchased  of  James  Steel ;  and  also 
£500,  household  goods,  and  one-half  of  the  income  of  his  plantation ;  the  other  half 
being  devised  to  his  nephew,  Leonard  Shallcross;  on  the  death  of  the  wife,  the 
whole  of  his  plantation  of  400  acres  in  Oxford  township  to  go  to  his  said  nephew ; 
the  income  from  two  lots  in  Philadelphia,  one  on  High  street,  the  other  between  Sec- 
ond street  and  Letitia  court,  to  be  divided  between  his  wife  Hannah,  and  nephew, 
Leonard  Shallcross,  and  on  the  wife's  death  both  lots  to  go  to  Leonard.  To  his 
nephew,  Joseph  Shallcross  (son  of  his  brother  Leonard  Shallcross,  deceased),  was 
devised  a  plantation  of  200  acres  in  Lower  Dublin  township,  whereon  the  said  Jo- 
seph then  resided  for  life,  then  to  said  Joseph's  son  John ;  also  f  100  to  be  divided 
between  all  children  of  said  Joseph  Shallcross,  and  £50  to  each  of  the  children  of 


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his  nephew,  William  Shallcross,  deceased,  to  wit,  William,  Ann,  and  Ruth ;  £200 
to  Joseph,  son  of  his  nephew,  John  Shallcross,  deceased;  £100  to  Ann,  daughter  of 
said  John,  and  £100  each  to  Rebecca  and  Rachel,  daughters  of  his  brother,  Leonard 
Shallcross,  deceased.  Legacies  were  also  given  to  his  brother-in-law,  Edward 
Brooks,  his  sister-in-law,  Catharine  Wilmerton,  widow  of  Paul,  his  kinswoman, 
Hannah  Robinson  (daughter  of  the  above  named  Edward  Brooks)  and  to  his 
friends,  Thomas  Wood,  Samuel  Spencer,  and  Hannah,  wife  of  Thomas  Dews. 
The  residuary  legatees  were  his  wife  Hannah,  and  nephew  Leonard. 

John  Shallcross  married  in  May,  1710,  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  and  Han- 
nah (Newman)  Fletcher,  of  Philadelphia  county.  They  had  no  issue.  Her  par- 
ents, William  Fletcher,  of  Middle  Barton,  Oxfordshire,  and  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Paul  Newman,  of  Eaton,  Berkshire,  England,  were  married  4mo.  30,  1680,  at  P. 
Whitwicks's  house  in  Appleton,  Berkshire.  They  came  to  America  at  about  the 
same  time  as  the  Shallcrosses.  William  Fletcher  died  5mo.  5,  1688,  and  was  bur- 
ied "in  the  burying  place  in  Oxford,  neare  Tacony  bridge;"  on  6mo.  13,  1689,  at 
Oxford  Meeting,  his  widow  married  Attwell  Wilmerton,  the  Paul  Wilmerton 
mentioned  in  John  Shallcross's  will  being  her  son.  William  Fletcher  was  a  brother 
to  John  Fletcher  whose  widow,  Mary,  sold  the  land  above  mentioned  to  John 
Shallcross.  They  had  another  brother,  Robert  Fletcher,  who  also  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania and  was  a  miller  in  Abington  township,  and  whose  descendants  are  still 
a  family  of  prominence  in  Philadelphia  county.  Another  brother,  Thomas 
Fletcher,  remained  in  Middle  Barton,  England.  Hannah  Newman  had  two  sisters 
who  also  came  to  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia  county ;  Elizabeth,  who  married 
at  Appleton,  Berks,  lomo.  21,  1681,  John  Knowles,  of  West  Chalow,  Berks  (one 
of  their  granddaughter  marrying  a  Shallcross  as  shown  below)  ;  and  Jane  New- 
man, who  married  at  Appleton,  Berks,  8mo.  17,  1686,  Edward  Orpwood,  of  Cum- 
ner,  Berks;  the  will  of  the  latter,  of  Oxford,  county  of  Philadelphia,  in  1728-9, 
mentions  his  cousin,  Hannah  Shallcross,  and  a  number  of  relatives  by  name  of 
Knowles,  Wilmerton,  &c. 

Hannah  Shallcross,  of  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia  county,  widow  of  John, 
by  her  will  dated  October  25,  1758,  proved  September  5,  1759,  made  her  cousin, 
Hannah  Robeson  (daughter  of  Edward  Brooks)  executrix,  and  made  bequests  to 
the  six  children  of  her  kinsman,  John  Wilmerton,  John,  Hannah,  Mary,  Elizabeth, 
Paul  and  John ;  to  the  three  children  of  Hannah  Robeson  by  her  first  husband, 
Stephen  Simmons,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Edward ;  and  to  the  said  Hannah  the  lot 
in  Philadelphia  left  by  her  husband. 

John  Shallcross,  Jr.,  son  of  Leonard  and  Ann  (Ellet)  Shallcross,  was  born  in 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  but  in  early  life  removed  to  Oxford  township,  Phila- 
delphia county,  living  there  with  her  uncle,  John,  the  "Junior"  being  added  to  his 
name  to  distinguish  him  from  this  uncle,  who  had  doubtless  selected  him  for  his 
heir,  which  may  account  for  his  own  father  having  bequeathed  him  but  one 
shilling.  He  died,  however,  before  his  uncle.  He  was  one  of  the  six  trustees  for 
the  real  estate  of  Oxford  Meeting,  and  on  January  25,  1730-1,  was  appointed 
representative  from  Abington  Monthly  Meeting  to  the  Quarterly  Meeting.  He 
died  intestate  and  letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  his  estate,  September 
19,  1733,  to  his  widow,  Sarah  Shallcross,  of  Philadelphia  county. 

John  Shallcross  married,  May,  1728,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Paul) 
Knowles,  of  Oxford  township,  and  granddaughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (New- 


3IO  PEMBERTON 

man)  Knowles,  mentioned  above.  After  her  husband's  death,  Sarah  Knowles 
Shallcross  removed  with  her  two  children  to  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  where 
her  brother  and  several  of  her  sisters  were  living.  There  she  married  later  John 
Buckingham,  by  whom  she  had  other  children. 

Issue  of  John  Jr.  and  Sarah  (Knozvles)  Shallcross: 

Joseph  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  17,  1731  ;  m-  Oct.  23,  1754,  Orpha  Gilpin;  of  whom  presently; 
Ann  Shallcross,  mentioned  in  the  will  of  her  granduncle,  John  Shallcross  in  1754. 

Joseph  Shallcross,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Knowles)  Shallcross,  born  Octo- 
ber 17,  1731,  married,  October  23,  1754,  Orpha,  born  September  15,  1734,  died 
October  8,  1806,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Caldwell)  Gilpin,  of  Chester 
county.  Joseph  and  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross  lived  near  Wilmington,  Delaware, 
in  which  city  Joseph  Shallcross  had  lived  some  time  previous  to  his  marriage, 
with  his  grandfather,  John  Knowles. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross: 

John  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  12,  1756,  d.  Oct.  8,  1831 ; 

H.ANNAH  Shallcross,  b.  Aug.  9,  1758;  m.  Jehu  Hollingsworth;  of  whom  presently; 

Joseph  Shallcross,  b.  Dec.  12,  1759;  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Shallcross,  b.  Aug.  14,  1764;  m.  Oct.  22,  1789,  Deborah  Claypool,  dau.  of  Jona- 
than Potts,  had  two  sons,  and  a  daughter  who  d.  y. ; 

Mary  Shallcross,  b.  May  3,  1766;  m.  Samuel  Lovering;  of  whom  later; 

William  Shallcross,  b.  Sept.  14,  1769;  went  to  Mexico  and  was  never  afterward  heard  of 
by  his  family; 

Isaac  Shallcross,  b.  Nov.  21,  1771; 

Betty  Shallcross,  b.  Aug.  22,  1775;  removed  from  Wilmington  to  Phila.,  taking  certificate 
dated  Sept.  10,  1800,  to  Phila.  Southern  District  Monthly  Meeting.  Her  will  dated 
Feb.  15,  1812,  proved  in  Phila.,  mentions  her  sister,  Mary  Lovering;  nephews,  Samuel 
and  Thomas  G.  Hollingsworth;  niece,  Anna  Maria  Hollingsworth;  nephew,  Morris  C. 
Shallcross;  brothers,  John  Shallcross,  of  the  state  of  Del.,  and  Isaac  Shallcross,  and 
children  of  her  late  brother,  Dr.  Joseph  Shallcross;  she  was  unm. 

Hannah  Shallcross,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross, 
bom  August  9,  1758,  died  July  5,  1799;  married,  June  4,  1788,  Jehu  Hollings- 
worth, born  November  2,  1756,  died  July  26,  1834;  son  of  Jehu  and  Ann  (Pyle) 
Hollingsworth,  and  descended  from  Valentine  Hollingsworth,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  Castle  county,  who  was  the  ancestor  of  a 
large  family  whose  branches  have  been  especially  prominent  in  Pennsylvania, 
Maryland  and  Virginia. 

Issue  of  Jehu  and  Hannah  (Shallcross)  Hollingszvorth: 

Samuel  Hollingsworth,  b.  April  30,  1789,  d.  Oct.  26,  1856;  m.  Oct.  15,  1812,  Jane  Porter- 
field  Smith;  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Gilfillan  Hollingsworth,  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Phila.;  the 
Hollingsworth  School,  Locust  street,  below  Fifteenth,  was  named  for  him;  m.  Han- 
nah Redwood,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Redwood)  Wharton,  of  Phila.; 

Ann  Caldwell  Hollingsworth,  b.  June  16,  1793,  d.  Feb.  16,  1794; 

Anna  Maria  Hollingsworth,  b.  March  29,  1796,  d.  Jan.  24,  1865;  m.  June  15,  1815,  Charles 
Wharton,  of  Phila.,  son  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Redwood)  Wharton,  above  men- 
tioned. 

Samuel  Hollingsworth,  son  of  Jehu  and  Hannah  (Shallcross)  Hollings- 
worth, born  April  30,  1789,  died  October  26,  1856;  married,  October  15,  1812, 


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Jane  Porterfield,  who  died  November  4,  1826,  aged  thirty-five  years,  daughter  of 
John  Somers  Smith,  of  an  old  Philadelphia  family,  which  had  early  connection 
with  Cape  May  county,  New  Jersey. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Porterfield  (Smith)  Hollingsivorth: 

Jehu  Hollingsworth,  b.  June  18,  1814,  d.  Aug.  30,  1907;  m.  Feb.  25,  1841,  Frances  Eloise, 
dau.  of  Samuel  Shorey;  their  son,  Samuel  Shorey  Hollingsworth,  was  a  distinguished 
Phila.  lawyer; 

Samuel  Levering  Hollingsworth,  M.  D.,  b.  May  22,  1816,  d.  Dec.  14,  1872;  m.  Oct.  12, 
1848,  Anna  Clifford,  dau.  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Clifford)  Pemberton,  before  men- 
tioned; 

John  Smith  Hollingsworth,  b.  March  18,  1818; 

Elizabeth  Hollingsworth,  b.  Oct.  30,  1819,  d.  May  24,  1853,  unm.; 

Anna  Maria  Hollingsworth,  b.  Aug.  14,  1821,  d.  Sept.  30,  1S95;  m.  Sept.  24,  1844,  Dr. 
John  Neill,  of  Phila.; 

Caroline  Towne  Hollingsworth,  b.  May  9,  1823,  d.  Nov.  24,  1862;  m.  June  3,  1851,  Henry 
Pemberton,  and  was  the  mother  of  Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.,  whose  wife,  Susan  Lover- 
ing,  was  a  descendant  of  the  Shallcross  family,  as  shown  hereafter. 

Mary  Shallcross,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross,  born 
May  3,  1766,  died  March  24,  1849;  married  Samuel  Lovering,  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  March  7,  1762,  died  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  July  12,  1799.  He 
was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Lovering,  of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  afterwards  of 
Boston,  who  married  at  Roxbury,  January  3,  1704-5,  Alice  Craft,  born  at  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  February  19,  1681-2,  died  in  Holliston,  Massachusetts,  1783,  aged 
over  one  hundred  years;  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Seaver) 
Craft,  of  Roxbury,  and  granddaughter  of  Lieutenant  Griffin  and  Alice  Craft, 
who  settled  in  Roxbury,  in  1630,  sailing  from  England  with  Winthrop's  Colo- 
nists. Lieut.  Griffin  Craft  was  made  Freeman  of  Roxbury,  May  18,  1631,  was 
several  times  Deputy  to  the  General  Court,  of  Massachusetts,  and  founder  of  a 
prominent  New  England  family. 

After  the  death  of  Robert  Lovering,  his  widow,  Alice  (Craft)  Lovering,  had 
four  other  husbands,  all  men  of  high  standing  in  the  community.  By  Lovering 
she  had  five  children ;  Elizabeth,  married  John  Eaton,  of  Stoughton,  Massachu- 
setts, and  four  sons,  Robert,  William,  Samuel  and  Joseph  Lovering. 

Robert  Lovering,  eldest  son  and  second  child  of  Robert  and  Alice  (Craft) 
Lovering,  born  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  September  26,  17 10;  married,  March 
12,  1735,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Mayo)  Gardner,  of  Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts,  and  had  six  children:  Joseph,  Mayo,  John,  Thomas,  Will- 
iam and  Samuel  Lovering. 

John  Lovering,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  second  son  of  Robert  and  Rebecca 
(Gardner)  Lovering,  born  August,  1739,  died  prior  to  1780;  married,  July  30, 
1761,  Rebecca  Ellis,  of  Boston,  who  died  October  4,  1792,  and  had  four  children: 
Samuel  who  removed  to  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  married  Mary  Shallcross, 
being  the  eldest. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary   (Shallcross)   Lovering: 

Sarah  Lovering,  b.  about  1793,  d.  unm.; 

Joseph  Samuel  Lovering,  b.  Dec.  12,  1796,  d.  May  8,  1881;  m.  Ann  Corbit;  of  whom 

presently; 
Mary  Lovering,  b.  about  1797,  m.  John  F.  Gilpin. 


312  P  EM  BERT  ON 

Joseph  Samuel  Lovering,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Shallcross)  Levering, 
was  a  prominent  sugar  refiner  in  Philadelphia  and  a  man  of  large  fortune.  He 
married,  March  7,  1827,  Ann,  who  died  October  4,  1875,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  (Cowgill)  Corbit,  before  mentioned,  and  they  had  issue: 

Elizabeth  Lovering,  d.  inf.; 

Mary  Lovering,  b.  May  27,  1829.  d.  July  i,  1897;  m-  May  3,  1849,  Charles  W.,  son  of 

William  and  Deborah  (Fisher)  Wharton; 
Ann  Corbit  Lovering,  b.   Dec.  19,  1830;  m.  June  15,  1854,  Joseph,  son  of  William  and 

Deborah  Wharton,  above  mentioned ; 
Joseph  Shallcross  Lovering,  b.  April  27,  1832,  d.  Dec.  10,  1882;  of  whom  presently. 

Joseph  Shallcross  Lovering,  of  Philadelphia,  married,  October  10,  1867,  his 
cousin,  Mary  Barratt,  born  October  12,  1847,  daughter  of  Daniel  Clayton  and 
Susan  Smithers  (Green)  Cowgill,  of  Dover,  Delaware,  whose  ancestry  has  been 
already  given.  Joseph  Shallcross  and  Mary  B.  (Cowgill)  Lovering  lived  in  a  fine 
old  family  mansion  on  York  road  near  the  present  Logan  station,  until  Mr. 
Lovering's  death  in  1882,  after  which  his  widow  removed  to  Germantown.  They 
had  issue: 

Susan  Lovering.  b.  Aug.  14,  1868;  m.  March  28,  1894,  Henry  Pemberton,  Jr.; 

Joseph  Samuel  Lovering,  b.  March  17,  1871;  m.  Oct.  2,  1894,  Mary  Hutchinson,  dau.  of 

John  Story  and  Sydney  Howell  (Brown)  Jenks,  of  Phila. ; 
Edgar  Lea  Lovering,  b.  Aug.  8,  1874,  d.  March  2,  1889; 
Corbit  Lovering,  b.  Aug.  6.  1876;  m.  Oct.  18,  1902,  Ida,  b.  March  5,  1876,  dau.  of  James 

Day  and  Virginia  Letitia  (Thomas)   Rowland,  of  Ogontz,  Pa.; 
Gilpin  Lovering,  b.  Oct.  30,  1880;  m.  Oct.  10,  1903,  Virginia  Day  Rowland,  b.  Dec.  9, 

1882,  sister  to  his  brother  Corbit's  wife. 

Joseph  Shallcross,  M.  D.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross,  born 
near  Wilmington,  Delaware,  December  12,  1759,  died  in  Darby  township,  Dela- 
ware county,  Pennsylvania,  May  22,  181 1.  He  studied  medicine  under  Dr. 
Nicholas  Way,  an  eminent  Philadelphia  physician,  and  took  his  final  degree  in 
Paris,  France.  He  married  (first)  his  cousin,  Hannah,  daughter  of  John 
Knowles,  of  Knowlesborough,  Delaware  county,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  He 
married  (second)  December  8,  1788,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Morris, 
M.  D.,  by  his  wife  Ailsa,  daughter  of  Cadwalader  and  Ann  Garret  (Pennell) 
Evans,  descended  from  Merwyn  Wrych,  King  of  Man,  killed  in  battle  A.  D.,  843, 
and  his  wife  Essylt,  daughter  of  Conan,  King  of  Wales,  who  died  A.  D.  818. 

Dr.  Shallcross  and  his  wife  lived  for  a  time  in  Wilmington,  and  later  in  Stanton, 
White  Clay  Creek  Hundred,  New  Castle  county,  Delaware,  where  some  or  all  of 
their  children  were  born.  About  1800  they  moved  to  the  borough  of  Darby,  Dela- 
ware county,  Pennsylvania,  and  about  1802  to  an  estate  called  "Polar  Hall,"  in 
Darby  township,  which  had  belonged  to  Dr.  Shallcross's  first  wife,  Hannah 
Knowles.  Dr.  Shallcross  died  there  May  22,  181 1,  and  his  widow  Catharine  died 
April  3,  1848,  aged  eighty-one  years. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Joseph  and  Catharine  (Morris)  Shallcross: 

Eliza  Shallcross,  m.  Thomas  Wickersham,  of  Chester  co..  Pa.; 
Morris  Cadwalader  Shallcross,  M.  D.,  of  whom  presently; 
Hannah  Maria  Shallcross,  m.  Robert  McCalla,  of  N.  J.; 


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Joseph  Shallcross,  M.  D.,  b.  March  21,  1797;  graduate  Medical  Department  of  Univ.  of 
Pa,.  1826;  moved  to  Ohio,  where  he  m.  April  4,  1843,  at  Gallipolis,  Emily  Haly,  dau. 
of  Col.  John  Henderson,  a  descendant  of  Sir  John  Henderson,  of  Fordyce,  Fifeshire, 
Scotland,  who  was  killed  with  King  James  IV.,  of  Scotland  at  Flodden  Field. 

Morris  Cadwalader  Shallcross,  M.  D.,  born  August  8,  1791,  died  November 
30,  1871  ;  graduated  from  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1813,  thesis,  "Effects  of  Ardent  Spirits  on  the  Body  and  Mind."  He  was 
a  prominent  physician  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  married,  in  1816,  Eliza 
(Fair)  Sparks,  a  widow,  and  had  issue: 

Joseph  Shallcross,  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah  Shallcross; 

Harriet  Shallcross; 

Catharine  Shallcross.  • 

Joseph  Shallcross,  son  of  Dr.  Morris  C.  and  Eliza  Shallcross,  born  December 
16,  1816,  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Darby  township,  Delaware  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia, as  a  country  gentleman.  He  purchased  and  lived  many  years  in  a  fine  old 
mansion  on  what  is  now  Ashland  avenue,  built  in  1788,  but  in  his  old  age  went  to 
live  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Webb,  on  the  Chester  pike  in  the  borough  of  Sharon 
Hill,  about  one  mile  from  his  former  residence,  where  he  now  resides  (1908). 
He  married,  May  22,  1856,  Mary  Caldwell,  of  the  same  family  as  Mary  Caldwell, 
mother  of  Orpha  (Gilpin)  Shallcross. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Caldwell)  Shallcross: 

Eliza  Shallcross,  of  whom  presently; 

Ann  Shallcross,  unm.   (1908); 

Harriet  Shallcross,  m.  Walter  Webb,  M.  D. 

Eliza  Shallcross,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Caldwell)  Shallcross,  mar- 
ried, November  8,  1883,  John  Bakewell  Phillips,  of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and 
had  issue: 

Morris  Shallcross  Phillips,  b.  Aug.  20,  1884;  m.  Jan.  3,  1905,  Linda  Lewis,  dau.  of  Ed- 
ward S.  Sayres,  Esq.,  of  Phila.; 
Henry  Ormsby  Phillips,  b.  Oct.  22,  1885; 
Patty  Phillips,  b.  July  4,  1889. 

William  Shallcross,  son  of  Leonard  and  Ann  (Ellet)  Shallcross,  born  in 
Bucks  county,  about  1706,  always  lived  in  that  county,  perhaps  on  his  father's 
plantation  in  Makefield  township,  which  was  devised  to  his  brother  Leonard,  but 
which  Leonard  did  not  occupy.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  however,  he  was  living  in 
Falls  township.  Letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  his  estate.  May  16, 
1749,  to  his  widow,  Ruth  Shallcross. 

He  married,  in  1733,  Ruth  (Palmer)  Hulme,  born  September  18,  1693,  widow 
of  George  Hulme,  of  Middletown  township,  Bucks  county,  and  daughter  of  John 
and  Christian  Palmer,  of  Falls,  who  came  to  Bucks  county  from  Yorkshire, 
England.  Her  certificate  from  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  to  Falls  was 
received  at  the  latter  meeting,  February  4,  1735-6,  and  she  served  on  committees 


314  PEMBERTON 

ten  times  between  1746  and  1753.  On  May  2,  1759,  Jonathan  Palmer  requested 
leave  of  Falls  Monthly  Meeting  for  his  sister,  Ruth  Shallcross,  to  build  a  house  on 
the  Meeting's  land,  but  it  was  refused  at  the  following  meeting,  June  6,  1759. 
After  this  date  she  appears  to  have  removed  with  her  children  from  Falls,  prob- 
ably into  Upper  Makefield  or  Buckingham  township. 
Issue  of  William  and  Ruth  (Palmer)  Shallcross: 

William  Shallcross,  for  whom  a  certificate  from  Buckingham  Monthly  Meeting  was  re- 
ceived at  Falls,  Feb.  3,  1762;  he  was  disowned  by  Falls  Monthly  Meeting,  Nov.  3,  1762, 
for  non-compliance  with  Quaker  plainness  of  dress  and  manner ; 

Ann  Shallcross; 

Ruth  Shallcross,  m.  Dec.  24,  1775,  by  Isaac  Hicks,  Esq.,  Samuel  Danford,  of  Falls  twp. 

Joseph  Shallcross,  son  of  Leonard  and  Ann  (Ellet)  Shallcross,  born  in 
Bucks  county,  lived  there  with  his  father  until  early  manhood.  In  1733  he 
removed  to  a  plantation  of  200  acres  in  Lower  Dublin  township,  Philadelphia 
county,  belonging  to  his  uncle,  John  Shallcross,  who  afterwards  devised  it  to  him 
for  life,  then  to  his  son  John.  On  September  5,  1733,  Falls  Monthly  I^Ieeting 
granted  him  a  certificate  which  he  presented  at  Abington  Monthly  Meeting,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1733.  His  particular  Meeting  was  thereafter  Oxford,  by  which  he  was 
chosen  as  Overseer  in  place  of  his  uncle,  John,  as  reported  to  Abington  Monthly 
Meeting,  March  30,  1747,  and  on  April  28,  1755,  he  was  appointed  an  Elder,  also 
as  his  uncle's  successor.  He  died  October  11,  1787,  and  was  buried  on  the  13th, 
at  Frankford,  Oxford  township. 

Joseph  Shallcross  married,  April,  1737,  Sarah  Worth,  of  a  prominent  Chester 
county  family,  and  they  had  issue : 

Hannah  Shallcross,  b.  Dec.  21,  1733;  was  unm.  in  1787; 

Mary  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  21,  1740;  m.  Dec.  24,  1776,  David  Jones; 

John   Shallcross,  b.  July  3,   1743;   inherited  the  plantation  in   Lower   Dublin,  under  his 

great-uncle's  will;  m.  May  16,  1782,  Mary  Livezey; 
Sarah  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  29,  1746;  m.  May  14,  1789,  Nathan  Thomas; 
Joseph  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  4,  1750;  unm. 

Leonard  Shallcross,  son  of  Leonard  and  Ann  (Ellet)  Shallcross,  was  born 
in  Bucks  county  and  lived  there  on  his  father's  plantation  in  Makefield,  which  he 
inherited  in  1730,  until  after  the  death  of  his  brother  John  in  1733,  when  his 
Uncle  John  having  chosen  him  for  his  principal  heir,  he  went  to  live  with  his 
uncle  on  a  plantation  of  about  400  acres  in  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia  county, 
which  he  inherited  at  his  uncle's  death  in  1758.  Like  his  uncle  and  two  of  his 
brothers,  he  was  active  in  the  affairs  of  Abington  Monthly  Meeting,  and  Oxford 
Particular  Meeting,  succeeding  his  brother  Joseph  as  Overseer  of  Oxford  Meet- 
ing in  1 77 1,  and  later  was  made  an  Elder.  He  died  on  his  plantation  near  Frank- 
ford,  February  14,  1813,  and  was  buried  at  Frankford,  in  the  graveyard  of 
Oxford  Meeting.  By  his  will  he  devised  his  plantation  to  his  son  John,  and  to  his 
sons,  Leonard,  William,  Thomas  and  Benjamin,  the  houses  and  land  they  respec- 
tively occupied ;  directing  his  houses  in  Letitia  Court,  and  a  Water  Lot  in  Phila- 
delphia to  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  to  be  divided  ainong  his  daughters,  Hannah 
Paul,  Mary  Kirkner,  Martha  Knight  and  Rachel  Johnson. 

Leonard  Shallcross  married,  November  14,   1752,  at  Oxford  Meeting,  Judith, 


PEMBERTON  315 

(laughter  of  John  Wood  of  Northern  Liberties,  afterward  Oxford  township.    She 
was  buried  December  6,  1786.    They  had  issue: 

Hannah  Shallcross,  b.  Sept.  8,  1753;  ni.  June  16,  1772,  Thomas  Paul;  no  issue; 

John  Shallcross,  b.  Sept.  26,  1755;  m.  June  7,  1780,  Mary  Paul; 

Leonard  Shallcross,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  7,  1757;  m.  (first)  April  3,  1787,  Mary  Livezey;  (second) 
Sarah  Wilson; 

Mary  Shallcross,  b.  April  9,  1762;  m.  Joseph  Kirkner; 

Thomas  Shallcross,  b.  Oct.  26,  1764,  d.  Jan.  21,  1856;  m.  (first)  Mary  (CoUaday)  Al- 
burger;   (second)  Ann  (Wood)   Kester; 

William  Shallcross,  b.  April  4,  1767;  m.  Mary  Knight;  and  perhaps  (second)  Elizabeth 
Walton; 

Martha  Shallcross,  b.  Aug.  27,  1770;  m.  English  Knight; 

Benjamin  Shallcross,  b.  Jan.  4,  1773,  d.  March  27,  1845;  m.  May  10,  1797,  Sarah  Chap- 
man; 

Rachel  Shallcross,  b.  March  10,  1776;  m.  Benjamin  Johnson. 


FOX  FAMILY. 

Six  years  after  Charles  II.  had,  under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  given  to 
William  Penn  by  Letters  Patent,  the  "Province  of  Pennsylvania  with  diverse 
great  powers  and  Jurisdiction  for  the  well  Government  thereof,"  and  four  years 
after  the  "Welcome"  had  brought  Penn  on  his  first  visit  to  his  infant  colony,  the 
ship  "Desire,"  from  Plymouth,  England,  on  June  23,  1686,  cast  anchor  in  the  river 
Delaware,  bringing  to  the  rapidly  growing  town  of  Philadelphia,  which  then  con- 
tained about  three  thousand  inhabitants,  a  company  of  emigrants  known  as  the 
Plymouth  Friends.  Among  them  were  Francis  Rawle  and  his  son  of  the  same 
name,  with  six  servants,  Richard  Grove  and  two  servants,  Nicholas  Pearce  with 
two  servants,  James  Fox  with  his  family  and  eight  servants,  John  Shellson 
with  his  wife  and  four  servants.  Of  those  here  classed  as  servants  to  the  other 
passengers  were  John,  Richard,  and  Justinian  Fox,  who,  unable  to  pay  for  their 
passage  to  and  outfit  in  the  young  colony,  according  to  the  custom  of  the  day, 
had  no  doubt  bound  themselves  for  a  certain  time,  at  the  end  of  which  they  were 
to  receive  an  agreed-upon  number  of  acres  of  land.  Many  of  the  emigrants  them- 
selves not  rich  in  this  world's  goods,  brought  relatives  with  them  in  this  way. 

On  March  13,  1685-6,  before  leaving  England,  Fox  and  Rawle,  for  themselves 
and  their  associates,  had  purchased  five  thousand  acres  of  land  of  William  Penn. 

It  was  the  purpose  of  these  emigrants  to  make  their  settlement  an  industrial 
one.  James  Claypoole  and  Robert  Turner,  Penn's  commissioners,  writing  to 
Thomas  Holme,  Surveyor  General,  say :  "At  the  request  of  James  Fox,  Francis. 
Rawle,  Nicholas  Pearce  and  Richard  Grove,  in  behalf  of  themselves  and  other 
Friends  of  Plymouth,  joynt  purchasers  with  them  of  five  thousand  acres  of  land, 
that  we  would  grant  the  said  five  thousand  acres  of  land  together,  for  a  township, 
in  the  most  convenient  place  for  water  for  the  encouragement  of  the  woolen  manu- 
facture, intended  to  be  set  up  by  them ;  these  we  therefore,  in  the  Proprietary's 
name,  do  will  and  require  thee  forthwith  to  survey  *  *  *  and  make  return 
hereof  to  the  Secretary's  office  at  Philadelphia  the  5th  of  5M0.,  1686." 

Pennsylvania  Archives,  2d.  Series,  volume  xix,  page  35,  has  the  following: 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Commissioners,  4Month  7,  1690,  "James  Fox  and  Fran.  Rawle 
Request  they  may  have  a  Patent  for  the  5,000  acres  they  Purchased  now  called 
the  Plymouth  Town,  and  that  the  Six  Hundred  Acres  which  was  formerly 
Intended  for  a  Town  be  Returned  as  part  of  the  5,000  acres.  Ordered  that  a 
Warr't  be  made  for  the  Returning  the  5,000  acres  of  land  in  manner  aforesaid. 

"Ordered  that  Fran:  Cook  have  the  other  half  of  the  vacant  lott  next  to  the 
Plymouth  Friends  Lott  in  the  High  Street." 

The  five  thousand  acres  were  laid  out  in  what  is  now  known  as  Plymouth  town- 
ship, Montgomery  county,  but  was  at  that  time  part  of  Philadelphia  county. 
With  their  associates,  Fox  and  Rawle  took  up  their  residence  upon  the  land. 
A  Friends'  Meeting  was  at  once  established  at  the  house  of  James  Fox,  which  has 
continued  to  the  present  day  and  is  known  as  Plymouth  Meeting.  The  country 
was  too  young  for  such  an  industry  as  this  company  had  planned  and  the  scheme 
was  abandoned.  Neither  Fox  or  Rawle  remained  long  in  the  new  settlement.  It 
is  said  that  their  wives  found  it  too  lonely. 


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Francis,  father  of  James  Fox,  is  said  to  iiave  been  born  in  Wiltshire,  England, 
about  1620.  During  the  civil  war  he  removed  to  Cornwall  and  settled  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Germans.  Having  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  in  1646,  he  married 
Dorothy  Kekewich  of  Exeter,  Cornwall.  Francis  Fox  died  in  1670  and  his  widow 
Dorothy  in  1693. 

Issue  of  Francis  and  Dorothy  (Kekeivich)  Fox: 

Francis  Fox,  b.  at  St.  Germans,  Cornwall,  1647;  d.  1704:  m.  (first)  Joan  Smith,  had  two 
sons  who  d.  young,  and  two  daus.,  Rachel  and  Deborah,  and  settled  in  England.  His 
second  wife,  whom  he  m.  March  30,  1686,  was  Tabitha  Croker,  d.  1730.  Of  their  chil- 
dren, Mary  Fox,  m.  Feb.  10,  1707,  Andrew  EHicott,  who  came  with  his  son  Andrew 
and  settled  in  Bucks  county,  Pa.,  becoming  founders  of  the  well-known  EUicott  family. 
The  others,  Francis,  Sarah,  George,  Dorothy  and  John,  m.  and  settled  in  England; 

John  Fox,  d.  young; 

James  Fox,  b.  about  1650;  d.  Sept.  19,  1699;  m.  Elizabeth  Record. 

James  Fox"  (Francis'),  born  about  1650  in  England;  died  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, September  19,  1699;  married  Elizabeth  Record,  and  was  settled  at 
Plymouth,  Devonshire,  England,  where  he  was  engaged  in  manufacture  of  cloth. 
He  appears  to  have  been  leader,  (with  Rawle  as  his  associate,)  of  the  emigrant 
company  of  Plymouth  Friends.  Of  the  two,  Fox  is  usually  first  named  in  the 
records.  With  James  Fox  there  came  to  this  country,  his  wife  Elizabeth  and 
children  George,  James,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah.  After  the  abandoning  of  their 
settlement  in  Plymouth,  Pennsylvania,  James  Fox  removed  with  his  family  to 
Philadelphia,  where  he  became  interested  in  public  afifairs.  He  was  a  member  of 
Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1688,  and  again,  1693-9.  I"  his  will  he  is  styled  a 
baker,  and  from  the  same  source  it  may  he  learned  that  his  business  included  more 
than  the  mere  making  of  bread,  for  he  leaves  to  his  heirs,  his  "dwelling  house, 
granaries,  bake-house,  boulting  mills,  bags,  weights,  seals,"  etc. 
Issue  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Record)  Fox: 

George  Fox,  b.  Plymouth,  England,  1675;  d.  Phila.,  Sept.  8,  1699;  m.  at  Burlington  Meet- 
ing. N.  J.,  May  20,  1696,  Susannah,  dau.  of  Joseph  Hackney,  "late  of  Hempstead,  Hert- 
fordshire, Old  England,"  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Jennings,  sister  of  Gov.  Samuel  Jen- 
nings of  N.  J.  Justinian  Fox  was  present  at  the  marriage  and  signed  the  certificate. 
In  his  will,  which  was  witnessed  by  Justinian  Fox  and  James  Fox,  Jr.,  George  Fox 
made  a  bequest  to  Phila.  Meeting  for  the  use  of  a  "public  School  lately  established  or 
about  to  be  established."  George  and  Susannah  Fox  had  one  son,  George  Fox,  d. 
June  13,  1698; 

James  Fox,  b.  Plymouth,  England;  d.  Phila.,  Jan.  30,  1700-1;  m.  at  Phila.  Meeting,  March 
31,  1699,  Anne,  dau.  of  Daniel  Wills,  of  Northampton,  Burlington  county,  N.  J.  She 
d.  Oct.  27,  1701.    Their  only  child,  Mary  Fox,  d.  July  16,  1702; 

Elizabeth  Fox,  b.  Plymouth,  England,  about  1683;  m.  at  Phila.  Meeting,  March  9,  1683-4, 
John  Jones,  merchant,  of  Phila.,  of  whose  will  Joseph  Fox,  son  of  Justinian,  and  Israel 
and  James  Pemberton  were  executors; 

Sarah  Fox,  mentioned  in  wills  of  her  parents.     No  further  record ; 

Joseph  Fox,  mentioned  in  wills  of  his  father,  grandfather  and  grandmother.  No  further 
record ; 

Dorothy  Fox,  d.  Phila.,  Oct.  28,  1692; 

Francis  Fox,  b.  Phila.,  May  22,  1691 ;  d.  there  May  12,  1702. 

Justinian  Fox,  as  has  been  shown,  came  from  Plymouth,  England,  1686,  in 
the  ship  "Desire."  He  settled  in  Philadelphia,  about  1700,  where  he  married 
Elizabeth,  only  daughter  and  fifth  child  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Yard.  Joseph  Yard 
is  said  to  have  emigrated  from  Devonshire,  England,  about  1669,  to  have  settled 


3i8  FOX 

among  the  Swedes  on  the  Delaware,  and  to  have  built  in  1689,  Gloria  Dei,  better 
known  as  the  Old  Swedes  Church  in  Southwark.  Philadelphia.  On  January  13, 
1707,  William  Carter,  Thomas  Marten,  Joseph  Yard  and  John  Rodman  were 
appointed  to  view  the  hollow  in  the  head  of  Chestnut  street  crossing  Fifth  street, 
and  take  the  best  method  for  making  good  the  same  and  giving  the  water  a 
passage. 

The  relationship  between  Justinian  and  James  Fox,  previously  mentioned,  has 
never  been  ascertained.  That  there  was  some  such  tie  is  presumed  from  the  fact 
that  they  emigrated  in  the  same  vessel ;  that  Justinian  Fox  was  present  at  the 
marriage  of  James'  son  George,  in  1686,  and  witnessed  the  will  of  the  latter  in 
1699,  as  well  as  deeds  previously  made  by  members  of  the  family.  There  is  also 
reason  to  believe  that  Justinian  succeeded  to  the  business  of  James  Fox,  with 
whom  he  may  have  been  previously  associated.  The  tradition  that  Justinian  Fo.x 
had  studied  medicine,  there  is  nothing  on  record  to  confirm.  At  this  late  day  but 
few  items  can  be  gathered  regarding  him.  In  June,  1707,  with  Anthony  Taylor 
and  Isaiah  Appleton,  he  witnessed  the  will  of  Samuel  Sheppard.  The  following 
January  the  will  of  Robert  Turnham  was  witnessed  by  Joseph  and  William  Yard 
and  Justinian  Fox,  while  in  March  of  the  same  year  Anthony  Taylor  made  his 
will  and  signed  it  in  the  presence  of  Joseph  Yard  and  Justinian  Fox.  The  witnesses 
signing  the  will  of  Jeremiah  Gray  in  1715  were  Justinian  Fox,  George  Emlen  and 
Charles  Brockden. 

It  is  said  that  Justinian  Fox  was  a  Friend  and  that  his  wife  joined  the  society 
after  their  marriage.    He  died  leaving  but  a  small  property,  and  letters  of  adminis- 
tration on  his  estate  were  granted  to  his  widow  Elizabeth,  January  16,  1718-19. 
Issue  of  Justinian  and  Elizabeth  (Yard)  Fox: 

Mary  Fox,  d.  before  1741;  m.  Jan.  i,  1720;  Benjamin  Rhoads.     Had  one  son,  Benjamin 

Rhoads; 
Elizabeth  Fox,  d.  young,  Aug.  10,  1702; 

Elizabeth  Fox   (2nd),  m.  Sept.  14,  1723,  Joseph  Rakestraw,  house  carpenter,  of  Phila., 
whom  she  survived  many  years;  issue: 
John  Rakestraw; 
Joseph  Rakestraw.  b.   Dec.  9,   1750;  d.  Nov.  4,  1792;  m.  Sarah  Milnor,  and  had 

three  sons  and  four  daughters ; 
Elizabeth  Rakestraw; 
Hannah  Rakestraw; 
Justinian  Rakestraw.  d.  Sept.  5,  1762. 
Sarah   Fox,  m.   Dec.   19,   17-3,  William   Martin,  at   First   Presbyterian   Church,   Phila.; 
issue : 

Madan  Martin,  mentioned  in  will  of  his  uncle  Joseph  Fox. 
Susannah  Martin,  d.  July,  1809;  m.  Joseph  Ogilbie. 
Joseph  Fox,  b.  about  1710,  d.  Dec.  10,  1779;  m.  Elizabeth  Mickle; 
Susannah  Fox,  m.  Feb.  8,  1738,  Daniel  Elmer; 

James  Fox,  b.  Phila.  about  1712;  d.  before  1778;  m.  Dec.  16,  1736,  at  Christ  Church, 
Mary  Wade,  who  d.  1788.  They  had  issue,  mentioned  in  will  of  their  uncle  Joseph 
Fox: 

Joseph  Fox ; 

Justinian  Fox; 

Robert  Fox,  d.  Sept.,  1798; 

Martha  Fox. 

Joseph  Fox'  (Justinian')  born  in  Philadelphia,  died  December  10,  1779,  aged 
seventy  years;  married,  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  September  25,  1749,  Elizabeth 


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Mickle,  born  1729;  died  January  i,  1805;  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Thomazine 
(Marshall)    Mickle. 

Archibald  Mickle  came  to  Philadelphia  bringing  a  certificate  from  the  Men's 
Meeting  at  Richard  Boyes'  House,  near  Lisburn,  county  Antrim,  Ireland,  dated 
6th  month,  2,  1682.  At  Philadelphia  Meeting  on  i2mo.  25,  1686,  he  married 
(second)  Sarah  Watts,  and  subsequently  removed  to  Gloucester  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  died  in  1706.  He  was  ancestor  of  the  well  known  Mickle  family 
of  that  county.  His  son,  Samuel  Mickle,  born  February  10,  1684,  died  February 
18,  1765,  married  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  December  28,  1716,  Thomazine,  born 
December  15,  1692;  died  March  28,  1747,  daughter  of  James  and  Rachel  (Garth- 
waite)  Marshall,  who  came  from  the  city  of  York,  England,  with  William  Hudson. 
Samuel  Mickle  was  a  merchant  of  good  standing,  became  a  member  of  Common 
Council  of  the  city  in  1732,  and  so  continued  until  his  death.  It  may  be  of  interest 
to  note  that  those  elected  at  the  same  time  were  Edward  Shippen,  George  House, 
John  Dilwyn,  Benjamin  Shoemaker,  Joseph  England,  James  Bingham,  Joseph 
Paschal,  Samuel  Powel  and  Samuel  Powel,  Jr.  There  were  also  serving  at  the 
same  time,  John  Cadwalader,  Andrew  Bradford,  Anthony  Morris,  Samuel  Car- 
penter, Thomas  Masters,  George  MifHin,  George  Emlen  and  a  number  of  others 
whose  names  are  equally  familiar.  Benjamin  Franklin  in  his  autobiography  gives 
the  following  description  of  Samuel  Mickle : 

"There  are  croakers  in  every  country,  always  boding  its  ruin.  Such  a  one  then  lived  in 
Philadelphia:  a  person  of  note,  an  elderly  man,  with  a  wise  look  and  a  very  grave  manner  of 
ipeaking;  his  name  was  Samuel  Mickle.  This  gentleman,  a  stranger  to  me,  stopt  one  day 
at  my  door,  and  asked  me  if  I  was  the  young  man  who  had  lately  opened  a  new  printing- 
house.  Being  assured  in  the  affimative,  he  said  he  was  sorry  for  me,  because  it  was  an  ex- 
pensive undertaking,  and  the  expense  would  be  lost;  for  Philadelphia  was  a  sinking  place, 
the  people  already  half-bankrupts,  or  near  being  so,  all  appearances  to  the  contrary,  such  as 
new  buildings  and  the  rise  in  rents,  being  to  his  certain  knowledge  fallacious;  for  they  were, 
in  fact,  among  the  things  that  would  soon  ruin  us.  And  he  gave  me  such  a  detail  of  mis- 
fortunes now  existing,  or  that  were  soon  to  exist,  that  he  left  me  half  melancholy.  Had  I 
known  him  before  I  engaged  in  this  business,  probably  I  never  should  have  done  it.  This 
man  continued  to  live  in  this  decaying  place,  and  to  declaim  in  the  same  strain,  refusing  for 
many  years  to  buy  a  house  there,  because  all  was  going  to  destruction;  and  at  last  I  had  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  him  give  five  times  as  much  for  one  as  he  might  have  bought  it  for  when 
he  first  began  his  croaking." 

Joseph  Fox  was  apprenticed  by  his  widowed  mother  to  James  Portues,  a  promi- 
nent and  wealthy  carpenter  of  Philadelphia.  Possessed  of  ability  and  application, 
he  devoted  himself  to  the  interest  of  his  employer,  whose  warm  attachment  he 
secured  and  held.  Mr.  Portues,  (who  so  spelled  his  own  name,  and  not  Porteus, 
as  generally  printed),  died  unmarried,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years,  on  January 
19,  1737,  and  left  the  bulk  of  his  estate  to  be  equally  divided  between  his  two 
executors,  Edward  Warner  (who  had  also  been  an  apprentice  under  him),  and 
Joseph  Fox. 

To  Edward  Warner  he  gave  his  negroes.  Jack  and  Peter ;  to  Joseph  Fox  all  his 
household  goods  and  his  Indian  slave  Maria  and  her  son  Scipio.  He  says :  "It  is 
my  will  and  desire  that  the  slaves  be  used  with  humanity  and  kindness  (as  I  expect 
they  will),  more  especially  the  said  Jack  and  Maria.  That  they  may  have  neces- 
sary subsistance  befitting  their  condition  as  slaves,  and  as  being  aged  and  infirm." 

According  to  instructions  in  the  will,  Mr.  Portues  was  buried  in  the  piece  of 
ground  which  he  says :  "I  formerly  appointed  for  a  burying  place  in  the  said  city, 
between  the  Quaker's  burying  ground  and  third  street,  which  piece  of  ground  I 


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bought  of  Samuel  Richardson,  cordwainer."  Reference  is  made  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Magazine,  volume  iv,  page  411,  for  the  following:  "The  place  of  burial 
back  of  Nos.  46  and  48  N.  Third  Street  is  that  of  James  Porteus  [sic],  who  died, 
17^3.  This  is  the  only  interment  there.  His  double  house,  still  standing,  [1880], 
was  at  the  time  of  his  death  not  quite  finished,  and  the  funeral  passed  up  the  six- 
foot  alleyway  on  its  south  side.  Great  additions  to  the  rear  of  the  building  have 
left  but  a  few  feet  in  width  for  the  grave,  which  can  only  be  seen  from  the  Arch 
Street  Meeting  grounds.  The  inscription  on  the  massive  gravestone  was  some 
years  ago  recut."  The  date  in  the  above  is  incorrect,  for  the  will  of  James 
Portues,  dated  November  30,  1736,  was  proved  January  22,  1736,  which  according 
to  present  reckoning  would  be  January,  1737.  The  grave  is  also  mentioned  in 
Watson's  Annals,  volume  ii,  page  421,  where  one  reads:  "A  Grave  Stone  to 
James  Porteus,  dated  July,  1736,  now  actually  heads  his  grave  in  a  city  yard,  say 
in  Fox's  lot  in  North  Third  Street." 

James  Portues  had  been  a  founder  of  the  Carpenters'  Company,  one  of  the 
earliest  associations  in  Pennsylvania,  perhaps  the  oldest  now  existing.  The 
company  has  maintained  "an  uninterrupted  organization  since  the  year  1724,  about 
forty  years  after  the  settlement  of  the  Colonial  Government  by  William  Penn. 
Among  the  early  associates  are  many  whose  names  are  prominent  in  colonial 
history,  and  whose  architectural  tastes  are  impressed  on  the  buildings  that  yet 
remain,  memorials  of  that  early  day.  James  Porteus,  second  on  the  list  of  mem- 
bers, designed  and  executed  Penn's  Mansion  on  Second  Street  above  Walnut ;  and 
the  lively  interest  he  felt  in  the  association  with  his  fellows,  induced  him  at  his 
death  to  bequeath  to  it  his  works  on  architecture." 

Both  Joseph  Fox  and  Edward  Warner  were  members  of  the  Carpenters'  Com- 
pany. In  1763  Joseph  Fox  was  chosen  Master  of  the  company  and  continued  to 
hold  the  position  until  his  death.  In  1768  the  lot  on  Chestnut  street  on  which 
Carpenters  Hall  now  stands,  was  purchased.  The  building,  which  has  much 
historic  interest,  was  erected,  1771.  Joseph  Fox  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
to  secure  the  lot,  and  a  generous  subscriber  to  the  building  fund. 

His  share  of  the  Portues  bequest  brought  to  Air.  Fox  much  valuable  real 
estate  in  and  around  the  city.  To  him  came  the  lot  on  the  west  side  of  Third  street 
below  Arch,  on  which  stood  the  carpenter  shop  where  he  had  served  his  appren- 
ticeship, and  the  ground  in  which  James  Portues  was  buried.  After  purchasing 
the  adjoining  property  he  either  built  the  large  house  thereon  or  added  to  the 
one  already  standing,  and  there  resided  for  the  remainder  of  his  days.  The 
house,  the  home  of  succeeding  generations,  stood  until  about  the  year  1890,  and 
from  Portues  he  inherited  the  estate  later  known  as  "Champlost,"  which  will  be 
referred  to  hereafter. 

Josepli  Fox  became  owner  of  a  large  amount  of  real  estate  outside  the  city. 
His  name  appears  upon  the  records  of  Philadelphia  and  Bucks  counties  as  the 
holder  of  mortgages  to  a  very  considerable  amount.  His  business  undertakings 
prospered  and  he  accumulated  a  goodly  estate,  becoming  one  of  Philadelphia's 
most  prominent  property  holders.  He  was  frequently  called  upon  to  act  as 
executor,  guardian  and  trustee  of  large  estates.  In  1760  he  was  trustee  of  the 
estate  of  Robert  Shewell.  Joseph  Fox,  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Joseph  Galloway 
were  named  as  executors  and  guardians  in  the  will  of  William  Masters  in  1761. 


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With  James  and  Israel  Pemberton  he  was  an  executor  of  the  will  of  John  Jones, 
who  married,  1760,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  Fox. 

So  far  as  discovered,  Mr.  Fox's  first  public  office  was  that  of  City  Commis- 
sioner, to  which  he  was  elected  October,  1745.  In  1748  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
city  assessors.  In  1750  he  began  a  long  and  active  career  as  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania.  On  October  15th  of  that  year  he  and 
his  colleague,  William  Clymer,  took  their  seats  as  the  two  burgesses,  or  repre- 
sentatives, of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  Clymer  died  before  the  expiration  of  his 
year  of  service,  his  place  being  filled  by  Benjamin  Franklin,  who,  up  to  that  time, 
had  acted  as  Clerk  of  the  House,  with  no  voice  in  its  deliberations. 

Mr.  Fox's  being  at  once  named  for  various  important  committees,  is  evidence 
of  the  assured  place  he  already  held  in  public  confidence.  In  most  of  the  business 
transacted  during  the  sittings  of  this  Assembly  he  appears  to  have  taken  an  active 
part.  Noticeable  among  the  matters  presented  for  consideration  at  this  time  was 
the  establishment  of  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  which  was  favorably  received,  care- 
fully considered  and  finally  acted  upon.  Mr.  Fox  was  one  of  the  earliest  contrib- 
utors for  its  foundation  and  gave  it  active  support  in  later  years. 

Of  the  next  election,  John  Smith,  James  Logan's  son-in-law,  writes  in  his 
journal : 

"Eighth  month  1st.  1751  :    We  got  home  (from  Burlington)  in  the  Dark  of  the  Evening. 
Found  the  people  in  a  foam  of  Politicks. 

"2d.     Obtained  a  List  of  the  votes  for  Officers  yesterday;"  which  he  proceeds  to  give, 
ending  with : 

"Joseph   Fox,         330, 
"Benja.    Franklin,   40." 

The  list  was  for  members  of  the  Assembly  for  Philadelphia  county.  Both  Fox 
and  Franklin  were  unsuccessful  competitors.    Mr.  Smith  continues: 

"I  am  told  some  people  met  &  agreed  to  put  Jos :  Fox  in  the  County,    *    *    *    There 
was  some  strife  about  the  choice  of  Burgesses.    The  tickets  on  counting  them  stood  thus : 
"Benjamin    Franklin,   495, 
"Hugh    Roberts,  473, 

"Joseph  Fox,  391, 

"William    Plumsted,     303." 

As  but  two  Burgesses,  or  Members  for  the  City  were  to  be  elected,  Joseph  Fox 
was  again  on  the  losing  side,  although  receiving  more  votes,  counting  those  given 
for  him  as  a  county  member,  than  did  Franklin,  whose  supporters  were  not  so 
divided.  In  1753  Mr.  Fox  again  took  his  seat;  this  time  and  each  succeeding 
year  thereafter  until  1772,  representing  Philadelphia  county. 

Immediately  after  the  opening  of  Assembly  in  1750,  he  was  appointed  on  the 
"Committee  of  Accounts."  Again  in  1753,  and  in  each  succeeding  year  of  his  long 
service,  he  was  thus  chosen,  for  many  years  holding  the  position  of  chairman  of 
this  most  responsible  committee.  The  single  exception  to  his  appointment  was  the 
year  in  which  he  was  chosen  speaker  at  the  opening  session  of  the  House.  His 
associates  on  this  committee  were  the  most  capable  and  influential  members  of  the 
Assembly.  It  devolved  upon  them  to  audit  and  settle  the  accounts  of  the  General 
Loan-office  and  all  other  public  accounts,  to  sink  and  destroy  the  Bills  of  Credit 
received  in  exchange ;  to  count  all  the  moneys  and  report,  together  with  the  said 
accounts,  the  sum  they  should  actually  find  in  the  hands  of  the  trustees,  with 


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power  to  send  for  persons,  papers  and  records.  In  1763  he,  with  others  appointed 
by  the  House,  examined  Frankhn's  accounts  for  the  time  the  latter  acted  as 
agent  for  the  colony  in  Great  Britain,  and  certified  to  their  correctness. 

Mr.  Fox  was  frequently  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  disbursement  of  the 
large  sums  voted  by  the  House  for  the  defense  of  the  Province  or  for  the  use  of 
the  government.  Even  after  his  connection  with  the  Assembly  was  at  an  end, 
he  acted  in  this  capacity.  One  of  the  items  in  the  account  of  September,  1774, 
is  the  sum  paid  Joseph  Fox,  Esq.,  for  his  services  as  a  commissioner  of  the 
province.  In  1770  Mr.  Fox  was  serving  on  the  corporation  for  the  relief  of  the 
poor,  as  Henry  Drinker,  in  writing  to  his  partner,  Abel  James,  says  that  William 
Fisher  had  been  elected  a  manager  in  place  of  Joseph  Fox. 

Another  committee  on  which  Mr.  Fox  served  uninterruptedly  for  many  years 
was  that  known  as  the  committee  of  Grievances  or  Aggrievances,  which  listened  to 
complaints  brought  to  Assembly  for  settlement.  These  were  investigated  (and 
probably  some  of  them  adjusted,)  before  being  formally  presented  to  the  House. 
For  eight  of  the  twelve  successive  years  in  which  Mr.  Fox  served  on  this  com- 
mittee, he  acted  as  its  chairman.  As  long  as  Franklin  remained  here  he  served 
as  one  of  its  members,  being  succeeded  by  Galloway,  whose  legal  knowledge  made 
him  especially  valuable  for  the  position. 

It  is  an  evidence  of  his  acknowledged  tact,  that  Mr.  Fox  was  so  frequently 
selected  as  one  of  those  to  wait  upon  the  governor  with  messages  from  the 
Assembly.  Owing  to  the  strained  conditions  which  almost  invariably  existed 
between  the  two,  this  could  not  have  been  an  agreeable  task.  On  one  occasion  the 
Governor  vented  on  the  messengers,  of  whom  Mr.  Fox  was  one,  such  an  uncalled- 
for  tirade  that  his  remarks  were  noted  on  the  minutes,  where  they  may  be  seen 
to  this  day. 

In  1763,  when  Isaac  Norris  fell  ill,  Benjamin  Franklin  was  chosen  to  fill  his 
place  as  speaker,  and  while  in  office  aroused  so  much  opposition  that  he  was 
not  elected  to  Assembly  the  next  year.  Isaac  Norris,  although  far  from  well, 
was  prevailed  upon  to  again  accept  the  position  which  he  had  so  ably  filled  for 
many  years.  One  week  served  to  convince  him  that  he  was  physically  unequal  to 
the  strain,  and  Joseph  Fox  was  "unanimously  chosen"  speaker.  Almost  the  first 
business  after  his  taking  the  chair,  was  the  appointment  of  Franklin  as  agent  to 
England. 

Among  the  Norris  papers  at  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  society  is  a  letter 
written  by  Dickinson  to  Isaac  Norris,  giving  an  account  of  the  manner  in  which 
Norris's  resignation  as  speaker  was  received  by  the  Assembly.  The  same  unani- 
mity as  was  shown  before,  attended  the  appointment  of  Mr.  Fox  as  speaker  at  the 
opening  of  the  next  Assembly,  in  October,  1765.  In  1766  Joseph  Galloway  suc- 
ceeded Joseph  Fox  as  speaker,  being  chosen  "by  a  majority  of  votes."  In  May, 
1769,  Galloway  in  his  turn  fell  ill,  and  again  Josepli  Fox  was  chosen  speaker  for 
the  remainder  of  the  term. 

While  Mr.  Fox  held  his  office,  in  1764,  delegates  were  chosen  for  what  has 
since  been  known  as  the  Stamp  Act  Congress,  when  "Mr.  Speaker,  Mr.  Dickinson, 
Mr.  Bryan  and  Mr.  Morton  were  appointed  to  that  service."  The  Pennsylvania 
Gazette  of  September  26,  1765,  notes  "The  gentlemen  appointed  by  the  Assembly 
to  assist  at  the  General  Congress  at  New  York,  we  hear  set  out  this  Day  for  that 
place."     Ford  says  that  although  appointed,  Joseph  Fox  did  not  attend  the  Con- 


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gress.  (See  Stille's  "Life  of  Dickinson"  vol.  ii.  p.  182).  Coming  at  the  end  of 
the  session,  and  directly  before  the  new  election  (shortly  after  which  the  new 
Assembly  were  to  take  their  seats)  it  was  probably  necessary  for  the  speaker  to 
remain  in  Philadelphia. 

In  1765  it  was  "ordered  that  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  do  acquaint  Mr. 
Jackson  and  Mr.  Franklin,  the  Agents  in  London,  the  House  request  that  all  their 
letters  on  public  affairs,  may  be  addressed  to  the  present  Speaker,  Joseph  Fox, 
Esq.,  or  to  a  majority  of  the  said  Committee  in  order  that  the  same  be  regularly 
laid  before  the  House."  One  of  the  letters  sent  according  to  these  instructions 
still  exists,  being  addressed  by  Benjamin  Franklin  to  Joseph  Fox,  Esq.,  and  is 
dated  London,  March  i,  1766,  notifying  him  that  the  Stamp  Act  is  about  to  be 
repealed  and  making  mention  of  another  letter  sent  shortly  before.  This  is 
doubtless  one  of  many  such  communications,  now  lost. 

The  Committee  of  Correspondence  was  another  of  those  on  which  Fox  invari- 
ably served,  except  when  holding  the  position  of  speaker.  It  was  at  first  composed 
of  but  three  members,  of  whom  Franklin,  while  still  in  the  Province,  was  one. 
Franklin  was  also  Fox's  associate  on  the  committee  to  revise  the  minutes  of  the 
Assembly  and  prepare  them  for  printing.  This  committee  was  a  standing  one, 
and  was  at  first  composed  of  Joseph  Fox  and  Benjamin  Franklin  alone.  In  1757 
Franklin  was  succeeded  by  Galloway  and  the  speaker  was  added  to  the  number, 
from  which  time  no  change  was  made  in  the  members  until  1763,  when  we  find  it 
composed  of  Fox,  Dickinson  and  the  Speaker.  Ability  in  the  same  line  caused 
Mr.  Fox  to  be  frequently  called  upon  to  form  one  of  those  named  for  the  framing 
of  laws,  drafting  bills,  preparing  messages  to  the  Governor,  or  answers  to  those 
sent  by  him  to  the  Assembly ;  all  requiring  the  greatest  wisdom  and  prudence. 

Mr.  Fox  attended,  by  appointment  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  the  Indian 
Conferences  at  Easton  and  Lancaster  in  1756  and  1757,  but  declined  to  act  as  one 
of  the  Commissioners  at  Fort  Pitt  in  1768. 

He  was  for  many  years  trustee  of  Province  Island.  This  was  a  low  island  of 
342  acres  on  the  southwest  side  of  the  Schuylkill,  near  its  mouth,  purchased  in 
1741  by  the  Province,  held  as  a  quarantine  station,  and  on  which  was  established 
a  "pest-house."  Besides  the  buildings  used  for  hospital  purposes  there  were 
others  leased  to  tenants. 

January  22nd,  1757,  Joseph  Fox  was  appointed  one  of  the  Superintendents  of 
the  State  House,  in  place  of  Edward  Warner,  deceased.  The  site  for  the  State 
House  had  been  selected  by  Hamilton  and  Lawrence,  the  first  purchase  made  by 
William  Allen  in  his  own  name,  on  October  16,  1730.  Additional  ground  was 
secured  by  Hamilton  in  1732,  in  the  spring  of  which  year  the  ground  was  actually 
broken.  In  1762  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  entrust  both  State  House  and  grounds 
to  trustees,  and  accordingly  Isaac  Norris,  Thomas  Leech,  Joseph  Fo.x,  Samuel 
Rhoads,  Joseph  Galloway,  John  Baynton  and  Edward  Penington  were  appointed. 

Watson  tells  us  that  the  State  House  square  was  walled  in  with  a  high  brick 
wall,  and  at  the  centre  of  the  Walnut  street  wall  was  a  ponderous  high  gate  and 
massive  brick  structure  over  the  top  of  it,  placed  there  by  Joseph  Fox. 

In  1764,  when  the  Christian  Indians  with  their  Moravian  missionaries  were 
taken  to  Philadelphia  for  protection  from  border  settlers,  the  "Paxton  Boys"  bent 
on  their  destruction  followed,  and  at  Germantown  Benjamin  Franklin  and  other 
citizens  held  a  parley  with  them  and  persuaded  them  to  return  home.    The  Indians 


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were  ordered  to  New  York,  and  William  Logan  and  Joseph  Fox,  the  barrack 
master,  gave  them  blankets  and  accompanied  them  as  far  as  Trenton,  but  they 
were  sent  back.  This  incursion  from  the  back  settlements  so  alarmed  the  com- 
munity that  according  to  the  journal  kept  by  Samuel  Foulke,  "The  house,  Appre- 
hensive of  ye  prenicious  Consequences  which  wou'd  accrue  to  the  Community 
from  such  daring  acts  of  inhumanity  &  Contempt  of  All  Laws,  Divine,  Moral, 
Civil  &  Military,  as  the  bloody  Massacre  at  Lancaster,  if  the  Miscreant  perpre- 
trators  were  not  brou't  to  Condign  Punishment, — prepared  a  bill  for  passing  a 
Law  to  Apprehend  them  &  bring  them  to  trial  before  ye  Judges  of  Oyer  &  Term'r 
in  Philada."  This  bill  was  framed  by  Benjamin  Franklin,  Joseph  Fox  and  John 
Morton. 

The  name  of  Joseph  Fox  stands  third  in  the  hst  of  signers  of  the  Non-importa- 
tion Agreement  in  1765. 

This  summary  does  not  begin  to  enumerate  all  of  Mr.  Fox's  activities  as  a  rep- 
resentative. The  minutes  show  him  taking  part  in  a  large  majority  of  the  meas- 
ures which  came  before  the  House.  Small  matters  as  well  as  great  received 
attention.  He  was  on  committees  to  regulate  the  size  of  loaves  of  bread,  to  regu- 
late the  nightly  watch  of  the  city,  to  consider  the  petition  against  the  firing  of  guns 
on  New  Year's  Eve,  etc. 

But  the  long  years  in  the  Assembly  came  to  an  end  at  last.  The  election  returns, 
October,  1772,  do  not  show  the  name  of  Joseph  Fox.  Benjamin  Franklin  writing 
from  London  to  Abel  James  under  date  of  December  2,  1772,  says  : 

"I  do  not  at  this  Distance  understand  the  PoHtics  of  your  last  Election,  why  so  many  of 
the  Members  decHn'd  Service,  and  why  yourself  and  Mr.  Fox  were  omitted  (which  I  much 
regret)  while  Goddard  was  voted  for  by  so  great  a  number.  Another  Year  I  hope  will  set 
all  right.  The  People  seldom  continue  long  in  the  wrong,  when  it  is  nobody's  Interest  to 
mislead  them.  *  *  *  And  tho'  it  may  be  inconvenient  to  your  private  Affairs  to  attend 
Publick  Business,  I  hope  neither  you  nor  Mr.  Fox  will  thro'  Resentment  of  the  present 
Slight  decline  the  Service  when  again  called  upon  by  your  Country." 

When  it  became  necessary  to  erect  barracks  in  Philadelphia  for  housing  the 
soldiery,  the  House  resolved,  on  May  3,  1758,  "that  Joseph  Fox  be  made  Barrack 
Master,  with  full  power  to  do  and  perform  every  matter  and  thing  which  may  be 
requisite  for  the  comfortable  accommodation  of  his  Majesty's  troops  within  the 
Barracks  lately  erected  in  the  city."  This  position  he  held  until  the  time  of  the 
Revolution.  On  November  i,  1775,  the  Assembly  directed  that  Mr.  Miles  and 
Mr.  Dougherty  should  deliver  to  Joseph  Fox,  barrack  master,  the  order  that 
required  him  hereafter  to  comply  with  such  orders  as  the  Committee  of  Safety 
should  issue  as  to  providing  necessaries  and  quartering  the  troops.  "These 
directions  mark  the  period  when,  from  the  occupancy  of  the  regular  British 
troops  the  barracks  passed  into  the  tenancy  of  the  soldiers  who  were  opposed  to 
them."  Mr.  Fox  replied  that  the  barracks  would  be  ready  for  the  troops  in  about 
ten  days.  His  salary  as  barrack-master  was  paid  to  February,  1776.  Major 
Lewis  Nicola  succeeded  to  the  position  as  early  as  the  iniddle  of  March  of  that 
year.  Until  the  delivery  of  the  orders,  as  above,  Mr.  Fox  appears  to  have  had 
unlimited  authority  in  this  position.  From  time  to  tiine  there  were  reported  sums 
spent  for  disbursements  of  clothing,  firewood,  candles,  vinegar,  small  beer,  bed- 
ding and  the  like ;  for  quarters  put  up  and  furnished  for  the  officers,  etc.,  but  more 
frequently  the  amounts  expended  were  given  without  detail.  In  testimony  of  the 
manner  in  which  these  duties  were  performed  is  the  following: 


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"July  23,  1774.    Mr.  Speaker  laid  before  the  House  a  Letter  from  Major  Hamilton,  Com- 
manding Officer  at  the  Barracks  of  this  city,  which  was  read  by  order,  and  is  as  follows : 

Philadelphia,  July  21,  1774. 
Sir:  I  take  the  liberty  to  inform  you  that  his  Majesty's  troops  under  my  command 
stand  much  in  need  of  the  aid  of  the  Legislature  of  this  Province;  their  bedding  utensils 
and  apartments,  require  inspection  and  want  repairs.  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  knowing 
this  Barrack  these  seven  years,  and  shall  always  be  happy  in  declaring,  that  no  troops  have 
been  better  supplied,  nor  any  applications  from  commanding  officers  more  politely  attended 
to  than  here;  from  which  I  am  encouraged  to  hope,  that  the  House  of  Assembly  will,  during 
this  sitting  order  the  necessary  inspection,  and  afford  such  a  supply  as  their  generosity  and 
judgment  shall  dictate.     I  have  the  honour  to  be,  with  great  respect, 

Your  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

Isaac  Hamilton." 

When  barracks  were  established  at  Lancaster,  Mr.  Fox  was  tlie  first  barrack- 
master  appointed.  The  active  part  he  took  in  the  preparation  for  the  struggle  at 
the  time  of  the  Revolution  is  evidenced  in  the  minutes  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety.  On  August  18,  1775,  it  is  recorded  that  "Joseph  Fox,  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners for  this  County,  waited  on  this  Board  acquainting  them  that  it  was 
found  impossible  to  get  completed  in  any  reasonable  time  the  firelocks  for  this 
County,  unless  it  be  permitted  that  they  make  use  of  such  locks  as  they  can  pro- 
cure." On  October  7,  1775,  it  is  reported  that  a  copy  of  yesterday's  minutes  of  the 
Board  relative  to  the  making  of  the  arms  ordered  by  the  Assembly  was  presented 
to  Joseph  Fox,  who  assured  them  that  he  would  communicate  it  to  the  Board  of 
Commissioners  and  Assessors,  and  that  he  would  use  his  best  endeavors  to  pro- 
mote the  necessary  business.  On  the  23rd  of  the  same  month  Mr.  Fox  reported 
that  he  was  ready  and  desirous  to  employ  persons  to  make  the  number  of  firelocks 
required  by  vote  of  Assembly,  but  could  not  get  workmen  to  undertake  to  make 
them.  He  afterward  made  application  for  five  hundred  pounds  to  advance  to  the 
gtmsmiths. 

When  Paul  Revere,  after  his  famous  ride  from  Boston,  reached  Philadelphia, 
May  20,  1774,  a  meeting  was  called  at  the  City  Tavern,  where  a  Committee  was 
appointed  to  act  as  a  general  committee  of  correspondence,  and  also  particularly 
to  write  to  the  people  of  Boston  assuring  them  of  sympathy,  commending  their 
firmness,  declaring  their  cause  to  be  that  of  all  the  colonies,  and  promising  to 
stand  fast  for  the  right.  This  committee  consisted  of  John  Dickinson,  William 
Smith,  Edward  Penington,  Joseph  Fox,  John  Nixon,  and  others.  The  next  day 
they  delivered  a  letter  to  Mr.  Revere  to  take  back  to  Boston. 

Christopher  Marshall  informs  us  that  Joseph  Fox  was  spokesman  for  the 
committee  which,  January  18,  1775,  waited  on  the  Carpenters'  Company  for  the 
use  of  their  Hall  for  the  Meeting  of  the  Provincial  Committee.  The  price  asked 
was  ten  shillings  a  day.  Marshall  also  writes  imder  date  of  October  4,  1776: 
"Some  day  this  week  Joseph  Fox  and  John  Reynolds  refused  to  take  the  Conti- 
nental Money  for  large  sums  due  them  by  bond,  mortgage,  etc.,  as  it  is  said." 
Perhaps  this  is  why,  in  Scharf  and  Westcott's  "History  of  Philadelphia,"  it  is 
said  that  Joseph  Fox  developed  Tory  proclivities.  On  the  other  hand,  Robert 
Morton,  who  kept  a  diary  in  Philadelphia  in  1777,  while  the  city  was  occupied  by 
the  British,  writes  on  November  22 :  "They  have  destroyed  most  of  the  houses 
along  the  lines  except  William  Henry's,  which  remains  entire  and  untouched, 
while  J.  Fox  and  Dr.  Moner  and  several  others  are  hastening  to  ruin." 

There  is  no  evidence  that  Mr.  Fox  had  taken  part  in  public  affairs  for  some  time 
before  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  on  the  25th  of 


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July,  1777.  It  was  in  form  as  follows:  "We,  the  subscribers,  do  swear  (or 
affirm)  that  we  renounce  and  refuse  all  allegiance  to  George  Third,  King  of 
Great  Britain,  his  heirs  and  successors,  and  that  we  will  be  faithful  and  bear  true 
allegiance  to  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  as  a  free  and  independent  State, 
and  that  we  will  not  at  any  time  do  or  cause  to  be  done  anything  that  will  be 
prejudicial  or  injurious  to  the  freedom  and  independence  thereof,  as  declared  by 
Congress,  and  also  that  we  will  discover  and  make  known  to  someone  Justice  of 
the  Peace  of  the  said  State  all  treasons  and  conspiricies  which  we  now  know  or 
hereafter  shall  know  to  be  formed  against  this  or  any  of  the  United  States  of 
America."    His  son  Joseph  subscribed  to  the  same  two  days  later. 

Strong  as  the  above  may  seem,  it  was  concluded  that  it  did  not  cover  all  the 
ground  required.  In  the  autumn  of  the  following  year,  both  Joseph  Fo.x,  Gentle- 
man, and  Joseph  Fox,  Jr.,  subscribed  to  this  form:  "I  (the  subscriber  hereof)  do 
solemnly  and  sincerely  declare  and  swear  (or  affirm)  that  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania is,  and  of  right  ought  to  be  a  free,  sovereign  and  Independent  State,  and  I 
do  forever  renounce  and  refuse  all  allegiance,  subjection  and  obedience  to  the 
King  or  Crown  of  Great  Britain;  and  I  do  further  swear  (or  solemnly,  sincerely 
and  truly  declare  and  affirm)  that  I  never  have  since  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence directly  or  indirectly  aided,  assisted,  abetted  or  in  any  wise  countenanced  the 
King  of  Great  Britain,  his  generals,  fleets,  armies  or  their  adherents  in  their 
claims  upon  these  United  States,  and  that  I  have  ever  since  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  thereof  demeaned  myself  as  a  faithful  citizen  and  subject  to  this  or 
someone  of  the  United  States,  and  that  I  will  at  all  times  maintain  and  support  the 
freedom  sovreigny  and  independence  thereof,  so  help  me  God." 

In  1777,  while  the  British  occupied  Philadelphia,  the  city  was  for  a  time  so 
closely  surrounded  that  the  troops  suffered  for  want  of  blankets  and  provisions,  in 
order  to  procure  which  a  petition  to  the  citizens  was  signed  by  a  great  number  of 
the  residents  who  had  remained  in  the  city,  Joseph  Fox  being  among  them. 

In  contrast  with  the  more  serious  occupations  of  Mr.  Fox,  are  the  mentions 
found  in  HiUzheimer's  Diary.  Under  date  of  December  30,  1765:  "Dined  at 
Garlick  Hall  on  invitation  of  Robert  Erwin,  with  Joseph  Fox,  Thomas  Willing, 
William  Parr,  Joseph  Wharton,"  etc.,  and  through  this  Diary  are  many  mentions 
of  Joseph  Fox's  meeting  with  the  men  of  his  time  in  social  converse.  One  dinner 
was  given  at  a  rather  peculiar  place,  for,  August  20,  1766,  Hiltzheimer  records 
that  Robert  Erwin  gave  a  beefsteak  dinner  at  the  Bettering  House  to  J.  Fox, 
Jacob  Lewis,  etc.  The  Bettering  House  was  a  kindlier  name  for  the  Alms  House 
in  the  early  Philadelphia  Quaker  Days.  On  January  ist,  1767,  "Very,  very  cold, 
Delaware  frozen  over.  Three  sleigh  loads  of  us  went  to  Darby  to  Joseph 
Rudolphs — Joseph  Fox,  Robert  Smith,  Robert  Erwin  and  wife,  etc.,"  and  on 
Februarv  2j,  Hiltzheimer,  Fox  and  others  went  to  a  barbecue  at  Robert  Smith's. 
Under  date  of  September  27,  1770:  "This  afternoon  went  to  Town  meeting  at 
State  House,  where  it  was  agreed  that  further  non-importation  was  necessary,  a 
few  articles  only  excepted.  Joseph  Fox,  who  was  chairman,  requested  Charles 
Thompson  to  speak  for  him."  This  request  was  certainly  not  because  of  any  lack 
on  his  part,  but  in  recognition  of  Charles  Thompson's  remarkable  ability.  The 
meeting  was  called  in  response  to  an  advertisement  which  was  published  in  the 
papers  and  distributed  in  hand  bills  around  the  city  and  suburbs.  The  call  was 
as  follows:     "Many  respectable  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  this  City,  justly 


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alarmed  at  the  Resolutions  formed  by  a  Number  of  the  Dry  Goods  Importers,  on 
Thursday  last,  at  Davenport's  Tavern,  which  reflect  dishonour  on  this  City  and 
Province,  earnestly  request  the  Freeman  of  this  City  and  County  to  meet  in  the 
State-house,  this  Afternoon,  at  3  o'Clock,  to  consider  and  determine  what  is 
proper  to  be  done  to  vindicate  the  Honour  of  this  City,  and  to  avert  the  danger 
that  threatens  their  Country."  In  consequence  of  the  advertisement,  "a  large 
Body  of  respectable  Inhabitants  assembled  at  the  Time  and  Place  appointed,  and 
having  unanimously  chosen  Joseph  Fox,  Esq.,  Chairman,"  they  passed  nine 
resolutions,  the  first  of  which  was,  "That  the  Claim  of  Parliament  to  tax  the  Colo- 
nies, and  particularly  the  Act  imposing  Duties  on  Tea,  &c.,  for  the  Purpose  of 
raising  a  Revenue  in  America,  is  subversive  of  the  constitutional  Rights  of  the 
Colonies." 

On  October  20,  1770,  Hiltzheimer  again  dined  at  Greenwich  Hall  with  Joseph 
Fox,  Samuel  Swift,  John  Cadwalader,  John  Biddle  and  others.  Unfortunately 
there  is  a  lapse  in  the  diary  by  which  we  probably  lost  much  that  would  have  been 
of  interest.  When  the  entries  again  begin  we  find  the  dinners  still  continued  at 
intervals.  "On  November  6,  1773 — Went  down  with  Mr.  Lawrence  and  Allen  to 
Robert  Erwin's  place  called  Primfield,  to  dine  on  beefsteaks  with  a  number  of 
gentlemen,"  of  whom  was  Joseph  Fox. 

At  Greenwich  Hall,  that  favorite  resort,  Mr.  Fox  dined  with  others,  February  5, 
1774,  and  three  days  later  Mr.  Hiltzheimer  invited  Timothy  Matlack  and  Joseph 
Fox  to  go  with  him  to  see  weighed  the  carcass  of  his  great  six-year-old  steer, 
Roger.  The  weight,  we  are  told,  was  1332  pounds.  On  February  12,  Mr.  Fox 
was  one  of  the  guests  at  Mullins',  on  the  Schuylkill,  where  they  dined  on  "Roger" 
beefsteaks.  On  March  i,  of  the  same  year,  Joseph  Fox,  Michael  Hillegas  and 
others  went  to  Province  Island  to  attend  the  vendue  of  Samuel  Penrose  and  dined 
at  the  Ferry  House.  The  last  item  in  this  connection  which  the  Diary  gives  is 
under  date  of  September  10,  1774,  when  a  part  of  the  new  goal  opposite  the  State 
House  was  raised.  Joseph  Fox  and  Edward  Duffield,  the  managers,  gave  the 
workmen  a  supper  and  subsequently  asked  a  few  of  their  friends  to  dine  with 
them  in  the  northeast  corner  of  the  building. 

Joseph  Fox  was  an  early  member  of  the  Fort  St.  David's  Fishing  Company,  a 
social  club  of  the  times,  afterwards  merged  with  the  State  of  Schuylkill  Fishing 
Company,  an  organization  which  still  exists. 

Trivial  matters  these,  perhaps,  yet  they  serve  to  complete  the  picture  and  give 
a  sense  of  nearness  to  the  life  and  times  of  which  they  treat. 

It  is  from  Hiltzheimer  and  similar  sources  that  must  be  gleaned  anything  of  the 
personal  life  of  Joseph  Fox,  for  he  left  no  records,  and  indeed,  as  far  as  is  known, 
there  is  not  even  a  letter  written  by  him  in  existence ;  some  signatures  to  public 
documents  and  a  few  pieces  of  furniture  owned  by  him  are  the  only  things  that 
can  now  be  associated  with  him  and  his  life  of  many  activities. 

Joseph  Fox  was  a  member  of  Society  of  Friends  at  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
and  his  death  is  noted  in  their  Meeting  records,  but  in  1756,  when  a  number  of  the 
Quaker  members  resigned  from  Assembly,  Fox  was  not  among  them.  He  was 
evidently  remonstrated  with  by  the  meeting,  for  he  is  recorded  as  "having  violated 
our  testimony  against  war,"  and  was  disowned  in  consequence  on  4mo.,  30,  1756. 

A  side  light  is  thrown  on  the  character  of  Joseph  Fox  by  letters  of  James 
Tilghman  and  William  Allen  to  Thomas  Penn.    In  1766  Mr.  Tilghman  writes: 


328  FOX 

"Honored  Sir 

"A  case  has  lately  occurred,  the  first  of  the  kind  since  I  had  the  Secretary's  Office,  in 
which  I  must  begg  leave  to  trouble  you  for  your  Direction — 

"Mr.  Joseph  Fox,  a  Member  of  the  Assembly,  a  person  of  some  Influence  in  the  City, 
and  I  believe  at  present  not  indifferent  to  the  Government,  a  good  many  years  ago,  purchased 
some  old  Rights  of  Liberty  Lands  *  *  *  and  now  he  applies  for  a  warrant  to  take  up 
the  Liberty  Lands  *  *  *  I  shall  not  do  anything  in  the  affair  until  I  can  be  instructed. 
*  *  *  Mr.  Fox  pressed  the  matter  very  much,  and  thought  hard  to  wait  an  Answer  from 
you,  and  intimated  a  design  to  do  himself  Justice,  upon  which  some  Warmth  passed  between 
us,  since  which  I  have  not  heard  of  the  matter.  1  shall  be  obliged  for  your  instructions  as 
soon  as  it  may  be  convenient  to  you." 

Whether  Thomas  Penn  paid  attention  to  this  or,  (as  was  the  custom  with  the 
descendants  of  the  Founder,)  he  left  the  matter  to  right  itself,  we  do  not  know, 
but  Fox,  having  made  his  claim,  did  not  suffer  it  to  rest,  for  William  Allen,  two 
years  later,  writing  from  Philadelphia,  February  27,  1768,  on  the  subject  says: 

"Sir: 

"Since  writing  a  long  letter  by  this  opportunity  I  have  recollected  something  that  has 
frequently  been  the  subject  of  conversation  between  Mr.  Tilghman  and  me,  which  he  says 
he  mentioned  to  you  some  time  since,  and  on  which  he  promised  again  to  write  to  you,  and 
desired  me  to  do  the  same,  which  is  an  application  to  the  office  from  Mr.  Joseph  Fox,  who 
was  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  two  years  ago.  The  case  stands  thus.  He  conceiving  that  he 
had  right  to  use  some  liberty-land  had  made  a  bargain  with  a  man  who  has  overplus  lands 
within  his  lines,  and  having  improved  the  land,  and  not  caring  to  have  any  future  disputes 
was  desirous  to  buy  rights  to  cover  the  overplus. 

"It  seems  the  liberty-land  of  some  old  right  belonging  to  Mr.  Fox  had  not  been  surveyed 
within  the  liberty,  but,  as  it  is  said,  was  included  in  the  surveys  made  in  the  usual  way  in 
other  parts  of  the  Country,  which  fact  Mr.  Fox  conceives  no  way  clear,  but  admitting  it  had 
been  so,  he  conceives,  and  is  so  told  by  his  lawyer,  that  by  the  words  of  your  father's  grants, 
the  purchasers  are  infilled  to  lots  on  liberty  land.  There  are  precidents  both  ways  in  the 
office;  Though,  of  late,  chiefly  again  him.  He  is  a  man  of  wealth,  but  no  way  avaritious,  of 
great  spirit,  and  esteemed  a  very  honest  man;  he  at  present  heartily  wishes  he  never  had  been 
entangled  with  the  bargain;  but  as  he  has  entered  into  it,  he  thinks  his  reputation  is  con- 
cerned in  the  affairs,  as  he  may  be  reflected  on  of  having  sold  lands  for  which  he  had  no 
title,  for  which  reason  he  has  it  much  at  heart  to  compleat  his  bargain  on  the  foot  of  the 
claim  he  makes.     *     *     * 

"The  precidcnt  of  your  allowing  him  to  laying  his  rights  in  the  manner  he  desires  cannot 
be  injurious  to  your  interest,  as  that  matter  is  now  over,  but  may  rather  be  of  service  with 
regard  to  overplus-land  in  other  parts  of  the  Country,  as  that  a  man  of  his  Character  Thought 
it  but  right  to  cover  Overplus  land  with  other  rights. 

"I  would  not  have  presumed  to  have  troubled  you  on  this  head,  but  as  I  have,  and  per- 
haps for  some  short  time  longer  may  be  ingaged  in  our  Political  disputes,  and  Mr.  Fox  has 
zealously  Cooperated  with  me  in  our  Assembly  in  opposing  the  extravagant  conduct  of  a 
malignant  party  among  us,  I  think  he  has  in  this  great  merit;  he  formerly  had  been  as  well 
as  many  others,  lead  away  by  the  specious  pretences  of  that  party.  But  for  near  four  years 
past,  having  seen  into  their  designs,  he  has  frequently  told  them  that  their  schemes  were  so 
bad  that  an  honest  man  could  not  act  with  them.  He  has  shown  himself,  to  the  great  regret 
of  the  party,  one  of  the  warmest  friends  of  the  Government;  was  greatly  instrumental  in 
restoring  peace  for  this  two  years  past,  for  which  they  outed  him  from  the  Speaker's  chair, 
and  he  is  at  present,  except  myself,  I  he  most  obnoxious  to  them  of  any  person:  They  have 
this  present  session  used  many  arts  to  bring  him  into  their  measures,  fawned,  cajold  and 
threatened  him,  but  he  laughs  them  to  scorn,  and  in  our  late  disputes  opposed  their  violent 
and  truly  ridiculous  measures  with  a  becoming  zeal. 

"I  need  not  hint  to  you  that  in  Government  affairs  some  things  may  be  done  prudentially, 
and  I  hope  and  request  that  this  matter  may  be  seen  at  least  in  this  light,  and  that  an  honest 
man,  though  he  should  be  mistaken  in  what  he  conceives  to  be  his  right,  should  be  rather 
incouraged  than  otherwise,  to  persist  in  his  duty. 

"1  should  not  have  presumed  to  have  said  so  much  upon  this  head,  but  I  conceive  your 
readily  assenting  to  his  application  may  be  of  use  to  your  friends  and  tend  to  strengthen 
their  hands,  and  can  be  no  way  prejudicial  to  you." 

The  will  of  Joseph  Fox  was  dated  April  20,  1779,  at  which  time  he  was  "in 
good  bodily  health."  It  was  proven,  March  22,  1780.  His  death  is  recorded  in 
Friends'  Meeting  records,  and  he  was  probably  buried  in  their  grounds. 


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Issue  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Mickle)  Fox: 

Thomazine  Mickle  Fox,  b.  June  15,  1748;  d.  Nov.  7,  182 1;  m.  Feb.  20,  1772,  at  Phila. 
Meeting,  George  Roberts,  b.  1737,  d.  Sept.  17,  1821,  son  of  Hugh  and  Mary  (Calvert) 
Roberts.     Had  issue : 

Hugh  Roberts,  b.  Nov.  29,  1772;  d.  April  19,  1835; 

Joseph  Roberts,  b.  May  20,  1774;  d.  Aug.  10,  1796;  unm. ; 

George  Roberts,  b.  May  24,  1775;  d.  April  28,  18 — ;  m.  Elizabeth  Emlen ; 

Elizabeth  Roberts,  b.  Nov.  1777;  d.  unm.; 

Mary  Roberts,  b.  May  25,  1784;  d.  March  29,  1824;  m.  John  J.  Smith; 

Charles  Roberts,  b.  Oct.  13,  1789;  d.  1836;  unm. 
Hannah  Fox,  b.  Oct.  9,  1750;  d.  Feb.  19,  1824;  unm.; 
Elizabeth  Fox,  b.  Dec.  26,  1752;  d.  June  16,  1753; 
Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Aug.  18,  1754;  d.  Feb.  18,  17SS; 
Justinian  Fox,  b.  Aug.  12,  1755;  d.  Feb.  25,  1756; 
Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Sept.  15,  1757;  d.  Jan.  18,  1784,  as  the  result  of  a  fall  from  his 

horse; 
George  Fox,  b.  Nov.  27,  1759;  d.  Sept.,  1828;  m.  (first)  Mary  Pemberton;  (second)  Mary 

Dickinson; 
Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Sept.  9,  1761  ;  d.  Oct.  17,  1762; 

Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Oct.  4,  1763;  d.  April  30,  1808;  m.  Sarah  Pleasants; 
Elizabeth  Fox,  b.  July  16,  1765,  d.  Sept.  25,  1765; 
Elizabeth  Fox,  b.  April  13,  1767;  d.  July  18,  1767; 
Elizabeth  Fox,  b.  June  30,  1768;  d.  July  19,  1768; 
Elizabeth  Hill  Fox,  b.  Oct.  14,  1771;  d.  Jan.  23,  1861 ;  m.  Joseph  Parker  Norris. 

George  Fox,  (Joseph,  Justinian,)  born  November  27,  1759;  died  September, 
1828.  Married  (first)  in  Philadelphia  Meeting,  November  25,  1789,  Mary  Pem- 
berton, born  March  25,  1771,  died  July  2,  1801,  only  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Esther  (House)  Pemberton;  married  (second),  October  3,  1803,  Mary,  who  died 
March  28,  1822,  daughter  of  Philemon  and  Mary  (Cadwalader)  Dickinson. 

George  Fox  graduated  from  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1780.  In  1784  he 
was  made  a  member  of  the  Philosophical  Society;  in  1789-91,  1812-28,  he  was  a 
trustee  of  the  university;  and  in  1800  represented  the  city  in  Assembly.  In  1799 
he  was  one  of  the  directors  of  Bank  of  the  United  States,  and  probably  in  other 
years  also. 

Townsend  Ward,  in  his  "Second  Street  and  Second  Street  Road  and  its  Asso- 
ciations," gives  the  following  account  of  "Champlost,"  home  of  George  Fox, 
which  lies  half  a  mile  from  the  York  Road  and  near  the  present  Fern  Rock  station 
on  the  Reading  Railroad : 

"Half  a  mile  west  of  our  route,  is  Champlost.  a  charming  place,  where  the  Fox  family 
have  long  lived.  In  1722  it  became  the  property  of  James  Portues  by  whose  will,  in  1743,  it 
went  to  Joseph  Fox,  whose  town  house,  48  N.  Third  Street,  now  bears  the  two  nos.  46  and 
48  N.  Third  Street.  *  *  *  In  1782  his  son  Joseph  M.  Fox  succeeded  to  the  property,  and 
on  his  death  in  1784  it  was  inherited  by  his  brother  George,  who  held  it  until  his  death  in 
1828,  when  it  went  to  his  children.     ■*     *     * 

"On  his  travels  abroad  he  (George  Fox)  was  a  long  time  in  France,  and  there,  in  1780, 
at  the  dinner-table  at  the  chateau  of  the  Count  de  Champlost,  was  seized  with  illness.  He 
was  removed  at  once  to  Paris,  and  after  a  time,  died,  as  was  supposed,  and  was  consigned 
to  the  care  of  the  Capuchins  to  be  buried.  A  little  warmth  in  his  hands  being  perceptible, 
led  to  the  application  of  restoratives  by  which  he  was  revived.  On  his  return  he  gave  to  this 
beautiful  seat  the  name  of  the  French  place  he  had  cause  to  remember  so  well." 

George  Fox  was  at  one  time  owner  of  the  largest  part  of  the  Franklin  papers. 
(See  introduction  to  Smyth's  "Life  of  Benjamin  Franklin,"  from  which  the  fol- 
lowing account  is  taken.)     Franklin  by  his  will  bequeathed  all  his  manuscripts  and 


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papers  to  William  Temple  Franklin,  his  grandson,  who  had  acted  as  his  secretary 
in  Paris,  and  who  was  very  dear  to  him.  He  seems  to  have  entertained  an  exag- 
gerated notion  of  William  Temple's  abilities,  and  to  have  believed  him  capable  of 
properly  sorting,  arranging  and  editing  these  multitudinous  papers  and  giving  them 
permanent  literary  form.  But  William  Temple  Franklin  had  neither  literary  faculty 
or  historic  sense;  he  was  indolent  and  timid,  and  was  aghast  at  the  magnitude  of  the 
task  before  him.  He  culled  out  what  he  imagined  to  be  the  most  important  of  the 
manuscripts  and  carried  them  to  London  with  the  apparent  intention  of  devoting 
himself  to  his  editorial  task. 

The  papers  left  by  him  in  Philadelphia,  by  far  the  greater  part  of  the  whole 
collection,  he  bequeathed  to  his  friend  George  Fox,  from  whose  son,  Charles  P. 
Fox,  they  came  to  The  American  Philosophical  Society,  where  they  are  now  care- 
fully guarded.  The  announcement  of  the  intention  to  make  the  society  custodian 
of  these  historical  documents  was  made  in  a  letter  from  Charles  P.  Fox  to  John 
Vaughan,  Librarian,  September  17,  1840:  "Upon  conversing  with  my  sisters 
respecting  the  papers  of  Dr.  Franklin,  bequeathed  by  William  T.  Franklin,  Esq., 
to  my  father,  we  have  concluded  they  cannot  be  better  disposed  of  than  by  pre- 
senting them  to  the  society  of  which  he  was  the  founder. 

Not  all  of  these  papers,  however,  went  to  the  American  Philosophical  Society, 
for  after  the  bulk  of  them  had  been  delivered  some  still  remained  for  many  years 
in  a  garret  over  the  stable  at  Champlost.  About  1862  Miss  Fox,  who  was  probably 
ignorant  of  their  historical  importance,  gave  orders  that  they  should  be  sold  for 
old  paper;  but  fortunately  Mrs.  Holbrook,  who  was  visiting  Miss  Fox  at  the  time, 
saw  the  papers  being  carried  out  and  remonstrated.  They  were  brought  back,  all 
but  one  unlucky  barrel,  which  had  already  gone  to  the  mill.  Miss  Fox  retained 
some  and  gave  the  rest — a  generous  trunkfull — to  Mrs.  Holbrook.  From  her  they 
descended  to  her  son,  George  O.  Holbrook,  from  whom  they  were  purchased, 
1903,  through  the  efforts  of  Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  and  deposited  in  the  Library 
of  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Issue  of  George  and  Mary  (Pemberton)  Fox: — 

Charles  Pemberton  Fox,  b.  July  3,  1792;  d.  Oct.  10,  1866;  unm.  Received  degree  of  A.  B. 
Univ.  of  Pa.,  181 1,  and  A.  M.,  1816.  Joined  First  City  Troop  May  10,  1813,  of  which 
he  was  made  Corporal  in  1816,  and  Quartermaster-Sergeant  in  1822.  Made  his  home 
at  "Champlost."  It  was  he  who  with  his  sisters  presented  the  Franklin  papers  to 
American  Philosophical  Society; 

Eliza  Mary  Pemberton  Fox,  b.  May  30,  1794;  d.  May  17,  1873;  "\.  Feb.  18,  1819,  John 
Roberts  Tunis,  who  d.  Oct.  30,  1819,  son  of  Richard  and  Jane  (Roberts)  Tunis.  No 
issue; 

Esther  Pemberton  Fox,  b.  Oct.  25,  1797;  d.  July  24,  1798. 

Issue  of  George  and  Mary  (Dickinson)  Fox: — 

Joseph  Dickinson  Fox,  b.  1804;  d.  Oct.  19,  1825;  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.  1821 ;  was  Mod- 
erator of  Philomathean  Society,  and  Latin  Valedictorian  of  class  of  1824; 
Mary  Dickinson  Fox,  b.  Dec.  13,  1807;  d.  Feb.  19,  1895,  at  Champlost,  unm. 

Samuel  Mickle  Fox  (Joseph,  Justinian),  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  4, 
1763;  died  there  April  30,  1808;  married,  November  27,  1788,  at  Market  Street 
Meeting-house,  Sarah  Pleasants,  born  November  3,  1767;  died  February  3,  1825; 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Pemberton)  Pleasants. 

Samuel  M.  Fox  was  so  impressed  with  a  belief  in  the  ultimate  value  of  the  land 


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in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  state,  which  came  into  the  market  after  the  Indian 
treaties  of  1784  and  1785,  that  he  sold  Philadelphia  real  estate  and  purchased 
largely  of  what  were  then  known  as  back-hands.  At  his  death,  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  thousand  acres,  not  including  his  land  in  Venango,  now  Clarion  county, 
were  divided.  In  what  is  now  Clarion  county  there  were  a  number  of  warrants 
granted  to  George  and  Samuel  M.  Fox  between  1785  and  1789.  About  1795  they 
took  out  eight  one-thousand-acre  warrants,  seven  of  which  lay  along  the  Alle- 
gheny, north  of  the  Clarion  River.  These  were  patented  in  1796  and  became 
the  sole  property  of  Samuel  M.  Fox.  Much  of  the  land  was  afterwards  disposed 
of,  but  a  considerable  portion  of  the  original  purchase  at  the  confluence  of  the 
Allegheny  and  Clarion  rivers  is  still  a  family  possession.  The  story  of  its  devel- 
opment belongs  to  a  later  generation. 

Samuel  M.  Fox  was  an  incorporator  of  bank  of  Pennsylvania  in  1793,  and  in 
1796  became  its  president,  which  position  he  held  until  his  death.  In  1796  he  was 
a  member  of  Select  Council  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  member  of  a  committee  to 
take  into  consideration  the  finances  of  the  city,  etc.,  whose  report  of  the  then 
sources  of  the  city  revenue  is  contained  in  a  small  pamphlet  of  much  interest. 
He  also  served  on  one  or  more  of  the  "watering"  committees  of  Philadelphia,  and 
was  at  one  time  one  of  the  trustees  of  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Issue  of  Samuel  Mickle  and  Sarah  (Pleasants)  Fox: — 

Mary  Pleasants  Fox,  b.  Sept.  29,  1790;  d,  Jan.  16,  1872;  m.  Nov.  20,  1813,  William 
Wharton  Fisher,  b.  Oct.  i,  1786,  son  of  James  C.  and  Hannah  (Wharton)  Fisher; 
issue : 

Mary  Pleasants  Fisher,  b.  Sept.  10,  1814;  m.  George  W.  Norris; 

Hannah  Wharton  Fisher,  m.  Charles  R.  King,  M.  D.; 

James  Cowles  Fisher,  m,  Mary  Tesseire; 

Samuel  Fox  Fisher,  m.  Emma  Worrell; 

Sally  Fox  Fisher,  m.  George  T.  Lewis; 

William  Wharton  Fisher,  b.  June  23,  1822;  d.  March  4,  1856;  unm.; 

Coleman  Fisher,  m.  Mary  Wilson ; 

Nancy  Wharton  Fisher,  d.  Dec.  1905;  became  Oct.  i,  1872,  second  wife  of  Charles 

R.  King,  M.  D.; 
Thomas  Wharton  Fisher,  d.  May  18,  1873;  unm. 
Elizabeth  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Oct.  15,  1791;  d.  Oct.  10,  1872;  unm.; 
Hannah  Morris  Fox,  b.  Dec.  13,  1793;  d.  April  3,  1866;  unm.; 

Ann  Pleasants  Fox,  b.  Oct.  28,  1795;  d.  Jan.  16,  1861;  m.  July  28,  1829,  George  Newbold, 
b.  May  29,  1780,  d.  Sept.  8,  1858.    Issue: 

George  Newbold,  b.  April  17,  1834;  d.  Nov.  28,  1891. 
Caroline  Fox,  b.  March  19,  1797;  d.  Sept.  19,  1804; 
Sarah  Pemberton  Fox,  b.  Aug.  26,  1798;  d.  June  6,  1873;  unm.; 
Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Oct.  25,  1799;  d.  Feb.  12,  1848;  m.  Hannah  Emlen; 
Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  March  29,  1800;  d.  Dec.  19,  1849,  New  York  City;  m.  Oct.  17, 
1826.  Eliza  de  Grasse  Depau,  b.  Nov.  20,  1803;  d.  Aug.  20,  1864,  dau.  of  Francis  and 
Silvia  (de  Grasse)  Depau.     Entered  Univ.  of  Pa.  in  1816,  received  degree  in  1818,  and 
graduated  in  medicine  in  1822.     Practiced  his  profession  for  a  few  years  in  Phila.,  but 
relinquished  it  in  1828  to  remove  to  New  York,  where  he  became  a  member  of  firm 
of  Bolton,  Fox  and  Livingston,  and  so  continued  until  his  death;  issue: 
Silvia  Depau  Fox,  b.  July  28,  1827;  d.  Jan.  17,  1831  ; 
Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Aug.  4,  1828;  d.  May  3,  1892;  m.  (first)  Maria  Livingston; 

(second)  Ida  Thorne:   (third)  Amelia  Depau; 
Francis  Depau  Fox,  b.  Sept.  16,  1829;  d.  Jan.  I,  1884;  unm.; 

Alice  Maude  Fox,  b.  Oct.  16,  1834;  d.  June  11,  1904;  m.  Oct.  5,  1870,  Louis  Liv- 
ingston; 
Eliza  Fox,  b.  Oct.  21,  1836;  d.  Jan.  i,  1888;  m.  Frederic  Arthur  St.  John; 


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De  Grasse  Fox,  b.  Aug.  23,  1838:  d.  Oct.  2,  1904;  m.  Harriet  Biddle; 

Silvia  Alexandrine  Fox,  b.  May  28,  1841 ;  d.  March  16,  1843; 

Ella  Augusta  Fox,  b.  March  30,  1846;  d.  July  22,  1867;  unm. 
Louisa  G.  Fox,  b.  March  15,  1802;  d.  Jan.  19,  1874;  unm.; 
Emeline  Fox,  b.  June  23,  1803;  d.  Nov.  19,  1882;  unm,; 
George  Fox,  b.  Jan.  31,  1805;  d.  Aug.  29,  1805; 

George  Fox,  b.  May  28,  1806;  d.  Dec.  27,  1882;  m.  Sarah  D.  Valentine; 
Caroline  Fox,  b.  Aug.  28,  1807;  d.  Jan.  19,  1859;  unm. 

Joseph  Mickle  Fox  (Samuel  M.,  Joseph,  Justinian),  born  Philadelphia,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1789;  died  February  12,  1845;  married,  April  6,  1820,  Hannah,  born  Phil- 
adelphia, February  6,  1790;  died  November  11,  1869;  daughter  of  George  and 
Sarah  (Fishbourne)  Emlen. 

Joseph  M.  Fox  was  admitted  to  Philadelphia  Bar  September  7,  181 2.  At  the 
time  of  his  marriage  he  was  practicing  his  profession  in  Bellefonte,  Centre  county, 
Pennsylvania,  but  shortly  thereafter  removed  to  Meadville,  Pennsylvania.  He 
purchased  from  the  trustees  under  his  father's  will,  twelve  tracts,  comprising  thir- 
teen thousand  acres  of  land  in  western  part  of  the  state.  In  1827,  with  his  wife 
and  son,  he  settled  in  the  wild,  sparsely  settled  country  on  one  of  these  tracts,  at 
the  junction  of  the  Allegheny  and  Clarion  rivers,  where  a  house  was  erected  and 
improvement  of  the  land  was  begun.  An  attempt  was  made  to  plant  a  town 
there,  which  was  not  then  successful,  but  the  name  of  Foxburg  clung  to  the  spot 
until  the  town  grew,  years  afterwards.  At  that  time  Shippensburg,  sixteen  miles 
away,  was  the  nearest  post  office.  Joseph  M.  Fox  was  elected  state  senator  in 
1829,  and  nominated  but  not  elected  in  1830  and  1843. 

The  only  child  of  Joseph  Mickle  and  Hannah  (Emlen)  Fox,  was  : — 

S.\MUEL  Mickle  Fox.  b.  Phila.,  June  29,  1821;  d.  Dec.  25,  1869:  m.  Mary  Rodman  Fisher. 

George  Fox,  M.  D.  (Samuel  M.,  Joseph,  Justinian),  born  Philadelphia,  May  8, 
1806;  died  there  December  27,  1882;  married  in  Friends"  Meeting  at  Bellefonte, 
Pennsylvania,  September  25,  1850,  Sarah  Downing  Valentine,  born  Bellefonte, 
February  20,  1825,  died  February  9,  1888;  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  (Down- 
ing) Valentine. 

George  Fox  was  a  birthright  member  of  Society  of  Friends,  and  during  his 
residence  in  Philadelphia  of  nearly  half  a  century,  he  was  a  constant  attendant 
at  meetings  of  the  Society.  When  sixteen  years  old  he  entered  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  graduated  in  1825,  dividing  the  class  honors  with  his  lifelong 
friend  and  comrade,  Adolph  E.  Borie,  who  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  Presi- 
dent Grant's  cabinet.  Upon  his  graduation  from  the  university,  George  Fo.x  began 
the  study  of  medicine  and  took  his  degree  in  1828.  He  at  once  became  resident 
physician  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  where  he  devised  an  apparatus  for  treat- 
ment of  a  fractured  clavicle,  which  has  since  come  into  general  use,  being 
described  and  recommended  in  the  best  text  books  on  surgery. 

In  1831  Dr.  Fox  was  elected  a  fellow  of  the  College  of  Physicians.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  its  Building  Committee  and  took  part  in  the  selection  and  pur- 
chase of  the  present  site  of  the  college  and  in  the  erection  of  the  building. 

At  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  for 
several  years  afterwards.  Dr.  Fox  was  prominent  in  advancing  its  interests  and 
furthering  its  objects.    On  the  organization  of  the  Wills  Hospital  he  was  elected 


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one  of  its  surgeons,  and  later  became  a  manager  of  that  institution.  He  was  also 
appointed  one  of  the  visiting  surgeons  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  and  was  sur- 
geon of  St.  Joseph's  Female  Asylum,  1838-54. 

Dr.  Fox  contributed  largely  to  various  medical  journals,  his  first  paper  appear- 
ing in  North  American  Journal  of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  1831.  One  of  the  most 
notable  of  the  articles  from  his  pen  was  a  biographical  notice  of  Dr.  Joseph 
Parish,  which  was  read  before  the  College  of  Physicians  in  1846. 

Dr.  Fox  took  a  very  active  part  in  the  successful  management  of  the  vast  tracts 
of  wild,  wooded  lands  left  by  his  father,  and  for  years  was  trustee  of  all  the 
parties  in  interest,  which  position  he  held  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  In  1854 
he  relinquished  his  professional  work.  A  couple  of  years  later  he  purchased  a 
tract  of  land  in  Bensalem  township,  Bucks  county,  on  the  Delaware  River.  The 
river  front  was  divided  into  two  parts,  known  respectively  as  "Chestnutwood" 
and  "Traveskan."  On  Chestnutwood  he  built  in  1856-7,  the  large  stone  house 
where  he  lived  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  and  at  the  same  time  his  sisters  built 
a  similar  house  on  Traveskan.  These  properties  are  still  in  possession  of  the 
family. 

Issue  of  Dr.  George  and  Sarah  D.  (Valentine)  Fox: — 

Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Phila.,  July  18,  1851;  d.  at  Chestnutwood,  March  19,  190S;  m. 

Sept.  25,  1890,  Elizabeth  Richards,  b.  Jan.  9,  1866,  dau.  of  Walter  and  Rebecca  Say  (Rich- 
ards) Newbold.  Samuel  M.  Fox  graduated  from  college  1869.  He  was  admitted  to 
Phila.  Bar  Dec.  13,  1873,  and  devoted  himself  to  management  of  estates.  He  was  a 
conservative  and  successful  investor  and  estates  increased  in  value  rapidly  under  his 
management.  He  soon  became  known  as  most  trustworthy  and  successful  and  his 
services  were  continually  in  demand.  He  was  an  expert  photographer,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Photographic  Society  of  Phila.  He  had  natural  mechanical  ability  and  was  a 
lover  and  collector  of  antiques,  coins  and  stamps;  issue: 
Samuel  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Jan.  26,  1893; 
Elizabeth  Newbold  Fox,  b.  Dec.  19,  1897; 

George  Fox,  of  Torresdale,  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  28,  1852;  married 
October  20,  1875,  Margaret  Loper,  born  January  13,  1855;  daughter  of  William 
M.  and  Susan  (Cooper)  Baird.     Issue: 

Marguerite  Baird  Fox,  b.  Phila.  Dec.  15,  1876;  m.  Dec.  4,  1901,  William,  b.  Jan.  11,  1876, 
son  of  George  Harrison  and  Lucy  Carter  (Wickham)  Byrd,  of  Virginia,  descendant 
of  Byrds  of  Westover;  issue: 

Lucy  Carter  Byrd,  b.  Aug.  16,  1902; 
William  Byrd,  b.  Jan.  7,  1904. 

Frances  Fox,  b.  Phila.  March  i,  1879;  m.  Oct.  25,  1905,  Arthur  Howell  Brockie,  b.  Jan. 
17,  1875; 

George  Fox,  b.  Phila.  July  28,  1881; 

Sarah  Valentine  Fox,  b.  Traveskan,  Aug.  8,  1883 ; 

Mary  Valentine  Fox,  b.  Traveskan,  June  i,  1886; 

Emily  Burrows  Fox,  b.  Traveskan  June  17,  1889; 

Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Traveskan  March  2,  1892; 

William  Baird  Fox,  b.  Traveskan  Oct.  II,  1894;  d.  inf. 

Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  born  Paoli,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  July  16,  1855 ; 
married,  October  4,  1893,  at  Leesburg,  Virginia,  Jean  (Beverly)  Chichester,  of 
Leesburg ;  born  February  i,  1870,  daughter  of  Arthur  Mason  and  Mary  (Beverly) 
Chichester.  Joseph  Mickle  Fox  entered  Medical  Department  of  University  of 
Pennsyhrania,  and  graduated  with  degree  of  M.  D.  in   1877.     He  practiced  his 


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profession  for  several  years,  residing  at  Torresdale.  Philadelphia,  and  later  at 
Leesburg,  Virginia.  He  was  surgeon  of  Out-Patient  Department  of  Pennsylvania 
Hospital,  the  Children's  Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  University  Hospital ; 
he  has  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  and  scientific  journals.  His  skill  as 
a  surgeon  is  evinced  by  the  fact  that  he  performed  the  first  successful  case  of 
abdominal  section  for  a  gunshot  wound,  in  Philadelphia.  A  number  of  other 
noted  operations  performed  by  him  are  on  record.     Issue : — 

Mary  Beverly  Fox,  b.  April  15,  1895; 
Jean  Fox,  b.  April  i,  1898; 
Sarah  Fox,  b.  Feb.  6,  1901 ; 
Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  June  25,  1903. 

Ch.xrles  Pemberton  Fox,  born  Chestnutwood,  January  9,  1858;  married,  May 
19,  1906,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Mead  Large.  Entered  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  autumn  of  1874; 

Mary  Valentine  Fox,  born  Chestnutwood,  December  22,  1859;  died  March 
19,  1894;  married  at  St.  James  Church,  Philadelphia,  April  23,  1883,  William, 
born  Augvist  27,  1855,  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Zook)  Wayne;  issue: — 

William  Wayne,  b.  Feb.  29,  1884; 
Edith  Wayne,  b.  Nov.  12,  1889. 

Sarah  Fox,  born  at  Chestnutwood,  March  10,  1863;  married,  June  10,  1891,  at 
Chestnutwood,  George  Washington,  son  of  Joseph  Parker  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Gareache)  Norris. 

Samuel  Mickle  Fox  (Joseph  M.,  Samuel  M.,  Joseph,  Justinian),  born  Phila- 
delphia, June  29,  1821 ;  died  Foxburg,  December  25,  1869;  married,  June  28,  1849, 
Mary  Rodman  Fisher,  born  at  "Wakefield,"  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  February 
II,  1822;  died  May  26,  1903,  daughter  of  William  Logan  and  Sarah  (Lindley) 
Fisher. 

Samuel  M.  Fox  graduated  from  University  of  Pennsylvania  1841,  was  admitted 
to  Philadelphia  Bar  on  June  11,  1844,  and  was  entering  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  which  he  relinquished  when  his  father's  death  brought  to  him  other 
duties  in  the  management  of  his  mother's  affairs.  He  was  a  man  of  scholarly 
instincts  and  great  culture,  of  a  retiring  and  contemplative  disposition ;  he  had  no 
desire  for  the  notoriety  of  public  life,  and  was  devoid  of  political  ambition, 
although  during  the  Civil  War  his  pronounced  views  made  him  in  his  district  a 
leader  and  a  strong  advocate  for  the  cause  of  the  Union.  In  1861  he  was  Repub- 
lican candidate  for  state  senator  from  twenty-eighth  district,  composed  of  Jeffer- 
son, Forrest,  Elk  and  Clarion  counties,  and  although  running  far  ahead  of  the 
rest  of  the  party  ticket,  was  defeated,  his  district  being  heavily  Democratic. 

When,  in  1865,  petroleum  was  discovered  on  the  Allegheny  River,  near  Oil 
City,  wells  were  drilled  at  and  near  Foxburg  and  oil  was  found  in  paying  quan- 
tities. Foxburg  later  became  a  prominent  oil  point,  and  the  town  of  Foxburg,  sit- 
uated a  mile  and  a  half  from  the  Fox  residence,  had  its  origin.  No  land  was  then, 
nor  has  been  since  sold  from  the  estate,  but  all  settlers  build  on  leased  ground, 
the  owners  holding  absolute  control. 


POX  335 

Issue  of  Samuel  Mickle  and  Mary  Rodman  (Fisher)  Fox: — 

Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  March  6,  1850;  d.  Jan.  26,  1853; 

William  Logan  Fox,  b.  Sept.  27,  1851;  d.  April  29,  1880;  m.  Feb.  25,  1879,  Rebecca  Clif- 
ford, b.  Nov.  13,  1856,  dau.  of  Samuel  L.  HoUingsworth,  M.  D.,  and  Anna  Clifford 
Pemberton,  his  wife. 

William  Logan  Fo.x,  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  was  at  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute,  at  Troy,  N.  Y..  from  which  he  graduated  as  civil  engineer.     He  then  spent  a 
year  in  Europe,  and  on  his  return  with,  the  assistance  of  the  trustees  under  his  father's 
will,  took  up  the  management  of  the  business  at  Foxburg.     He  built  and  was  president 
of  the  Foxburg,  St.  Petersburg,  and  Clarion  Railway,  now  part  of  the  system  of  the 
Pittsburg  and  Western  Railroad.     He  took  a  deep  interest  in  politics  and  in  support 
of  his  party  started  a  weekly  newspaper  at  Foxburg.     Was  a  member  of  the  Electoral 
College  of  Pennsylvania  which  voted  for  Garfield  in  1880,  but  died  before  it  met.     At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  Chairman  of  Clarion  County  Republican  Committee ; 
Joseph  Mickle  Fox,  b.  Feb.  4,  1853;  m.  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  May  10,  1883, 
Emily  A.,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Huger  and  Julia  (Middleton)  Read.    He  graduated  from 
Haverford  College  in  class  of  1873;  studied  law  in  office  of  George  W.  Biddle,  Esq., 
and  was  admitted  to  Phila.  Bar;  issue: 
Mary  Lindley  Fox,  b.  Dec.  25,  1884; 
Emily  Read  Fox,  b.  June  7,  1887; 
Eliza  Middleton  Fox,  b.  Feb.  23,  1890; 
William  Logan  Fox,  b.  Nov.  15,  1892. 
Sarah  Lindley  Fox,  b.  March  27  1855;  d.  June  20,  1882;  unm.; 
Hannah  Fox,  b.  May  11,  1858. 


HOLME. 

Thomas  Holme  was  born  in  the  year  1624;  although  a  great  part  of  his  hfe 
was  spent  in  Ireland,  there  is  little  doubt  that  his  birthplace  was  in  England,  most 
likely  in  Yorkshire.  His  parents,  whose  names  are  now  unknown,  appear  to  have 
been  of  good  position  and  family,  and  Thomas  Holme  was  styled  "gentleman"  by 
right  of  birth.  Several  facts  lead  to  the  supposition  that  his  father  belonged  to  a 
younger  branch  of  the  family  of  Holme  of  Huntington,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Thomas  Holme  used  an  armorial  seal  on  his  official  papers,  corresponding  with  the 
arms  of  this  family,  which  are  described  in  Burke's  General  Armory  as :  "Argent, 
a  chevron  azure,  between  three  chaplets  gules."  The  shield  on  Thomas  Holme's 
seal  is  the  same  surrounded  by  a  bordure  with  ten  roundels,  the  bordure  being 
used  to  distinguish  the  branch  of  the  family. 

While  Thomas  Holme  was  quite  a  young  man,  the  Civil  War  between  the  King 
and  Parliament  broke  out ;  he  took  the  side  of  the  latter  and  became  a  captain  in 
its  army.  He  is  said  to  have  taken  part  in  the  Hispaniola  expedition  under 
Admiral  Penn  in  1654,  either  as  one  of  the  naval  officers,  who  were  largely  taken 
from  the  army,  or  as  an  officer  in  the  land  forces  under  General  Venables ;  his 
intimacy  with  the  Penns  and  Crispins  in  after  years  might  have  had  its  beginning 
here,  and  gives  a  coloring  of  truth  to  the  statement.  He  was  in  Ireland  in  1659, 
and  was  then  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  It  is  reasonably  presumed  that 
he  obtained  lands  in  Ireland  during  the  settlement  of  Cromwell's  soldiers  there  in 
1655.  There  was  a  Captain  Holmes  (Holme?)  in  Sir  Hardress  Waller's  regi- 
ment, whose  company  was  given  lands  in  the  Barony  of  Shilmalier,  county  Wex- 
ford, in  which  county  Thomas  Holme  afterwards  resided,  at  least  temporarily.  In 
1656  many  of  the  parliamentary  officers  in  Ireland  joined  the  Society  of  Friends. 
The  name  of  Thomas  Holme  occurs  in  the  grants  under  the  Acts  of  Settlement 
and  Explanation  passed  after  the  Restoration. 

Thomas  Holme  became  an  important  man  among  the  Friends  in  Ireland,  and 
traveled  extensively  over  the  central  and  southern  parts  of  that  country,  attending 
meetings  of  the  Society.  In  many  places  he  encountered  the  opposition  of  the 
authorities  to  his  religion,  and  received  abuse  and  hard  treatment  from  those  that 
had  formerly  been  his  companions  in  arms.  In  1659  a  number  of  prominent 
Friends  in  Ireland  published  an  address  to  the  English  Parliament,  reciting  their 
persecutions.  It  is  entitled,  "To  the  Parliament  of  England,  who  are  in  place  to  do 
Justice,  and  to  break  the  Bonds  of  the  Oppressed.  A  Narrative  of  the  Cruel,  and 
Unjust  Sufferings  of  the  People  of  God  in  the  Nation  of  Ireland,  Called  Quakers." 
London,  Printed  for  Thomas  Simmons  at  the  Bull  and  Mouth  near  Aldersgate, 
1659.  It  is  signed  by  Thomas  Holme  and  fifty-two  others,  among  them  Samuel 
Clarridge  and  Robert  Turner,  both  afterwards  First  Purchasers  in  Pennsylvania, 
William  Edmondson,  the  well-known  preacher,  and  some  former  officers  under 
Cromwell,  most  of  them  sufferers  mentioned  in  the  narrative.  This  address  tells 
that  "Thomas  Holme  (late  a  Captain  in  the  Army),  Charles  Collins,  and  several 
of  the  Lord's  people,  being  in  a  peaceable  meeting  at  Wexford,  had  their  meeting 
forcibly  broken,  and  many  of  them  violently  haled  and  turned  out  of  the  Town, 


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by  order  from  Edward  Withers,  Mayor  then."  "Thomas  Loe,  Thomas  Holme, 
William  Blanch,  and  John  Wren,  being  in  Cashell  on  their  Journey,  were  appre- 
hended by  Colo.  Lehunt's  order,  and  brought  before  him,  and  he  commanded  the 
Sould.  (violently)  to  turne  them  out  of  the  town,  and  to  cut  their  pates,  three  of 
them  were  not  suffered  to  go  into  the  town  again  for  their  horses."  Thomas 
Phelps  of  Limerick,  besides  other  losses,  "had  his  house  broken  open  and  rifled 
with  a  Guard  of  Sould.  from  the  Governour  (Col.  Ingoldesby)  which  Guard  by 
the  same  Order  rifled  the  houses  of  Richard  Piercy  and  Thomas  Holme,  and  took 
away  what  books  and  papers  they  pleased."  In  Besse's  "Sufferings"  it  is  stated 
that  in  1660  the  meetings  of  Friends  in  Dublin  were  frequently  molested;  a  num- 
ber of  persons,  of  whom  Thomas  Holme  was  one,  were  taken  from  them  and  com- 
mitted to  Newgate  by  order  of  Robert  Dee,  then  Mayor  of  the  City ;  Samuel  Qar- 
ridge  and  Robert  Turner  were  also  of  this  number.  In  1661,  Thomas  Holme, 
Robert  Turner  and  others  were  taken  from  a  meeting  in  EHiblin  and  committed  to 
Newgate,  by  order  of  Hubert  Adrian,  Mayor.  In  an  address  of  Friends  in  Ire- 
land to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council,  in  1673,  (quoted  by  Charles  Evans, 
M.  D.  in  "Friends  in  17th  Century")  occurs  the  following:  "In  the  county  of 
Wexford,  Thomas  Holme,  having  about  £200  due  to  him  from  one  Captain  Thorn- 
hill,  for  which  judgement  was  obtained  against  him  in  common  law,  was  sub- 
poenaed into  Chancery  by  Thornhill,  where  he  well  knew  Thomas  could  not 
answer  on  oath;  and  so  this  Friend  lost  his  debt."  In  1672,  Thomas  Holme  and 
Abraham  Fuller  of  Ireland,  published  "A  Brief  Relation  of  some  part  of  the  Suf- 
fering of  the  True  Christians,  the  People  of  God  (called  in  scorn  Quakers)  in 
IRELAND  for  these  last  11  years,  viz.  from  1660  until  1671.  Collected  by  T.  H. 
and  A.  F."  In  1731  there  was  published  a  work  called  "A  Compendious  VIEW 
of  Some  Extraordinary  SUFFERINGS  of  the  People  called  QUAKERS  both 
in  Person  and  Substance,  in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland  from  the  year  1655  to  the 
End  of  the  Reign  of  King  George  the  First.  In  3  parts.  Dublin,  Printed  by  and 
for  Samuel  Fuller,  at  the  Globe,  in  Meath-street."  Part  I,  according  to  Smith's 
Catalogue,  "Contains  the  true  Grounds  and  Reasons  of  their  Conscientious  Dis- 
sent from  other  Religious  Denominations  in  Sundry  Particulars,"  and  was  by 
Fuller  and  Holme ;  they  were  both  deceased  at  the  time  of  this  publication,  and 
it  was  probably  the  same  as  their  work  of  1672.  The  second  part  consisted  of 
examples  of  sufferings,  and  the  third  was  a  synopsis  of  the  number  of  religious 
prisoners.    These  two  books  are  very  rare. 

Thomas  Holme's  first  appearance  in  Pennsylvania  history  is  on  April  18,  1682, 
when  William  Penn  appointed  him  Surveyor-General  of  the  Province.  In  his  com- 
mission he  is  styled  "Captain  Thomas  Holme  of  the  City  of  Waterford  in  the  King- 
dom of  Ireland."  He  sailed  for  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Amity,"  which  left  the  Downs, 
April  23,  1682,  bringing  with  him  his  family,  and  also  Silas  Crispin  (son  of  Cap- 
tain William  Crispin,  who  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  Surveyor-General  appointed 
by  Penn,  but  died  on  his  way  to  Pennsylvania  in  1681),  and  John  Claypoole,  son 
of  James  Claypoole;  the  latter  wrote  from  London  (to  his  brother  Norton  in  the 
country)  in  this  month :  "I  have  been  at  Gravesend  with  my  son  John,  who  has 
gone  per  the  Amity,  Richard  Dimond,  Master,  for  Pennsylvania,  to  be  assistant  to 
the  general  surveyor,  whose  name  is  Thomas  Holmes,  a  very  honest,  ingenious, 
worthy  Man."  The  historians.  Proud,  Gordon  and  Clarkson,  say  the  "Amity" 
was  one  of  the  three  ships  that  sailed  in  1681,  and  that  she  was  delayed  by  contrary 


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winds  and  did  not  arrive  until  spring  of  the  following  year ;  other  historians  dis- 
pute this  statement  on  the  ground  of  her  sailing  in  April,  1682.  But  the  former 
were  no  doubt  partially  right,  as  to  the  "Amity"  being  one  of  the  ships  that  sailed 
in  the  summer  of  1681,  and  being  delayed  by  contrary  winds.  It  is  likely  that  this 
is  the  vessel  in  which  Captain  William  Crispin  sailed  for  Pennsylvania,  which, 
when  in  sight  of  the  capes  of  Delaware,  was  blown  off  and  put  into  Barbadoes, 
where  Capt.  Crispin  died ;  it  is  quite  possible  that  then,  instead  of  continuing  to 
Pennsylvania,  she  returned  to  England,  carrying  the  news  of  Crispin's  death,  and 
then  again  sailed  for  Pennsylvania  in  April,  1682,  bringing  Holme,  who  had  mean- 
while been  appointed  Surveyor-General,  and  Silas  Crispin,  having  probably  been 
with  his  father  and  returned  to  England  with  the  vessel,  going  out  again  in  her. 
The  "London  Gazette,"  Monday,  April  24,  to  Thursday,  April  27,  1682,  has: 
"Deal,  April  23.  This  Morning  the  Ships  in  the  Downs,  outward  bound,  Sailed; 
among  them  were  five  bound  for  the  East-Indies,  and  one  for  Pennsylvania." 

Thomas  Holme  was  one  of  the  First  Purchasers,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Free  Society  of  Traders,  and  one  of  that  society's  committee  of  twelve  to  reside 
in  Pennsylvania,  appointed  at  their  meeting  in  London  on  May  29,  1682.  On  his 
arrival  in  Pennsylvania,  he  and  his  family  took  up  their  residence  at  Shackama.xon, 
where  there  was  a  settlement  of  English  Friends,  who  had  come  out  in  the  preced- 
ing year.  At  first  they  stayed  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Fairman,  who  in  this  year 
sent  a  bill  of  charges  to  Wm.  Penn,  for  lodging  Capt.  Holme  and  his  two  sons  and 
two  daughters.  Holme  brought  a  letter  from  Penn  to  the  Indians,  which  said  in 
regard  to  himself:  "The  man  which  brings  this  to  you  is  my  especial  ft'riend — 
sober,  wise,  and  loving — you  may  believe  him."  He  endorsed  on  the  letter,  "I  read 
this  to  the  Indians  by  Interpriter  6th  mo.  1682.  T.  Holme."  This  letter  without 
the  endorsement  is  printed  in  Janney's  Life  of  William  Penn;  there  is  a  fac-simile 
in  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  The  original  was  exhibited  in  the  Penn 
Parlor,  at  the  Sanitary  Fair,  Logan  Square,  Philadelphia,  1864.  He  was  present 
at  the  first  court  held  by  Penn  at  New  Castle,  November  2,  1682,  and  also  at  the 
Great  Treaty  at  Shackamaxon. 

It  has  been  stated  that  Holme  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  for 
Settling  the  Colony,  in  place  of  William  Crispin,  deceased,  and  while  no  commis- 
sion to  him  as  such  is  extant  to  prove  the  statement,  the  fact  remains  that  he  acted 
with  the  other  Commissioners  in  forwarding  the  settlement.  The  instructions  to 
these  Commissioners,  dated  September  30,  1681  (the  original  is  in  possession  of 
the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania),  have  often  been  printed  and  need  not  be 
repeated  here.  They  were  directed  to  William  Crispin,  Nathaniel  Allen  and  John 
Bezar.  Their  commission  is  dated  October  25,  1681,  and  names  a  fourth  Com- 
missioner, William  Haigue.  They  were  all,  except  the  deceased  Crispin,  whose 
place  Holme  took,  in  Pennsylvania  at  the  time  of  Holme's  arrival.  Their  first 
duty  was  to  choose  a  spot  where  navigation  was  best  and  large  ships  might  lie 
close  to  the  bank,  the  land  being  at  the  same  time  dry,  high  and  healthy,  and  to 
lay  out  there  ten  thousand  acres  for  the  site  of  a  great  city.  This  proved  to  be  a 
very  difficult  task,  as  no  place  could  be  found  answering  the  requirements  which 
would  bear  a  city  of  such  size.  The  Commissioners  explored  the  country  and 
Holme  made  a  survey  of  the  west  bank  of  the  Delaware,  and  they  chose  the  site 
at  the  mouth  of  Dock  Creek. 

On  Penn's  arrival  in  the  following  October,  he  changed  his  ideas  as  embodied 


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in  the  instructions,  and  had  about  two  square  miles,  or  1280  acres,  laid  out  for  the 
city,  which  is  the  original  part  of  the  present  city  of  Philadelphia.  When  the  city 
of  ten  thousand  acres  was  laid  out,  the  Commissioners  were  to  give  every  pur- 
chaser of  5000  acres  a  lot  of  one  hundred  acres  in  this  town  land,  in  accordance 
with  the  conditions  and  concessions  to  first  purchasers  issued  by  the  Proprietary, 
July  II,  1681.  When  Penn  changed  his  plan,  a  tract  was  surveyed  adjoining  the 
city  proper,  which  was  called  the  "liberties,"  and  out  of  which  the  first  purchasers 
were  to  have  their  two  per  cent.,  while  in  the  city  itself,  they  were  to  have  only 
small  lots.  Josiah  W.  Smith,  in  the  large  foot-note  on  land  tenure  in  his  "Laws 
of  Pennsylvania,"  says,  "Not  a  single  memorial  can  be  found  of  this  plan,  nor  any 
record  of  the  alteration,  or  any  written  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  inhabitants 
to  the  new  arrangement ;  but  a  regular  series  of  uniform  facts,  upon  the  books  of 
the  Land-Office,  establish  it  beyond  a  doubt."  The  method  of  apportioning  the 
liberty  lands  and  city  lots  is  fully  described  in  the  same  foot-note.  Reed,  in  the 
explanation  to  his  map  of  the  "liberties,"  1774,  quotes  part  of  a  letter  from  Holme, 
stating  that  Penn  had  instructed  him  not  to  give  over  80  acres  in  the  "liberties"  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Schuylkill  to  purchasers  entitled  to  100  acres.  This  direction 
Holme  carried  out.  It  was  given  because  the  lands  east  of  the  Schuylkill  were 
considered  more  valuable;  any  purchaser  who  took  his  liberty  land  on  the  west 
side  got  his  full  proportion. 

After  Penn's  decision  was  made.  Holme,  as  Surveyor-General,  laid  out  the  city, 
extending  from  Cedar  (now  South)  street  to  Vine  street,  and  from  the  Delaware 
to  the  Schuylkill  river,  and,  as  appears  by  the  plan,  also  including  three  squares 
beyond  the  latter,  although  no  city  lots  were  assigned  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Schuylkill.  The  lots  were  then  apportioned  to  the  purchasers,  being  drawn  before 
William  Markham,  Thomas  Holme,  William  Haigue  and  Griffith  Jones,  7th  mo.  9, 
1682,  they  certifying  to  that  effect  on  the  list  of  lots  and  owners.  Holme  drew  up 
a  map  or  plan  of  the  city  which  he  called  "A  Portraiture  of  the  City  of  Philadel- 
phia ;"  this  was  printed  in  London  in  1683  as  part  of  a  book  entitled,  "A  Letter 
from  William  Penn,  Proprietary  and  Governour  of  Pennsylvania,  In  America,  to 
the  Committee  of  the  Free  Society  of  Traders  of  that  Province,  residing  in  Lon- 
don Containing"  etc.  "To  which  is  Added,  An  Account  of  the  City  of  Philadel- 
phia Newly  laid  out.  Its  Scituation  between  two  Navigable  Rivers,  Delaware  and 
Schuylkill  with  a  Portraiture  or  Plat-form  thereof,  Wherein  the  purchasers  lots 
are  distinguished  by  certain  numbers  inserted,  together  with  the  Surveyor  Gen- 
eral's advertisement  concerning  the  situation  and  extent  thereof.  Printed  and 
sold  by  Andrew  Sowle,  at  the  Crooked-Billet,  in  Halloway-Lane,  in  Shoreditch, 
and  at  several  stationers  in  London,  1683."  This  book  contained :  a  letter  from 
Penn  describing  the  country  and  its  inhabitants,  native  and  foreign ;  Holme's  plan 
of  the  city,  divided  into  lots,  which  were  numbered ;  an  account  of  the  city,  being 
principally  a  list  of  the  purchasers  with  the  numbers  of  their  lots  on  the  plan ;  and 
Holme's  description  of  the  city,  called  "A  short  advertisement  upon  the  situation 
and  extent  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Ensuing  platform  thereof,  by  the 
Surveyor  General."  The  plan,  list  of  purchasers,  part  of  Penn's  letter,  and  the 
"short  advertisement"  were  printed  in  the  appendix  of  John  C.  Lowber's  "Ordi- 
nances of  the  Corporation  of  tlie  City  of  Philadelphia,"  Philadelphia,  1812,  the 
plan  being  printed  from  the  original  plate,  then  in  possession  of  Dr.  George  Logan, 
of  Stenton.    Philip  Ford,  one  of  the  Free  Society  of  Traders,  wrote  from  London, 


340  HOLME 

1st  mo.  21,  1684-5,  to  Thomas  Holme  in  Philadelphia,  "As  for  the  map  of  the  city, 
it  was  needful  it  should  be  printed;  it  will  do  us  a  kindness,  as  we  were  at  a  loss 
for  want  of  something  to  show  the  people."  The  plan,  as  published,  did  not  long 
remain  in  effect.  As  early  as  1684,  all  the  streets  west  of  Delaware  Eleventh,  had 
been  moved  eastward,  and  the  Broad  street  was  changed  from  12th  from  each 
river,  to  14th  from  Delaware,  the  next  street  west  being  8th  from  Schuylkill ;  this 
second  plan  still  remains  unchanged  except  that  several  streets  have  been  added 
west  of  Schuylkill  Front  street  which  was  some  distance  back  from  the  river. 
Reed,  in  the  explanation  to  his  map,  1774,  says  (and  others  have  followed  him), 
that  this  change  was  made  by  Benjamin  Eastburn,  who  was  Surveyor-General 
about  1740,  but  more  recent  investigations  have  shown  that  it  was  made  as  early 
as  1684,  while  Holme  was  still  in  office.  This  change  did  not  effect  the  part  be- 
tween Delaware  Eleventh  and  Delaware  Front  streets,  which  is  still  the  same  as 
on  the  "portraiture"  of  1683. 

When  the  plan  of  the  city  and  assignment  of  lots  there  was  finished.  Holme 
turned  his  attention  to  the  surveying  of  the  country,  and  made  a  map  of  the  Prov- 
ince, which  was  published  in  London  under  the  name  of  "Map  of  the  Improved 
Part  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania  in  America  Begun  by  Wil :  Penn  Proprietary 
&  Governor  thereof  Anno  1681."  It  has  a  sub-heading:  "A  Map  of  the  Province 
of  Pennsylvania,  Containing  the  three  Countyes  of  Chester,  Philadelphia  &  Bucks 
as  far  as  yet  surveyed  and  laid  out,  the  divisions  or  distinctions  made  by  the  differ- 
ent coullers  respect  the  settlements  by  way  of  townships.  By  Thos.  Holme.  Sur- 
vey''. Gen'."  It  was  "Sold  by  Robert  Green  at  the  Rose  &  Crown  in  Budgrow, 
And  by  lohn  Thornton  at  the  Piatt  in  the  Minories,  London,"  and  dedicated  by 
them  to  William  Penn.  This  map  shows,  in  black  and  white,  with  colored  lines 
for  township  lines,  the  settled  portion  of  the  Province,  and  the  lands  seated,  with 
the  owner's  name  on  each  tract ;  the  township  boundaries  are  nearly  the  same  as 
afterwards  laid  down  by  juries  appointed  for  that  purpose,  though  not  all  of  them 
are  given  names  on  the  map.  Geographically,  it  has  a  very  fair  degree  of  accuracy, 
except  in  the  outlying  districts,  though  the  courses  of  some  of  the  creeks  as  given 
by  it  are  erroneous.  The  lines  of  the  settlers'  tracts  are,  in  general,  correct,  as  far 
as  a  map  of  small  scale  covering  a  large  extent  of  territory  could  give  them.  There 
has  been  a  great  deal  of  uncertainity  about  the  date  of  publication  of  Holme's 
map  of  the  province,  some  writers  asserting  that  it  was  published  in  1684,  while 
others  argue  that  it  was  not  published  till  much  later,  as  it  represents  tracts,  some 
of  which  were  not  laid  out  till  as  late  as  1725,  as  shown  by  returns  of  survey  and 
patents.  The  map  is  not  dated,  the  only  date  on  it  being  in  the  heading  "Begun 
by  Wil:  Penn  Proprietary  and  Governor  thereof,  Atino  1681,"  which,  of  course, 
does  not  refer  to  the  time  of  printing  it.  The  only  tenable  theory,  in  view  of  the 
conflicting  evidences  of  the  different  parts  of  the  map,  is  that  there  were  several 
editions,  the  first  showing  the  earlier  surveys  only  (which  are  the  tracts  nearest  the 
city),  and  the  subsequent  editions  being  printed  from  the  same  plates,  on  which 
the  later  surveys  had  been  added  without  any  alteration  of  the  parts  previously 
printed.  It  is  certain  that  an  edition  was  printed  between  the  end  of  the  year 
1686  and  the  beginning  of  the  year  1689,  for  the  extract  of  Thomas  Holme's 
letter  of  October,  1686  (printed  with  Dr.  More's  letter  in  1687),  ends  thus:  "I 
intend  to  send  the  Draught  for  a  Map  by  the  first — "  ("opportunity"  probably)  ; 
and  during  a  discussion  on  the  bounds  of  Chester  county  by  Governor  Blackwell 


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and  the  Council  in  their  meeting  ist  mo.  25,  1689,  the  Surveyor-General's  Deputy 
was  sent  for,  who  showed  the  bounds  of  the  county  on  the  map,  and  the  minutes 
of  the  Council  say:  "Twas  observed  by  ye  Goverr  and  Councill  that  ye  mapp  of 
The  Province  was  the  work  of  Thomas  Holme,  Surveyor  Genell ;  that  it  was  dedi- 
cated to  ye  Proprietor  by  ye  Publisher ;  that  many  Coppys  had  been  published  in 
England  and  here  in  this  Province."  This  settles  the  date  of  the  first  publication 
of  the  map  some  time  in  1687  or  1688,  and  an  advertisement  in  the  London  Gazette 
in  May,  1688,  evidently  referring  to  this  map,  shows  it  to  have  been  published  by 
that  time.  That  the  date  1684  is  too  early  is  shown  by  the  names  attached  to  the 
tracts  nearest  the  city  (that  is,  the  tracts  earliest  surveyed).  Some  of  these  were 
sold  between  1684  and  1687  and  the  ownership  attributed  to  them  by  the  map 
corresponds  to  the  latter  date.  One  instance  of  this  is  Thomas  Holme's  own  600 
acres  in  Byberry,  which  he  sold  to  Nicholas  Rideout  in  1685 ;  on  the  map  it  bears 
the  name  of  Nicholas  Rideout.  This  first  edition  could  not  have  shown  the  bounds 
of  lands  that  were  surveyed  at  a  later  date,  but  copies  preserved  at  the  present 
time  contain,  as  stated  above,  tracts  that  were  laid  out  later;  for  instance,  Laetitia 
Penn's  Manor  of  Mount  Joy,  and  William  Penn,  Jr.'s,  Manor  of  Williamstadt, 
both  taken  up  in  1704,  Samuel  Carpenter's  great  tract  north  of  Moreland  (now 
in  Horsham),  laid  out  in  1706,  and  others  in  the  more  distant  parts,  some  of 
which  were  not  surveyed  before  1725,  or  even  a  few  years  later.  Therefore  these 
copies  must  be  of  an  edition  published  about  1730,  but  from  the  original  drawings 
filled  in  to  that  time,  for  the  tracts  near  the  city  are  still  the  same  on  these  copies 
as  they  were  earlier,  notwithstanding  that  many  of  them  had,  in  the  meanwhile, 
been  subdivided  and  had  changed  owners  several  times.  The  map  as  a  whole  repre- 
sents dififerent  parts  of  the  province  at  different  dates,  those  nearest  the  city  as 
they  were  in  1686,  the  more  distant  as  they  were  laid  out  at  intermediate  periods, 
from  that  time  to  about  1730.  Copies  of  the  map  may  have  been  printed  at  any 
time  between  these  two  years,  the  original  drawings  remaining  always  unchanged, 
the  newer  surveys  being  added  as  they  were  made.  The  final  edition,  however, 
seems  to  be  the  only  one  that  has  survived ;  Harris's  reduced  copy  and  the  Phila- 
delphia Library  copy,  from  which  Smith's  fac-simile  was  taken,  both  belong  to  it. 
The  Commissioners  to  settle  the  colony  were  also  empowered  to  purchase  lands 
from  the  Indians,  but  they  do  not  seem  to  have  exercised  this  right  as  a  body. 
Markham  purchased  land  near  the  Neshaminy  from  the  Indians,  the  deed  was 
dated  July  25,  1682,  but  none  of  the  Commissioners'  names  are  subscribed  to  it. 
But  Thomas  Holme  was  present  at  most  of  the  Indian  treaties  and  had  an  import- 
ant part  in  some  of  them.  He  was  a  witness  to  the  deed,  made  June  23,  1683, 
from  the  Indian  chiefs  Essepenaike  and  Swanpees  to  William  Penn  for  lands 
between  the  Penepack  and  Neshaminy  creeks,  and  also  one  dated  4th  mo.  3,  1684, 
from  Maughoughsin  to  Penn.  In  August,  1684,  the  old  Commissioners  were  super- 
seded by  new  ones  with  more  limited  powers,  called  the  Commissioners  of  Prop- 
erty. Holme,  however,  continued  to  conduct  purchases  of  land.  A  deed  was 
made  July  30,  1685,  from  the  chiefs  Shakhoppoh,  Secane,  Malibor  and  Tangoras 
to  William  Penn  for  lands  bounded  on  the  east  by  two  lines  both  beginning  at 
Conshohocken  Hill,  one  running  to  Chester  creek  and  the  other  to  Penepack  creek, 
then  up  each  creek  to  its  source  and  then  back  from  both  points  two  days'  journey 
into  the  interior.  This  deed  was,  in  its  own  words,  "sealed  and  delivered  to  Thomas 
Holme,  President  of  the  Council,"  an  office  he  held  temporarily.    At  a  meeting  of 


342  HOLME 

tl'e  Council,  7th  mo.  22,  1685,  information  having  been  given  that  body  by  Captain 
Cock,  of  the  Indians'  willingness  to  sell  all  their  right  to  the  land  between  Upland 
and  "Apoaquinamy"'  ( Appoquinimink,  in  the  lower  part  of  New  Castle  county)  as 
far  back  as  they  had  any  claim,  and  that  they  proposed  meeting  at  Widow  Scallop's 
on  the  29th  instant  to  treat  about  the  same,  the  Council  ordered  Captain  Thomas 
Holme,  John  Symcock  and  the  Secretary  (William  Markham)  or  any  two  of  them 
to  be  at  this  place,  with  full  power  to  treat  and  complete  the  purchase.  A  deed 
dated  8th  mo.  2.  1685,  from  a  number  of  Indian  sachems  for  land  between  Duck 
Creek  and  Chester  Creek,  was  sealed  and  delivered  to  Captain  Thomas  Holme, 
Surveyor-General.  A  pamphlet  called  "A  letter  from  Dr.  More,  with  Passages 
out  of  several  Letters  from  Persons  of  Good  Credit,  Relating  to  the  State  and  Im- 
provement of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  Published  to  prevent  false  Reports. 
Printed  in  the  Year  1687,"  contains  an  extract  of  a  letter  of  October,  1686,  from 
Thomas  Holme,  in  which  he  says :  "We  have  made  three  purchases  of  the  Indians 
which  added  unto  the  six  former  sales,  they  made  us,  will,  I  believe,  be  Land 
enough  for  Planters  for  this  Age."  He  then  continues  on  the  conduct  of  the 
Indians. 

Thomas  Holme  was  a  member  of  the  first  Assembly  of  the  Province,  which 
began  its  session  at  Upland,  December  4,  1682,  Penn  presiding.  He  was  elected 
to  represent  Philadelphia  county  in  the  Provincial  Council  for  one  term  of  three 
years,  1683-85,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  its  transactions,  serving  on  several 
important  committees.  In  the  ist  mo.  1683  he  was  a  member  of  a  joint  committee 
of  the  Council  and  Assembly  to  draw  up  the  new  Charter,  or  Frame  of  Govern- 
ment, which  was  passed  and  signed  on  2nd  mo.  2nd. 

By  letters  dated  4th  mo.  iith,  1683,  Wilham  Penn  appointed  Christopher  Tay- 
lor, James  Harrison,  Thomas  Holme,  and  Thomas  Wynne,  Commissioners  in  his 
name,  as  Governor  and  Proprietary  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  to  treat  with 
the  Governor  and  Council  of  West  Jersey  concerning  the  satisfaction  he  demanded 
of  them  in  a  letter  of  the  same  date,  of  which  the  Commissioners  were  bearers, 
for  certain  great  wrongs  and  injustice  done  to  them  and  his  Province  by  some  of 
the  inhabitants  of  their  colony.  In  the  letter  he  complains  that  England  was  filled 
with  rumors  of  wars  between  the  inhabitants  of  Pennsylvania  and  Lord  Balti- 
more's colony,  of  Lord  Baltimore  having  claimed  all  the  land  from  Upland  to  the 
Falls  of  Delaware,  and  of  several  having  been  killed  in  the  conflict ;  that  these 
rumors,  being  much  talked  of  in  London,  discouraged  many  persons  from  purchas- 
ing land  in  Pennsylvania ;  he  says  that  the  starting  of  these  reports  had  been  traced 
to  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  West  Jersey,  and  he  demands  satisfaction.  His 
letter  of  instructions  to  the  Commissioners  bears  the  same  date  and  directs  them 
to  demand  particularly  the  punishment  of  Thomas  Matthews,  as  the  principal 
author  of  the  rumors,  either  by  fine  or  banishment  or  delivery  of  him  to  be  tried 
in  Pennsylvania.  These  Commissioners  also  had  authority  to  settle  with  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  of  West  Jersey  about  the  trade  on  the  river  and  the  islands 
therein.  As  soon  as  the  first  business  was  finished  they  were  to  insist  on  Penn's 
title  to  the  river  and  islands  according  to  his  grant.  The  West  Jersey  authorities 
sent  an  answer  by  Penn's  Commissioners,  dated  Burlington,  4th  mo.  16,  1683,  con- 
taining an  explanation  from  Thomas  Matthews,  and  saying  they  were  willing  to 
be  passive  in  regard  to  the  river  and  islands.  Four  Commissioners  of  theirs 
(Thomas  Budd,  John  Gosnell,  Henry  Stacy  and  Mark  Newby)  also  came  with 


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the  answer.  The  explanation  was  not  acceptable  to  Penn,  as  he  informed  them  in 
another  letter  from  Philadelphia,  4th  mo.  20,  1683,  but  he  appears  to  have  obtained 
no  further  satisfaction  from  them. 

On  4th  mo.  3rd,  1684,  Thomas  Holme,  William  Welch  and  Thomas  Lloyd  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  look  into  the  actions  of  Lord  Baltimore,  and  draw  up  a 
declaration  to  hinder  his  illegal  proceedings  (referring  to  threats  of  his  agents  to 
take  settlers'  lands  from  them  unless  they  acknowledged  Lord  Baltimore  to  be 
their  Proprietor).  Oh  5th  mo.  26,  Thomas  Lloyd,  Thomas  Holme  and  William 
Haigue  were  appointed  to  draw  up  a  charter  for  Philadelphia  to  become  a  bor- 
ough, with  a  Mayor  and  six  Aldermen.  About  the  middle  of  Holme's  term,  Penn 
sent  a  commission  to  the  whole  Council  to  act  in  his  place  as  Governor ;  this  was 
read  at  the  meeting  6th  mo.  18,  1684.  In  the  last  year  of  Holme's  term,  1685, 
Thomas  Lloyd,  President  of  the  Council,  was  absent  a  large  part  of  the  time  and 
Holme  was  elected  to  act  as  President  in  his  place,  which  he  did  at  twenty-seven 
out  of  the  fifty  meetings  held  that  year.  Thomas  Holme  acted  as  President  of 
the  Council  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  year,  ist  mo.  30,  and  those  immediately  fol- 
lowing ist  mo.  31,  2nd  mo.  ist,  3rd,  4th  and  6th;  again  2nd  mo.  25th  and  28th; 
Lloyd  presided  at  the  next  two,  3rd  mo.  nth  and  12th  and  on  the  13th  and  14th 
the  Council  met  as  a  committee  of  the  whole  with  Holme  as  Chairman.  Holme 
was  President  at  the  consecutive  meetings  4th  mo.  nth,  13th,  i8th,  19th;  5th  mo. 
3rd,  4th,  loth,  nth,  28th,  29th,  and  6th  mo.  19th,  Lloyd  being  in  New  York;  he 
returned  and  presided  at  nine  meetings  and  then  again  went  to  New  York,  Holme 
presiding  on  9th  mo.  5th  and  6th.  Holme  was  again  President  at  the  consecutive 
meetings  held  iimo.  9th,  15th,  i6th  and  12th  mo.  ist  and  3rd,  1685-6,  the  last 
being  the  last  meeting  of  the  year,  with  which  Holme's  term  in  the  Council  expired. 

During  his  term  in  the  Council,  Holme  was  attending  to  his  duties  as  Surveyor- 
General,  and  after  its  expiration,  these  duties  kept  increasing  because  of  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  Province.  He  had  deputies  in  each  county,  whose  returns  were 
made  to  him,  and  the  whole  work  of  laying  out  the  settlers'  tracts,  locating  towns, 
highways,  etc.,  was  under  his  direction.  This  made  the  office  of  Surveyor-General 
one  of  the  most  important  in  the  Province.  At  first  the  Council  did  not  under- 
stand whether  Holme's  commission  applied  only  to  the  Province  proper  or  whether 
it  extended  to  the  three  lower  counties  or  territories,  but  on  7th  mo.  10,  1684,  it 
decided  that  the  management  of  the  Surveyor-General's  ofSce  of  New  Ca.'^tle  coun- 
ty should  be  put  into  the  hands  of  Thomas  Holme,  with  Thomas  Pearson  as  his 
deputy.  On  October  14th,  1688,  Penn  issued  a  new  commission  to  Holme  to  be 
Surveyor-General  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  annexed  counties  of 
New  Castle,  Kent  and  Sussex,  and  the  island  and  territories  thereunto  belonging, 
for  life,  his  office  in  Philadelphia  to  be  an  office  of  record.  Both  Penn  and  Holme 
were  in  England  at  this  time. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  6th  mo.  2,  1686,  Thomas  Holme  was  one  of 
those  recommended  for  appointment  as  Provincial  Judges,  but  the  commission 
was  not  issued  to  him.  He  continued  to  be  selected  when  it  was  necessary  to  treat 
with  the  Indians.  At  the  same  meeting,  complaint  being  made  to  the  Council  of 
violence  done  Nicholas  Scull  and  his  family  by  Indians,  forcibly  entering  his  house 
and  carrying  away  his  goods  (further  information  being  given  that  Nicholas  Scull 
had,  contrary  to  the  law,  sold  them  liquor,  "whereby  they  were  much  Disordered, 
to  ye  notorious  Disturbance  of  the  neighboring  Settlements"),  the  Council  ordered 


344  HOLME 

Captain  Thomas  Holme,  assisted  by  Captain  Lace  Cock,  Zachariah  Whitpaine  and 
such  others  as  Captain  Holme  should  approve,  to  inquire  into  the  truth  of  the 
report  and,  if  the  Indians  were  quilty,  to  require  them  to  make  speedy  satisfaction, 
leaving  the  manner  of  treating  the  Indians  to  the  discretion  of  Captain  Holme. 
In  1694  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Property,  which  position 
he  held  until  his  death  in  the  following  year. 

As  already  mentioned,  when  Thomas  Holme  first  arrived  in  Pennsylvania,  he 
and  his  family,  consisting  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  lived  at  Shackamaxon. 
After  the  city  was  laid  out  in  1682,  he  built  a  house  on  his  lot  at  the  northwest 
corner  of  Front  and  Mulberry  (now  Arch)  streets  and  lived  there  until  1688. 
Mulberry  street  was  first  called  Holme  street,  for  Thomas  Holme,  but  the  name 
was  changed  to  Mulberry  by  Penn.  On  a  part  of  this  lot  farther  up  Front  street, 
sold  by  Holme  to  the  trustees  appointed  by  the  Friends'  Meeting,  the  Bank  Meet- 
ing House  was  built  in  1685.  Thomas  Holme  was  one  of  those  appointed  by  the 
meeting,  nth  mo.  9,  1683-4,  to  select  the  site  for  the  meetinghouse,  the  others 
being  John  Songhurst,  Thomas  Wynne,  and  Griffith  Owen.  This  was  a  fine  situa- 
tion tor  a  residence;  the  lot  was  a  wide  one,  and  as  there  were  no  buildings  be- 
tween Holme's  house  and  the  meetinghouse,  nor  on  the  east  side,  of  Front  street, 
It  commanded  an  uninterrupted  view  of  the  river.  In  1688,  Thomas  Holme  went 
to  England.  He  must  have  gone  over  in  September,  for  on  the  fourth  of  that 
month  he  signed  a  deed  in  Philadelphia,  while  his  new  commission  as  Surveyor- 
General,  dated  October  14,  1688,  speaks  of  him  as  being  then  abroad.  For  a  short 
time  before  he  left  he  was  living  on  his  plantation  of  Well-Spring,  in  Dublin 
township,  Philadelphia  county;  and  on  his  return,  probably  about  the  end  of  1689, 
he  again  resided  there.  About  October,  1690,  he  again  went  to  England.  Before 
leaving  he  gave  letters  of  attorney  to  his  son-in-law,  Silas  Crispin,  and  three 
others,  and  in  several  deeds  made  by  them  in  1691,  he  is  spoken  of  as  being  in 
London.  This  time  he  stayed  until  1694,  and  when  he  came  back,  went  to  live 
at  Well-Spring,  continuing  there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  March  or 
April,  1695. 

In  his  will,  dated  12th  mo.  10,  1694  (o.  s.),  he  styles  himself  "of  Dublin  town- 
ship in  Philadelphia  County,  aged  full  seventie  years."  It  was  admitted  to  pro- 
bate, April  8,  1695.  To  his  daughter  Eleanor  AIoss  he  gave  power  to  dispose,  at 
her  decease,  of  "the  one  moiety  of  the  £150  in  the  hands  of  Patrick  Robinson,"  in 
compensation  for  her  resignation  to  him  of  all  her  right  in  Well-Spring  Plantation, 
provided  that  she  gave  the  said  moiety  to  one  of  her  sister  Hester  Crispin's  chil- 
dren. To  the  children  of  Richard  Holcombe,  by  his  daughter  Sarah,  thirty  pounds, 
to  be  paid  out  of  his  one  thousand  acres  beyond  Hilltown,  Philadelphia  county, 
when  sold.  To  his  niece,  Susannah  James,  ten  pounds  for  herself  and  children. 
To  his  granddaughter,  Sarah  Crispin,  five  hundred  acres  called  Pyne-Spring 
Plantation,  in  the  upper  Dublin  township  (not  the  present  Upper  Dublin),  Phila- 
delphia county,  to  be  enjoyed  and  possessed  by  her  after  the  death  of  her  parents, 
Silas  and  I  tester  Crispin.  To  his  granddaughters,  Rebecca  and  Marie  Crispin,  one 
thousand  acres  "joining  on  this  side  of  Hilltown,"  to  be  divided  between  them,  his 
e.xecutor  having  power  to  convert  it  into  money  if  he  thought  best.  To  his  grand- 
sons, William  and  Thomas  Crispin,  when  of  age,  fifty  pounds  apiece:  and  to  his 
granddaughters,  Eleanor  and  Esther  Crispin,  twenty  pounds  each,  when  of  age 
or  at  marriage.    He  left  ten  pounds  "for  some  charitable  purpose  in  Dublin  town- 


HOLME  345 

ship"  either  a  school  or  other  purpose.  From  this  bequest  originated  the  Lower 
Dublin  Academy,  one  of  the  noted  institutions  of  the  neighborhood  (and  which 
suggested  the  name  for  the  village  of  Collegeville  near  by),  and  later  the  Thomas 
Holme  Free  Library  of  Holmesburg,  also. 

Before  his  death  Captain  Holme  laid  out  one  acre  on  his  plantation  in  Dublin 
township  as  a  burying-ground  for  himself  and  his  descendants  forever  and  he  was 
buried  in  it.  The  land  surrounding  this  lot  was  inherited  by  the  children  of 
Holme's  daughter,  Esther  Crispin,  who  in  1723  divided  the  estate,  reserving  the 
one  acre  for  the  use  of  all.  It  thus  became  known  in  the  locality  as  the  "Crispin 
Burying  Ground."  In  1831  the  heirs  to  this  one  acre  were  very  numerous  and 
widely  scattered,  so  on  January  22  of  that  year  a  number  of  them  met  at  the  house 
of  Benjamin  Crispin  (whose  land  was  part  of  the  original  Holme  Plantation)  and 
formed  the  "Crispin  Burial  Ground  Community,"  to  look  after  the  same.  In  1840 
a  bill  was  introduced  by  the  same  Benjamin  Crispin,  a  member  of  the  State  Legis- 
lature, and  passed  by  that  body  granting  a  charter  to  Benjamin  Crispin,  Paul  Cris- 
pin, Robert  C.  Green,  Thomas  Creighton  and  James  A.  Creighton  and  their  suc- 
cessors, under  the  title  of  the  Crispin  Cemetery  Corporation,  to  take  charge  of  the 
property.  Their  successors  still  hold  this  ground  in  trust  for  the  descendants  of 
Thomas  Holme.  In  1883  the  trustees  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy  erected  a 
small  monument  here  over  the  grave  of  Captain  Holme. 

Thomas  Holme  married  before  he  came  to  Pennsylvania,  but  his  wife's  name 
is  not  known.  She  probably  died  before  1682,  as  she  did  not  accompany  her  hus- 
band to  Pennsylvania.    They  had  issue : 

Sarah  Holme,  m.  Richard  Holcombe  and  remained  in  England; 

Tryall  Holme,  came  to  Pa.;  had  Pyne-Spring  Plantation  on  his  father's  map;  witness  to 

several  important  Indian  deeds;  d.  s.  p.  before  his  father; 
Michael  Holme,  came  to  Pa.;  d.  s.  p.  before  his  father; 

Eleanor  Holme,  came  to  Pa.  with  her  father.  On  Holme's  map  her  name  is  on  part  of 
Well-Spring  southwest  of  the  Pennepack;  by  agreement  made  Jan.  14,  1694-5,  she  sur- 
renucretl  to  her  father  all  right  in  that  plantation,  he  putting  one  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  at  interest  for  her,  in  hands  of  Patrick  Robinson;  he  mentions  this  sum  in  his 
will.  Eleanor  m.  (first)  Joseph  Moss,  by  whom  she  had  no  issue.  By  his  will,  dated 
7th  mo.  23,  1687,  Joseph  Moss,  "now  of  Weil-Spring,"  left  all  estate  and  anything  that 
tnight  be  due  him  from  anyone  in  Europe  or  America  to  wife  Eleanor,  whom  he  named 
his  executrix;  witnesses  were  Michael  Holme  and  Thomas  Holme.  She  m.  (second) 
Joseph  Smallwood,  had  one  dau.  Sarah.  They  had  dispute  with  Silas  Crispin  as  to 
division  of  Thomas  Holme's  estate;  after  arbitration,  Crispin  had  one  thousand  acres 
of  Holme's  unsurveyed  lands  laid  off  near  Germantown,  and  conveyed  it  to  them;  they 
sold  it  to  John  Cadwalader,  of  Phila. 

Sarah,  only  child  of  Joseph  and  Eleanor  Smallwood,  m.  (first)  John  Thomas,  of 

Phila.  CO.,  at  Christ  Church,  Phila.,  Feb.  8,  1720;  she  m.  (second)  Win- 

throp  Westcomb,  and  went  to  Baltimore  co.,  Md.,  where  he  probably  lived  previ- 
ously; after  his  death  she  lived  in  Passyunk  township,  Phila.  co.,  probably  with 
her  cousin,   Sarah   Hannis   (granddaughter  of   Esther   Crispin).     While   living 
there,   on  Jan.    14,    1745-6,   she  executed   release,  as   only  child  and   heiress  of 
Eleanor  (Holme)   Smallwood,  to  heirs  of  her  aunt  Esther  (Holme)   Crispin  of 
all  her  right  to  any  part  of  Thomas  Holme's  estate  undevised  by  his  will,  espe- 
cially Well-Spring  Plantation.    She  is  not  known  to  have  had  children  by  either 
husband. 
Esther  Holme  (usually  written  Hester),  came  to  Pa.  with  her  father;  m.  1683,  Silas,  son 
of  Captain  Wm.  Crispin,  formerly  of  English  navy,  and  one  of  Proprietary's  Com- 
missioners for  settling  colony  in  Pa. 

For  some  account  of  Thomas  Holme's  extensive  land  holdings  (11,000 
acres)    see    article    on    him    in    Pennsylvania    Magazine    of    History    and    Bio- 


346  HOLME 

graphy  (vol.  xx.,  pp.  248-256).  His  principal  city  lot  was  the  one  his  residence 
stood  on  at  the  corner  of  Front  and  Mulberry  streets.  It  ran  from  Front  four 
hundred  and  twenty-six  feet  along  Mulberry  to  Second  street,  and  one  hundred 
and  two  feet  on  Front  and  Second.  This  lot  carried  with  it  a  wharf  property  on 
the  east  side  of  Front  street. 

The  town  of  Holmesburg,  now  absorbed  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  the  site  of 
which  was  covered  by  Thomas  Holme's  Weil-Spring  Plantation,  was  not  named 
for  Thomas  Holme,  whose  descendants  sold  the  property  before  it  was  a  village. 
It  was  first  called  Washingtonville,  and  was  named  Holmesburg  from  John  Holme, 
no  relation  to  Thomas,  who  afterwards  settled  there. 


CRISPIN  FAMILY. 

Captain  William  Crispin,  companion-in-arms  and  brother-in-law  of  Admiral 
Sir  William  Penn,  and  named  by  his  nephew,  William  Penn,  the  great  founder  of 
Pennsylvania,  as  one  of  his  first  Commissioners  of  his  new  Province  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  the  ancestor  of  the  Crispin  family  in  America;  but  little  is  known  of 
his  ancestry  further  than  that  he  belonged  to  an  ancient  and  honorable  family  in 
Great  Britain ;  and  the  part  he  took  in  affairs  abroad  during  the  time  of  England's 
Commonwealth,  and  in  the  events  which  led  to  the  Restoration  of  King  Charles 
II.,  also  make  him  a  person  of  some  mark  among  the  characters  of  that  period. 

An  account  of  the  Crispin  family,  written  in  1792  by  William  Crispin,  of  Phila- 
delphia (Commissary-General  in  the  American  army  during  the  Revolution),  a 
great-grandson  of  Captain  William  Crispin,  says  that  the  latter  was  one  of  Crom- 
well's train  band,  and  afterwards  captain  of  his  guard,  but  that,  finding  that  Crom- 
well deviated  from  his  promises,  he  left  him  and  went  to  sea  with  Admiral  Penn. 
As  this  account  has  been  found  unreliable  in  several  points  which  were  not  within 
the  personal  knowledge  of  the  writer,  we  may  presume  it  to  be  faulty  in  this  partic- 
ular also,  for  we  have  evidence  that  William  Crispin  had  been  following  the  sea 
for  many  years  before  he  became  an  officer  in  the  Commonwealth's  navy.  The 
same  account  states  that  he  was  descended  from  one  of  the  two  lords  de  Crispin  who 
came  to  England  with  William  the  Conqueror ;  but  though  this  is  possible,  as  the 
name  is  uncommon,  and  evidently  of  Norman  origin,  the  line  of  descent  has  never 
been  traced,  for  even  the  names  of  William  Crispin's  parents  were  unknown  to 
his  great-grandson,  and  remain  so  to  later  generations.  There  were  several  fam- 
ilies of  the  name  among  the  landed  gentry  of  some  of  the  lower  counties  of  Eng- 
land in  his  day,  and  he  may  have  belonged  to  one  of  them,  for  he  lived  in  a  time 
when  a  great  many  masters  of  merchant-ships  were  men  of  good  birth  but  small 
fortune,  seeking  a  life  of  adventure  combined  with  profit,  which  was  always  to  be 
found  at  sea,  but  could  not  be  had  on  land  except  in  time  of  war. 

In  the  Gentleman's  Magadne,  London,  1832,  Part  I.,  pp.  26-30,  appears  the 
following : 

"TENANTS  IN  CHIEF  OF  DOMESDAY  BOOK." 
"Amongst  the  Domesday  tenants  in  capite,  will  be  found  the  following :     "Goisfridus  de 
Bech,  Goisfridus  Marescal,  Milo  Crispin,   Turstinus   Filius   Rolf;  and   I   shall  be  enabled, 
through  the  aid  of  the  documents  and  pedigree  of  a  foreign  family,  to  communicate  some 
particulars  regarding  them  which  are  unknown  to  the  English  antiquary. 

"The  document  affording  the  greater  part  of  the  ensuing  information,  is  a  genealogy  of 
the  Italian  family  of  Grimaldi,  sovereign  princes  of  a  small  principality  named  Monaco, 
situated  at  the  confines  of  France  and  Genoa.  The  manuscript  was  compiled  in  1430  by 
Nicholas  Grimaldi,  Seigneur  of  Seminare  in  Naples,  a  nobleman  very  well  skilled  in  historical 
matters.  In  1647  the  then  reigning  Prince  of  Monaco  published  it  in  a  small  folio,  having 
employed  his  secretary,  Venasques,  for  twenty  years  in  collecting  further  proofs,  and  in 
making  additions  to  it. 

"The  family  pedigree  is  set  out  in  too  many  English  as  well  as  foreign  histories  to  require 
minute  notice  here.  It  appears  by  Anderson's  Royal  Genealogies,  that  the  sixth  in  descent 
from  Pharamond,  King  of  the  Franks,  was  named  Grimoald  or  Grimbald;  which  Skynner, 
the  etymologist,  derives  from  Grim,  anger;  and  Bald,  power.  He  was  Duke  of  Brabant,  and 
slain  in  658.  His  son,  the  King  of  Mentz.  died  without  issue,  when  the  name  was  used  by 
the  Duke's  great-nephew,  a  brother  of  the  renowned  Charles  Martel.  The  second  of  the 
name  was  Duke  of  Brabant  and  slain  in  714,  and  from  his  time  the  surname  was  hereditary. 
The  fourth  in  descent  from  this  last  named  Duke,  was  the  first  Prince  of  Monaco,  and  one 


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CRISPIN 


of  the  principal  Commanders  of  the  army  of  the  Emperor  Otho  I.,  in  his  wars  with  Louis 
IV.,  of  France;  by  the  strength  of  his  own  arm  he  freed  the  Emperor  from  being  made  cap- 
live,  in  return  for  which,  and  other  services,  Otho  granted  to  him,  in  920,  the  castle  and 
territories  of  Monaco,  to  hold  in  sovereignty;  and  from  this  ancestor  has  this  principality- 
descended  in  lineal  succession,  unto  the  present  day;  for,  though  revolutionized  in  1792,  and 
sold  by  the  French  republic  to  a  citizen  of  Paris,  yet  it  was,  by  the  definite  treaty  of  peace 
of  1814,  restored  to  the  Grimaldi  family.  The  descent  was  in  1715  continued  by  a  female  of 
the  family,  who  became  sovereign  Princess,  and  transmitted  the  title,  and  name  and  arms, 
to  her  children,  by  her  husband  James  Leoner  Goyon  De  Matignon,  but  foreign  jurists  have 
considered  the  principality  as  a  male  fief,  and  that  it  belongs  to  the  nearest  male  heirs,  who 
are,  perhaps,  the  Marquisses  Grimaldi,  of  Genoa." 

The  following  genealogical  table  of  the  persons  noticed  in  this  communication, 
will  assist  in  clearly  comprehending  the  detail : 


Grimaldus  I., 

Prince  of   Monaco, 

flourished,  920. 

I. 


Crispina, 
daughter   of    Rollo, 
Duke    of    Normandy. 


GuiDO.  GlBALLINUS,  HELOISE,  - 

Prince   of   Monaco,  a    celebrated    warrior  dau.  of  the 

ancestor  of  the  Prince  in  the  wars  against  Count  of  Guynes  and 
now   living,   1831.               the  Saracens.  Boulogne. 


I 

Crispinus, 

Baron   of    Bee, 

fl.   1000. 

II. 


Herluin, 

Abbot  of  Bee, 

born  994,  died  1078. 

III. 


Gilbert  Crispin,     ^ 
Baron  of  Bee, 
Constable    of    Nor- 
mandy,   and    Marshal 
of   the  Army,   Flour- 
ished in  1041. 
IV, 


I 
Odo, 
V. 


I 
Roger, 
VI. 


RoLLO,   or    Rauf, 


William  Crispin, 

Baron    of    Bee, 

Fought  at   Battle  of 

Hastings. 

VIII. 


Gilbert  Crispin, 

Lord  of  Thillieres, 

Fought   at   the   battle 

of  Hastings. 

IX. 


MiLO  Crispin, 

a  Domesday  Tenant 

in  Capite. 

s.   p. 

X. 


I 
Godsfrid'  de  Bee, 
otherwise,  Goisfrid' 
Mareshal'.    A  Domes- 
day Tenant  in  Capite. 
XL 


Turstin, 

a 

Domesday  Tenant  in 

Capite. 

XII. 


"II.  Crispinus,  surnamed  Ansgothus.  on  account  of  his  maternal  descent  from  the  Goths, 
settled  in  Normandy,  his  mother's  country,  where  he  became  possessed  of  the  Barony  of  Bee, 
in  the  district  of  Caux.  He  married  Heloise,  the  daughter  of  Rodulph,  Count  of  Guynes  and 
Boulogne,  by  Rosella,  daughter  to  the  Count  St.  Paul.  Of  this  marriage  there  was  issue, 
Herluin,  Gilbert,  Odo,  Roger,  and  Ralph  or  Rollo. 

"III.  Herluin  was  the  canonized  founder  of  the  very  celebrated  Abbey  of  Bee  in  Nor- 
mandy, lying  within  the  district  of  the  Barony  of  Bee.  He  died  in  1078,  aged  84  years. 
Grants  of  land,  and  possessions  to  this  .^bbey,  from  our  Norman  sovereigns,  and  their  Nor- 
man followers,  are  frequently  met  with,  especially  from  the  Crispin  family. 

'•IV.  Gilbert  Crispin,  Baron  of  Bee,  Governor  and  Lord  of  the  Castle  of  Thillieres,  Con- 
stable of  Normandy,  and  Marshal  of  the  Army  of  the  Duke  of  Normandy  in  1041,  relinquish- 
ed the  surname  of  Grimaldi,  and  assumed  that  of  Crispin  from  his  father,  which  later  he 
transmitted  to  his  posterity.  He  had  issue,  three  sons,  William  Crispin,  Baron  of  Bee ;  Gil- 
bert Crispin,  Lord  of  Thillieres;  and  Milo  Crispin;  all  warriors  at  the  battle  of  Hastings. 
Dugdale,  in  his  Baronage,  deduces  the  descent  of  the  Clare  family  from  a  Gilbert  Crispin, 
Earl  of  Brion  in  Normandy;  whose  son,  Richard  Fitz-Gilbert,  accompanied  the  Conqueror. 
This  Gilbert  Crispin  is  stated  to  have  been  the  son  of  Geoffrey  (Godfrey),  the  natural  son 
of  Richard,  Duke  of  Normandy. 

"V.  &  VI.  Odo  and  Roger.  No  particulars  are  known  to  me  of  these  brothers,  excepting 
that  in  a  charter  of  Herluin,  after  describing  himself  as  'Herluinus  filius  Ansgoti,'  he  adds, 
"adstantibus  et  laudantibus  fratribus  meis  Odone  et  Rogero.' 


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"VII.  Rollo  or  Rauf ;  he  was  the  father  of  Goisfrid  de  Bee,  otherwise  Goisfrid  the  Mar- 
shal, and  of  Turstin;  called  in  Domesday  Book  'filius  Rolf.' 

■'VIII.  William  Crispin,  Baron  of  Bee,  was  a  celebrated  hero  in  the  batttle  of  Morti- 
mer, in  the  year  1059.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Simon,  Earl  of  Montfort,  and  was  a  wit- 
ness to  William  the  Conqueror's  foundation  charter  of  the  Abbey  of  Saint  Stephen  of  Caen, 
m  Normandy.  He  acquired  great  glory  for  his  valour  in  the  battle  of  Hastings,  and  it  is 
concluded  survived  that  victory,  as  his  name  is  in  one  of  the  copies  of  the  Battle  Abbey  Roll; 
but  it  is  difficult  to  account  for  his  not  appearing  amongst  the  great  tenants  of  the  Conqueror 
ill  Domesday  Book,  as  his  younger  brother,  Milo,  had  very  numerous  possessions  granted  to 
him.  He  had  issue,  William  Crispin,  Baron  of  Bee,  from  whom  was  a  long  successions  of 
Barons  of  the  same  title,  residing  in  Normandy,  and  having  great  hereditary  offices  in  that 
Duchy,  under  the  Dukes.  Some  of  his  descendants  also  appear  in  our  English  records  as 
holding  lands  in  England  under  the  Plantagenet  Dynasty. 

"Dugdale,  in  his  Baronage,  whilst  writing  of  Milo  Crispin,  adds,  'of  this  family  I  pre- 
sume was  William  Crispin,  one  of  the  Conqueror's  chief  commanders  in  the  war  against 
Henry,  King  of  France.'  Some  further  particulars  of  his  life  are  given  by  Dugdale,  which  I 
refer  to  rather  than  transcribe,  on  account  of  space;  but  it  is  evident  that,  as  neither  Dugdale 
nor  any  other  historian  mentions  William  Crispin's  parentage,  it  was  unknown ;  this  conclud- 
ing paragraph  in  the  Baronage  greatly  corroborates  the  foreign  genealogy. 

"  'AH  that  I  shall  say  further  of  him  is,  that  he  (William  Crispin),  gave  to  the  Abbey  of 
Bee,  in  Normandy,  the  Church  of  Droecourt,  with  the  lands  and  tithes  thereto  belonging,  as 
also  (to)  the  Lordship  of  Tilla  in  the  diocese  of  Lisieux.' 

"It  is  evident  that  the  Abbey  of  Bee  was  thus  endowed,  because  it  was  founded  by  Will- 
iam Crispin's  uncle,  Herluin;  and  it  appears  by  the  pedigree  that  the  Lordship  of  Tilla 
(Thillieres)  in  Normandy,  was  amongst  the  possessions  of  Gilbert  Crispin,  his  father. 

"IX.  Gilbert  Crispin,  the  second  son  of  Gilbert  Crispin,  Baron  of  Bee,  was  Seigneur  of 
the  Norman  fief  of  Thillieres,  and  one  of  the  warriors  at  the  battle  of  Hastings,  but  not  a 
Tenant  in  Capite  of  the  Conqueror,  or  (as  far  as  these  researches  have  extended)  a  grantee 
of  lands  as  subtenant,  but  he  is  mentioned  in  the  'Chronicle  of  Normandy'  as  'Le  Seigneur 
de  Tilleres,'  together  with  his  brother  'Guillaume  Crespin,'  amongst  the  companions  of  Will- 
iam the  Conqueror,  in  1066. 

"The  circumstances  of  thus  describing  Gilbert  Crispin  by  his  Lordship  of  Tilleres,  affords 
evidence  of  the  difficulty,  if  not  impossibility,  of  identifying  many  of  the  Norman  tenants, 
and  their  families  at  this  period,  since,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Seigneur  de  Tilleres,  probably  no 
document,  excepting  a  private  pedigree  or  charter,  exists  to  show  the  family  which  held  such 
estate  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest.  Indeed,  nothing  can  be  more  fatal  to  correct  genealogy 
than  the  foreign  practice  of  naming  individuals  solely  by  fief  or  seigneuries,  which  were  con- 
stantly changing  owners ;  and  the  preceding  proprietors  of  which,  frequently  continued  the 
use  of  the  title  of  the  Lordship,  after  it  had  been  transferred  to  some  new  purchaser,  so  that 
various  persons  existed  at  the  same  period,  using  the  same  designation.  No  industry  can, 
under  such  circumstances,  prevent  the  biography  of  one  party  being  occasionally  confused 
with  that  of  another. 

"Of  the  Battle  Abbey  Roll,  a  minute  investigation  respecting  this  family  proves  Camden's 
assertion  that  'whosoever  considereth  it  well  shall  find  it  forged ;'  for  only  one  out  of  the 
five  Knights  of  this  house  who  accompanied  the  Conqueror,  is  therein  named,  although  three 
of  them  were  Tenants  in  Chief  in  Domesday;  and  the  individual  who  was  planted  by  the 
Monks  in  the  Roll,  was  one  who  does  not  appear  to  have  been  a  Chief  Tenant  of  the  Con- 
queror, and  therefore  probably  had  a  less  share  of  danger  or  honour  on  the  eventful  day  of 
the  battle  of  Hastings,  than  either  of  his  bi others  or  cousins,  who  had  lands  granted  to  them 
by  the  King. 

"X.  Of  Milo  Crispin,  a  great  Captain,  favoured  warrior,  and  Tenant  in  Capite  of  the 
Norman,  I  have  no  material  particulars  in  addition  to  the  biography  in  Dugdale's  Baronage 
(title  Crispin),  and  in  Dr.  Lipscomb's  History  of  Buckinghamshire;  excepting  the  important 
fact  of  his  descent,  already  set  forth,  and  to  a  knowledge  of  which  neither  of  these  historians 
could  have  any  reasonable  means  of  attaining.  The  circumstance  of  Milo  being  son  to  the 
Baron  of  Bee,  who  was  the  brother  of  the  founder  of  the  renowned  Abbey  of  that  name, 
readily  accounts  for  the  large  grants  which  are  mentioned  by  Dugdale  and  Dr.  Lipscomb  to 
have  been  made  by  him  and  his  widow  to  that  religious  house. 

"Milo's  possessions  are  enumerated  in  Domesday,  and  comprised  the  honour  of  Walling- 
ford  and  88  Lordships.  He  died  without  issue  in  1106,  forty  years  after  the  battle  of  Hast- 
ings. There  are  other  instances  in  Dugdale,  showing  great  longevity  in  these  Norman  war- 
riors. 

"XI.  Goisfrid'  de  Bee,  otherwise  Goisfrid  the  Marshall.  This  warrior  fought  at 
Hastings,  and  is  named  in  Domesday  under  both  titles,  appearing  consequently  as  two  dis- 
tinct Tenants  in  Capite.  There  were  no  means  by  which  the  editors  of  the  printed  volumes 
of  that  survey  could  have  known  the  fact  of  such  two  names  applying  to  one  person :  and,  as 
Dugdale  was  ignorant  that  the  Crespin  family  were  the  same  as  the  baronial  family  of  Bee, 
he  makes  no  mention  of  Goisfrid,  under  his  account  of  the  Crispins.  (There  was  a  Flemish 
family  of  the  name  of  Bee,  eminent  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  holding  Evesby  and  other 
manors;  they  were  not  related  to  the  Barons  of  Bee,  of  Bee  in  Normandy).  The  varied 
appellation  given  to  Goisfrid  in  Domesday,  has  many  similar  examples,  and  is  easily  account- 


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ed  for;  that  survey  was  made  by  inquisitions  held  in  the  various  counties  where  the  lands 
were  situated,  and  since  Goisfrid  de  Bee  was  the  Conqueror's  Marshal,  there  would  be  noth- 
ing extraordinary  in  his  being  designated  as  Goisfrid  the  Marescal  in  Hampshire,  whilst  in 
Herefordshire  he  was  called  Goisfrid  de  Bee. 

"Goisfrid  was  brother  of  Turstin  de  Bee,  and  son  of  Rollo  or  Ralf,  the  brother  of  Gil- 
bert, Baron  of  Bee,  Constable  of  Normandy,  and  Marshal  of  the  Army  of  the  Dukes  of  Nor- 
mandy in  1041  ;  an  office  which  seems  to  have  been  hereditary  (see  the  Clare  pedigree  in  Dug- 
dale's  Baronage),  like  many  or  all  of  the  Norman  offices  of  honour.  Goisfrid  de  Bee,  I 
therefore  presume,  succeeded  his  uncle  as  Marshal,  and  was  the  person  designated  as  Gois- 
frid the  Marshal,  in  Domesday;  and  I  am  further  led  to  the  conclusion  that  he  possessed 
this  high  post,  since  his  brother  Turstin  was  Standard-bearer  to  the  Conqueror  at  Hastings, 
and  they  were  relations  of  the  Invader. 

_  "Turstinus  Filius  Rolf,  is  thus  mentioned  in  Domesday  as  a  Tenant  in  Capite,  a  descent 
which  is  in  accordance  with  the  ancient  Grimaldi  pedigree,  where  he  is  called  son  of  Rollo  or 
Ralf ;  and  the  agreement  which  is  found  here,  and  in  many  other  instances,  between  the 
English  records,  especially  Domesday,  and  this  ancient  pedigree,  compiled  400  years  ago — a 
time  when  Domesday  was  unknown  to  foreigners,  and  a  reference  to,  or  knowledge  of  our 
records  was  impossible, — is  positive  proof  of  the  correctness  of  the  pedigree  in  such  instances, 
and  presumptive  evidence  of  its  general  accuracy. 

"Turstin  was  (as  well  as  his  first  cousin  William  Crispin)  Baron  of  Bee.  It  was  cus- 
tomary on  the  Continent  for  many  members  of  the  same  family  to  take  the  same  feudal  title 
at  one  time;  in  the  same  way  that  in  England  we  have  often  several  joint  tenants  of  the 
same  manor,  who  are  all  Lords  or  Ladies  of  that  manor.  He  fought  at  the  battle  of  Hast- 
ings, and  held  the  high  office  of  Standard-bearer,  in  which  capacity  he  is  depicted  in  the 
Bayeux  tapestry,  near  the  Conqueror.  In  Dr.  Meyrick's  History  of  Ancient  Armour,  is  an 
account  of  Turstin,  translated  from  Wace's  Metrical  History  of  Normandy,  in  the  Royal 
Library,  stating  that  the  hereditary  Standard-bearer  of  Normandy  having  declined  to  carry 
the  Conqueror's  gonfanon,  William 

"  'Then  called  a  Knight 
Who  had  great  prowess, 
Toustainz  fitz  Rou  the  Fair  was  his  name, 
In  the  fields  near  Bee  was  his  house. 
To  him  he  delivered  the  gonfanon. 
And  he  knew  how  most  suitably 
To  carry  it  willingly,  well  and  handsomely, 
Bowing  most  profoundly.' 

"Thurstan  who  came  in  with  the  Conqueror,  is  stated  in  Dugdale's  usage  of  bearing 
arms,  to  have  been  father  of  Ralph  Basset,  from  whom  the  ennobled  family  of  Basset  was 
descended,  but  the  account  of  this  family  given  in  the  Baronage,  is  at  variance  with  such  a 
statement,  and  the  foreign  pedigree  is  silent  on  this  head. 

"I  shall  conclude  with  a  few  lines  respecting  the  arms  of  this  family.  It  must  be  well 
known  to  your  readers  that  Mr.  Henniker,  in  a  letter  addressed  to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries 
in  1788,  endeavored  to  prove  the  use  of  arms  coeval  with  the  Conquest,  by  means  of  some 
Norman  tiles  with  armorial  blazonings.  He  was  unable  to  assign  an  owner  to  the  tile  No.  13, 
containing  a  shield  Lozengy,  3,  2,  and  i.  It  is  to  me  a  probable  presumption  that  it  belonged 
to  a  member  of  this  family,  who  was  one  of  the  Conqueror's  Chieftains.  The  same  appropria- 
tion may,  I  think,  be  made  of  the  unascertained  shield  in  Westminster  Abbey,  of  the  rei,gn  of 
Henry  III.;  viz..  Argent  and  Gules;  for  the  terms  Lozengy  and  Mascally,  or  mascally  voided, 
are  often  used  in  ancient  rolls  as  synonymous. 

"The  length  to  which  this  memoir  lias  extended,  compels  me  to  defer  to  another  number 
a  notice  of  some  of  this  family  who  have  been  connected  with  English  history,  or  driven  by 
foreign  revolutions  to  preserve  their  name  and  lineage  upon  the  hospitable  soil  of  Britain. 

S.  G." 

William  Crispin  appears  to  have  been  born  about  1610,  though  the  place  and 
exact  date  of  his  birth  are  uncertain.  The  first  mention  of  the  name  found  in 
pubHshed  public  documents  is  in  the  "Calendar  of  State  Papers,"  Domestic  Series ; 
on  March  3,  1634-5,  the  officers  of  customs  at  Kingston-upon-Hull  advised  the  gov- 
ernor and  others  of  the  Company  of  Merchant  Adventurers  that  the  "Adventures," 
William  Crispin,  master,  was  lading  in  their  port  with  woolen  cloths  for  Amster- 
dam, contrary  to  the  late  proclamation,  but  these  documents  throw  no  light  on  any 
further  happenings  in  the  matter. 

(The  "Calendar"  has  an  abstract  of  a  letter,  dated  Holborn.  September  2.  1C35.  from 
John   Crispin  to   Secretary   Edward    Nicholas,   in   which   he  expresses   hope   that   Nicholas's 


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respects  toward  the  late  affair  concerning  Kingston-upon-HuU  will  not  be  forgotten,  and  says 
that  because  of  hurting  his  mare,  and  for  various  causes,  he  could  not  prosecute  the  delin- 
quents, and  entreats  Nicholas  to  be  his  mediator;  but  there  is  nothing  to  show  whether  or  not 
this  letter  has  any  connection  with  the  advice  of  the  customs  officers  of  March  3,  as  the  name 
Crispin  and  place  Kingston-upon-Hull  may  be  only  a  coincidence.) 

For  fourteen  years  after  this  the  name  does  not  occur  in  the  "Calendar,"  and 
then  there  is  a  warrant  from  Colonels  Deane  and  Blake  to  the  Navy  Commission- 
ers, dated  April  3,  1649,  for  William  Crispin,  late  purser  on  the  "Recovery,"  to  be 
entered  on  the  "Truelove."  On  August  6,  1650,  the  Admiralty  Commissioners 
wrote  to  Colonel  Deane  that  six  new  frigates  were  to  be  supplied  with  officers,  and 
sent  the  petition  and  certificates  of  William  Crispin  for  a  purser's  place  in  one  of 
them ;  they  instructed  Deane,  that  if  he  found  the  papers  correct,  to  return  Crispin 
as  fit  to  be  employed,  but  to  remember  that  they  thought  Thomas  Phillips  should 
be  purser  of  the  first  of  the  frigates.  (It  is  not  entirely  certain  that  this  William 
Crispin,  the  purser,  was  the  same  as  the  captain  of  the  "Adventure  ;"  having  already 
been  master  of  a  merchant-ship,  he  should  have  been  able  to  obtain  a  higher  office 
in  the  navy,  especially  if  there  is  any  truth  in  the  story  that  he  had  been  in  the 
army.  But  his  circumstances  at  the  tiine,  of  which  we  are  ignorant,  might  have 
induced  him  to  accept  the  post  of  purser). 

In  1652  William  Crispin  commanded  the  "Hope"  in  the  service  of  the  Common- 
wealth. At  that  time  there  were  very  few  regular  naval  officers  or  regular  naval 
vessels ;  when  occasion  arose  to  form  a  naval  force,  merchant-ships  were  impressed 
and  equipped  as  men-of-war;  army  officers  were  generally  assigned  to  them  as 
admirals,  captains  and  lieutenants  in  command  of  the  soldiers  who  fought  the 
ships,  the  navigation  and  command  of  the  crew  being  in  command  of  the  master. 
On  the  other  hand,  it  sometimes  happened  that,  as  many  of  these  merchant-ships 
were  already  well  armed  and  had  a  master  and  crew  capable  of  fighting  as  well  as 
handling  the  ship,  the  master  was  made  captain,  retaining  full  command  of  both 
fighting  and  navigation.  William  Crispin's  captaincy  was  one  of  this  latter  kind. 
The  "Calendar"  has  one  letter  written  by  William  Crispin  while  in  command  of 
the  "Hope"  to  J.  Turner,  November  19,  1652,  saying  that  he  mustered  Captain 
Lawson's  men  on  the  "Fairfax,"  and  found  more  landsmen  and  boys  than  upon 
any  of  the  state's  ships  for  the  last  ten  years;  that  he  discharged  eighteen  and 
signed  their  tickets,  and  sent  down  one  hundred  and  eighty  men  to  the  "Fairfax" 
in  the  "Hope,"  but  when  they  arrived  and  saw  the  landsmen,  one  hundred  would 
not  go,  but  went  to  other  ships.  This  letter  shows  that  Crispin  and  the  other  naval 
officers  were  preparing  for  the  more  important  events  of  the  following  year ;  it 
also  implies  that  Crispin  had  been  in  the  service  of  the  state  for  at  least  ten  years 
before  this  date. 

In  May,  1653,  an  expedition  was  sent  against  the  Dutch,  under  Col.  Richard 
Deane  and  Col.  George  Monk,  generals  and  admirals  of  the  Parliament.  The  fleet 
in  this  expedition  consisted  of  three  squadrons,  the  first,  or  squadron  of  the  red 
f^ag,  contained  thirty-eight  ships,  under  the  direct  command  of  Deane  and  Monk ; 
the  second,  or  white,  thirty-three  ships,  under  Vice-Adm.  William  Penn ;  and  the 
third,  or  blue  squadron,  thirty-four  ships,  under  Rear-Adm.  John  Lawson.  Capt. 
Crispin  commanded  the  "Assistance,"  frigate,  one  hundred  and  eighty  men  and 
forty  guns,  in  Penn's  squadron.  This  fleet  on  the  2d  and  3d  of  June,  1653,  took 
or  destroyed  between  twenty  and  thirty  Dutch  ships-of-war,  took  thirteen  hundred 
and  fifty  prisoners,  and  pursued  the  Dutch  to  their  own  harbors. 


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After  this  engagement  the  "Assistance"  spent  the  remainder  of  the  year  cruising, 
conveying  merchantmen,  and  preying  on  the  Dutch  commerce,  as  evidenced  by  the 
following  abstracts  of  letters  in  the  Calendar: 

"Aug.  gth,  1653,  William  Crispin  'Assistance'  between  the  shore  and  the  'Whittaker'  to 
Ihe  Navy  Commissioners.  Being  ordered  by  the  General  to  bring  his  ship  to  Deptford  for 
repairs,  he  asks  orders  for  masts  and  other  stores. 

"Sep.  2,  1653,  Captain  William  Crispin,  'Assistance,'  Hole  Haven  to  Admiralty  Commis- 
sioners. Has  received  the  remainder  of  his  victuals  and  stores,  and  will  sail  to-night  for  the 
Downs;  the  'Sapphire'  and  'Hector'  sail  to-morrow. 

"Oct.  S,  1653,  Capt.  William  Crispin,  'Assistance,'  off  Plymouth,  to  Admiralty  Commission- 
ers. Sailed  from  Isle  of  Wight  with  the  'Hector,'  'Nightingale'  and  sixty-five  merchant  vessels, 
and  meeting  the  'Pearl,'  sent  her  with  orders  to  Captain  Sparling  (of  the  "President")  and 
the  captain  of  the  'Hopewell,'  pink,  to  join  him,  but  they  declined,  being  bound  for  Guernsey 
and  Jersey  with  some  money,  then  to  carry  defective  guns  to  Portsmouth  or  the  Thames,  and 
then  for  St.  Male.  Parted  with  the  fleet  off  Ushant,  and  took  a  ship  of  Middleburg,  with 
hoops  from  Newhaven  bound  to  Nantes,  and  the  'Nightingale'  took  her  consort;  a  pink  be- 
longing to  Delft  has  come  in  with  the  prizes  and  to  get  a  supply  of  men  and  provisions,  when 
he  will  put  to  sea  again. 

"Oct.  12,  1653,  Captain  John  Humphrey,  'Nightingale,'  to  Admiralty  Commissioners. 
Has  been  cruising  at  sea  with  Captain  Crispin  of  the  'Assistance.'  Took  a  prize  from 
Rotterdam,  and  had  a  dispute  with  some  men-of-war  from  Brest  for  two  hours,  but  as  there 
were  fourteen  or  fifteen  of  them,  sailed  towards  Falmouth  for  assistance;  intends  to  follow 
them,  and  then  go  for  Ireland. 

"Oct.  22,  1653,  Captain  William  Crispin,  'Assistance,'  Falmouth,  to  Robert  Blackbome. 
Victualled  and  tallowed  his  ships  for  five  months,  and  has  been  plying  eastward  by  order  of 
the  Generals.  Put  into  Falmouth  and  received  some  more  men;  hearing  there  are  some 
Dutch  men-of-war  about  the  Land's  End,  intends  plying  that  way.  Of  the  forty  men  pressed 
by  Capt.  Mills,  all  but  four  are  landsmen,  and  taken  from  their  callings  in  the  field,  to  the 
prejudice  of  the  country.  He  suffers  the  seamen  to  be  cleared  on  feeing  the  constables.  Has 
sent  Captains  Humphreys  and  Sparling  their  instructions  for  sailing  to  Ireland." 

The  next  year  Oliver  Cromwell,  who  was  then  Protector,  decided  to  send  an 
expedition  against  the  Spanish  possessions  in  the  West  Indies,  which  was  dispatch- 
ed secretly  because  England  was  at  peace  with  Spain.  A  fleet  of  thirty-eight  ships 
was  sent  out  under  Admiral  Penn,  with  Gen.  Venables  in  command  of  the  soldiers. 
The  fleet  was  divided  into  three  squadrons,  one  directly  under  Penn,  one  under 
Vice-Admiral  Goodson,  and  one  under  Rear-Admiral  Dakins.  Capt.  William 
Crispin  commanded  the  "Laurel,"'  one  hundred  and  sixty  seamen,  thirty  soldiers 
and  forty  guns,  which  belonged  to  Penn's  squadron.  On  Wednesday,  December 
20,  1654,  fifteen  ships,  some  from  each  squadron,  under  Rear-Adm.  Dakins,  sailed 
from  Spithead.  The  "Laurel"  probably  was  one  of  these,  for  the  "Calendar"  has 
a  letter  from  Capt.  Crispin,  dated  on  the  "Laurel,"  oiT  the  Lizard,  December  26, 
1654,  to  the  Admiralty  Commissioners,  saying  that  he  was  ordered  by  Rear-Adm. 
Dakins  to  lie  out,  so  as  to  speak  with  any  ship  homeward  bound,  and  informing 
them  that  the  major-general  and  all  the  remainder  on  board  the  squadron  were 
well  and  only  wanted  the  "Indian"  which  was  not  yet  joined.  The  remainder  of 
the  fleet  sailed  on  the  26th.  The  expedition  arrived  in  sight  of  Barbadoes,  Janu- 
ary 29,  1654-5,  and  having  put  in  there,  made  their  plans  and  preparations ;  the 
leaders  decided  to  first  attack  Hispaniola,  and  the  fleet  sailed  from  Barbadoes, 
March  31,  1655;  they  sighted  the  port  of  St.  Domingo,  April  13,  and  landed  the 
soldiers  the  same  day.  Capt.  Crispin  sailed  along  the  shore  to  make  observations. 
The  journal  of  the  expedition,  April  24,  says,  "Letters  at  eleven  o'clock  at  night, 
came  from  General  Venables  and  the  rear-admiral  (on  shore,  the  latter  in  com- 
mand of  a  party  of  sailors  on  land  service).  The  general  intimated  that  the  army 
was  just  on  the  point  to  march,  and  that  they  intended  that  evening,  or  next  morn- 
ing betimes,  to  be  at  the  landing  place  discovered  by  Captain  Crispin,  to  the  north- 


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ward  of  the  Fort  Jeronimo,  in  a  little  sandy  bay."  Some  days  of  fighting  resulted 
in  failure,  and  it  was  then  determined  to  try  Jamaica.  The  fleet  sailed  for  that 
island  Friday,  May  4,  1655,  and  on  the  loth  anchored  in  Jamaica  harbor,  except 
Capt.  Crispin's  ship,  the  "Laurel,"  which  again  cruised  about  outside.  The  same 
day  the  attack  was  made;  the  Spaniards  made  little  opposition,  and  on  the  17th 
formally  surrendered.  (The  account  of  Captain  Crispin  by  his  great-grandson, 
already  mentioned,  gives  a  story  of  this  engagement  which  appears  to  be  entirely 
without  foundation.  It  is  to  the  effect  that,  the  fleet  having  arrived  before  St. 
Jago,  the  then  capital  of  Jamaica,  William  Crispin  fired  the  first  and  third  shots, 
the  latter  striking  the  flag-staff'  and  felling  it,  whereupon  the  Spaniards  surrender- 
ed ;  and  that  on  the  return  of  the  expedition  to  England,  its  commander,  Adm. 
Penn,  was  granted  an  addition  of  three  balls  to  his  coat-of-arms,  in  recognition  of 
the  three  shots).  A  few  days  later  it  was  decided  that,  on  account  of  scarcity  of 
provisions,  part  of  the  fleet  should  return  to  England,  three  ships  go  to  New  Eng- 
land to  procure  supplies,  and  fifteen  stay  at  Jamaica.  On  Monday,  June  25,  the 
ships  selected  to  go  home  set  sail,  Penn's  being  one  of  them.  Penn  went  with  her, 
leaving  Vice-Admiral  Goodson  in  command  at  Jamaica.  The  "Laurel"  was  one 
of  those  that  remained,  and,  although  Crispin  and  some  of  the  other  captains  ex- 
pressed a  desire  to  leave,  Crispin  appears  to  have  stayed  with  his  ship. 

It  has  been  stated  that  the  rear-admiral  then  acted  in  Goodman's  place  as  vice- 
admiral,  and  that  Capt.  Crispin  became  acting  rear-admiral.  The  journal  of  the 
expedition  (as  quoted  by  Granville  Penn  in  his  "Memoirs  of  Admiral  Penn"),  at 
this  point,  says,  "Some  of  the  captains  expressed  their  desire  to  go  home,  notwith- 
standing their  vessels  remained,  viz :  rear  admiral  Captain  Crispin  (of  the  Laurel), 
C.  Newberry  and  C.  Story." 

Capt.  William  Crispin,  Richard  Wadeson,  and  Thomas  Broughton,  who  were 
appointed  to  take  charge  of  supplying  the  English  forces  in  the  island,  were  called 
by  the  home  authorities  the  "Commissioners  for  supplying  Jamaica."  Crispin  re- 
turned to  England  early  in  the  spring,  for  the  Calendar  has  a  letter  dated  London, 
April  24,  1656,  from  him  to  Col.  John  Gierke  and  Mr.  Hopkins,  about  some  Jama- 
ica hides  to  be  disposed  of  for  the  use  of  Gen.  (Admiral)  Penn. 

Penn  and  that  part  of  the  fleet  that  returned  had  arrived  at  Spithead,  August 
31,  1655,  and  soon  afterwards  he  and  Venables  were  committed  to  the  Tower,  the 
reason  given  being  that  they  had  disobeyed  orders  by  returning,  but  in  reality  be- 
cause Cromwell  knew  that  they  favored  the  Prince  of  Wales.  Penn  was  soon 
released  but  was  dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Protector,  and  retired  to  his 
Irish  estates.  (In  the  autumn  of  1657  he  was  living  on  his  estate  of  Macromp  in 
county  Cork;  this  was  the  confiscated  estate  of  Lord  Muskerry;  after  the  Restora- 
tion it  was  restored  to  the  latter  (then  Earl  of  Clancarty),  and,  in  compensation, 
Penn  was  given  the  estate  of  Shannagarry,  in  the  same  county).  About  this  time 
many  of  the  principal  men  in  the  navy  and  their  adherents  found  much  cause  for 
dissatisfaction  in  Cromwell's  conduct,  especially  in  the  ascendency  of  the  army 
over  the  navy  which  he  fostered.  For  a  number  of  years  they  had  borne  the  brunt 
of  foreign  wars  and  successfully  carried  out  expeditions  of  conquest ;  in  return  for 
which,  instead  of  being  given  higher  commands  or  other  suitable  rewards,  they 
were  dismissed  from  the  service  or  required  to  serve  under  Cromwell's  land 
officers,  whom  he  made  admirals  and  generals-at-sea  over  the  heads  of  tried  and 
experienced  naval  officers.    During  the  internal  troubles  most  of  the  leading  naval 


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officers  had  had  little  to  do  with  party  strife  at  home,  being  at  sea  engaged  in  fight- 
ing the  common  enemies  of  the  whole  English  nation,  consequently  they  had  not 
much  sympathy  with  Cromwell  and  his  party ;  some  of  them,  indeed,  were  royalists 
by  birth  and  education,  and  had  been  in  the  navy  before  the  struggle  between  King 
and  Parliament  began.  Penn  was  one  of  these,  and,  as  we  have  seen,  he  had  been 
dismissed  by  the  Protector.  Crispin  was  retained  longer ;  but  when  the  naval  party 
began  to  plan  opposition  to  the  Protector's  government  and  adherence  to  the  King, 
he  was  among  the  leaders  of  the  movement.  Granville  Penn  in  his  "Memoirs  of 
Admiral  Penn"  has  shown  that  the  naval  party  laid  the  foundation  for  the  Restor- 
ation, which  was  afterwards  accomplished  by  Gen.  Monk.  This  naval  party  had 
been  gradually  forming  for  some  time,  and  circumstances  contributed  to  increase 
its  following.  Hume  in  his  "History  of  England"  says  that  many  of  the  inferiors, 
as  well  as  the  leaders  of  the  West  Indies  expedition,  were  inclined  to  the  King; 
and  that,  when  Spain  declared  war  against  England  on  account  of  the  violence  of 
treaty  by  the  sending  out  of  this  same  expedition,  several  sea  officers,  entertaining 
scruples  against  this  war,  threw  up  their  commissions.  Crispin  was  undoubtedly 
one  of  the  latter ;  and  they,  with  the  officers  dismissed  by  Cromwell  and  their 
friends  still  in  the  service,  formed  the  nucleus  of  the  naval  party  which  took  part 
in  the  succeeding  events. 

In  1656  the  fifth-monarchy  men  began  to  hold  secret  meetings  and  prepare  for 
an  outbreak ;  at  the  end  of  the  year  the  naval  party  and  some  of  the  royalists  hear- 
ing of  it,  attempted  to  turn  it  to  their  own  account,  and  in  the  beginning  of  the 
next  year  (March,  1657)  had  come  to  terms  with  them  and  were  preparing  for  a 
rising  against  Cromwell.  Sec.  Thurloe  made  a  report  of  the  discovery  and  frustra- 
tion of  this  scheme,  which  is  published  in  his  collection  of  State  Papers  (vol.  vi., 
pp.  184-186).  (In  the  index  to  this  volume  Crispin  is  described  as  a  fifth-mon- 
archy man,  but  as  Granville  Penn  points  out,  the  report  to  which  the  index  refers 
shows  him  to  have  been  one  of  those  Thurloe  calls  "behind  the  curtain").  After 
describing  the  actions  of  the  fifth-monarchy  men.  Thurloe's  report  says  : 

"Thinges  being  thus  settled  among  the  men  of  these  principles,  those,  who  were  all  this 
while  behind  the  curtain,  and  thought  themselves  as  well  of  their  own  judgment  as  some  of 
others,  began  to  thinke,  that  these  men  might  be  made  good  use  of;  and  in  order  thereto,  the 
first  step  must  be  to  reconcile  the  fifth  monarchy  and  the  common  wealth  partye  And  to 
this  end  a  meeting  was  betweene  them,  which  they  agreed  should  consist  of  twelve.  The  per- 
sons who  met,  wer  vice-ad.  Lawson,  col.  Okey,  capt.  Lyons,  capt.  Crispin,  capt.  Dekins,  one 
Portman,  Venner,  mr.  Squib,  and  some  others.  Four  of  these  were  officers  at  sea.  and  three 
deserted  the  fleet,  when  it  went  upon  the  coast  of  Spayne." 

Cromwell  had  dismissed  Lawson  in  the  summer  of  1656,  and  the  three  who, 
Thurloe  says,  deserted  the  fleet,  but  had,  in  fact,  thrown  up  their  commissions,  as 
mentioned  above,  were  Lyons,  Crispin  and  Dakins  (the  latter  the  rear-admiral  in 
the  West  Indies  expedition).  Venner,  who  was  the  leader  of  the  fifth-monarchy 
men,  was  a  wine-cooper,  and  Thurloe  calls  him  a  person  of  very  mean  quality. 
The  report  continues : 

"These  twelve  being  met  together,  engaged  solemnly  to  each  other  to  sccresy,  and  not 
to  disclose  to  any  creature,  that  there  was  any  such  meetinge  save  that  a  liberty  was  given  to 
communicate  all  to  m.  g.  Harrison  and  col.  Rich,  both  of  whom  had  beene  sounded  *  *  * 
One  party  was  for  actinge  under  a  visible  authority;  and  for  that  purpose  propounded,  that 
forty  of  the  longe  parliament  should  be  convened  in  some  fitting  place,  for  they  would  not 
have  all  of  them  neither,  under  whom  they  would  act." 


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This  was  probably  the  naval  men  and  royalists,  while  what  follows  accords 
better  with  the  fifth-monarchy  ideas : 

"The  other  were  neither  carefull  for  any  authority  to  act  under,  nor  that  any  way  of 
government  should  be  propounded  beforehand;  but  were  for  action  with  such  members  as 
they  could  get,  and  wait  for  such  issue  as  the  providence  of  God  should  bring  things  to.  Thus 
the  difference  stood  betweene  them,  and  many  meetings  there  were  upon  it  *  *  *  These 
meetings  continued  thus,  till  it  was  resolved  by  his  highnes  (Cromwell)  that  a  parliament 
should  be  called,  and  some  of  the  chief  of  this  meeting  were  apprehended  and  secured." 

The  report  does  not  name  those  taken,  and  we  do  not  know  whether  Crispin 
was  among  them.  Venner  escaped,  and  he  and  his  fifth-monarchy  partisans  re- 
solved to  take  up  arms  at  the  first  opportunity ;  but  early  in  April  several  of  their 
meeting  places  were  broken  up,  their  arms  seized,  and  twenty  of  them  captured. 
This  conspiracy  came  to  naught,  but  the  naval  party  continued  their  secret  activity 
in  conjunction  with  the  other  royalists.  If  Crispin  participated  in  any  of  the  latter 
conspiracies,  there  is  nothing  at  present  known  in  evidence  of  it.  After  the  last 
attempt  he  may  have  gone  at  once  to  Kinsale,  in  Ireland,  where  he  is  found  soon 
after  the  Restoration.  His  forme:  commander  (and  connection  by  marriage), 
Admiral  Penn,  was  living  at  that  time  on  his  estates  in  county  Cork,  which  were 
not  far  from  Kinsale,  and  this  probably  drew  Crispin  to  that  place.  ( It  has  been 
stated  that  Cromwell  gave  Crispin  a  forfeited  estate  near  the  Shannon,  not  far 
from  Limerick,  but  no  evidence  in  support  of  the  statement  has  been  found  after 
considerable  search ;  there  is  no  proof  that  Crispin  was  ever  in  that  vicinity.  His 
name  may  have  been  confused  with  that  of  Sir  Nicholas  Crispe,  one  of  the  Lon- 
don adventurers,  who  had  an  estate  in  the  locality  mentioned).  In  1660,  after  the 
Restoration,  Penn,  who  took  an  important  part  in  the  final  acts  of  that  event,  was 
knighted  and  made  Commissioner  of  the  Admiralty  and  Governor  of  the  town  and 
fort  of  Kinsale.  Crispin  probably  assisted  Penn  at  this  time,  and  no  doubt  came 
in  for  a  share  of  the  royal  favor;  he  may  have  obtained  a  magistracy  or  judicial 
office  of  some  kind  in  county  Cork,  as  the  Admiral's  son  afterwards  wrote  that 
Crispin  was  skilled  in  court-keeping.  He  lived  in  Kinsale  about  twenty  years,  but 
left  very  little  of  record  there  that  has  survived.  The  Council  Book  of  the  Cor- 
poration of  Kinsale  (from  1652  to  1800)  mentions  the  reading  at  the  meeting  of 
July  18,  1662,  a  letter  of  protection  from  arrest  granted  to  William  Crispin  by 
Thomas  Amery,  dated  June  20,  1662.  In  the  Marquis  of  Ormonde's  papers  (cata- 
logued by  the  Historical  Manuscripts  Commission)  is  a  letter  from  William  Cris- 
pin dated  at  Kinsale,  December  12,  1665,  the  last  record  of  him  here  until  his 
appointment  to  Pennsylvania.  If  he  ever  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  he  may 
have  done  so  while  at  Kinsale,  for  the  Friends  were  quite  numerous  in  county 
Cork,  and  many  of  the  Commonwealth  soldiers  there  had  adopted  their  tenets.  It 
is  supposed,  however,  that  he  was  not  a  Friend. 

In  1681  William  Penn,  son  of  the  Admiral,  having  obtained  the  grant  of  Penn- 
sylvania, proceeded  to  plant  a  colony  there.  He  first  sent  his  cousin,  William 
Markham,  as  Deputy-Governor,  to  receive  the  government  from  the  Duke  of 
York's  representatives  at  New  York.  In  September  he  appointed  three  Commis- 
sioners for  settling  the  colony,  with  authority  to  purchase  land  from  the  Indians, 
select  the  site  for  a  city,  etc.  In  his  letter  of  instructions  to  them,  dated  Septem- 
ber 3,  168 1,  he  calls  them  "My  Commissioners  for  the  Settleing  of  the  present 
Collony  this  year  transported  into  y^  said  Province." 


3S6  CRISPIN 

These  Commissioners  were  William  Crispin,  John  Bezar  and  Nathaniel  Allen. 
The  next  month  he  gave  them  further  instructions,  and  added  another  Commis- 
sioner, William  Haigue.  The  commission  to  the  four  is  dated  October  25,  1681, 
and  refers  to  instructions  of  October  14.  This  may  have  been  the  first  commission 
issued,  as  no  other  is  known  to  exist  at  the  present  day,  nor  have  the  instructions 
of  October  14  been  found.  These  Commissioners  sailed  for  Pennsylvania  soon 
afterwards,  but  not  all  in  the  same  ship.  There  were  three  ships  that  sailed  from 
England  for  Pennsylvania  in  the  year  1681,  the  "John  and  Sarah,"  the  "Bristol 
Factor,"  and  the  "Amity."  Allen  sailed  in  the  "John  and  Sarah"  the  first  that 
arrived  in  Pennsylvania,  and  Bezar  probably  in  the  same.  Crispin  went  in  one  of 
them  and  the  facts  points  to  the  "Amity,"  of  London,  Richard  Dimond,  master,  as 
the  one.  The  historians.  Proud,  Gordon  and  Clarkson,  all  say  that  the  "Amity" 
was  one  of  the  three  that  sailed  this  year,  that  she  was  delayed  by  contrary  winds 
and  did  not  arrive  until  spring  of  the  following  year.  Hazard  says  that  the 
"Amity"  was  said  to  have  been  blown  off  the  coast  to  the  West  Indies  and  did  not 
arrive  until  spring,  but  remarks  that  we  have  proof  that  she  did  not  sail  until  April 
of  the  next  year;  and  later  historians  follow  Hazard's  statement.  But  we  only 
have  proof  that  she  did  sail  from  the  Downs,  April  23,  1682 ;  none  that  she  had  not 
sailed  before  and  returned  without  reaching  Pennsylvania.  By  all  accounts  the 
ship  Crispin  sailed  in  was  blown  off  after  nearly  reaching  the  capes  of  Delaware, 
and  put  into  Barbadoes,  and  there  we  lose  sight  of  her.  The  similarity  of  the 
accounts  shows  that  Crispin's  ship  was  the  "Amity,"  and  that  the  earlier  historians 
were  correct,  as  far  as  they  went,  while  Hazard  is  mistaken  in  placing  her  first 
voyage  in  April,  1682,  as  she  no  doubt  returned  from  Barbadoes  to  England,  and 
made  a  new  start  in  that  month.  William  Crispin  died  in  Barbadoes,  when 
the  ship  put  in  there,  and  the  news  of  his  death  was  probably  taken  back  to  England 
by  the  "Amity,"  for  Thomas  Holme,  Surveyor-General  of  Pennsylvania,  who  is  said 
to  have  succeeded  Crispin  as  Commissioner,  came  out  in  her  next  voyage.  Crispin 
is  also  said  to  have  been  the  first  appointed  Surveyor-General,  but  no  proof  of  this 
has  been  found.  Silas  Crispin,  son  of  William,  came  out  with  Holme.  He  had 
probably  first  sailed  with  his  father  and  returned  to  England  in  the  "Amity,"  as  no 
doubt  many  of  the  other  passengers  did,  to  get  another  chance  to  reach  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Penn  also  intended  Captain  Crispin  to  be  Chief-Justice,  as  evidenced  by  the  fol- 
lowing extract  from  a  letter  to  Markham: 

"London,  i8th  8th  mo.  1681. 
"Cosen  Markham: 

"*  *  *  I  have  sent  my  Cosen,  William  Crispin,  to  be  thy  Assistant,  as  by  Commission 
will  appear.  His  Skill,  Experience,  Industry  &  Integrity  are  well  known  to  me.  &  perticiilerly 
in  court-keeping  &c ;  so  that  it  is  my  will  &  pleasure  that  he  be  as  Chief  Justice,  to  keep  the 
Seal,  the  Courts  &  Sessions ;  &  he  shall  be  accountable  to  me  for  it.  The  protfits  redounding 
are  to  his  proper  behoof.  He  will  show  thee  my  Instructions,  which  will  guide  you  all  in  the 
business.  The  res  is  left  to  your  discretion:  that  is,  to  thee,  thy  two  Assistants  &  the  Coun- 
sel    *     *     *. 

"Pray  be  very  respectfull  to  my  Cosen  Crispin.  He  is  a  man  my  father  had  great  confi- 
dence in  and  value  for    *     *     *.  "William  Penn." 

William  Crispin  was  one  of  the  "First  Purchasers"  of  land  in  the  Province: 
but  his  purchase  of  five  thousand  acres  was  never  laid  out  to  him.  .Xfter  his 
death  this  amount  was  confirmed  to  his  children,  in  separate  portions,  by  the  Pro- 


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prietary's  patents,  in  which  it  is  stated  to  be  of  the  latter's  "free  gift."  William 
Penn  granted  five  hundred  acres  to  his  son  Ralph,  one  thousand  acres  to  his 
daughter  Rachel,  and  three  thousand  acres  to  his  seven  younger  children,  and  his 
son  Silas  in  1692  obtained  a  patent  for  five  hundred  acres,  stated  to  be  in  right 
of  a  purchase  of  five  thousand  acres  (presumably  his  father's). 

William  Crispin's  city  lots  are  shown  on  Holme's  "Portraiture,"  or  plan  of  the 
city.  They  were :  No.  43,  on  the  south  side  of  Vine  street,  running  from  Dela- 
ware Front  to  Second  street;  and  No.  74,  half  on  the  southeast  and  half  on  the 
northeast  corners  of  Eighth  and  High  streets,  each  sixty-six  feet  on  High  and 
three  hundred  and  six  feet  on  Eighth  street.  These  lots  were  never  patented  to 
him,  but  Silas  Crispin  obtained  patents  to  some  other  city  lots,  presumably  in  place 
of  these. 

Capt.  William  Crispin  married  (first)  about  1650,  Anne,  daughter  of  John 
Jasper,  a  merchant  of  Rotterdam,  Holland,  who  was  a  sister  of  Margaret  Jasper, 
wife  of  Adm.  Sir  William  Penn,  and  mother  of  William  Penn,  Proprietary  of 
Pennsylvania.  Some  authorities  state  that  John  Jasper  was  a  native  of  Rotter- 
dam, others  that  he  was  an  Englishman  by  birth.  Samuel  Pepys,  in  his  Diary, 
describes  John  Jasper's  daughter.  Lady  Penn,  as  a  "well-looked,  fat,  short  old 
Dutchwoman,"  but  her  appearance  might  have  been  inherited  from  a  Dutch 
mother,  even  though  her  father  had  been  English.  Howard  M.  Jenkins  in  "The 
Family  of  William  Penn"  (Penna.  Mag.,  vol.  xx)  remarks,  "By  one  authority  he 
is  named  a  burgomaster,  and  the  editor  of  Lord  Braybrooke's  edition  of  Pepys 
calls  him  Sir  John."  It  has  also  been  said  that  his  name  was  Petre,  translated 
Jasper  in  Dutch. 

IVilliain  and  Anne  (Jasper)   Crispin  had  issue- 
Silas,  d.  May  31,  1711;  m.   (first)   1683,  Esther  Holme;  m.   (second)   Mary   (Stockton) 

Shinn;  see  below; 
Rebecca,  m.  (first)  Aug.  24,  1688,  at  Ifield  Friends'  Meeting,  in  Sussex.  Edward  Black- 
fan,  son  of  John  Blackfan,  of  Stenning,  co.  of  Sussex,  England.  (John  Blackfan,  of 
Stenning,  father  of  Edward,  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  some  position  in  his 
locality.  He  early  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  and  sufifered  much  persecution  for  his 
religion.  Besse,  in  his  "Sufferings,"  reports  several  instances.  In  1659  John  Blackfan 
was  persecuted  in  the  Exchequer  for  twenty  pounds  for  tithes  of  eight  and  a  half 
acres,  when  all  the  corn  that  grew  on  his  land  was  scarce  worth  half  that  amount.  In 
1662  he  was  committed  to  Horsham  Gaol  on  a  writ  de  excommunicato  capiendo,  after 
prosecution  in  the  Ecclesiastical  Court  for  refusing  to  pay  towards  the  repairs  to  the 
Steeple  House.  In  1663  he  and  the  others  were  persecuted  in  the  Ecclesiastical  Court 
for  being  absent  from  public  worship,  and  he  was  excommunicated  and  some  of  the 
others  imprisoned).  Her  cousin.  William  Penn,  Proprietary  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
some  of  his  family  attended  the  wedding.  Edward  Blackfan  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  came  in  for  a  share  of  the  ill  treatment  afforded  that  Society. 
In  1681  he  was  indicted,  with  others,  at  Horsham  Assizes,  for  absence  from  the  national 
worship,  and  in  1684  for  being  present  at  some  Quaker  meetings  at  Stenning,  and 
according  to  Besse,  he  "was  fined  £7,  i8s,  which,  at  the  Pursuasion  of  some  Justices 
and  others,  he  paid  in  order  to  Appeal,  but  when  the  Sessions  came  on,  he  found 
so  little  Encouragement  in  prosecuting  the  same,  that  he  chose  rather  to  lose  his 
Money,  than  to  be  put  to  farther  Charge." 

Edward  Blackfan  intended  to  go  to  Pennsylvania,  but  was  prevented  by  death.  He 
is  spoken  of  in  Penn's  letters  in  1689  as  being  about  to  take  official  documents  to  the 
Council,  and  was  on  the  point  of  sailing  when  he  died  in  1690. 

His  widow,  with  their  son  William,  afterwards  went  to  Pennsylvania,  in  the  same 
ship  with  Thomas  Chalkley  and  other  Friends,  about  1700.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Free  Society  of  Traders  in  Pennsylvania.  On  her  arrival,  her  relatives,  the  Penns, 
sent  her  to  take  charge  of  their  manor  of  Pennsbury,  in  Bucks  co.,  where  she  lived  a 
number  of  years. 
Edzvard  and  Rebecca  (Crispin)  Blackfan  had  one  child: 

William   Blackfan,  m.  at  Friends'  Meeting,  2d  mo.  20,  1721,  Eleanor  Wood,  of 
Phila.    From  them  descend  the  Blackfan  family  of  Bucks  co.,  Pa. 


358  CRISPIN 

Rebecca  (Crispin)  Blackfan  m.  (second)  in  1725,  Nehemiah  Allen,  of  Phila.,  son  of 
Nathaniel  Allen,  one  of  the  Proprietary's  Commissioners  for  Settling  the  Colony  in 
1681  (of  whom  her  father,  Capt.  William  Crispin,  had  been  one).  She  is  not  known  to 
have  had  any  issue  by  Allen; 

Ralph,  remained  in  Ireland,  and  may  have  continued  to  live  at  Kinsale,  for  in  the  assign- 
ment of  his  land  in  Pennsylvania,  dated  1690,  he  is  styled  "Ralph  Crispin  of  Cork  in 
the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  gentleman,"  which  probably  meant  the  county  of  Cork  and 
not  the  city.  By  patent  of  July  25,  1688,  William  Penn,  granted  of  his  "free  gift"  to  his 
"loving  cousin  Ralph  Crispin,"  son  of  Capt.  William  Crispin,  late  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Ireland,  deceased,  live  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Pa.  This  was  his  share  of  his  father's 
five  thousand  acres.  Ralph  Crispin  assigned  this  patent  to  Ebenezer  Pike,  May  24, 
1690,  the  land  not  having  then  been  laid  out.  Nothing  further  is  known  of  his  life  at 
present; 

Rachel,  m.  Thomas  Armstrong.  William  Penn  granted  her  one  thousand  acres  of  land 
in  Pennsylvania;  he  re-granted  this  to  her  husband,  by  a  deed  dated  nth  mo.  2,  1694, 
in  which  he  acknowledged  having  some  years  before  granted  the  same  to  Rachel  Arm- 
strong, by  the  name  of  Rachel  Crispin  "(which  grant  is  mentioned  to  be  lost  in  the 
Wars  of  Ireland),"  and  therefore  repeated  it  to  Thomas  Armstrong;  five  hundred 
acres  to  be  disposed  of  for  the  support  of  him,  his  wife  Rachel,  and  their  child  born, 
or  children  to  be  born,  and  the  ether  five  hundred  acres  to  Silas  Crispin,  Samuel  Car- 
penter, and  Lasse  Cock,  in  trust  for  Rachel  Armstrong,  her  child,  etc.  At  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Board  of  Property  held  6th  mo.  i,  1733,  Samuel  Mickle,  of  Philadelphia, 
requested  a  warrant  for  this  one  thousand  acres,  which  was  granted  him,  as  it  was 
shown  that  Rachel  and  her  heirs  had  sold  to  Henricus  Chapman,  of  London,  who  sold 
to  Mickle.  (Thomas  Armstrong  and  Rachel  his  wife,  Robert  Swiney  and  Jane  his 
wife  (one  of  the  daughters  of  said  Thomas  and  Rachel),  by  deed  dated  May  15,  1724, 
for  forty  pounds  granted  the  said  one  thousand  acres  to  Henricus  Chapman,  of  Lon- 
don, who,  together  with  George  Armstrong,  son  and  heir  of  Thomas  and  Rachel  Arm- 
strong, by  deeds  of  lease  and  release  dated  July  6  and  7,  1731,  granted  the  said  one 
thousand  acres  to  Samuel  Mickle,  of  Philadelphia.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Property  held  4th  mo.  15,  1736,  a  patent  was  signed  to  Samuel  Mickle  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  on  a  branch  of  the  "Parkeawining,"  in  right  of  Rachel  Armstrong, 
formerly  Crispin.  On  8th  mo.  2,  1731,  James  Buckley  requested  a  grant  of  about  two 
hundred  acres  on  the  branches  of  the  Ocoraro,  to  build  a  mill.  This  was  afterwards 
confirmed  to  him  in  right  of  Samuel  Mickle's  purchase,  "made  of  the  children  of  Capt. 
Crispin,"  the  minutes  of  the  Board  have  it  but  Mickle's  purchase  was  from  only  one 
child  of  Crispin's). 

Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Crispin)  Armstrong  had  issue: 
Jane  Armstrong,  m.  Robert  Swiney  (probably  Sweeney)  ; 
George  Armstrong,  "son  and  heir;" 
Another  child,  or  children  (at  least  one  daughter),  name  or  names  unknown. 

Capt.  William  Crispin  married   (second)  Jane  .     Nothing  is  known  of 

her  family.  For  at  least  seventeen  years  after  Capt.  Crispin's  death,  however,  his 
widow  and  younger  children  lived  at  Kinsale.  William  Penn  granted  of  his  "free 
gift"  to  James,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Jane,  Eleanor,  Elizabeth,  and  Amy  Crispin, 
children  of  William  Crispin  by  his  second  marriage,  three  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  Pennsylvania ;  as  they  were  all  minors  at  the  date  of  this  grant,  August 
8,  1687,  he  named  Thomas  Chudleigh,  Alartin  Perse,  and  John  Watts,  of  Kinsale, 
as  trustees.  One  thousand  five  hundred  acres  of  this  were  to  be  sold  by  the  trus- 
tees for  the  children's  education,  support,  and  settlement  in  life;  of  the  one 
thousand  five  hundred  acres  the  portion  of  any  child  dying  under  seventeen  years 
of  age  was  to  return  to  the  Proprietary.  As  no  return  of  the  laying  out  of  this 
land  was  sent  to  the  trustees,  they  did  not  sell  any  of  it ;  and  William  Penn,  by 
deed  of  November  22,  1698,  in  consideration  of  Jane  Crispin,  though  left  in  poor 
circumstances  by  her  husband,  having  paid  for  the  education  and  support  of  her 
children  (and,  as  stated  in  the  deed,  Eleanor  and  Joseph  having  died  after  reach- 
ing seventeen  years,  Jane,  Elizabeth  and  James  having  married  very  well,  and 
Benjamin  and  Amy  being  capable  of  supporting  themselves),  granted  to  her, 
"Jane  Crispin,  of  Kinsale,  widow,"  half  of  the  three  thousand  acres.  This  was 
afterwards  inherited  by  her  surviving  children. 


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William  and  Jane  Crispin  had  issue: 

James,  m.   (between  1687  and  1698) .     He  removed  from   Kinsale  to  the 

island  of  St.  Christopher  in  the  West  Indies.  He  appears  to  have  eventually  obtained 
the  whole  of  the  three  thousand  acres  mentioned  above;  by  the  law  of  Pa.  he  was 
entitled  as  eldest  brother  to  two  shares  of  it,  each  of  his  brothers  and  sisters  having 
one  share.  In  an  account  of  the  disposition  of  this  land  among  the  Penn  Papers  in 
the  possession  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  it  is  stated  that  his  surviving 
brother  and  sisters.  Benjamin,  Jane,  Elizabeth  and  Amy,  by  deed  of  May  10,  1702,  sold 
their  rights  to  James,  who  died  intestate,  seized  of  the  three  thousand  acres,  leaving 
issue.  James  Crispin's  children  were  clearly  considered  the  heirs  of  the  whole  three 
thousand  acres,  for  about  1731  they  all  sold  their  shares,  aggregating  this  amount,  to 
persons  living  in  Pennsylvania,  and  their  right  was  unquestioned  until  1752,  when  a 
controversy  arose  about  one  of  these  sales,  during  which  Thomas  Penn  wrote  that  he 
had  in  his  possession  the  deed  of  1698,  which  had  on  the  back  a  conveyance,  dated  July 
30,  1702,  from  Benjamin,  Jane,  Elizabeth,  and  Amy  to  Captain  Arthur  Smith,  and  that 
this  appeared  to  be  the  original  conveyance,  and  they  therefore  had  not  conveyed  to 
their  brother  James.  But  if,  as  is  surmised,  James  Crispin  had  married  a  daughter 
(and  possibly  heiress)  of  Captain  Arthur  Smith,  his  possession  of  his  brother's  and 
sisters'  rights  would  thus  be  explained.  (The  deed  of  November  22,  1698,  with  the 
conveyance  of  1702  on  the  back,  is  now  in  possession  of  Mr.  Daniel  Sutter,  of  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey.  A  number  of  papers  relating  to  this  matter  are  in  the  Penn  mss., 
volume  of  land  grants  (1681-1806),  pages  217,  218,  219,  221,  223,  227,  and  231,  in  pos- 
session of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania). 
Janus  Crispin  had  issue: 
Arthur  Smith; 

Prudence,  m.  Smith;  living  in  St.  Christopher  in  1752; 

James,   drowned  off   St.   Christopher   in   a   hurricane,   1731;   died   intestate,   under 

twenty-one  years,  probably  unm. ; 
Richard,  living  in  1733; 

Elizabeth,  m. Harris;  living  in  St.  Christopher  in  1752; 

Joseph,  lived  in  St.  Christopher;  was  in  Phila.  in  1752; 
Michael,  living  in  Kingston,  Jamaica,  in  1751. 
Joseph,  d.  unm.  between  1687  and  1698,  between  the  ages  of  seventeen  and  twenty-one 
years; 

Benjamin,  m.   (between  1698  and  1702)  Alice  ; 

Jane,  m.   (between  1687  and  1698)  Greenslaid  Lucomb; 

Eleanor,  d.  unm.  between  1687  and  1698,  aged  between  seventeen  and  twenty-one  years; 

Elizabeth,  m.  (between  1687  and  1698)  Milliard;  he  died  before  1702; 

Amy,  m.  (between  1698  and  1702)  Daniel  Johnson. 

Silas,  son  of  Capt.  William  and  Anne  (Jasper)  Crispin,  probably  accompanied 
his  father  in  the  unfortunate  voyage  which  ended  at  Barbadoes.  He  first  arrived 
in  Pennsylvania  with  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  Surveyor-General,  in  the  ship 
"Amity,"  of  London.  On  his  arrival,  he  no  doubt  lived  with  Capt.  Holme's  family 
at  Shackamaxon ;  within  a  year  he  married  the  latter's  daughter,  Esther,  and  in 
1684  they  went  to  live  on  his  plantation  on  Pennepack  creek,  upper  part  of  Dublin 
township.  There  is  a  tradition  that  their  first  child  was  born  here  in  the  wigwam 
of  an  Indian  chief.  He  soon  had  a  house  built  on  the  plantation,  and  lived  there 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  deeds,  etc.,  he  is  styled  "Silas  Crispin  of  Dublin 
Township,  gentleman."  He  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Society  of  Traders  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  was  executor  of  the  will  of  his  father-in-law,  Capt.  Thomas 
Holme,  and  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  in  caring  for  the  large  interest  in  lands  left 
by  the  latter ;  obtaining  warrants  for  laying  out  lands  not  taken  up  at  Holme's 
death,  selling  some  of  the  tracts,  etc. 

Silas  Crispin  died  May  31,  171 1.  By  his  will,  dated  May  5,  171 1,  he  made  his 
wife  Mary  executrix,  left  her  his  negroes,  household  goods,  etc.,  and  directed  her 
to  sell  one  hundred  acres  which  he  bought  from  Robert  Grismall,  adjoining  the 


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north  end  of  his  plantation,  to  pay  debts  and  legacies.  To  his  son  Thomas  he  left 
a  mare  and  colt  and  some  small  articles.  To  his  granddaughter,  Sarah  Loftus,  and 
his  sister,  Rebecca  Blackfan,  he  left  sums  of  money.  [The  witnesses  were  Mar- 
garet Ashton,  William  Blackfan,  and  Robert  Ashton.  Mary  Crispin  renounced 
her  executorship,  July  5,  171 1,  and  letters  of  administration  cum  testamento 
annexo  were  granted  Thomas  Crispin,  April  19,  1714-]  His  landed  estate  is  not 
mentioned  in  his  will,  his  own  plantation  going  by  the  law  of  the  time  to  his  son 
Thomas,  while  the  other  children  by  his  first  wife  were  heirs,  through  their 
mother,  to  Capt.  Thomas  Holme's  large  domains.  His  children  by  his  second 
wife  were  quite  young,  and  he  probably  expected  them  to  be  provided  for  by  their 
mother,  whose  family  was  wealthy.  After  her  husband's  death  Mary  Crispin, 
with  her  children,  returned  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  where  she  had  lived 
before  her  marriage. 

In  the  list  of  "First  Purchasers"  the  names  of  William  Crispin  and  Silas  Cris- 
pin are  bracketed  as  purchasers  of  five  thousand  acres ;  William  was  doubtless  the 
purchaser  of  the  whole,  Silas  being  his  heir  in  Pennsylvania  after  his  death ;  but 
Silas  did  not  inherit  all  of  this,  as  it  reverted  to  the  Proprietary,  who  then  gave  to 
the  children  of  William  Crispin  lands  equalling  the  same  amount.  Silas  was  given 
five  thousand  acres  in  Hilltown  township,  Philadelphia  county,  forty  acres  in  the 
"liberties  of  Philadelphia,"  and  three  lots  in  the  city.  The  liberty  land  was  just 
half,  and  the  area  of  the  city  lands  approximately  half,  of  what  was  due  under  a 
purchase  of  five  thousand  acres,  yet  Silas  appears  to  have  been  the  only  one  of 
the  children  who  had  either,  as  the  others  all  sold  their  rights  before  any  land  was 
actually  laid  out  to  them.  The  patents  to  all  these  are  made  out  to  "Silas  Crispin, 
Purchaser,"  which  would  seem  to  be  an  error,  as  they  were  given  him  as  part  of 
his  father's  purchase.  He  had  in  addition  a  plantation  of  five  hundred  acres,  on 
which  he  resided,  no  patent  for  which  has  been  found  on  record.  It  is  said  to  have 
been  given  him  by  Penn ;  if  so,  it  was  in  excess  of  his  father's  purchase. 

The  five  hundred  acres  in  his  father's  right  were  in  Hilltown  township,  Phila- 
delphia county  (now  Abington  township,  Montgomery  county),  about  eight  miles 
back  from  the  Delaware  river  in  a  straight  line  along  the  hypothetical  Susque- 
hanna road ;  the  tract  was  rectangular,  bounded  northeast  by  Moreland,  southeast 
by  Ph.  Th.  Lehnmann's  land,  southwest  by  the  Susquehanna  road,  and  northwest 
by  land  Capt.  Thomas  Holme  had  taken  up  in  right  of  Samuel  Clarridge.  It  is 
shown  on  Holme's  map.  Between  1686  and  1698  Silas  Crispin  sold  this,  in  sepa- 
rate portions,  to  Cornelius  Sturgis,  John  Meredith  and  Thomas  Hood. 

The  forty  acres  of  liberty  land  was  a  rectangular  tract  a  short  distance  northeast 
of  Germantown  road,  beyond  Isaac  Norris's  "Fairhill"  plantation.  He  sold  this 
to  Nicholas  Rideout  in  1695,  who  sold  it  to  Nicholas  Wain.  Silas  Crispin's  city 
lots,  as  already  mentioned,  were  not  the  same  as  those  allotted  to  his  father  on 
the  original  city  plan  ;  a  number  of  alterations  had  been  made  in  the  plan  before  the 
lots  were  surveyed.  One  was  on  the  west  side  of  Delaware  Front  street,  one 
hundred  and  sixty-two  feet  south  of  Walnut  street ;  it  was  forty-two  feet  on  Front 
street,  running  back  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  feet  on  the  north  line  and  two 
hundred  and  one  feet  on  the  south  line,  bounded  on  the  west  by  a  marsh.  In 
1684  he  sold  this  to  William  Frampton.  Another  of  his  lots  was  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  High  street  and  Strawberry  alley,  forty  feet  (afterwards  found  to  be 
forty-one)  on  High  street  and  eighty  feet  on  the  alley;  he  sold  this  about  1692 


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to  Joseph  Farrington.  The  other  of  Silas  Crispin's  lots  was  on  the  southeast 
corner  of  Sixth  and  High  streets,  sixty-six  feet  on  High  and  three  hundred  and 
six  feet  on  Sixth  street;  this  was  patented  to  him  in  1688,  and  the  same  year  he 
sold  it  to  Patrick  Robinson.  [Patrick  Robinson  exchanged  thirty-nine  and  a  half 
feet  in  breadth  of  this  with  Robert  Greenway  for  the  same  amount  adjoining  the 
lot  he  (Patrick  Robinson)  had  purchased  from  Crispin,  as  Holme's  executor, 
farther  east  in  the  same  square,  the  latter  being  twenty-six  and  a  half  feet  (orig- 
mally  intended  for  twenty-six)  ;  these  combined  lots,  sixty-six  feet  front,  he  sold 
to  Lionel  Britain.  This  exchange  has  made  a  good  deal  of  confusion  in  the 
attempt  to  locate  the  lots  from  the  records,  some  giving  it  as  "Robert  Greenway's 
exchange  with  Silas  Crispin,"  while  the  deed  shows  Crispin  to  have  sold  the 
corner  lot  intact  to  Robinson,  and  the  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Property  say  that 
Robinson  made  the  exchange  with  Greenway.] 

Silas  Crispin's  plantation  on  which  he  went  to  live  shortly  after  his  marriage, 
remaining  there  the  remainder  of  his  life,  was  about  five  hundred  acres  in  the 
upper  part  of  Dublin  (afterwards  Lower  Dublin)  township,  Philadelphia  county, 
on  the  line  of  the  present  Abington  township,  Montgomery  county,  now  in  the 
thirty-fifth  ward  of  the  city;  it  was  rectangular,  bounded  northeast  by  Moreland, 
southeast  by  John  Mason's  land,  southwest  by  the  line  of  the  Susquehanna  road, 
and  northwest  (across  the  present  Abington  line)  by  William  Stanley's  land;  it 
is  shown  on  Holme's  map.  This  is  the  plantation  mentioned  in  his  will,  though  not 
devised  by  that  instrument.  His  son  Thomas  inherited  it  by  the  laws  of  primo- 
geniture, then  in  force. 

On  August  28,  1689,  the  Council  appointed  Robert  Turner,  Benjamin  Chambers, 
Joseph  Fisher,  Silas  Crispin,  Thomas  Fairman  and  Robert  Adams,  with  a  sur- 
veyor, to  lay  out  a  cart  road  according  to  statute,  they  having  petitioned  to  have 
a  road  laid  out  from  Philadelphia  to  Bucks  county.  This  was  the  present  Bristol 
pike,  and  they  probably  followed  to  a  great  extent  the  rather  indefinite  trail 
previously  known  as  the  "King's  Path." 

Silas  Crispin  married  (first)  in  1683,  Esther  Holme,  who  died  April  17,  1696, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  Provincial  Councillor  and  Surveyor-General 
of  Pennsylvania,  an  account  of  whom,  follows  this  sketch. 
Issue  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Holme)  Crispin: 

Sarah  Crispin,  b.  March  31,  1684;  m.  Lesson  Loftus,  of  the  city  of  Phila. ; 

Rebecca  Crispin,  b.  May  6,  1685;  m.  Joseph  Finney,  son  of  Samuel  Finney,  Provincial 
Councillor  and  Provincial  Judge,  and  a  brother  of  Capt.  John  Finney,  Provincial  Coun- 
cillor, High  Sheriff  of  Phila.  ro.,  and  of  the  family  of  Finney,  of  Fulshaw  Hall,  Che- 
shire, England;  an  account  of  some  of  the  descendants  of  one  branch  of  this  family 
appears  elsewhere  in  these  volumes; 

Marie  (or  Maria)  Crispin,  b.  Oct.,  1O86;  m.  John  Collet,  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth 
(Rush)  Collet,  grandson  of  Capt.  John  Rush,  formerly  of  the  ParHamentary  in  the  Civil 
War  in  England,  who  came  to  Pa.  in  1683,  and  settled  on  a  plantation  in  Byberry;  an 
account  of  this  family  and  its  distinguished  representative.  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  is 
given  in  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  vol.  xvii. ; 

Eleanor  Crispin,  b.  Sept.  11,  1687;  m.  Nov.  25,  1708,  John  Hart,  Jr.,  High  Sheriff  and 
Coroner  of  Bucks  CO.,  and  a  justice  of  the  County  Courts;  son  of  John  Hart,  from 
Witney,  Oxfordshire,  a  member  of  the  first  Provincial  Assembly,  and  his  wife,  Sus- 
anna Rush,  dau.  of  Capt.  John  Rush,  above  mentioned;  some  account  of  the  Hart 
family  is  given  below; 

William  Crispin,  b.  Sept.  3,  1689,  d.  y. ; 

Esther  Crispin,  b.  Oct.  29,  1691 ;  m.  Thomas  Rush,  grandson  of  Capt.  John  Rush,  above 
mentioned; 


362  CRISPIN 

Thomas  Crispin,  b.  June  22,  1694;  lived  on  his  father's  plantation  in  Lower  Dublin  twp. ; 

m.  Jane,  dau.  of  Joseph  Ashton,  Esq.,  of  Lower  Dublin  twp.,  a  Justice  of  the  County 

Courts  of  Philadelphia  co. ; 
Susanna  Crispin,  b.  April  14,  1696,  d.  y. 

Silas  Crispin  married  (second)  1697,  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail 
Stockton,  of  Springfield  township,  Burlington  county,  West  New  Jersey,  and 
widow  of  Thomas  Shinn,  of  the  same  county  and  province.  Her  father,  Richard 
Stockton,  was  an  Englishman  of  good  birth  and  some  fortune  who  settled  in 
Flushing,  Long  Island,  where  he  was  lieutenant  of  a  troop  of  horse  in  1665,  and 
afterwards  joined  the  Society  of  Friends  and  removed  to  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey;  he  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Stockton  family  of  New  Jersey.  Her  first 
husband,  Thomas  Shinn,  belonged  to  a  well-known  West  Jersey  family;  she  had 
two  sons  by  him,  Thomas  and  Samuel,  who  both  settled  near  Mount  Holly  and 
left  descendants.  [Thomas  Shinn  and  Mary  Stockton  were  married  1st  mo.  6, 
1693;  he  died  9th  mo.  15,  1695.] 

Silas  and  Mary  (Stockton)  Crispin  had  issue: 

Joseph,  b.  Oct.  7,  1698;  m.  Elizabeth  Barratt;  removed  to  Del.; 

Benjamin,  b.  Sept.  i,  1699:  m.  Aug.  21,  1722,  at  Springfield  Meeting,  Margaret,  dau.  of 
Joshua  and  M?rtha  Owen,  of  Springfield  twp.:  of  whom  later; 

Abigail,  b.  Jan.  20,  1701;  m.  John  Wright,  of  Springfield  twp.; 

Silas,  b.  March  19,  1702;  d.  Nov.,  1749;  m.  Nov.  9,  1724,  Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
(Kearon)  Wetherill,  of  Burlington,  and  granddaughter  of  Christopher  Wetherill,  an- 
cestor of  the  Wetherill  family  of  N.  J.  and  Phila. ;  of  whom  later; 

Mary,  b.  May  12,  1705;  m.  Nov.  6,  1727,  Thomas  Earl,  of  Burlington  co.,  son  of  William 
Earl,  of  New  England,  ancestor  of  the  Earl  family  of  N.  J.; 

John,  b.  Dec.  11,  1707. 

After  Silas  Crispin's  death,  his  widow,  Mary  (Stockton)  Crispin,  married 
(third)  September  11,  1714,  at  Springfield  Meeting  House,  Richard  Ridgway  Jr., 
of  Springfield  township;  she  had  no  issue  by  him.  Richard  Ridgway  Jr.,  had 
married  (first)  Mary  Willet ;  he  was  son  of  Richard  Ridgway  Sr.,  of  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  who  removed  to  Burlington  county.  West  Jersey,  and  mar- 
ried (second)  Abigail  Stockton,  sister  to  Mary  Stockton,  Richard  Ridgway  Jr.'s 
second  wife. 

Thomas  Crispin,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Holme)  Crispin, 
was  born  June  22,  1694,  on  his  father's  plantation  in  Lower  Dublin  township, 
Philadelphia  county,  which  he  afterwards  inherited,  and  made  his  home  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  and  his  sisters  (of  the  full  blood)  inherited  through 
their  mother,  their  grandfather,  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  Well  Spring  plantation 
and  the  smaller  tract  adjoining  it,  amounting  in  all  to  over  2100  acres,  which  in 
1723  was  divided  among  the  then  living  heirs  the  one  acre  laid  out  by  Capt.  Holme 
for  a  family  graveyard  being  reserved  for  their  use  in  common. 

As  the  daughters,  or  their  descendants,  (except  the  children  of  Esther  Rush), 
all  removed  from  the  immediate  vicinity,  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Crispin  and 
Esther  Rush  only  continued  to  use  it,  and  it  has  long  been  known  as  the  "Old 
Crispin  Burying-Ground."  It  is  now  under  the  care  of  a  board  of  trustees  in 
which  other  branches  of  the  descendants  of  Capt.  Holme  are  represented. 

This  graveyard,  one  acre  in  extent,  is  located  about  a  mile  northwest  of  the 
main  street  of  Holmesburg,  and  a  short  distance  from  Rowland  station  on  the 


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Bustleton  branch  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad.  It  was  laid  out  by  Capt.  Thomas 
Holme,  in  1694,  for  the  use  of  himself  and  his  descendants.  In  an  article  in  the 
Frankford  Herald,  of  1895,  Oliver  Hough  tells  us  that : 

"On  Wednesday  afternoon,  November  20,  1895,  the  two  surviving  trustees  of  the  Crispin 
Cemetery  Corporation,  Mr.  B.  F.  Crispin,  of  West  Philadelphia,  and  Mr.  Charles  Green,  of 
Sandiford.  Philadelphia,  met  at  the  home  of  George  S.  Clark,  Esq.,  in  Holmesburg,  for  the 
purpose  of  filling  the  three  vacancies  in  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  to  reorganize  the  cor- 
poration, which  for  thirty-two  years  has  been  dormant,  the  last  meeting  having  been  held  in 
April,  1863.  Messrs.  Crispin  and  Green  first  held  a  preliminary  meeting  and  filled  two  of 
the  vacancies,  by  electing  as  Trustees,  Mr.  James  Watts  Mercur,  of  Wallingford,  Delaware 
county.  Pa.,  and  Mr.  Oliver  Hough,  of  Philadelphia.  These  two  gentlemen  being  in  waiting, 
a  meeting  of  the  Board  was  then  held,  and  an  organization  was  effected,  Mr.  Crispin,  being 
made  President.  Mr.  Green,  Treasurer,  and  Mr.  Hough,  Secretary.  The  last  vacancy  in  the 
board  was  then  filled  by  the  election  of  General  William  Watts  Hart  Davis,  of  Doylestown, 
Bucks  county,  Pa.,  as  the  fifth  trustee. 

"This  corporation  is  not  a  public  cemetery  company,  nor  in  any  sense  a  financial  institu- 
tion but  was  chartered  to  protect  the  interests  of  the  heirs  in  a  private  family  burying-ground, 
laid  out  by  Captain  Thomas  Holme  in  the  year  1694,  for  the  use  of  himself  and  his  descend- 
ants. 

"Besides  his  daughter  Hester,  wife  of  Silas  Crispin,  he  had  two  sons,  who  died  without 
issue  before  their  father,  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  married  and  had  children,  but  appears  not 
to  have  come  to  America,  and  a  daughter  Eleanor,  who  was  married  twice,  but  whose  de- 
scendants died  out  in  the  second  generation.  The  children  of  Hester  Crispin  thus  inherited 
all  of  Captain  Holme's  land,  including  the  graveyard.  In  1723  they  divided  the  estate  and 
gave  each  other  deeds  of  release  of  the  various  shares  reserving  the  burying-ground  for  the 
use  of  all  and  their  descendants. 

"There  were  six  interests  represented  in  this  division,  four  being  children  of  Hester 
Crispin,  and  the  other  two  the  interests  of  deceased  children,  represented  by  their  children; 
these  were:  i,  Sarah  (Crispin)  Loftus,  represented  by  her  daughter  Sarah,  wife  of  Andrew 
Hannis;  2,  Eleanor  (Crispin)  Hart,  wife  of  John  Hart  of  Bucks  county;  3,  Thomas  Crispin; 
4,  Mary  (Crispin)  Collet,  wife  of  John  Collet;  5,  Hester  (Crispin)  Rush,  wife  of  Thomas 
Rush;  6,  Rebecca  (Crispin)  Finney,  represented  by  her  daughters,  Mary  Bell,  and  Elizabeth 
Finney. 

"Thomas  Crispin's  share  of  the  land  surrounded  three  sides  of  the  burying-ground,  and 
his  descendants  continued  to  reside  in  this  vicinity  for  many  years  and  were  mostly  buried 
there,  while  the  descendants  of  the  other  heirs  nearly  all  removed  to  a  distance,  and  no  doubt 
soon  forgot  that  they  had  an  interest  in  the  lot.  In  1748,  Thomas  Crispin  sold  the  land 
adjoining  the  burying-ground  to  John  Paul,  but  reserved  the  burying-ground  itself. 

"This  land  was  the  estate  afterwards  known  as  'Longford.'  'The  fourth  side  of  the 
graveyard  was  the  line  of  Susquehanna  Road,  originally  laid  out  by  Thomas  Holme,  on  a 
middle  line  of  Lower  Dublin  township,  and  intended  to  run  from  the  Delaware  to  the  Sus- 
quehanna River,  but  never  opened  up  at  this  point.  The  land  on  this  side  had  been  sold  by 
the  Crispin  heirs  at  an  earlier  date. 

"In  an  account  of  the  burying-ground,  written  by  Silas  Crispin,  son  of  Thomas  in  1794, 
he  says  that  only  about  a  quarter  of  an  acre  was  then  in  use ;  this  was  in  the  northern  corner 
of  the  lot.  On  April  1st,  1825,  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Crispin,  met  at  the  house  of 
Benjamin  Crispin  in  Holmesburg,  when  Paul  Crispin  and  Robert  C.  Green  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  visit  George  Henry  Walker,  who  then  owned  the  estate  of  'Longford.'  Mr. 
Walker  agreed  to  preserve  the  plot  and  keep  it  in  good  order.  He  kept  his  agreement,  but 
as  the  ground  was  unenclosed,  it  was  found  that  cattle  sometimes  wandered  in  and  trampled 
down  the  mounds  and  broke  some  of  the  tombstones.  Therefore,  on  January  22.  1831,  the 
descendants  again  met  at  Benjamin  Crispm's  avid  formed  a  society  called  the  'Crispin  Burial- 
Gound  Community'  to  take  charge  of  the  property.  The  members  of  this  society  then  pres- 
ent or  afterwards  admitted  were:  Benjamin  Crispin,  Paul  Crispin,  George  Crispin,  John 
Creighton,  Thomas  Creighton,  James  A.  Creighton,  George  C.  Creighton,  Robert  C.  Green, 
James  D.  McKean  and  Paul  K.  Hubbs.  The  'Community'  had  the  ground  surveyed  the 
same  year  and  fenced  in  the  part  then  in  use.  They  afterwards  held  annual  meetings  until 
1840.  In  the  latter  year  Benjamin  Crispin  introduced  a  bill  in  the  State  Legislature,  of  which 
he  was  a  member,  which  passed  both  houses  and  was  approved  by  the  Governor  in  the  session 
of  1840,  incorporating  Benjamin  Crispin,  Paul  Crispin,  Robert  C.  Green,  Thomas  Creighton, 
and  James  A.  Creighton,  and  their  successors,  under  the  title  of  the  'Crispin  Cemetery,'  to 
take  charge  of  the  burial-ground.  These  incorporators,  or  trustees,  as  they  afterwards  called 
themselves,  divided  the  ground  into  twenty-four  lots  part  of  which  they  assigned  to  the 
dififerent  branches  of  the  family,  two  lots  being  reserved  for  the  church,  and  one  for  strangers 
or  persons  not  connected  with  the  Crispin  family.  They  planted  a  cedar  hedge  around  the 
whole  acre  and  cedar  trees  to  mark  the  boundaries  of  lots.  Very  few  persons  not  connections 
were  ever  buried  there.  In  1847  or  1848  Robert  C.  Green,  of  Sandy  Hill,  took  charge  of 
the  cemetery  under  a  lease,  he  keeping  it  in  order  in  consideration  of  the  profits  from  hay. 


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etc.,  grown  on  the  unused  portion.  He  renovated  about  twenty-five  or  thirty  of  the  graves, 
but  when  he  gave  up  the  superintendence  of  the  ground  in  186a,  it  became  neglected. 

"The  last  annual  meeting  of  the  Trustees  was  held  in  1863,  in  which  year  the  last  burial 
(Mrs.  Rachel  Polk)  was  made  there.  Before  the  reorganization  in  the  present  year,  thirty- 
two  years  after  the  last  meeting,  it  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  surviving  Trustees  that 
the  'Community'  and  the  corporation  succeeding  it  had  been  composed  entirely  of  the  descend- 
ants of  Thomas  Crispin,  one  of  the  parties  to  the  division  in  1723;  while  the  descendants  of 
the  latter's  sisters  (co-heirs  with  him  in  the  ground),  having  mostly  removed  from  the 
neighborhood,  had  made  no  effort  to  join  these  organizations  until  recently,  when  some  of 
them  awakened  to  the  knowledge  of  their  interest  in  the  ground  which  contained  the  remains 
of  their  forefathers  and  desired  to  participate  in  the  care  of  it.  The  Trustees  expressed 
their  willingness  to  associate  some  of  the  representatives  of  the  other  branches  of  the  family 
with  themselves  in  the  management  of  the  corporation  and  elected  Gen.  Davis,  Mr.  Mercur, 
and  Mr.  Hough,  who  are  all  descendants  of  Thomas  Crispin's  sister  Eleanor,  wife  of  John 
Hart;  Gen.  Davis  and  Mr.  Mercur,  being  also  descendants  of  another  sister,  Mary  CoUett. 

"At  the  present  time  the  traces  of  about  one  hundred  graves  can  be  found,  only  half  of 
which  have  stones,  and  of  these  only  a  dozen  have  legible  inscriptions." 

Capt.  Thomas  Holme's  own  grave  was  marked  only  by  a  smooth  round  stone 
until  1863,  when  a  small  monument  was  erected  over  it  by  the  Trustees  of  the 
Lower  Dublin  Academy,  whose  foundation  was  due  to  him. 

In  the  division  of  1723,  the  heirs  had  set  aside  a  lot  for  a  school  site  in  lieu  of 
the  four  pounds  for  school  purposes  bequeathed  by  Capt.  Holme,  in  his  will. 
Shortly  after  this  date  a  log  school  house  was  erected  and  used  until  1794,  when 
the  present  structure,  built  of  stone,  colored  yellow,  was  completed ;  the  log  por- 
tion is  still  standing  and  is  used  as  a  part  of  the  janitor's  residence.  On  January 
23,  1794,  a  charter  was  granted  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy, 
who  continued  to  conduct  the  school  as  a  private  institution  until  the  inauguration 
of  the  public  school  system,  when  it  was  rented  to  the  public  school  authorities  and 
used  as  a  public  school ;  in  1901  it  was  bought  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  con- 
tinued in  the  same  use. 

From  the  Frankford  Herald,  of  May  11,  1901,  we  glean  the  following  facts  in 
reference  to  the  old  Academy: 

"THE  LAST  MEETING  AT  THE  OLD  ACADEMY." 
"One   day  in   every   May,   for   seven  years  more   than   a   century,   the  Trustees   of   the 
ancient  corporation  known  as  the  'Trustees  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy'  have  held  their 
annual  meetings  at  the  old  Academy,  where  a  school  has  been  in  continuous  existence  for 
one  hundred  and  seventy-three  years. 

"On  Tuesday  last  the  present  Board,  consisting  of  Andreas  Hartel,  President,  George 
S.  Clark,  Joseph  H.  Brown,  William  Rowland,  Jonathan  Rowland,  Jr.,  Henry  V.  Massey, 
Edwin  M.  Thomas,  and  John  S.  Clark,  held  its  last  meeting  on  the  property  which  the  city 
authorities  have  recently  purchased,  and  already  are  in  possession  of,  and  have  been  for 
many  years  as  tenants,  conducting  the  Thomas  Holme  Public  School.  It  is  a  beautiful  prop- 
erty, comprising  about  three  acres  of  land,  a  stone  school  house  and  a  stone  tenant  house,  a 
part  of  the  latter  being  the  original  school  house  where  children  were  taught  when  all  the 
people  of  the  neighborhood  were  loyal  subjects  of  George  II.,  of  Great  Britain,  and  the 
United  States  of  America  had  not  as  yet  been  dreamed  of  by  the  wildest  fancy. 

"The  property  is  situated  at  the  junction  of  Willit's  Road  and  Academy  Lane,  and 
nearby  are  the  handsome  country  places  of  the  late  Alexander  Brown,  and  others.  It  is  an 
ideal  spot  for  a  school,  the  ground  having  a  sunny  exposure  and  a  gentle  slope  in  several 
directions.  It  is  also  beautifully  shaded  with  forest  trees,  some  of  which  are  supposed  to  be 
nearly  two  hundred  years  old.  The  roads  in  the  neighborhood  are  finely  Telfordized,  and 
the  trolley  cars  run  along  the  Bristol  Turnpike,  within  three  minutes  walk  of  the  school. 
Looking  to  the  west  one  can  see,  about  a  half  mile  away,  the  grove  that  marks  the  location 
of  the  'Old  Crispin  Cemetery'  where  the  remains  of  Captain  Thomas  Holme,  founder  of 
the  trust,  repose  under  a  monument  erected  to  his  memory  many  years  ago  by  the  then 
existent  board  of  trustees,  all  of  whom  have  long  since  departed  this  life.  The  thriving  and 
growing  village  of  Collegeville  is  near  at  hand.  The  country  round  about  is  gently  undulating, 
highly  cultivated  and  well  wooded.  Hereafter  the  trustees  instead  of  assembling  amidst  these 
pleasant  surroundings,  fragant  with  the  odor  of  Spring  blossoms  and  melodious  with  the  love 
songs  of  the  mating  birds,  will  hold  their  meetings  in  a  stuffy  city  office.  The  ancestors  of 
some  of  the  trustees  sat  in  the  original  board  in  1794.     Others  are  successors  of  their  fathers 


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and  grandfathers.  One  trustee  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  founder  of  the  trust,  and  for  all, 
the  place  is  full  of  pleasant  memories  of  the  meeting  of  friends,  many  of  whom  are  now  no 
more. 

"The  meeting  on  Tuesday  confirmed  the  sale  of  the  property  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia, 
and  the  Trustees  parted  with  the  melancholy  reminders  that  this  was  their  last  assemblage 
at  the  old  Academy.  The  city  authorities  showed  their  excellent  judgment  in  purchasing 
the  property  before  it  had  so  increased  in  value  as  to  command  a  much  higher  price.  This 
country  is  ripe  for  improvement  and  there  will  no  doubt  be  a  great  advance  in  that  direction 
in  the  near  future.  The  money  derived  from  the  sale  will  form  a'  part  of  the  endowment 
fund,  the  income  from  which  is  used,  by  decree  of  the  Common  Pleas  Court,  given  on  peti- 
tion of  the  Trustees,  to  aid  in  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  'Thomas  Holme  Free 
Library,'  situated  in  the  Athenaeum  Building,  Holmesburg." 

The  Holmesburg  Library  was  founded  February  13,  1867.  In  1880  Dr.  J.  Burd 
Peale  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  decree  of  court,  making  the  funds  which  the  Trus- 
tees of  The  Lower  DubHn  Academy  obtained  from  the  rent  of  the  ancient  school 
house  available  for  the  support  of  this  library,  whose  name  was  thereupon 
changed  to  "The  Thomas  Holme  Library."  In  1897  the  Trustees  found  that 
their  small  endowment  was  insufficient  to  meet  the  growing  needs  of  the  library 
and  an  appeal  was  made  to  the  management  of  the  Free  Library  of  Philadelphia 
to  take  charge  of  the  local  institution  as  a  branch,  which  it  did.  In  1906  it  became 
one  of  the  Carnegie  chain  of  free  libraries,  in  a  new  building,  though  under  the 
same  management. 

Thomas  Crispin  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ashton,  Esq.,  a  Justice  of 
the  Philadelphia  County  Courts,  and  a  considerable  landowner  in  Lower  Dublin 
township,  where  the  Ashton  family  has  been  one  of  prominence  to  the  present 
day. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Ashton)  Crispin: 

Silas,  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas; 

Joseph ; 

Hannah,  m.  April  2,  1748,  at  Trinity  Church,  Oxford;  both  are  buried  in  the  old  Crispin 

burying-ground ; 
Mercy,  m.  March  i,  1753,  at  Trinity  Church,  Oxford,  Joseph  Engle,  brother  of  John 

Engle,  who  married  her  sister  Hannah;  they  were  residents  of  Lower  Dublin  twp. 

Silas  Crispin,  son  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Ashton)  Crispin,  inherited  the  land  of 
his  father  in  Lower  Dublin  township  and  lived  his  whole  life  there.  In  1794  he 
wrote  an  account  of  the  family  graveyard.  His  will  dated  October  14,  1794,  was 
proven  January  25,  1800;  his  son  Silas  being  made  executor.  Silas  Crispin  mar- 
ried Martha . 

Issue  of  Silas  and  Martha  Crispin: 

Joseph,  b.  1761,  d.  Phila.  Feb.  18,  1828,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
present  at  the  defense  of  Fort  Mercer,  Red  Bank,  N.  J.;  m.  (first)  Elizabeth  Rickey, 
b.  in  Bucks  co.,  March  9,  1775,  and  a  descendant  of  prominent  families  of  that  county. 

He  married  (second) ;  had  issue  by  both  marriages,  in  all  twelve  children, 

some  of  whose  descendants  still  reside  in  Phila.; 

William; 

Sarah; 

Jane ; 

Thomas; 

Silas,  of  whom  presently. 

Silas  Crispin,  son  of  Silas  and  Martha,  born  in  Lower  Dublin  township,  May 


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II,  1767,  died  there  August  13,  1806,  from  lockjaw,  caused  by  running  a  needle 
into  his  foot.  He  married,  in  1788,  Esther  Dougherty,  born  1867,  died  May  7, 
1838. 

Issue  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Dougherty)  Crispin: 

Martha,  b.  March  18,  1789,  d.  April  3,  1817;  m.  James  Simon; 

Benjamin,  b.  1792,  of  whom  presently; 

Mary,  d.  unm.  November  13,  1865; 

Paul,  m.  Mary  Lesher;  d.  Sept.,  1847;  resided  many  years  on  the  Crispin  homestead; 

Silas,  b.  April  18,  1798,  d.  April  13,  1823; 

Ann,  b.  Oct.  2,  1800,  d.  March  18,  1829;  m.  Michael  Jacoby; 

Hester,  b.  Aug.  31,  1803,  d.  Aug.  20,  1832. 

Hon.  Benjamin  Crispin,  son  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Dougherty)  Crispin,  born 
in  1792,  on  his  father's  estate  known  as  "Bellevue"  on  the  Welsh  road,  above 
Holmesburg,  part  of  the  Well  Spring  plantation,  that  had  come  down  in  the 
family  from  their  distinguished  ancestor,  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  was  educated  at 
the  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  with  which  his  family  was  so  closely  identified.  In 
1822  he  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant  of  Pennsylvania  Militia.  In  1823  he  was 
appointed  by  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  townships 
of  Byberry,  Lower  Dublin,  and  Oxford,  Philadelphia  county,  and  held  that  office 
until  1837.  In  1828  he  was  appointed  by  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  of  Phila- 
delphia, Director  of  the  Public  Schools  in  his  district.  In  1837  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  and  re-elected  in  1838-39.  In 
1840  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and  in  1843  was  made  Speaker  of  the 
Senate,  as  the  presiding  officer  of  that  body  was  then  designated.  When  the 
whole  of  Philadelphia  county  was  incorporated  with  the  city,  in  1854,  Mr.  Crispin 
was  elected  as  the  first  Common  Councilman  from  the  Twenty-third  Ward,  then 
comprising  the  present  Twenty-third,  Twenty-fifth,  Thirty-fifth  and  Forty-second 
Wards,  and  a  part  of  the  present  Nineteenth  Ward.  He  continued  to  manifest  a 
deep  interest  in  the  schools,  and  on  leaving  council  was  again  elected  to  the  local 
school  board.  A  new  public  school  in  Holmesburg  has  recently  been  named  for 
him. 

Benjamin  Crispin  was  a  founder  of  Emmanuel  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  at 
Holmesburg,  and  served  for  twenty  years  as  one  of  its  vestrymen,  and  eight 
years  as  accounting  warden.  He  also  represented  the  parish  in  the  Diocesan  Con- 
vention in  1854-56-58-60.  He  was  one  of  the  originators  of,  and  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Holmesburg  Athenaeum  Association,  and  chairman  of 
its  building  committee,  which  in  1850  built  the  town  hall,  called  the  Athenaeum,  in 
which  until  1906  was  housed  the  Thomas  Holme  Library.  In  May,  1837,  he  was 
elected  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  and  in  1838  its  Presi- 
dent, an  office  he  held  until  his  death  twenty-six  years  later.  He  was  the  founder 
of  the  "Crispin  Burial-Ground  Community,"  and  principally  instrumental  in 
obtaining  a  charter  for  the  Crispin  Cemetery  Corporation,  from  the  Legislature, 
while  he  was  a  State  Senator,  in  1840,  thus  perpetuating  the  title  to  the  heirs  of 
Thomas  Holme,  under  the  care  of  a  Board  of  Trustees,  of  which  he  was  Presi- 
dent. 

Benjamin  Crispin  married,  October  17,  1816,  JMaria,  daughter  of  Amos  and 
Elinor  (Thomas)  Foster,  of  Collegeville,  (so  named  for  the  Lower  Dublin  Acad- 


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emy,  located  there),  near  Holmesburg.     The  Fosters  came  from  New  England, 
and  the  Thomas  family  from  Wales. 

Benjamin  and  Maria  Crispin  began  their  married  life  at  "Bellevue,"  the  old 
Crispin  homestead  on  the  Welsh  road,  but  subsequently  removed  to  a  house  on 
Main  street,  now  Frankford  avenue,  corner  of  Mill  street,  Holmesburg,  where 
they  continued  to  reside  the  remainder  of  their  lives ;  Benjamin  Crispin  dying 
there  July  4,  1864,  aged  seventy-two  years,  and  his  widow,  May  13,  1882,  aged 
eighty-two  years.  Both  were  buried  in  the  yard  of  Emmanuel  Church,  Holmes- 
burg. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Maria  (Foster)  Crispin: 

Edward  T.  Crispin,  b.  Oct.  2,  181 7,  d.  in  Phila.  March  29,  1873;  m.  Sarah  Simmons,  of 
Darby,  Delaware  co.,  Pa.,  now  also  dec. ;  children : 
Emily  Crispin,  m.  Martin  Guyant,  and  had  issue: 
Kate  Guyant; 
Edward  Guyant; 
Frank  Guyant. 
Sarah  Crispin,  d.  in  early  life. 
William  Crispin,  b.  July  29,  1819,  d.  at  Holmesburg,  May  12,  1869;  was  for  some  years  a 
trustee  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy;  m.  Mary  Praul,  now  (1907)  living,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-three  years,  dau.  of  John  Praul,  of  Churchville,  Bucks  co.;  two  daughters; 
Maria  Louise  Crispin,  m.  James  C.  Sickle,  now  dec;  d.  March,  1869; 
Catharine  M.   Crispin,  m.  William  Clark,  son  of   George  and  Anne   (Kearney) 
Clark,  of  Holmesburg,  of  whom  some  account  is  hereafter  given ;  and  an  uncle 
of  George  S.  Clark,  who  married  a  granddaughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Crispin, 
and  was  conspicuously  active  in  the  preservation  of  the  old  Burial-Ground,  as 
heretofore  shown : 

William  and  Catharine  M.  (Crispin)  Clark,  had  issue: 

William  Crispin  Clark,  m.  Gertrude  Wilson,  of  Frankford,   Phila.,  and  had 
issue : 
Benjamin  Crispin  Clark; 
John  Wilson  Clark; 
William  Mclntyre  Clark. 
William  Crispin  Clark,  father,  d.  in  May,  1900. 
John  Clark,  living,  unm.; 
Louis  George  Clark,  living,  unm,; 
Benjamin  Fr.^nklin  Crispin,  b.  Aug.  2,  1821 ;  of  whom  presently; 
Eleanor  Jane  Crispin,  b.  Aug.  4,  1823,  d.  unm.; 
Thomas  Holme  Crispin,  b.  June  22,  1824,  d.  unm.; 

Silas  Crispin,  b.  at  Holmesburg,  Sept.  9,  1828;  educated  at  local  schools,  and  the  Phila. 
high  school;  appointed  to  U.  S.  Military  Academy  at  West  Point  by  Hon.  Charles  J. 
Ingersoll,  M.  C,  and  entered  there  July  I,  1846,  graduated  July  i,  1850,  with  distinc- 
tion, being  third  in  his  class;  was  appointed  brevet,  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Ordnance 
Department  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  and  assigned  to  duty  at  the  Arsenal  at  Watervliet,  N.  Y., 
where  he  remained  two  years,  subsequently  serving  at  the  Arsenals  at  Allegheny,  Pa., 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  the  Leavenworth  Ordnance  Depot,  Kan.  In  i860  he  became 
Assistant  Inspector  of  Arsenals,  and  was  promoted  to  Captain  of  Ordnance,  Aug.  3, 
1861,  and  served  in  that  grade  m  the  Civil  War;  was  for  a  time  on  the  staff  of  Gen. 
George  B.  McClellan;  was  also  in  charge  of  the  New  York  Ordnance  Agency;  com- 
mandant of  New  York  Arsenal,  and  President  of  the  Ordnance  Board  for  five  years 
He  received  successive  brevets  up  to  Colonel  in  the  U.  S.  A.  at  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War;  and  promotion  to  actual  rank  as  Major  of  Ordnance,  on  March  7,  1867;  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, April  14,  187s;  and  Colonel  on  Aug.  23,  1881.  After  the  War  he  was 
sent  to  England  by  the  Government  to  study  the  making  of  ordnance.  He  was  the 
inventor  of  a  breech-loading  cannon,  called  the  "Crispin  Gun,"  several  of  which  were 
made  by  the  government  at  a  cost  of  $46,000  each.  Col.  Crispin  was  Commandant  at 
the  Frankford  Arsenal,  Philadelphia,  June,  1885,  to  June,  1886,  and  at  the  Benicita 
Arsenal,  California,  June,  1886,  to  shortly  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  New 
York  City,  Feb.  28,  1889.  He  was  buried  from  the  residence  of  his  niece,  Mrs.  Cath- 
arine M.  Clark,  daughter  of  his  brother,  William  Crispin,  at  Holmesburg,  Philadelphia, 
March  8,   1889.     The   funeral  services  were  held  in   Emmanuel   Protestant   Episcopal 


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Church,  the  Rev.  D.  Caldwell  Millett,  D.  D.,  rector  of  that  parish  officiating.     The 
interment  was  made  in  the  grounds  connected  with  the  church.    Col.  Crispin  had  never 
married; 
Charles  H.  Crispin,  m.   (first)   Elizabeth  Gibbs,  and  had  one  daughter,  Louise  Crispin, 
who  d.  unm.;  m.  (second)  her  sister,  Emma  Gibbs,  and  had  a  son: 

Franklin  Gibbs  Crispin,  D.  D.  S.,  living  in  1901,  at  2029  North  12th  street,  Phila.; 
m.  Lydia  De  Witt. 
The  two  wives  of  Charles  H.  Crispin  were  from  Bucks  co.,  Pa. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Crispin,  third  son  of  Benjamin  and  Maria  (Foster) 
Crispin,  was  born  in  Holmesburg,  Philadelphia,  August  2,  1821,  died  at  his  resi- 
dence, 3258  Chestnut  street,  West  Philadelphia,  July  19,  1898.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy  and  other  educational  institutions,  and  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Collins  &  Crispin,  weighmasters,  and  later  becoming  the 
head  of  the  firm,  the  naine  was  changed  to  B.  F.  Crispin  &  Company,  and  he 
remained  at  its  head  the  remainder  of  his  life.  The  firm  was  the  leading  one  of 
weiglimasters  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  Mr.  Crispin  was  favorably  known 
in  commercial  circles,  as  an  able,  energetic  and  upright  business  man.  He  con- 
tinued to  reside  in  Holmesburg  until  1873,  when,  having  lost  his  first  wife  and  a 
daughter,  he  removed  to  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  resided  there  for  a  number  of 
years,  finally  removing  to  West  Philadelphia,  where  he  died.  While  a  resident  of 
Holmesburg,  he  took  an  active  interest  in  local  affairs.  He  was  for  a  number  of 
years  Secretary  of  the  Frankford  and  Holmesburg  Railroad  Company ;  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Holmesburg  Public  Library  and  served  as  its  President  for 
a  number  of  years.  In  1871  he  was  elected  a  Trustee  of  the  Lower  Dublin  Acad- 
emy, and  in  1891  was  made  President  of  the  Board,  a  position  previously  held  by 
his  father,  and  held  that  position  to  the  time  of  his  death,  presiding  at  a  banquet 
given  in  January,  1894,  at  the  Green  Tree  Hotel,  Holmesburg,  to  celebrate  the  one 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  the  Board.  He  was  elected  in  1872 
a  vestryman  of  Emmanuel  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  an  office  also  held  by  his 
father,  whom  he  also  succeeded  as  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Crispin  Cemetery  Corporation,  an  account  of  which  is  given  above,  and  served  in 
that  position  until  his  death. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Crispin  married  (first)  June  29,  1845,  Elizabeth  R.,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Sarah  Glenn,  of  Holmesburg.  She  died  March  31,  1873,  and  he 
married  (second)  Catharine  Roe.  His  children  were,  however,  all  by  first  wife. 
Issue  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and  Elizabeth  R.  (Glenn)  Crispin: 

Benjamin  Franklin  Crispin,  Jr.,  b.  July  21,  1847,  of  whom  presently; 

Robert  Glenn  Crispin,  b.  at  Holmesburg,  Phila.,  Feb.  4.  1849;  received  his  early  educa- 
tion at  the  Episcopal  Academy,  Phila.  1872,  went  to  Berwick,  Pa.,  where  he  became 
connected  with  the  Jackson  and  Woodin  Manufacturing  Company.  He  became  after 
a  time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bowman  &  Crispin.  For  several  years  he  resided  at 
Rupert,  Pa.  In  iq02  he  returned  to  Berwick  and  was  elected  Teller  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Berwick,  which  position  he  still  occupies;  m.  Sept.  10,  1873,  at  Ber- 
wick, Frances  M.,  b.  at  Berwick,  Pa.,  Dec.  4,  1852,  dau.  of  Seth  B.  and  Louise  F. 
(Doane)  Bowman,  of  Berwick.  Her  mother  was  a  great-granddaughter  of  Hannah 
Sharpless,  who  m.  May  23,  1771,  William  Iddings,  and  this  Hannah  Sharpless  was  a 
great-granddaughter  of  John  .Sharpless,  founder  of  the  Sharpless  family  of  Chester 
CO.,  Pa.,  before  referred  to  in  these  pages. 
Robert  Glenn  and  Frances  M.  (Bon'man)  Crispin  had  issue: 
A  son,  b.  April  12,  1875,  d.  the  same  day. 

William  Henry  Crispin,  b.  in  Phila.,  June  11,  1851 ;  m.  May  27,  1875,  Matilda,  dau.  of 
John  Mitchell,  of  Phila.,  and  they  resided  for  a  number  of  years  in  that  city,  but  finally 
removed  to  Beverly,  N.  J.,  where  they  now  reside;  they  have  issue,  one  son: 


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Franklin  Mitchell  Crispin,  b.  Phila.,  April  13,  1876;  m.  1905,  Emma  Fowler,  dau. 
of  late  Joseph  D.  Weeks,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  at  one  time  editor  of  the  "Iron  Age." 

Sarah  Frances  Crispin,  wife  of  Hon.  George  S.  Clark;  of  whom  later; 

Elizabeth  Glenn  Crispin,  d.  unm.  June  2,  1873,  aged  about  eighteen  years ; 

Mlaria  Crispin,  b.  in  Holmesburg,  Phila. ;  m.  William  Emerson  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Berwick, 
Pa.,  who  d.  Jan.  7,  1891,  and  his  widow  returned  to  near  her  old  home,  and  is  now 
(1907)  living  at  Torresdale,  Phila.;  of  their  four  children,  three  died  in  early  child- 
hood ;  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Crispin  Smith,  is  living  unm.  with  her  mother  at  Torres- 
dale,  Phila.,  Pa.; 

Charles  Edwin  Crispin,  now  living  in  Phila. ; 

Louis  Crispin,  b.  at  Holmesburg,  Dec.  30,  1863 ;  m.  1881,  Susan  Church,  of  Laurelton, 
Pa. ;  they  lived  at  Laurelton,  and  then  moved  to  New  York  City,  where  they  now 
reside ;  issue :  Charles  Edwin  Crispin,  Jr.,  b.  Laurelton,  Pa.,  June  7,  1882. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Crispin  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  B.  Franklin  and  Elizabeth  R. 
(Glenn)  Crispin,  born  in  Holmesburg,  Philadelphia,  July  21,  1847,  received  his 
early  education  at  the  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  later  attending  the  high  schools  of 
Philadelphia.  He  started  in  business  in  Philadelphia  in  1863,  and  was  later  em- 
ployed with  his  father  in  the  firm  of  B.  F.  Crispin  &  Company,  of  Philadelphia. 
In  1872  he  removed  to  Berwick,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  elected  superintendent  of 
the  Berwick  Rolling  Mill  Company's  plant  there.  He  became  from  time  to  time 
interested  in  nearly  all  the  leading  enterprises  of  the  town.  In  1876 
he  was  elected  teller  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Berwick,  in  1879 
a  director,  in  1891  vice-president,  and  in  1894  president.  In  1892  he  was 
elected  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Berwick  Electric  Light  Company,  of  which 
he  was  the  founder.  In  1894  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Mountain  Grove 
Camp  Meeting  Association.  The  same  year  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Managers  of  the  Berwick  Store  Company,  Limited,  which  position  he  held  un- 
til March  i,  1899.  I"  1898  he  was  elected  vice-president  of  the  Legrange  Light 
&  Water  Company,  of  Legrange,  Illinois.  In  1876  he  was  elected  a  trustee  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  Berwick,  and  in  1895  president  of  the  Board. 
In  1894  he  was  made  trustee  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  was 
for  ten  years  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Berwick  and  served  several 
terms  as  president.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Berwick,  Pennsylvania,  July  3,  1905, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Berwick  Cemetery,  July  6. 

B.  F.  Crispin  Jr.,  of  Berwick,  married,  in  1874,  Margaret,  born  November  19, 
1853,  daughter  of  Hon.  Mordecai  W.  Jackson,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Jack- 
son &  Woodin  Manufacturing  Company,  now  the  Berwick  District  of  the  Ameri- 
can Car  &  Foundry  Company.     They  had  issue: 

Mordecai  Jackson  Crispin,  b.  in  Berwick,  May  13,  1875 ;  received  his  early  education  in 
Berwick  high  school ;  in  Sept.,  1892,  entered  Academic  Course  at  Princeton  Univ.,  and 
grad.  in  June,  1896.  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  was  employed  from  1896  to 
1901  at  First  National  Bank  of  Berwick  and  with  Jackson  &  Woodin  Manufacturing 
Company.  Feb.  i,  1901,  he  was  elected  director,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  U.  S.  Metal 
&  Mfg.  Co.  of  165  Broadway,  New  York  City,  and  removed  to  that  city.  On  Jan.  31, 
1907,  he  was  elected  General  Manager.  On  Sept.  23,  1899,  he  was  elected  a  trustee  of 
Crispin  Cemetery  Association.  In  Sept.,  1903,  he  was  elected  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Berwick,  Pa.  Jan.  14,  1908,  was  elected  vice-pres.,  and  July  12, 
1909.  was  elected  pres.  of  the  bank.  He  m.  June  7,  1900,  in  M.  E.  Church  of  Berwick, 
Marie,  b.  at  Beach  Haven,  Pa.,  July  2,  1874,  dau.  of  F.  E.  Brockway,  Captain  of  Ar- 
tillery in  Civil  War ;  they  had  issue :  Elizabeth  Brockway  Crispin,  b.  Jan.  3,  1905,  in 
New  York  City. 

Clarence  Gearhart  Crispin,  b.  at  Berwick,  Pa.,  Sept.  27,  1879 ;  received  his  early  educa- 
tion at  Berwick  high  school,  and  Wj'oming  Seminary,  Kingston,  Pa.  In  1898  entered 
Cornell  Univ.,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity,  and 
grad.  in  June,   1902,  with  degree  of  Mechanical  Engineer.     He  was  employed  by  the 


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Railway  Steel  Spring  Co.,  New  York  City,  during  1902-03,  as  assistant  engineer,  in  the 
mechanical  departrnent.  In  June,  1903,  he  returned  to  Berwick  to  live  and  was  elected 
7ice-prcs.  of  Berwick  Water  Company,  and  pres.  of  Subsidiary  Companies  of  Berwick 
Water  Company.  In  Sept.,  1903,  he  was  elected  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Berwick  and  in  Jan.,  1905,  was  made  chairman  of  the  Berwick  Store  Company, 
Limited.  In  Jan.,  1908,  elected  Assist.  District  Manager  of  Berwick  District  of  Amer- 
ican Car  &  Foundry  Co. ;  in  same  year  elected  president  of  American  Forged  Nut  Co. ; 
in  1909  made  vice-president  of  First  National  Bank,  and  in  191 1  elected  to  presidency 
of  Multiplex  Manufacturing  Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Racquet  Club  of  Phila. 
M,  Oct.  19.  1904.  Mae  Lovely,  b.  March  i.  1882,  at  Berwick,  Pa.,  dau.  of  Frederick  H. 
Eaton,  pres.  of  the  American  Car  &  Foundry  Cornpany,  with  executive  offices.  New 
York  City.  Mrs.  Crispin  received  her  early  education  at  Miss  Dana's  school,  Morris- 
town,  N.  J.,  and  later  attended  the  Merrill-Van  Laer  school  in  N.  Y.  City.  They  had 
issue:  Benjamin  Eaton  Crispin,  b.  Oct.  10,  1905:  Frederick  Eaton  Crispin,  b.  Sept.  17, 

^   1906. 

Helen  Jean  Crispin,  b.  Jan.  11,  1886,  at  Berwick,  Pa.;  received  her  early  education  at  the 
Berwick  high  school,  later  at  National  Park  Seminary,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  at  the 
Merrill-Van   Laer  School,  New  York  City. 

Sarah  Frances  Crispin,  daughter  of  B.  Franklin  and  Elizabeth  R.  (Glenn) 
Crispin,  married,  June  4,  1874,  Hon.  George  S.  Clark,  of  Holmesburg,  Philadel- 
phia, and  resides  there.  She  was  much  interested  in  the  preservation  of  the 
Crispin  Burying-Ground,  and  at  one  time  raised  a  fund,  among  her  relatives,  for 
fencing  the  ground.  Her  husband,  George  S.  Clark,  was  a  grandson  of  George 
Clark,  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  at  Holmesburg.  George  Clark,  grandfather, 
was  born  in  county  Donegal,  Ireland,  1797;  married  there,  1821,  Anne  Kearney, 
and  in  1822  they  came  to  America  settling  first  in  Philadelphia,  but  soon  after- 
ward removing  to  Oxford,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  Mr.  Clark  began 
his  active  career  as  a  constructor  of  public  works;  being  one  of  the  first  to  engage 
in  railroad  contracting  in  Pennsylvania,  an  occupation  he  pursued  with  much  en- 
ei^  and  success  for  many  years. 

In  1840  Mr.  Clark  returned  with  his  family  to  Philadelphia,  and  that  year 
purchased  of  Joseph  Gillingham  the  old  Crispin  homestead  on  the  Welsh  road, 
known  as  "Bellevue,"  about  one  mile  above  Holmesburg.  This  was  part  of  the 
original  tract  taken  up  by  Thomas  Holmes,  from  whom  it  had  descended  through 
six  generations  to  Hon.  Benjamin  Crispin,  who  sold  it  to  Joseph  Gillingham,  who 
erected  the  present  mansion  thereon  in  1828.  Here  George  Clark  resided  until 
his  death,  in  January,  1875.  The  homestead  "Bellevue"  was  purchased  from  the 
other  heirs,  in  1879,  by  his  grandson,  George  S.  Clark,  who  had  married  Sarah 
Frances  Crispin,  whose  ancestors  had  owned  and  occupied  it  for  nearly  a  century 
and  a  half.  George  Clark  Sr.  was  one  of  the  constructors  of  the  Welland  Canal, 
Canada;  the  Boston  Water  Works;  the  Croton  Water  Works  (New  York)  ;  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad ;  the  Chestnut  Street  Bridge,  Philadelphia ;  the  Pennsyl- 
vania &  Delaware  Railroad ;  the  Peach  Bottom  Railroad ;  the  Frankford  & 
Holmesburg  Railroad,  and  many  other  important  works. 

He  belonged  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  a  liberal  contributor  toward 
the  erection  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Holmesburg,  where  he  was  a  communi- 
cant and  regular  attendant.  He  was  buried  at  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  near  Frank- 
ford.  He  had  five  sons  in  the  Union  Army  during  the  Civil  War,  one  of  whom, 
George  Clark  Jr.,  of  the  Thirteenth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  was  killed  in  action  in 
Virginia,  in  1862.  Another  son,  William  Clark,  married  Catharine  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Crispin,  of  Holmesburg,  as  before  stated,  a  granddaughter  of 
Hon.   Benjamin   Crispin. 


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Lieut. -Col.  John  Clark,  eldest  son  of  George  and  Anne  (Kearney)  Clark,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  in  1822,  was  the  father  of  George  S.  Clark,  first  above  mentioned. 
Col.  Clark,  when  he  had  completed  his  education,  engaged  with  his  father  in  the 
construction  of  public  works,  the  first  being  the  Welland  Canal.  He  was  a  con- 
tractor on  some  of  the  largest  public  works  in  the  country,  notably  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad,  Hudson  River  Railroad,  North  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  Croton 
Water  Works,  of  New  York  City,  Boston  Water  Works,  etc.  After  locating  in 
Philadelphia,  he  served  one  term  in  the  Common  Council  of  that  city  from  the  old 
Twenty-third  Ward.    He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Stock  Exchange. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  in  1861,  John  Clark  was  unanimously  elected 
captain  of  the  company  of  volunteers  raised  in  and  around  Holmesburg,  which 
company  was  incorporated  in  the  Third  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Reserves  (Thirty- 
second  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry),  and  went  with  that  regiment  to  the 
front.  He  was  in  service  for  three  years,  taking  part  in  the  battles  of  Mechanics- 
ville,  Gaines'  Mills,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill,  Manassas,  South  Mountain,  Antietam, 
and  other  engagements.  Having  been  promoted  to  lieutenant-colonel,  he  com- 
manded his  regiment  at  Antietam,  and  received  at  Manassas  a  slight  wound,  which 
was  further  aggravated  by  a  severe  fall  from  his  horse,  but  he  continued  at  the 
head  of  his  regiment  during  the  entire  battle.  In  1862  he  was  detached  from  his 
regiment  and  detailed  by  the  War  Department  for  service  in  the  construction  de- 
partment of  the  United  States  military  railroads,  and  given  charge  of  the  Acquia 
&  Fredericksburg  railroad.  He  was  later  sent  to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  on  similar 
service,  and  remained  in  the  west  until  his  three  years  term  of  service  had  expired. 
In  1866  he  built  the  Warren  &  Franklin  railroad,  in  the  oil  region  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  was  also  engaged  on  the  Lehigh  &  Susquehanna  railroad,  the  Union  railroad 
of  Baltimore,  etc.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Legislature  in  1868-69, 
and  was  Speaker  of  the  House  in  the  latter  year.  Mr.  Clark  was  a  man  of  hand- 
some appearance  and  commanding  presence,  genial  in  manner  and  generous  in  dis- 
position. His  war  record  was  given  in  Major  E.  M.  Woodward's  "History  of  the 
3d.  Penna.  Reserves,"  which  contains  a  portrait  of  him,  as  does  also.  "The  Bristol 
Pike,"  by  Rev.  S.  F.  Hotchkin.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Commandery,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  was  a  trustee  of  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  and  a  regular  attendant  at  Em- 
manuel Church,  Holmesburg.  While  engaged  in  the  construction  of  the  Welland 
Canal,  Mr.  Clark  married  Elizabeth  M.,  only  daughter  of  E.  W.  Stephenson,  a 
prominent  citizen  of  St.  Catharine's,  Ontario,  Canada.  They  resided  for  a  short 
period  in  Boston,  and  West  Needham,  Massachusetts,  Tarrytown,  New  York,  and 
several  years  at  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania.  In  1858  they  removed  to  Holmes- 
burg, where  he  purchased  the  house  at  Main  street,  now  Frankford  avenue,  and 
Mill  street,  now  known  as  the  Dr.  Peale  house,  diagonally  opposite  Hon.  Benja- 
min Crispin's  residence.  Here  Col.  Clark  died  May  30,  1872.  He  is  buried  in 
Emmanuel  Churchyard,  Holmesburg. 

George  Stephenson  Clark,  son  of  Col.  John  and  Elizabeth  M.  (Stephenson) 
Clark,  born  January  3,  1850,  at  St.  Catharine's,  Canada,  was  but  eight  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  took  up  their  residence  in  Holmesburg.  He  was  educated  at 
Prof.  Wall's  Classical  School,  Holmesburg,  at  Rev.  Dr.  T.  H.  Wells's  Boarding 
School,  Andalusia,  Bucks  county,  the  Episcopal  Academy,  Philadelphia,  and  at  the 
Law  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.     His  legal  preceptor  was 


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David  W.  Sellers,  Esq.,  and  he  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  in  1871. 
Mr.  Clark  represented  the  Twenty-third  Legislature  District,  Pennsylvania  Legis- 
lature, in  1881-83.  He  has  been  a  vestryman  of  Emmanuel  Church,  a  trustee  of 
the  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  a  trustee  of  the  Holmesburg  Athenaeum  Association, 
all  of  which  ofifices  might  almost  be  said  to  be  hereditary  in  his  own  and  his  wife's 
families.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  As 
before  stated  George  S.  Clark  married,  June  4,  1874,  Sarah  Frances  Crispin,  and 
as  shown  in  the  preceding  pages  took  an  active  part  in  the  preservation  of  the  old 
Crispin  Burial-Ground.  In  1879  he  purchased  of  the  heirs  of  his  grandfather, 
"Bellevue,"  the  old  Crispin  homestead  on  the  Welsh  road,  so  long  the  residence 
of  his  wife's  ancestors,  and  retained  it  until  1884.  He  afterwards  purchased  the 
handsome  residence  surrounded  by  extensive  grounds  at  Decatur  street  and  Dela- 
ware avenue,  Holmesburg,  built  by  Andreas  Hartel.  The  house  originally  faced 
Delaware  avenue,  but  was  moved  to  face  Decatur  street. 

Issue  of  Hon.  George  S.  and  Sarah  Frances  (Crispin)  Clark: 

John  Stephenson  Clark,  b.  Aug.  i,  18/5;  trustee  of  Lower  Dubhn  Academy,  and  trustee 
of  the  Crispin  Cemetery  Corporation,  succeeding  his  grandfather,  B.  F.  Crispin,  in 
both  these  offices.  He  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  Frances  (Risdon) 
Rowland.  Her  father,  Jonathan  Rowland,  son  of  Maxwell  and  Matilda  Rowland, 
and  grandson  of  Jonathan  Rowland,  Sr.,  who  about  1829  established  the  Rowland 
Shovel  Works  on  the  Pennypack,  once  Holmesburg's  principal  industry,  and  of  a 
family  that  has  been  prominent  in  the  neighborhood  of  Frankford  and  Holmesburg 
since  early  Colonial  times,  was  b.  in  Holmesburg,  March  28,  1856,  and  graduated  from 
the  Polytechnic  College,  Phila.,  1874,  with  degree  of  Civil  Engineer.  He  was  a  vestry- 
man of  Emanuel  Church,  trustee  of  Lower  Dublin  Academy,  and  an  official  in  many 
corporations  in  Holmesburg  and  elsewhere.  They  had  issue : 
John  Maxwell  Rodman  Clark. 

Benjamin  Crispin  Clark,  b.  March  28,  1877,  d.  Dec.  24,  1878; 

Arthur  Douglass  Clark,  b.  August  14,  1883; 

Elizabeth  Frances  Clark,  b.  Sept.  16,  1878. 

Eleanor  Crispin,  daughter  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Holme)  Crispin,  and  grand- 
daughter of  both  Capt.  William  Crispin  and  of  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  born  Sep- 
tember II,  1687,  married,  November  25,  1708,  John  Hart,  Jr.,  of  Warminster 
township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  son  of  John  Hart,  who  came  from  Witney, 
Oxfordshire,  England,  in  1682,  and  grandson  of  Christopher  Hart. 

Christopher  and  Mary  Hart  were  members  of  Society  of  Friends,  living  at 
Witney,  Oxfordshire,  which  town  is  described  in  Playfair's  Geography,  publish- 
ed in  1809,  as  "a  long  town,  consisting  of  two  streets,  of  which  the  principal  one  is 
spacious,  with  a  church  at  the  upper  end.  It  is  eight  miles  West-north-west  from 
Oxford,  and  five  miles  from  Bampton.  It  is  situated  on  the  Windrush  that  runs 
southeast  to  the  Issis."  In  that  neighborhood  was  Wichwood  Forest,  once  of  great 
extent. 

Christopher  and  Mary  Hart  had  issue: 

John.  b.  Nov.  16,  1651,  of  whom  presently; 

Sir  Robert  Hart,  b.  Aug.  i,  1655;  lived  in  London,  where  he  m.  and  had  children; 
Mary,  b.  April  i,  1658;  accompanied  her  brother  John  to  Pa.,  where  she  d.  unm.; 
Joseph,  b.  Oct.  24,  1661;  went  to  the  island  of  Jamaica,  where  he  acquired  great  wealth, 

John  Hart,  eldest  son  of  Christopher  and  Mary  Ilart.  born  at  Witney,  Oxford- 


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shire,  England,  November  i6,  165 1,  came  to  Pennsylvania,  when  about  thirty  years 
of  age.  By  deeds  of  lease  and  release  dated  October  11  and  12,  1681,  he  purchased 
of  William  Penn,  of  Worminghurst,  county  Surrey,  England,  Proprietary  of 
Pennsylvania,  1000  acres  of  land  to  be  laid  out  in  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  summer  of  1682,  possibly  in  the  same  ship  with 
Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  stopping  for  a  while  at  Upland,  or  Chester,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Grand  Jury,  September  12,  1682.  He  soon  after  this  date  removed 
to  Byberry  township,  Philadelphia  county,  where  484  acres  of  his  purchase  were 
laid  out  as  early  as  1683.  In  1684,  485  acres  more  of  his  1000  acres  were  laid  out 
in  Warminster  township,  Bucks  county.  The  Byberry  tract  is  now  owned  by  Gen. 
Edward  de  V.  Morrell,  and  the  Drexel  family,  but  the  so-called  "hipped-roof  Hart 
House,"  near  Morrell's  entrance,  is  not  the  house  built  by  John  Hart,  but  the  one 
erected  by  Thomas  Rush,  husband  of  Esther  Crispin,  sister  to  Eleanor,  wife  of 
John  Hart,  Jr.,  in  1731,  on  seventy-two  acres  sold  by  John  Hart  to  James  Rush, 
father  of  Thomas,  August  8,  1697.  John  Hart  sold  the  remainder  of  his  Byberry 
land  at  about  the  same  date,  reserving  his  private  burial  ground,  which,  however, 
he  later  made  over  to  Abington  Monthly  Meeting,  for  public  use ;  his  great-grand- 
son, John  Hart,  released  it  to  the  Overseers  of  the  Poor  for  Byberry  township. 
May  30,  1786.  In  the  year  1697,  or  perhaps  a  little  earlier,  John  Hart  removed  to 
his  plantation  in  Warminster  township,  Bucks  county,  where  his  descendants  re- 
mained for  many  generations  and  were  one  of  the  most  distinguished  families  of 
the  county. 

John  Hart  was  a  member  of  Colonial  Assembly  from  Philadelphia  county,  1683- 
84,  and  signed  the  first  "Form  of  Government"  2mo.  2,  1683.  At  the  time  of  com- 
ing to  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania  he  was  of  such  standing  in  the  Society  of 
Friends  as  to  become  a  minister  of  ability  and  influence ;  he  at  once  took  a  leading 
position  among  Friends  in  the  Province,  and  was  probably  their  leading  minister. 
The  meetings  of  the  Society,  including  the  monthly  meetings,  were  held  at  his 
house  until  1686.  when  the  Meeting  House  was  erected,  and  he  filled  the  position 
of  clerk  of  the  Monthly  Meeting,  and  was  trustee  of  the  lands  held  by  the  meeting 
and  served  on  many  of  its  important  committees.  In  1691  he  joined  George 
Keith's  schism,  and  carried  with  him  the  greater  part  of  his  family  connection,  in- 
cluding the  Rush  and  Collett  families.  Next  to  Keith  himself,  John  Hart  was 
the  most  important  member  of  their  organization.  But  at  about  the  time  John 
Hart  removed  to  Warminster  the  Keithians  had  disintegrated  and  he  and  many 
others  became  Baptists.  In  1702  he  joined  Pennypack  Baptist  Church,  in  Lower 
Dublin  township,  and  was  made  assistant  minister,  and  became  as  satisfactory  a 
preacher  among  the  Baptists  as  he  had  among  the  Quakers.  He  died  in  War- 
minster township,  Bucks  county,  in  September,  1714,  and  was  buried  in  the  Penny- 
pack  graveyard.  Robert  Proud,  in  his  "History  of  Pennsylvania"  describes  John 
Hart,  as  a  "man  of  rank,  character,  and  reputation."  In  collaboration  with  Thomas 
Budd  he  wrote  a  small  book  on  religious  matters,  one  of  the  earliest  books  publish- 
ed in  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 

John  Hart  married,  in  1683,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Susanna 
(Lucas)  Rush,  of  Byberry.  During  the  Civil  War  in  England,  her  father,  John 
Rush,  commanded  a  troop  of  horse  in  the  Parliamentary  Army.  On  June  8,  1648, 
he  married  Susanna  Lucas,  at  Harton,  Oxfordshire.  About  1660  they  embraced 
the  principles  of  Friends,  and  in  1682  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania,  where  Capt. 


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Rush  took  up  a  tract  of  land,  laid  out  for  500  acres,  in  Byberry  township,  Phila- 
delphia county,  adjoining  that  of  his  future  son-in-law,  John  Hart.  They  were 
the  ancestors  of  the  well-known  Rush  family  of  Philadelphia,  including  the  cele- 
brated Dr.  Benjamin  Rush;  Dr.  James  Rush,  who  founded  the  Ridgway  Library, 
and  to  whom  descended  Capt.  John  Rush's  sword  and  watch ;  Col.  Richard  Rush, 
of  "Rush's  Lancers,"  and  many  others  prominent  in  affairs  and  in  Philadelphia  Soci- 
ety. The  earlier  generations  of  the  Rush  family  were  largely  intermarried  with 
the  Harts,  Crispins  and  Colletts,  and  continued  to  live  many  generations  on  the 
original  tract  taken  up  by  Capt.  John  Rush  in  Byberry  and  some  of  them  on  the 
original  Hart  tract  in  that  township.  Many  of  them  were  buried  in  the  Hart 
burial-ground  above  mentioned.  In  his  later  years  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush  visited 
this  graveyard,  and  his  own  birthplace  nearby,  and  embraced  a  large  tree  which 
had  been  planted  by  his  father ;  the  incidents  of  which  trip  he  described  in  a  letter 
quoted  by  Watson,  in  his  "Annals  of  Philadelphia,"  and  others ;  which  letter  is  of 
much  local  historical  value,  except  that  Dr.  Rush  woefully  misinterpreted  his 
grandfather's  social  position,  because  he  had  heard  him  called  a  "gunsmith."  Sus- 
anna (Rush)  Hart  died  February  27,  1725. 
John  and  Susanna  (Rush)  Hart  had  issue: 

John  Hart,  Jr.,  b.  July  16,  1684;  m.  Eleanor  Crispin,  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Hart.  m.  Esther :  inherited  200  acres  of  his  father's  Warminster  planta- 
tion, but  sold  it  to  James  Rush,  Dec.  11,  1719; 

Joseph  Hart,  m.  April  2,  1713,  Sarah  Stout;  d.  1714,  probably  without  issue; 

Josiah  Hart,  was  granted  a  letter  of  dismission  from  Pennepack  Baptist  Church,  Aug. 
12,  1715,  to  "Cokehansey"  probably  Cohansey,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey,  where 
there  was  a  Baptist  Church  established  as  early  as  1683; 

Mary  Hart,  d.  1721,  probably  unm. 

John  Hart,  Jr.,  born  on  his  father's  plantation  in  Byberry,  Philadelphia  county, 
Pennsylvania,  July  16,  1684,  died  on  his  own  plantation  in  Warminster  township, 
Bucks  county,  March  22,  1763.  He  was  a  Justice  of  Bucks  County  Courts,  as 
early  as  1726,  and  still  in  commission  as  late  as  1757.  In  the  meantime,  however, 
he  was  High  Sheriff  of  Bucks  county,  1738-39-43-44-45-48-49;  and  Coroner,  1741- 
42.  He  inherited  200  acres  of  his  father's  Wanninster  plantation,  and  lived  there 
all  his  life,  being  a  man  of  wealth  for  the  times.  He  was  among  the  founders  of 
the  Southampton  Baptist  Church,  an  offspring  from  Pennypack,  April  8,  1746,  and 
was  elected  the  first  deacon  on  May  8,  of  the  same  year.  He  was  a  pillar  of  this 
church  to  the  day  of  his  death  and  its  clerk  from  the  organization  until  1762 ;  also 
trustee  of  the  church's  real  estate.  He  built  the  family  mansion  on  the  War- 
minster plantation  (though  his  father  no  doubt  had  a  house  there  previously)  the 
date  stone  of  which  has  his  own  and  his  wife's  initials,  "Hart,  John  and  Eleanor," 
and  the  date  1750.  He  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  Southampton  Baptist 
Church,  beside  his  wife,  Eleanor  Crispin,  who  died  October  29,  1754. 
Issue  of  John  and  Eleanor  (Crispin)  Hart: 

John,  b.  Sept.  10,  1709,  d.  unm.  June  11,  1743,  in  Va.;  killed  by  the  accidental  discharge 

of  a  gun  in  his  own  hands; 
Susanna,  b.  April  20,  171 1,  d.  March  30,  1733.  m.  March  31,  1731,  John  Price; 
William,  b.  March  7,  1713,  d.  Oct.  6,  1714; 

Joseph  Hart,  b.  Sept.  i,  1715,  d.  Feb.  25,  1788;  m.  Elizabeth  CoUett,  of  whom  presently; 
Silas,  b.  May  5,  1718.  d.  Oct.  29,  1785;  moved  to  Augusta  co.,  Va.,  where  he  m.  Sept.  26, 


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1749;  in  1778,  when  Rockingham  co.  was  set  off  from  Augusta,  he  was  made  a  Justice 
of  the  County  Court  and  Sheriff  of  the  new  county; 

Lucretia,  b.  July  22,  1720,  d.  Dec.  15,  1760:  m.  (first)  Oct.  15,  1741,  William  Gilbert,  of 
Warminster;  (second)  March  5,  1752,  John  Thomas;  some  branches  of  her  descend- 
ants are  among  the  prominent  families  of  Harford  co.,  Md.,  and  others  in  Phila.; 

Rev.  Oliver  Hart,  b.  July  5,  1723,  d.  Dec.  31,  1795;  m.  (first)  Sarah,  dau.  of  Henry  and 
Hannah  Breece,  of  Bensalem  twp.,  Bucks  co.;  (second)  April  5,  1774,  Anna  Maria 
(Sealy)  Grimball,  widow  of  Charles  Grimball,  of  Charleston,  and  dau.  of  William 
and  Sarah  Sealy,  of  Eutaw,  S.  C.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  Southampton  Baptist 
Church,  and  with  his  father  one  of  its  founders.  In  1749  he  became  pastor  of  the 
First  Baptist  Curch  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  the  College  of  Rhode  Island  made  him 
Master  of  Arts  at  its  first  commencement,  in  1769.  "The  breaking  out  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  found  Mr.  Hart  laboring  in  his  church;  but  when  the  tocsin  of  war  was 
sounded  it  filled  him  with  the  same  patriotic  ardor  that  burned  in  the  bosoms  of  other 
members  of  his  family."  He  served  on  important  commissions  for  the  Provincial 
Congress  of  S.  C,  and  received  the  thanks  of  that  body.  When  the  British  captured 
Charleston,  he  returned  to  Wai  minster,  Bucks  county,  and  never  went  back  to  S.  C; 
but  his  descendants  to-day  include  many  of  the  most  distinguished  families  of  that 
state,  and  of  Georgia,  and  neighboring  states,  bearing  the  names  of  Lee,  Coxe,  Screven, 
etc.,  as  well  as  Hart.  He  died  at  Hopewell,  N.  J.,  while  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church 
there,  but  was  buried  in  his  ancestral  churchyard  at  Southampton,  Bucks  co.,  Pa.; 

Edith,  b.  May  4,  1727,  d.  March  27,  1805;  m.  Sept.  29,  1748,  Isaac  Hough,  a  landed  pro- 
prietor of  Warminster  twp.,  member  of  Warminster  Company  of  Associators,  177S, 
and  serving  on  important  committees  under  the  Bucks  County  (Committee  of  Safety 
during  the  Revolution.  He  was  son  of  John  Hough.  Justice  of  Bucks  County's  Courts, 
and  grandson  of  Richard  Hough,  Provincial  Councillor,  1693-1700,  and  member  of 
Assembly  eight  terms,  between  1684  and  1704; 

Seth,  b.  June  11,  1731,  d.  Oct.  31,  1740; 

OHve,  b.  July  3,  1734,  d.  Aug.  13,  1734. 

Col.  Joseph  Hart,  son  of  John  Jr.  and  Eleanor  (Crispin)  Hart,  and  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  patriots  in  Bucks  county  during  the  Revolution,  was  born  in  the 
old  family  mansion  in  Warminster  township,  September  i,  1715,  died  there  Febru- 
ary 25,  1788.  He  inherited,  as  eldest  son,  200  acres  of  his  father's  plantation  on 
which  was  located  the  family  mansion,  and  added  to  it  by  purchase,  during  his 
father's  lifetime,  the  200  acres  which  had  been  his  Uncle  Thomas's  portion  of  his 
grandfather's  land,  sold  by  Thomas  to  James  Rush,  in  1719.  He  thus  became 
seized  of  400  acres  of  the  484  acres  taken  up  by  his  grandfather,  John  Hart,  Sr., 
in  1684.  With  his  father  and  brother,  Oliver,  as  well  as  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Col- 
lett,  he  was  among  the  founders  of  Southampton  Baptist  Church  in  1746,  and  suc- 
ceeded his  father  as  clerk  in  1762 ;  was  trustee  in  1763,  as  well  as  deacon  and  treas- 
urer. He  was  Sheriff  of  Bucks  county,  1749-50-51 ;  Justice  of  the  County  Courts, 
1747,  and  when  the  various  courts  were  separated  was  Justice  of  the  Court  of 
Quarter  Sessions  and  Common  Pleas,  in  1764. 

In  1747  he  was  ensign  of  the  regiment  of  "Bucks  County  Associators"  com- 
manded by  Col.  Alexander  Graydon,  and  was  promoted  to  captain  after  Brad- 
dock's  defeat  in  1755.  As  the  Revolution  developed  he  early  prepared  to  support 
it.  "He  was  among  the  first  to  gather  up  the  strength  of  the  Colony  before  the 
contest  broke  out."  "His  standing  gave  him  great  influence,  and  he  was  probably 
the  foreinost  man  in  the  county  of  Bucks  in  moulding  public  opinion."  He  was 
one  of  his  county's  representatives  in  the  Provincial  Convention,  held  in  Carpen- 
ter's Hall,  Philadelphia,  July,  1774;  a  member  of  the  Bucks  County  Committee  of 
Safety,  and  chosen  its  chairman,  when  it  organized  January  16,  1775;  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Provincial  Conference  held  at  Carpenter's  Hall,  Philadelphia,  June, 
1776. 

Joseph  Hart  was  elected  July  20,  1775,  colonel  of  the  second  battalion,  Bucks 


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County  Associators,  and  had  his  command  in  the  field  with  the  "Flying  Camp"  in 
the  summer  of  1776.  In  the  summer  of  1777,  Col.  Hart  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  and  took  his  seat,  July  2,  serving 
until  October,  1779.  In  1780  he  was  appointed  County  Lieutenant  for  Bucks.  At 
the  same  time  he  also  held  leading  civil  offices  in  the  county,  having  been  commis- 
sioned Register  of  Wills  for  Bucks  county,  under  the  new  government,  March  21, 
1777,  and  the  county  courts  being  reorganized  he  was  commissioned  Judge  of  the 
Courts  of  Common  Pleas  and  Quarter  Sessions,  June  7,  1784.  The  battle  of 
Crooked  Billet,  now  Hatboro,  was  fought  partly  on  his  homestead  plantation. 

Col.  Joseph  Hart  married,  October  9,  1740,  his  cousin,  Elizabeth,  born  in  By- 
berry.  May  14,  1714,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Crispin)  Collett,  of  Philadel- 
phia county.  She  was  both  his  first  and  second  cousin,  her  mother  being  a  sister 
of  his  mother,  Eleanor  Crispin,  and  her  father  a  first  cousin  to  his  father,  she,  like 
him,  being  descended  from  the  Crispins  and  Rushs;  an  account  of  her  mother, 
Mary  (Crispin)  Collett  (in  earlier  life  called  Marie  or  Maria)  is  given  above  in 
the  list  of  the  children  of  Silas  and  Esther  (Holme)  Crispin.  Elizabeth  (Collett) 
Hart  died  in  Warminster,  February  19,  1788,  less  than  a  week  prior  to  her  hus- 
band, and  both  are  buried  in  Southampton  Baptist  Churchyard. 
Issue  of  Col.  loscph  and  Elizabeth  (Collett)  Hart: 

William,  b.  Dec.  4,  1741,  d.  unm.  Oct.  15,  1760; 

John,  b.  Nov.  29,  1743,  d.  June  5.  1786;  m.  Sept.  13,  1767,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  David  and  Mar- 
garet Reece,  of  the  "Crooked'Billet"  (now  Hatboro),  Montgomery  co.,  then  Philadelphia 
CO.;  he  removed  to  near  Chester,  Delaware  co.,  but  about  1777  returned  to  Warminster, 
and  in  1779  was  made  county  treasurer,  and  removed  to  Newtown,  then  the  county 
seat.  In  1781  he  was  the  victim  of  the  celebrated  robbery,  by  the  notorious  outlaws 
known  as  the  "Doan  Boys,"  their  leader  being  Moses  Doan.  and  lost  £735  of  the 
public  money;  the  legislature  passing  a  bill  for  its  repayment  after  his  death.  He  died 
at  Newtown,  and  was  buried  beside  his  ancestors  in  the  Southampton  Churchyard; 

Silas,  b.  Oct.  4.  1747;  m.  Jan.  29,  1770,  Mary  Daniel,  the  date  and  place  of  his  death  is  un- 
known; 

JosiAH,  b.  July  17,  1749,  d.  Oct.  25,  1800;  m.  Ann  Watts;  of  whom  presently; 

Joseph,  b.  Nov.  21,  1751,  d.  Jan.  30,  1752; 

Joseph,  b.  Dec.  7,  1758,  d.  April  15.  1811;  m.  Dec.  25,  1783,  Ann,  or  Nancy,  dau.  of  Will- 
iam and  Elizabeth  Folwcll,  and  a  sister  to  Wifliam  Watts  Folwell,  a  distinguished 
scholar,  and  a  graduate  of  the  Univ.  Pa.;  she  was  also  a  descendant  of  Dr.  Isaac 
Watts.  Joseph  Hart,  Jr.,  succeeded  to  the  ancestral  homestead  in  Warminster,  d.  in  the 
old  family  mansion  and  was  buried  at  Southampton.  During  the  Whiskey  Insurrec- 
tion of  1794,  he  was  paymaster  of  Col.  Hanna's  brigade.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate  in  1804  and  for  several  years  thereafter,  and  in  the  session  of  1S08  in- 
troduced the  bill  for  removing  the  county  seat  of  Bucks  from  Newtown  to  Doylestown. 
His  son,  John  Hart,  who  with  his  brothers,  Thomas  and  Lewis,  was  a  member  of 
Capt.  William  Purdy's.  Bucks  co.  company  in  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain,  a 
member  of  the  State  Legislature  and  the  incumbent  of  a  number  of  local  offices,  was 
the  father  of  B.  Frank  Hart,  of  Phila.,  many  years  a  prominent  manufacturer  and 
business  man  of  that  city. 

Josi.\H  H.XRT,  second  son  of  Col.  Joseph  Hart,  born  in  the  family  inansion  in 
Warminster,  Bucks  county,  July  17,  1748.  married.  January  11,  1776,  Ann 
(Nancy)  Watts,  born  in  Southampton,  Bucks  county,  October  5,  1759.  daughter 
of  Arthur  and  Sarah  Watts,  of  Southampton,  and  a  sister  to  Hon.  William 
Watts,  many  years  Prothonotary  and  Associate  Justice  of  Bucks  County  Court  of 
Common  Pleas.  She  as  well  as  the  wife  of  her  husband's  brother  Joseph,  Nancy 
Folwell.  was  a  descendant  of  Dr.  Isaac  Watts. 

The  first  of  the  Watts  family  in  Pennsylvania  was  Rev.  John  Watts,  born  in 


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Leeds,  England,  November  3,  1661,  who  settled  in  Lower  Dublin  township,  Phila- 
delphia county,  in  1686,  and  married,  February  23,  1687,  Sarah  Eaton.  He  be- 
came pastor  of  Pennypack  Baptist  Church,  to  which  the  early  Harts  belonged, 
died  there  August  27,  1702,  and  was  buried  at  Cold  Spring  Baptist  Church,  Bristol 
township,  Bucks  county,  the  parents  of  Pennypack. 

Either  he  or  his  son  Stephen,  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Hart,  purchased  200  acres  of 
land  in  Southampton,  on  the  Warminster  line,  near  the  estate  of  the  Hart  family, 
and  the  family  has  been  a  prominent  one  in  Bucks  county  and  elsewhere. 

Josiah  Hart  purchased  of  his  father,  Col.  Joseph  Hart,  April  9,  1777,  a  grist 
and  sawmill  and  a  tract  of  land  on  Pennypack  creek  in  Moreland  township,  Phila- 
delphia, now  Montgomery  county,  and  lived  there  nearly  twenty  years,  or  until 
April,  1795,  when  he  sold  his  Moreland  property  and  removed  to  the  old  Watts 
plantation  in  Southampton,  at  what  is  now  Davisville,  a  portion  of  which,  with 
fifteen  acres  adjoining  in  Warminster,  his  wife  later  inherited  under  the  will  of  her 
father,  Arthur  Watts,  dated  October  16,  1809.  Here  Josiah  Hart  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days,  and  was  buried  with  his  ancestors  at  Southampton  Church- 
yard. He  died  October  25,  1800,  and  his  widow,  March  2,  1815.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent and  active  man  in  the  community,  and  during  the  Revolution  was  captain  of 
the  Moreland  Company  of  Philadelphia  County  Associators. 
Issue  of  Josiah  and  Ann  (Fohvcll)  Hart: 

Sarah,  b.  Nov.  6,  1776,  d.  May  3,  1838;  m.  Dec.  7,  1797,  William  Shelmire ; 

Elizabeih,  b.  Dec.  13,  1779,  d.  Oct.  23,  1834;  m.  March  30,  1797,  Arthur  Yerkes; 

Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  14,  1782,  d.  March  4,  1815;  m.  Sept.  24,  1805,  William  Miles; 

Amy,  b.  June  30,  1784,  d.  Aug.  17,  1847;  m.  John  Davis;  of  whom  presently; 

Frances,  b.  Aug.  27,  1787,  d.  March  7,  1789; 

William  Watts,  b.  June  2,  1790,  d.  Feb.  24,  1815;  admitted  to  Bucks  co.  bar,  June  3,  1813; 
Deputy  Register  of  Wills,  under  his  cousin,  Dr.  William  Hart,  1810;  Deputy  Register 
and  Recorder  of  Deeds  under  John  Pugh,  1813;  Deputy  Prothonotary,  under  his  uncle, 
William  Watts,  March,  181 1;  commissioned  Clerk  of  Orphans'  Court,  Feb.  28,  1814, 
but  resigned  that  position  to  join  the  army  when  news  was  received  at  the  county 
seat  of  the  burning  of  Washington  by  the  British,  and  was  commissioned  Lieutenant 
of  the  company  then  organized,  becoming  later  Adjutant  of  Col.  Thomas  Humphries' 
regiment  at  Marcus  Hook.  Returned  to  Doylestown  at  close  of  war,  was  taken  with 
typhus  fever  and  died  at  the  house  of  his  uncle,  Hon.  William  Watts,  Feb.  24,  1815. 

Amy  Hart,  fourth  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Ann  (Watts)  Hart,  born  in  More- 
land  township,  Philadelphia  county,  June  20,  1784,  was  reared  from  her  eleventh 
year  on  the  old  homestead  of  her  maternal  ancestors  at  Davisville,  Bucks  county, 
and  married  there,  March  23,  1813,  General  John  Davis,  born  August  7,  1788,  son 
of  John  and  Ann  (Simpson)  Davis,  of  Solebury,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
later  of  Maryland. 

William  Davis,  grandfather  of  Gen.  John  Davis,  became  a  resident  of  Solebury 
township,  in  his  youth,  and  while  tradition  relates  that  he  was  of  Welsh  ancestry, 
his  environment  and  associations  strongly  indicate  that  either  he  or  his  father  was 
a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  others  of  the  name  having  emigrated  from  Ulster 
and  settled  on  the  Delaware  in  that  vicinity  shortly  prior  to  the  earliest  record  we 
have  of  him.  He  married,  about  1756,  Sarah  Burleigh,  or  Burley,  daughter  of 
John  Burley,  of  Upper  Makefield  township,  Bucks  county,  who  had  settled  there 
about  1735,  and  lived  the  life  of  a  farmer  in  that  vicinity,  dying  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  century.    William  and  Sarah  (Burley)  Davis  had  issue: 


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Jemima  Davis,  b.  Dec.  25,  1758;  m.  John  Pitner,  and  removed  with  him,  first  to  Md., 

later  to  New  Castle,  Del.,  where  the  family  were  prominent  in  affairs; 
John  Davis,  b.  Sept.  6,  1760,  of  whom  presently; 
Sarah,  b.  Oct.  i,  1763;  m.  Lott  Search,  of  Southampton,  Bucks  CO.; 
William  Davis,  b.  Sept.  9,  1766;  became  a  sea  captain  and  died  at  sea; 
Joshua  Davis,  b.  July  6,  1769;  removed  to  Maryland  about  1800,  and  later  to  Ohio; 
Mary,  b.  Oct.  3,  1771; 
Joseph,  b.  March  i.  1774,  of  whom  we  have  no  further  record. 

John  Davis,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Burley)  Davis,  and  the  father  of 
Gen.  John  Davis,  was  born  in  Solebury  or  Upper  Makefield,  Bucks  county,  Sep- 
tember 6,  1760,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  became  a  member  of  Capt.  Samuel 
Smith's  company  in  Col.  Joseph  Hart's  battalion  of  the  "Flying  Camp,"  and  took 
part  in  the  Jersey  campaign  of  1776;  the  following  spring  he  enlisted  in  Capt. 
Butler's  company.  Col.  Butler's  regiment.  Continental  Line,  but  was  later  trans- 
ferred to  the  light  infantry,  tmder  Gen.  the  Alarquis  de  Lafayette,  Capt.  Joseph 
McClelland's  company,  serving  in  all  five  years,  participating  in  the  battles  of 
Brandywine,  Germantown,  Monmouth,  and  the  storming  of  Stony  Point.  At 
Brandywine,  he  assisted  in  carrying  the  wounded  Lafayette  to  a  place  of  safety. 

Returning  to  Bucks  county  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  married,  June  26,  1783, 
Ann  Simpson,  of  Buckingham,  Bucks  county,  where  her  father  was  a  landholder 
and  is  supposed  to  have  been  of  the  same  lineage  as  the  maternal  ancestors  of  Gen. 
U.  S.  Grant,  though  of  this  there  is  no  proof,  and  the  relationship,  if  existing,  is 
somewhat  remote. 

John  and  Ann  (Simpson)  Davis  resided  for  a  time  on  a  farm  in  Solebury,  and 
in  1795  removed  to  Ellicott's  Mills,  Maryland,  and  in  1816  removed  to  Franklin 
county,  Ohio,  where  he  died  January  25,  1832,  and  his  widow,  June  6,  1851.  They 
had  issue,  as  follows  : 

Sarah,  b.  Oct.  12,  1784; 

William,  b.  Aug.  22,  1786; 

Gen.  John,  b.  Aug.  7,  1788,  of  whom  presently; 

Ann,  b.  Nov.  6,  1790; 

Samuel,  b.  1792,  d.  inf. ; 

Joshua,  b.  in  Md.,  June  27,  1796; 

Samuel  S.,  b.  Sept.,  1798; 

Joseph,  b.  Jan.  23,  1803; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  18,  1805. 

Most  of  these  children  removed  with  their  parents  to  the  banks  of  the  Scioto, 
and  became  active  and  useful  members  of  the  community. 

Gen.  John  Davis,  second  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Simpson)  Davis,  born  in  Sole- 
bury township,  Augtist  7,  1788,  removed  with  his  parents  to  Maryland,  but  on  his 
marriage  to  Amy  Hart,  settled  on  his  mother-in-law's  property,  the  old  Watts 
estate  above  mentioned,  in  Southampton,  and  at  the  latter's  death  in  1815  became 
its  owner,  and  resided  in  that  neighborhood  the  remainder  of  his  life ;  the  present 
village  of  Davisville  taking  its  name  from  him.  He  early  became  active  in  public 
affairs.  On  the  news  of  the  burning  of  Washington  reaching  Bucks  county,  a 
meeting  was  called  at  Hart's  tavern  at  the  Cross  roads,  now  Hartsville,  September 
I,  1814,  to  raise  volunteers  to  take  the  field,  and  the  name  of  John  Davis  heads  the 
list  of  the  men  then  enrolled.     He  became  ensign  of  the  company,  and  after  two 


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months  drill,  at  Bush  Hill,  Philadelphia,  the  company  joined  Col.  Humphries  com- 
mand at  Marcus  Hook,  where  they  were  stationed  for  three  months  to  guard  the 
approach  to  Philadelphia. 

Ensign  Davis  at  the  close  of  the  war  joined  the  volunteer  militia,  and  became 
active  therein,  holding  commission  constantly  for  thirty-four  years,  first  as  Cap- 
tain, later  Brigade  Inspector,  Major,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Colonel,  and  was  three 
times  elected  Major  General  of  the  division  composed  of  Bucks  and  Montgomery 
counties.  Gen.  Davis  was  a  natural  politician,  a  Democrat  from  conviction,  and 
was  for  many  years  a  leader  of  that  party  in  Bucks  county.  Sturdy  in  the  ad- 
vocacy of  what  he  conceived  to  be  the  best  interests  of  the  country,  and  an  orator 
of  considerable  ability,  he  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  strong  local  orators  of 
his  party.  He  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Wolf,  in  1833,  one  of  the  appraisers  of 
public  works,  his  first  public  office,  which  he  held  for  three  years.  In  1838  he 
was  elected  to  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States  and  made  a  splendid 
record  as  a  Congressman ;  his  speech  in  favor  of  the  passage  of  the  Independent 
Treasury  Bill,  June  27,  1840,  being  commented  on  throughout  the  country  as  a 
masterly  and  able  one.  He  also  served  on  many  important  committees,  and  was 
fearless  in  his  expression  of  his  views  on  questions  before  the  national  law-making 
body.  On  March  4,  1845,  he  was  appointed  Surveyor  of  the  Port  of  Philadelphia 
and  filled  that  position  for  four  years.  He  was  constantly  active  in  political  mat- 
ters up  to  the  time  of  the  election  of  James  Buchanan  to  the  presidency,  of  whom 
he  was  a  personal  friend  and  an  ardent  advocate  of  his  election.  He,  however, 
disapproved  of  the  president's  attitude  on  the  Kansas  question,  and  other  national 
policies,  and  withdrew  from  active  participation  in  political  affairs  for  a  time.  He 
was,  however,  active  in  raising  troops  and  funds  for  the  putting  down  of  the 
rebellion,  and  had  his  age  permitted  would  have  gone  to  the  front  in  defense  of 
the  constitution. 

In  1829  John  Davis  built  a  store  building  at  Davisville,  and  followed  the  mercan- 
tile business  there,  for  many  year's  filling  the  position  of  postmaster.  He  was  an 
excellent  business  man,  frank  and  straightforward  in  his  dealings  and  of  unswerv- 
ing public  and  private  integrity.  He  and  his  family  were  members  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  religious  and  educational  matters.  He  died  at 
Davisville,  April  8,  1876.  His  wife.  Amy  (Hart)  Davis,  had  died  nearly  thirty 
years  earlier,  August  17,  1847. 

Major  General  John  and  his  zvife  Amy  (Hart)  Davis  had  issue: 

William  Hart  Davis,  b.  May  3.  1814,  d-  July  8,  1815; 

Ann  Hart  Davis,  b.  April  3,  1815;  m.  Dec.  10.  1835,  James  Erwin,  of  Newtown,  Bucks 
CO.,  son  of  Oliver  and  Ann  Erwin;  four  children,  the  only  one  surviving  being  Anna 
Mary,  who  m.  Henry  Mercur,  nephew  Chief  Justice  Ulysses  Mercur,  who  had  married 
her  aunt,  Sarah  Simpson  Davis,  hereafter  mentioned; 

Rebecca  Miles  Davis,  b.  Jan.  27,  1818;  m.  Alfred  T.  Duffield,  who  succeeded  his  father-in- 
law  as  merchant  and  postmaster  at  Davisville ;  died  there  in  1871 ; 

Gen.  William  Watts  Hart  Davis,  of  Doylestown,  b.  July  27,  1820;  m.  June  24,  1856,  Anna 
Carpenter,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  educated  at  the  local  schools,  Doylestown  Academy 
Newtown  Academy,  Dr.  Aaron's  Classical  School  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  and  Partridge'; 
University  and  Military  Academy  at  Norwich,  Ver.,  graduating  at  the  latter  institU' 
tion  in  1842,  with  the  degree  of  A.  M.  and  M.  M.  S.  In  the  same  year  he  \vas  appointed  in. 
structor  of  mathematics  and  commandant  of  cadets  at  Portsmouth  Military  Academy 
Va.,  where  he  remained  for  three  years.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  John  Fox 
at  Doylestown,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bucks  co.  bar,  1846.  In  the  same  year  he 
entered  Harvard  Law  School,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  while  there  enlisted  in  the  First 
Mass.  Infantry,  for  the  Mexican  war,  and  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant  Dec.  31, 


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1846,  of  Capt.  Crowningshield's  company,  in  Col.  Caleb  Cushing's  regiment;  became 
Adjutant,  Jan.  16,  1847,  Aide-de-camp,  June  i,  1847;  acting  Asst.  Adjutant  General, 
July  18,  1847;  acting  Quartermaster  and  Inspector,  Oct.  29,  1848:  Captain  Co.  I.  March 
16,  1848,  and  served  throughout  the  war.  Returned  to  Doylestown  and  practiced  law 
until  1853,  when  he  was  appointed  U.  S.  Attorney  for  New  Mexico,  and  spent  nearly 
four  years  in  that  territory,  during  which  time  he  filled  the  offices  of  Attorney-General, 
Secretary  of  the  Territory,  Acting  Governor,  and  Superintendent  of  Indian  Affairs. 
Returned  to  Doylestown  in  1857,  and  purchased  the  Doylestown  Democrat,  the  official 
organ  of  his  party,  which  he  ably  edited  and  published  until  1890.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War,  he  took  to  the  front  the  Doylestown  Guards.  Com.pany  I,  25th  Penna. 
Regiment,  of  which  he  was  commissioned  Captain,  April  16,  1861,  and  served  with  it 
in  the  campaign  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley;  returned  to  Doylestown  and  recruited  the 
104th  Regiment,  Penna.  Vols.,  of  which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  Sept.  5,  1861 ; 
served  with  it  through  the  whole  war;  frequently  liiling  positions  and  exercising  com.- 
mands,  commensurate  with  much  higher  rank;  was  Provincial  Brigade  Commander, 
Nov.  II,  1861  ;  commanded  First  Brigade,  Casey's  division,  Fourth  Corps,  Nov.  30. 
1861;  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  May  31,  1862;  commanded  First  Brigade,  Second  Divi- 
sion, Eighteenth  Corps,  Jan.  II,  1863;  (Second  Division,  First  Corps)  March  10.  1863; 
commanded  U.  S.  forces  at  Port  Royal  Island,  S.  C,  May  27.  1862;  Post  of  Beaufort, 
S.  C.,  June  14,  1863:  First  Brigade,  Terry's  Division,  July  8,  1863,  at  siege  of  Charles- 
ton, S.  C;  commanded  U.  S.  forces  at  Morris  Island,  S.  C,  Jan.  19,  1864,  and  at  Hil- 
ton Head,  Port  Pulaski,  St.  Helena,  and  Tybee  Islands,  S  C,  April  18,  1864;  First 
Brigade,  Hatch's  division,  July  4,  1864;  wounded  at  siege  of  Charleston,  July  6,  1864; 
mustered  out,  Sept.  30,  1864;  brevetted  Brigadier  General,  U.  S.  Vols.,  March  13,  1865, 
"for  gallant  and  meritorious  services,  during  operations  against  Charleston,  South 
Carolina.  He  is  the  author  of  the  following  publications:  "El  Gringo,"  1857;  "Span- 
ish Conquest  of  New  Mexico,"  1869;  "History  of  104th  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers," 1866;  "History  of  the  Hart  Family  of  Bucks  County,"  1867;  "Life  of  General 
John  Lacy,"  1868;  "History  of  Bucks  County,"  First  Edition,  1876,  Second  Edition, 
1905;  "Life  of  John  Davis,"  1886;  "Doylestown  Guards,"  1887;  "Campaign  of  1861.  in 
the  Shenandoah  Valley,"  1893;  "Fries  Rebellion,"  1899;  "Doylestown,  Old  and  New," 
1904;  and  numerous  lectures,  essays  and  historical  papers  and  addresses.  Has  been 
President  of  Bucks  County  Historical  Society,  almost  from  its  organization  till  the 
present  time; 

Sarah  Simpson  Davis,  b.  Nov.  10,  1822,  d.  April  20,  1896;  m.  Uylsses  Mercur,  Chief 
Justice  of  Pa.;  of  whom  presently; 

Amy  Hart  Davis,  b.  June  24,  1827;  m.  June  12,  1850,  Dr.  Holmes  Sells,  of  Dublin,  O., 
later  physician  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  1859,  to  his  death  in  1888.  Mrs.  Sells  is  now  a  resident 
of  Hatboro,  Montgomery  co.,  Pa.; 

Elizabeth  Neeley  Davis,  b.  Feb.  20,  1825;  residing  at  the  old  homestead,  Davisville, 
Southampton  twp.,  Bucks  co. 

Sarah  Simpson  Davis,  born  at  Davisville,  Pennsylvania,  November  10,  1822, 
married  there,  June  12,  1850,  Ulysses  Mercur,  afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Watts)  Mercur,  of 
Tovvanda,  Pennsylvania. 

Hugh  Mercur,  grandfather  of  Judge  Mercur,  was  a  native  of  Austria,  and  came 
to  Pennsylvania,  about  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  settled  in  Stras- 
burg  township,  Lancaster  county,  where  his  only  surviving  child,  Henry  Mercur, 
was  born  September  20,  1786.  In  1799  this  son  was  sent  by  his  parents  to  Vienna, 
Austria,  to  be  educated  at  the  University,  and  remained  there  eight  years,  a  por- 
tion of  the  time  being  probably  spent  with  a  brother  of  his  father,  for  whom  he 
was  named.  Both  his  parents  died  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  before  his 
return  in  1807,  and  after  settling  up  their  small  estate,  he  went  on  a  prospecting 
tour  to  the  frontiers  of  the  United  States,  and  in  1809  located  at  what  later  be- 
came Towanda,  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  took  up  lands  and  fol- 
lowed the  business  of  a  hatter  until  1845,  when  he  sold  his  landed  and  other  inter- 
ests there  and  went  to  Illinois,  where  he  took  up  large  tracts  of  land,  and  remain- 
ed in  that  state  until  1865,  when  he  returned  to  Towanda,  and  resided  there  until 
his  death,  September  10,  1868. 

Henry  Mercur  had  received  while  abroad  a  fine  scientific  and  classical  education. 


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and  was  one  of  the  best  educated  men  of  his  time.  He  married  (first)  September 
10,  1810,  Mary,  born  near  Towanda,  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  1790,  daugh- 
ter of  Francis  Watts  (of  no  known  relation  to  the  Watts  family  previously  men- 
tioned in  this  narrative,  but  of  a  family  that  had  been  early  settlers  in  central 
Pennsylvania)  by  his  wife,  Jane  Means.  Francis  Watts  was  a  private  in  the 
Fourth  Regiment  of  Light  Dragoons,  Colonel  Stephen  Moylan,  in  the  Continental 
Army,  and  second  lieutenant  in  Colonel  Arthur  Buchanan's  battalion,  of  Cumber- 
land County  Militia,  in  1777.  He  was  captured  by  the  Indians  in  their  attack  on 
Fort  Freeland,  July  28,  1779,  but  escaped  the  same  day;  his  father,  James  Watts, 
who  was  a  sergeant  in  Captain  Arthur  Taggart's  company.  Second  Battalion, 
Cumberland  County  Militia,  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  the  same  attack.  His 
mother  was  Ann  Walker,  of  a  family  prominent  among  the  early  settlers  of  Cum- 
berland county,  where  James  Watts  resided  prior  to  his  removal  to  Northumberland 
county,  during  the  Revolution.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  brother  of  Gen.  Fred- 
erick Watts,  of  Cumberland  county,  a  prominent  officer,  of  the  Continental  Army, 
who  was  colonel  of  a  battalion  of  the  "Flying  Camp"  in  the  Jersey  and  Long  Island 
campaign  of  1776. 

Jane  Means,  wife  of  Francis  Watts,  was  daughter  of  Samuel  Means,  Jr.,  and  a 
granddaughter  of  Samuel  Means,  Sr.,  an  Ulster  Scot,  who  settled  in  Paxtang, 
Lancaster  county,  about  1720,  and  died  there,  February,  1746-7,  by  his  wife, 
Grizzel,  daughter  of  Andrew  Stephen,  who  died  in  November  of  the  same  year. 

Samuel  Means,  Jr.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  is  supposed  to  have 
been  killed  at  the  Wyoming  Massacre.  His  wife  was  a  descendant  of  William 
Clark,  "of  Lewes,  in  the  County  of  Sussex,  upon  Delaware  Bay,  Gent,"  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Provincial  (Supreme)  Court  of  Pennsylvania  and  a  member  of 
Provincial  Council  from  Sussex  county,  1683- 1705.  He  was  a  Justice  of  Deal 
county,  as  Sussex  county  was  known  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Duke  of  York, 
as  early  as  June  7,  1680,  and  the  "Three  Lower  Counties"  of  New  Castle,  Kent 
and  Sussex,  becoming  territories  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  November  25, 
1682,  and  part  of  William  Penn's  Proprietary  Government^  at  which  time  the  name 
of  Deal  county  was  changed  to  Sussex,  and  Jones  county  to  Kent ;  William  Clark 
was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  Sussex  county.  May  i,  1683,  and  was  regularly 
recommissioned  until  his  death  in  1705.  He  was  also  a  Justice  of  the  Provincial 
(Supreme)  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  July,  1684  to  1693,  and  was  appointed  Chief 
Justice  of  that  tribunal,  April  10,  1703,  and  served  until  his  death.  He  was  also 
Speaker  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1692.  His  will  dated  at  Lewes,  2mo.  24, 
1705,  proved  July  24,  1705,  directs  his  property  at  Lewes  to  be  sold,  and  mentions 
his  son,  William  Clarke,  Jr.,  and  the  latter's  espoused  wife,  Rebecca  Curtis ;  his 
granddaughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Daniel  Brown;  his  granddaughter  Mary  Pem- 
berton,  his  daughter  Honour,  wife  of  Thomas  Pemberton,  whom  he  makes  sole 
executrix,  and  his  brother-in-law,  Walton  Hulings,  and  his  friend  Thomas  Fisher, 
whom  he  names  as  overseers  of  his  will. 

William  Clarke  in  1692  was  made  Collector  of  Customs  for  the  Territories,  a 
crown  office,  not  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Penn's  government.  Although  he  con- 
tinued to  describe  himself  as  a  resident  of  Lewes  until  his  death,  he  had  neverthe- 
less one  of  the  finest  mansions  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  It  was  located  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  Third  and  Chestnut  streets,  the  present  (1907)  site  of  the 
Merchants'  and  Mariners'  Building,  of  the  Girard  Estate.     Third  and  Chestnut 


382  CRISPIN 

was  at  that  time  not  very  far  from  the  centre  of  the  city,  which  was  principally 
clustered  about  Front  street.  Still  it  was  on  the  outskirts  of  the  town,  and  Mr. 
Clarke  had  room,  not  only  for  a  grand  house  according  to  the  ideas  of  the  period, 
but  for  a  fine  garden.  The  lot  was  ninety-nine  feet  front  on  Chestnut  street  and 
about  two  hundred  and  fifty-five  feet  deep.  Clarke  had  bought  it  from  Thomas 
Rouse,  June  12,  1694.  The  house  known  as  "Clarke  Hall,"  was  described  as  being 
built  of  brick,  with  a  double  front,  two  stories  in  height  with  a  hipped  roof.  It  had 
many  parlors  and  chambers  and,  in  size,  was  considered  the  largest  house  in  town. 
By  deed  of  March  14,  or  April  22,  1704,  William  Clarke,  Sr.,  conveyed  this 
property  to  his  son,  William  Clarke,  Jr.,  and  Rebecca  Curtis,  of  Barbadoes,  recit- 
ing in  the  deed  that  a  marriage  was  soon  to  take  place  between  the  said  William 
and  Rebecca,  "with  whom  he  is  likely  to  have  a  considerable  estate."  The  father 
also  declared  in  the  deed  that  he  was  pleased  at  the  prospect  of  his  son's  marriage 
to  such  "a  worthy  and  virtuous  person  as  the  said  Rebecca,  and  in  consideration 
thereof,  and  from  motives  of  affection"  to  his  son,  made  the  gift,  the  same  to  be 
void  if  the  marriage  was  not  solemnized  in  six  months.  The  deed  further  recited 
that  the  property  was  then  in  the  tenancy  of  Lieut.  Gov.  John  Evans,  who  was 
living  there  with  William  Penn.  Jr.,  Sec.  James  Logan,  and  Judge  Roger  Mompes- 
son.  William  Clarke,  Jr.,  and  Rebecca  Curtis  were  married,  but  the  match  could 
not  have  been  a  happy  one,  judging  from  subsequent  events.  In  fact,  William 
Clarke,  the  younger,  in  less  than  fourteen  years  ran  through  his  property  and  does 
not  seem  to  have  been  in  a  condition  to  make  arrangements  with  his  creditors. 
The  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  May  3,  1718,  passed  an  act  in  which  it  was  direct- 
ed that  the  house  and  lot  at  Third  and  Chestnut  streets  should  be  vested  in  Charles 
Read  and  others  as  trustees,  to  be  sold  for  the  payment  of  the  debts  of  William 
Clarke,  Sr.,  and  William  Clarke,  Jr.  These  trustees,  by  deed  of  December  8,  1718, 
sold  the  property  to  Anthony  Houston,  and  nine  days  afterwards  Houston  convey- 
ed it  to  Andrew  Hamilton,  in  fee.  By  virtue  of  this  conveyance  Hamilton  occu- 
pied the  house  as  his  city  residence  during  the  remainder  of  his  lifetime,  but  for  a 
considerable  period  after  the  purchase  he  must  have  felt  that  he  was  residing  in  a 
house  to  which  he  had  no  legal  title,  although  he  paid  a  full  and  adequate  price  for 
it,  for  the  reason  that  all  laws  passed  by  the  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania  were  re- 
quired to  be  submitted  for  the  approval  of  the  Privy  Council  of  England,  and  it 
frequently  happened  that  laws  passed  by  the  Assembly  were  repealed  by  the  Privy 
Council,  sometimes  to  the  injury  of  the  community  and  private  individuals,  as  in 
this  case.  The  Act  of  Assembly  providing  for  the  sale  of  the  Clarke  property  was 
repealed  by  the  Privy  Council,  and  Mr.  Hamilton  was  laid  under  the  disadvantage 
of  occupying  premises  from  which  there  was  a  possibility  he  would  be  dispos- 
sessed. In  fact,  suit  was  commenced  in  the  High  Court  of  Chancery  in  England 
by  some  of  the  representatives  of  William  Clarke,  Jr.,  which,  after  the  usual  delay, 
was  brought  to  a  decree  which  set  forth  that  the  defendant,  Andrew  Hamilton, 
had  no  title  to  the  premises.  Andrew  Hamilton  was  deceased  at  the  time  the  de- 
cree was  given,  but  his  son,  James  Hamilton,  entered  into  a  compromise  with  the 
claimants,  and  February  8,  1743,  Rebecca  Richardson,  then  widow  of  Zacharias 
Richardson,  but  formerly  widow  of  William  Clarke,  Jr.,  and  her  surviving  chil- 
dren by  Qarke,  viz.,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Edward  Evans,  and  Elizabeth  Clarke,  who 
afterwards  married  Samuel  Means,  Jr.,  of  Paxtang,  conveyed  their  rights  in 
"Clarke  Hall,"  to  James  Hamilton  ;  Mary  and  Ann  Clarke,  two  other  daughters 


CRISPIN  383 

of  William  and  Rebecca  (Curtis)  Clarke,  having  died  in  their  minority,  unmarried 
and  without  issue.  It  is  said  that  it  was  part  of  the  bargain  that  one  of  the  heirs,  a 
daughter  of  William  Clarke,  the  second,  should  be  maintained  for  life  on  the 
premises,  and  it  is  tolerably  well  established  that  one  of  the  Clarkes  did  live  in  the 
house  until  her  death,  both  under  the  Hamiltons  and  their  successors  in  title,  the 
Pembertons,  James  Hamilton  having  sold  "Clarke  Hall"  on  February  5,  1745,  to 
Israel  Pemberton,  the  elder. 

Mary  (Watts)  Mercur,  first  wife  of  Henry  Mercur,  died  at  Towanda,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1830,  and  he  married  (second)  July  25,  1844,  Harriet  Byron,  daughter  of 
William  and  Maria  Briggs,  of  Towanda.  She  was  born  May  4,  1821,  died  Febru- 
ary 19,  1890. 

Issue  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Watts)  Mercur: 

Henry  Spaulding  Mercur,  b.  Aug.  29,  1811,  d.  Aug.  7,  1869;  m.  April  17,  1836,  Sarah 
Azuba  Guernsey,  at  Oxford,  N.  Y. ;  their  second  son,  Henry  Mercur,  b.  May  3,  1830, 
d.  July  21,  1882,  m.  Oct.  16,  1866,  at  Davisville.  Bucks  cc,  Pa.,  Anna  Mary,  dau.  of 
James  Erwin,  by  his  wife,  Ann  Hart  Davis,  before  mentioned; 

James  Watts  Mercur,  b.  Sept.  23,  1813,  d.  May  22,  1863,  m.  Oct.  3,  1837,  Harriet  Amelia, 
dau.  of  Daniel  and  Jane  BartleU,  of  Towanda,  Pa.;  no  issue; 

Mahlon  Clarke  Mercur,  b.  Feb.  6,  1816;  m.  (first)  Helen  Marr  Kingsbury;  (second) 
Anna  Hubbard  Jewett;  had  issue  by  both  wives; 

Ulysses  Mercur,  b.  Aug.  12,  1818;  d.  June  6,  1887;  m.  Sarah  Simpson  Davis;  of  whom 
presently; 

Hiram  Mercur,  b.  April  6,  1821,  d.  Feb.  29,  1848; 

Eliza  Jane,  b.  Dec.  29,  1828,  d.  April  22,  1841. 

Hon.  Ulysses  Mercur,  fourth  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Watts)  Mercur,  was 
born  at  Towanda,  Pennsylvania,  August  18,  1818,  and  graduated  with  high  honors 
at  Jefferson  College  in  1848.  He  studied  law  and  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  prac- 
ticed his  profession  at  Towanda,  until  1861,  when  he  was  appointed  President 
Judge  of  the  Thirteenth  Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania,  to  succeed  Judge  David 
Wilmot,  of  "Wilmot  Proviso"  fame.  Judge  Mercur  presided  over  the  courts  of 
that  district  until  1864,  when  he  resigned  and  accepted  the  unanimous  nomination 
of  the  Republican  party  to  represent  his  district  in  the  National  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  was  elected.  He  served  four  terms  in  Congress  with  marked  abil- 
ity, and  in  1872  was  elected  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  to  succeed 
Chief  Justice  Thompson,  and  December  26,  1882,  became  Chief  Justice,  by 
seniority  of  commission,  and  continued  to  serve  as  such  until  his  death,  June  6, 
1887.  His  career  on  the  bench,  and  his  decisions  as  a  Justice,  were  typical  of  the 
man,  pure,  just,  straightforward,  logical,  and  consistent,  without  unnecessary 
ornamentation.  At  a  Bar  Meeting  held  at  Pittsburg,  in  his  honor  and  memory,  one 
of  the  speakers  said  of  him :  "In  connection  with  this  office,  nothing  can  be  said 
of  him  that  is  not  to  his  honor.  There  is  no  taint  on  the  purity  of  his  ermine,  the 
hot  breath  of  calumny  has  never  touched  him,  and  no  question  was  ever  made  of 
the  integrity  of  his  life.  His  daily  walk  and  conversation  were  pure  and  without 
reproach.  He  was  distinguished  by  a  saving  common  sense.  His  opinions  have 
been  accepted  by  the  judgment  of  the  profession  as  sound.  They  are  clearly 
expressed,  without  ornament  or  affectation.  They  are  consistent  with  the  char- 
acter of  the  man,  showing  his  industry,  his  uprightness,  his  straightforwardness, 
his  ambition  to  do  right,  and  are  expressed  in  clear,  simple,  pure  English.  They 
will  remain  while  the  Commonwealth  lasts,  an  enduring  monument  to  his  honor." 


384  CRISPIN 

Before  his  elevation  to  the  bench,  Judge  Mercur  took  an  active  interest  in  the 
success  of  the  RepubHcan  party,  with  whose  poHcies  and  principles  he  was  in 
entire  accord ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  first  Republican  Convention,  held  at  Pitts- 
burg, in  1856,  at  the  birth  of  the  party  to  which  he  gave  his  unswerving  allegiance 
thereafter.  During  his  eight  years  in  Congress,  1864-72,  a  critical  period  in  the 
nation's  history,  he  was  universally  recognized  as  a  useful  and  influential  member 
of  that  body,  who  had  the  best  interests  of  his  country  at  heart.  Religiously  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  and  a  regular  attendant  of  its 
services. 

Chief  Justice  Mercur  married,  as  before  stated,  at  her  father's  residence,  Davis- 
ville,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  June  12,  1850,  Sarah  Simpson  Davis.  She  died 
at  Towanda,  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  April  20,  1896,  having  survived  her 
distinguished  husband  nearly  nine  years;  his  death  having  occurred  at  the  resi- 
dence of  his  son,  James  Watts  Mercur,  Wallingford,  Delaware  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, June  6,  1887. 

Issue  of  Chief  Justice  Ulysses  and  Sarah  S.  (Dazns)  Mercur: 

Rodney  Augustus  Mercur,  b.  Sept.  29,  1851;  was  educated  at  Harv.  Univ.,  studied  law, 
and  became  a  prominent  member  of  the  Bradford  county  bar,  practicing  at  Towanda, 
the  place  of  his  nativit)'.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society,  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  and  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  m.  at  Towanda,  June  12,  1879,  Mary,  dau.  of  James  Monroe  and  Louise 
(Overton)  Ward,  of  Towanda,  and  they  have  been  the  parents  of  five  children  of 
whom  but  two  survive : 

Sarah  Davis  Mercur,  b.  June  14,  1881; 

Rodney  Augustus  Mercur,  Jr.,  b.  June  24,  1884; 

John  Davis  Mercur,  b.  at  Towanda,  July  14,  1853;  educated  at  Harv.  Univ.;  studied 
medicine  and  is  a  practicing  physician  at  Towanda.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He  m,  Nov.  II,  1896,  at  Towanda,  Jessie 
Corinne,  dau.  of  James  Harvey  and  Catharine  Maria  (Phinney)  Hildreth.  She  d. 
s.  p.  May  12,  1900,  and  he  m.   (second)  Jan.  24,  1903,  Sue  Eyer  Rahn ; 

Mary  Eliza  Mercur,  b.  at  Towanda,  May  4,  1855;  m.  there,  Dec.  21,  1876,  Benjamin 
Franklin  Eshelman,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Gyger)  Eshelman,  b.  March  10, 
1847,  d.  Dec.  19.  1903,  sometime  Colonel  and  Judge  Advocate  of  the  National  Guard 
of  Pa.;  they  had  six  children; 

James  Watts  Mercur,  b.  Dec.  3,  1856;  m.  Marietta  Honore  Denis;  of  them  presently; 

Ulysses  Mercur,  Jr.,  b.  March  12,  1867;  graduated  at  Princeton,  class  of  '88,  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Phila.  bar;  member  of  University  and  Princeton  clubs  of 
Phila.,  and  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society.  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

James  Watts  Mercur,  third  son  of  Chief  Justice  Mercur,  born  at  Towanda, 
Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  3,  1856,  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and  at  Andover  Preparatory  School,  Andover, 
Massachusetts,  and  entered  Harvard  University  in  1874,  graduating  from  the 
latter  institution  in  1878,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  immediately 
entered  the  law  office  of  his  brother,  Rodney  A.  Mercur,  Esq.,  at  Towanda,  as  a 
student  at  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bradford  county  bar,  December  2,  1879, 
and  in  the  same  month  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  of  Philadelphia  county,  and 
began  the  practice  of  law  in  this  city.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Delaware 
county,  1886,  and  since  1902  has  had  his  office  in  Media,  county  seat  of  that 
county,  previous  to  that  time  having  an  office  on  Walnut  street,  Philadelphia,  and 
practicing  in  the  several  courts  of  that  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Delaware  County  Historical  Society,  Pennsylvania  Soci- 


CRISPIN  385 

ety  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  Commonwealth  of 
Pennsylvania,  Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Society  of  the  War 
of  1812,  of  which  latter  society  he  is  one  of  the  executive  committee.  Politically 
Mr.  Mercur  is  a  Republican,  and  has  represented  his  district  in  state  and  county 
conventions  of  that  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church 
and  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church,  Media,  Pennsylvania,  for  ten  years.  He 
and  his  family  have  resided  for  several  years  past  at  Wallingford,  Delaware 
county.    He  is  vice-president  of  Spring  Haven  Country  Club,  at  Wallingford. 

James  Watts  Mercur  married,  March  i,  1881,  Marietta  Elizabeth  Honore  Denis 
at  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Philadelphia,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by  Right 
Rev.  William  Bacon  Stevens,  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania;  the  Rev.  Nelson  McVicar, 
Bishop  of  Rhode  Island,  assisting. 

Mrs.  Mercur  was  a  daughter  of  Narcisse  Francois  Honore  Denis,  born  at  Gui- 
prez,  France,  February  9,  1799,  by  his  wife,  Marietta  Randolph,  born  November 
24,  1818,  died  July  2,  1901,  daughter  of  William  Randolph,  a  veteran  of  the  war 
of  1812  born  July  3,  1794,  died  in  1861.  Samuel  F.  Randolph,  great-grandfather 
of  Mrs.  Mercur,  born  May  2,  1762,  died  about  1800,  was  a  minute-man  of  the 
New  Jersey  Militia,  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  her  other  maternal  great- 
grandfather, Peter  Tharp,  enlisted  June  20,  1777,  in  Captain  William  Gordon's 
company  in  the  Third  New  Jersey  Regiment,  Colonel  Elias  Dayton,  and  was  later 
transferred  to  Captain  William  Mitchell's  company  in  the  same  regiment.  Through 
her  mother,  Mrs.  Mercur  is  also  descended  from  Edward  Fitz  Randolph,  and 
Elizabeth  Blossom,  of  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  who  were  married  May  10,  1637, 
and  from  Adam  Berkhoven,  who  came  from  Cologne  to  New  Amsterdam,  now 
New  York,  1642,  and  married  there,  March  19,  1645,  Magdalena  Jacobse  Verdan. 
The  will  of  Adam  Berkhoven  was  dated  January  22,  1691-2,  and  probated,  March 
21,  1691-2. 

Her  father  was  a  son  of  Pierre  Geoffrey  Denis,  born  1757,  died  April  4,  1829, 
by  his  wife,  Henriette  Jeanne  Georgine  Maubec,  and  grandson  of  Geoffrey  and 
Anne  (Guichard)  Denis,  his  maternal  grandmother  being  an  Honore.  He  was 
educated  as  a  surgeon,  but  being  unable  to  stand  the  sight  of  blood,  took  up  the 
study  of  Chemistry  and  became  expert  in  that  science,  being  associated  with  the 
firm  of  Duval  &  Robiquet,  one  of  the  most  prominent  chemical  establishments  in 
Paris.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1832,  and  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
chemicals  and  drugs  in  that  city  until  1856,  when  he  retired  from  business,  having 
accumulated  a  competence.  Mrs.  Mercur  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  6, 
1858,  and  was  educated  at  the  Moravian  Seminary,  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania; 
Brooke  Hall,  Media;  and  at  Miss  Anna  Mary  Longstreth's  school  in  Philadel- 
phia. She  is  a  Daughter  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  was  the  founder  and 
first  regent  of  the  Delaware  County  Chapter  of  that  Society.  She  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Century  Club. 

Issue  of  James  Watts  and  Marietta  Elizabeth  Honore  (Denis)  Mercur: 

Marietta 'Denis  Mercur,  b.  in  Phila.,  Jan.  11,  1882;  m.  July  29,  1902,  Thomas  Cahall, 
Esq.,  of  Phila  bar,  only  child  of  Dr.  Thomas  Vickery  and  EUa  (West)  Cahall,  of 
Frederica,  Del.;  b.  in  Del.,  graduated  at  Swarthmore  College,  and  the  Law_ Department 
of  the  Univ.  Pa. ;  residing  at  Wallingford,  Delaware  county,  but  practicing  law  in 
Phila.;  one  child,  viz.: 

Honore  Mercur  Cahall,  b.  Jan.  22,  1904. 

Sarah  Davis  Mercur,  b.  Sept.  2,  1886,  at  Wallingford,  Delaware  co. ; 


James  Watts  Mercur,  Jr.,  b.  July  8,  1891,  at  Wallingford; 
Denise  Honore  Mercur,  b.  June  I,  1897,  at  Wallingford. 

Benj.^\min  Crispin,  son  of  Silas  and  Mary  (Stockton-Shinn)  Crispin,  born 
September  i,  1699,  died  December  6,  1753;  he  was  born  in  Lower  Dublin,  Phila- 
delphia county,  but  was  taken  to  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  by  his  mother, 
after  his  father's  death,  and  resided  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Northampton 
township,  Burlington  county,  where  he  died.  He  married,  August  21,  1722,  at 
Springfield  Meeting,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  Margaret,  who  died  May 
4,  1753.  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Martha  (Shinn)  Owen,  of  Burlington  county. 
Her  father,  Joshua  Owen,  was  born  in  Wales,  and  removed  to  the  Welsh  Tract 
in  Pennsylvania  in  1683,  bringing  with  him  a  certificate  of  removal  from  a  Friends 
Meeting  held  at  Tyddyn  y  Garreg,  describing  him  as  "late  of  Llwyn-du."  He 
later  removed  to  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  and  married  there,  Martha 
Shinn. 

Lieut.-Col.  Thomas  Allen  Glenn  in  his  Mcrion  in  the  Welsh  Tract,  gives  a  long 
line  of  descent  of  Joshua  Owen,  from  Welsh  princes,  which  may  be  condensed  as 
follows . 

Einion,  born  probably  about  1450,  descended  in  the  male  line  from  Callwyn  ap  Tagno, 
Lord  of  Llyn,  who  bore  arms,  a  chevron  inter  three  fleur-de-Iys,  had : 

Gronwy  ap  Einion,  born  about  1480,  who  had : 

Howell  ap  Gronwy,  who  had : 

David  ap  Howell,  of  the  township  of  Llwyngwrill,  Comot  of  Talybont,  Merionethshire, 
Wales,  whose  "ancient  capital  messuage"  in  that  township,  called  Llwyn-du,  was  derived 
through  a  female  line  from  Ednowen  ap  Bradwen,  who  flourished  about  1137,  and  bore  arms, 
gules,  three  snakes,  nowed;  and  who  was  lord  of  nearly  all  the  Comot  of  Talybont.  Though 
the  extant  pedigrees  do  not  show  just  where  the  marriage  in  the  line  of  Callwyn  ap  Tagno, 
Lord  of  Llyn,  with  the  heiress  of  the  line  of  Ednowen  ap  Bradwen,  came  in,  yet  Llwyn-du 
was  "an  indefeasible  estate  of  inheritance"  therefore  David  ap  Howell  could  only  have  ob- 
tained it  as  a  descendant  of  Ednowen  ap  Bradwen.  David  was  born  about  1540,  and  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Hugh  ap  John,  of  Taly  L!yn,  a  parish  (now)  in  the  union  of  D61- 
gelly,  in  the  Comot  of  Estimaner,  Merionethshire,  eight  miles  southwest  of  Dolgelly  town. 

Hugh  ap  John  was  the  son  of  John  ap  Merdith  ap  David,  ap  levan  ap  Llewelyn  ap  Einion 
(of  Llwdiarth  in  Montgomeryshire,  mentioned  in  grant  of  7  Henry  V)  ap  Celynin  ap  Ririd 
ap  Cynddelw  ap  lerworth  ap  Gwrgeney  ap  Uchdryd  ap  Aleth,  Prince  of  Dyfed.  Mary,  the 
wife  of  David  ap  Howell,  was  also  descended  through  various  alliances  of  the  above  line,  from 
Meuric  ap  Ynyr  Vychan,  Lord  of  Nannau,  living  21  Edward  HI.  (A.  D.  1347-8),  who  in  turn 
was  descended  from  Bleddyn  ap  Cynfyn,  Prince  of  Powys  (murdered  in  1072),  by  his  second 
wife,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Picot  de  Say,  a  Norman  Baron ;  as  well  as  from  other  noble  fam- 
ilies of  Wales. 

Hugh  ap  David,  of  Llwyngwrill,  son  of  David  ap  Howell  and  Mary  his  wife,  married 
Catharine,  daughter  of  John  ap  Rhydderch,  of  Abergynolwyn,  whose  family  appears  to  be 
traceable  to  1400  or  earlier.     Hugh  and  Catharine  had  issue, 

Humphrey  ap  Hugh  (their  eldest  son),  of  Llwngwrill,  who  signed  the  marriage  settle- 
ment of  his  daughter  Anne,  January  I,  1649,  she  marrying  Ellis  Price,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  Rowland  Ellis,  of  Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania,  born  1650,  a  noted  settler  in  the 
Welsh  Tract,  some  account  of  whom  and  his  descendants  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes. 

Humphrey  ap  Hugh  was  living  at  Llwyndu  in  1662,  and  died  there  about  1664,  having 
married,  about  1625,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  ap  Howell  Goch,  of  Gadfa,  in  Llanwddyn, 
Montgomeryshire,  who  was  buried  in  Llanwddyn  Church,  July  24,  1636.  Elizabeth's  mother 
was  Sybill.  daughter  of  Hugh  Gwynn,  of  Penarth,  High  Sheriff  of  Caernorvonshire,  descend- 
ed from  Sir  William  Griffith,  of  Penrhyn;  the  Herberts  of  Raglan,  and  from  King  Edward  I. 
of  England.  The  wife  of  Hugh  Gwynn  was  Jane,  daughter  of  Owen  ap  Hugh  of  Bodeon 
in  Anglesey,  High  Sheriff  of  Anglesey,  1579-80,  who  died  in  1613;  descended  from  Meuric 
ap  Llewelyn  ap  Halkin  of  Bodeon,  8th  in  descent  from  Hava,  son  of  Kundhelw,  Lord  of 
Cwmwd  Lhivon,  living  1150.  Humphrey  ap  Hugh  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  had  among  other 
issue : 

Owen  Humphrey,  eldest  son  and  heir,  born  about  1625,  died  prior  to  1609.  He  is  said 
to  have  been  an  officer  under  Cromwell  and  he  certainly  served  as  a  Justice  for  Merioneth- 
shire under  the  Protectorate.  He  was  among  the  first  in  Wales  to  join  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  his  name  frequently  occurs  in  Hesse's  Sufferings  of  Friends.  In  1662,  having 
with  his  brother  Samuel,  "refused  to  pay  a  demand  for  tithes"  he  was  prosecuted  in  the 


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Sheriff's  Court  and  execution  was  awarded  against  him  by  which  his  cattle  were  seized. 
After  his  father's  decease  in  1664  or  1665,  he  became  seized  of  the  "ancient  demesne  lands  of 
Llwyn-du"  and  deeded  therefrom  a  lot  of  ground  for  a  burial  place  for  Friends.  Owen 
Humphrey,  having  been  heavily  fined,  it  is  believed  that  he  left  litlle  personal  estate,  in  fact 
what  little  money  he  had  remaining  he  lent  freely  to  Friends  going  to  Pennsylvania.  He  is 
believed  to  have  been  twice  married  but  all  of  his  seven  children  were  by  his  first  wife,  name 
unknown,  among  whom  were,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Robert  Owen,  of  Merion,  Philadelphia  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  the  progenitor  of  the  Owen  family  of  Philadelphia,  an  account  of  which  is 
given  elsewhere  in  these  pages ;  and  Joshua  Owen,  before  mentioned,  of  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey,  who  married  Martha  Shinn. 

As  before  stated  Benjamin  Crispin  and  Margaret  Owen  were  married  at  Springfield 
Meeting;  in  this  connection  attention  is  called  here  to  a  rather  ridiculous  mistake  that  occurs 
in  a  book  on  The  Crispin  Family,  published  at  Akron,  Ohio,  in  1901,  by  Rev.  W.  F.  Crispin, 
so  that  Benjamin  Crispin's  descendants  may  not  remain  in  error.  The  author  of  the  book 
referred  to  states  that  Benjamin  Crispin  and  Margaret  Owen  were  married  "in  the  old 
Quaker  Meeting-House  in  Burlington,  N.  J.,"  of  which  he  then  gives  a  description  at  length, 
following  with  a  full  page  picture  of  Burlington  Meeting  House;  but  exactly  opposite  this 
illustration  he  gives  a  fac-simile  of  their  marriage  certificate  whereon  is  plainly  to  be  seen 
the  statement  that  the  marriage  took  place  in  Springfield  Meeting  House. 

Benjamin  Crispin  died  intestate  and  letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  were 
granted  to  his  eldest  son,  Silas  Crispin,  January  i,  175.^,  by  Jonathan  Belcher, 
Esq.,  Governor  of  the  Province  of  New  Jersey,  Charles  Read  being  Register.  The 
births  of  the  children  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Owen)  Crispin  are  from  a 
private  family  record  in  possession  of  their  granddaughter.  Ann  Crispin  Lippin- 
cott. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Otven)  Crispin: 

Silas  Crispin,  b.  May  5.  1723;  m.  March  3,  1745,  Patience,  dau.  of  Caleb  Haines;  nine 
children ; 

Rebecca  Crispin,  b.  May  25,  1725; 

Martha  Crispin,  b.  Sept.  29,  1727;  m.  Jan.  25.  1750,  David  Wills,  a  descendant  of  Daniel 
Wills.  "Practitioner  in  Chemistry,  of  the  Town  of  Northampton"  who  was  joint  pur- 
chaser on  Jan.  23.  1676-7.  of  one  share  of  West  Jersey  with  Thomas  Olive  and  William 
Biddle,  from  William  Penn ;  later  settling  in  Burlington  county,  where  he  was  known 
as  "Practitioner  in  Physick:"  died  there  in  1700  at  age  of  67  years;  was  one  of  the 
proprietaries  and  prominent  officials  of  West  Jersey; 
■  Joshua  Crispin,  b.  Sept.  12,  1729;  m. ,  and  had  issue; 

Margaret  Crispin,  b.  Oct.  4,  1734;  m.  by  license  dated  April  9,  1756,  Richard  Prickitt,  of 
Burlington  co.,  N.  J. ; 

Joseph  Crispin,  b.  July  17,  1737;  m.  1762,  his  first  cousin,  Elizabeth  Owen,  for  which 
both  were  dealt  with  by  Evesham  Monthly  Meeting,  2mo.  10,  1763;  they  had  eight 
children.  After  their  marriage  they  removed  to  Salem  co.,  where  he  purchased  lOOO 
acres  of  land  near  Sharptown ; 

Benjamin  Crispin,  b.  Nov.  27,  1739,  d.  1785;  lived  and  died  near  Mt.  Holly;  m.  Rachel, 
dau.  of  Simeon  Braddock,  and  they  had  one  son,  Silas,  and  five  daughters;  letters  of 
administration  were  granted  on  his  estate  to  his  widow  Rachel  and  son  Silas,  Dec.  9, 
1785;  and  letters  on  Rachel's  estate  were  granted  to  Jonathan  Crispin,  no  doubt  her 
husband's  brother,  March  15,  1793. 

Ann  Crispin,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Rachel  (Braddock)  Crispin,  m.  Joshua  Lippin- 
cott,  and  among  her  descendants  may  be  mentioned.  Rev.  Benjamin  Crispin  Lippin- 
cott,  D.  D.,  of  Penn's  Grove,  N.  J.;  and  Rev.  Joshua  Allan  Lippincott,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  of 
Phila.; 

Hannah  Crispin,  b.  Aug.  12,  1741;  m.  April  28,  1768.  her  second  cousin.  Richard  Stockton; 
seven  children ;  among  their  descendants  is  Miss  Harriet  Stockton  Antrim,  of  Burling- 
ton. N.  J.,  the  well-known  compiler  of  "The  Antrim  Family,"  genealogy  published  in 
1899:  also  Thomas  Logan  Gaskill.  Esq..  a  prominent  attorney  at  law  of  Newark,  N.  J., 
a  graduate  of  Princeton  University,  class  of  '96,  and  of  the  Law  Department  of  the 
Univ.  Pa. ; 

Paul  Crispin,  b.  July  18,  1743;  of  whom  presently; 

Jonathan  Crispin,  b.  April  15,  1746;  m.  by  license  dated  May  14,  177°,  Mary  Hewlings. 

Paul  Crispin,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Owen)  Crispin,  born  in  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  July  18,  1743,  died  in  1816.  He  married,  September 


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27,  1764,  Rebecca  Hewlings,  of  a  good  old  Burlington  county  family,  probably  a 
sister  to  Mary  Hewlings,  his  brother  Jonathan's  wife.  They  took  up  their  resi- 
dence in  Moorestown,  in  the  same  county,  where  Paul  Crispin  was  the  proprietor 
of  a  ferry;  in  connection  therewith  he  kept  a  house  of  entertainment.  He  and  his 
wife  lived  at  Moorestown  all  their  lives.  Paul  died  intestate,  and  letters  of  admin- 
istration were  granted  on  his  estate  to  his  widow,  Rebecca  Crispin,  in  1816. 
Though  both  Paul  and  Rebecca  were  of  Quaker  parentage  they  do  not  seem  to 
have  held  membership  in  the  Society.  The  dates  of  birth  of  their  children  as 
hereafter  given  are  from  Paul  Crispin's  Bible  now  in  the  possession  of  his  grand- 
daughter, Frances  Hubbs,  of  Frankford,  Philadelphia. 
Issue  of  Paul  and  Rebecca  {Headings)  Crispin: 

Abigail  Crispin,  b.  Oct.  22,  1770;  ni.  by  license  dated  Oct.  31,  1787,  Capt.  William  Leconey, 

of  Burlington  co. ;  had  two  daughters; 
Rebecca  Crispin,  b.  Dec.  3,  1772;  m.  Charles  Hubbs;  of  whom  presently; 
Dorothy  Crispin,  b.  Dec.  30,  1774;  m.  Feb.  3,  1796,  Wills  Burdsall;  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah  Crispin,  b.  March  19,  1777;  m. Chambers,  but  had  no  issue; 

Margaret  Crispin,  b.  April  21,  1779;  m.  (first)  Chambers,  (second)  Battel; 

no  issue  by  either. 

Rebecca  Crispin,  second  daughter  of  Paul  and  Rebecca  (Hewlings)  Crispin, 
born  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  December  3,  1772,  though  not  a  birthright  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends,  joined  that  sect  and  became  an  acknowledged  min- 
ister of  the  Society.  Some  time  after  her  death  there  was  published  in  Philadel- 
phia, "A  Memoir  of  Rebecca  Hubbs,  A  Minister  of  the  Gospel  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  late  of  Woodstown,  New  Jersey,"  composed  largely  from  her  own  memo- 
randa and  journals  of  her  religious  journeys. 

Rebecca  Crispin  married  Charles  Hubbs,  of  Burlington,  and  they  went  to  live 
at  Pilesgrove  township,  Salem  county,  where  both  she  and  her  husband  applied 
for  membership  in  the  Society  of  Friends  and  were  admitted  to  the  Monthly  Meet- 
ing there.  Her  first  appearance  in  the  ministry  was  about  1803-04,  in  the  thirty- 
second  year  of  her  age.  In  1806  they  removed  within  the  limits  of  Haddonfield 
Meeting,  by  which  she  was  acknowledged  as  a  minister  in  Fourth  Month,  1807. 
She  returned  with  her  husband  and  children  to  Woodstown  in  181 1.  In  1813  she 
obtained  a  certificate  to  perform  a  religious  visit  to  some  of  the  meetings  within 
Baltimore  and  Virginia  Yearly  Meetings,  and  in  the  State  of  Ohio.  After  visiting 
some  of  the  Meetings  in  Virginia,  way  was  made,  through  the  kindness  of  Micajah 
Crew,  of  Cedar  Creek  Aleeting,  in  that  State,  to  visit  in  person  James  Madison, 
then  President  of  the  United  States.  It  will  be  remembered  that  President  Madi- 
son's wife,  Dolly  Payne,  had  been  brought  up  a  Quaker.  The  President  and  his 
wife  received  them  very  kindly  and  they  had  a  satisfactory  opportunity  with  them, 
and  parted  with  many  tokens  of  aft'ectionate  regard.  The  President  insisted  on 
serving  them  with  some  refreshments,  and  following  them  to  the  carriage,  placed 
in  it  some  articles  which  he  thought  would  be  useful  to  them  in  their  journey,  and 
after  a  renewed  expression  of  the  satisfaction  the  visit  had  given  him,  took  leave 
of  them  again,  desiring  a  blessing  might  attend  thein. 

In  1814  she  made  a  religious  visit  to  some  of  the  Meetings  in  the  State  of  Ohio, 
particularly  within  Miami  and  Salem  Quarters.  When  the  Separation  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  occurred  in  1827,  Rebecca  (Crispin)  Hubbs  remained  with  the 


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older  or  Orthodox  branch.  From  this  time  on  she  made  many  journeys  and  visits 
in  the  cause  of  the  Gospel.  After  the  last  (1844),  advancing  age  and  bodily 
infirmity  prevented  such  active  service,  and  about  two  years  before  her  death  she 
had  an  attack  of  paralysis,  but  meanwhile  performed  much  acceptable  service 
within  her  own  Quarterly  Meeting.  She  died  at  Woodstown,  New  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1852. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Rebecca  (Crispin)  Hiibbs: 

Simeon  Hubbs,  eldest  child,  went  to  Indiana,  and  no  more  is  known  of  him  by  his 
Eastern  relatives ; 

Paul  Krispin  Hubb,  insisted  that  Crispin  should  be  spelled  with  a  "K"  and  always 
affected  that  style.  He  was  said  to  have  been  at  one  time  connected  with  the  United 
States  Embassy  to  France,  after  which  he  settled  down  as  a  manufacturer  of  prints 
at  Holmesburg,  Phila.,  a  staple  industry  in  that  locality.  While  in  Lower  Dublin 
township,  in  which  Holmesburg  is  located,  the  whole  of  this  region  being  filled  with 
associations  of  his  Crispin  ancestry,  and  largely  peopled  with  the  descendants  of  Silas 
Crispin,  by  his  first  wife,  Paul  K.  Hubbs  applied  for  membership  in  the  Crispin  Burial 
Ground  Community,  which  had  charge  of  the  old  graveyard  laid  out  by  their  ancestor, 
Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  nearby,  on  the  ground  that  he  was  a  descendant  of  Silas  Crispin, 
although  his  branch  of  the  family  had  long  been  strangers  to  the  locality.  Although 
not  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Thomas  Holme,  being  descended  from  Silas  Crispin's  second 
wife,  his  claim  as  a  Crispin  was  allowed  and  he  was  admitted  a  member.  He  after- 
wards removed  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  of  which  city  it  is  said  he  was  some  time 
Mayor.  He  died  there,  leaving  one  son,  Paul  K.  Hubbs,  an  attorney  at  law  in  that 
city,  and  one  daughter; 

Charles  Ellis  Hubbs,  m.  Sarah  Le  Campion,  and  they  had  issue : 

Amanda   Hubbs,   m.   her  cousin,   Isaac   Newton,  Jr.,   son   of  Isaac  and   Dorothy 

(Burdsall)    Newton;  see  forward; 
Anna  Louisa  Hubbs,  m.  Middleton  Miller,  of  Va.; 

Frances  Hubbs,  unm.,  now  living  in  Frankford,  Phila.,  before  referred  to  as  the 
custodian  of  the  Paul  Crispin  Bible,  beside  which  she  possesses  many  other 
family  relics. 

Samuel  Hubbs,  while  a  young  man  and  unm.,  went  to  the  West  Indies  in  charge  of  a 
valuable  consignment  of  goods,  and  was  robbed  and  killed  by  revolutionists ; 

John  Hubbs,  went  to  Cal.,  and  nothing  is  known  of  him  by  his  Eastern  relatives; 

Beulah  Hubbs,  d.  unm.; 

Rebecca  Hubbs,  m. Miller;  d.  s.  p.; 

Margaret   Hubbs,  d.  unm. 

Dorothy  Crispin,  third  daughter  of  Paul  and  Rebecca  (Hewlings)  Crispin, 
born  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  December  30,  1774,  married,  February  3,  1796, 
Wills  Burdsall,  of  an  old  and  prominent  Burlington  county  Quaker  Family,  who 
have  a  royal  descent  from  King  Edward  IV  of  England,  through  Anne  Maulev- 
erer,  (daughter  of  Edward  and  Anne  (Pearson)  Mauleverer)  who  married  John 
Abbott  and  settled  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey.  Wills  Burdsall  was  also  descended 
from  Dr.  Daniel  Wills,  of  Northamptonshire,  before  referred  to,  as  one  of  the 
Proprietaries  and  high  officials  of  West  Jersey. 

Issue  of  Wills  and  Dorothy  (Crispin)  Burdsall: 

Abel  Burdsall,  b.  Nov.  13,  1796;  m.  and  had  issue; 

Levi  Burdsall,  b.  Dec.  31,  1797;  m.  Fanny  Riley;  children; 

John  Burdsall ; 

Sarah  Burdsall; 

Jennie  Burdsall; 

Theodore  Burdsall; 

Elizabeth  Burdsall. 
Dorothy  Burdsall,  b.  Feb.  26,  1799;  m.  Hon.  Isaac  Newton;  of  whom  presently; 
Jacob  H.  Burdsall,  b.  June  20,  1800;  killed  by  a  pony,  June  22,  1819,  unm.; 


Samuel  Burdsall,  b.  Jan.  lo,  1802;  m.  Abigail  Wilson,  and  had  issue; 

Wills  Burdsall,  Jr.,  b.  March  28,  1803,  d.  unm.; 

Ira  Burdsall,  b.  Nov.  14.  1804;  of  whom  later; 

Elinor  Burdsall,  b.  Sept.  8,  1807;  m.  Richard  Kelly,  and  had  issue: 

Margaret  Kelly; 

Dorothy  Kelly; 

Thomas  Kelly; 

Philip  Kelly. 
Mahlon  Burdsall,  b.  Jan.   13,   1809;  m.  and  had  issue; 

Sarah  Burdsall,  b.  Sept.  23,  181 1;  m.  Owen  Rhoades  and  had  eight  children; 
James  Burdsall,  b.  May  3,  1813,  d.  unm. ; 
Paul  Burdsall,  b.  Nov.  27,  1816;  m.  and  had  issue. 

Dorothy  Burdsall,  eldest  daughter  of  Wills  and  Dorothy  (Crispin)  Burdsall, 
born  February  26,  1799;  married  Hon.  Isaac  Newton,  United  States  Commissioner 
of  Agriculture,  who  it  is  claimed  was  a  descendant  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  (1642- 
1727)  the  celebrated  natural  philosopher.  He  was  born  in  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersey,  March  31,  1800,  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  June  19,  1867.  After 
his  marriage  he  moved  to  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  made  a  pur- 
chase of  land,  and  soon  became  noted  for  the  neatness,  order  and  productiveness 
of  his  land,  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  agriculturists  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  early  became  a  member  of  the  State  Agricultural  Association,  and  was 
frequently  sent  as  its  representative  to  the  meetings  of  the  United  States  Agricul- 
tural Society.  He  also  was  active  in  local  organizations  of  a  similar  character.  To 
the  State  Association  he  presented  a  resolution  urging  Congress  to  establish  a 
National  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  brought  his  plan  for  this  purpose  to  the 
attention  of  each  recurring  presidential  administration,  from  that  of  Harrison,  in 
1 841,  to  that  of  Lincoln  in  1861.  To  the  last  named,  whose  personal  acquaint- 
ance he  enjoyed,  he  was  indebted  for  the  final  adoption  of  his  scheme.  After 
Congress  had  authorized  the  formation  of  the  agricultural  bureau  in  1862,  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  appointed  Isaac  Newton  its  head  as  United  States  Commissioner  of 
Agriculture.  He  organized  the  department  on  such  lines  that  its  efficiency  even 
now  is  largely  due  to  him.  It  is  now  a  full  fledged  Department  of  Government, 
whose  head,  as  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  has  a  seat  in  the  president's  cabinet. 
Issue  of  Isaac  and  Dorothy  (Burdsall)  Nczvton: 

Bolton  Newton,  m.  a  Miss  Malone; 

Anna  Newton,  m.  G.  Bakewell  Earp; 

Isaac  Newton,  m.  his  cousin,  Amanda  Hubbs.  above  mentioned; 

Eleanor  Newton,  m.  a  Mr.  Hupfeld. 

Ira  Burdsall,  son  of  Wills  and  Dorothy  (Crispin)  Burdsall,  born  November 
14,  1804,  was  appointed  United  States  Mail  Agent  between  New  York  and  San 
Francisco,  by  President  Franklin  Pierce,  a  very  important  position  in  those  days, 
when  the  mail  had  to  go  by  sea  around  Cape  Horn.  He  died  in  this  service,  at  sea, 
of  cholera,  which  broke  out  on  board  a  vessel  on  which  he  was  making  the  voyage. 
He  helped  the  captain  nurse  the  stricken  ones,  contracted  the  disease  himself, 
died  of  it,  and  was  buried  at  sea  ofif  Havana,  Cuba. 

Ira  Burdsall  married  (first)  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Elwell) 
Sariah,  and  granddaughter  of  Stephen  Sariah.  of  Philadelphia,  whose  name  was 
originally  Sayres,  but  who  changed  the  spelling  to  Sariah  in  order  to  have  it  dif- 


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ferent  from  that  of  his  relatives  with  whom  he  had  a  disagreement,  particularly  a 
brother  who  lived  in  Germantown.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Sortel  Elwell, 
a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  serving  seven  3'ears  under  Gen.  Nathaniel  Greene. 
An  account  of  Mrs.  Burdsall's  ancestry  is  given  in  these  volumes  under  the  title  of 
the  Richards  Family. 

Issue  of  Ira  and  Rebecca  (Sariah)  Bnrdsall: 

Abbie  a.  Burdsall,  m.  William  B.  Richardson;  of  whom  presently; 

Emma  Burdsall,  m.  Joseph  Henry  Craven,  for  twenty  years  president  of  the  Girard  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  and  custodian  of  the  Ridgway  estate  in  Phila.,  and  had  issue : 
Joseph   Henry  Craven,  unm.; 
E.  Edoth  Craven,  unm. 
Amelia  Burdsall,  m.  J.  Frank  ShuU,  of  VVenonah,  N.  J.,  and  had  issue  : 
Laura  Shull,  m.  Henry  Peddie,  of  Woodbury,  N.  J.; 

Rena  Shull,  m.  William  J.  McCahan,  Jr.,  son  of  William  J.  McCahan,  organizer 
and  president  of  the  W.  J.  McCahan  Sugar  Refining  Company,  of  Phila.     They 
reside  at  "The  Belgrave,"  Chestnut  street.     They  have  no  issue. 
Rebecca   Burdsall,  m.   Frank   Elwell. 

Ira  Burdsall  married  (second)  Rebecca  Bate,  and  had  issue: 

Mary  Burdsall,  m.  Jacob  Hinchman,  of  Camden,   N.  J. ; 

Frank  H.  Burdsall,  of  Camden:  member  of  City  Council;  Board  of  Health;  associate 
Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas;  Receiver  of  Taxes;  member  of  the  Board  of 
Appeals  on  Taxation;  and  has  declined  the  nomination  to  the  offices  of  Mayor  of  his 
city,  and  State  Senator  for  his  district.  He  m.  Hallie  Barber,  of  Camden,  and  had 
issue : 

Ira  Wingate  Burdsall,  m.  Linda  W.  Brown; 
Frank  B.  Burdsall,  unm.; 
Emily  J.  Burdsall,  d.  unm. 

Abbie  A.  Burdsall,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Rebecca  (Sariah)  Burdsall,  married 
William  B.  Richardson,  and  they  had  issue : 

William  I.  Richardson,  m.  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John  T.  Bailey,  of  Phila.;  (second) 

Frances  Clough,  of  Mich.; 
Laura  Richardson,  dec;  m.  Henry  J.  Keely; 
Mary  Richardson,  m.  Dr.  S.  C.  Blair; 
Henry  Richardson,  m.  Theresa  King,  of  Chicago,  111.; 
John  W.  Richardson,  m.  Lillie  Shibe ; 
Eleanor  K.  Richardson,  m.  Stephen  G.  Weeder,  and  had  issue : 

Marie  Eleanor  Weeder,  dec; 

Jessie  lone  Weeder; 

Stephen  Dana  Weeder. 
George  M.  Richardson,  dec. ;  m.  Elizabeth  Hauk ; 
Frank  B.  Richardson,  d.  unm. 

Silas  Crispin  (II),  son  of  Silas  and  Mary  (Stockton-Shinn)  Crispin,  born  in 
Lower  Dublin  township,  Philadelphia  county,  March  19,  1702,  was  but  nine  years 
of  age  at  the  death  of  his  father,  and  was  probably  taken  by  his  mother  to  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey,  soon  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and  died  in  the  town  of 
Burlington,  November,  1749.  He  was  one  of  the  influential  men  of  the  town,  and 
was  a  slave  owner,  besides  having  indentured  servants,  who  carried  on  for  him  a 
tailoring  business.  One  of  his  servants  ran  away  from  him  in  January,  1734-5, 
and  the  advertisement  of  Silas  Crispin,  of  Burlington,  for  his  capture  appeared  in 


392  CRISPIN 

the  American  Daily  Mercury,  of  Philadelphia,  for  January  21,  and  28,  a  fac-simile 
of  which  advertisement  was  produced  in  McMaster's  (School)  History  of  the 
United  States.  By  his  will  dated  August  2,  1749,  probated  November  17.  1749. 
Silas  Crispin  bequeathed  his  house  and  lot  to  his  wife,  Mary  Crispin,  for  life,  and 
after  her  decease,  the  brick  part  thereof  to  his  son,  Thomas  Crispin,  and  the 
wooden  part  to  his  son,  William  Crispin.  His  negro  girl,  Dinah,  he  gave  to  his 
wife  until  the  girl  was  twenty-four  years  of  age,  when  she  was  to  go  to  his  daugh- 
ter Sarah.  His  wife,  Mary  Crispin,  and  Thomas  Wetherill  were  named  as  execu- 
tors. 

Silas  Crispin  married,  November  9,  1724,  Mary,  born  August  2,  1704,  died  Au- 
gust 22,  1789,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (Fearon)  Wetherill,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Christopher  Wetherill,  one  of  the  Lords  Proprietary  of  the  Province 
of  West  Jersey,  and  ancestor  of  the  Wetherill  family  of  New  Jersey  and  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Issue  of  Silas  and  Mary  (IVctherill)  Crispin: 

Samuel  Crispin,  d.  1791 ;  m.  Sarah  and  had  two  daughters  and  a  son  who  died 

young  and  a  daughter  who  lived  to  mature  age  and  married; 
William  Crispin,  b.  1742;  of  whom  presently; 

Mary  Crispin,  m.  Aaron  Smith,  son  of  Francis  and  Rachel  (Zelley)  Smith; 
Sarah  Crispin,  m.  Abraham  Jones,  no  issue; 
Anne  Crispin,  m.  a  Mr.  Smith,  no  issue; 
Elizabeth  Crispin,  d.  unm. ; 
Thomas  Crispin,  b.  1744,  d.  June  11,  1784;  m.  Nov.  9,  1762,  in  Phila.,  Susannah,  dau.  of 

Solomon  Fussell,  of  that  city;  had  two  sons,  who  d.  inf.,  and  possibly  others; 
Abigail  Crispin,  m.  Samuel  Swift,  and  had  issue. 

William  Crispin,  son  of  Silas  and  Mary  (Wetherill)  Crispin,  born,  according 
to  his  own  account,  in  the  year  1742,  though  the  meeting  record  of  his  death  in 
1797,  gives  his  age  as  sixty  years,  which  would  fix  his  natal  year  as  1737.  The 
latter  record  gives  the  date  of  his  death  as  April  24,  1797.  He  was  born  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  but  removed  to  Philadelphia,  as  did  both  of  his  brothers. 

William  Crispin  was  one  of  those  authorized  to  sign  paper  currency  of  the 
Province  of  Pennsylvania,  issued  under  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly,  passed 
October  15,  1773,  and  he  was  appointed  by  Congress,  December  11,  1775,  one  of 
thirty-six  signers  of  $3,600,000,  continental  currency  of  The  United  Colonies,  or 
Bills  of  Credit,  which  that  body  ordered  emitted,  in  six  installments  during  177"?- 
76. 

During  the  Revolution  William  Crispin  was  Commissary  General  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Militia  and  also  of  the  Pennsylvania  Navy.  A  letter  from  him  to  Gen. 
John  Lacey,  headed,  "Newtown,  Bucks  Co.  Oct.  17,  1781"  and  signed  "Wm.  Cris- 
pin, C.  G.  S.  P.  M."  has  been  published  in  "Pennsylvania  Archives,"  vol.  ix,  p. 
437.  On  November  23,  1780,  he  was  appointed  Collector  of  Excise  for  the  city 
and  county  of  Philadelphia. 

In  1792  he  wrote  an  account  of  the  Crispin  Family,  which  he  dated  September 
20,  of  that  year,  stating  that  he  then  lived  at  No.  16  Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia. 
In  this  history  he  states  that  he  was  fifty  years  old  in  the  7th  month  last,  which  as 
remarked  above  does  not  agree  with  the  record  in  Race  Street  Monthly  Meeting 
register  which  called  him  sixty  years  old  at  his  death  in  1797.  but  perhaps  the 
Meeting  entry  meant  only  to  give  his  approximate  age  ;  his  own  account  should  be 


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the  more  authentic.  His  sketch  of  the  family,  however,  which  speaks  of  Crispins 
at  the  Norman  Conquest  of  England  as  well  as  those  in  the  early  settlement  of 
Pennsylvania  is  literally  bristling  with  errors ;  even  as  near  relatives  as  his  uncles 
and  aunts  are  much  mixed  in  his  account,  and  while  he  says  his  father  was  the 
son  of  Silas  Crispin's  second  wife  he  speaks  of  the  first  wife  as  his  grandmother, 
and  called  her  by  the  second  wife's  name,  Mary.  In  fact,  the  account  is  only 
wholly  correct  in  the  last  paragraph,  which  relates  to  himself,  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren, and  is  as  follows :  "I  now  live  in  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  No.  i6,  and 
have  had,  by  Rachel,  my  wife,  five  sons  and  five  daughters,  five  of  whom  now  live 
with  me,  to  wit,  Mary,  my  eldest,  Sarah,  Hester  and  Rachel,  and  my  only  son 
William.  I  am  now  aged  50,  in  the  7th  Month  last,  and  have  seen  great  changes 
in  this  life,  and  one  solemn  change  will  fix  me  unalterably — but  I  have  a  well 
grounded  hope  it  will  be  for  the  better.  WILLIAM  CRISPIN." 

William  Crispin  married,  December  10,  1762,  Rachel,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Dobbins)  Wharton,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Rachel  (Thomas) 
Wharton,  ancestors  of  the  celebrated  Wharton  family  of  Philadelphia,  of  whom 
some  account  is  given  in  these  volumes. 

Issue  of  William  and  Rachel  (Wharton)  Crispin: 

Mary  Crispin,  eldest  child,  d.  unm.; 

Hester  Crispin,  b.  1764,  d.  unm.,  Dec.  26,  1849;  will  probated  Jan.  7,  1850;  called  Hetty  in 

all  documents  extant  except  the  narrative  of  her  father,  above  quoted;  probably  named 

for  her  great-grandfather  Silas  Crispin's  first  wife,  Esther  Holme; 
Rachel  Crispin,  d.  unm. ;  letters  of  administration  granted  to  her  sister,  Hetty  Crispin, 

July  15,  1822; 
WiHiam  Crispin,  b.  1773,  d.  unm.,  Aug.  27,  1808;  was  living  with  his  father  at  No.   16 

Chestnut  street  in  1797,  and  until  the  latter's  death,  and  probably  resided  there  until 

his  own  death; 
Three  sons  and  a  daughter,  died  young; 
Thomas  Crispin,  b.  1778,  d.  Sept.  23,  1781 ; 
Sarah  Crispin,  m.  Sept.  12,  1801,  William  Levis;  of  whom  presently. 

William  Levis,  who  married  Sarah  Crispin,  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Levis  (III), 
of  Springfield  township,  Delaware  county,  by  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Joshua 
and  Margaret  Thompson,  of  Ridley  township,  Delaware  county;  grandson  of 
Samuel  Levis  (II),  born  at  Harby,  Leicestershire,  February  8,  1680-1,  member 
of  Provincial  Assembly  from  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  1739-47,  by  his  wife, 
Hannah  Stretch,  of  Philadelphia;  and  great-grandson  of  Samuel  Levis  (I),  (son 
of  Christopher  and  Mary  Levis,  of  Harby,  Leicestershire),  born  September  30, 
1649,  died  in  Springfield,  Chester  (now  Delaware)  county,  1734,  by  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Clator,  of  Nottinghamshire,  England,  whom  he  married  May  4,  1680. 

Samuel  Levis  and  William  Garrat  (ancestor  of  the  prominent  Garrett  family 
of  Chester  county  and  Philadelphia),  both  of  Harby,  Leicestershire,  purchased  of 
William  Penn  by  deeds  of  lease  and  release,  dated  August  9  and  10,  1684,  1000 
acres  to  be  laid  out  in  Pennsylvania,  and  came  to  Pennsylvania,  bringing  certificate 
from  Friends  at  Harby,  dated  5mo.  (July)  20,  1684. 

Samuel  Levis  ( i )  settled  in  Springfield  township,  on  land  taken  up  under  the 
deeds  above  quoted.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council,  1692-93 ;  Mem- 
ber of  Assembly,  1689-94-98-1700-06-07-08-09 ;  and  was  commissioned  a  Justice  for 
Chester  County  Court  in  1686  and  again  in  1689. 

William  Levis,  first  above  mentioned,  was  commissioned  May  14,  1777,  Second 


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Lieutenant  of  Sixth  Company,  Third  BattaHon,  Chester  Count}'  Penna.   MiHtia, 
commanded  by  Colonel  Caleb  Davis. 

Issue  of  IVilliaiu  and  Sarah  (Crispin)  Lciis: 

William  Levis,  b.  Nov.  17,  1804;  of  whom  presently: 

Edmund  Levis,  b.  Nov.  17,  1808,  d.  March  20.  1858;  m.  Dec.  13,  1827,  EHzabeth  Thomp- 
son (b.  Nov.  II,  1806,  d.  April  6,  1849)  ;  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom 
only  one  son  married. 

William  Levis^  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Crispin)  Levis,  born  November 
17,  1804,  died  April  6,  1869.  He  married,  October  24,  1839,  Elizabeth  Allen,  born 
June  29,  1808,  died  October  24,  1891,  daughter  of  Brittain  White,  by  his  wife,  Eliz- 
abeth Gray. 

Issue  of  IVilliani  and  Elizabeth  A.  (White }  Lci'is: 

Elizabeth  Gray  Levis,  b.  Dec.  5.  1840,  d.  April  25,  1887;  m.  Jan.  16,  1868,  Frank  Knorr 
Hippie,  b.  July  2,  1839,  d.  1906,  son  of  Peter  S.  Hippie  by  his  wife,  Anna  Knorr.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Phila.  bar,  and  President  of  the  Real  Estate  Trust  Company  of 
Phila.,  and  a  member  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Genealogical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania.     They  had  issue : 

William   Levis   Hippie,  b.   Phila.   Oct.   19.   1868;   d.   Phila.  June   i,   1895;  entered 
Haverford  College,  class  of  '90,  in  1886,  left  at  close  of  sophomore  year;  member 
Merion  Cricket  Club,  of  Haverford,  and  Markham  Club  of  Phila.;  unm. ; 
Elizabeth  White  Hippie,  b.  May  12,  1870,  d.  April  14,  igoi  ; 
Gertrude  Hippie,  b.  Nov.  29,  1871,  d.  May  30,  1875; 
Heyward   Drayton   Hippie,  b.  Jan.   14,   1876,  d.  June  21,   1881 ; 
Frank  Wharton  Hippie,  b.  Aug.  16,  1877. 
Sarah  Levis,  b.  Feb.  6,  1843;  m.  Dec.  19,  1892,  Frank  Knorr  Hippie,  her  deceased  sister's 

husband;  she  is  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Dames  of  America; 
Henry  Levis,  b.  in  Phila.  Oct.  26,  1844,  d.  in  Switzerland,  Aug.  4,  1899,  unm.;  was  a 
Civil  Engineer,  and  sometime  in  employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company;  mem- 
ber of  the  Philadelphia,  Rittenhouse,  and  Union  League  clubs  of  Phila.;  the  German- 
town  Cricket  Club;  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  which  he  was  admitted  Nov.  24,  1893;  also  a  citizen  of  the  state  in  Schuylkill; 
Samuel  White  Levis,  b.  March  6,  1847;  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  by  descent  from  Samuel  Levis  L  Samuel  Levis  II, 
Samuel  Levis  HI,  Lieut.  Richard  Stockton,  and  Christopher  Wetherill;  member  of 
Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution  by  descent  from  Lieut.  William  Levis, 
and  Commissary  General  William  Crispin;  member  of  Merion  Cricket  Club  of  Haver- 
ford, Pa.,  and  of  the  Rittenhouse  Club,  of  Phila.;  unm.; 
Mary  White  Levis,  b.  July  23,  1850;  m.  Dec.  11,  1877,  George  B.  McCulloh,  b.  1834,  d. 
March  8,  1887,  son  of  William  S.  McCulloh  by  his  wife,  Galatee  Labordaire,  and  had 
issue: 

Josephine  McCulloh,  b.  May  6,  1879,  well-known  in  Phila.  society  as  an  amateur 
vocal  musician  of  exceptional  talent,  and  a  member  of  numerous  select  musical 
societies ; 
Elizabeth  White  McCulloh,  b.  June  28,  1880,  d.  June  21,  1883; 
George  B.  McCulloh,  b.  Aug.  16,  1884; 
Henry  Levis  McCulloh,  b.  Dec.  28,  1886,  d.  July  22,  1887. 


TYSON  FAMILY. 

Among  the  later  arrivals  at  Germantown  from  the  little  town  of  Crefeld  on  the 
Rhine,  the  place  of  nativity  of  most  of  the  founders  of  that  first  German  settle- 
ment on  Pennsylvania  soil,  was  Cornelius  Tyson,  born  in  Crefeld  in  the  year  1652. 
The  exact  date  of  his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania  is  not  known,  but  he  was  a  resident 
of  Germantown  in  1703.  He  was  possibly  brother  of  Reynier  and  Herman  Tyson, 
the  former  of  whom  at  least,  was  among  the  original  thirteen  families  who  crossed 
the  Atlantic  in  the  Concord  in  1683,  and  founded  Germantown ;  and  the  latter, 
Herman,  is  mentioned  in  connection  with  Reynier  in  the  Streyper  correspondence 
as  brother  of  the  wife  of  Jan  Streypers,  of  Kaldkirchen,  near  Crefeld,  who  pur- 
chased 5000  acres  of  land  of  William  Penn  on  March  10,  1682.  An  account  of 
Reynier  Tyson  and  his  descendants  is  given  in  these  volumes.  The  similarity  of 
the  names  of  the  sons  and  other  descendants  of  Reynier  and  Cornelius  Tyson 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  they  had  a  common  parentage.  Renier  Ticsen,  as  the 
names  of  both  he  and  Cornelius  were  originally  spelled,  was  a  convert  to  Quaker- 
ism before  coming  to  Pennsylvania,  while  Cornelius  held  fast  to  the  faith  of  his 
fathers  and  was  a  consistent  disciple  of  Menno  Simon,  and  lies  buried  among  the 
early  brethren  of  that  faith,  in  Axe's  Burying-Ground,  Germantown,  where  his 
tombstone,  probably  the  oldest  in  existence  erected  over  a  German  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, records  the  fact  that  "Cornelis  Tiesen"  died  May  9,  1716,  at  the  age  of 
63  years.  His  will  dated  April  6,  1716,  and  probated  July  27,  1716,  mentions  his 
wife  Margaret,  eldest  son  Matthias,  youngest  son  Peter,  daughters,  Barbara,  wife 
of  Matthias  Cunrads;  Aeltje,  wife  of  John  Cunrads ;  Williamptje,  wife  of  Paul 
Engle,  and  Yanicken,  wife  of  Laurentz  Hendricks.  The  witnesses  were  Willm. 
Striepers,  Herman  Groethausen  and  Francis  Daniel  Pastorius.  The  names  of  the 
children  of  Cornelius  Tyson  show  that  he  was  of  Holland  and  not  German  origin, 
though  born  outside  the  limits  of  modern  Netherlands.  Of  the  sons-in-law  of 
Cornelius  Tyson,  the  Cunrads,  Matthias,  who  married  Barbara  in  1705,  and  John, 
who  married  Alice  Tyson,  were  sons  of  Thones  Cunders  or  Kunders,  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Germantown,  and  natives  of  Crefeld.  They  settled  in  Hors- 
ham township,  where  Matthias  died  in  1726,  and  John  later,  and  both  have  left 
numerous  descendants. 

Paul  Engle  and  Laurentz  Hendricks,  the  other  two  sons-in-law  of  Cornelius 
Tyson,  were  both  early  purchasers  of  land  in  Bebber's  township,  as  were  their 
brothers-in-law  Matthias  and  Peter  Tyson,  though  the  Engles  were  later  residents 
of  Bristol  township,  Philadelphia  county,  where  the  old  homestead  was  occupied 
by  three  or  four  generations  of  the  name.  Lorentz  Hendricks  settled  later  in  Tow- 
amencin  township,  where  he  died  in  1753,  his  wife  Yanicken  (Jane),  and  eight 
sons  and  two  daughters  surviving  him.  One  of  the  latter,  Margaret,  was  the  wife 
of  Peter  Tyson,  Jr.     Of  Peter  Tyson,  younger  son  of  Cornelius,  we  have  little 

-ecord,  except  that  he  married  Catharine and  had  a  son  Peter,  and  other 

children. 

Matthias  Tyson,  eldest  son  of  Cornelius  and  Margaret,  was  born  in  Crefeld 
and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Pennsylvania.    He  married  Barbara  Sellen,  daugh- 


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ter  of  Hendrick  Sellen,  another  native  of  Crefeld,  and  original  settler  of  German- 
town,  and  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  the  First  Mennonite  church  of  Germantown. 
Some  years  after  his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania,  he  made  a  trip  back  to  Crefeld,  and 
returned  to  Pennsylvania,  thus  crossing  the  ocean  three  times.  A  paper  dated 
I/OO,  containing  his  signature,  is  in  possession  of  Hon.  Samuel  W.  Pennypacker, 
who  IS  a  descendant,  through  Matthias  Tyson's  daughter  Margaret,  who  married 
Jacob  Pannebecker.  Hendrick  Sellen  left  four  children,  Jacob,  a  "shopkeeper" 
of  Worcester  township,  who  died  without  issue  in  1759,  leaving  a  legacy  to  the 
poor  of  the  Mennonite  congregation  at  "Perkyomie  &  Skepack;"  John;  Barbara, 
the  wife  of  Matthias  Tyson,  and  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Arnold  Van  Fossen. 

Alatthias  Tyson  was  the  owner  of  280  acres  of  land  in  Perkiomen  township, 
which  descended  to  his  children  and  grandchildren.  He  died  there  in  1766,  his 
wife  Barbara  surviving  him. 

Issue  of  Matthias  and  Barbara  (Sellen)  Tyson: 

Cornelius  Tyson,  of  whom  presently; 

John  Tyson,  m.  Susanna,  dau.  jf  Abraham  Updegrave,  of  Perkiomen,  descendant  of 
Abraham  Op  den  Graeff,  one  of  founders  of  Germantown; 

Henry  Tyson,  large  landowner  on  the  Skippack,  m.  Madeline  Kuster,  of  whose  descend- 
ants we  have  no  record; 

Margaret  Tyson,  m.  Jacob  Pannebecker; 

William  Tyson,  m.  Alice  Nash,  and  left  descendants; 

Benjamin  Tyson,  landowner  on  the  Skippack  in  1766.  of  whom  we  have  no  further 
record; 

Joseph  Tyson,  m.  (first)  Ann  Nash,  sister  to  his  brother  William's  wife,  and  (second) 
Hannah  Updegrave,  sister  to  his  brother  John's  wife. 

CciRMCLius  Tyson,  eldest  son  of  Matthias  and  Barbara  (Sellen)  Tyson,  inherit- 
ed the  homestead  of  his  father  in  Perkiomen  township,  and  resided  there  all  his 
life.  He  married  March  30,  1738,  Barbara  Pannebecker  or  Pennypacker,  daugh- 
ter of  Hendrick  Pannebecker,  the  founder  of  the  Pennypacker  family  in  Penn- 
sylvania ;  an  account  of  which  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes.  She  was  born 
in  1720,  and  her  husband  was  several  years  her  senior. 
Issue  of  Cornelius  and  Barbara  (Pennypacker)  Tyson: 

Matthias  Tyson,  b.  Jan.  6,  1739; 

Mary  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  27,  1740; 

Henry  Tyson,  b.  Oct.  5,  1742; 

John  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  12,  1744; 

William  Tyson,  b.  April  11,  1746,  d.  inf.; 

Benjamin  Tyson,  b.  Feb.  i6,  1751; 

Joseph  Tyson,  b.  Feb.  16,  1751,  d.  May  2,  1829,  m.  (first)   Elizabeth  Robinson,  (second) 

Barbara  Wentz;  of  whom  presently; 
Cornelius  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  2,  1753; 
William  Tyson,  b.  March  2,  1756; 
Elizabeth  Tyson,  b.  March  31,  1758. 

Jo.^EPH  Tyson,  son  of  Cornelius  and  Barbara  (Pennypacker)  Tyson,  born  in 
Perkiomen  township,  then  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county,  February  16. 
1751,  was  a  farmer  in  that  county  and  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years. 
He  married  (first)  in  1773.  Elizabeth  Robinson,  born  November  23,  1753,  and 
died  November  23,   1783.     He  married    (second)    at  the   Second   Presbyterian 


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Church  of  Philadelphia,  September  30,   1784,  Barbara  Wentz,  of  a  family  long 
settled  in  Whitpain  township. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Robinson)  Tyson: 

Hannah  Tyson,  b.  Jan.  6,  1774,  d.  inf.; 
Hannah  Tyson,  b.  March  25,  1775; 

Mary  Tyson,  b.  April  18,  1776,  d.  Nov,  26,  1837;  ™-  Styer; 

Cornelius  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  23,  1778,  of  whom  presently; 
John  Tyson,  b.  July  21,  1781. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Barabara  (IVcntz)  Tyson: 

Barbara  Tyson,  b.  June  28,  1785,  d.  April  9,  1847,  m.  Yocum; 

Charl9tte  Tyson,  b.  Oct.  ig,  1789,  d.  Dec,  1881,  in  her  93rd  year,  m.  Abraham  Wentz,  of 

Whitpain  tvvp.,   Montgomery   co.,   and   had   several  children,  eldest   of   whom,  Joseph 

Tyson  Wentz,  inherited  his  father's  homestead; 
Susanna  Tyson,  b.  July  9,  1809,  d.  Aug.  24,  1841,  m. Detwiler. 

Cornelius  Tyson,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Robinson)  Tyson,  born 
in  Montgomery  county,  November  23,  1778,  was  a  much  respected  farmer  in 
Worcester  township,  and  during  his  active  years  was  called  upon  to  fill  a  number 
of  ])ositions  of  public  trust.  He  married  in  1799,  Hannah  Smith,  born  December 
2.  1782,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Deborah  (Koplin)  Smith,  of  Montgomery  county, 
the  former  born  December  24,  1752,  died  September  12,  1822;  and  the  latter  born 
April  10,  1756,  died  April  2,  1842. 

Issue  of  Cornelius  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Tyson: 

Charlotte  Tyson,  b.  Oct.  15,  1800; 

Joseph  Tyson,  b.  Feb.  2,  1803,  d.  June  18,  1824; 

Samuel  Tyson,  b.  July  16,  1807; 

Maria  Tyson,  b.  June  22,  1805,  d.  Nov.  15,  1881,  m.  John  Zimmerman; 

Jacob  Smith  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  20,  i8og; 

Jared  Tyson,  b.  April  25,  1812; 

Henry  Tyson,  M.  D.,  b.  May  21,  1815,  d.  April  29,  1872,  m.  Gertrude  Haviland;  of  whom 

presently; 
James  Tyson,  b.  Sept.  16,  1817,  d.  July  26,  1900,  m.  Catharine  Ryder; 
Cornelius  Tyson,  M.  D.,  b.  May  13,  1820,  d.  Jan.  26,  1846,  graduated  at  Penna.  Medical 

Coll.,  Phila.,  1843,  and  practiced  in  his  native  township  until  death  three  years  later; 
Joseph  and  Charles  Tyson,  twins,  b.  Oct.  20,  1824,  d.  inf.; 
Elizabeth  Tyson,  b.  Sept.  28,  1826,  d.  Aug.  25,  1856,  m.  Edward  Evans. 

Dr.  Henry  Tyson,  born  in  Montgomery  county,  May  21,  1815,  spent  his  early 
life  on  his  father's  farm  in  Worcester  township,  and  received  a  good  common 
school  education.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a  stone  mason,  but  being  very  fond  of 
books  soon  abandoned  his  trade  for  the  more  congenial  vocation  of  a  school 
teacher.  While  conducting  a  school  in  Philadelphia,  he  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine at  the  Pennsylvania  Medical  College,  among  the  instructors  of  which  were  the 
dir^tinguished  physicians  and  scientists:  Dr.  Samuel  George  Morton,  Dr.  George 
McClellan,  and  Dr.  William  Rush.  He  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1843.  His 
younger  brother,  Cornelius  Tyson,  graduated  in  the  same  class. 

Dr.  Henry  Tyson  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Friedensburg,  Berks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1843,  but  soon  after  removed  to  Reading,  where  he  prac- 
ticed until  the  death  of  his  brother,  Cornelius,  in  1846,  when  he  succeeded  to  his 


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practice  in  his  native  township  of  Worcester,  Montgomery  county,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1850,  and  then  returned  to  Reading.  In  1854  he  was  elected  Warden 
of  the  Berks  County  Prison,  and  filled  that  position  in  addition  to  attending  to  his 
practice  as  a  physician  for  twelve  years.  Resigning  from  the  prison  he  practiced 
medicine  in  Reading  a  few  years  longer,  but  his  health  failing,  he  removed  to  a 
farm  in  Exeter  township,  a  few  miles  below  Reading  in  1868,  and  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days  there,  dying  April  29,  1872. 

Dr.  Henry  Tyson  married  in   1839,  Gertrude   (Haviland),  daughter  of  Caleb 
Haviland,  born  April  18,  1774,  by  his  wife  Mary  Coxe.     She  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  May  7,  1803,  and  married  (first)  May  i,  1823,  John  Cas- 
v,-ell.    She  died  in  Exeter  township,  Berks  county,  December  18,  1870. 
Issue  of  Dr.  Henry  and  Gertrude  (Haviland)  Tyson: 

James  Tyson,  M.  D.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1841,  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah  Tyson,  b.  at  Friedensburg  1844,  who  lived  a  few  months  only; 

Henry  Tyson,  b.  Nov.  g.  1846,  d.  Oct.  11,  1S82,  was  a  farmer  in  Berks  co. 

James  Tyson,  M.  D.,  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Henry  and  Gertrude  (Haviland)  Tyson, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  October  26,  1841.  Plis  parents  removing  to 
Reading,  Pennsylvania,  when  he  was  a  small  child,  he  received  his  preliminary 
education  in  public  and  private  schools  there,  later  attending  the  Friends  Central 
School,  Philadelphia,  where  he  prepared  for  college  and  entered  Haverford  College, 
from  which  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  i860,  and  received  the  degree 
of  A.  M.  in  1864.  He  studied  medicine  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  and  of 
Dr.  John  B.  Brooke,  of  Reading,  and  Dr.  John  Neill,  of  Philadelphia,  and  entering 
the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  received  his  medical 
degree  from  that  institution  in  1863.  During  the  last  year  of  his  student  life  he 
was  acting  medical  cadet  in  the  Military  Hospitals  at  Philadelphia,  and  shortly 
after  his  graduation  was  appointed  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Army,  and  served  during  the  summer  of  1863  in  Philadelphia  and  Harrisburg.  In 
July,  1863,  he  was  elected  resident  physician  in  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  and 
served  until  the  following  April,  when  he  again  entered  the  service  of  the  United 
States  Government  as  a  surgeon,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  in  the  Philadelphia  Military  Hospitals  and  for  a  tiine  at  Winchester. 
Virginia.  In  1864  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  has  con- 
tinued to  reside  there  until  the  present  time  (1909).  He  also  became  instructor 
of  private  classes  of  students  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  with  the  session 
of  1864-5.  In  1868  he  was  appointed  lecturer  on  Microscopy  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  University,  and  lecturer  on  Urinary  Chemistry  in  1870,  from  1870-78  he 
was  Professor  of  Physiology  and  Microscopy  in  the  Pennsylvania  College  of  Dental 
Surgery.  On  the  organization  of  the  new  Hospital  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1874,  he  was  made  lecturer  on  Pathological  Anatomy  and  Histology.  In 
1878  he  was  elected  Professor  of  Pathology  and  Morbid  Anatomy  in  the  IMedical 
Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and  in  1889  was  transferred  to 
the  chair  of  Clinical  Medicine,  and  in  1899  to  the  chair  of  IMedicine,  which  he  now 
holds. 

Dr.  Tyson  was  Secretary  of  the  Faculty  of  Medicine  at  the  University  1877-88, 
and  Dean  of  the  same  Faculty  1888-92.  He  was  one  of  the  visiting  physicians  of 
St.  Joseph's  Hospital,    Philadelphia.   1871-2;  was  appointed  Microscopist  to  the 


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Philadelphia  Hospital  1868,  Pathologist,  1879,  and  Visiting  Physician,  1872-90, 
and  again  from  1893  to  the  present  time.  He  was  President  of  the  Medical  Board 
of  the  Hospital  1886-90.  He  is  also  ex-officio  one  of  the  physicians  of  the  Uni- 
versity Hospital,  and  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Managers  1874-78,  and  was  again 
made  manager  in  1891. 

He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Rush  Hospital  for  Consumption  and 
-ALllied  Diseases,  in  Philadelphia,  in  1890,  and  was  consulting  physician  1890-92, 
and  visiting  physician  1892-93,  when  he  became  a  trustee  of  the  hospital  and  is 
now  chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  He  was  appointed  consulting  physician 
to  the  Kensington  Hospital  for  Women  in  1891,  consulting  physician  to  St.  Mary's 
Hospital  in  1897,  and  one  of  the  visiting  physicians  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital 
in  December,  1902. 

In  1871  and  1872  Dr.  Tyson  assisted  in  editing  the  Philadelphia  Medical  Times, 
and  he  also  edited  four  volumes  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Pathological  Society 
of  Philadelphia  (1871-77).  In  addition  to  numerous  papers  on  histology  and 
pathology  and  clinical  lectures  on  general  medicine,  he  has  published  "The  Cell 
Doctrine;  Its  History  and  Present  State"  (Philadelphia,  1870),  second  edition, 
1878;  "An  Introduction  to  Practical  Histology  (1873);  "Practical  Examination 
of  the  Urine"  ( 1875 )  ;  tenth  edition  ;  "A  Treatise  on  Bright's  Disease  and  Diabetes" 
(1881)  ;  a  Handbook  on  "Physical  Diagnosis,"  fourth  edition  1888;  and  a  Text 
Book  on  Practice  of  Medicine  (1896,  fourth  edition,  1905). 

Dr.  Tyson  became  a  Fellow  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia  in  1886, 
and  was  Chairman  of  the  Section  of  General  Medicine  in  1898,  a  member  of  the 
Pathological  Society  in  1868,  was  its  Recorder  1869-77,  Vice-president  1871-82, 
and  President  1882-84.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  County  Medical 
Society  in  1874,  was  its  Vice-president  for  the  year  1895-96,  and  its  President  in 
1897;  became  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association  in  1872,  and  of  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  in  1875.  He  was  recorder  of  the 
Biological  and  Microscopical  Section  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  from 
1868-72,  vice-director  from  1872-77,  and  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Obstetrical  Society  of  Philadelphia  in  1869 ;  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  American  Physicians,  limited  to  125  members  from  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  organized  in  1886.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Soci- 
ety, elected  in  1887,  and  a  member  of  the  Wistar  Association.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Climatolological  Association  in  1898,  but  resigned  shortly 
afterward  in  1904.  Dr.  Tyson  was  elected  Vice-president  of  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians of  Philadelphia,  and  in  1907  President. 

Dr.  James  Tyson  was  married  in  1865,  to  Frances  Bosdevex,  of  Brussels,  and 
they  had  issue : 

Thomas  Mellor  Tyson,  M.  D.,  b.  Phila.  Sept.  21,  1866,  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.  as  partial 
student,  1885,  entered  Med.  Dept.  of  same  Univ.  in  1886;  and  graduated  in  1890:  has 
been  Instructor  in  CHnical  Medicine  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  Assistant  Physician  to  Univ. 
Hosp.,  Visiting  Physician  to  Rush  Hosp.  for  Treatment  of  Consumption,  Visiting 
Physician  to  Phila.  Hosp.;  is  member  of  Phila.  Co.  Medical  Society,  and  other  scien- 
tific organizations;  m.  1890,  Gertrude  Harrar,  of  Montgomery  co.,  Pa.,  and  had  issue: 
Frances  Tyson,  b.  Aug.  31,  1896. 

Helen  B.  Tyson,  b.  Dec.  3,  1868,  m.  May  20,  1905,  Henry  W.  Stokes,  of  Phila.,  and  had 
issue : 

James  Tyson  Stokes,  b.  Nov.  23,  1906. 


Y RATES  FAMILY. 

Jasper  Yeates,  native  of  Yorkshire,  who  had  been  some  years  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile ventures  in  West  Indies,  came  to  Pennsylvania  the  latter  part  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  and  located  at  Upland,  now  Chester.  It  is  said  that  he  mar- 
ried in  the  West  Indies  and  that  his  wife  died  there  without  issue.  He  married  at 
Upland  about  1690,  Catharine,  daughter  of  James  Sandelands,  said  to  have  been 
a  native  of  Scotland,  who  settled  at  Upland  about  1675,  by  his  wife  Anika,  daugh- 
ter of  Joran  Keen,  born  at  Upland,  January  26,  1670- 1.  Joran  Keen,  or  Kyn,  was 
born  in  Sweden  in  the  year  1620,  and  came  to  the  South  River  with  Gov.  Printz, 
in  the  "Fama."  sailing  from  Stockholm  August  16,  1642,  and  arriving  at  Fort 
Christina,  near  New  Castle,  February  15,  1643.  James  Sandelands,  who  married 
Anika,  or  Anne,  Keen,  was  a  captain  of  militia  at  Upland,  1675,  and  a  considerable 
landowner  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Upland  Court,  his  name  frequently  ap- 
pearing on  the  ancient  records  of  that  court.  He  was  one  of  the  nine  members 
of  Gov.  Markham's  Council,  1681,  and  the  first  Assembly  of  the  Province  of 
Pennsylvania  is  said  to  have  met  in  his  "double  house"  at  Upland.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  Justice  at  Upland,  1681,  and  served  until  his  death,  April  12,  1692,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-seven  years.  The  arms  of  the  Sandelands  family,  "Ar.  a  bend  az." 
with  various  emblems  of  mortality,  are  well  carved  on  a  mural  tablet  erected  to 
his  memory  by  his  son  in  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Chester.  Catharine  Sandelands, 
daughter  of  James  and  Anne,  married  (first)  Ale.xander  Creker,  who  died  soon 
after  the  marriage,  and  (second)  Jasper  Yeates,  above  mentioned. 

Jasper  Yeates  purchased  in  1697,  a  tract  of  land  at  the  mouth  of  Naaman's 
Creek,  in  New  Castle  county,  on  which  were  erected  flour  and  bolting  mills,  and 
in  the  following  year  additional  land  in  Chester,  and  erected  extensive  granaries 
on  the  bank  of  the  creek.  He  also  established  a  bakery,  and  erected  for  himself 
the  "venerable  Mansion"  still  standing  on  the  west  side  of  Second  street  near 
Edgmont  avenue,  overlooking  the  Delaware,  where  he  resided  many  years,  remov- 
ing towards  the  close  of  his  life  to  New  Castle.  He  is  said  to  have  been  educated 
for  the  law ;  at  least  he  seems  to  have  had  the  reputation  of  a  good  knowledge  of 
law,  which  gave  him  considerable  prominence  in  the  community.  In  1694  he  was 
appointed  a  Justice  of  the  Chester  county  courts,  and  he  was  an  associate  Justice  of 
Supreme  Court  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  1691-171 1.  He  was  also  a  justice  of 
the  Lower  Counties  on  the  Delaware,  1717-1720.  On  December  25,  1696,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  Provincial  Council,  and  remained  a  member  of  that  body  until  his  death, 
1720,  though  probably  during  the  time  when  there  was  contention  and  division  be- 
tween the  Assemblies  and  representatives  of  the  Province  and  those  of  the  territories 
on  the  Delaware,  he  took  little  part  in  sessions  of  Council.  In  October,  1699,  he  was 
elected  a  representative  in  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania, 
from  New  Castle,  and  was  the  leader  of  the  representatives  from  the  Lower 
Counties  in  the  controversies  in  the  Assembly  over  the  organization  of  a  military 
force  and  the  fortification  of  the  ports  on  the  Delaware  for  defense  against  inva- 
sion, which  resulted  in  the  withdrawal  of  the  representatives  of  New  Castle,  Kent 
and  Sussex,  from  the  Provincial  body,  and  eventually  in  1703,  to  the  establishment 


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of  entirely  independent  Assemblies.  Yeates  continued  to  represent  New  Castle  in 
that  of  the  territories,  in  which  he  exercised  a  potent  influence.  He  was  the 
spokesman  of  the  delegation  of  representatives  of  the  Lower  counties,  who  after 
their  withdrawal  from  the  General  Assembly  called  upon  William  Peon  and  his 
Council  and  remonstrated  against  the  measures  of  the  Assembly.  He  is  referred 
to  in  letters  of  James  Logan  to  Penn,  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  party,  who,  as 
Logan  asserted,  were  seeking  to  have  the  Crown  make  New  Castle  the  seat  of 
government.  He  was  one  of  those  who  prepared  an  address  fo  the  Lords  of  Trade 
in  England,  complaining  bitterly  against  Penn  and  the  Quakers,  on  the  ground  of 
their  refusal  to  make  any  provision  for  the  defense  of  the  coast  and  frontiers.  He 
was  a  strong  adherent  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest 
vestrymen  of  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  as  well  as  of  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Ches- 
ter, with  his  brother-in-law,  James  Sandelands,  exhibiting  great  zeal  in  the  found- 
ing of  the  latter  church,  1703.  Though  he  was  representative  and  champion  of 
the  rights  of  New  Castle  county,  he  resided  during  the  most  active  years  of  his  life 
at  Chester.  When  William  Penn  established  the  town  of  Chester  into  a  borough, 
1701,  Jasper  Yeates  was  named  in  the  charter  as  one  of  the  first  four  burgesses, 
and  he  became  Chief  Burgess  in  1703.  At  a  meeting  of  Provincial  Council,  March 
ig,  1704-5,  he  was  named  with  others  to  survey  and  lay  out  a  road,  "the  Queen's 
Road,"  from  Chester  to  Darby,  connecting  Chester  more  directly  with  Philadelphia 
and  the  settlements  adjacent.  Notwithstanding  his  opposition  to  the  "Quaker 
Party"  and  the  closer  adherents  of  William  Penn,  he  was  the  recipient  of  a  num- 
ber of  honorable  and  responsible  commissions  from  the  Proprietor  and  the  Crown. 
In  1698,  he  was,  with  five  others,  given  a  dedimusdc  postatem,  under  the  great 
Seal  of  England,  to  administer  the  oaths  to  Colonial  Governors  and  such  as  should 
receive  Royal  commissions,  and  did  so  in  the  case  of  Governors  Andrew  Hamilton, 
John  Evans  and  Charles  Gookin.  In  1717,  he  received  a  similar  writ  from  Will- 
iam Penn  to  administer  the  oath  to  Sir  William  Keith.  He  died  at  New  Castle,  on 
his  plantation  near  the  town.  May  2,  1720,  leaving  a  will  dated  February  6,  1718- 
19.  His  wife  Catharine  and  six  children  survived  him. 
Issue  of  Jasper  and  Catharine  (Sandelands)    Yeates: 

James,  living  Jan.  26,  1712,  when  a  letter,  recorded  at  New  Castle,  was  addressed  to  him 
by  his  father;   possibly  son  of  first  marriage,  and  the  James   Yeates  who  settled  at 
Newtown,  Bucks  co.,  soon  after  1700,  whose  son  James  was  one  of  the  "walkers'"  at 
the  consummation  of  the  "Waling  Purchase"  of  1737; 
George,  b.  April  5,  1695,  <^-  1747.  inherited  the  plantation  near  New  Castle,  and  lived  and 
died  thereon;   in.   Mary,  dau.  of   Major  John   Donaldson,   from   Galloway,   Scotland, 
Justice  of   Provincial   Court,   Member  of   Assembly,   and   Provincial   Councillor   from 
New  Castle,  1695-1700; 
George  and  Mary  (Donaldson)   Yeates,  had  issue: 
Jasper,  b.  July  4,  1720,  d.  s.  p.  prior  to  1767; 

John,  b.  Feb.  1722,  m.   (first)  Ann  Catharine  Ross,  (second)  Ann  Bonner; 
Mary,  b.  Feb.  18,  1724,  d.  s.  p.  before  her  father; 
Catharine,  b.  Feb.  4,  1726,  ni.  James  Corrie; 
David,  b.  June  22,  1728,  d.  s.  p.  about  1770; 
Donaldson,  b.  Feb.  12,  172Q,  m.  Mary  Syng; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  10,  1731,  m.  James  Latham; 
Anne,  b.  Sept.  8,  1736,  d.  s.  p.  after  July,  1767. 
Anne,  b.  Dec.  21,  1697,  m.  George  McCall,  of  Phila    (see  McCall  Family) ; 
Mary,  b.  Dec.  4,  1701,  m.  Samuel  Carpenter,  of  Phila.,  son  of  Joshua  Carpenter,  and 
nephew  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  merchant  and  Provincial  Councillor  of  Phila.; 


John,  b.  May  i,  1705,  m.  Elizabeth  Sidebotham;  of  whom  presently; 
Jasper,  b.  June  22,  1708,  d.  s.  p.  before  Feb.,  1768. 

John  Yeates,  third  son  of  Jasper,  the  Judge  and  Councillor,  born  at  Upland, 
March  i,  1701,  accompanied  his  parents  in  their  removal  to  New  Castle  county, 
w  hen  but  a  child.  Under  his  father's  will  he  inherited  the  mansion,  mills,  wharfs, 
etc.,  at  Chester,  and  he  became  a  shipping  merchant,  doing  a  large  business  with 
the  West  Indies.  He  later  removed  to  the  Island  of  Barbadoes,  where  he  was 
living  in  1741.  About  ten  years  later  he  removed  to  Philadelphia  and  purchased 
of  his  nephew  Joshua  Carpenter  wharves  and  other  property  on  Water  street,  and 
also  land  in  Wicacoa,  where  he  was  a  resident,  1757.  He  was  some  years  very 
prosperous,  and  1748  executed  a  will  disposing  of  such  large  sums  as  to  indicate 
that  lie  was  then  possessed  of  a  considerable  estate.  He,  however,  met  with  heavy 
losses,  and  in  1762,  when  making  an  application  to  the  English  government  for  a 
position  as  Comptroller  of  Customs  for  the  Colony  was  very  much  reduced  in 
circumstances.  Chief  Justice  William  Allen  made  a  personal  appeal  to  the  Honor- 
able Thomas  and  John  Penn,  in  which  he  states  that  John  Yeates  is  "a  very  honest 
man,  an  old  School  Fellow  of  mine,  who  has  been  much  reduced  by  misfortunes  of 
Trade."  July  24,  1764,  he  was  commissioned  Comptroller  of  Customs  at  Poconoke, 
at  the  head  of  Wicomico  River,  Maryland.  He  died  at  Vienna,  Dorset  county. 
Maryland,  October  9,  1765.  He  married,  1730.  Elizabeth  Sidebotham,  born  Octo- 
ber 16,  1704,  died  September  16,  1753. 

Issue  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Sidebotham)  Yeates: 

Sarah,  b.  April  2,  1731,  d.  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Oct.  3.  1823,  m.  at  Christ  Church.  Feb.  20. 
1749-50,  John  Ewing,  b.  Aug.  27,  1729.  d.  Nov.  11.  1754.  and  had  issue: 

Catharine  Ewing,  b.  Phila.,  March  25.  1751,  m.  at  Lancaster,  March  13.  1775,  Dr. 
Edward  Hand,  from  Clyduff,  county  Leinster,  Ireland,  who  came  to  Pa.  with 
Eighteenth  Royal  Irish  Regiment,  1767,  as  Surgeon's  Mate;  resigned  and  settled 
in  Phila.  as  physician  in  1774;  was  appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Thompson's 
Battalion  of  Riflemen.  June  25.  1775,  and  went  to  Boston  with  it;  commissioned 
Colonel  1776,  Brigadier  GeneVal  1777,  Adjutant  General  of  U.  S.  Army  1781. 
Major  General  of  Pa.  Line  1784,  Delegate  to  Continental  Congress  1784,  Dele- 
gate to  Constitutional  Convention  1790;  d.  Lancaster  co..  Sept.  3,  1802; 
Jasper  Ewing,  b.  July  15,  1753,  d.  Sunbury.  Pa.,  Sept.  25,  1800,  studied  law  with 
his  uncle  Jasper  Yeates,  at  Lancaster,  entered  army  at  beginning  of  Revolution, 
was  Second  Lieutenant  in  Col.  Hand's  regiment  1776-7,  Brigade  Major  of  West- 
ern Dept.  1777;  Prothonotary.  Northumberland  co.,  1789,  later  Justice  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  Court  there; 
John  Ewing.  b.  June  22.  1755.  d.  Lancaster  Feb.  14,  1799,  witnessed  battle  and  de- 
feat at  Long  Island  1776,  and  made  a  "draught  of  the  Engagement;"  Captain 
Lancaster  County  Militia;  m.  Elizabeth  Reen;  the  great-grandparents  of  Dr. 
John  W.  Jordan,  of  Phila. 

Jasper,  b.  April  g,  1745.  m.  Sarah  Burd;  of  whom  presently; 

John,  b.  Aug.  17.  1743.  <J    Feb.  2,  1765,  unm.; 

Probably  other  children. 

Jasper  Yeates,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  ( Sidebotham)  Yeates,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, April  9,  1745,  entered  the  College  of  Philadelphia,  1758.  and 
graduated  there  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  1761  ;  later  received 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  Bar  of  Philadel- 
phia county  1765.  He  located  at  Lancaster  and  became  the  most  prominent  mem- 
ber of  that  bar,  enjoying  the  largest  practice  of  any  lawyer  in  the  interior  of  the 
Province  at  that  date.  At  the  first  protest  against  the  oppressive  measures  of  the 
mother  countrv  in   1775.  he  became  one  of  the   foremost  patriots  of  Lancaster 


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county ;  was  made  Chairman  of  Committee  of  Correspondence,  and  was  active  in 
organizing  and  equipping  the  militia  of  the  county  throughout  the  war.  He  was  a 
delegate  from  Lancaster  county  to  the  convention  that  ratified  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States,  1787,  and  with  Chief  Justice  McKean  and  James  Wilson, 
was  one  of  the  committee  who  reported  to  the  convention  the  form  of  ratification 
adopted  by  the  convention.  He  was  commissioned  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of 
Pennsylvania,  March  21,  1791,  and  served  until  his  death  with  much  honor  and 
ability.  With  James  Ross  and  William  Bradford,  was  one  of  the  three  commis- 
sioners appointed  by  President  Washington,  August  9,  1794,  to  confer  with  the 
inhabitants  of  Western  Pennsylvania  with  regard  to  the  Whiskey  Insurrection, 
and  discharged  that  duty  in  a  manner  very  satisfactory  to  the  administration.  In 
1776  he  visited  the  scene  of  Braddock's  defeat  of  twenty  years  previous,  and 
wrote  an  interesting  account  of  the  field,  afterwards  published  in  Haxard's 
Register  of  Pennsylvania  (vol.  vi.,  pp.  104-5). 

He  prepared  notes  of  the  cases  heard  before  him,  which  were  published  after  his 
death  and  are  known  as  "Yeates  Notes  of  Cases,  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  Penn- 
sylvania." He  died  at  Lancaster  March  14,  1817,  and  was  buried  at  St.  James' 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  there,  under  a  pyramidal  tombstone,  upon  which  is 
inscribed  the  following  epitaph : 

"He  fulfilled  the  various  duties  of  life  with  fidelity.  His  integrity  was  inflexible. 
As  a  Judge  he  was  most  learned  and  eminent  and  in  the  exercise  of  his  publick 
functions,  he  deservedly  obtained  the  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens  and  left 
behind  him  a  name  which  will  only  perish  with  the  judicial  records  of  the  country." 
An  excellent  portrait  of  Judge  Yeates  is  in  possession  of  the  family. 

He  married  at  Lancaster,  December  30,  1767,  Sarah  Burd,  eldest  daughter  of 
Col.  James  Burd,  by  his  wife  Sarah,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Plumley) 
Shippen,  and  sister  to  Chief  Justice  Edward  Shippen.  She  survived  him  and  died 
at  Lancaster,  October  25,  1829,  and  is  buried  by  his  side  in  the  churchyard  of  St. 
James. 

Issue  of  Judge  Jasper  and  Sarah  (Burd)  Yeates: 

Mary,  b.  March  13,  1770,  m.  at  Lancaster,  .March  3,  1791.  Charles  Smitli,  LL.  D.  ;  of 
whom  presently; 

John,  b.  June  29,  1772,  graduated  at  College  of  Phila.  1792,  d.  s.  p.  at  Lancaster,  Jan.  7, 
1844,  m.  Eliza  Buckley,  dau.  of  Daniel  Buckley,  of  Lancaster,  ironmaster,  by  his  wife 
Sarah  Brooke,  and  sister  to  Mathew  Brooke  Buckley,  who  m.  Mary  Swift,  dau.  of 
Samuel  and  Mary   (Shippen)    Swift;  she  d.  Phila.   Dec,   1849; 

Jasper,  b.  Aug.  30,  1774,  d.  Dec.  24,  1774; 

Sarah,  b.  Dec.  4,  i775.  d.  Nov.  12,  1776; 

Elizabeth,  b.  April  4,  1778.  d.  Aug.  3.  1867,  m.  at  Lancaster,  May  2,  1808,  Redmond  Con- 
yngham,  Jr.,  b.  in  Phila.  Sept.  19,  1781,  d.  Lancaster,  June  16,  1846,  son  of  David  Hey- 
field  and  Mary  Conyngham,  and  grandson  of  Redmond  Conyngham,  who  emigrated 
from  Letterkenny,  Ireland;  represented  counties  of  Luzerne,  Northumberland,  Union, 
Columbia,  and  Susquehanna  in  State  Senate  in  1820 ; 

Margaret,  b.  April  2,  1780,  d.  Lancaster,  Feb.  I,  1855,  unni.: 

Edward  Shippen,  b.  May  17,  1782,  d.  Dec.  12,  1782; 

Catharine,  b.  Dec.  i,  1783,  d.  at  Lancaster,  June  7,  1866,  unm.; 

Sarah  and  Edward,  twins,  b.  Dec.  6,  1786,  d.  next  day. 

Mary  Yeates,  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  Yeates,  born  at  Lancaster,  March  13, 
1770,  married  there  March  3,  1791,  Charles  Smith,  third  son  of  WiHiam  Smith, 
D.  D.,  Provost  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  by  his  wife  Rebecca  Moore,  daugh- 


404  y  BATES 

ter  of  William  Moore,  of  "Moore  Hall,"  Chester  county.  Charles  Smith  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  March  4,  1765,  and  was  educated  under  the  care  of  his  father  at 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  at  Washington  College,  Maryland,  graduating  at 
the  latter  institution,  May  14.  1783,  being  the  valedictorian  of  his  class.  He  stud- 
ied law  with  his  elder  brother,  William  Moore  Smith,  at  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  and 
on  his  admission  to  bar  of  Philadelphia  county,  in  1786.  located  at  Sunbury,  North- 
umberland county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  practiced  many  years,  acquiring  con- 
siderable eminence  in  his  profession,  and  also  in  political  and  scientific  circles.  He 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional  convention  of  1790,  and  represented  his  dis- 
trict in  the  lower  House  of  the  Legislature,  1806-7-8,  and  in  the  Senate,  1816.  He 
supplied  valuable  notes  for  Lazi's  of  Pennsylvania,  published  1810-12,  by  authority 
of  State  Legislature.  He  was  elected  member  of  American  Philosophical  Society, 
1805,  and  took  active  part  in  their  proceedings  for  many  years.  The  University 
of  Pennsylvania  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  1819,  and 
March  27  of  that  year  he  was  appointed  President  Judge  of  the  Ninth  Judicial 
District,  comprising  the  counties  of  Cumberland,  Franklin  and  Adams ;  April  28, 
1820,  he  was  commissioned  President  Judge  of  the  District  Courts  of  the  City  and 
County  of  Lancaster,  where  he  presided  for  a  number  of  years,  residing  at  "Hard- 
wicke,"  near  Lancaster,  erected  by  him.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  and  died  at  his  home,  No.  12  Clinton  Square,  in  that  city,  March  18, 
1836,  and  is  buried  at  Epiphany  Church.  His  wife  died  August  27  of  the  same 
year. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Ycates)  Smith: 

Jasper  Yeates  Smith,  b.  March  15,  1792,  d.  Nov.  19,  1822,  unm, ; 

William  Wemyss  Smith,  b.  March  20,  1795,  d.  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  March  27,  1828; 

Willamina  Elizabeth,  b.  Lancaster,  Oct.  3,  1797,  d.  there  Jan.  9,  1848,  m.  Feb.  22,  1822, 
Thomas  McElwee,  of  Lancaster  County  Bar; 

Sarah  Smith,  b.  March  24,  1802,  d.  Baltimore,  Md.,  1846,  m.  Jan.  29,  1823,  Leonard  Kim- 
ball, of  Baltimore  Bar; 

Charles  Edward  Smith,  b.  March  6.  1804,  d.  Jan.  2,  1829.  m.  Rebecca  Owen  Grogan,  of 
Baltimore; 

Mary  Margaret  Smith,  b.  Oct.  16,  1808,  d.  Jan.  11,  1869,  m.  George  Brinton; 

Theodore  Horatio  Smith,  b.  Jan.  20,  1809,  d.  March  27,  1837; 

Catharine  Yeates  Smith,  b.  Dec.  31,  1810,  d.  July  3.  i8i7. 


McCALL  FAMILY. 

George  McCall,  one  of  Philadelphia's  early  Colonial  merchants,  was  a  son  of 
Samuel  McCall,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  by  a  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Dundas,  of  Arniston,  county  Midlothian,  an  eminent  lawyer,  and  Judge  of 
Court  Sessions,  who  was  grandfather  of  Henry  Dundas,  first  Viscount  Melville. 
At  the  time  of  his  marriage,  1716,  George  McCall  was  a  prosperous  merchant  in 
Philadelphia,  having  a  store  and  wharf  at  Union  and  Plum  streets.  He  was 
elected  to  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  October  3,  1722,  and,  October  16, 
1724,  was  appointed  by  Provincial  Council,  with  other  "persons,  of  Credit  and 
Reputation,  Skilled  in  Maritime  and  Mercantile  affairs"  to  settle  the  accounts  of 
shipwrecked  mariners  with  the  owners  of  goods  imported  by  them.  In  1727,  he 
was  one  of  "divers  merchants  of  Philadelphia,"  who  petitioned  Gov.  Gordon,  in 
reference  to  the  evils  likely  to  result  from  the  passage  by  the  Assembly  of  an  Act 
in  reference  to  importing  and  packing,  etc.  About  1725,  in  connection  with  An- 
thony Morris,  he  erected  a  forge  on  Manatawny  Creek,  in  Berks  county,  known 
for  many  years  as  "McCall's  Forge"  which  was  supplied  with  pig  iron  from  the 
Colebrookdale  furnace,  in  which  he  likewise  had  an  interest,  then  managed  by 
Thomas  Potts,  Jr.  May  28,  1733,  he  purchased  of  the  heirs  of  Henry  and  Richard 
Scoble,  102  acres  in  Paasyunk  township,  Philadelphia,  including  a  strip  of  meadow 
on  Hollander's  Creek,  which  tract  was  called  "Chevy  Chase."  June  20,  1735,  he 
purchased  of  John  Penn,  the  Proprietaries  Manor  of  Gilberts,  comprising  14,960 
acres,  lying  on  the  Schuylkill,  in  what  is  now  Alontgomery  county,  which  he  named 
Douglass  Manor.  It  included  Douglass  township,  part  of  Pottsgrove  township, 
and  about  one-third  of  the  present  borough  of  Pottstown.  He  afterwards  recon- 
veyed  to  Hon.  John  Penn,  three-fourths  interest  in  a  copper  mine  discovered  on 
the  tract.  On  February  24,  1736,  he  obtained  a  warrant  for  500  acres  of  the  Lot- 
tery Lands  in  Bucks  county,  and  at  about  the  same  date  purchased  300  acres  near 
Crosswicks,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  tenant  of  the  parsonage  House  of  Christ 
Church,  1718,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Vestry,  1721-4;  was  a  liberal  contributor 
to  rebuilding  the  church,  1739.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  October  13,  1640,  and 
was  buried  at  Christ  Church. 

George  McCall  married  August  9,  1716,  Ann,  born  in  Pennsylvania,  December 
27,  1697,  daughter  of  Provincial  Councillor  Jasper  Yeates,  of  New  Castle,  by  his 
wife  Catharine,  daughter  of  James  Sandelands,  a  Scotchman,  who  settled  at  Up- 
land (now  Chester),  1665;  was  Captain  of  a  company  of  Mihtia  at  Upland,  1675, 
and  was  one  of  the  nine  members  of  Council  appointed  by  Gov.  Markham,  August 
3,  1681.  His  name  frequently  appears  on  the  ancient  records  of  Upland  Court, 
and  the  first  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania  is  said  to  have  met  in  his 
"Double  House."  He  was  commissioned  a  Justice,  1681,  and  served  as  such 
until  his  death,  April  12,  1692,  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven  years.  A  beautiful  carved 
mural  tablet  of  massive  gray  sandstone  erected  to  his  memory  in  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Chester,  contains  on  its  upper  half,  the  arms  of  the  Sandelands  family,  ar.  a  bend 
az.,  and  the  words  Vive  MEMOR.  LETHI  FFUGIT  HORA ;  the  lower  half  con- 
tains many  emblems  of  mortality,  excellently  carved,  the  whole  being  an  excellent 


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specimen  of  early  art.  Anne,  wife  of  James  Sandelands,  was  a  daughter  of  Joran 
Keen,  who  was  born  in  Sweden  about  1620,  and  came  to  the  Delaware  with  Gov. 
Printz,  in  the  "Fama,"  sailing  from  Stockholm,  August  16,  1642,  and  arriving  at 
Fort  Christina,  February  15,  1643.  Catharine,  daughter  of  James  and  Anika 
(Kyn,  or  Keen)  Sandelands,  was  born  at  Upland,  January  26,  1670-1.  She  mar- 
ried (first)  Alexander  Creker,  who  died  soon  after,  without  issue;  (second)  Jas- 
per Yeates,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  who  emigrated  to  West  Indies,  and  about  1690, 
located  at  Chester,  where  he  was  a  merchant,  removing  later  to  New  Castle  where 
he  died  in  1720.  He  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council,  1696-1720,  and  grand- 
father of  Judge  Jasper  Yeates  of  the  Supreme  Court.  An  account  of  the  Yeates 
family  appears  before  in  this  volume.  Ann  (Yeates)  McCall  survived  her 
husband,  and  was  buried  at  Christ  Church,  January  16,  1744-5. 
Issue  of  George  and  Ann  (Yeates)  McCalJ: 

Catharine,  b.  Phila.,  ni.  Oct.  16,  1736,  John  Inglis,  merchant,  partner  with  wife's  brother- 
in-law,  Samuel  McCall,  Sr.,  and  Captain  in  Provincial  Service,  d.  1775,  aged  68.  Mrs. 
Inglis  was  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Dec.  22,  1750; 

Jasper,  b.  Phila.,  d.  there  Aug.,  1747,  m.  Oct.  10,  1745,  Magdalen,  dau.  of  Jacob  KoUock, 
of  Lewes,  Del.,  who,  after  his  death,  m.  John  Swift; 

Anne,  b.  .\pril  7,  1720,  m.  May  26,  1737,  her  cousin  Samuel  McCall,  b.  Glasgow,  Oct.  10, 
1710.  a  merchant  in  Phila.,  Major  in  Provincial  Service  and  prominent  in  Colonial 
affairs; 

Samuel,  b.  Oct.  5.  1721,  d.  Sept..  1762,  ni.  (first)  Anne  Searle,  (second)  Mary  Co.n  ;  of 
whom  presently; 

William,  bap.  May  i,  1723.  buried  at  Christ  Church,  March  6,  1728-9; 

George,  b.  April  6,  1724,  d.  July,  1756,  m.  Lydia  Abbott; 

Mary,  b.  March  31,  1725,  d.  Sept.  13,  1799,  m.  Sept.  27,  1753,  \yilliam  Plumsfead.  member 
Common  Council,  Alderman  and  Mayor  of  Ptiila.,  and  Register  General  of  Pa.; 

Archib.^ld,  b.  June  28,  1727,  of  whom  later; 

Margaret,  b.  July  20,  1729,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  March  14,  1730-1  ; 

Margaret,  b.  A.pril  6,  1731,  d.  Dec.  19,  1804,  m.  Joseph  Swift,  .-nerchant  of  Phila.,  brother 
of  Joseph  Swift,  who  m.  her  sister-in-law,  Magdalen  (Kollock)   McCall; 

Eleanor,  b.  July  8,  1732,  m.  Oct.  31,  1754,  Andrew  Eliot,  second  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  Eliot, 
of  Scotland;  governor  of  N.  Y.  under  English  authority; 

William,  b.   Dec.   12,   1733,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  May  15.   1736; 

Jane,  b.  Jan..  1736-7.  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Jan.  11,  1739-40; 

William,  b.  Aug.,  1738,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Feb.  15,  1738-9. 

Samuel  McCall,  son  of  George  and  Ann  (Yeates)  McCall,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, October  5,  1721,  was  distinguished  from  his  cousin  and  brother-in-law  Sam- 
uel McCall,  as  "Samuel  McCall,  Jr."  He  inherited  from  his  father  the  store  and 
wharf  at  Union  and  Plum  streets,  and  considerable  other  property  in  the  city  and 
elsewhere.  Taking  his  younger  brother  Archibald  into  partnership,  he  engaged 
extensively  in  the  mercantile  and  manufacturing  business,  carrying  on  the  shipping 
and  importing  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  operating  the  old  forge  and  a  grist 
and  sawiTiill,  and  other  manufacturing  interests  in  Douglass  Manor  at  McCall's 
Forge.  He  was  elected  member  of  Common  Council  of  the  city,  October  6,  1747. 
He  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Charles  Batho's  Independent  Company  of  Foot  raised 
in  Philadelphia,  March,  1756,  and  was  one  of  the  Commissioners  appointed  to 
settle  the  Accounts  of  Gen.  Braddock,  January  31.  1756.  His  name  appears  on 
the  list  of  contributors  to  the  Dancing  .\ssembly,  1748,  and  he  was  a  member  of 
St.  Andrew's  Society  of  Philadelphia,  1751.  With  his  brothers,  George  and  Archi- 
bald, and  brothers-in-law,  Capt.  John  Inglis,  and  William  Plumstead,  all  members 


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of  Christ  Church,  he  petitioned  the  Proprietaries  for  the  use  of  the  lot  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  Third  and  Pine  streets,  upon  which  to  build  St.  Peter's 
Church,  August  i,  1754,  and  served  with  William  Plumstead  as  a  committee  to  ob- 
tain subscriptions  and  superintend  its  erection.  He  married,  January  29,  1742-3, 
Anne,  born  October  22,  1724,  daughter  of  John  Searle,  a  Captain  in  the  Provincial 
service.  She  died  April  7,  1757,  and  he  married  (second)  January  31,  1759,  Mary 
Coxe,  who  survived  him.  His  eight  children  were,  however,  all  by  his  first  wife. 
He  died  in  Philadelphia,  September,  1762,  and  was  buried  at  Christ  Church. 
Issue  of  Samuel  and  Anne  (Searle)  McCall: 

John  Searle,  b.  Nov.  9,  1743,  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  and  removed  to  the  island 
of  St.  Christopher.  West  Indies,  returning  later  to  Phila.,  where  he  d.  Nov.  16,  1786; 
he  was  a  correspondent  of  Lafayette  and  other  noted  men  of  the  period; 

Anne,  b.  March  30,  1745,  m.  June  9,  1763,  Thomas  Willing,  member  of  Committee  of 
Safety,  Chairman  of  first  Congress  of  Delegates  from  the  different  Colonies,  at  Phila., 
July  IS.  1774;  member  of  Continental  Congress,  1775-6;  member  of  Assembly,  Mayor, 
first  president  of  Bank  of  North  America,  etc.; 

Mary,  b.  March  13,  1746-7,  d.  Phila.  May  n,  1773,  unm.; 

George,  b.  Sept.  21,  1749,  d.  Paris,  without  surviving  issue,   1780; 

Eleanor,  b.  Nov.  16,  1751,  d.  unm.,  Feb.  5,  1769; 

Margaret,  b.  Sept.  3,  1753,  d.  unm.,  March  22,  1824; 

Catharine,  m.  Tench  Coxe,  son  of  WiUiam  Coxe,  and  grandson  of  Col.  Daniel  Coxe, 
Provincial  Councillor  of  N.  J.,  and  of  Tench  Francis,  Provincial  Councillor  of  Pa.; 

Archibald,  b.  Sept.  5,  1757.  d.  Sept.  7,  1757. 

Archibald  McC.vll,  son  of  George  and  Ann  (Yeates)  McCall,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, June  26,  1727  (N.  S.),  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at  an  early  age  as 
a  partner  with  his  elder  brother  Samuel  McCall,  Jr.,  and  after  the  latter's  death 
continued  and  enlarged  the  business,  acquiring  a  considerable  fortune  by  trade 
with  East  and  West  Indies.  He  resided  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  a  large 
mansion  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Second  and  Union  streets.  He  was  a  member 
of  an  Associated  Company,  raised  for  Provincial  service,  1756,  and  was  elected  a 
member  of  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  October  2,  1764.  He  was  one  of 
the  Committee  of  seven  chosen  by  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Philadelphia,  as- 
sembled to  protest  against  the  enforcement  of  the  Stamp  Act,  to  call  upon  John 
Hughes,  Stamp  Agent,  and  request  his  resignation,  and  was  one  of  the  first  signers 
of  the  Non-importation  Resolutions.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the  Dancing  Assem- 
bly, 1748,  and  became  a  member  of  St.  Andrew's  Society,  1751.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  Mount  Regale  Fishing  Company,  1763,  and  a  number  of  the  other  ex- 
clusive social  institutions  of  Colonial  Philadelphia,  and  many  years  a  member  of 
Vestry  of  Christ  Church.  He  was  an  extensive  landowner  in  different  parts  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  died,  Philadelphia,  April  23, 
1799.  He  married,  1762,  Judith,  born  February  3,  1743,  died  December  9,  1829, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Peter  Kemble,  many  years  member  and  President  of  Provincial 
Council  of  New  Jersey,  by  his  first  wife,  Gertrude  Bayard. 
Issue  of  Archibald  and  Judith  (Kemble)  McCall: 

George,  b.  Aug.  25,  1763,  buried  at  Christ  Church  March  I.  1764; 

Mary,  b.  July  25,  1764,  d.  March  23,  1848,  m.  May  9.  1793.  Col.  Lambert  Cadwalader,  the 

distinguished  Revolutionary  soldier  and  Member  of  Congress; 
Peter,  b.  March  2,  1766,  d.  young; 
Archibald,  b.  Oct.  11,  1767,  of  whom  presently; 


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George,  b.  May  2,  1769,  d.  April  17,  1799,  m.  May  21,  1794,  Margaret  Clymer,  dau.  of 
George  Clymer,  signer  of  Declaration  of  Independence,  merchant  in  Phila.,  member 
of  First  City  Troop  1794,  and  served  with  it  in  Whiskey  Insurrection; 

Samuel,  b.   May  4.   1770,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Nov.  5,   1772; 

Anne,  b.  May  12;  1772,  d.  July  17,  1845,  m.  Sept.  22,  1796,  William  Read,  merchant  of 
Phila.,  son  of  George  Read,  signer  of  Declaration  of  Independence,  Chief  Justice,  etc., 
b.  Oct.  10,  1767,  d.  Feb.  25,  1846: 

Peter,  b.  March  27,  1773,  d.  May  7,  1809,  m.  April  7,  1801,  Sarah  Stamper,  b.  July  24, 
1772,  d.  July  2.2,  1858,  dau.  of  John  Gibson,  Mayor  of  Phila.  1771-2;  Peter  McCall  was 
a  merchant  in  Phila.,  removing  to  the  country  prior  to  his  death;  his  widow  and  fam- 
ily removed  to  Trenton,  N.  J.,  but  returned  to  Phila.,  after  the  graduation  of  son  Peter 
at  Princeton,  who  became  a  distinguished  member  of  Phila.  Bar.  and  Chancellor  of 
Law  Association  of  the  city; 

Margaret,  b.  1774,  d.  Jan.  2,  i860,  unm. ; 

Samuel,  b.  Feb.  27,  1776,  d.  unm.,  Jan.  31,  1842.  merchant,  spent  some  time  in  China  and 
South  America,  member  First  City  Troop; 

Harriet,  b.  May  3,  1777,  d.  unm.,  June  22,  1847; 

Gertrude,  b.  July  23,  1778,  buried  Nov.  23,  1778; 

Jasper,  b.  Nov.  5,  1779,  d.  unm.,  about  1800; 

Richard,  b.  Dec.  9,  1780,  d.  Sept.  7,  1831,  merchant.  Naval  Agent  of  U.  S.  at  Gibraltar, 
and  acquired  large  fortune,  served  as  Aide-de-Camp  to  Gen.  Thomas  Cadwalader  in 
War  1812; 

Catharine,  b.  July  29,  1782,  d.  unm.,  Nov.  23,  1859; 

William,  b.  Sept.  19,  1783,  d.  at  New  Orleans,  1840,  m.  at  Easton,  Pa.,  Harriet,  dau.  of 
William  Sitgeaves,  of  Easton,  Pa.; 

Robert,  b.  Sept.  26,  1785,  d.  unm.,  Sept.  20,  1854,  resided  with  unm.  sisters,  Margaret, 
Harriet  and  Catharine,  at  old  family  mansion  Eleventh  and  Chestnut  streets,  and  a' 
their  country  seat  on  the  Delaware,  above  Trenton,  N.  J.; 

Henry,  b.  Sept.  27,  1788,  d.  May  22,  1859,  m.  1817,  Lize  Jones,  dau.  of  Evan  Jones,  for- 
merly of  Phila.,  later  of  Louisiana,  and  settled  in  New  Orleans. 

Archibald  McCall,  son  of  Archibald  and  Judith  (  Kemble  )  AlcCall,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  October  11,  1767,  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Philadelphia, 
and  like  all  his  race,  occupied  a  prominent  place  in  the  business  interests  of  the 
city.  He  was  a  founder  of  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  served  on  its  first  Monthly 
Committee,  February,  1801.  He  became  a  member  of  the  First  Troop,  Philadel- 
phia Light  Horse,  May  12,  1798,  but  resigned  from  the  organization  ten  years 
later,  June  29,  1808.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  13,  1843,  and  was  buried  at 
Christ  Church.  He  married.  May  3,  1792,  Elizabeth  Cadwalader,  daughter  of 
Brigadier  General  John  Cadwalader,  the  distinguished  officer  of  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  who  commanded  the  Pennsylvania  troops  at  the  battle  of  Princeton,  and 
served  in  many  important  battles  of  the  war  for  independence.  His  wife,  mother 
of  Mrs.  McCall,  was  Elizabeth  Lloyd,  daughter  of  Col.  Edward  Lloyd,  of  Wye 
House,  Talbot  county,  Maryland.  Mrs.  McCall  was  born  1773,  and  died  October, 
1824.  She  was  niece  of  Lambert  Cadwalader,  who  married  her  husband's  sister. 
Mary  McCall,  and  her  sister  was  the  wife  of  General  Gage,  who  commanded  the 
British  troops  at  Boston,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution. 
Issue  of  Archibald  and  EUzahcth  fCadi^'aladcr)  McCall: 

John  Cadwalader,  b.  Dec.  24.  i7')3.  d.  luim.,  Phila.,  Oct..  1846; 
Archibald,  b.  Sept.  24,  1795,  d.  Apiil  8,  1796: 

Edward,  b.  1797,  sent  to  Lima,  Peru,  to  look  after  his  father's  Commercial  interests 
there,  d.  there  Jan.  17,  1874,  m.  Manuela  M.  Dumas,  and  had  issue; 

John  Cadwalader,  b.   1822,  graduated  at  Jefferson   Med.  College,  Surgeon   U.   S. 
Army,  during  Mexican  War,  d.  at  Ft.  McKavett,  Texas.  Oct    j6,  1865. 
Mary  Dickinson,  d.  unm.,  March  12,  1881; 
GeorcK  ARCHin.\LD,  b.  March  16,  1802,  d.  Feb.  26,  1868,  of  whom  presently; 


McCALL 


Harriet,  d.  unm.: 

Elizabeth  Lloyd,  b.  Nov.  2,  1805,  d.  Aug.  4.   1844,  unm. 
Margaret,  d.  June  28,  1885,  unm.; 
Anne,  d.  May,  1892,  unm. 


George  Archibald  McCall,  son  of  Archibald  and  Elizabeth  (Cadwalader) 
McCall,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  16,  1802,  was  educated  at  West  Point  Mili- 
tary Academy,  graduated  July  i,  1822,  and  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant  in 
First  United  States  Infantry,  was  transferred  to  Fourth  United  States  Infantry, 
December  23,  1822,  and  joined  that  regiment  at  Pensacola,  Florida.  In  February, 
1823,  he  was  ordered  to  Tampa  Bay,  Florida,  to  establish  a  military  post,  and  was 
stationed  there  for  five  years.  August  20,  1826,  he  witnessed  the  inauguration  of 
Tucoseemathla,  the  principal  chief  of  the  Seminole  Indians.  In  January,  1828,  he 
was  placed  in  charge  of  the  opening  of  a  military  road  from  Hillsborough  to 
Alachua,  a  distance  of  150  miles.  Promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  January  25,  1829, 
and  April,  1831,  was  appointed  Aide-de-Camp  to  Brigadier  General  Edmund  P. 
Gaines,  then  stationed  in  Missouri,  and  was  acting  Assistant  Adjutant  General  at 
the  negotiation  of  the  treaty  with  the  Sac  and  Fox  Indians.  He  was  stationed  in 
Tennessee,  June,  1831,  to  January,  1836,  and  1837  returning  to  Philadelphia,  filled 
the  position  of  recruiting  officer  there  for  the  regular  service  until  December,  1837, 
when  he  was  ordered  to  Arkansas,  having  been  commissioned  Captain,  December 
21,  1836.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  trouble  with  the  Seminoles  in  1841,  he  was  again 
ordered  to  Florida,  and  at  the  close  of  the  "Seminole  War"  in  1843,  was  ordered 
to  Fort  Scott,  Osage  Indian  Nation,  where  he  was  in  command  until  1845,  when 
he  was  ordered  to  join  Gen.  Zachary  Taylor  at  Corpus  Christi.  He  participated 
in  the  battle  of  Palo  Alto,  May,  1846,  and  was  made  Major  and  Lieutenant  Colo- 
nel, by  brevet,  for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  there  and  at  the  battle  of 
Resaca  de  la  Palma,  respectively,  and  was  appointed  Assistant  Adjutant  General, 
July  7,  1846.  He  was  regularly  commissioned  Major  of  the  Third  United  States 
Infantry,  December  26,  1847,  for  conspicuous  bravery  at  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista. 
At  the  close  of  Mexican  War  he  was  stationed  at  Santa  Fe,  and  was  commissioned 
Inspector  General  of  the  Army.  June  30,  1850.  Failing  health  induced  him  to 
resign  from  the  Army,  August  22,  1853,  when  he  retired  to  his  estate  near  West 
Chester,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  resided  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  War,  when  he  offered  his  services  to  Gov.  Curtin  and  was  commissioned  by 
him  May  15,  1861,  Major  General  of  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  and  reorganized 
the  Pennsylvania  Reserve  Corps  of  15,000  men.  On  July  23  he  was  commissioned 
by  President  Lincoln  Brigadier  General  of  Volunteers,  and  in  command  of  the 
Reserves,  took  command  of  all  the  Union  troops  at  the  battle  of  Mechanicsville. 
He  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  under  McClelland,  near  Richmond,  was  taken 
prisoner  at  the  battle  of  New  Market  Cross  Roads,  and  suffered  seven  weeks  the 
horrors  of  Libby  Prison.  On  his  exchange  he  was  a  physical  wreck,  returned 
home  on  sick  leave,  and  resigned  March  31,  1863.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was 
spent  at  "Belair,"  near  West  Chester,  where  he  died  February  26,  1868.  His  ex- 
periences and  observations  while  stationed  at  the  various  military  posts  on  our 
western  frontiers,  as  well  as  his  political  views,  are  told  in  his  "Letters  from  the 
Frontier."  He  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  from  his  district,  1862, 
but  was  defeated  at  the  polls. 


4IO  McCALL 

General  McCall  married  1853,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Coxe)  McAIurtrie. 

Issue  of  Brigadier  General  George  A.  and  Elizabeth  (McMurtrie)  McCall: 

Archibald,  b.  Sept.  23.  1852,  Phila.,  died  there  April  12,  1904,  unm. ; 

Emily,  b.  June  28,  1854,  m.  Oct.  27,  1880,  at  "Belair,''  Chester  co.   ("Belair"  was  their 
county  seat  in  Chester  co..  Pa.),  Charles  Sydney  Bradford,  of  West  Chester,  Pa.,  b. 
Phila.  March  15,  1843;  they  had  issue: 
Frances  Margaret,  b.  Feb.  35,  1882; 
James  Sydney,  b   June  13,  1883. 
Elizabeth,  b.  Phila.  May  12.  1856,  m.  Oct.  19,  1887,  Edward  F.  Hoffman,  b.  Phila.  Feb. 
9,  1849;  issue; 

Edward  Fenno,  b.  July  27,  1888.  West  Chester,  Pa.; 

John  Cadwalader,  b.  West  Chester,  Pa.,  Dec.  18,  1889,  d.  Phila.  March  3,  1890; 
Phoebe  White,  b.  Phila.  Feb.  3.  1894, 
George  McCall,  b.  at  "Belair,"  Chester  co.,  Pa.,  Sept.  4,  1858,  graduated  from  Mechanical 
Dept.  of  Univ.  of  Pa.,  class  of   1879,  is  now  a  Phila.  Stock  Broker;  politically  he  is 
Republican;  member  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church,  and  member  of  Delta  Psi  frater- 
nity. Pa.  Historical  Society,  Franklin  Institute,  and  the  Rittenhousc  Club;  m.  Oct.  8, 
1885,  Mildred,  dau.  of  Dr.  Charles  and  Ellen  (Newman)   Carter,  of  Phila.;  issue; 
George  Archibald,  b.  Aug.  24,  1886,  Jenkintown,  Pa.: 
Richard  Coxe,  b.  Feb.  12,  1888,  Phila.; 
Shirley  Carter,  b.  Nov.  26,  1897,  Phila. 
Richard  McCall,  b.  May  24.  1865,  at  "Belair,"  unm.,  graduated  from  Univ.  of  Pa.,  Scien- 
tific Dept.,  class  of  1886,  member  of  Fraternity  Delta  Psi. 


PLUM  STEAD  FAMILY. 

The  name  Plumstead  is  derived  from  Plomb,  a  commune  in  Normandy,  near 
the  ancient  town  and  cathedral  of  Avranches,  and  the  Saxon  word  Staede,  signi- 
fying house  or  residence,  farm  house ;  hence  Plombstede  signified  a  householder  in 
the  commune  of  Plomb.  The  family  was  of  Norman  origin  and  the  name  was  de 
Plomstede  and  de  Plumstede  for  many  generations.  The  de  Plumstedes  came  to 
England  with  William  the  Conqueror  and  settled  in  Norfolk  and  Kent,  where  three 
parishes  yet  bear  their  name.  Plumstede  parish  in  Norfolk,  one  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  north  of  London,  was  part  of  the  Lordship  of  William  Earl  of  Warren, 
on  whom  it  was  conferred  by  William,  Turold  the  Saxon  proprietor  being  despoil- 
ed of  it ;  and  William  de  Plumstede  and  Pleasure,  his  wife,  were  residents  there  in 
1293.  In  1308  William,  son  of  Bartholomew  de  Calthorpe,  conveyed  to  Clement 
de  Plum.stede  and  Catharine,  his  wife,  four  messuages  in  the  parishes  of  Plumstede, 
Baconsthorpe,  Matlaske  and  Hemstede.  Another  Clement  de  Plumstede  was  living 
there  as  late  as  1377,  and  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  John  de  Repps,  who  by 
will  devised  to  his  grandson,  John  de  Plumstede,  his  tenements  in  Shipden  and 
Cremer,  with  the  mill,  villians,  etc.  A  John  de  Plumstede,  Esq.,  Lord  of  the 
Nether  Court  in  King's  Waldon,  Hertfordshire,  was  buried  at  Plumstede  Church 
in  1 561  :  his  will  dated  September  22,  1560,  mentions  wife  Frideswide,  two  sons, 
John  and  Thomas,  and  several  daughters.  The  parish  registers  of  the  Church  of 
St.  Michael,  at  Plumstead  in  county  Norfolk,  dating  back  to  1551,  show  the  name 
of  Plumstede  and  Plumstead,  at  intervals,  two  to  three  centuries  ago.  In  the  chancel 
of  the  church  were  the  arms  of  the  Plumstede  family,  sable,  three  chevrons 
ermine,  on  the  upper,  three  annulets  of  the  first ;  and  their  crest,  a  Griffin's  head 
erased  on  a  coronet.  Several  authorities  have  given  slightly  different  descriptions 
of  the  armorial  bearings  of  the  family.  That  given  in  Burke's  "General  Armory," 
page  809,  as  granted  by  Clarenceux,  August  3,  1573,  to  Norfolk  family  of  Plum- 
stede, is  "Ermine  three  chevrons  sable — each  charged  with  as  many  annulets  argent" 
and  the  Crest,  "Out  of  Coronet  or,  a  Griffin's  head  argent."  The  seal  used  by 
Clement  Plumstead,  of  Philadelphia,  and  attached  to  his  will  in  1745,  is  ermine 
three  chevrons,  with  a  faint  indication  of  three  annulets  in  the  uppermost  part ;  and 
the  crest  used  by  his  son  William  and  attached  to  his  will,  was  the  same  as  that 
described  by  Burke,  and  a  letter  written  by  William,  December  25,  1740,  contains 
a  seal  with  the  same  crest  and  the  above  described  arms  in  perfect  condition.  The 
seal  on  letters  from  Robert  Plumstead,  of  London,  son  of  Clement  Plumstead,  of 
London,  the  East  Jersey  Proprietor,  contains  practically  the  same  seal.  These 
facts  seem  to  clearly  indicate  that  the  Plumstead  family,  of  Philadelphia,  descend- 
ed from  the  ancient  family  of  Plumstede  Hall,  and  the  parishes  of  Great  and  Little 
Plumstead  in  Norfolk,  where  William  de  Plumstede  was  granted  land  in  1189, 
and  acquired  other  lands  in  1 190,  and  where  the  family  were  seated  for  many  gen- 
erations. Soon  after  the  formation  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  England,  some 
of  the  Norfolk  family  became  converts  to  the  faith  as  well  as  others  residing  in 
and  near  London.  At  least  two  distinct  branches  of  the  family  became  identified 
with  the  Colonies  in  America,  at  an  early  date.     Francis  Plumstead,  ironmonger. 


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of  the  "Minories,"  London,  signer  of  Penn's  charter  of  1683,  acquired  2500  acres 
of  land  in  Pennsylvania  in  1683,  and  it  was  eventually  laid  out  to  him  in  the  town- 
ship, which  still  bears  his  name  in  Bucks  county,  though  he  never  located  in  Amer- 
ica.   He  sold  his  2500  acres  in  Plumstead  township,  1707,  to  Richard  Hill. 

Clement  Plumstead,  of  London,  draper  and  merchant,  was  a  large  purchaser  of 
land  m  East  Jersey  and  was  one  of  the  Proprietors  there.  His  lands  descended  to 
his  eldest  son  and  heir,  Robert  Plumstead.  a  merchant  of  London,  who  conveyed 
a  portion  of  them  to  his  relative,  Clement  Plumstead,  of  Philadelphia.  There  was 
also  a  Thomas  Plumstead,  of  Bartholomew's  Lane,  London,  who  married  Anne 
Whitlock  in  1672.  Clement  Plumstead,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  will  in  1745.  makes 
his  cousin,  Thomas  Plumstead,  of  London,  a  trustee  of  his  minor  sons's  estate, 
but  his  parentage  or  the  exact  connection  with  the  Plumstead  family  of  London 
has  never  been  ascertained. 

Clement  Plumstead,  Provincial  Councillor,  of  Philadelphia,  makes  his  first 
appearance  in  that  city  in  1697,  when  he  witnessed  a  deed  made  by  Samuel  Car- 
penter. On  August  20,  1700,  Clement  Plumstead,  of  London,  makes  Samuel  Car- 
penter and  Clement  Plumstead,  of  Philadelphia,  his  attorneys  to  collect  moneys  of 
George  Wilcocks.  From  the  declaration  as  to  age  made  in  the  opening  clause  in 
his  will,  1745,  it  is  shown  that  he  was  born  in  the  year  1680. 

He  was  probably  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  then  a  leading  mer- 
chant in  Philadelphia,  until  attaining  his  majority,  and  entering  the  mercantile  and 
shipping  business,  which  he  followed  nearly  his  whole  life,  and  became  one  of 
Philadelphia's  most  prominent  and  wealthy  merchants,  as  well  as  one  of  her  most 
prominent  citizens  and  officials.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  the 
city  in  1712,  and  advanced  by  that  body  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  October,  1720, 
and  three  years  later  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  City.  At  the  close  of  his  term  he 
made  a  trip  to  England,  taking  his  son  William  with  him,  and  remained  there  the 
greater  part  of  the  year.  As  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  his  forensic 
ability  easily  made  him  one  of  its  prominent  members,  and  he  was  frequently  ap- 
pointed to  prepare  petitions  and  other  addresses  to  the  Governor  and  Assembly. 
In  1730  the  one  thousand  pounds  appropriated  by  the  Assembly  to  build  Alms- 
houses in  the  city  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  Clement  Plum- 
stead, and  James  Steele,  one  third  to  be  expended  by  each  of  them.  In  1736  he 
was  again  elected  Mayor,  and  again  in  1741.  It  was  customary  for  the  retiring 
chief  magistrate  of  the  city,  when  about  to  relinquish  the  honorable  position,  to 
give  a  supper  to  his  fellow  officials  and  friends,  and  the  American  Weekly  Mercury 
of  Philadelphia  of  September  30,  1742,  has  the  following  report  of  that  given  by 
Mayor  Plumstead :  "This  day  Clement  Plumstead  Esqr.  ]\Tayor  of  the  City,  made 
the  customary  Feast  at  the  expiration  of  the  Mayoralty,  when  the  Governor,  Coun- 
cil, Corporation,  and  a  great  number  of  the  inhabitants  were  entertained  at  the 
Andrew  Hamilton  House,  near  the  Drawbridge,  in  the  most  handsome  manner." 
He  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  September  2,  1717,  and  was  recom- 
missioned  fourteen  times,  the  last  time  in  April,  1743,  and  was  likewise  commis- 
sioned a  Judge  of  the  County  Courts  in  1717,  and  sat  as  President  Judge  thereof 
from  1720  until  1745.  On  July  23,  1730,  he  was  appointed  Master  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  and  was  commissioned  by  the  English  Court  of  Chancery,  to  examine 
witnesses  in  the  contest  between  Penn  and  Lord  Baltimore,  in  relation  to  the 
Maryland  line.     Both  he  and  his  son  \N^illiam  were  witnesses  to  the  deed  from 


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the  Five  Nation  Indians  to  Thomas,  Richard  and  John  Penn,  October  11,  1736,  by 
which  was  conveyed  to  the  Penns  "All  the  River  Susquehannah,  with  the  Lands 
lying  on  both  sides  thereof  to  extend  eastward  as  far  as  the  heads  of  the  branches 
or  springs  which  run  into  the  said  Susquehannah,  and  all  the  Lands  lying  on  the 
west  side  of  the  said  River  to  the  setting  sun,  and  to  extend  from  the  mouth  of  the 
said  River  northward  up  the  same  to  the  Hills  or  Mountains  called  the  Endless 
Plills." 

Clement  Plumstead  was  elected  to  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  Philadelphia  in 
1712,  and  at  once  assumed  a  prominent  position  in  that  body,  serving  on  a  number 
of  important  committees.  He  was  again  returned  at  a  special  election  held  iimo. 
17,  1714,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Public  Accounts.  In  the  quarrel 
between  the  Governor  and  Assembly  in  1714-15,  he  was  several  times  selected  as 
one  of  the  delegation  to  wait  upon  the  Governor,  and  was  also  directed  to  prepare 
an  address  to  the  King  and  the  Proprietaries  on  the  enactment  of  measures  for 
the  suppression  of  vice.  He  was  again  returned  to  the  Assembly  in  1716-18-20; 
and  in  1727  was  called  to  the  Governor's  Council  where,  as  in  the  Assembly,  he 
was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Proprietary  interests.  He  became  a  large  land- 
owner in  various  parts  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey ;  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Durham  Iron  Works,  Bucks  county,  1726,  and  owned  large  mining  interests 
m  the  vicinity  of  Tulpehocken,  now  Berks  county,  as  well  as  lands  at  Perth  Amboy 
and  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey,  and  much  valuable  property  in  Philadelphia.  On 
.May  26.  1745,  he  died  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  buried  in  the  Swedes'  Church 
graveyard.  He  married  (first)  Sarah,  widow  of  William  Righton,  and  daughter 
of  William  Biddle.of  Mount  Hope.  New  Jersey,  March  i,  1703-4,  taking  a  certificate 
to  Crosswicks  Monthly  Meeting,  from  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends, 
of  which  he  was  a  member,  dated  i2mo.  25,  1703.  In  1704  he  obtained  a  certificate 
to  Friends  in  Virginia,  "intended  to  Virginia  and  that  way,  trading."  His  wife 
died  6mo.  (August)  17,  1705.  He  married  (second)  8mo.  15,  1707,  Elizabeth 
Palmer,  who  had  brought  a  certificate  from  Bridgetown,  Barbadoes,  iimo.,  1706. 
She  was  probably  a  sister  of  Anthony  Palmer,  who  was  a  resident  of  Barbadoes  in 
1685,  and  in  1704  purchased  land  in  Kensington,  and  became  a  prominent  man  in 
Philadelphia,  filling  the  position  of  Judge,  and  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council 
from  1709  to  his  death  in  1748,  and  its  president  in  the  latter  year.  The  name  of 
Clement  Plumstead  frequently  appears  on  the  records  of  the  Philadelphia  Monthly 
Meeting  of  which  he  seems  to  have  been  a  consistent  member.  He  was  frequently 
appointed  as  an  arbitrator  of  disputes  and  differences  between  mmbers.  On  4mo. 
25,  1709,  he  is  granted  a  certificate  to  visit  Barbadoes,  and  on  the  occasion  of  his 
visit  to  England  with  his  son  William,  at  the  close  of  his  first  term  as  Mayor,  he 
took  a  certificate  dated  8mo.  30,  1724,  but  he  had  made  an  earlier  trip  taking  certifi- 
cate 6mo.  25,  1715,  and  his  return  is  noted  on  gmo.  30,  1716.  On  lomo.  30,  1720, 
his  second  wife  Elizabeth  was  buried,  and  gmo.  30,  1722,  he  is  dealt  with  by  the 
Meeting  for  having  married  "Out  of  Unity."  His  third  wife,  Mary,  is  thought  to 
have  been  Mary  Curry.  She  survived  him  and  died  February  6,  1755.  The  Rev. 
Richard  Peters,  many  years  pastor  of  St.  Peter's  Church  and  a  Provincial  Coun- 
cilor lived  for  some  years  with  Clement  Plumstead.  Richard  Hockley,  a  protege 
of  Hon.  John  Penn,  and  later  a  large  landholder  in  Pennsylvania,  was  a  clerk  in 
Plumstead's  counting  house. 


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William,  only  child  of  Clement  and  Sarah  (Biddle-Righton)  Plumstead,  died  in 
infancy,  May  14,  1705. 

Issue  of  Clement  and  Elizabeth  (Palmer)  Plumstead: 

William,  b.  Nov.  7,  1708,  d.  Aug.  10,  1765,  m.  (first)  Rebecca  Kearney,  (second)  Mary 

McCall;  of  whom  presently; 
Thomas,  d   inf.,  Sept.  19,  1710; 
Thomas,  d.  inf.,  Sept.  5.  1712; 
Clement,  d.  inf.,  Nov.  27,  1715; 
A  daughter,  d.  inf..  Aug.  20,  1716; 
Charles,  d.  inf.,  July  lO,  1719. 

There  was  no  issue  by  the  third  wife. 

William  Plumstead,  eldest  and  only  surviving  child  of  Clement  and  Elizabeth 
(Palmer)  Plumstead,  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  7,  1708,  was  given  the  best 
educational  advantages  that  the  city  aflforded,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  was 
taken  to  England  by  his  father  and  given  every  facility  to  gain  an  insight  into  his 
father's  large  shipping  trade  and  mercantile  ventures.  He  became  a  partner  with 
his  father  in  1741,  and  continued  the  business  with  success  after  his  father's  death. 
Like  his  father,  he  became  prominent  in  municipal  and  provincial  affairs  early  in 
life.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  the  city,  October  2,  1739,  and 
June  19,  1745,  appointed  Register  General  of  the  Province  and  held  that  office  until 
his  death,  August  10,  1765.  Three  times  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  Philadelphia: 
October  2,  1750,  again  December  4,  1754,  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Charles 
Willing,  deceased,  and  October  2,  1755.  He  was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
May  25,  1752,  and  was  regularly  recommissioned  successively  until  his  death,  and 
served  as  a  Justice  of  the  County  Courts  for  many  years,  and  was  one  of  the  first 
tvvo  Justices,  specially  commissioned  for  the  trial  of  negroes,  October  28,  1762. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Association  Battery  of  Philadelphia,  1756,  and  was  active 
in  most  of  the  social  institutions  of  the  day,  being  one  of  the  original  members  of 
the  Colony  in  Schuylkill,  in  1732,  and  a  contributor  to  the  Dancing  Assembly  in 
1748,  having  renounced  his  membership  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  become  a 
member  of  Christ  Church.  Being  one  of  the  largest  contributors  towards  the 
building  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  1754,  he  was  made  trustee  of  the  land  on  which 
it  was  erected  and  a  member  of  the  building  committee,  and  became  a  vestryman 
in  1 761,  and  the  first  accounting  warden.  He  was  one  of  twenty- four  original 
Trustees  of  the  Academy  and  College  of  Philadelphia,  which  ultimately  became 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  On  October  30,  1756,  he  was  returned  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Provincial  Assembly  from  Northampton  county,  but  the  contest  over 
his  right  to  the  seat,  consumed  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected,  however,  he  was 
re-elected  in  1757,  and  took  his  seat  without  opposition.  A  prominent  Free  Mason  of 
his  time,  and  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge  since  1731,  he  was  elected  Provincial 
Grand  Master  for  the  term  of  1737-38,  and  was  the  first  Grand  Treasurer  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  in  1749.  Interested  in  real  estate  in  Philadelphia. 
Bucks,  Northampton  and  P.erks  counties  and  in  New  Jersey,  he  left  a  large  estate. 

William  Plumstead  married  (first)  April  19.  1733,  at  Friends'  Meeting.  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Philip  and  Rebecca  (Britton)  Kearney,  of  Philadeljihia.  Her  father. 
Philip  Kearney,  was  a  native  of  Ireland  and  a  representative  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families   in   the  Emerald   Isle.      He  came  to    Philadelphia   about    1700.  with   his 


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brother  Michael,  and  both  married  daughters  of  Lionel  and  Rebecca  Britton,  who 
came  from  AIny,  county  of  Bucks,  and  arrived  in  the  river  Delaware,  in  the  "Own- 
ers' Advice,"  4mo.,  1680:  their  daughter  Elizabeth  died  on  board  the  ship  as  they 
were  coming  up  the  bay  and  was  buried  at  Burlington.  They  settled  near  the  Falls, 
]!ucks  county,  where  Rebecca,  who  became  the  wife  of  Philip  Kearney,  was  born 
iimo.  19,  1683.  Gen.  Philip  Kearney  was  a  descendant  of  Michael  and  Elizabeth 
(Britton)  Kearney,  who  settled  in  New  Jersey.  Lionel  Britton  and  his  family 
removed  to  Philadelphia  in  1708.  and  he  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  American 
convert  to  Catholicism.  Rebecca  (Kearney)  Plumstead  died  January  20,  1 740-1, 
and  William  married  (second)  September  27.  1753,  at  Christ  Church,  Mary, 
daughter  of  George  and  Ann  (Yeates)  McCall,  her  father  being  one  of  the  prom- 
inent merchants  of  Philadelphia,  and  member  of  the  Council  from  October  3,  1722, 
to  his  death  in  1740.  Jasper  Yeates,  maternal  grandfather  of  Mary  (McCall) 
Plumstead,  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council  from  New  Castle,  1696,  to  his 
death  in  1720.  Mrs.  Plumstead  survived  her  husband  many  years,  dying  Septem- 
ber 13,  1799. 

Issue  of  William  and  Rebecca  (Kearney)  Plumstead: 

Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  9,  1734-5,  m-  A^ndrew  Elliot  (third  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  Elliot.  Lord 
Justice  of  Scotland),  who  had  m.  (first)  Eleanor  McCall: 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  i,  1735-6,  d.  y. ; 

Rebecca,  b.  May  22,  1737,  d.  July  i,  1709,  m.  Lieut.  Charles  Gore,  of  H.  M.  55th  Reg.  of 
Foot,  1760.  and  conveying  the  estate  inherited  from  her  grandfather,  to  Archibald 
McCall  and  Robert  Morris,  to  be  invested  as  her  separate  estate;  accompanied  her 
husband  to  England,  where  he  and  their  two  infant  children  died,  and  she  returned  to 
Phila.,  after  the  Revolution,  and  died  there; 

Clement,  b.  May  23,  1738,  d.  Oct.  10,  1738; 

Clement,  d.  inf.,  Nov.   13,  1739; 

Thomas,  b.  April  28,  1740,  d.  Oct.  29,  1776,  m.  Aug.  13,  1762,  Mary  Coates;  of  whom 
presently; 


Issue  of  William  and  Mary  (McCall)  Plumstead: 


William,  b.  Aug.  4,  1754,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  March  11,  1756; 

George,  b.  Aug.  9.  1755,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  July  15,  1756; 

William,  b.  Aug.  29,  1756,  d.  s.  p.,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Aug.  27,  1794: 

Clement,  b.  Oct.  4,  1758,  d.  s.  p.,  buried  at  Christ  Church,  Sept.  23,  1800; 

Anne,  b.  July  7,  1760,  d.  unm.,  buried  at  Christ  Church.  Dec,  7,  1772; 

Catharine,  b.  July  7,  1760,  d.  unm.; 

George,  b.  May  3,  1765,  d.  April  5,  1855.  merchant,  Phila.,  m.  Dec.  3,  179S,  Anna  Helena 

Amelia,  b.  Nov.  26,  1776,  d.  Jan.   18,  1846,  dau.  of  John   Ross,  of   Phila.,   (second)   a 

dau.  of  Hon.  P.  S.  Markley,  of  N.  C. 

Thomas  Plumstead,  youngest  child  and  only  son  of  William  and  Rebecca 
(Kearney)  Plumstead,  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  28,  1740,  was  reared  to  the 
mercantile  trade  and  was  associated  with  his  father  in  Philadelphia,  until  the  lat- 
ter's  death  in  1765,  when  he  took  possession  of  the  estate  devised  to  him  by  his 
grandfather,  Clement  Plumstead,  at  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey,  called  "Mount 
Clement,"  where  he  erected  a  costly  and  extensive  mansion,  in  which  he  resided 
with  his  family  for  several  years,  but  returned  to  Philadelphia  prior  to  the  Revolu- 
tion and  again  engaged  in  mercantile  business  until  his  death,  October  29,  1776,  at 
the  early  age  of  thirty-six  years.  He  married  at  the  church  of  St.  Michael's  and 
Zion,   Philadelphia,  August   16,   1762,   Mary,  only  child  of  Warwick  and   Mary 


4i6  PLUMSTEAD 

Coates,  of  Philadelphia,  born  October  8.  1741,  died  August  10,  1780.  Her  grand- 
father, John  Coates,  was  a  native  of  Gloucester  or  Lincolnshire,  England,  born 
in  1684,  died  Philadelphia,  March  16,  1760.  With  his  brothers,  William,  Thomas 
and  George,  he  was  sent  for  to  England  by  their  maternal  uncle,  Thomas  Sisom, 
then  of  Philadelphia,  later  of  Bristol,  Bucks  county,  soon  after  the  marriage  of 
Sisom  to  Priscilla  Smith  in  1693.  They  were  the  sons  of  his  sister,  Jeane  Coates, 
and  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  John  settled  in  the  Northern  Liber- 
ties of  Philadelphia,  where  a  street  was  named  for  him,  and  married  at  Christ 
Church,  June  16,  171 1,  Mary,  daughter  of  Warwick  and  Dorothy  Hale  (who  had 
settled  in  the  "Lower  Counties"),  and  became  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
He  set  apart  a  lot  for  the  erection  of  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  His 
son  Warwick,  born  November  3,  1715,  died  February  12,  1782;  married  (first) 
Mary ,  who  died  October  i,  1744,  leaving  an  only  child,  Mary,  above  men- 
tioned, who  married  Thomas  Plumstead. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Coates)  Plumstead: 

Clement,  b.  Sept.  4.  1763,  d.  unm.  in  the  East  Indies,  1798;  was  adopted  by  his  uncle  and 
aunt,  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Plumstead)  Elliot,  and  lived  for  several  years  in  N.  Y.; 
received  appointment  as  midshipman  in  British  Navy,  1783,  and  later  joined  the  mer- 
chant service,  following  the  sea  until  his  death ; 

Rebecca,  b.  March  8,  1765,  m.  July  27,  1780,  of  whom  presently; 

Rebecca  Plumstead,  only  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Coates)  Plumstead, 
like  her  mother,  was  one  of  the  most  beautiful  women  of  her  day.  At  the  age  of 
eleven  years  she  lost  her  father,  and  prior  to  the  death  of  her  surviving  parent, 
four  years  later,  she  become  betrothed  to  Benjamin  Hutton,  and  her  devoted 
mother,  stricken  with  an  incurable  disease  of  which  she  was  about  to  die,  and  de- 
siring to  leave  her  daughter  with  a  lawful  protector,  hastened  the  wedding,  and  she 
was  married  July  27,  1780,  when  only  a  few  months  past  her  fifteenth  year.  Her 
gifted  and  beautiful  mother  died  two  weeks  later,  August  10,  1780. 

Benjamin  Hutton  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  4,  1752,  and  was  a  son  of  John 
Strangeways  Hutton,  who  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son  in  Southwark,  1792,  at 
the  reputed  age  of  one  hundred  and  eight  years  and  four  months.  Later  investi- 
gations, however,  indicate  that  this  was  a  mistake  of  some  twelve  years  as  his  par- 
ents, John  Hutton  and  Katharine  "Stranguish,"  obtained  their  license  to  marry  in 
New  York,  October  28,  1695.  John  Hutton,  the  elder,  was  born  at  Bouresdours, 
Scotland,  and  the  maternal  grandfather,  Arthur  Strangeways,  died  in  Boston  at 
the  age  of  one  hundred  and  one  years.  The  latter  was  a  landowner  in  New  York 
in  1674.  John  Strangeways  Hutton  was  born  in  New  York,  and  was  educated 
for  the  sea,  and  was  for  some  years  Lieutenant  on  a  private  armed  vessel.  He 
married  (first)  Catharine  Cheeseman,  by  whom  he  had  eight  children.  Locating 
in  Philadelphia,  he  married  (second)  1735,  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Van  Laer,  Jr., 
by  his  wife,  Priscilla,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  Preston,  of  Frankford,  and  a 
sister  to  Amos  Preston,  an  early  settler  in  Buckingham,  Bucks  county,  and  the 
ancestor  of  the  Preston  family  of  Bucks  county.  John  Van  Laer,  the  elder,  emi- 
grated from  the  Duchy  of  Cleves,  Westphalia,  about  1685,  and  located  in  the 
Northern  Liberties  soon  after  1700.  He  was  made  a  member  of  Common  Council, 
October  6,  1 71 3,  and  sat  in  that  body  until  his  death  in  1722.  John  S.  Hutton 
had  by  his  second  wife,  Ann  Van  Laer,  twelve  children,  making  him  the  father  of 


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tvventy  children  in  all.  Benjamin  Hiitton  and  his  family  resided  in  Southwark, 
where  he  died  August  20,  1809.  His  widow,  Rebecca  Plumstead  Hutton,  removed 
later  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  died  there  July  5,  1841,  and  was  buried  at  St. 
Peters,  Philadelphia.  She  was  a  strikingly  handsome  woman,  tall,  slender  and 
dignified,  and  of  a  very  kindly  and  benevolent  disposition.  During  the  yellow 
fever  scourge  of  1798,  when  nearly  all  those  who  could  afford  a  refuge  elsewhere 
fled  in  terror  from  the  city,  she  remained  to  care  for  the  deserted  sick,  and  many 
a  fever-stricken  victim  had  reason  to  bless  as  an  angel  of  mercy  the  stately  lady 
in  her  spotless  white  cap  and  lace  neckerchief,  who  brought  hope  and  cheer  to  their 
deserted  bedsides. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Rebecca  (Plumstead)  Hutton: 

Mary  Hutton,  b.  Aug.  9,  1781,  d.  Nov,  21,  1870,  m.  at  the  country  seat  of  her  uncle,  Na- 
thaniel Hutton,  near  the  Lazaretto,  Sept.  22,  1799,  John  Devereux,  b.  at  Dumbrody, 
Wexford,  Ireland,  June  6,  1773,  and  settled  in  Phila.  in  1793; 

Sarah  Hutton,  b.  Sept.  15,  1783,  d.  Aug.  30,  1786; 

Thomas  Hutton,  b.  April  II,  1786,  d.  April  27,   1803; 

Benjamin  Hutton,  b.  Aug.  5,  1778,  d.  Sept.  10,  1789; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  31,  1791,  d.  Aug.  20,  1792; 

Eliz.\  Eliot  Hutton,  b.  Sept.  21,  1794,  m.  Robert  Burton;  of  whom  presently; 

Anne  Hutton,  b.  Nov.  18,  1795,  d.  Feb.  28,  1870,  unm. ; 

Eleanor  Hutton,  b.  April  24,  1799,  d.  April  27,  1803; 

Clement  Hutton,  b.  Jan.  20,  1801,  d.  May  10,  1803; 

Ellen  Hutton,  b.  July  19,  1804,  d.  Jan.  7,  1873,  unm.; 

Eliza  Eliot  Hutton,  born  September  21,  1794,  married  Robert  Burton,  a  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia,  son  of  John  and  Rachel  Burton,  born  in  Delaware,  Novem- 
ber I.  1784,  died  in  Philadelphia,  December  29,  1854.  Mrs.  Burton  died  April  24, 
1S70,  and  both  are  buried  at  St.  Peters. 

Issue  of  Robert  and  Eliza  Eliot  (Hutton)  Burton: 

Mary  Anne  Burton; 

Anna  Maria  Burton,  m.  John  Rowan  Penrose,  of  Phila.; 
John  Burton,  a  merchant  of  Phila.,  d.  unm.; 
Caroline  Burton,  d.  y. ; 
Rebecca  Burton; 

Caroline  Burton,  m.  (first)  John  G.  Reading,  (second)  John  C.  Rockhill; 
George  Washington   Burton,  Capt.,   Commissary  of  Subsistence,   Penna.   Vols.,  July  17, 
1862;  Major  and  Asst.  Adj.  Gen.  April  21,  1864;  resigned  March  7,  1865;  m.  Josephine 
Clement; 
Henry  Clav  Burton,  of  New  Castle,  Del.,  m.  Julia  M..  dau.  of  Chief  Justice  Booth,  of 

Del.; 
Robert  Burton,  d.  s.  p.; 

Emily  Adelaide  Burton,  b.  July  9,  1836,  m.  Robert  Neilson  (son  of  Robert  Neilson,  for 
some  time  Governor  of  Trinidad),  b.  in  Trinidad,  Feb.  8,  1834,  d.  May  4,  igoi  ;  he  was 
Captain  of  a  Phila.  company  during  the  Civil  War,  and  after  nine  months  service 
discharged  by  reason  of  a  severe  wound  received  at  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Va. ; 
the  issue  by  his  marriage  was : 

Emily  Burton,  b.  Dec.  14,  1857,  m.  Daniel  T.  Worden,  of  New  York  City,  where 

they  now  reside;  one  child,  Florence,  b.  Oct.  29,  1892,  d.  Dec.  13,  l8gS; 
Robert  WiUiam,  b.  Aug.   13,  1859,  m.   Margaret  Keith,  of  Warrenton,  Va. ;  their 

children  are:     Robert  Keith,  b.  July  6,  1885;  Edward  Steptoe,  b.  July  11,  1903; 
Florence,  b.  March  23,  1862,  unm. 
Edward  Burton,  of  Phila..  dec. 


GILPIN  FAMILY. 

Few  American  families  possess  a  pedigree  of  such  length  and  so  fully  and  well 
authenticated  as  the  Gilpin  family.  This  is  largely  due  to  the  interest  and  care 
taken  by  the  early  as  well  as  the  later  members  of  the  family  to  preserve  its  rec- 
ords. In  the  latter  part  of  the  sixteenth  century  George  Gilpin,  of  Kentmere  Hall, 
the  ancient  seat  of  one  branch  of  the  family,  compiled  a  pedigree,  a  copy  of  which 
he  sent  to  his  uncle,  George  Gilpin,  then  Queen  Elizabeth's  Minister  at  The  Hague. 
About  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  this  pedigree  was  the  subject  of  care- 
ful research  by  Sir  Daniel  Fleming,  of  Rydal  Hall,  noted  for  his  genealogical  re- 
searches in  Westmoreland.  His  Gilpin  manuscripts  are  still  in  possession  of  the 
Fleming  family  at  Rydal  Hall,  and  a  copy  is  in  the  Bodleim  Library  at  Oxford. 
In  1713  William  Gilpin  ( 1657-1724).  of  Scaleby  Castle,  Recorder  of  Carlisle,  with 
the  aid  of  his  kinsman,  Alan  Chambre.  of  Hall  Head,  Recorder  of  Kendal,  made  a 
pedigree  of  the  family.  His  grandson.  Rev.  William  Gilpin  (1724-1804),  of  Bol- 
dre,  wrote  a  "Life  of  Bernard  Gilpin"  in  1753,  and  was  interested  in  the  family 
genealogy. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  of  Philadelphia  (1729-78),  grandson  of  Joseph  Gilpin,  the 
American  emigrant  {1663-1739),  made  a  trip  to  England  in  1753,  visiting  his  Gil- 
pin relatives  and  noting  genealogical  memoranda  in  his  diary.  His  son,  Joshua 
Gilpin,  of  Philadelphia  (1765-1841 ),  visited  Rev.  William  Gilpin,  of  Boldre,  1796, 
and  made  copies  of  the  early  Gilpin  records.  He  and  his  brother.  Thomas  Gilpin, 
of  Philadelphia  (  I77<'>i853),  prepared  the  work  "Memoirs  of  the  Gilpin  Family 
of  Philadelphia."  Their  large  collection  of  family  manuscripts,  including  those  of 
Henry  D.  Gilpin,  son  of  Joshua,  are  preserved  in  the  Gilpm  Library  of  the  His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Several  charts  and  sketches  of  various  American  branches  of  the  family  have 
appeared  in  recent  years.  Probably  the  best  account  of  the  early  English  Gilpins 
is  embodied  in  the  elaborate  pedigree  made  by  the  learned  antiquary,  the  late  Wil- 
helm  Jackson,  F.  S.  A.,  of  Whitehaven,  England,  and  inserted  in  his  volume, 
"Memoirs  of  Dr.  Richard  Gilpin,  of  Scaleby  Castle,  in  Cumberland,"  published  in 
1879,  by  the  Cumberland  and  Westmoreland  .Xntiquarian  and  Archzeological  Soci- 
ety. He  made  use  of  Sir  Daniel  Fleming's  manuscripts  ;  those  of  Mrs.  Fawcett,  of 
Scaleby  Castle,  a  descendant  of  the  Gilpins ;  and  of  manuscripts  and  records  from 
various  other  sources.  From  these  various  sources  have  been  gathered  the  data 
contained  in  these  pages. 

The  name  and  family  of  Gilpin  is  doubtless  of  Norman  origin,  as  the  name, 
traced  from  authentic  English  records,  for  eight  generations,  was  spelled  "de 
Gylpyn." 

The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  Quaker  family  of  Gilpin,  of  which 
any  record  is  known,  was, 

RiCH.\RD  DE  GvLPYX,  to  vvliom  the  Baron  of  Kendal  granted  the  estate  of  Kent- 
mere,  county  of  Westmoreland,  in  or  about  1206,  in  the  reign  of  King  John.  This 
grant  is  said  to  have  been  made  as  a  recompense  for  the  slaying,  by  de  Gylpyn,  of 
a  fierce  wild  boar,  which  had  done  great  dainage  in  the  valleys  of  Westmoreland  and 


GILPIN  419 

Cumberland.  From  the  same  feat  originated  the  arms  ever  since  borne  by  his 
descendants,  viz.,  "Or.  a  boar  statant,  sable,  langued  and  tusked  gules,"  with  a 
Crest,  A  dexter  arm  emboyed,  in  armour  proper,  the  naked  hand  grasping  a  pine 
branch  fessvvise  vert,  with  the  Motto,  Dictis  factisque  simplex. 

Kentmere  Hall,  still  standing  at  the  foot  of  the  fantastic  rocky  heights  of  Rang- 
moor,  and  the  estate  surrounding  it  in  the  rich  valley  of  Kent,  was  held  by  the 
elder  male  branch  of  the  family  until  the  time  of  Cromwell,  when  George  Gilpin, 
who  then  held  it,  became  a  Captain  in  the  army  of  Charles  I,  and,  on  the  Parlia- 
mentary forces  gaining  the  ascendency,  made  a  deed  to  his  brother-in-law,  Sir 
Christopher  Philipson,  of  the  Parliamentary  party,  to  save  the  estate  from  seques- 
tration, which  his  heirs  failed  to  have  set  aside  at  the  Restoration,  and  Kentmere 
was  lost  to  the  family. 

A  Pennsylvania  descendant  of  the  family  recently  visited  Kentmere  Hall  and 
found  the  ancient  structure,  dating  back  probably  to  the  fourteenth  century,  occu- 
pied by  a  farmer.  It  is  surmounted  at  the  west  end  by  a  peel  tower,  and  the 
"mere"  from  which  it  took  its  name  had  been  drained  something  over  a  century 
ago. 

Gylpyn,  son  of  Richard  de  Gylpyn,  to  whom  Kentmere  passed  at  the 

death  of  his  father,  whose  name  has  not  been  preserved,  had  a  son, 

Richard  de  Gylpyn,  who  flourished  in  the  reign  of  Henry  HI.,  1216  to  1272. 
To  him  Peter  de  Bruys,  who  had  married  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  William  de 
Lancaster,  the  last  Baron  of  Kendal,  granted  the  Manor  and  lands  of  Ulwithwaite. 
The  original  deed  of  grant,  in  Latin,  dated  1268,  A.  D.,  neatly  engrossed  in  char- 
acters of  that  time,  with  seals  in  perfect  condition,  is  still  in  possession  of  the  de- 
scendants of  Rev.  William  Gilpin,  Vicar  of  Boldre,  near  Lymington,  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  the  grantee. 

DE  Gylpyn  (first  name  unknown),  who  succeeded  his  father,  had, 

Richard  de  Gylpyn,  who  possessed  the  estates  of  Kentmere  and  Ulwithwaite ; 
witnessing  a  deed  executed  in  the  year  1333,  A.  D.,  had  a  son, 

Richard  de  Gylpyn,  who  possessed  both  estates,  and  was  succeeded  by, 

William  de  Gylpyn,  his  son,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Airey,  Bailiff 
of  Kentmere,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

Richard  de  Gylpyn,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Fleming  of  Coniston  Hall, 
Westmoreland,  and  had  five  children.  The  Fleming  family  derived  its  descent 
from  Sir  Michael  le  Fleming,  who  accompanied  his  kinsman,  Baldwin,  Earl  of 
Flanders,  and  brother-in-law,  William  of  Normandy,  to  assist  in  the  conquest  of 
England  in  1066  A.  D.  Sir  Michael  le  Fleming's  second  son,  Sir  Richard  le  Flem- 
ing, was  the  grandfather  of  Richard  le  Fleming,  who  by  marriage  with  Elizabeth 
Urswick,  became  possessed  of  Coniston  Hall,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  Sir  Daniel 
Fleming,  of  Coniston  Hall  and  Rydal.  who  in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth 
century  made  a  pedigree  of  the  Gilpin  family,  before  referred  to,  the  manuscript 
of  which  yet  remains  among  the  collections  of  S.  H.  Fleming,  Esq.,  at  Rydal  Hall, 
in  the  English  Lake  District. 

William  Gilpin,  one  of  the  five  children  of  the  last  named  Richard  de  Gylpyn, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lancaster,  of  Sockbridge  Hall,  a  descend- 
ant of  Roger  de  Lancaster,  of  the  Lancasters  who  were  Barons  of  Kendal,  West- 
moreland, by  his  wife  Philippa,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Bolbec,  of  Northumberland. 
This  William  Gilpin,  "was  an  eminent  man  and  of  great  dealings  in  the  Barony  of 


420  GILPIN 

Kendal."    He  lived,  as  Sir  Daniel  Fleming's  ms.  has  it,  in  the  time  of  Edward  I\'.. 
about  1472,  and  had  seven  children.    His  son, 

Richard  Gilpin,  of  the  tenth  generation  from  Richard  de  Gylpyn,  the  grantee 
of  Kentmere,  married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Rowland  Thornborough,  of  Hams- 
fel,  in  the  reign  of  Richard  II.,  and  had  eleven  children,  of  whom  William,  the 
eldest  son  and  heir,  a  captain  in  the  King's  Army,  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bos- 
worth  Field,  August  22,  1485,  leaving  no  issue;  and  the  estates  and  title  descend- 
ed to  the  second  son, 

Edwin  Gilpin,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas  Layton,  of  Dale- 
main,  county  Cumberland,  descended  from  Sir  William  de  Laton,  of  the  Latons 
of  county  Durham.  Margaret  Layton's  brothers.  Sir  William,  Sir  Brian,  Sir  Cuth- 
bert.  Sir  Richard,  Anthony  and  Thomas  Layton,  were  "All  famous  men  of  great 
renown,  some  for  their  learning,  and  others  in  war,  of  which  three  were  Knights 
of  the  Rhodes.  Her  sisters  married  Redman  of  Harwood ;  P.  Redman  of  Ireby ; 
Carleton;  Clybburn ;  and  Vaux,  all  worshipful  Families."  Her  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  Tunstall,  Lord  of  Thurland  Castle  and  Tunstall,  Lancashire ; 
a  grandson  of  Sir  Richard,  and  a  great-grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  Tunstall,  of  Thur- 
land Castle,  Man-at-arms  at  the  battle  of  Agincourt,  141 5.  Her  mother's  brother, 
Sir  Brian  Tunstall,  Lord  of  Thurland  Castle,  was  killed  at  Flodden  Field,  1513. 
A.  D.,  and  another  brother,  Cutiibert  Tunstall  (1474-1559),  was  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham. 

George  Gilpin,  son  of  Edwin  and  Margaret  (Layton)  Gilpin,  was  a  distinguish- 
ed man  of  letters  and  became  Queen  Elizabeth's  Minister  at  The  Hague. 

"Bernard  Gilpin,"  another  son  of  Edwin,  writes  his  biographer  in  1628,  "was 
Born  at  Kentmere  in  the  County  of  Westmoreland,  in  the  Year  of  Our  Lord,  151 7, 
of  an  Ancient  and  Honorable  Family,  Being  the  Son  of  Edwin  Gilpin,  the  elder 
Brother  of  which  Edwin  was  Slain  in  the  Battle  of  Bosworth,  being  Heir  in  the 
fifth  Descent  to  Richard  Gilpin,  who  in  the  Reign  of  King  John  was  enfeoffed  in 
the  Lordship  of  Kentmere  Hall,  by  the  Baron  of  Kendal,  for  his  singular  Deserts, 
both  in  Peace  and  War.  This  was  that  Richard  Gilpin,  who  Slew  the  Wild  Boar, 
that  raging  in  the  Mountains  adjoining  had  much  indamaged  the  Country  People ; 
whence  it  is,  that  the  Gilpins  in  their  Coat  of  Arms  give  the  Boar.  The  mother 
of  Bernard  Gilpin,  was  Margaret,  the  daughter  of  William  Laton,  of  Dolemaine  in 
Cumberland,  a  man  of  an  Ancient  House,  and  a  Family  Famous  in  that  Warlike 
Age,  as  from  whence  had  Sprung  many  Right  Valiant  Gentlemen." 

This  Bernard  Gilpin  was  educated  at  Queen's  College  Oxford,  and  was  made  a 
Fellow  of  the  College.  On  taking  orders  as  a  Priest,  he  was  made  one  of  the  head 
masters  by  Cardinal  Wolsey.  In  the  divisions  arising  at  the  University  at  this 
time,  on  the  doctrines  of  the  Reformation,  he  at  first  took  sides  against  them,  but 
after  diligent  study  of  the  Scriptures,  took  ground  in  favor  of  the  Reformation. 
In  1552  he  became  Vicar  of  Norton,  Diocese  of  Durham,  of  which  his  mother's 
uncle,  Cuthbert  Tunstall,  was  Bislioi?,  and  after  preaching  a  sermon  before  Ed- 
ward VI.,  was  licensed  as  a  general  preacher  of  the  Gospel  throughout  the  King- 
dom. 

Troubled  with  doubts,  however,  he  resigned  his  vicarage  and  went  to  London, 
Paris  and  Antwerp  to  pursue  his  theological  studies.  Returning  to  England, 
towards  the  close  of  Queen  Mary's  reign,  he  was  invested  by  his  great-uncle. 
Bishop  of  Durham,  with  the  Archdeaconry  of  Durham  and  became   Rector  of 


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Essington.  He  attacked  the  vices  and  ignorance  of  the  clergy  with  such  vigor  that 
he  incurred  the  enmity  of  the  priests  and  was  brought  before  the  Bishop  for  heresy. 
The  Bishop  not  only  discharged  him  but  conferred  upon  him  the  rectorship  of 
Houghton-le-Spring,  Diocese  of  Durham,  he  having  resigned  the  Archdeaconry. 
His  enemies,  however,  carried  his  case  before  the  Bishop  of  London,  Dr.  Bonner, 
and  Gilpin,  hearing  that  a  warrant  for  his  arrest  had  been  issued,  started  to  Lon- 
don, prepared  to  suffer  martyrdom.  But  breaking  his  leg  on  the  journey,  "Bloody 
Mary"  had  died  before  he  recovered  sufficiently  to  resume  his  journey  and  Catholic 
supremacy  being  at  an  end  with  the  accession  of  "Good  Queen  Bess"  to  the  throne, 
he  returned  to  Durham  and  resumed  his  charge  of  Houghton-le-Spring.  He  was 
offered  the  Bishopric  of  Carlisle,  when  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  was  deposed, 
but  declined  it,  preferring  to  retain  the  rectorship  of  Houghton-le-Spring,  where 
he  continued  to  preach  until  his  death,  March  4,  1583. 

His  parish,  including  fourteen  villages,  was  then,  as  now,  one  of  the  richest 
benefices  of  the  North  and  yielded  an  ample  income,  the  whole  of  which  he  spent 
in  charity  and  beneficence.  His  rectory  was  always  open  to  travellers  and 
strangers,  and  he  kept  a  table  for  his  parishioners  every  Sunday  from  Michaelmas 
to  Easter,  and  every  fortnight  provided  forty  bushels  of  corn,  twenty  bushels  of 
malt,  and  a  whole  ox,  with  which  to  feed  the  poor  of  his  parish.  He  founded  a 
grammar  school  at  Houghton-le-Spring,  and  assisted  many  of  the  more  promising 
youths  there,  educated  to  enter  universities  to  prepare  themselves  for  the  Church ; 
always  maintaining  at  least  six  at  the  different  universities,  and  after  their  gradua- 
tion, charging  himself  with  their  settlement.  George  Carleton,  afterwards  Bishop 
of  Chichester,  who  wrote  a  hfc  of  Bernard  Gilpin,  was  one  of  his  beneficiaries. 
(Bishop  Carleton  in  his  "Vita  B.  Gilpini,"  was  printed  by  William  James,  "dwelling 
in  Red-Crosse  Street,"  London,  1628,  and  an  English  translation  of  the  Latin  was 
published  in  1629). 

Disgusted  with  the  ignorance  and  inefficiency  of  the  clergy,  Bernard  Gilpin, 
every  year,  visited  the  neglected  parts  of  Northumberland  and  other  northern 
shires,  particularly  the  lawless  region  of  Redesdale  and  Tynedale,  holding  forth 
the  commands  and  sanctions  of  Christianity,  and  did  much  to  change  the  character 
of  the  denizens  of  that  lawless  region,  where  he  became  known  as  the  "Apostle  of 
the  North,"  as  he  was  known  in  his  own  parish  as  the  "Father  of  the  Poor."  He 
was  never  married. 

In  the  ancient  church  of  Houghton-le-Spring,  where  he  so  long  ministered,  is 
the  tomb  of  Bernard  Gilpin.  It  is  a  massive  table  or  altar  monument  of  free- 
stone, at  the  upper  end  of  the  south  transept.  At  the  west  end  of  the  monument, 
cut  in  raised  characters,  divided  by  an  escutcheon  on  which  is  relieved  a  boar 
resting  against  a  tree,  with  a  crescent  cut  in  the  side  of  the  boar,  is  the  following 
inscription : 

'BERNERDS  GILPIN  "OBIIT  IVA 

Rector  RTS  DIEM 

H  VI  VS  ARTII    AN 

ECCLAE"  DOM  1583." 

In  Durham  Cathedral,  on  the  left-hand  as  you  enter  the  nave  by  the  north  door, 
is  a  window,  erected  in  modern  times  to  Bernard  Gilpin.  It  contains  three  pictures 
arranged  above  each  other  representing,  first,  Gilpin  giving  away  his  horse ;  second, 


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quelling  the  feud  in  Rothbury  Church ;  third,  founding  Houghton  Grammar  School. 
In  1884  there  was  at  Wallington  Hall,  Northumberland,  the  seat  of  Sir  G.  Trev- 
elyan,  Baronet,  a  painting  by  William  Bell,  Esq.,  representing  Gilpin  in  Rothbury 
Church.  A  portrait  of  him  is  in  collection  of  Gilpin  portraits  and  family  papers 
at  Scaleby  Castle,  Cumberland.  Among  the  books  bequeathed  by  him  to  his  alma 
mater,  Queen's  College,  is  a  folio,  "Opera  A  Politani,"  edited  by  Aldo  Pio  Man- 
uzio,  Venice,  1498,  containing  the  autographs  of  him  and  his  uncle,  William  Laton, 
and  inscribed,  "Erat  hie  Willus  Layton  de  Dalemane  in  Comtatu  Cumbriae  ad 
Emontis  fluenta,  unde  et  Bernardus  Gilpin  (qui  librum  hunc  bibliothecae  'd)  genus 
maternum  duxit." 

William  Gilpin,  eldest  brother  of  Bernard  Gilpin,  the  "Apostle  of  the  North," 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Thomas  Washington,  of  Hall  Head, 
Westmoreland,  great-grandson  of  Robert  Washington,  Lord  of  Milburne,  West- 
mtreland,  ancestor  of  President  George  Washington.  William  and  Elizabeth 
(  V\'ashington)  Gilpin  had  twelve  children.  He  was  buried,  according  to  the  Ken- 
dal parish  records,  January  23,  1577. 

The  Kentmere  estate  descended  to  the  eldest  son,  George  Gilpin,  who  collected  a 
pedigree  of  the  family  to  his  own  time  and  sent  a  copy  to  his  uncle,  George  Gilpin, 
before  referred  to  as  Queen  Elizabeth's  ^Minister  at  The  Hague.  George  Gilpin 
was  succeeded  in  the  tenure  of  Kentmere  by  his  son,  William  Gilpin,  who  married 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Sanford,  of  Howgill,  and  was  succeeded  by  his 
son,  George  Gilpin,  who  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Robert  Philipson,  of  Holl- 
ing  Hall,  Westmoreland.  This  latter  George  Gilpin  lost  the  estate  of  Kentmere  to 
the  Gilpin  name  in  the  time  of  the  Civil  War.  He  was  a  Captain  in  the  army  of 
Charles  I.,  and  made  a  conveyance  in  trust  to  one  Philipson,  and  afterwards  to 
Capt.  Nicolson,  of  Hawkeshead,  of  the  Parliamentarians,  to  save  the  estate  from 
sequestration.  Upon  prosecution  by  the  Parliamentarians,  Capt.  Gilpin  fled  be- 
yond the  sea  and  died  abroad  without  issue.  Capt.  Nicolson  held  the  estate  until 
the  Restoration,  when  he  was  ousted  in  a  suit-at-law  under  the  first  conveyance  by 
Sir  Christopher  Philipson. 

Martin  Gilpin,  a  younger  son  of  William,  was  an  Attorney-at-law  of  Leathes 
House,  Cumberland,  and  of  Kendal,  Westmoreland.  He  married,  1580  A.  D., 
Catharine  Newby  (died  1634),  and  died  at  Kendal,  December  18,  1629,  leaving 
eight  children. 

His  son,  Isaac  Gilpin,  of  Gilthroton,  Westmoreland,  was  the  father  of  Richard 
Gilpin,  D.  D.,  born  October  5,  1625,  at  Kendal,  who  was  eminent  for  his  piety  and 
learning.  Dr.  Richard  Gilpin  studied  medicine  and  later  divinity,  and  became 
rector  of  Greystock,  in  Cumberland,  developing  into  a  staunch  Presbyterian  divine. 
He  was  called  by  the  dissenters  to  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  but  returning  to  Cumber- 
land, purchased  Scaleby  Castle,  a  fortress  of  consequence  erected  on  the  confines 
of  England  to  repel  the  inroads  of  the  Scots.    There  he  died  in  1699. 

He  was  succeeded  by  his  son.  William  Gilpin  (1657-1724),  in  the  ownership  of 
Scaleby  Castle.  This  William  Gilpin,  a  Barrister-at-law,  Deputy  Vice-Admiral  of 
Cumberland,  and  Recorder  of  Carlisle,  in  1713,  compiled  a  pedigree  of  the  Gilpin 
family.  His  son.  Capt.  John  Bernard  Gilpin  (1701-1801),  was  the  father  of  Will- 
iam Gilpin  (1724-1804),  rector  of  Boldre,  Hampshire,  before  referred  to  as  hold- 
ing the  old  deed  of  Ulwithwaite.    He  was  a  prolific  writer  on  Scottish  and  English 


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scenery  and  country  life  and  published  in  1753  a  life  of  Bernard  Gil])in,  the 
"Apostle  of  the  North." 

Sawry  Gilpin,  R.  A.  (1733-1807),  a  brother  of  Rev.  William  Gilpin,  of  Boldre, 
was  a  celebrated  painter  of  animals.  John  Bernard  Gilpin  (i 754-1 851),  son  of 
Rev.  William  Gilpin,  of  Boldre,  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1783,  and  was  British 
Consul  to  the  Eastern  States  in  1803,  dying  at  Annapolis  Royal,  Nova  Scotia, 
aged  ninety-seven  years. 

Bernard  Gilpin,  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Martin  Gilpin,  married  Dorothy  Ayrey 
and  had  eleven  children.  He  died  April  21,  1636.  His  sons  of  whom  we  have 
record  were:    William,  Martin,  Samuel,  Arthur,  Ranulph,  Alan  and  Thomas. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  one  of  the  younger  sons  of  Bernard  Gilpin,  resided  at  Mill 
Hill,  parish  of  Caton,  Westmoreland,  on  the  borders  of  Lancashire.  He  had  five 
sons  and  five  daughters  of  whom  we  have  the  name  of  but  one,  Thomas,  the 
youngest  son.  "They  were  People  of  Good  Repute  in  the  Country,  and  were 
Religious,  being  called  Puritans,  who  Educated  their  Children  very  Strictly." 
After  their  father's  death  the  mother  removed  with  her  children  to  Kendal,  five 
of  her  children  being  dead. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  Quaker  minister,  of  Warborough,  Oxfordshire,  youngest  son 
of  Thomas  of  Mill  Hill,  was  born  in  1622,  died  i2mo.  3,  1702.  According  to  a 
sketch  of  his  life  published  in  1706,  in  "Piety  Promoted,"  part  iii.,  from  which  the 
above  reference  to  his  parents  is  quoted,  Thomas  Gilpin  went  as  a  young  man 
from  Kendal  to  London  as  an  "Apprentice  to  a  Tallow  Chandler,  and  after  went 
into  the  Wars."  In  the  "Memoirs  of  the  Gilpin  Family  of  Philadelphia,"  it  is 
stated  that  he  was  an  officer  and  fought  at  the  battle  of  Worcester,  1651,  but  the 
statement  is  based  entirely  on  tradition  and  lacks  proof. 

On  leaving  the  "Wars"  Thomas  Gilpin  settled  in  Oxfordshire  and  was  married 
prior  to  165 1  to  Joan,  daughter  of  Thomas  Bartholomew  alias  Martin,  husband- 
man, of  Shillings  ford,  a  small  village  in  the  parish  of  Warborough,  on  river 
Thames,  midway  between  Oxford  and  Reading.  Joan  Bartholomew  was  baptized 
in  the  church  at  Warborough,  August  28,  1625,  died  March  21,  1700-1.  Thomas 
Gilpin,  her  husband,  lived  a  short  time  with  his  father-in-law  at  Shillingford  and 
then  took  a  house  for  his  little  family  in  the  nearby  village  of  Warborough,  where 
he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life.  About  1654.  while  on  a  trip  to  London,  he  be- 
came a  convert  to  the  new  doctrines  and  faith  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  on 
his  return  established  a  meeting  at  his  house  in  Warborough,  which  was  held  there 
for  many  years.  About  1662  he  entered  the  Ministry  of  the  Society,  and  made 
frequent  visits  to  the  neighboring  counties,  to  London  and  to  Wales.  At  times  he 
was  severely  persecuted  for  his  Quaker  testimonies,  being  twice  a  prisoner  in  Ox- 
ford Castle,  and  once  in  Newgate,  London.  In  May,  1670,  he  was  fined  £20  for 
having  a  meeting  in  his  house,  and  a  month  later,  says  a  quaint  old  chronicle, 
"Was  another  Meeting  att  the  said  Thomas  Gilpin's,"  when  the  officers  of  the 
law,  "broke  open  his  Door,  and  took  away  his  Household  Goods,  leaveing  him  not 
a  Bed  to  lie  on,  nor  a  Pot  to  boil  his  Food  in.  He  had  a  Family  of  five  small  Chil- 
dren which  suffered  much  through  this  Seizure.  Some  Time  after,  as  soon  as  he 
had  got  his  Corn  in,  being  about  three  Acres,  the  Officers  came  and  took  that  alsoe, 
with  two  Pigs,  in  all  the  value  of  in." 


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Issue  of  Thomas  and  Joan  (Bartholomew)  Gilpin: 

Mary,  b.  7mo.  lo,  1651 ; 
Thomas,  b.  pmo.  13,  1653; 
Isaac,  b.  imo.  g,  1656; 
Sarah,  b.  2mo.  8,  1658; 

Rachel,  b.  2mo.  14,  1660,  m.  Thomas  West,  at  Friends'  Meeting  in  county  Bucks,  Eng- 
land, 1682;  of  them  presently; 
Joseph,  b.  4mo.  8,  1663,  m.  Hannah  Glover,  and  came  to  Pa.;  of  whom  presently; 
Richard,  b.  imo.  2,  1666. 

Rachel  Gilpin,  fifth  child  of  Thomas  and  Joan  (  Bartholomew)  Gilpin,  born  at 
Warborough,  Oxfordshire,  2mo.  (April)  14,  1660,  was  brought  up  as  a  Friend 
and  married  in  Friends'  Meeting  in  county  Bucks,  1682,  Thomas  West,  husband- 
man and  grazier,  of  Long  Crandon,  Bucks,  son  of  William  West,  of  Long  Cran- 
don,  yeoman,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (died  8mo.  6,  1684). 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Rachel  (Gilpin)  West: 

William  West,  b.  5mo.  19,  1686,  settled  in  Chester,  now  Delaware  co..  Pa.,  locating  first 
in  Concord,  but  moving  about  1709  to  Springfield  township,  where  he  m.  Deborah,  dau. 
of  Bartholomew  Coppock;  he  died  in  1720,  without  issue; 

Joseph  West,  b.  3mo.  7,  1688,  no  further  record; 

Thomas  West,  a  cooper,  settled  in  Concord  twp.,  now  Delaware  co..  Pa.,  as  early  as 
1712;  wife  Mary;  children,  Thomas,  Rachel,  William,  Ellen,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Joseph; 

John  West,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.)  28,  1690,  at  Long  Crandon,  county  Bucks,  England,  did  not 
affiliate  with  Friends;  m.  in  England  and  had  one  child,  Thomas,  a  watchmaker  at 
Reading,  Berkshire;  about  1714  joined  his  brothers,  William  and  Thomas,  in  Pa.;  his 
wife,  unable  to  make  the  voyage  at  the  time,  died  soon  after,  and  he  m.  (second)  in 
Pa.,  Sarah  (b.  2mo.  8,  1697,  d.  1756),  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Margery  (Smith)  Pearson, 
of  Marple  twp.,  now  Delaware  co.,  emigrants  from  Pownall  Fee,  Cheshire;  from  1721 
to  1732,  John  West  was  a  resident  of  Upper  Providence,  now  Delaware  co.,  where  he 
owned  21  acres  of  land  on  Ridley  creek;  in  1733  he  was  an  innkeeper  in  Chester;  by 
1737  he  was  in  Springfield  twp.,  where  he  also  kept  a  tavern;  in  1744  he  took  charge  of 
the  inn  at  Newtown  Square;  he  was  restored  to  membership  with  Friends  at  Newtown 
Meeting  in  1759;  in  1764  he  returned  to  England  and  died  at  the  house  of  his  sister. 
in  Marlborough,  Oxfordshire,  Oct.  5,  1776;  his  portrait  appears  in  his  son's  painting, 
"Penn's  Treaty  with  the  Indians,"  and  also  in  the  "West  Family." 

His  son,  Benjamin  West,  artist.  President  of  the  Royal  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts, 
was  the  youngest  son,  and  was  b.  in  Springfield  twp.,  now  Delaware  co..  Pa.,  1738,  d. 
in  London,  March  11,  1820,  and  was  buried  in  the  painter's  corner  in  the  crypt  of  St. 
Paul's;  though  sometimes  referred  to  as  "the  Quaker  artist"  he  was  not  a  member  of 
the  Society,  his  parents  not  being  members  at  the  time  of  his  birth,  and  he  never  united 
with  the  Society. 

Joseph  Gilpin,  third  son  and  sixth  child  of  Thomas  and  Joan  (Bartholomew) 
Gilpin,  born  in  Warborough,  Oxfordshire,  England,  4mo.  (June)  8,  1663,  was 
reared  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  his  father  was  a  minister,  and  held  to 
that  faith  throughout  his  life.  At  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  was  a  weaver  by 
trade,  living  in  Dorchester,  Oxfordshire,  an  ancient  town  on  the  river  Thames 
about  two  miles  from  his  native  town  of  Warborough.  He  married,  i2mo.  23, 
1691,  in  a  Quaker  Meeting  at  Baghurst,  Hampshire,  Hannah  (jlover,  of  Ichings- 
well,  Parish  of  Kingsclerc,  Hampshire,  daughter  of  George  Glover,  deceased,  by 
his  wife,  Alice  Lamboll,  later  of  Dorchester.  The  marriage  certificate  is  entered 
on  the  records  of  Concord  Monthly  ^Meeting  of  Friends,  Delaware  county,  Penn- 
.•-ylvania. 

Alice  (Lamboll)  Glover  and  her  brother.  William  l.auili..ll,  were  probalily 
children  of  ( ieorge  LainboU  (  1634-1720).  of  Reailiug.  a  Oiuiker.  in  wlmse  orchanl 


GILPIN  4^5 

George  Fox  held  a  great  meeting  in  1655.  William  LamboU  was  a  "mealman,"  of 
Reading,  Berkshire.  Hannah  (Glover)  Gilpin's  sister  Alice  married  (first)  John 
Brunsden,  of  Bucklebiiry,  Berkshire,  yeoman,  at  a  Quaker  Meeting  at  Brumpton, 
Berkshire,  lomo.  19,  1680,  coming  with  him  to  Pennsylvania;  after  his  death, 
which  occurred  prior  to  1692,  married  (second)  William  Vestal.  She  had  by 
Brunsden  three  children,  John,  Alice,  Hannah,  who  married  John  Buckingham, 
and  by  Vestal  had,  William,  George  and  Mary. 

By  deeds  dated  June  29  and  30,  1683,  William  Penn  conveyed  to  William  Lam- 
boll,  above  mentioned,  625  acres  of  land  to  be  laid  out  in  Pennsylvania.  Lamboll 
by  deed  dated  August  2,  1684,  conveyed  ICX5  acres  of  this  purchase  to  John  Bruns- 
den, husband  of  his  niece.  Brunsden  came  to  Pennsylvania  about  that  time  and 
by  warrant  dated  November  11,  1684,  had  the  whole  625  acres  located  and  sur- 
veyed on  the  eastern  hills  of  Brandywine  creek  in  what  became  Birmingham  town- 
ship, Chester,  now  Delaware  county,  apparently  making  a  settlement  on  his  own 
100  acres.  The  tract  joined  the  present  Chester  county  line  about  one  mile  south 
of  Dilworthtown,  and  less  than  two  miles  northeast  of  Chadd's  Ford.  Nearby  is 
Birmingham  Meeting  House  and  the  battlefield  of  Brandywine  in  the  Revolution. 

On  October  11  and  12,  1694,  William  Lamboll  conveyed  200  acres  of  the  same 
tract  to  his  sister,  Alice  Glover,  of  Dorchester,  widow,  for  her  use  for  life,  then 
to  vest  in  her  daughter  Hannah,  wife  of  Joseph  Gilpin,  of  Dorchester.  The  con- 
•iideration  mentioned  is  ten  shillings  and  "the  natural  love  and  affection  he  hath 
and  beareth  to  his  sister  Alice  Glover  and  to  his  niece,  Hannah,  as  also  for  the 
makmg  some  provision  for  their  future  maintenance  and  Support,  and  for  the 
settling  of  said  Lands."  Additional  grants  of  land  by  the  uncle,  William  Lamboll, 
of  seventy-five  acres,  December  8  and  9,  1704,  and  250  acres  on  May  17  and  18, 
1713,  increased  the  Gilpin  plantation  to  425  acres;  the  remaining  100  acres  of  the 
purchase  of  Lamboll  being  granted  to  Jonathan  Thatcher. 

In  1695  Joseph  Gilpin  with  his  wife  and  two  children  crossed  the  sea  to  join 
their  relatives  and  to  take  possession  of  the  land  given  to  them  by  Hannah's  uncle, 
Mr.  Lamboll.  Their  certificate  of  removal,  certifying  to  their  membership  with 
>riends  in  England,  was  presented  to  Concord  Meeting,  i2mo.  10,  1695.  They 
landed  at  New  Castle,  according  to  the  written  account  of  Isaac  Glover  Gilpin, 
grandson,  and  set  out  on  foot  through  the  wilderness  for  their  Birmingham  planta- 
tion, eighteen  miles  to  the  northward  on  the  frontier  of  settlement.  At  about  ten 
or  twelve  miles  distant  from  New  Castle  night  overtook  them.  In  this  situation 
they  applied  at  the  habitation  of  an  earlier  settler  for  shelter,  which  was  refused 
them  *  *  "^  fortunately  some  of  the  natives  lived  near,  into  whose  wigwams 
they  were  received,  and  treated  kindly;  and  they  lodged  there  for  the  first  night 
on  shore,  in  America.  *  *  *  Next  morning  being  refreshed  they  went  on  and 
arrived  in  Birmingham  township,  Chester  county,  where  Joseph  Gilpin  had  previ- 
ously a  large  tract  of  land  to  the  west  of  Brunsden's  land. 

They  had  at  first  to  dig  a  cave  in  the  earth  and  went  into  it,  in  which  they  lived 
four  or  five  years  and  where  two  children  were  born.  *  *  *  After  Joseph 
Gilpin  had  resided  in  the  cave  for  four  or  five  years,  he  built  a  frame  house  and 
barn  near  the  Cave,  but  this  was  burnt,  and  then  he  built  a  frame  house  a  few  hun- 
dred yards  to  the  westward  (about  1720),  sixteen  feet  by  eighteen  feet,  two  stories 
high,  where  he  resided  the  remainder  of  his  life.  It  is  now  in  good  preserva- 
tion and  comfortable,  and  forms  part  of  the  present  house.    A  brick  addition,  made 


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in  1754,  was  occupied  by  Gen.  Howe  as  his  headquarters  after  the  battle  of 
Eirandywine  in  1777.  A  large  barn  was  also  built  and  covered  with  weather- 
boards.   This  building  is  still  standing  in  1909. 

Joseph  Gilpin  became  popular  among  the  emigrants,  who  were  frequently 
Friends,  and  he  was  so  well  known  there  that  great  numbers  of  families  on  com- 
ing over  came  to  his  house,  where  they  were  kindly  received  and  entertained. 
Hannah  Gilpin  was  the  best  of  housewives,  superior  to  most  in  intellect  and  friend- 
ly conduct. 

In  1740  Thomas  Chalkley  (1675-1741),  eminent  travelling  Quaker  Preacher, 
notes  the  following  in  his  Journal,  while  on  a  visit  to  Concord:  "The  night  be- 
fore this  meeting  I  lodged  at  the  widow  Gilpin's,  whose  husband,  Joseph  Gilpin, 
was  lately  deceased ;  there  was  true  Christian  love  and  friendship  between  us  for 
above  fifty  years.  When  first  I  saw  Joseph  in  Pennsylvania,  he  lived  in  a  cave 
in  the  earth,  where  we  enjoyed  each  other's  company  in  the  love  and  fear  of  God. 
This  Friend  had  fifteen  children,  whom  he  lived  to  see  brought  up  to  the  states  of 
men  and  women,  all  but  two  married  well,  and  to  his  mind."  (Moses  and  Esther, 
two  of  the  younger  children,  were  married  after  the  date  of  the  entry  in  the 
Journal). 

But  one  of  the  fifteen  children  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Gilpin  died  under  the  age 
of  sixty  years,  and  at  his  death,  November  9,  1739,  he  had  forty-five  living  grand- 
children. At  the  death  of  Hannah.  January  12,  1757,  all  fifteen  of  her  children 
had  married,  twelve  of  them  were  living,  and  there  were  sixty-two  grandchildren 
and  nearly  as  many  great-grandchildren,  one  hundred  and  thirty-three  living  de- 
scendants in  all. 

Issue  of  Joseph  mid  Hannali  (Glover)  Gilpin: 

Hannah,  b.  in  England,  i2mo.  (Feb.)  15.  1692,  d.  jmo.  1746,  m.  8mo.  31,  1718,  William 
Seal,  of  Birmingham,  and  had  six  children,  Rachel,  Joseph,  Hannah,  William,  Joshua 
and  Caleb;  the  last  named  removed  to  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  his  son  William  became 
a  prominent  citizen  there; 

Samuel,  b.  in  England.  4mo.  (June)  7,  1694,  d.  in  Cecil  CO.,  Md.,  i2mo.  7,  1767,  m.  Jane 
Parker;  of  them  presently; 

Rachel,  b.  in  the  cave  in  Birmingham,  i2mo.  (Feb.)  12,  1695-6,  d.  May  20,  1776,  m.  9mo. 
(Nov.)  15,  1722,  Joshua  Peirce  (1684-1752),  of  Kennett,  as  his  second  wife;  he  was  a 
son  of  George  Peirce,  member  of  Provincial  Assembly,  1706,  who  emigrated  from 
Winscom,  Somerset,  1684.  with  wife,  Ann  Gainor,  of  Thornbury,  Gloucestershire. 

Joshua  Peirce  settled  in  East  Marlborough,  where  he  built  a  brick  mansion  in  173°. 
still  standing,  and  in  possession  of  the  family  until  1906;  his  children  were:  Joshua, 
Joseph,  Caleb  and  Isaac.  Caleb  inherited  the  homestead,  and  his  two  sons,  Samuel 
(1766-1838)  and  Joshua  (1766-1851),  established  the  beautiful  botanical  garden  or 
arboretem,  surrounding  the  house  known  as  Peirce's  Park,  Another  son,  Jacob 
Peirce  (1761-1801),  made  a  settlement  on  another  part  of  the  original  estate  and  kept 
an  interesting  diary  of  his  busy  life.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  daughter  Hannah 
(1797-1876),  who  rtiarried  John  Co.x  (1786-1880),  and  both  were  leaders  in  the  reform 
and  anti-slavery  movements  that  agitated  southern  Chester  co.,  in  ante-bellum  days; 
Longwood  Meeting,  the  rallying  point  of  these  forces,  was  established  on  their  land, 
and  Whittier,  Garrison.  Phillips,  Lucretia  Mott,  and  a  host  of  other  prominent  re- 
formers were  frequently  entertained  in  the  hospitable  home  of  the  Peirccs,  which  also 
became  an  important  station  of  the  "Underground  Railroad,"  and  hundreds  of  slaves 
were  aided  to  escape  by  that  route  to  the  North. 

Poems  were  addressed  to  John  and  Hannah  Cox,  by  both  Whittier  and  Bayard 
Taylor,  on  the  occasion  of  their  Golden  Wedding  at  Longwood  in  1873; 

Ruth,  b.  6mo.  (Aug.)  28,  1697,  m.  8mo.  (Oct.)  30,  1718,  Joseph  Mendenhall,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Ann  (Pennel)  Mendenhall,  of  a  Wiltshire  family,  and  settled  in  Kennett; 
they  had  children,  Hannah,  Isaac,  Joseph.  Benjamin,  Ann.  Stephen  and  Jesse;  from 
the  eldest  son,  Isaac,  descend  the  Mendenhalls  of  Mendenhall,  still  seated  on  the  orig- 
inal tract  of  1000  acres,  purchased  by  their  emigrant  ancestor; 


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Lydia,  b.  ymo.  (Sept.)  11,  1698-9,  d.  lomo.  (Dec.)  2,  1750,  m.  gmo.  (Nov.)  15,  1722,  Will- 
iam Dean,  from  Tetbury,  Gloucestershire,  and  settled  in  Birmingham,  but  removed  to 
Wilmington,  Del.,  1749;  was  a  niuiister  among  Friends  for  twenty-two  years;  had 
children,  Isaac,  Caleb  and  Hannah; 

Thomas,  b.  smo.  (July)  23,  1700,  d.  lomo.  25,  1766,  m.  2mo.  12,  1728,  Rebecca  Menden- 
hall,  who  died  prior  to  1728,  when  he  removed  to  Phila.  and  m.  7mo.  26,  1728,  Hannah 
Knowles;  he  returned  to  Concord  in  1730,  again  to  Phila.,  1740;  back  to  Concord, 
1743;  to  Wilmington,  Del,  1746,  where  he  m.  (third)  smo.  ig,  1757,  Ann,  dau.  of 
Vincent  and  Betty  (Peirce)  Caldwell,  of  Chester  co. ; 

Ann,  b.  smo.  (July)  11,  1702,  d.  gmo.  15,  1759;  m.  lomo.  (Dec.)  31,  1724,  Joseph  Miller, 
son  of  John  and  Ann  Miller,  Irish  Quakers,  and  settled  in  New  Garden,  Chester  CO., 
Pa.;  had  children,  Joseph  and  Isaac;  m.  (second)  3mo.  (May)  10,  1739,  Richard  Hal- 
lett,  of  Newtown,  L.  I.,  a  minister  among  Friends,  and  had  by  him,  Thomas,  Lydia 
and  Israel; 

Joseph,  b.  Smo.  (Oct.)  21,  1703.  d.  i2mo.  31,  I7g2,  m.  lomo.  (Dec.)  17,  i72g,  Mary  Cald- 
well; of  whom  presently; 

Sarah,  b.  4mo.  (June)  2,  1706,  d.  6mo.  7.  1783,  in  Warrington  twp.,  York  co.,  Pa.,  and  is 
buried  at  the  Friends'  burying-ground  therf,  m.  gmo.  (Nov.)  28,  1730,  .it  Concord 
Meeting,  Peter  Cook,  of  London  Grove,  son  of  Peter  and  Eleanor  (Norman)  Cook, 
Quaker  emigrants  from  Northwich,  Cheshire,  1713;  Peter,  Jr.,  born  in  Northwich, 
lomo.  (Dec.)  4,  1700,  d.  in  Warrington,  York  co.,  Pa.,  4mo.  28,  I77g;  they  resided  on 
a  tract  of  land,  purchased  in  1720.  on  the  north  line  of  London  Gicve,  Chester  co., 
until  1745,  and  then  removed  to  Warrington,  and  became  members  of  the  Warrington 
Meeting.  They  had  seven  children,  Joseph,  Hannah,  Samuel,  Ann,  Jesse,  Sarah  and 
Peter.  Of  these  Samuel  Cook  (1733-1800)  was  the  ancestor  of  Lieut.  Allen  Merri- 
man  Cook,  U.  S.  N.,  and  of  George  D.  Cook,  of  New  York  Cilv:  Jesse  Cook  (1744- 
1818)  was  the  ancestor  of  the  late  William  H.  Cooke,  M.  D.,  of  Carlisle,  Pa.,  and  his 
sons,  Robert  Grier  Cooke,  of  New  York  City,  and  Morris  Llewellyn  Cooke,  of  Ger- 
mantown,  Phila. 

Henry  Cook  (1768-1835),  son  of  Jesse,  was  the  father  of  Jesse  Cook  (1801-1855), 
whose  daughter,  Sarah  A.  Cook,  married  John  T.  Myers,  of  "Kentmere  Lodge,"  Moy- 
lan,  Delaware  co..  Pa.,  and  had  four  children,  the  eldest  of  whom  is  Albert  Cook 
Myers,  author  of  "The  Immigration  of  Irish  Quakers  into  Pennsylvania,"  editor  of 
"Hannah  Logan's  Courtship,"  and  "Sally  Wister's  Journal;" 

George,  b.  2mo.  16,  1708,  d.  lomo.  15,  1773,  m.  2mo.  7,  1737,  Ruth,  dau.  of  Vincent  and 
Betty  (Peirce)  Caldwell,  (second)  4mo.  g,  1760,  Sarah  Woodward,  widow  of  Edward 
Woodward,  and  daughter  of  James  Sharpless;  by  the  first  marriage  he  had  three  chil- 
dren. Dr.  George  Gilpin;  Betty,  married  John  Dickinson,  and  Isaac  Glover  Gilpin, 
who  wrote  the  historical  narrative  of  the  family  previously  quoted,  and  who  inherited 
the  homestead,  and  spent  his  whole  life  there.  He  married  Hannah  Darlington  in 
I7g4  and  had  five  children,  George  Fox,  Thomas  C,  Ruth  C,  Hannah  Glover  and 
John  Dickinson  Gilpin.  The  last  named  succeeded  to  the  homestead  and  it  passed  to 
his  son,  Gideon  Gilpin,  who  sold  it  about  1868,  after  it  had  been  in  a  continuous  occu- 
pancy by  the  family  one  hundred  and  seventy-three  years.  Gideon  Gilpin  now  resides 
in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  Sarah,  dau.  of  John  Dickinson  Gilpin,  before  mentioned,  m.  John  B. 
Heyburn,  and  had  among  other  children  a  son,  Weldon  Brinton  Heyburn,  now  U.  S. 
Senator  from  Idaho,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Marshall,  of  Duluth,  Minn.,  who 
has  in  her  possession  ari  interesting  collection  of  Gilpin  heirlooms,  including  an  iron 
spiral  candle-holder  set  in  an  oaken  stand,  inscribed  with  the  date  "1686,"  which  was 
brought  to  America  by  Joseph  Gilpin  the  immigrant ; 

Isaac,  b.  imo.  (March)  23,  i7og-io,  d.  1745,  m.  Smo.  (Oct.)  21,  1736,  Mary  Painter,  who 
after  his  death  rn.  (second)  Benjamin  Way;  her  daughter  Hannah,  by  Isaac  Gilpin,  m. 
James  Bennett; 

Moses,  b.  imo.  (March)  8,  1711-12,  m.  gmo.  (Nov.)  10,  1742,  Thomas  Buffington,  of 
East  Cain,  and  in  1760  they  removed  from  Birmingham  to  Sadsbury,  Chester  co. ; 

Alice,  b.  lomo.  (Dec.)  7,  1714,  m.  2mo.  (April)  11,  1739,  Richard  Eavenson,  son  of 
Richard  and  Jemima  (Newlin)  Eavenson,  of  Thornbury,  Chester  co.,  and  settled  in 
Goshen;  their  children  were,  Esther,  Enoch,  Hannah,  Thomas  and  Isaac; 

Mary,  b.  iimo.  (Jan.)  16,  1716-17,  d.  4mo.  17,  1806,  m.  Smo.  (Oct.)  27,  1736,  Philip  Tay- 
lor, son  of  Philip  and  Ann  (Conway)  Taylor,  of  Thornbury,  and  had  children,  Philip, 
Stephen,  Hannah,  John,  Ann,  Phebe,  Lydia,  Mary,  Ruth  and  Rachel;  she  m.  (second) 
about  1768,  George  Strode,  of  East  Bradford; 

Esther,  b.  imo.  (March)  9,  1718-ig,  d.  imo.  10,  i7gs,  m.  6mo.  5.  1741,  Samuel  Painter, 
son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Bu.xcey)  Painter,  of  Birmingham,  and  had  seven  chil- 
dren. James,  George,  Joseph.  Samuel,  Thomas.  Hannah  and  Lydia;  from  James  de- 
scended Minshall  and  Jacob  Painter,  of  near  Lima.  Delaware  co.,  who  devoted  them- 
selves to  researches  in  local  and  family  history  and  botany;  they  planted  on  their 
estate  in  the  middle  of  that  last  century,  the  celebrated  arboretum,  which  contains  one 
of  the  largest  collections  of  plants  of  botanical  interest  to  be  found  in  the  country. 


4^8  GILPIN 

Samuel  Gilpin,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Glover)  Gilpin,  born  at 
Dorchester,  Oxfordshire,  England,  June  7,  1694,  came  with  his  parents  to  the 
banks  of  the  Brandywine,  in  Chester,  now  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  when 
a  little  more  than  a  year  old,  and  was  reared  in  the  cave  and  primitive  house  of 
his  parents  there.  On  January  25,  1722-3,  he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Doe)  Parker,  of  Philadelphia,  and  they  settled  on  a  farm  in  Concord  town- 
ship, Chester  county,  where  they  lived  for  ten  years,  and  then  removed  to  Cecil 
county,  Province  of  Maryland,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  December  6,  1767. 
His  wife  Jane  survived  him  until  August  9,  1775.  She  was  born  March  24,  1701-2. 
Both  are  buried  in  a  private  burying-ground  in  what  was  the  farm  of  their  son 
Joseph  Gilpin,  near  the  head  of  Elk  river. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Parker)  Gilpin: 

Mary,  of  whom  we  have  no  further  record; 

Joseph,  resided  near  the  "Head  of  the  Elk"  in  Cecil  CO.,  Md.;  though  a  Quaker  and  not 
willing  to  accept  military  office,  he  was  a  strong  supporter  of  the  cause  of  independ- 
ence and  filled  a  number  of  civil  offices,  and  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  community: 

Thomas,  b.  in  Concord,  Chester  co..  March  18.  1737-8.  d.  in  exile  in  \'a..  March  2.  1778: 
m.  Lydia  Fisher,  of  Phila.;  of  whom  later; 

Samuel,  Major  in  Maryland  troops  during  Revolution; 

Hannah ; 

Rachel; 

George,  removed  to  Fairfax  co.,  Va.,  was  a  Colonel  of  Militia  there  during  the  Revolu- 
tion ;  he  was  a  close  personal  friend  of  George  Washington,  and  was  one  of  his  pall- 
bearers. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Parker)  Gilpm,  born  in  Con- 
cord township,  Chester  county,  March  18,  1727-8,  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Cecil  county,  Maryland,  when  a  child  and  was  reared  to  agricultural  pursuits,  and 
on  coming  of  age  settled  on  a  farm  of  eighty  acres  on  the  banks  of  the  Susque- 
hanna, but  was  soon  after  adopted  by  his  uncle,  Thomas  Gilpin,  and  had  charge 
of  a  valuable  property  belonging  to  his  uncle  on  the  Brandywine,  near  Wilming- 
ton, containing  valuable  mill  sites  and  water  power,  which  he  later  inherited.  In 
1752  he  made  a  voyage  to  England  with  a  view  of  obtaining  information  in  regard 
to  its  trade  relations  with  the  Colonies  that  might  be  useful  to  him  in  entering  into 
a  commercial  business  which  he  had  begim  to  contemplate  in  connection  with  the 
development  of  the  property  on  the  Brandywine.  Landing  at  Dublin,  he  spent 
some  time  in  Ireland,  and  then  crossed  over  to  Whitehaven  and  visited  relatives 
in  that  and  other  parts  of  England.  He  visited  and  inspected  coal  and  iron  mines, 
potteries,  and  various  kinds  of  manufacturing  plants,  and  inade  a  careful  study  of 
the  state  and  mode  of  trade  at  the  chief  ports  of  export  and  import.  After  hav- 
ing visited  all  the  localities  connected  with  his  ancestors  he  returned  to  America, 
reaching  Chesapeake  bay,  October  3,  1753.  Shortly  after  his  return  he  established 
himself  in  business  near  the  head  of  tide  water  on  the  Chester  river,  eastern  shore 
of  Maryland,  where  the  present  town  of  Milhngton  was  begim  by  him,  and  wiiere 
he  carried  on  a  large  and  successful  business  as  a  wholesale  factor  and  shipper. 

In  1764  Thomas  Gilpin  married  Lydia,  born  May  4,  1736,  daughter  of  Joshua 
Eisher,  then  carrying  on  a  large  shipping  business  at  Philadelphia,  and  transferring 
the  active  management  of  his  Maryland  establishment  to  his  brother,  and  brother- 
in-law,  Miers  Fisher,  settled  permanently  in  Philadelphia,  and  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  nf  Joshua  Fisher  it  Sons  Comjiany.  tlie  leading  member  of  which  was  his 


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wife's  eldest  brother,  Thomas  Fisher.  Having  prospered  in  his  business  under- 
takings, and  being  possessed  of  ample  means  through  his  own  efforts  and  by  a 
considerable  inheritance  from  his  uncle,  he,  soon  after  locating  in  Philadelphia, 
began  to  take  an  active  interest  in  scientific  pursuits  and  the  development  of  the 
industrial  interests  of  his  native  country.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  took  an  active  interest  in  their  proceed- 
ings. Long  impressed  with  the  utility  of  a  canal  connecting  the  Delaware  and 
Chesapeake  bays,  he  devoted  himself  to  the  task  of  inducing  the  merchants  and 
capitalists  of  Philadelphia  to  undertake  its  accomplishment.  In  1768  he  made 
thorough  and  careful  surveys  and  levels  of  different  routes,  and  prepared  estimates 
of  probable  expense,  and  plans  of  construction,  sufficient  to  show  a  general  com- 
parison of  the  advantages  and  expediency  of  each  route,  which  he  laid  before  the 
Philosophical  Society  in  May,  1769,  at  the  instance  of  a  meeting  of  merchants  and 
traders  of  Philadelphia,  to  which  they  had  been  first  submitted.  The  Philosophical 
Society  appointed  a  committee  of  eight  of  its  members  to  verify  his  plans,  esti- 
mates and  suggestions,  who  made  their  report  thereon  February  16,  1770,  the  orig- 
inal of  which  is  still  in  existence.  This  was  the  first  real  system  of  internal  im- 
provement to  be  originated  and  carried  out  for  the  purposes  of  trade  by  the  re- 
sources of  the  Colonists  themselves,  and  though  Thomas  Gilpin  did  not  live  to  see 
it  completed,  the  project  originated  by  him  was  carried  to  a  successful  issue,  large- 
ly through  the  instrumentality  of  his  eldest  son. 

When  the  protest  of  the  Colonies  against  the  unjust  measures  of  the  mother 
country  reached  the  point  of  armed  resistance,  Thomas  Gilpin,  with  many  other 
influential  business  men  of  Philadelphia,  who  were  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  withdrew  themselves  entirely  from  the  contest,  refusing  to  take  any  part 
in  the  struggle.  Their  wealth  and  influence  made  them  objects  of  suspicion  to  the 
more  ardent  Patriots,  and  under  the  sanction  of  Congress,  the  Supreme  Executive 
Council  of  Pennsylvania  had  a  number  of  them  arrested  when  Philadelphia  was 
threatened  by  the  P.ritish  forces  in  1778,  and  transported  to  the  neighborhood  of 
Winchester,  Virginia,  where  Thomas  Gilpin  died  March  2,  1778,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Friends'  burying-ground  at  Winchester.  His  wife,  Lydia  Fisher,  survived 
him  twenty-nine  years,  dying  March  14,  1807. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Fisher)  Gilpin: 

Joshua,  b.  Nov.  8,  1765,  d.  Aug.  22,  1841,  m.  Mary  Dilworth;  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah,  b.  1767,  d.  1796; 

Thomas,  b.  1769,  d.  1774; 

Samuel,  b.  1772,  d.  1774; 

Thomas,  b.  Sept.  10,  1776,  d.  in  Phila.,  March  3,  1853,  educated  at  Friends'  schools  of 
Phila.,  and  showed  marked  ability  in  mathematics,  science,  and  penmanship;  he  was 
left  in  charge  of  the  commercial  establishment  in  Phila.,  and  the  Brandywine  mills,  at 
the  age  of  nineteen  years,  while  his  elder  brother  was  in  Europe,  and  became  his  part- 
ner on  his  return;  introduced  improved  process  for  making  of  paper  at  the  Brandy- 
wine  mills  as  well  as  cotton  and  wool  manufacturing;  devoted  much  time  in  later 
years  to  scientific  research,  and  literary  pursuits;  collected  papers  and  data  in  refer- 
ence to  the  banishment  of  the  Philadelphia  Friends  to  Virginia,  which  was  published 
in  1850;  he  was  a  member  of  a  number  of  scientific  institutions;  d.  unm.  in  his  seventy- 
seventh  year;  author  of  "Genealogy  of  the  Fisher  Family"  and  the  "Exiles  in  Vir- 
ginia." 

Joshua  Gilpin,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Fisher)  Gilpin,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, November  8,  1765.  received  the  best  education  the  city  could  afford.     He 


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was  particularly  fond  of  Latin  classics,  and  wrote  a  number  of  poems  and  essays 
before  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  The  death  of  his  father  placed  the  care  of  his 
mother  and  infant  brother,  together  with  the  administration  of  a  large  estate, 
upon  his  shoulders  at  an  early  age.  From  1784  to  1795  he  was  busily  engaged  in 
the  care  of  the  commercial  business  establishment  in  Philadelphia  by  his  father  and 
the  Brandywine  mills,  now  a  very  valuable  property.  He  associated  his  younger 
brother  with  him  at  a  very  early  age,  and  leaving  the  large  business  interests  in  his 
charge  in  1795.  made  an  extended  trip  to  Europe,  travelling  extensively  in  England, 
Scotland  and  Ireland,  and  spending  one  year  upon  the  Continent.  He  examined 
into  the  manufacture,  trade  and  industries  of  Europe,  and  collected  a  valuable 
cabinet  of  specimens  of  mineralogy.  Much  of  his  time  was,  however,  spent  in  the 
society  of  his  relatives,  and  friends  of  congenial  tastes,  Benjamin  West,  Rev. 
William  Gilpin,  Bishop  Wilberforce,  Lord  Stanhope,  and  many  others  of  high 
social  and  literary  standing.  He  married,  August  5,  1800,  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Dilworth,  a  banker  of  Lancaster,  England,  and  Sarah  his  wife,  born  in  Lancashire, 
April  22,  1777,  and  with  her  returned  to  Philadelphia,  early  in  1801.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  all  that  pertained  to  the  best  interest  of  the  city  of  his  birth  and  was 
connected  with  all  the  more  important  scientific,  literary  and  social  institutions  of 
Philadelphia.  Almost  immediately  after  his  return  from  Europe,  he  took  up  the 
canal  scheme  originated  by  his  father,  for  connecting  the  Delaware  and  Chesapeake 
bays,  but  the  commercial  interests  of  Philadelphia  being  somewhat  depressed  for 
a  number  of  years,  its  construction  was  delayed;  renewing  the  agitation  in  1S17. 
after  many  delays,  the  canal  was  finally  opened,  mainly  through  his  exertions  and 
influence.  Joshua  Gilpin  died  August  22.  1841,  in  his  seventy-fifth  year,  survived 
by  his  wife  and  seven  children.  His  wife  died  April  21,  1864. 
Issue  of  Joshua  and  Mary  (Dihvorth)  Gilpin: 

Henry  Dilworth,  b.  April  14,  1801,  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  i8ig;  studied  law  and  was 
adtnitted  to  the  Phila.  bar;  was  appointed  U.  S.  Attorney  for  Pa.,  1832;  solicitor  of  U. 
S.  Treasury,  1837;  Attorney  General  of  U.  S.,  1840-41;  Government  Director  of  U.  S. 
Bank.  1833-4:  President  of  Academy  of  Fine  Arts;  Vice-President  of  Historical  Soci- 
ety of  Pennsylvania;  edited  and  wrote  many  papers  for  the  ".Atlantic  Souvenir,"  1826- 
32;  the  first  literary  annual  published  in  America;  author  of  many  articles  on  politics, 
and  general  literature  in  "Democratic  Review"  and  "North  .American  Review,"  as 
well  as  of  numerous  biographies  of  prominent  public  men;  delivered  many  addresses 
before  scientific  literary  and  ssthetic  associations,  collected  a  large  and  valuable 
library  of  books  and  manuscripts  which  he  devised  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania, known  as  the  Gilpin  Library;  published  in  1841  a  volume  of  "Decisions  of 
United  States  Court  for  Eastern  Pennsylvania,"  and  two  volumes  octavo  of  "Opin- 
ions of  the  .Attorney  General  of  the  United  States;"  he  d.  Jan.  29,  i860. 

Hon.  Henry  Dilworth  Gilpin  m.  Eliza  Johnston,  widow  of  Judge  Josiah  S.  Johnston, 
of  La.,  and  dau.  of  the  eminent  surgeon.  Dr.  John  Sibley,  also  of  La.  After  his  mar- 
riage he  and  his  wife  travelled  extensively  in  foreign  parts  and  were  the  recipients  of 
hospitality  from  crowned  heads  and  princes.  During  President  Van  Buren's  adminis- 
tration, Mrs.  Gilpin  was  a  great  favorite  in  Washington  society;  they  left  no  issue: 

Sarah  Lydia,  b.  Aug.  21,  1802; 

Elizabeth,  b.  March  27,  1804.  d.  Jan.  13,  1892,  m.  June  7,  1841,  Mathew  Maury,  son  of 
James  Maury,  first  Consul  of  the  United  States,  at  Liverpool; 

Jane,  b.  Jan.  2,  1806,  d.  Feb.  18,  1806; 

Thomas  William,  b.  Dec.  30,  1806.  d.  Feb.  18,  1848,  unm. ;  was  many  years  United  States 
Consul  at  Belfast,  Ireland; 

Mary  Sophia,  b.  Aug.  23,  1810,  d.  May  20,  1889,  unm.; 

Richard  Arthington,  b.  Nov.  21,  1812,  d.  May  i,"?,  1887.  m.  .\ug.  5.  1854,  Mary  C.  Wat- 
mough,  of  Chester,  co..  Pa.,  and  their  daughter,  Brinka,  m.  Thomas  Lynch  Mont- 
gomery, State  Librarian  of  Pa. ; 

William,  b.  Oct.  4.  1814,  d.  Jan.,  1893,  in  Col.;  Cadet  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  July  I, 
1834;   Second   Lieutenant   U.   S.   Dragoons,  June  8,   1836;   First   Lieutenant,  Oct.   I9i 


1836;  served  in  Florida  and  Mexican  Wars;  was  appointed  Governor  of  the  Territory 
of  Col.  by  Lincoln,  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  keeping  that  territory  loyal  to  the 
Union;  m.  1876,  Mrs.  Julia  (Oratt)  Dickerson,  a  widow,  dau.  of  Gen.  Bernard  Pratt, 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  had  children,  Marie,  William  and  Louis  Vidal  Gilpin. 

Joseph  Gilpin,  eighth  child  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Glover)  Gilpin,  born  in 
Birmingham  township,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  March  21,  1703-4,  married, 
December  17,  1729,  Mary,  daughter  of  Vincent  and  Betty  (Peirce)  Caldwell,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  in  Birmingham  township.  There  they  resided  until  1761,  when 
they  removed  to  Christiana  Hundred,  near  Wilmington,  Delaware,  where  he  died 
December  31,  1792,  and  was  buried  at  Wilmington.  He  and  his  family  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Society  of  Friends ;  his  wife,  Mary,  being  appointed  an  elder  of  Con- 
cord Meeting,  8mo.  2,  1756,  Vincent  Caldwell,  father  of  Mrs.  Gilpin,  came  from 
Derbyshire  and  settled  in  East  Marlborough  township,  Chester  county.  His  wife, 
Betty  Peirce,  was  a  daughter  of  George  and  Ann  (Gainer)  Peirce,  who  came 
from  Winston,  Somersetshire,  1684,  and  settled  at  Thornbury,  Chester  county. 
George  Peirce,  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Gilpin,  was  a  member  of  Colonial 
Assembly  in  1706. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Caldwell)  Gilpin: 

Ruth,  b.  Dec.  23,  1730,  ni.  March  20,  1751,  Daniel  Stubbs,  and  had  twelve  children; 
Vincent,  b.  Dec.  8,  1732,  d.  Aug.  5,  1810,  m.  Abigail  Woodward;  of  whom  presently; 
Orpha,  b.  Sept.  15,  1734,  m.  Oct.  23,  1754,  Joseph  Shallcross    and  settled  in  Wilmington, 

Del.;  had  ten  children; 
Nun,  b.  Nov.  10,  1736,  d.  childhood; 
Gideon,  b.  Dec.  4,  1738,  d.  Aug.  20,  1825.  m.  Dec.  i.  1762,  Sarah  Gregg,  (second)  Nov.  11, 

1810.   Mrs.    Susanna    Hoopes ;    was   an    innkeeper   in    Birmingham,    Chester   co.,   near 

Chadds   Ford,  his  house  being  headquarters  of   Lafayette,  just   before  the  battle  of 

Brandywine;  the  Marquis,  when  visiting  the  scene  in  1825,  found  Gideon  on  his  death 

bed  and  greeted  him  affectionately;   Gideon  and  Sarah   (Gregg)   Gilpin  had  children, 

Bernard,  Samuel,  Alban,  Hannah,  Lydia,  Joseph  and  Ann ; 
Israel,  b.  Oct.  i,  1740,  d.  July  4,  1834,  m.  Jan.  12,  1765, ;  lived  at  the  old 

homestead  in  Birmingham  until  after  the  Revolution,  and  then  removed  to  Boone  co., 

Ky. ;  had  two  children; 
Betty,  b.  Oct.  3,  1742,  m.  Oct.  25.  1764,  at  Swedes'  Church,  Wilmington,  William  Cleaney; 

had  ten  children ; 
William,  b.  Nov.  i,  1744; 
Hannah,  b.  April  14,  1746,  d.  Dec.  4,  1823,  m.  Nov.  23,  1769,  at  Centre  Meeting.  New 

Castle  CO.,  John  Grubb;  had  seven  children; 
Joseph,  b.  March  23,  1748,  d.  1826;  m.  a  widow,  dau.  of  Capt.  Giles,  and  removed  to 

Boone  co.,  Ky.; 
Thomas,  b.   March  11,  1749-50,  d.   1802,  m.    (first)   at  Swedes'   Church,  Sept.   12,   1772, 

Lydia  Rice,   (second)   Aug.  29,  1777,  Sarah  Gray,   (third)    1802,  Sarah  Council;  had 

thirteen  children ; 
Mary,  b.   April   12,   1752,  d.   Dec.  3,   1821.  m.   Dec.    19,   1774.  at   Centre   Meeting,  Adam 

Williamson,  of  Brandywine  Hundred,  New  Castle  co.,  Del.,  and  had  eight  children. 

Vincent  Gilpin^  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Caldwell)  Gilpin,  born  in 
East  Marlborough  township,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  8,  1732, 
married,  December  6,  1758,  Abigail,  born  August  20,  1738,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Sarah  (Sharpless)  Woodward,  of  Middletown,  Chester  county,  and  settled 
soon  after  on  the  Brandywine,  above  Wilmington,  Delaware,  on  land  now  a  part 
of  the  Dupont  estate,  where  he  built  a  large  flour  mill,  and  operated  it  for  many 
years,  shipping  large  quantities  of  flour  to  the  West  Indies.  He  was  at  diff^erent 
times  part  owner  of  several  vessels  plying  between  the  Delaware  ports  and  the 
West  Indies,  one  of  them  the  bng  "Nancy,"  named  for  his  daughter  Ann,  is  said 
to  have  been  the  first  vessel  to  noist  the  American  flag  in  the  West  Indies.     She 


432  GILPIN 

was  eventually  chased  ashore  by  British  cruisers  and  blown  up.  \'incent  Gilpin 
was  in  the  habit  of  exchanging  a  portion  of  his  flour  in  the  West  Indies  for  pro- 
ducts of  those  islands,  which  he  disposed  of  in  this  country.  When  the  British 
forces  were  on  their  march  from  the  Chesapeake  to  Philadelphia.  1778,  he  had  a 
large  amount  of  molasses  and  rum  stored  at  Wilmington,  and  fearing  it  would  be 
seized  or  destroyed  by  the  British,  he  sent  it  up  to  the  old  Gilpin  homestead  in 
Birmingham,  then  occupied  by  his  brother  Israel,  and  thereby,  to  use  the  old  and 
homely  phrase,  transferred  it  "from  the  frying  pan  into  the  fire,"  as  the  old  home- 
stead became  the  headquarters  of  Gen.  Howe,  after  the  battle  of  Brandywine.  He 
died  at  Wilmington,  August  5,  1810,  and  his  wife  Abigail,  five  years  later,  Novem- 
ber 10,  181 5.  Abigail  Woodward,  wife  of  Vincent  Gilpin,  was  the  granddaughter 
of  James  Sharpless,  born  at  Hatherton,  Cheshire,  England,  March  5,  iCtjo-i.  who 
came  to  Pennsylvania  with  his  parents,  John  and  Jane  (JMoor)  Sharpless,  landing 
at  Chester,  August  14,  1682.  Her  mother,  Sarah  Sharpless,  born  March  27,  17 10, 
married  (first)  Edward  Woodward,  Jr.,  father  of  Mrs.  Gilpin,  and  (second) 
George  Gilpin,  uncle  to  Vincent,  of  Birmingham  township.  The  mother  of  Sarah 
(Sharpless)  Woodward  was  the  second  wife  of  James  Sharpless,  Alary,  born  in 
Glamorganshire.  Wales,  July  10,  1674,  daughter  of  Ralph  and  Mary  Lewis,  who 
came  to  Pennsylvania  with  John  Bevan,  1683,  and  located  first  in  Haverford,  re- 
moving soon  after  to  Upper  Darby.  Edward  Woodward,  Jr.,  father  of  Abigail 
(Woodward)  Gilpin,  born  December  27,  1707,  died  1746,  was  a  son  of  Edward  and 
Abigail  (Edge)  Woodward,  and  grandson  of  Richard  and  Jane  Woodward,  who 
settled  in  Thornbury,  Chester  county,  1687. 

Issue  of  J'inccut  and  Abigail  (H'oodward )  Gilpin: 

Edward,  b.  April  27,  1760,  d.  April  15,  1844,  m.  Lydia  Grubb;  of  whom  presently; 

Ann,  b.  Aug.  13,  1762,  d.  June  18,  1822,  m.  John  Ferris,  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  d.  s.  p.; 

Hannah,  b.  Dec.  27,  1764,  d.  unm.; 

William,  b.  April  3,  1767,  d.  Aug.  23,  1773; 

James,  b.  Jan.  11,  1769,  d.  Oct.  i,  1798.  m.  April  26.  1792,  Sarah  Littler;  was  a  miller 

near  Wilmington;  d.  of  yellow  fever; 
Aratus,  b.  Feb.  29,  1772,  d.  Sept.  25,  1773; 

William,  b.  Aug.  18,  1775,  d.  Dec.  2,  1843,  at  Byberry,  Philadelphia  co.,  m.  Nov.  21,  1796, 
Ann  Dunwoody,  of  Wilmington,  who  d.  at  Wilmington,  Feb.  i,  1840;  both  buried  in 
Friends'   Burial-Ground  at  Wilmington;  they  had  issue: 

Josiah  H.,  b.   Nov.  22,   1797,  d.  April   19,  184S.  near  Galena,  Kent  co.,  Md.;  m. 
April  5,  1825,  Martha  Turner  Moffett,  of  Kent  co.,  Md.,  m.  (second)  1841,  Sarah 
Forman ;  four  children  by  first  marriage ; 
Mary  Caldwell,  b.  Sept.  5,  1799,  d.  at  Wilmington,  Del.,  Nov.  13,  1884,  m.  Feb.  22. 

1838,  Lewis  Rumford,  whose  first  wife  was  Henrietta  M.  Grubb; 
James,  b.  Aug.  16,   1801,  lost  at  sea  in  1832; 

Edward  Woodward,  b.  July  13,  1803,  d.  April  29,  1876,  admitted  to  Delaware  bar, 
1828;  appointed  Attorney  General  of  Del.,  Feb.  12,  1840,  and  held  that  position 
ten  years;  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  Del.,  May  6,  1857,  and  filled  that  position 
until  his  death  at  Dover  in  1876,  while  holding  Court;  m.  March  15,  1842,  Elea- 
nora  Adelaide,  b.  in  Phila.,  May  2,  1813,  d.  at  Wilmington.  Nov.  16,  1874,  dau 
of  Daniel  and  Susan   (Beck)   Lammot; 
William  Aratus,  b.  July  13,  1805,  m.  Elizabeth  Brown; 
Henry  Latimer,  b.  July  15,  1807,  d.  Sept.  15.  1851,  m.  Elizabeth  Briscoe; 
Vincent  Caldwell,  b.  Aug.  29,  1810,  d.  Oct.  17,  1863,  m.  Ann  Kcnncy,  of  Phila.;  was 

sometime  Mayor  of  Wilmington,  Del.; 
Elizabeth  Ferris,  b.  Nov.  25,  1812,  d.  unm.; 
Lewis,  b.  July  19,  181 5,  d.  Jan.  17,  1840,  unm. 
Gertrude,  b.  Aug.   13,  1778,  m.  Oct.  23,  1799,  John  Smith,  of  Wilmington,  and  after  a 
residence  of  some  years  in  Wilmington,  where  eleven  children  were  born  to  them,  re- 
moved to  the  West. 


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Edward  Gilpin,  eldest  son  of  Vincent  and  Abigail  (Woodward)  Gilpin,  was 
born  near  Wilmington,  Delaware,  April  27,  1760.  He  was  reared  to  the  mercantile 
branch  of  his  father's  business,  and  as  a  very  young  man  made  voyages  to  the  West 
Indies,  to  dispose  of  flour  and  other  products ;  on  one  of  these  voyages  he  was 
captured  by  a  French  privateer,  carried  to  Basseterre,  Island  of  Gaudaloupe, 
French  West  Indies,  and  kept  a  prisoner  there  for  some  time.  After  the  death 
of  his  wife,  Edward  Gilpin  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  two  of  his  sens  had 
located,  and  died  there  April  15,  1844.  He  married  at  Wilmington,  Delaware, 
November  22,  1788,  Lydia,  born  July  21,  1766,  died  May  3,  1831.  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Lydia  (Baker)  Grubb. 

Issue  of  Edward  and  Lydia  (Grubb)  Gilpin: 

Ann  F.,  b.  May  23,  1791,  d.  March  21,  1871,  m.  Sept.  i,  1812,  John  Hirons,  Jr.; 
John  F.,  b.  March  23,  1793,  d.  inf.; 

Vincent,  b.  Jan.  29,  1795.  d.  Jan.  7,  1866,  m.  Nov.  14,  1822,  Naomi  Robinson; 
John  Ferris,  b.  Nov.  11,  1796,  m.  (first)   Nov.  23,  1820,  Mary,  dau.  of  Capt.  Samuel  and 
Mary   (Shallcross)    Levering,  of  Wilmington,   (second)   June  12,   1833,  Anna  Gilling- 
ham,  b.  in  Phila.,  Dec.  5,  1807,  d.  there  July  21,  1869;  in  1836  John  F.  Gilpin  and  his 
second  wife  removed  to  Phila.,  and  resided  at  312  So.  Broad  street.;  they  had  issue: 
Rebecca  Harrold,  b.  March  21,  1834,  m.  Jan.  24,  1856,  Fairman  Rogers; 
George,  b.  in  Phila.,  Dec.  21,  1838,  m.  Dec.  3,  1872,  Sarah  C.  Winston,  of  New 
York  City,  and  had  issue :     Anna  Gillingham  Gilpin,  b.  May  27,  1874. 
Abigail,  b.  Oct.  21,  1798,  d.  Wilmington,  Del,,  May  24,  1859,  m.  Sept.  3,  1820,  Richard 
Campion  Woolworth,  a  manufacturer  of  jewelry  in   Phila.,  born  at   Long  Meadow, 
Mass.,  d.  in  Phila.,  Oct.  13,  1838;  had  issue: 

Richard  Hobson  Woolworth,  b.  in  Phila.,  Oct.  22,  1824,  was  with  Edward  S. 
Whelen  &  Co.,  bankers,  until  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  when  he  entered 
the  service  of  the  U.  S.;  was  Colonel  of  Fourth  Penna.  Reserves,  and  made 
Brevet  Brigadier  Genera!  for  gallant  and  meritorious  services;  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Cloyd's  Mountain,  Va.,  May  9,  1864;  m.  Ellen  Mofifett; 
Anna  Amelia  Woolworth,  of  336  So.  Thirteenth  street,  Phila.,  b.  Phila.,  Dec.  4, 
1826. 
James,  b.  Oct.  5,  1800,  d.  inf.; 

Lydia  Zane,  b.  Feb.  15,  1802,  m.  (first)  Nov.  11,  1820,  John  Dickinson  Vaughan,  Attor- 
ney at  Law,  and  in  1827  removed  with  him  to  Richmond,  Ind.,  m.  there  (second)  Dec. 
28,  1854,  Henry  Hoover; 
Richard  Baker,  b.  April  12,  1804,  d.  at  McKeesport,  Pa.,  Jan.  14,  1871,  m.  (first)  Ann 
Reily  Porter,  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  (second)  Hannah  Miller  Ellicott,  of  EUicot  City, 
Md.; 
Charles,  b.  Nov.  17,  1809,  of  whom  presently. 

Charles  Gilpin,  youngest  child  of  Edward  and  Lydia  (Grubb)  Gilpin,  born  at 
Wilinington,  Delaware,  November  17,  1809,  was  educated  at  the  Germantown 
Academy,  Philadelphia,  and  studied  law  with  Joseph  Ingersoll,  Esq.,  one  of  Phila- 
delphia's most  celebrated  lawyers ;  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar  in  1834, 
and  practiced  law  there  for  half  a  century.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Coun- 
cil of  that  city  in  1839,  and  to  the  Select  Council,  1840,  where  he  served  for  nine 
years ;  was  elected  Mayor  in  1850,  and  filled  that  office  for  three  years.  He  was 
appointed  Solicitor  to  the  Sheriff  in  1858,  and  filled  that  position,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  two  terms,  until  1883;  was  United  States  Attorney  for  the  Eastern  District 
of  Pennsylvania,  1864-68,  and  Supervisor  of  Elections  for  the  same  district.  His 
office  and  residence  was  for  many  years  at  709  Walnut  street,  and  his  later  resi- 
dence 336  South  Thirteenth  street.  He  married,  April  5,  1843,  Sarah  Hamilton, 
born  at  "Bessie  Bell  Farm,"  Limerick  township,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsyl- 


434  GILPIN 

vania,  April   17,  1815,  daughter  of  John  McClellan  and  Elizabeth   (Forepaugh) 
Hood,  of  Race  street,  Philadelphia,  and  "Bessie  Bell  Farm,"  their  country  seat. 
Issue  of  Charles  and  Sarah  H.  (Hood)  Gilpin: 

Washington  Hood  Gilpin,  of  Phila.  bar,  b.  at  709  Walnut  street,  Phila.,  Feb.  2,  1844, 

m.  Nov.  16,  1873,  Louisa  Baldwin  Clayton;  of  whom  presently; 
Charles  Gilpin,  b.  Dec.  14,  1845,  ni-  April  25,  1871,  Ida  Robinson  Davis,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.; 

they  reside  in  Phila.; 
Lydia  Gilpin,  b.  July  17,  1849,  m.  Oct.  11,  1873,  at  Cavalry  Church,  Phila.,  her  cousin, 
Frederick  Morton  Gilpin,  b.  in  New  York  City,  Jan.  7,  1846,  son  of  Samuel  S.  and 
I  Elizabeth  (Morton)   Gilpin,  and  grandson  of  James  and  Sarah  (Littler)  Gilpin,  above 

mentioned;  Frederick  M.  Gilpin  was  a  midshipman  of  U.  S.  N..  1862-4,  and  an  officer 
in  the  merchant  service,  1864-9;  later  abandoned  the  sea  and  resided  in  Phila.;  issue: 
Morton,  b.  Sept.  22,  1874,  d.  Jan.  30,  1876,  m.  Ella  K.  Ruff,  Sept.  12,  1888; 
Alice,  b.  Sept.  18,  1875. 
Henry  Dilworth,  b.  July  17.  1851; 

Hood.  b.   Oct.   19,   1853,  member  of   Phila.   bar.   Assistant   U.   S.   Attorney   for   Eastern 
District  of   Pennsylvania,   1875;  m.   Oct.  31,   1882,   Emily  Olivia,  dau.  of   Oliver  and 
Eliza   (Swaim)   Hopkinson,  of  Phila.;  they  have  issue: 
Francis  Hopkinson,  b.  Aug.  3,  1883; 
Gabriella,  b.  March  4,  1885; 
Hood,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1891. 
Bernard,  b.  Dec.  22,  1856,  member  of  Phila.  bar,  m.  Feb.  26,  1884,  Clara  K.,  dau.  of  Peter 
C.  and  Hannah  (Naylor)  HoUis,  (second)  Aug.  23,  1899,  Florence  Fox;  had  issue  by 
first  marriage : 

Hannah  Hollis  Gilpin,  b.  July  20,  1885,  m.  Feb.  I,  1907,  Ernest  L.  Brantigan; 
Clara  HoUis  Gilpin,  b.  Jan.  17,  1889. 
By  second  marriage: 

Florence  Gilpin,  b.  April  29,  1903- 

Washington  Hood  Gilpin,  eldest  son  of  Charles  and  Sarah  Hamilton  (Hood) 
Gilpin,  born  at  (present  number)  709  Walnut  street,  Philadelphia,  February  2, 
1844,  was  educated  at  private  schools  of  Philadelphia  and  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  graduating  at  the  latter  institution  in  1864.  He  studied  law  under 
his  father,  Charles  Gilpin,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar,  1866,  and  has 
since  practiced  his  profession  in  that  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
and  of  the  Rittenhouse  Club. 

Mr.  Gilpin  married,  October  16,  1873,  Louisa  Baldwin,  born  at  717  Walnut 
street,  Philadelphia,  October  4,  1853.  daughter  of  John  Clayton,  of  Philadelphia, 
by  his  wife,  .Anna  Baldwin  Colton,  a  niece  and  adopted  daughter  of  Matthias  W. 
Baldwin,  the  well-known  locomotive  builder  of  Philadelphia.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gilpin 
resided  for  some  years  at  2026  De  Lancey  place,  Philadelphia,  where  their  chiUlren 
were  born ;  in  the  fall  of  1890  they  removed  to  their  present  residence  at  2004  De 
Lancey  place. 

Issue  of  Washington  Hood  and  Louisa  Baldz^nn  (Clayton)  Gilti>i: 

Louisa  Clayton  Gilpin,  b.  Nov.  21.  1876,  m.   Nov.  2,  1905,  Israel  Wistar  Morris,  son  of 

Dr.  J.  Cheston  and  Mary  E.   (Johnson)   Morris; 
Charles  Gilpin,  3d.,  b.  Oct.  7,  1878,  m.  April  23,  1903,  Frederica,  youngest  dau.  of  the 

late  Charles  F.  Beriund,  dec,  by  his  wife  .'\nita  Hickman;  they  have  issue: 
Charles   Beriund  Gilpin,  b.  March  3,   1904. 
John  Clayton  Gilpin,  b.  May  8.  1881; 

Washington  Hood  Gilpin,  b.  March  25,  1883,  d.  June  9,  1884; 
George  Gilpin,  Jr.,  b.  March  20,  1885; 
Sarah  Hood  Gilpin,  b.  July  8,  1887; 
Anna  Baldwin  Gilpin,  b.   Dec.  30,  1889. 


SHOEMAKER  FAMILY. 

The  Pennsylvania  family  of  Shoemaker  is  of  pure  German  origin,  the  name 
being  anglicised  from  Schumacker  and  Schoonmacker.  The  earliest  record  we 
have  of  the  family  begins  at  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when 
several  of  the  name  were  residents  of  the  little  rural  village  of  Kriegsheim,  Upper 
Rhine,  some  thirty  miles  from  Worms  in  the  midst  of  the  fertile  valley  of  the 
Palatinate.  They  were  among  the  early  disciples  of  Menno  Simon  until  about 
1659,  when  William  Ames  and  George  Rolfe  went  to  Kriegsheim  to  preach  the 
doctrines  of  George  Fox,  after  visiting  a  few  small  meetings  of  Friends  in  Hol- 
land, established  some  years  previously  by  a  colony  of  English  Friends,  whom  the 
chances  of  misfortune  had  planted  on  the  soil  of  the  Low  Countries.  Arrested  in 
their  native  country  for  holding  non-conformist  meetings,  they  were  sentenced  to 
exile  in  the  English  Colonies  of  the  West  Indies,  and  placed  upon  an  English 
vessel  to  be  transported  thither,  but  their  ship  being  captured  by  a  Dutch  privateer, 
they  were  landed  in  Holland,  where  they  soon  after  established  meetings,  which 
were  visited  by  George  Fox,  and  new  converts  added  to  their  flock.  Among  the 
converts  of  Ames  and  Rolfe  at  Kriegsheim  were  Peter  and  George  Schumacker, 
both  of  whom  suffered  persecution  for  "Truth's  sake"  as  recorded  in  "Basse's 
Sufferings  of  Quakers."  Peter  Schumacker  had  two  cows  distrained  in  1663  for 
the  payment  of  fines  imposed  for  non-support  of  the  established  church,  and  in 
the  same  year  his  brother  George  also  had  goods  distrained  to  a  considerable 
amount. 

William  Penn  visited  Kriegsheim  early  in  1682,  and  induced  a  number  of  Pala- 
tinates, both  Mennonists  and  Friends,  to  found  a  colony  in  his  new  Province  of 
Pennsylvania.  As  a  result  of  this  visit,  three  of  the  family  of  Schumacker, 
Jacob,  Peter  and  George,  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  at  different  periods.  The 
first  Jacob,  supposed  to  be  a  brother  to  Peter  and  George,  sailed  from  Gravesend, 
June  6,  1682,  and  arrived  in  Philadelphia,  August  16,  following.  He  eventually 
settled  in  Germantown,  where  he  was  Sheriff  in  1690.  He  had  children,  George, 
Thomas,  Susanna  and  Jacob,  whose  descendants  are  now  widely  scattered  over 
the  United  States  and  Canada.  Peter  Schumacker  sailed  for  Pennsylvania  in  the 
"Francis  and  Dorothy,"  from  London,  October  16,  1685,  with  his  son  Peter  and 
daughters,  Mary,  Frances  and  Gertrude,  and  his  niece  ("Cousin")  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  his  brother  George.  Both  he  and  his  son  Peter  Jr.  were  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  Germantown,  and  the  latter  has  many  descendants  in  Bucks  and  Mont- 
gomery counties  and  elsewhere. 

George  Shoemaker,  third  of  the  Kriegsheim  family  to  emigrate,  was  married 
at  Heidelberg,  Germany,  1662,  and  lived  at  Kriegsheim  until  1686,  where  nine 
children  were  born  to  him.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  suf- 
fered persecution  for  his  religious  convictions  at  various  periods  between  1663 
and  1686  as  before  recited.  With  his  wife  Sarah  and  children,  George,  Abraham, 
Barbara,  Isaac,  Susanna,  Elizabeth  and  Benjamin,  he  sailed  on  the  ship  "Jeffries" 
for  Philadelphia,  but  died  on  the  passage,  his  family  arriving  in  Philadelphia, 
March   20,    1685-6.      His    widow    Sarah    purchased,    February   29,    1686-7,    two 


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hundred  acres  in  Cheltenham  township,  near  the  present  town  of  Ogontz,  long 
known  as  Shoemakertown,  Philadelphia,  (now  Montgomery)  county.  The  time 
intervening  between  her  arrival  and  the  date  of  the  purchase  being  probably  spent 
with  relatives  in  or  near  Germantown,  where  her  third  son  Isaac  remained,  on  her 
removal  with  the  remainder  of  the  family  to  Cheltenham.  On  September  28.  170S, 
she  conveyed  to  her  eldest  son,  George  Shoemaker,  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
the  homestead,  and  a  few  years  later  conveyed  the  balance,  forty  acres,  to  her 
daughter  Sarah,  who  had  married  Edward  Eaton,  of  Abington.  The  family 
were  members  of  the  meeting  known  for  a  time  as  Cheltenham  Meeting,  held  some 
time  in  the  house  of  Richard  Wall,  at  Shoemakertown,  which  became  the  home  of 
the  Shoemaker  family  in  1700  and  was  occupied  by  them  for  many  generations. 
The  meeting  was  later  removed  to  Abington  township,  and  is  known  as  Abington 
Meeting. 

Issue  of  George  and  Sarah  Shoemaker: 

George,  b.  in  Kriegshcim.  Germany.  1663:  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah,  b.  about  1665;  accompanied  her  uncle,  Peter  Shoemaker,  to  Pa..  16S5;  m.  Jan.  18, 

1688-9,  Edward  Eaton,  and  resided  on  a  portion  of  the  Cheltenham  homestead; 
Barbara,  b.  at  Kriegsheim,  1666;  no  further  record; 
Abraham,  b.  1667,  at  Kriegsheim;  accompanied  his  parents  to  Pa.,  and  is  said  to  have  d. 

unm.; 
Isaac,  b.  at  Kriegsheim,  1669;  d.  at  Germantown,  April  12,  1732;  m.  Sarah  Hendricks; 

of  whom  later; 
Susanna,  b.   1673;   m.   March  4,   1696-7,   Isaac   Price,  of  whom  and  her   descendant.";  an 

account  is  given  in  this  volume ; 
Elizabeth,  accompanied  her  mother  to  Pa.  in  1686,  at  the  age  of  eleven  years;  no  further 

record; 
Benjamin,  accompanied  his  mother  to  Pa.  in  1686,  at  age  of  ten  years;  no  further  record. 

George  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  George  and  Sarah  Shoemaker,  born  at 
Kriegsheim,  according  to  the  record  of  the  arrival  of  the  family  in  Philadelphia, 
March  20,  1686,  was  then  twenty-three  years  of  age.  He  probably  resided  with 
his  mother  and  her  other  children  en  the  plantation  purchased  by  her  in  Chelten- 
ham until  after  the  death  of  his  wife's  grandfather,  Richard  Wall,  1698.  He 
became  the  owner  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  the  home  plantation  in  1708, 
and  greatly  improved  it.  He  had  also  previously  purchased  one  hundred  acres  of 
land  of  Toby  Leech.  He  married,  February  14,  1694-5,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard Wall  Jr.,  by  his  wife  Rachel,  and  granddaughter  of  Richard  and  Joane 
(Wheel)  Wall,  who  had  come  from  Gloucestershire,  England,  1682,  bringing  a 
certificate  from  the  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  the  house  of  Edward  Edwards, 
at  Stokes  Orchard,  county  Gloucester,  dated  4mo.  26,  1682,  which  was  accepted 
by  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  lomo.,  1682.  Richard  Wall  purchased  six 
hundred  acres  of  land  in  Cheltenham  township,  extending  across  the  township, 
from  Abington  township  on  the  east  to  Bristol  township  on  the  west,  and 
including  the  site  of  Shoemakertown ;  the  house  erected  by  him  is  said  to  form 
a  portion  of  the  present  house  of  Joseph  Bosler  in  Ogontz.  The  earliest  Friends 
Meeting  in  that  section  was  held  there.  His  son,  Richard  Wall,  Jr..  purchased 
one  hundred  acres  of  the  homestead,  but  died  April  8.  1689.  leaving  an  only  child 
Sarah,  who  became  wife  of  George  Shoemaker.  Richard  Wall  Sr.  died  March  26, 
i6g8,  and  by  will  dated  March  15,  1697-8,  devised  his  whole  estate,  except  six 
acres  of  land  devised  to  Cheltenham  Meeting  for  a  burying-ground,  to  his  grand- 


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daughter,  Sarah  Shoemaker,  subject  to  a  life  estate  to  his  wife  Joane.  The  latter 
died  February  2,  1701-2,  and  the  whole  estate  vested  in  the  Shoemaker  family. 
George  Shoemaker  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  by  the  Pennsylvania 
Assembly  to  lay  out  the  York  road,  from  Philadelphia  to  Howell's  and  Reading's 
ferry  on  the  Delaware  in  171 1.  He  erected  and  operated  a  tannery  at  Shoemaker- 
town,  and  was  one  of  the  largest  landowners  in  Cheltenham  township.  Some  of 
his  children  were  educated  at  Francis  Daniel  Pastorius'  famous  school  at  German- 
town.  His  wife  Sarah  died,  and  he  married,  about  171 1,  Christiana  Brown,  who 
survived  him.  George  Shoemaker  died  intestate  and  letters  of  administration 
were  granted  on  his  estate,  July  7,  1740. 

Issue  of  George  and  Sarah  (Wall)  Shoemaker : 

Abraham,  b.  July  15,  1697;  m.  Amelia  Levering;  of  whom  presently; 

Isaac,  b.  Oct.  23,  1700;  d.  Oct.  23.  1741 ;  m.  Dorothy  Penrose,  who  after  his  death  erected 
the  mill  at  Shoemakertown.  known  for  a  century  as  Shoemaker's  Mills,  of  which  an 
account  is  given  later  in  this  narrative; 

Jacob,  b.  Dec.  16,  1703;  m.  Margaret  Conrad,  and  settled  in  Plymouth  twp.,  Mont- 
gomery CO. ; 

George,  b.  1705;  d.  Jan.  28,  1776;  m.  Grace  White:  settled  in  Warrington  twp.,  Bucks  co., 
where  he  d.  leaving  three  sons  and  five  daughters; 

Richard,  b.  April  26,  1707;  d.  Jan.  24,  1790;  m.  Agnes  Cleaver,  and  was  a  farmer  in 
Horsham  twp.; 

Elizabeth,  m.  James  Delaplaine. 

Issue  of  George  and  Christiana  (Brozvn)  Shoemaker: 

Catharine,  b.  1712;  m.  May  15,  1745,  William  Thompson; 

Sarah,  d.  Dec.  13,  1758;  m.  March  17,  1736,  Anthony  Williams,  of  Bristol  twp.,  Phila- 
delphia CO.; 

Barbara,  d.  Nov.  10,  1812;  m.  April  20,  1736,  John  Roberts,  of  Oxford,  Philadelphia  co. ; 

Susan,  d.  Feb.  13,  1780;  m.  Sept.  15,  1740,  Joseph  Phipps,  of  Abington; 

Arnold,  d.  July  14,  1775;  unm.;  in  Phila.; 

Mary,  d.  July  6,  1762;  m.  Nov.  18,  1746,  Thomas  Livezey; 

Samuel,  b.  March  17,  1725;  d.  in  Moreland,  March  19,  1818;  m.  at  Byberry  Meeting, 
April  24,  1754,  Agnes  Comly,  b.  April  20,  1732,  d.  s.  p..  July  23,  1822. 

Abraham  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  George  and  Sarah  (Wall)  Shoemaker, 
born  in  Cheltenham,  Philadelphia  county,  July  15,  1697,  died  in  Bristol  township, 
Philadelphia  county,  October,  1753.  He  married,  March  26,  1722,  Amelia.,  daughter 
of  William  and  Catharine  Levering, of  Roxborough,  Philadelphia.  William  Levering 
was  born  at  Muhlheim.  Germany,  May  4,  1679,  son  of  John  Wigard  Levering, 
who  married,  in  1674,  Magdalene  Boker,  and  grandson  of  Rosier  Levering,  a 
native  of  England,  of  Norman  ancestry,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Van  de  Wall,  a 
native  of  Wesel,  Germany.  Abraham  Shoemaker  was  a  farmer  in  Bristol  town- 
ship, and  a  member  of  Abington  Friends  Meeting,  of  which  he  was  an  overseer, 
and  its  representative  in  the  Quarterly  and  Yearly  Meetings  for  a  number  of 
years.  His  will  was  dated  September  21,  1753,  and  probated  at  Philadelphia, 
October  11,  1753. 

Issue  of  Abraham  and  Amelia   (Levering)   Shoemaker : 

William,  b.  1722;  d.  May  8,  1804;  m.  Oct.  25,  1752,  Susanna  Richardson,  (second)  Han- 
nah Tomkins;  of  whom  presently; 

George,  a  farmer  in  Cheltenham,  d.  Dec.  14,  1798;  m.  Feb.  25,  1754,  Martha  Livezey,  and 
had  issue; 


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Benjamin,  b.  1727;  d.  March  16,  1811;  m.  Mary  Comly;  of  whom  presently; 

Abraham,  a  farmer  and  later  a  storekeeper,  d.  in  Germantown,  1767;  m.  June  3,  1762, 

Lydia,  dau.  of  Abraham  Dawes,  of  VVhitpain; 
Sarah,  m.  (first)  Jan.  30,  1742,  Daniel  Pastorius,  grandson  of  Francis  Daniel  Pastorius, 

the  "sage  of  Germantown."   (second)   Daniel  Macknett;  d.   1795; 
Catharine,  d.  unm. 

William  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  Abraham  and  Amelia  (Levering)  Shoe- 
maker, bom  1722,  Bristol  township,  Philadelphia  county,  married  (first)  at 
Abington  Friends  Meeting,  October  25,  1752,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Aubrey  and 
Margaret  Richardson,  of  Cheltenham,  granddaughter  of  Joseph  Richardson,  of 
Oleithgo,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Bevan,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Samuel  Rich- 
ardson, Provincial  Councillor.  She  died  June  22,  1782.  and  he  married  (second) 
July  9,  1795,  at  Abington  Friends  Meeting,  Hannah  Tomkins,  a  widow,  by  whom 
he  had  no  issue.  He  died  May  8.  1804,  in  his  eighty-second  year. 
Issue  of  JVaiiaiii  and  Susanna  (Richardson)  Shoemaker: 

Abraham,  b.  Dec.  3,  1753;  m.  Deborah  Musgrave;  of  whom  presently; 

Daniel,  b.  Dec.  1 1,  1755;  was  for  a  time  a  merchant  in  Phila..  later  removed  to  Logans- 
port.  Ind.;  d.  there,  Dec.  4,  1830;  m.  Anna  Martha  Scott,  of  Phila.; 

Jesse,  September  15,  1757;  was  engaged  in  lumber  business  at  "High  Bridge,"  Delaware 
river;  m.  Charlotte  Gibbs; 

Sarah,  b.  Jan.  11,  1760;  d.  unm.; 

William,  b.  Sept.  8,  1761  ;  merchant  at  Chester;  d.  there  April  i,  1838;  m.  Sarah  Miers 
Bowman; 

Lydia,  b.  March  l,  1763;  d.  at  Stroudsburg,  Pa.,  June  15,  1849;  unm.; 

Joseph,  b.  Jan.  20,  1765;  d.  in  Phila.,  Sept.  21,  1829;  m.  Mary  Priest,  of  Phila.; 

Susanna,  b.  July  5,  1769;  m.  Malachai  Fisher; 

Malachai,  b.  Jan.  5,  1772;  m.  Schaeffer;  d.  s.  p.; 

Elizabeth,  b.  June  15,  1774;  m.  Daniel  Stroud,  son  of  Capt.  John  Stroud,  of  Stroudsburg, 
Pa.; 

Mary,  b.  Feb.  10,  1775;  m.  James  Updegraff. 

Abraham  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Susanna  (Richardson)  Shoe- 
maker, born  in  Cheltenham  township,  December  3,  1753,  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
before  coming  of  age,  taking  a  certificate  from  Abington  to  Philadelphia  Meet- 
ing, dated  February  24,  1772.  He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadel- 
phia bar,  and  practiced  his  profession  and  that  of  conveyancing,  with  office  at 
124  South  Fourth  street.  He  was  a  witness  to  the  will  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin. 
He  was  commissioned  an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Philadelphia  Courts,  1803,  and 
held  that  office  until  his  death.  May  27,  1818.  He  married,  at  Christ  (Thurch, 
March  3,  1780,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Esther  (Bennet)  Musgrave. 
born  April  23,  1762. 

Issue  of  Abraham  and  Deborah  (Mxtsgrave)  Shoemaker: 

Joseph,  b.  1781;  d.  Sept.  27,  1798; 

Susan,  b.  1782;  m.  Fishboume  Wharton; 

Deborah,  b.  Dec.  18,  1783;  m.  William  M.  Wharton; 

Abraham,  Jr.,  b.  1785;  d.  Nov.  i,  1832;  member  of  Phila.  bar,  and  succeeded  his  father 

as  Associate  Justice,  1818;   m.  by  Mayor   Wharton,  Jan.    14,   1823,  Hannah  Huddel; 

d.  s.  p.; 
William  Wall,  b.  1788;  d.  Oct.  20,  1794; 
Esther  M.,  b.  Jan.  12,  1701;  m.  Louis  C.  \'anuxera; 
Lewis,  b.  1793;  m.  Elizabeth  .Mien; 
Francis,  b.  1796;  m.  1825,  Maria  Stokes; 


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Henry,  b.   1798;  d.  July  14,  1839;  admitted  to  Phila.  bar,  July  20,  1819;  commissioned 

Clerk  of  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions,  Dec.  2,  1823; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.,  1800:  d.  1876;  unm. ; 

Mary  Ann,  b.  1804;  became  second  wife  of  Fishbourne  Wharton; 
Josephine,  b.  1805:  d.  July  6,  1805. 

Benj.-\min  Shoemaker,  third  son  of  Abraham  and  AmeHa  (Levering)  Shoe- 
maker, born  in  Bristol  township,  Philadelphia  county,  1727,  inherited  from  his 
father  one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Cheltenham,  part  of  the  tract  purchased  by 
his  great-grandmother,  Sarah  Shoemaker,  1686,  lying  on  the  York  road  at  the 
intersection  of  Grave  Yard  lane,  and  lived  there  until  his  death,  March  16,  181 1, 
aged  eighty-four  years.  He  married  at  Christ  Church,  December  29,  1753.  Mary, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Cadwalader)  Comly,  granddaughter  of  Henry  and 
Agnes  (Heaton)  Comly,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Henry  and  Joane  Comly, 
who  emigrated  from  Bedminster,  near  Bristol,  England,  1692,  and  settled  in 
Warminster,  Bucks  county.  Also  great-granddaughter  of  Robert  and  Alice 
Heaton,  who  settled  in  Middletown,  Bucks  county,  at  about  the  same  date.  Henry 
Comly  was  born  at  Bedminster,  England,  and  died  in  Moreland,  Philadelphia 
(now  Montgomery)  county,  March  16,  1727,  aged  fifty-three  years.  His  wife, 
Agnes  Heaton,  whom  he  married  at  Middletown  Meeting,  Bucks  county,  October 
17,  1695,  was  born  February  9,  1677,  died  December  30,  1743.  Their  son  Robert 
was  born  June  12,  1704,  in  Byberry,  Philadelphia  county,  died  in  Horsham  town- 
ship, March,  1770;  he  married  at  Horsham  Meeting,  November  27,  1727,  Jane 
Cadwalader,  who  was  for  many  years  an  accepted  preacher  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  She  was  a  descendant  of  John  Cadwalader,  an  early  Welsh  settler  in 
Warminster,  who  was  a  very  eminent  minister  among  Friends.  Robert  and  Jane 
(Cadwalader)  Comly  had  six  children;  Robert,  married  Sarah  Jones;  Agnes, 
married  Samuel  Shoemaker ;  Jane,  married  Nathan  Lukens ;  Grace,  married 
Isaac  Parry;  Martha,  married  David  Parry;  Mary,  married  Benjamin  Shoemaker. 
Mary  died  March  17,  1793. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Comly)  Shoemaker : 

Levi,  b.  Jan.  6,  1754;  d.  y. ; 

Robert,  b.  Dec.  29,  1754;  m.  Martha  Leech;  of  whom  presently; 

Nathan,  b.  July  6,  1756;  a  tanner;  m.  Sarah  Miller,  and  had  seven  children; 

Abraham,  b.  Nov.  10,  1757;  d.  y.; 

Benjamin,  b.  Sept.  10,  1759;  m.  Jane  Allen,  of  Falls,  Bucks  co. ; 

Amy,  b.  May  6,  1761 ;  m.  Benjamin  Harper,  and  had  one  child; 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  i,  1763;  m.  Thomas  Shoemaker,  a  grandson  of  Isaac  and  Dorothy; 

Samuel,  b.  Dec,  1765;  d.  in  Phila.,  1793;  unm.; 

Eli,  b.  July  25,  1766;  a  merchant  in  Phila.;  d.  March  9,  1798;  m.  Rachel,  dau.  of  Henry 

and  Rachel  (Strickland)   Comly,  of  Byberry; 
Jane,  b.  Oct.  30,  1768;  m.  June  30,  1798,  Anthony  Hallowell; 
Jacob,  b.  Aug.  4,  1770;  d.  y.; 
Rebecca,  b.  Dec.  16,  1771;  m.  Atkinson  Rose; 
James,  b.  July  19,  1773:  d-  y- ; 
Comly,  b.  May  28,  1776;  d.  June  23,  184^;  m.  Sept.  17,  1807,  Sarah   (Bird)  Shoemaker, 

widow  of  George  Shoemaker,  son  of  George  and  Martha,  and  dau.  of  Albrick  and 

Abigail    (Tyson)    Bird,  of   Abington;   lived  at   "Pleasant   Valley,"  on  the  York   road, 

below  Shoemakertown ;  no  issue;  Mrs.  Shoemaker  d.  1845. 

Robert  Shoemaker,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Comly) 
Shoemaker,  born  in  Cheltenham  towmship,  December  29,  1754,  died  in  Philadel- 


440  SHOEMAKER 

phia,  October  8,  1796,  and  is  buried  in  the  Friends'  burying-ground  at  Fourth  and 
Arch  streets.  He  took  a  certificate  from  Abington  Meeting  to  the  Southern  Dis- 
trict Meeting  of  Philadelphia,  March  22,  1773;  engaged  in  business  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  died  there  aged  forty-two  years.  He  married  at  Trinity  Church, 
Oxford.  Philadelphia  county,  1781,  Martha,  born  October  8.  1760,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Leech  Jr.  by  his  wife,  Martha  Thomas.  After  her  husband's  estate  was 
settled,  Martha,  the  widow,  moved  back  to  her  native  township  of  Cheltenham, 
with  her  children  and  lived  there  until  her  death,  December  23,  1849.  Though 
reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Episcopal  church,  she,  after  her  marriage,  joined  the 
Friends  and  was  many  years  a  member  of  Abington  Monthly  Meeting. 

Toby  or  Tobias  Leech,  great-grandfather  of  Martha  Shoemaker,  and  the  first 
of  the  name  to  settle  in  Pennsylvania,  was  a  son  of  Toby  Leech,  of  Cheltenham, 
Gloucester  county,  England,  and  was  baptized  at  the  Parish  Church  there,  January 
I,  1652-3.  The  family  of  Leech  was  an  ancient  and  honorable  one  and  many  of 
its  members  bore  for  arms,  "Ermine,  on  Chief  indented  gules,  three  crowns  or." 
and  Crest,  "Out  of  ducal  coronet  on  an  arm  erect  ppr.  grasping  a  snake  environed 
around  the  arm."  Burke  notes  that  it  is  recorded  in  an  old  pedigree  that  "One 
of  this  ancient  family,  living  in  Berkshire,  near  Windsor,  in  ye  time  of  King 
Edward  the  Third,  entertained  and  feasted  three  Kings  in  his  house,  one  ye  King 
of  England,  ye  King  of  France  and  ye  King  of  Scots ;  which  two  kings  were  at 
that  time  prisoners  to  King  Edward ;  which  King  Edward  tc  requite  his  good 
entertainment  and  other  favoures.  gave  him  three  crowns  on  his  chief  indented 
gules,  ye  field  Ermine,  which  coat  is  borne  by  the  name  and  family,  dispersed  into 
many  countays." 

Toby  Leech,  baptized  and  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Church  of  England, 
retained  membership  in  that  church  throughout  his  life,  was  married  December  26, 
1679,  at  Gloucester  Friends'  Meetmg,  to  Esther  Ashmead,  a  member  of  that 
Meeting.  He  came  to  Pennsylvania  early  in  1682,  with  his  wife  Esther  and  at 
least  one  child  and  accompanied  by  his  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Mary  Ashmead.  In 
conjunction  with  John  Ashmead,  Richard  Wall  and  Everard  Bolton,  he  pur- 
chased 1,000  acres  of  land  in  Cheltenham  township,  Philadelphia  county,  which 
township  was  named  for  his  native  town  in  England.  His  share  of  the  1,000 
acres  was  three  hundred  acres,  the  surveys  to  the  several  purchasers  with  him 
being  made  under  warrants  dated  November  10,  1682.  He  erected  a  corn  and 
fulling  mill  and  became  one  of  the  substantial  business  men  of  that  section,  and 
also  became  a  large  landed  proprietor,  owning  at  the  time  of  his  death  2,700  acres 
of  land,  his  home  plantation  of  600  acres,  two  other  plantations  of  500  acres  each 
in  Philadelphia,  500  acres  in  Chester  county,  and  600  acres  in  New  Castle  county. 
He  maintained  large  hunting  grounds,  kept  up  by  his  sons  and  grandsons,  which 
was  said  to  have  given  the  name  to  Fox  Chase,  located  on  one  of  his  plantations 
in  Philadelphia  county.  He  does  not  seem  to  have  taken  any  active  interest  in 
public  affairs  until  1713,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  Provincial  Assembly  and 
became  one  of  its  prominent  members,  being  regularly  re-elected  until  1720.  He 
died  at  his  seat  in  Cheltenham  township,  November  13,  1726,  and  is  buried  at 
Trinity  Church,  Oxford,  of  which  church  he  was  a  member.  His  wife  Esther 
died  August  11,   1726,  and  is  buried  at  his  side. 


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Issue  of  Toby  and  Esther  (Ashmead)  Leech: 

Toby,  Jr.,  b.  in  England,  about  1680;  d.  in  Cheltenham,  Nov.  23,  1726-7;  m.  Hannah 
,  and  had  ten  children,  most  of  whom  married  into  prominent  families  of  Phila- 
delphia CO.,  and  have  left  numerous  descendants ; 

Esther,  b.  about  1682;  d.  1713:  m.  (first)  Capt.  Bartholomew  Penrose,  (second)  Nathan- 
iel Poole;  by  Penrose,  she  had  one  son,  Bartholomew,  and  two  daughters,  Dorothy,  m. 
Isaac  Shoemaker,  and  Sarah,  m.  Richard  Mather; 

John,  b.  about  1683;  d.  1745;  was  a  "vendue  master"  in  Phila. ;  m.  Mary  Harrison,  and 
left  descendants; 

Hon.  Thomas  Leech,  b.  1685;  d.  March  31,  1762;  Clerk  of  Provincial  Assembly,  1723-27; 
member  of  Assembly,  1730  to  1740,  and  from  1756  to  his  death,  in  1762;  speaker  of 
Assembly,  1758-59;  one  of  commissioners,  appointed  by  Provincial  Assembly,  to  con- 
sider project  of  bridging  the  Schuylkill  at  Phila.,  1751,  and  report  probable  cost;  treas- 
urer of  Philadelphia  co.,  1759;  one  of  committee  who  procured  the  "Liberty  Bell;" 
member  of  board  of  trustees  of  College  of  Philadelphia;  thirty-two  years  member  of 
vestry  of  Christ  Church,  and  just  prior  to  his  death  active  in  founding  St.  Paul's 
Church,  where  he  is  buried;  m.  (first)  Ann  (Stacy)  Moore,  dau.  of  John  Stacy,  and 
granddaughter  of  Robert  Stacy,  one  of  the  first  English  settlers  at  Burlington,  N.  J.; 
m.   (second)   Mary  Rivers,  and  has  several  prominent  descendants; 

Isaac,  b.  1692;  d.  Dec.  10,  1744;  m.  Rebecca  Hall;  of  whom  presently; 

Jacob,  b.  1693;  d.  Jan.  28,  1750;  Captain  in  Col.  Edward  Jones,  Phila.  Reg.,  1748;  m. 
(first)  Isabella,  dau.  of  Joseph  Fisher,  Esq.,  (second)  Eleanor,  dau.  of  Andrew  Robe- 
son, Esq.; 

Two  other  children  of  Toby  and  Esther  Leech  d.  y. 

Isaac  Leech,  fourth  son  of  Toby  and  Esther  ( Ashmead j  Leech,  born  in  Chel- 
tenham township,  Philadelphia  (now  Montgomery)  county,  1692,  died  there 
December  10,  1744.  He  inherited  from  his  father  366  acres  of  land  in  Chelten- 
ham and  later  acquired  several  other  large  tracts,  and  was  a  wealthy  farmer  and 
tanner.  He  was  one  of  the  prominent  and  solid  business  men  of  his  time,  and  was 
one  of  the  two  men  suggested  by  the  electors  of  Philadelphia  to  the  governor  for 
sherifif,  with  Owen  Owen,  1727,  the  latter  receiving  the  commission.  He  was 
commissioned  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  of  the  Courts  of  Philadelphia  county, 
1741,  and  served  until  his  death.  He  married  Rebecca,  born  1709,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Rutter)  Hall,  who  after  his  death  married  Rev.  Richard 
Treat,  minister  of  Abington  Presbyterian  Church,  1731-77.  Joseph  Hall,  father 
of  Rebecca  (Hall)  Leech,  was  second  son  of  Jacob  Hall,  who  emigrated  from 
Macclesfield,  county  Chester,  England,  arriving  in  Maryland,  in  the  ship,  "Friend- 
ship," of  Liverpool,  "the  3d.  Day  of  12th.  Month,  1684,"  with  his  wife  Mary, 
and  sister-in-law,  Sarah  Charlesworth,  children,  Jacob  and  Sarah,  and  servants, 
Ephraim  Jackson,  John  Reynolds,  Joseph  Hollingshead,  John  Evans,  William 
Fowler,  Isaac  Hill,  John  Jackson  and  Isaac  Gibbons,  "and  afterwards  transported 
to  the  Delaware  River,  where  the  family  arrived  the  28th.  of  3d.  Month  1685." 
A  great  number  of  other  servants  arrived  later  in  the  "Amity,"  "Richard  and 
Michael"  and  "Francis  and  Dorothy."  The  "Register  of  Arrivals  in  Bucks 
County,"  from  which  the  above  information  is  quoted,  gives  also  the  birth  of  three 
of  the  children  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Charlesworth)  Hall,  as  follows:  "Jacob  Hall, 
born  8th  of  12th  Mo.,  1679;  Sarah,  born  23d.  of  5th  Mo.,  1683  and  Joseph  born 
nth.  of  I2th.  Mo.  1686."  Jacob  Hall  settled  first  in  Bucks  county  but  removed 
later  to  Tacony,  Philadelphia ;  was  a  Justice  of  Philadelphia  Courts  from  1693  to 
his  death,  1700. 

Joseph  Hall,  second  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Hall,  born  February  11,  1686-7, 
married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Thomas  Rutter,  Esq.,  and  settled  in  Oxford  town- 


442  SHOEMAKER 

ship,  Philadelphia  county,  where  he  was  a  brewer  and  miller.   He  was  a  vestryman 
of  Trinity  Church,  Oxford,  for  many  years.     Died  in  Oxford  in  1731. 
Issue  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Rutter)  Hall: 

Thomas,  of  whom  we  have  no  further  record; 

John,  a  Captain  in  the  Provincial  service;  residence,  Byberry,  Phila.; 

Joseph,  a  tanner;  m.  Jan.  18,  1733,  Mary,  dau.  of  Joseph  Fisher,  Esq.; 

Theodorus,  m.  April  29,  1729,  Gertrude  Goodwin;  removed  to  Kingwood,  Hunterdon  co.; 

miller;  drowned  in   Delaware  river; 
Jacob,  a  Captain  in  Provincial  service,  1748,  and  several  times  commissioned  Justice  of 

the  Peace  and  of  Philadelphia  Courts; 
Rebecca,  b.  1708;  d.  July  i,  1785;  m.  (first)  Isaac  Leech,  (second)   Rev.  Richard  Treat, 

D.  D.; 
Susanna,   m.    (first)    Joseph    Harvey,    (second)    John    Rush,   of   Byberry,   and   became 

mother  of  the  distinguished  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  of  Phila.,  signer  of  Declaration  of 

Independence,  and  of  Hon.  Jacob  Rush,  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of 

Phila.  and  of  the  Supreme  (5ourt  of  Pa.; 
Sarah,  m.  Sept.  26,  1744,  Rev.  Samuel  Finley,  president  of  College  of  New  Jersey,  now 

Princeton  University; 
Hannah; 

Ruth,  m.  Elisha  Hall,  Esq.,  of  Cecil  co.,  Md.; 
Mary; 
Charlesworth. 

Thomas  Rutter,  native  of  England,  came  to  Pennsylvania  with  William  Penn 
as  a  "Smith"  and  received  a  grant  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  for  personal 
services  to  Penn  as  a  smith.  He  was  a  man  of  marked  intelligence  and  energy, 
and  was  exceedingly  prominent  among  the  public-spirited  men  of  his  time  in  the 
development  of  the  material  interests  of  the  infant  Colony,  being  the  first  manu- 
facturer of  iron  in  Pennsylvania.  As  early  as  January,  1702,  "Thomas  Rutter  and 
Company"  were  possessed  of  762  acres  of  land,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  the 
Commissioners  of  Property.  He  was  a  persistent  prospector  for  iron  and  other 
minerals  and  his  efforts  were  at  last  crowned  with  success,  as  shown  by  a  letter 
written  to  Jonathan  Dickinson,  1717,  which  stated,  "The  last  Summer  one  Thomas 
Rutter,  a  Smith,  who  lived  not  far  from  Germantown,  hath  removed  farther  up 
the  country,  and  of  his  own  strength  has  set  up  making  iron.  Such  it  proves  to  be, 
as  it  is  highly  esteemed  by  all  smiths  here  who  say  that  the  best  Sweed's  iron  dotli 
not  exceed  it."  The  point  "farther  up  the  country"  was  on  Alanatawny  creek, 
present  limits  of  Berks,  then  Philadelphia  county,  where  he  had  erected  a  smelt- 
ing furnace,  later  known  as  the  Colebrookedale  Furnace,  and  operated  for  many 
years  by  Philadelphia  capitalists  among  whom  were  Anthony  Morris  and  George 
McCall.  Rutter  also  built  the  Pool  Forge,  sometimes  referred  to  as  "Rutter's 
Forge"  in  which  he  retained  an  interest.  He  resided  on  his  plantation  in  Bristol 
township,  Philadelphia  county,  1693,  but  subsequently  removed  to  Germantown, 
where  he  was  a  bailiff  in  1706.  He  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly, 
1713-T4,  and  1727-28.  He  was  identified  with  a  number  of  Indian  treaties  and 
enjoyed  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  more  prominent  Chiefs  of  the  Delawarcs. 
He  was  a  member  of  Philadelphia  Meeting,  but  became  a  follower  of  George 
Keith  in  his  schism  of  1692  and  lost  membership.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  March, 
1730.  He  married  at  Penn's  Manor  House,  January  10,  1685,  Rebecca  Staples, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  the  following  children: 

Anne.  b.  Oct.  25,  1686;  d.  Aug.,  17(10;  m.  (first)  Samuel  Savage,  (second)  Samuel  Nutt; 
both  ironmasters; 


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Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  9,  1688;  m.  Joseph  Hall,  above  mentioned; 

Thomas  Rutter,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1690;  buried  July,  1734;  an  extensive  ironmaster,  in  con- 
nection with  his  father;  member  Provincial  Assembly,  1729;  m.  (first)   Sarah  , 

(second)  Catharine,  dau.  of  Caesar  Gheslin; 

John  Rutter,  b.  1693;  d.  Nov.  17,  1735;  m.  Mary  ; 

Mary,  m.  Edward  Rees,  of  Amity  twp.,  now  Berks  co.; 

Martha,  m.  Doughty; 

Hester,  m.  Henry  Hockley,  of  Chester  co. ;  member  of  Provincial  Assembly,  I749-5I'. 
his  sons,  Thomas  and  James,  also  members  of  Assembly,  from  Chester  co. ; 

Joseph  Rutter,  of  Amity  twp.,  d.  1732;  wife,  Mary,  and  son,  Thomas,  mentioned  in  his 
will. 

Isaac  Leech,  son  of  Toby  and  Esther  Leech,  by  his  wife,  Rebecca  Hall,  whose 
ancestry  is  above  given,  had  issue  as  follows: 

Isaac  Leech,  Jr.,  d.  Feb.  20,  1763;  m.  Martha  Thomas;  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Leech,  d.  s.  p.,  1804;  m.  March  31,  1774,  Mrs.  Hannah  Tyson; 

Samuel  Leech,  b.  Jan.  6,  1736;  d.  May  27,  1822;  m.  Anne  Stewart; 

Rebecca,  m.  Samuel  Erwin,  Esq.,  d.  in  Phila.,  July  26,  1798,  in  74th  year;  she  d.  1804; 

Joseph  Leech,  d.  s.  p.,  in  Lower  Dublin,  Philadelphia  co.,  March  23,  1805;  m.  June  n, 

1755,  Ann  Thomas,  sister  to  the  wife  of  his  brother,  Isaac; 
Jesse  Leech,  b.  April  4,  1741; 
Mary  Leech,  b.   May  4,   1743;   became  second   wife  of   Archibald   McLean,  one  of  the 

leading  men  of  York  co.,  March  11,  1777. 

Isaac  Leech  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Rebecca  (Hall)  Leech,  born  in  Chel- 
tenham township,  Philadelphia  (now  Montgomery)  county,  prior  to  1730,  died  at 
the  family  seat  there  February  20,  1763.  He  was  a  man  of  large  estate,  a  suc- 
cessful tanner  and  farmer,  and  prominent  in  the  business  affairs  of  his  time.  He 
married,  January  25,  1753,  Martha,  daughter  of  Evan  and  Rachel  (Livezey) 
Thomas,  of  Lower  Dublin  township,  who  after  his  death  married  (second)  Rich- 
ard Martin. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Martha  (Thomas)  Leech: 

Isaac  Leech,  b.  March  12,  1754;  d.  June  26.  1834;  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Mary 
(Harvey)    Holcombe,  of  Amwell  twp.,  Hunterdon  co.,   N.  J.,  and  was  a  tanner  in 
Cheltenham; 
Rachel  Leech,  m.  at  Abington  Meeting,  July  i,  1779,  Thomas  Mather; 
Rebecca  Leech,  m.  Benjamin  Austin,  of  Moreland; 

Martha  Leech,  b.  Oct.  8,  1760;  d.  Dec.  23,  1849;  m.  1681,  Robert  Shoemaker,  of  Chelten- 
ham. 

Issue  of  Robert  and  Martha  (Leech)  Shoemaker: 
Richard   M.   Shoemaker,  b.   Dec.   6,    1783;   m.    (first)    Sarah   Cleaver,    (second) 

Amelia  (Bird)   Hallowell;  of  whom  presently; 
Martha   Leech   Shoemaker,  b.   Aug.   5,   1788;   d.   May   16,   1871 ;   m.   April  4,   1820, 

Ezekiel  Cleaver,  d.  s.  p. ; 
Rebecca  Shoemaker,  b.  Jan.   14,   1793;   d.  s.  p.,  April   14,  i860;  m.   May   15,   1817, 
John  B.  Ackley. 

Richard  M.  Shoemaker,  only  son  of  Robert  and  Martha  (Leech)  Shoemaker, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  December  6,  1783,  removed  with  his  widowed  mother  to 
Cheltenham,  soon  after  his  father's  death  in  Philadelphia,  1796.  In  1805  he 
engaged  in  business  at  Shoemakertown,  which  he  continued  until  1846,  when  he 
sold  his  real  estate  there  and  retired  to  "Pleasant  Valley"  the  old  family  seat  on 
the  York  road,  below  Shoemakertown,  on  part  of  the  tract  purchased  by  his 
ancestress,  Sarah  Shoemaker,  1686,  comprising  a  farm  of  one  hundred  acres.    He 


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was  a  member  of  Abington  Friends'  Meeting  for  over  seventy  years  and  took  a 
prominent  part  in  all  its  works.  He  was  married  at  Gwynedd  fleeting,  February 
13,  1816,  to  Sarah,  born  March  8,  1792.  daughter  of  Ellis  and  Elizabeth  (Miller) 
Cleaver.  She  died  March  31,  1825  ;  he  married  (second)  March  8,  1827,  at  Abing- 
ton Meeting,  Amelia  (Bird)  Hallowell,  widow  of  James  S.  Hallowell,  and 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Catharine  (Thomas)  Bird,  of  Philadelphia,  where  she  was 
born  February  10,  1792.  She  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Phineas  Pemberton, 
"Father  of  Bucks  County,"  many  years  member  of  Provincial  Council,  by  his  wife. 
Phebe,  daughter  of  James  Harrison,  friend  and  counsellor  of  Penn,  and  also  a 
Provincial  Councillor  in  1683,  and  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1686.  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Phineas  and  Phebe  (Harrison)  Pemberton,  married  at  .\bington 
Meeting,  October  30,  1700.  Stephen  Jenkins,  and  their  daughter,  Sarah  Jenkins. 
married,  June  24,  1727,  Isaac  Tyson,  whose  daughter,  Abigail  Tyson,  married, 
April  7,  1763,  Aldrick  Bird,  and  Jacob  Bird,  father  of  Mrs.  Shoemaker,  was  their 
youngest  son.  Mrs.  Shoemaker  died  in  Cheltenham,  February  11,  1868,  and  her 
husband,  Richard  M.  Shoemaker,  January  20,  1870.  Both  are  buried  at  Abington 
Friends'  burying-ground. 

Issue  of  Richard  M.  and  Sarah  (Cleaver)  Shoemaker: 

Robert,  b.  Feb.  i,  1817;  m.  (first)  Elizabeth  Moore,  (second)  Ann  Summers;  of  whom 

presently; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  17,  1818;  m.  Atkinson  H.  Walton; 
Ellis  C,  b.  Aug.  i.^.  1820;  d.  Nov.  10,  1841  ; 
Rebecca  A.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1822;  m.  James  McCarter; 
Richard  C,  b.  March  4,  1825;  ni.  (first)  Ann  K.  Shallcross,  (second)  Martha  T.  Lukens. 

Issue  of  Richard  M.  and  Amelia  (Bird)  Shoemaker: 

Benjamin  H.,  b.  Dec.  zy.  1827;  m.  Sarah  Brinton  Trump;  of  whom  presently; 
Charles  Bird  Shoemaker,  b.  Aug.  13,  1829;  d.  Aug.  10,  1897;  ™-  Anna  Foulke ;  merchant 

in  Phila.;  manager  of  Apprentices'  Library;  director  of  Glasgow  Iron  Co.;  Treasurer 

of  Borough  of  Lansdowne; 
Comly  Bird  Shoemaker,  b.  Nov.  22.  1838;  m.  Martha  L.  Bailey. 

Benj.\mi.m  H.  SnoEM.\KER,  the  prominent  Philadelphia  merchant,  eldest  son 
of  Richard  M.  Shoemaker  by  his  second  wife,  Amelia  (Bird)  Hallowell,  was 
born  at  Shoeinakertown,  December  27,  1827,  and  on  arriving  at  manhood 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  became  identified  with  many 
of  the  institutions  of  that  city.  He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Society  for  the  Alleviation  of  the  Condition  of  Prisoners  in  Penal  Insti- 
tutions. In  1867  he  was  elected  one  of  the  managers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hos- 
pital, and  has  been  since  regularly  re-elected ;  was  for  nineteen  years  secretary  of 
Board,  and  since  1891  has  been  its  president.  He  was  for  ten  years  president  of 
the  Germantown  Horticultural  Society ;  director  of  Nesquehoning  \'alley  Railroad 
Company ;  many  years  a  director  of  Consolidated  National  Bank ;  president  of  the 
Mine  Hill  and  Schuylkill  Haven  Railroad  Company;  director  of  Montgomery 
Trust  Company  of  Philadelphia :  of  Glasgow  Iron  Company,  at  Pottstown,  Penn- 
sylvania;  is  one  of  the  managers  of  Haverford  College;  trustee  of  Penn  Charter 
School ;  member  of  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  Franklin  Institute,  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.     He  was 


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one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Union  League,  and  is  identified  with  a  number  of 
charitable  institutions.  He  married  under  the  auspices  of  the  Friends  Meeting 
of  Northern  District  of  Philadelphia,  March  4,  1856,  Susan  Brinton,  born  Janu- 
ary 22,  183s,  at  Penningtonville,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  daughter  of 
Michael  Trump,  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Maria,  daughter  of  William  and 
Lydia  (Feree)  Brinton,  of  Lancaster  county. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  H.  and  Susan  B.  (Trump)  Shoemaker: 

Robert  Shoemaker,  merchant  of  Phila.,  b.  Jan.  18,  1858;  director  of  Glasgow  Iron 
Co.,  etc.;  m.  Katharine  Hallowell; 

Maria  Brinton  Shoemaker,  b.  in  Phila.,  Jan.  26,  i860;  m.  T.  William  Kimber,  of  the 
Phila.  bar; 

Samuel  B.  Shoemaker,  M.  D.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1861  ;  d.  in  Germantown,  April  3,  1893;  gradu- 
ated at  Haverford  College,  1883;  graduate  Medical  Department  of  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1886; 
Resident  Physician  at  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  1886-7;  Physician  of  Out-Patient  De- 
partment, Pennsylvania  Hospital,  Oct.  27,  1890,  to  death;  m.  Mary  Dawson  Tyson; 

Amelia  Bird  Shoemaker,  b.  at  Germantown,  Nov.  25,  1865;  m.  Joseph  Lovering  Whar- 
ton; 

Benjamin  H.  Shoemaker,  Jr.,  b.  Germantown,  Dec.  3,  1872;  merchant  of  Phila;  m.  Edith 
Hacker. 

Isaac  Shoemaker,  third  son  of  George  and  Sarah  Shoemaker,  born  in  Krieg- 
sheim,  Germany,  1669,  accompanied  his  mother  to  Pennsylvania  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years.  When  his  mother,  brothers  and  sisters  removed  to  Cheltenham, 
autumn  of  1696,  he  remained  in  Germantown,  and  later  became  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  affairs  of  that  town.  He  followed  the  business  of  tanner,  his  tan 
yard  being  located  on  Main  street  east  of  where  Coulter  street  now  intersects 
that  street.  He  was  Sheriff  of  Germantown  in  1695-96,  and  one  of  the  Burgesses 
in  1706.  He  was  a  patron  of  Pastorius'  School,  and  contributed  to  the  fund  for 
erecting  a  Meeting  House  in  1705.  He  built  a  house  near  the  corner  of  Main 
street  and  Shoemaker's  lane,  now  Penn  street,  which  was  the  family  home  for 
several  generations.  It  was  used  as  a  hospital  after  the  battle  of  Germantown. 
Isaac  Shoemaker  died  there  April  12,  1732.  He  married  at  Abington  Friends 
Meeting,  November  26,  1694,  Sarah,  born  at  Kriegsheim,  Germany,  December  2, 
1678,  daughter  of  Gerhard  and  Mary  Hendricks,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in 
the  "Francis  and  Dorothy,"  October  16,  1685,  and  settled  in  Germantown,  Ger- 
hard purchasing  200  acres  on  Wingohocking  creek,  which  at  his  death  passed  to 
his  daughter,  Sarah  Shoemaker.  He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  famous  protest 
against  slavery,  with  the  Opden  Graef  brothers  in  1688,  which  was  presented  suc- 
cessively at  the  Germantown  Meeting,  Abington  Monthly  Meeting  and  Philadel- 
phia Quarterly  and  Yearly  Meeting. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Hendricks)  Shoemaker: 

Benjamin,  b.  Aug.  3,  1704;  of  whom  presently; 

Henry,  removed  to  N.  J.;  m.  at  Egg  Harbor,  1732,  Mary  Ong. 

Benjamin  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Hendricks)  Shoe- 
maker, born  in  Germantown,  August  3,  1704,  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  1724, 
taking  a  certificate  from  Abington  Monthly  to  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting.  He 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  and  is  mentioned  as  a  merchant  on  High  street  in 
1729.  He  was  elected  to  Common  Council,  October  3,  1732,  advanced  to  the 
Board  of  Alderman,  October  6,  1741,  and -was  elected  Mayor,  October  4,  1743. 


446  SHOEMAKER 

He  succeeded  Samuel  Hassel  as  City  Treasurer,  September  15,  1751,  and  October 
I,  1752,  was  again  elected  Mayor,  and  a  third  time  October  7,  1760.  He  was 
called  to  the  Provincial  Council  in  1745  and  qualified  as  a  member  of  that  body, 
April  4,  1745,  and  served  until  his  death  in  1767.  He  was  frequently  appointed 
by  Council  and  the  Proprietors  to  negotiate  treaties  with  the  Indians,  one  of  these 
treaties,  entered  into  at  Lancaster,  July  2t,.  1748,  was  signed  by  him,  Joseph 
Turner,  Thomas  Hopkinson  and  William  Logan.  On  December  8,  1755,  he  was 
requested  to  write  to  the  Susquehannah  Indians  to  meet  the  Governor  at  John 
Harris'  on  the  first  of  January  succeeding,  and  December  14,  1756,  with  Andrew- 
Hamilton  and  William  Logan,  was  appointed  to  meet  Teedyuscung  and  satisfy 
him  as  to  his  claim  for  land.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  June  25,  1767.  He  married 
at  Philadelphia  Friends  Meeting,  May  29,  1724,  Sarah,  born  in  Philadelphia. 
September  4,  1705,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Beulah  (Jacques)  Coates,  the  former 
a  native  of  Sproxton,  Leicestershire,  and  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Beulah  Jacques,  French  Huguenots,  who  came  from  London  to  Philadelphia, 
about  1684.  Mrs.  Shoemaker  died  June  8.  1738,  and  Benjamin  married  (second) 
at  Friends  Meeting,  September  6,  1739,  Elizabeth,  born  in  Philadelphia,  October 
21,  1716,  daughter  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest)  Morris. 
Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Coates)  Shoemaker: 

Samuel,  b.  1725;  m.  (first)  Hannah  Carpenter,  (second)  Rebecca  Rawle;  of  whom 
presently; 

Sarah,  b.  June  23.  1729;  m.  Edward  Penington ; 

Hannah,  d.  unm.; 

Beulah,  m.  April  8,  1758,  Samuel  Burge,  and  their  dau.,  Sarah,  "Sally  Burge,"  of  "Sally 
Wistar's  Journal."  b.  Nov.  13,  1762,  m.  Nov.  13,  1783,  William  Rawle,  Esq.,  only  son 
of  Francis  and  Rebecca  (Warner)  Rawle.  the  latter  of  whom  became  the  second 
wife  of  Samuel  Shoemaker;  Mrs.  Beulah  Burge  d.  Jan.  29,  1802. 

Issue  of  Benjatnin  and  Elisabeth  (Morris)  Shoemaker: 

Anthony,  removed  to  Flushing,  L.  I.;  m.  Penelope  Rodman: 

Charles,  buried  Sept.  29,  1752; 

Joseph,  a  merchant  of  Phila.  until  1772:  removed  to  N.  Y. ;  said  to  have  commanded  a 

British  privateer  during  the  Revolution; 
William,  m.  Martha,  dau.  of  Alexander  Brown,  of  Bucks  CO.,  and  resided  for  a  time  in 

Moreland;  later  a  hatter  in  Nockamixon  twp.,  Bucks  co.;  d.  there; 
Charles,  m.   Margaret  Minnich,  of  Bristol,  Bucks  co. ;  merchant  in   Phila.  and  later  in 

Bristol ; 
James,  of  Reading.  Berks  co. ;  d.  s.  p.,  1831 ; 
Mary,  m.  at  Christ  Church,  Nov.  29,  1770.  John  Scull,   (second)   Daniel  Levan;  d.  s.  p., 

1816; 
Phoebe,  d.  unm.; 
Elizabeth,  m.  Dec.  30.  1772.  Benjamin  Lightfoot,  of  Reading. 

Samuel  Shoem.\ker,  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Coates)  Shoemaker, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  1725,  was  an  active  and  successful  merchant  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  was  for  .some  time  attorney  for  the  Pennsylvania  Land  Compan\-  in 
London,  generally  known  as  the  "London  Company,"  who  owned  vast  tracts  of 
land  in  Philadelphia,  Chester  and  Bucks  counties,  prior  to  their  dissolution  in 
1760.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  a  member  of 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  an  intimate  friend  of  Benjamin  West. 
He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council,  October  7,  1755;  became  an  Alderman. 


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October  7,  1766;  was  elected  Mayor,  October  3,  1769,  and  succeeded  himself 
October  2,  1770.  He  also  succeeded  his  father  as  City  Treasurer  in  1767.  He 
was  commissioned  a  Justice,  February  27,  1761,  and  again,  November  19,  1764, 
and  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly,  1771-72.  He  was  a  Royalist  during 
the  Revolution  and  was  one  of  those  arrested  and  confined  in  the  Free  Masons 
Lodge  Room  in  1777,  but  giving  the  required  promise  to  remain  at  his  house  and 
hold  no  communication  with  the  enemy,  escaped  deportation  to  Virginia,  with  the 
other  Philadelphia  merchants  then  arrested.  He  remained  in  Philadelphia  during 
its  occupation  by  the  British,  and  held  the  ofifice  of  Justice  under  their  authority  in 
December,  1777.  When  the  British  left  Philadelphia,  he  accompanied  them  to 
New  York,  taking  his  son  Edward  with  him,  and  they  later  sailed  for  England, 
where  he  spent  some  time  in  company  of  Benjamin  West,  and  was  by  him  intro- 
duced to  the  King  and  Queen.  His  wife  remained  in  America,  where  he  returned 
with  his  son  in  1786,  and  lived  for  a  time  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  later  in 
Philadelphia,  where  he  died  October  10,  1800.  A  portion  of  his  large  estate  was 
confiscated  in  1783,  the  remainder  of  it  being  saved  by  the  consummation  of  the 
treaty  of  peace.  He  married,  April  28,  1746,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  (Preston)  Carpenter,  who  died  twenty  years  later;  was  buried  May  i, 
1766.  He  married  (second)  November  10,  1767,  Rebecca  (Warner)  Rawle,  widow 
of  Francis  Rawle  and  daughter  of  Edward  and  Anna  (Coleman)  Warner.  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Shoemaker  died  December  21,  181 9. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Shoemaker: 

Benjamin,  b.  March  9,  1746-7;  d.  Sept.  4,  1808;  m.  Elizabeth  Warner;  of  whom  pres- 
ently; 
Samuel,  b.  Dec.  6,  1748;  d.  March  8,  1749; 
Samuel,  b.  Nov.  28,  1749;  d.  March  13,  175°; 
Sarah,  b.  July  27,  1751 ;  d.  July  11,  1776;  unm.; 
Isaac,  b.  April  14,  1752;  d.  April  25,  1752; 
Hannah,  b.  March  21,  1754;  d.  Jan.  13.  1779;  unm.; 
Rachel,  b.  Jan.  6,  1756;  d.  Nov.  25,  1756; 
Mary,  b.  July  15,  1757;  d.  March  2y,  1780;  unm.; 
Samuel,  b.  March  4,  1759;  d.  y.; 
Isaac,  b.  1761  ;  d.  Jan.  31,  1763; 
Rachel,  b.  1763;  d.  1767. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (IVarner-Raivle)  Shoemaker: 

Edward,  who  accompanied  his   father  to  England  in   1778;   m.   Ann   Caroline   Giles,  of 
Hagerstown,  Md. 

Benjamin  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Shoe- 
maker, and  only  child  of  that  marriage  who  left  issue,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
March  8,  1746-7.  He  was  a  distiller  in  Philadelphia,  and  later  retired  to  his 
country  seat  at  Germantown,  where  he  died  September  4,  1808.  He  married  at 
Friends  Meeting,  May  18,  1773,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Anna  (Cole- 
man) Warner,  and  sister  to  his  father's  second  wife.  She  died  December  8,  1823. 
Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Warner)  Shoemaker : 

Edward  Warner,  b.  July  22,  1775;  d.  s.  p.; 

Anna,  b.  March  27,  1777;  m.  (first)  Robert  Morris,  Jr.,  (second)  Francis  Bloodgood; 


448  SHOEMAKER 

Samuel,  b.  June  14,  1778:  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  A.  B.;  studied  law,  and  admitted  to 

Phila.  bar;  d.  s.  p.,  Nov.  28,  1822; 
Benjamin,  b.  Sept.  27,  1780;  d.  s.  p. 

Isaac  Shoem.^ker,  son  of  George  and  Sarah  (Wall)  Shoemaker,  born  at  Shoe- 
niakertown,  Cheltenham  township,  Philadelphia  coimty,  Pennsylvania,  October  23, 
1700,  inherited  from  his  father  that  part  of  the  old  homestead  at  Shoemakertown, 
containing  the  old  house  erected  by  his  grandfather,  Richard  Wall,  in  which  the 
first  Friends  Meetings  were  held,  located  on  the  west  side  of  York  road,  at  north- 
ern end  of  the  present  town.  A  part  of  the  old  house  occupied  by  him,  if  not  by 
Richard  Wall,  is  still  standing  and  forms  the  rear  portion  of  the  house  now  occu- 
pied by  Joseph  Bosler,  present  owner  of  the  lands  and  mills  so  long  known  as 
Shoemaker's  Mills.  Isaac  Shoemaker  married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Bartholomew 
Penrose,  of  Philadelphia,  shipwright,  by  his  wife,  Esther,  daughter  of  Toby  and 
Esther  (Ashmead)  Leech,  before  mentioned.  Isaac  Shoemaker  died  October  23, 
1741,  leaving  his  widow  Dorothy,  the  sole  custodian  of  his  estate  for  the  benefit 
of  their  seven  children,  all  of  whom  were  minors,  the  youngest  but  six  years  of 
age. 

Dorothy  Shoemaker,  widow,  January  6,  1746,  entered  into  an  agreement  with 
Richard  Mather,  who  had  married  her  sister,  Sarah  Penrose,  and  John  Tyson,  of 
Abington,  son  of  Rynier,  "to  build  on  the  land  now  in  the  tenure  or  possession  of 
the  said  Dorothy  Shoemaker,  in  the  said  township  of  Cheltenham,  a  corn-grist 
Water-mill,  to  be  built  and  owned  jointly  and  in  partnership,  between  the  said 
parties,"  Dorothy  to  retain  a  one-half  interest  and  Mather  and  Tyson  each  a  one- 
fourth  interest  therein.  It  was  to  be  built  "opposite  ye  said  Dorothy's  garden  at 
ye  place  of  ye  crick,  commonly  called  and  known  by  ye  name  of  ye  Sheep  Washing 
Place." 

The  mill  erected  under  this  agreement  is  still  in  successful  operation  and  was 
owned  and  operated  by  the  descendants  of  Dorothy  Shoemaker  for  just  a  century, 
being  sold  in  1846  to  Charles  Bosler,  father  of  the  present  proprietor. 

Dorothy  Shoemaker  died  August  11,  1764,  and  by  will  dated  three  days  before 
her  death,  devised  her  estate  equally  between  her  six  surviving  children :  her  son 
George  having  died  six  months  before  her.  unmarried.  Her  two  eldest  sons,  John 
and  Isaac,  were  named  as  executors,  and  a  small  legacy  was  given  to  her  son-in- 
law.  Nathan  Sheppard. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Dorothy  (Penrose)  Shoemaker: 

John,  b.  April  i.  1726;  of  whom  presently: 

Isaac,  m.    (first)    March  24,   1754,   Elizabeth,   dau.   of  John   and   Elizabeth    (McVeagh) 

Potts,  of  Upper  Dublin:  she  d.  Sept.  24,  1758;  ni.  (second)  Aug.  31,  1761,  Anne,  dau. 

of  Thomas  Roberts,  of  Bristol  twp.,  Philadelphia  co.,  and  left  one  son,  Thomas; 
Thomas,  d.  unm.; 
Joseph,  was  in  early  life  a  tanner  at  Shoemakertown,  and  later  a  merchant  in  Phila.;  m. 

at  Gwynedd  Friends'  Meeting.  Nov..  1765.  Abigail,  dau.  of  John  Jones,  of  Plymouth; 
Esther,  b.  April  2,  1732;  d.  in  Baltimore  co..  Md.,  Sept.  8.  1704;  m.  May  26.  1748-9,  Isaac 

Tyson;  moved  to  Baltimore  co.,  Md.,  1783,  taking  a  certificate  to  Gunpowder  Meeting; 
Sarah,  b.  Oct,  2,  1733;  m.  March  31,  1755,  Nathan  Sheppard.  son  of  Moses  Sheppard,  of 

Cumberland  co.,  N.  J.,  and  lived  in  Upper  Dublin  twp.  until  1792,  when  with  her  three 

children,  Thomas,  Moses  and  .^nn  Sheppard,  she  removed  to  Jericho,  Baltimore  co., 

and  later  to  Baltimore:  the  son,  Moses,  was  the  founder  of  the  Sheppald  Asylum  for 

Insane  at  Baltimore:  Sarah  d.  at  Baltimore,  Dec.  24,  1799; 
George,  d.  Phila.,  where  he  was  a  successful  merchant,  Jan.  23,  1764;  his  will,  dated  Jan. 

18,  1764,  leaves  a  fund  in  the  hands  of  his  brother,  John,  and  uncle,  Richard  Mather, 


SHOEMAKER  449 

for  repairing  the  wall  around  the  Shoemaker  Burying-Ground  at  Shoemakertown ; 
and  the  income  of  a  larger  fund  for  the  education  of  children  of  poor  Friends  of 
Abington  Meeting. 

John  Shoemaker,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Dorothy  (Penrose)  Shoemaker, 
born  at  the  old  homestead  in  Shoemakertown,  April  i,  1726,  purchased  of  John 
Tyson,  June  14,  1752,  his  one-fourth  interest  in  the  mill  erected  in  conjunction 
with  his  mother  and  uncle,  and  later  acquired  the  entire  interest  therein,  and 
continued  to  operate  the  mill  for  over  half  a  century,  residing  all  his  life  in  the 
old  homestead.  He  was  a  member  of  Abington  Friends  Meeting,  and  a  prominent 
business  man  in  that  section.  A  diary  kept  by  John  Morton,  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, states  that  John  Shoemaker  was  "very  much  abused"  by  a  marauding  party 
of  Hessians  in  the  winter  of  1777,  when  the  British  occupied  Philadelphia. 

John  Shoemaker  married  (first)  at  Abington  Meeting,  May  25,  1752,  Elizabeth, 
born  June  5,  1725,  died  May  29,  1795,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  ( Heath) 
Livezey,  of  Lower  Dublin;  (second)  May  2,  1800,  Martha  Parry,  widow  of  David 
Parry  and  daughter  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Cadwalader)  Comly,  of  Byberry.  His 
children  were  all  by  his  first  wife.  He  and  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  are  buried  side 
by  side  m  the  old  Shoemaker  Burying-Ground. 

Thomas  Livezey,  great-grandfather  of  Elizabeth  (Livezey)  Shoemaker,  a  native 
of  Norton,  Cheshire,  England,  by  lease  and  release  from  William  Penn  dated 
March  2  and  3,  1681,  acquired  five  hundred  acres  of  land,  "to  be  laid  out  in  the 
Province  of  Peennsylvania,"  and  the  following  year  came  to  Pennsylvania  and 
located  in  Philadelphia  county.  He  was  a  member  of  Grand  Jury,  January  11, 
1682-3,  and  his  will  is  dated  June  12,  1692. 

Jonathan  Livezey,  son  of  Thomas  Livezey,  accompanied  his  father  to  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  by  his  wife  Rachel  had  six  children,  Mary,  Thomas,  Jonathan,  Martha, 
married  Robert  Thomas;  Rachel,  married  Evan  Thomas:  and  David.  Of  these 
Jonathan,  born  Philadelphia  county,  June  15,  1692,  died  June  24,  1764;  married, 
March  24,  1717-18,  Esther,  daughter  of  Robert  Eastburn,  of  Abington,  was  the 
ancestor  of  the  Livezey  family  of  Bucks  county. 

Thomas  Livezey,  eldest  son  and  second  child  of  Jonathan  and  Rachel,  born  in 
Philadelphia  county,  January  17,  1689-90,  died  there  June  5,  1759,  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Robert  Heath,  who  in  1707  erected  the  first  mill  at  Wells  Ferry, 
now  New  Hope,  Bucks  county.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Heath)  Livezey  located 
in  Lower  Dublin  township,  Philadelphia  county,  where  their  daughter  Elizabeth, 
who  in  1752  became  the  wife  of  John  Shoemaker,  was  born  June  5,  1725. 
Issue  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Livezey)  Shoemaker : 

Isaac,  b.  Jan.  19,  1755:  d.  July  31,  1779;  m.  May  5,  1779,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Joseph  Mather, 
of  Germantown,  who  after  his  death  m.  (second)  Dec.  15,  1783,  Hugh  Evans; 

Charles,  b.  March  19,  1762;  d.  May  31,  1837;  m.  (Hrst)  Elizabeth  Paul;  (second)  Mar- 
garet Wood;  of  whom  presently; 

John,  b.  July  11,  1764;  d.  March  15.  1817;  m.  at  Abington  Meeting,  lomo.  16,  1788,  Jane, 
dau.  of  David  Ashbridge,  of  Bensalem,  Bucks  co. ;  both  buried  in  Shoemaker  Bury- 
ing-Ground at  Shoemakertown; 

Elizabeth,  b.  July  24,  1766;  m.  June  7,  1798,  Peter  Robeson. 

Charles  Shoemaker,  second  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Livezey)  Shoemaker, 
born  at  the  old  homestead  in  Shoemakertown,  March  19,  1762,  inherited  the  mill 
property,  erected  by  his  grandmother,  Dorothy  (Penrose)  Shoemaker,  and  lived 


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there  until  his  death,  May  31,  1837.  He  was  a  member  of  Abington  Friends 
Meeting,  and  is  buried  in  the  graveyard  adjoining  the  Meeting  House.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  at  Germantown  Meeting,  March  15,  1785,  EHzabeth,  daughter  of  John 
Paul,  of  Germantown.  She  died  August  21,  1785.  and  he  married  (second) 
April  28,  1803.  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  (  Xewbold)  Wood,  of 
Newton,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey.  She  was  born  September  5.  1775,  died 
March  17,  1842. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Margaret  (Wood)  Shoemaker: 

Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  5,  1804;  d.  July  20,  1807; 

Mary,  b.  June  15,  1805;  d.   Nov.  4,  1806: 

Isaac,  b.  Aug.  2,  1807:  d.  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Sept.  21,  1873;  unm. :  buried  in  Friends' 

Meeting  House  Grounds,  on  High  street,  Burlington,  N.  J. ; 
Elizabeth,  b.  March  5,  1809;  m.  Aug.  20,  1848,  Abraham  M.  Taylor; 
John  Wood,  b.  Nov.  11,  1810;  d.  May  20,  1878,  in  Ariz.;  unm.; 
Charles  Heath,  b.  July  29,  1812;  m.  April  16,  1835,  Mary  Spencer  Boon; 
Anna  Stewardson,  b.  July  7,  1814;  m.  March  9,  1831,  Samuel  S.  Ritchie; 
M.ARG.^RETT.^,  b.  Sept.  15,  1817;  of  whom  presently. 

Margaretta  Shoemaker,  youngest  child  of  Charles  and  Margaret  (Wood) 
Shoemaker,  born  at  Shoemakertown,  September  15,  1817,  married  at  Abington 
Meeting,  September  12,  1839,  Morgan  Hinchman,  of  Philadelphia,  Conveyancer, 
son  of  John  and  Eliza  (Webb)  Hinchman,  of  New  Jersey,  grandson  of  James 
and  Sarah  (Morgan)  Hinchman,  great-grandson  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Stokes) 
Morgan,  great-great-grandson  of  Joseph  and  Judith  (Lippincott)  Stokes,  who 
were  married  August  8,  1710;  the  latter  being  a  daughter  of  Freedom  and  Mary 
(Curtis)  Lippincott,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  Lippincott,  an 
account  of  whose  English  ancestry  and  Philadelphia  descendants  is  given  in  these 
volumes.  Morgan  Hinchman  was  also  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation 
from  William  Cooper,  of  Cooper's  Point,  near  Camden,  New  Jersey,  who  was 
born  in  the  parish  of  Amersham,  Buckinghamshire,  England,  and  came  to  West 
Jersey  in  1679;  was  one  of  the  Proprietors'  Commissioners  in  1682:  a  member  of 
the  first  Assembly  of  the  province  and  again  returned  in  1685;  was  appointed  to 
the  Council  of  the  Proprietors,  1688,  and  Judge  of  Gloucester  county,  i6g6.  His 
son  Joseph,  who  married  Lydia  Rigg,  Augtist  11,  1688,  was  a  Representative  to 
the  first  Council  of  the  L'nited  Province  in  1703.  Hannah  Cooper,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Lydia  Cooper,  married,  1717,  Alexander  Morgan;  their  son,  Joseph 
Morgan,  who  married  Mary  Stokes  in  1758,  was  father  of  Sarah  (Morgan) 
Hinchman,  above  mentioned. 

Issue  of  Morgan  and  Margaretta  (Shoemaker)  Hinchman: 

Charles   Shoemaker   Hinchman,  b.   Jan    3,    1842;   m.   Lydia   S.   Mitchell,  of   Nantucket, 

Mass.; 
John  Webb  Hinchman,  b.  Aug.  8,  1843;  d.  1847; 
Walter  Hinchman,  b.  July  25,  1845;  unm. 


ROBERTS  FAMILY. 

The  Welsh  ancestry  of  John  Roberts,  of  Pencoed,  parish  of  Llyn,  Caernarvon- 
shire, Wales,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  1683,  and  settled  in  Merion  township, 
Philadelphia  county,  is  as  follows : 

CoLWYN  AP  Tangno,  Lord  of  Llyn,  and  founder  of  the  Fifth  Noble  Tribe  of 
North  Wales,  whose  arms  were  Sable,  A  chevron  between  three  fleur-de-lys, 
Argent :  had  a  son, 

Meredith  ap  Colwyn,  who  had,  among  others  a  son, 

Gwrgan  ap  Meredith,  who  had,  among  others  a  son, 

Einion  ap  Gwrgan,  who  had,  among  others  a  son, 

Meredith  ap  Einion,  who  had, 

Howell  ap  Meredith,  who  had, 

Griffith  ap  Howell,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Tegwered  ap  Llewelyn,  Prince 
of  Wales,  ap  lorwerth  Duvyndum,  who  had, 

levan  ap  Griffith,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Griffith  ap  David  Goch,  ap  David 
Griffith,  ap  Llewelyn,  Prince  of  Wales,  and  had, 

Rhys  ap  levan,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Meredith  ap  Griffith,  ap  Madog 
Geoodaith,  and  had, 

levan  ap  Rhys,  who  was  living  at  Pen  Koed,  Caernarvonshire,  circa,  1450;  mar- 
ried Gwenllian,  daughter  of  Gruffydd  Derwas,  Esquire,  of  the  Body  of  Henry  VI. 
and  was  a  son  of  Meuric  Lloyd,  Lord  of  Nannau,  and  had, 

Griffith  ap  levan,  born  circa,  1450,  married  Catrin,  daughter  of  Meredith  ap 
Hwlkin  Lloyd,  of  Llyn  Lleon,  alias  Glyn  Llivon,  ap  Howell,  ap  lorwerth  Dhu,  ap 
lorwerth,  Lord  of  Cyn  Menai,  Anglessey,  ap  Griffith  ap  Meredith,  ap  Methu- 
selem,  ap  Hava,  ap  Kundhelw,  living  11 50,  of  Cwmwd  Llivon,  Caernarvonshire, 
and  had, 

Morris  ap  Griffith,  of  Pen  Koed,  who  owned  large  estates  in  the  Parishes  of 
Llangian,  Llanengan,  Llanbedrog,  and  Llanarmon,  Caernarvonshire.  He  was 
born  circa  1480-5,  and  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Griffith  ap  Howell,  ap 
Madog,  of  Betws,  ap  levan,  ap  Einion,  ap  Griffith  ap  Howell,  ap  Meredith,  ap 
Einion,  ap  Gwrgan,  ap  Meredith  Goch,  ap  Colwyn.  Lord  of  Llyn,  before  men- 
tioned. 

The  mother  of  Margaret,  and  wife  of  Griffith  ap  Howell,  was  Lowry,  daughter 
of  David  ap  Rhys,  ap  levan,  ap  Llewelyn  Ddu,  ap  David,  ap  Griffith,  ap  lorwerth, 
ap  Owen  Brogyntyn,  third  son  of  Madoc  ap  Meredith,  Prince  of  Powys,  died 
1 160,  ap  Bleddyn,  ap  Cynfyn,  Prince  of  Powys. 

The  mother  of  Lowry  was  Mali  (Mary),  daughter  of  levan  ap  Einion,  of  Corsr 
Gedol,  Merionethshire,  descended  from  Osborne  Fitz  Gerald,  of  the  Norman 
Geraldines  of  Ireland.     His  descent  being  as  follows : 

Gerald  Fitz  Walter,  De  Windsor,  Constable  of  Pembroke,  living  1 108.  married 
Nesta,  daughter  of  Rhys  ap  Tudour,  Prince  of  South  Wales,  and  had  a  second 
son  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald,  died  1177;  buried  in  Gray  Friars,  Wexford;  went  with 
Strongbow,  tb  Ireland,  1168;  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Arnulph  de  Montgomerie. 
and  their  second  son,  Thomas  P'itz  Maurice,  was  a  grantee  from  King  John,  of 


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an  estate  of  ten  Knights'  fees;  died  1215,  leaving,  by  wife  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Jordan  de  Morisco  Montgomery,  a  son,  John  Fitz  Thomas,  slain  at  Gallon,  1260, 
who  married  Honora,  daughter  of  Phelim  O'Connor,  of  Kerry,  and  had  Osborne 
Fitz  Gerald,  before  mentioned,  who  went  to  Wales,  in  1237,  married  the  heiress 
of  Gors  y  Gedol,  and  was  living,  1204;  had  Kenric,  who  had  Llewelyn,  of  Gors  y 
Gedol,  who  married  Nesta,  daughter  of  Griffith  ap  Adda,  of  Dolg,  and  had 
Griffith,  living  1385,  married  Eva,  daughter  of  Aladoc  ap  Ellis,  of  Crniarth,  and 
sister  of  Llewelyn  ap  Madoc,  Bishop,  of  St.  Asaph,  temp.  Edward  H,  and  had  a 
son,  Einion  ap  Griffith  of  Gors  y  Gedol,  Gaptain  of  the  forty  archers  of  Richard  H. 
who  married  Tangwerstl,  daughter  of  Rudderch  ap  levan  Lloyd,  of  Gogerdaam,  a 
celebrated  bard,  and  had  son  levan  ap  Einion,  above  referred  to. 
Morris  ap  Griffith,  and  Margaret  his  wife  had  issue,  as  follows: 

Griffith  Morris,  whose  descendants  inherited  the  estate  of  PenCoed; 

John  Morris: 

William  Morris ; 

Thom.\s  Morris,  of  whom  presently; 

Hugh  Morris; 

Richard  Morris; 

David  Morris; 

Robert  Morris; 

Meredith  Morris. 

Thomas  Morris,  of  Caernarvonshire,  born  about  i5(k).  fourth  son  of  Morris 
Griffith,  had  a  younger  son, 

Robert  Thomas  Morris,  of  Cowyn,  parish  of  Llanengan,  Caernarvonshire,  born, 
circa,   1588,  who  was  the   father  of, 

Richard  Roberts,  of  Llyn,  Caernarvonshire,  born  probably  1615-20,  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Richard  Evans,  of  the  parish  of  Llangian,  Caernarvon- 
shire, and  had  issue: 

John  Rohkrts.  of  Pencoed,  b.  1648-9;  came  to  Pa.,  1683;  of  whom  presently; 

Richard  Roberts,  probably  came  to  Pa;  he  and  his  children  being  mentioned  in  the  will 

of  his  brother,  John,  in  1722; 
Anne  Roberts,  m.  and  had  children  mentioned  in  will  of  her  brother,  John,  in  1722. 

It  was  customary  for  the  Welsh  Friends  to  produce  to  the  meeting  at  which 
they  deposited  their  certificate  from  Wales,  a  circumstantial  account  of  their 
family  in  Wales  and  of  their  life  there  and  their  coming  to  .America.  Such  an 
account  was  furnished  by  John  Roberts,  of  Pencoed,  and  it  is  entered  on  tiie 
records  of  Merion  Preparative  Meeting  of  Friends  in  Pennsylvania.  Either  this 
same  account  or  a  somewhat  similar  one  in  his  own  handwriting  has  been  pre- 
served by  his  descendants  and  bears  this  endorsement : 

"The  following  account  was  found  in  manuscript  in  the  handwriting  of  John  Roberts, 
my  progenitor,  who  on  the  i6th  of  November,  1683,  arrived  in  Pennsylvania,  from  the  munic- 
ipality of  Wales,  and  settled  on  the  farm  I  now  dwell  upon,  and  built  upon  the  identical  spot 
I  now  inhabit,  and  which  has  passed  in  regular  succession  without  intervention  of  a  deed, 
from  my  groat-grandfather  to  his  great-grandchild. 

(Signed)  Algernon  Roberts. 

Sept.  16,  1813." 

"A  short  account  of  John  Roberts,  formerly  of  Llyn,  being  a  son  of  Richard  Roberts, 
and  grandson  of  Robert  Thomas  Morris,  who  lived  at  Cowyn,  in  the  Parish  of  Llanengan, 


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and  County  of  Caernarvon;  my  mother  being  Margaret  Evans,  daughter  of  Richard  Evans, 
of  the  Parish  of  Llangian,  and  County  aforesaid.  Being  convinced  of  God's  Everlasting 
Truth  about  the  year  1677,  not  by  man,  nor  through  man,  but  by  the  Revelation  of  Jesus 
Christ,  in  my  own  heart — being  about  30  Miles  from  any  Friends  or  Meeting  in  that  time 
when  I  was  convinced,  but  coming  into  acquaintance  with  Friends  near  Dolgelly,  and  near 
Bala,  in  Merionethshire,  I  frequented  their  Meetings  while  I  abode  in  those  parts,  but  by 
the  Providence  of  God  in  the  year  1683,  I  transported  myself  with  many  of  my  friends  for 
Pennsylvania,  where  I  and  they  arrived  the  Sixteenth  day  of  the  gth  Month,  one  thousand 
six  hundred  and  83,  being  then  thirty-five  years  old,  and  settled  myself  on  the  place  which  I 
afterwards  called  Pencoid,  in  the  Township  of  Merion,  which  was  afterwards  called  so  by 
them,  being  the  first  settlers  of  it.  Having  brought  with  me  one  servant  man  from  my 
native  land  and  fixed  my  settling  here,  I  took  to  wife  Gaynor  Roberts,  daughter  of  Robert 
Pugh,  from  Llwyndedwydd,  near  Bala,  in  Merionethshire ;  her  mother  being  Elizabeth 
Williams  Owen,  one  of  the  first  that  was  convinced  of  the  Truth  in  that  neighborhood.  So 
leaving  this  account  for  our  offspring  and  others  that  desire  to  know,  whence  we  came  and 
who  we  descended  from,  and  when  we  came  to  settle  unto  this  place  where  we  now  abide, 
being  then  a  wilderness,  but  now  by  God's  blessing  upon  our  endeavors,  is  become  a  fruitful 
field;  So  to  God's  name  be  the  Praise,  Honor  &  Glory,  who  is  worthy  it  for  ever  &  ever 
more." 

The  parish  of  Llangian.  where  Richard  Evans,  the  maternal  grandfather  of 
John  Roberts,  of  Pencoed,  resided,  and  that  of  Llanengan,  or  Llanergan  as  it  is 
sometimes  spelled,  where  was  situated  Cowyn,  the  home  of  Robert  Thomas 
Morris,  his  paternal  grandfather,  are  adjoining,  and  their  principal  towns  are 
only  one  mile  apart.  Both  parishes  are  on  the  promontory  of  Llyn,  and  like  the 
whole  of  the  county  of  Caernarvon,  at  the  northwestern  corner  of  Wales,  are  the 
most  mountainous  part  of  that  most  mountainous  country.  Caernarvon  was  the 
refuge  and  stronghold  of  the  Britons,  when  they  retired  from  their  Saxon 
invaders,  and  here  they  long  preserved  their  independence,  and  transmitted  from 
generation  to  generation  a  sturdy  and  resolute  love  of  liberty.  The  Parish  Church 
of  Llanengan  is  dedicated  to  St.  Einion,  who  was  King  of  Llyn  in  the  sixth  cen- 
tury, and  is  said  to  have  founded  the  church,  some  parts  of  which  are  very 
ancient. 

John  Roberts,  of  Pencoed,  has  been  sometimes  confounded  with  John  Roberts, 
of  "Pen  y  Chwd,"  Denbigshire,  who  settled  in  Merion  prior  to  i6go;  a  man  of 
sixty  years  when  he  married  Elizabeth  Owen,  aged  seventeen,  daughter  of  Owen 
Humphries,  and  sister  to  Rebecca,  wife  of  Robert  Owen,  of  Merion,  whom,  and 
her  brothers,  Joshua  and  John  Owen,  she  accompanied  to  Pennsylvania  from 
Llwyn  Ddu,  in  Merionethshire.  This  John  Roberts  was  the  grandfather  of  the 
John  Roberts  hanged  as  a  Tory  in  the  early  part  of  the  Revolution.  Two  or  three 
other  John  Roberts  emigrated  from  Wales  at  approximately  the  same  date  and 
located  in  or  near  the  Welsh  Tract. 

John  Roberts  was  one  of  the  purchasers  of  the  40,000  acres  which  comprised 
the  Welsh  tract  in  Merion  and  Haverford  township,  purchased  by  the  prospective 
settlers  before  leaving  Wales,  as  was  also  his  father-in-law,  Robert  Pugh,  his  wife 
Gaynor  becoming  entitled  to  a  portion  of  the  latter.  As  stated  in  his  account  of 
himself  and  his  family,  Roberts  called  his  farm  in  Merion,  Pencoid,  and  on  it  he 
built  a  fine  old  mansion  which  still  comprises  a  part  of  the  late  residence  of  his 
descendant,  George  Brooke  Roberts,  deceased,  at  Bala,  late  president  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  He  married  Gainor  Roberts  Pugh,  at  Merion 
Friends  Meeting,  where  their  certificate  from  Wales  had  been  deposited,  March 
20,  1684.  He  became  the  owner  of  nearly  1,000  acres  of  land  and  was  a  prominent 
man  in  the  community,  serving  continuously  in  the  Provincial  Assembly  from 
1704  to  1718.    His  wife  Gainor  died  February  20,  1722,  and  he  on  June  6,  1724, 


454  ROBERTS 

she  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years  and  he  at  seventy-six.     Both  were  buried  at 
Merion  Meeting  burying-ground. 

Issue  of  John  and  Gainor  (Pugit)  Roberts: 

Robert  Roberts,  b.  at  Merion,  Pa.,  Feb.  i6.  1685:  d.  May  17.  1768;  m.  Sidney  Rees;  of 

whom  presently; 
Richard,  b.  Dec.  18,  1687;  d.  inf.; 
Elizabeth,  b.  July  28,  1690;  d.  inf.; 
Elizabeth,  b.  March  21.   1692-3;  d.  Sept.  9.   1746;  unni. 

Robert  Roberts,  only  surviving  son  of  John  Roberts,  of  Pencoid,  born  in 
Merion,  Philadelphia  county,  February  16,  1685,  inherited  his  father's  plantation 
of  "Pencoid"  and  other  lands,  and  lived  there  all  his  life,  dying  May  17.  1768. 
He  like  his  parents  was  an  earnest  member  of  Merion  Meeting  of  Friends,  and 
was  married  there  to  Sidney  Rees.  June  17,  1709.  She  was  born  at  Pemaen,  parish 
of  Llanwawr,  Merionethshire,  1680,  daughter  of  Rees  Evan,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  ap  Thomas,  of  Daehgwynn,  Merionethshire,  "Gentleman,"  who 
was  a  son  of  Thomas  ap  Hugh,  ap  Evan,  ap  Rhys  Goch,  ap  Tyder,  ap  Rhys,  ap 
levan  Goch,  of  Bryammer,  parish  of  Cerrig-y-Druidion,  Denbighshire,  ap  levan 
Ddu,  ap  David,  ap  Einion,  ap  Kynrig,  ap  Llowarch,  ap  Heilin,  ap  Tyffid,  ap 
Tangno,  ap  Ys-Druyth.  ap  Marchwyst.  ap  Marchweithiam,  Lord  of  Issalet.  in 
Merionethshire. 

Evan  Rees,  father  of  Rees  Evan  and  grandfather  of  Sidney,  wife  of  Robert 
Roberts,  was  prominent  in  Friends  Meetings  in  Wales,  and  suffered  considerable 
persecution,  "for  Truth's  sake."  As  early  as  1668  he  had  oxen  distrained  from 
him  in  payment  of  a  fine  imposed  for  attending  non-conformist  meetings,  and  in 
1676,  he  with  Cadwalader  ap  Thomas,  Rowland  Ellis,  (later  of  the  Welsh  Tract 
in  Pennsylvania),  Lewis  Robert,  Hugh  Robert,  Edward  Rees,  Griffith  John, 
Gainor  David  and  Elizabeth  Williams,  were  imprisoned  for  refusing  to  take  an 
oath. 

Rees  Evan  purchased,  March  18,  1682,  312J/2  acres  of  land  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  prepared  to  emigrate  there,  but  never  accomplished  it.  His  son,  Rees  Evan, 
came  over  soon  after  1682,  as  did  also  his  mother-in-law,  Katharine  Robert,  a 
kinswoman  of  many  of  the  more  prominent  Welsh  settlers.  She  settled  on  a 
plantation  between  the  present  Narbeth  and  Bala. 

Sidney,  wife  of  Robert  Roberts,  was  thrown  from  her  horse,  April  30,  1764, 
and  died  from  the  effects  of  the  injuries  then  received,  June  29,  1764,  aged  seventy- 
four  years  and  two  months.  She  and  her  husband  were  both  buried  at  Merion 
Meeting  burying-ground. 

Issue  of  Robert  and  Sidney  (Rees)  Roberts,  of  Pcneoed: 

John,  b.  June  26,  1710:  d.  January  13,  1776;  m.  Rebecca  Jones:  of  whom  presently; 
Alban.  b.  Sept.  17,  1712;  d.  Oct.  6,  1727; 
Reese,  b.  Aug.  17,  171 5;  d.  Oct.  24,  1755;  unm.; 

Phine.\s.  b.  May  13.  1722;  d.  March.  1801 ;  m.  Ann,  dau.  of  Thomas  Wynne  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne;  of  whom  later; 
Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  21.  1727;  d.  Oct.  19,  1727; 
Sidney,  b.  May  g,  1729;  d.  Oct.  28,  1793;  m.  John  Paul. 

John  Roberts,  eldest  son  of  Robert  and  Sidney  (Rees)  Roberts,  born  at  the 
old  plantation  of  Pencoed,  June  26,  1710,  and  succeeded  to  it  at  the  death  of  his 


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father,  whom,  however,  he  survived  but  eight  years,  dying  January  13.  1776,  just 
on  the  eve  of  the  great  national  struggle  in  which  his  sons  were  destined  to  take  an 
important  part.  He  was,  however,  an  active  man  in  Colonial  times  and  held  a 
commission  as  Justice  from  1757. 

He  married,  May  4,  1733,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Jones,  by  his  wife, 
Gainor,  daughter  of  Robert  Owen,  of  Merion,  and  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Edward 
Jones,  by  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne,  Speaker  of  the 
first  Pennsylvania  Assembly,  1682-3.  Rebecca  (Jones)  Roberts  died  December  8, 
1779. 

Issue  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Jones)  Roberts,  of  Pencoed: 

Dr.  Jonathan  Roberts,  b.  March  30,  1734;  living  1778;  removed  to  Prince  George  co., 
Md. ;  m.  there  1757,  Elizabeth  Carter,  a  widow; 

Gainor,  b.  Jan.  30,  1736;  d.  June  12,  1761; 

Alban,  b.  Sept.  7,  1738;  d.  Feb.  24,  1772;  supposed  unm.; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  18,  1740;  d.  Oct.  24,  1782;  m.  Thomas  Palmer; 

Mary,  b.  July  3,  1742;  d.  Aug.  .23,  1771 ;  supposed  unm.; 

Tacy,  b.  Sept.  2,  1744;  d.  Aug.  3,  1791;  m.  John  Palmer; 

Benjamin,  b.  Aug.  27,  1746;  removed  to  Va. ;  m.  and  had  a  family; 

John,  b.  Nov.  16,  1747;  d.  Nov.  8,  1803;  unm.; 

Robert,  b.  Oct.  10,  1749;  d.  Sept.  17,  1793;  unm.;  he  was  a  member  of  the  First  City 
Troop  of  Phila.,  and  served  with  it  during  the  Revolutionary  war;  his  sword  and 
pistols,  carried  in  that  service,  were  presented  to  his  nephew,  John  Roberts,  son  of 
Algernon,  and  remained  in  the  family  many  years;  they  were  subsequently  presented 
to  the  Troop  and  are  prized  by  the  members  as  sacred  relics; 

Algernon,  b.  Jan.  24,  1751 ;  d.  Dec.  21,  1815;  m.  Tacy  Warner;  of  whom  presently; 

Franklin,  b.  Nov.  2y,  1752;  d.  Dec.  15,  1774; 

Edward,  b.  Jan.  i,  1755;  m.  April  8,  1784,  Elizabeth  Bell;  their  three  children  all  d.  inf., 
and  are  buried  beside  their  mother  at  Arch  Street  Meeting. 

Algernon  Roberts,  sixth  son  and  tenth  child  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Jones) 
Roberts,  of  Pencoed,  was  born  there  January  24,  1751,  and  inherited  the  home- 
stead at  his  father's  death,  as  shown  by  his  endorsement  on  the  old  paper  written 
by  his  great-grandfather,  and  quoted  in  the  early  part  of  this  narrative.  This 
endorsement  bears  date  September  16,  1813,  at  which  time  he  ,is  living  "on  the 
identical  spot,"  built  on  by  his  progenitor.  , 

Algernon  Roberts  joined  the  Associated  Company  of  Philadelphia  County  of 
which  John  Young  was  Captain,  being  the  Fifth  Company,  Third  Battalion  of 
Philadelphia  County  Militia,  Col.  James  Barry.  This  company  with  the  Sixth 
Company  in  the  same  battalion,  Capt.  Peter  Holstein,  were  ordered  to  Paulus 
Hook  in  1776.  Algernon  Roberts  kept  a  journal  of  this  campaign,  covering  the 
period  from  August  16,  1776,  to  September  17,  1776,  giving  in  detail  the  move- 
ments of  the  command  to  which  he  was  attached,  during  the  important  "Cam- 
paign in  the  Jerseys."  In  1777  he  was  made  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Seventh 
Battalion,  Philadelphia  Militia,  of  which  his  father-in-law,  Isaac  Warner,  was 
Colonel.  In  June,  1780,  he  was  appointed  Commissioner  to  procure  supplies  for 
the  army  in  the  field.  He  was  a  member  of  General  Assembly  in  1778,  and  was 
commissioned  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Montgomery  county,  after  its  organiza- 
tion in  1784,  when  Pencoed  became  part  of  that  county.  He  was  treasurer  of  the 
Blockley  and  Merion  Society  for  Promotion  of  Agriculture  for  over  twenty-eight 
years,  just  preceding  his  death,  December  21,  1815,  when  the  Society  adopted 
resolutions  commemorative  of  his  worth  as  a  member  and  a  citizen. 


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Col.  Algernon  Roberts  married  at  Old  Swedes  Church,  Southwark,  January  i8. 
1781,  Tacy,  daughter  of  his  old  comrade-in-arms,  and  superior  officer.  Col.  Isaac 
Warner,  of  Blockley,  by  his  wife,  Lydia  Coulton.  and  a  descendant  of  William 
Warner,  the  first  settler  of  Blockley,  an  account  of  whom,  his  ancestry  and 
descendants  is  given  in  this  work  under  the  title  of  the  "Warner  Family  of 
Blockley." 

Issue  of  Col.  Algernon  and  Tacy  (Warner)  Roberts,  of  Pencoed: 

Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  26,  1782:  d.  Sept.  14,  1799; 
Lydia,  b.  Dec.  3,  1783;  d.  March  17,  1862;  unm. ; 

John,  b.  March  5,  1787;  d.  Jan.  30,  1837;  m.   (first)   March  12,   1812.  Sarah  Jones,   (sec- 
ond)  May  12,  1831,  Lydia  Pratt; 
Isaac  Warner  Roberts,  b.  March  15,  1789;  d.  Sept.  9,  1859;  m.   (first)    March  20,  1817, 
Emily  Thomas,  and  had  issue  : 
Rebecca; 

Mary,  wife  of  Col.  Owen  Jones; 
Gainor ; 
Emily. 
Married   (second)   Feb.  2,  1837.  RosaHnda  Evans  Brooke,  and  had  issue  : 
Algernon  Roberts; 

George  Brooke  Roberts,  late  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  R.  R.  Co. 
Gainor,  b.  Jan.  23,  1791:  d.  May  5.  1868;  unm.; 
Ann,  b.  May  19,  1793;  d.  July  31,  1826;  unm.; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  9,  1795:  d.  Jan.  30,  1837;  m.  Miles  N.  Carpenter,  who  d.  Feb.  4.  1871; 
Algernon  Sydney,  b.  March  29,  1798;  d.  Sept.  14,  1865;  m.  Elizabeth  Culhbert;  of  whom 

presently; 
Edw.ard,  b.  June  29,  1800;  d.  Nov.  3,  1872;  m.  Mary  Elizabeth  Reford;  of  whom  later; 
George  Washington  Roberts,  b.  June  to,  1801 ;  d.  Oct.  28,  1857,  at  Jefferson  City,  La.; 

having  gone  to  that  state  in  1843;  he  was  unm.; 
Tacy,  b.  Feb.  9,  1805;  d.  June  23,  1847. 

Algernon  Sydney  Roberts,  third  son  and  seventh  child  of  Algernon  and 
Tacy  (Warner)  Roberts,  born  at  Pencoed,  Merion  township,  Montgoiriery  county, 
March  29,  1798,  entered  the  drug  store  of  William  Lehinan,  Philadelphia,  as  a  boy, 
to  learn  the  business,  and  in  1832  formed  a  partnership  with  his  younger  brother 
Edward,  and  engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business  and  as  manufacturing 
chemists  at  No.  76  South  Second  street,  where  they  conducted  a  prosperous  busi- 
ness until  1846,  when  they  retired  and  both  became  interested  in  the  development 
of  the  anthracite  coal  fields  of  Luzerne  county,  Pennsylvania. 

Algernon  had  become  a  director  of  the  Shamokin  Coal  &  Iron  Company,  in 
1841,  and  in  1844  a  director  of  the  Harrisburg,  Portsmouth,  Mount  Joy  &  Lan- 
caster Railroad  Company.  In  1846  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  formation  and 
establishment  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  and  was  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners appointed  to  incorporate  that  company.  In  1854  he  was  made  a 
director  of  the  North  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and  continued  a  member 
of  the  board  until  his  death,  and  also  a  director  and  president  of  the  Hazelton 
Railroad  Company.  In  March,  1850,  he  was  one  of  the  committee  of  six  who 
arranged  for  a  convention,  to  favor  the  building  of  a  national  railroad  to  the 
Pacific.  In  1863  he  became  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  of  the  Board  of 
Trade  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  Select  Council  of  Philadel- 
phia in  1844,  and  continued  to  serve  until  1850. 

From  his  youth  up  Mr.  Roberts  had  been  deeply  interested  in  economic  ques- 


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tions,  internal  improvements  and  the  development  of  the  natural  resources  of  the 
country,  as  vk^ell  as  the  promotion  and  encouragement  of  the  manufacturing 
interest  by  the  establishment  of  a  protective  tariff.  He  was  a  correspondent  of 
John  Quincy  Adams,  Henry  Clay  and  other  prominent  statesmen  of  his  day  on 
the  question  of  the  tarifi.  He  was  elected  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Franklin  Institute  in  1829;  was  one  of  the  original  Board  of  Directors  of  Girard 
College  in  1833,  and  in  1835  was  elected  a  Director  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Dela- 
ware Canal  Company  and  served  until  1851.    He  died  September  14,  1865. 

Algernon  Sydney  Roberts  married,  April  10,  1823,  Elizabeth,  born  February  22, 
1802,  died  December  9,  1891,  eldest  daughter  of  Capt.  Anthony  Cuthbert,  of  the 
Artillery  Battalion  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ogden, 
the  patriotic  keeper  of  the  Market  Street  Ferry,  during  the  Revolution,  by  his  wife, 
Jemima  Hewes. 

Thomas  Cuthbert,  born  in  England,  about  1680,  came  to  America,  about  1715 
to  1720,  and  settled  in  Bladen  county,  North  Carolina,  from  whence  he  removed 
to  Philadelphia,  prior  to  1744.  He  died  January  24,  1756,  and  was  buried  at 
Christ  Church.     His   wife  Anne  was  buried  in  the  same  churchyard,   May  21, 

1753- 

Thomas  Cuthbert  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  Cuthbert,  born  in 
England  in  1713,  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  parents,  and  died  there  January 
II,  1781.  He  was  a  shipwright,  and  a  prominent  Patriot  during  the  trying  days  of 
the  Revolution,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  in 
1774,  and  was  a  Delegate  to  the  first  Provincial  Conference  of  the  Colonies  held 
in  Philadelphia  in  1775.  He  married  at  Christ  Church,  May  19,  1744,  Ann,  born 
1717,  died  January  15,  1759,  daughter  of  Anthony  Wilkinson,  a  native  of  England, 
by  his  wife  Elizabeth. 

Captain  Anthony  Cuthbert,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Wilkinson) 
Cuthbert,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  4,  1751,  died  November  14,  1832;  was  com- 
missioned by  the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  April  15,  1780. 
Captain  of  the  Sixth  Company,  Artillery  Battalion  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a 
prominent  business  man  of  Philadelphia  and  served  for  over  thirty  years  as  a 
member  of  City  Council.  He  married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Sarah  (Hewes)  Dixon,  born  September  13,  1758,  died  December  16,  1792; 
(second)  December  19,  1799,  Mary  Ogden,  above  mentioned,  who  was  the  mother 
of  Elizabeth  Cuthbert,  who  married  Algernon  Sydney  Roberts.  Mary  (Ogden) 
Cuthbert  was  born  May  i,  1770,  and  survived  her  husband  thirty  years,  dying 
in  Philadelphia,  February  7,  1862. 

Isstie  of  Algernon  Sydney  and  Elicabeth  (Cuthbert)  Roberts: 

Mary  Cuthbert  Roberts,  b.  March  23,  1824;  d.  June  i,  1834; 

Anthony  Cuthbert  Roberts,  b.  Feb.  21,  1826;  d.  Feb.  10,  i8qi;  m.  Ellen  Chase,  June  28, 
1853; 

Algernon  Sydney  Roberts,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1827;  d.  March  18,  1905;  m.  Nov.  7,  1850, 
Sarah  Carstairs ; 

Perci\al  Roberts,  b.  May  2,  1830:  d.  March  30,  1898;  m.  Jan.  23,  1856,  Eleanor  William- 
son, who  d.  Oct.  23,  1899; 

Elizabeth  Cuthbert  Roberts,  b.  June  20,  1832;  still  living  in  Phila.;  unm. ; 

Josephine  Roberts,  b.  Dec.  3,  1834;  d.  Oct.  3,  1835; 

Frances  Ann  Roberts,  b.  June  21,  1836;  living  in  Phila.; 


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George  Theodore  Roberts,  b.  Nov.  30,  1838:  m.  Oct.  3,  1861,  Sarah  Cazenove,  dau.  of 
Heman  Harris  and  Ellen  Chase  (Little)  Greene,  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  who  d.  April 
30,  I  goo;  they  have  one  daughter: 

Elizabeth  VVentworth  Roberts,  b.  June,   1871. 

Edward  Roberts^  ninth  child  of  Algernon  and  Tacy  (Warner)  Roberts,  born 
at  the  Pencoed  mansion,  Marion  township,  June  29,  1800,  was  the  last  survivor  of 
the  family  of  eleven  children,  dying  in  Philadelphia,  November  3,  1877.  From 
1832  to  1846  he  was  engaged  with  his  brother,  Algernon  Sydney  Roberts,  in  the 
manufacture  of  chemicals  and  drugs  on  Second  street,  Philadelphia,  but  long  prior 
to  his  retirement  from  that  business,  had  turned  his  attention  to  the  development 
of  mining  and  railroad  properties,  particularly  in  the  Lehigh  and  Wyommg 
region.  He  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  active  directors  of  a  number  of  the 
principal  railroads  having  their  terminal  in  Philadelphia,  as  well  as  in  the  leading 
coal  and  iron  companies.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  realize  the  enormous  value  of 
the  anthracite  coal  deposits  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  thoroughly  familiar  with 
and  an  eminent  authority  on  the  mining  resources  of  the  state,  particularly  in  the 
Lehigh  Valley.  Mr.  Roberts  was  of  a  generous,  genial  nature  and  had  an 
extended  circle  of  friends.  He  married,  May  2,  1825,  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  George  and  Elizabeth  Reford,  born  August  3,  1801,  died  August  15,  1862. 
Issue  of  Edzmrd  and  Mary  Elisabeth  (Reford)  Roberts, 

Elizabeth  Reford,  b.  Jan.  23,  1826;  d.  at  Nice.  France,  April  18,  1897;  m.  Jan.  22,  1846, 
Lewis  Sharpe  Ware,  b.  Sept.  12,  1817,  d.  April  ig,  1853,  leaving  issue: 
Lewis  Sharpe  Ware: 
Mary  Roberts  Ware ; 

Anna  Frances,  b.  Nov.  7,  1827;  d.  Oct.  13,  i8go:  m.  Jan.  22,  1851,  Edward  Browning,  b. 
Feb.  I,  1816,  d.  July  9,  1878,  leaving  issue: 

Mary  Roberts  Browning,  wife  of  Arthur  Vincent  Meigs,  M.  D. ; 
Edward  Browning,  b.  1864;  m.  Ella  Louise  McFadden. 

William  Lehman,  b.  Dec.  27,  1829;  d.  Sept.  21,  1899;  unm. ; 

Edward  Roberts,  b.  Sept.  22,  1832;  d.  Aug.  12,  1892;  m.  Martha  Price  Evans;  of  whom 
presently; 

Mary  Warner  Roberts,  b.  Jan.  3,  1835;  m-  (first)  June  8,  1878,  Stephen  W.  Dana,  b. 
April  ig,  1823,  d.  Jan.  3,  1883,  (second)  March  2,  i8go,  Robert  C.  Eskens,  Marquis  de 
Eskens,  de  Frenoys,  of  Belgium; 

Adelaide,  b.  March  7,  1837;  m-  Oct.  27,  1877,  Samuel  Francis  Shaw,  M.  D.,  Surgeon  of 
the  U.  S.  A.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1833,  d.  Dec.  7,  1884,  without  issue; 

Clara,  b.  July  14,  1839;  m.  June  9,  1877,  Count  Godfrey  William  Peter  Anthony  Galli, 
eldest  son  of  Count  Eugene  Coppolan  Galli  and  the  Countess  Catharine  Mareonq,  b. 
at  Pollenza,  Italy,  April  2,  1834.  Count  Godfrey  Galli  was  admitted  to  the  Italian 
Foreign  Office  of  the  Diplomatic  and  Consular  Service,  Aug.  12,  1861,  and  was  placed 
on  the  retired  list  at  his  own  request,  Nov.  4,  1889,  with  the  title  of  "Consul  General 
of  His  Majesty,  the  King  of  Italy;"  he  is  Commander  of  the  Order  of  Holy  Sepulchre, 
by  hereditary  right  in  the  family;  Knight  of  the  first-class  of  Sovereign  Order  of 
Saint  John  of  Jerusalem;  Knight  of  Royal  Order  of  St.  Maurice,  and  St.  Lazarus; 
Knight  of  Royal  Order  of  Crown  of  Italy;  Knight  of  Royal  Order  of  Isabella,  the 
Catholic;  d.  Sept.  30,  1899,  at  Dinard,  France; 

Elbert,  b.  April  i,  1841 ;  d.  April  2,  1842; 

Howard,  b.  April  9,  1843;  d.  April  18,  1901;  achieved  considerable  distinction  as  a  sculp- 
tor; m.  June  I,  1876,  Helen  Pauline  Davis,  dau.  of  Elisha  J.  and  Mary  Faris  (Fassett) 
Lewis,  b.  May  24,  1853;  they  had  issue: 

Howard  Radcliffe  Roberts,  b.  March  31,  1877; 

Helen  Pauline  Roberts,  b.  May  6,  1880;  d.  at  Paris,  France,  Dec.  30.  1889. 

Edward  Roberts  Jr.  married  Martha  Price,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
Ann  (Price)  Evans,  had  issue: 


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Edward  Roberts,  3d.,  b.  Aug.  29,  1857;  educated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.;  who  is  identified  with 
and  an  officer  of  a  number  of  railroad  and  mining  companies,  with  offices  in  Phila.; 

Joseph  Russell  Roberts,  b.  Jan.  16,  i860; 

Martha  Price  Roberts,  b.  Dec.  5,  1861;  d.  July  31,  1862; 

Agnes  Price  Roberts,  b.  Oct.  31,  1863;  m.  April  15,  1884,  Capt.  John  Charles  Groome, 
commander  of  the  State  Constabulary  of  Pa.,  and  Captain  of  the  Phila.  City  Troop; 

Clarence  Howard  Roberts,  b.  June  20,  1871;  d.  June  8,  1876; 

Edith  Roberts,  b.  Feb.  10,  1876. 

Phineas  Roberts,  fourth  son  of  Robert  and  Sidney  (Rees)  Roberts,  born  on 
the  family  plantation  of  "Pencoed"  in  Merion  township,  Philadelphia  county, 
May  13,  1722.  On  May  16,  1746,  his  father  conveyed  to  him  thirty-eight  acres  of 
land  on  the  west  side  of  Schuylkill,  part  of  the  tract  taken  up  by  John  Roberts, 
and  just  prior  to  his  death  conveyed  to  him  other  lands,  but  inherited  under  his 
father's  will  a  tract  purchased  by  his  father  of  Andrew  Wheeler.  Phineas  Roberts 
in  these  earlier  deeds  is  mentioned  as  a  "cooper"  and  probably  followed  that  voca- 
tion in  Merion,  where  he  seems  to  have  lived  all  his  life,  dying  there  March  11, 
1801. 

Phineas  Roberts  married  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Philadelphia,  June 
27,  1743,  Ann,  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  Wynne,  of  Blockley,  by  his  wife,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Anne  (Craven)  Warner,  of  Blockley,  and  granddaughter  of 
William  Warner,  the  first  English  settler  in  Blockley.  Her  grandfather,  Jonathan 
Wynne,  was  only  son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne,  Speaker  of  the  first  Provincial 
Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  1682,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  with  William  Penn 
in  the  "Welcome,"  and  was  one  of  his  closest  friends  during  life.  An  account  of 
Thomas  Wynne,  his  Welsh  ancestry,  his  distinguished  career,  and  some  account 
of  his  descendants  is  given  in  our  article  on  "The  Wynne  Family." 

Ann  Wynne,  wife  of  Phineas  Roberts,  was  born  February  2,  1724-5,  died  July 
5,  1807,  and  was  buried  at  Friends'  Ground,  Lower  Merion. 

The  will  of  Phineas  Roberts,  of  Blockley,  "being  antient  and  infirm  of  Body"  is 
dated  December  24,  1798,  proven  March  28,  1801.  It  devises  all  his  estate  to  his 
wife  Ann  for  life;  then  to  his  daughters,  Esther  Palmer  and  Sidney  Jones  £50 
each ;  to  his  four  grandchildren,  children  of  his  son  Isaac,  deceased,  £25  each ;  to 
five  grandchildren,  children  of  deceased  daughter  Hannah  Streaper,  viz,  Mary, 
William,  Isaac,  Richard  and  George,  £50;  residue  to  son  Titus.  His  nephew, 
John  Roberts,  is  named  as  executor  and  his  nephew,  Algernon  Roberts,  as  trustee. 

Both  Phineas  Roberts  and  his  wife,  Ann  Wynne,  were  members  of  Merion 
Friends  Meeting,  and  were  dealt  with  for  their  marriage,  "out  of  Unity,"  but 
making  suitable  acknowledgments  were  retained  in  membership. 

Phineas  Roberts  was  a  member  of  the  Fishing  Club  of  St.  David's.  1763. 
Issue  of  Phineas  and  Ann  (Wynne)  Roberts: 

Esther  Roberts,  m.  Dec.  26,  1770,  Jonathan  Palmer; 

Sidney  Roberts,  b.  Sept.  6,  1756;  d.  Sept.  7,  1812;  m.  John  Jones;  of  whom  presently; 

Isaac  Roberts,  d.  before  his  father,  leaving  four  children; 

Hannah  Roberts,  m. Streaper,  and  d.  before  her  father,  leaving  five  children; 

Titus  Roberts. 

In  the  possession  of  Miss  Sydney  E.  Jones,  formerly  of  Germantown,  is  a  book 
published  in  Philadelphia  in  1728,  entitled,  "The  History  of  the  Rise,  Increase  and 


46o  ROBERTS 

Progress  of  the  Christian  People  called  Quakers,"  translated  into  English  from 
Low  Dutch  by  William  Sewell,  Third  Edition;  "Printed  and  Sold  in  Second 
Street  by  Samuel  Keimer."  On  the  title  page  are  the  following  inscriptions  :  "The 
Gift  of  Robert  Roberts  to  his  son  Phineas  Roberts,  July  14,  1764" — "The  Gift  of 
Phineas  Roberts  to  his  Daughter  Sidney  Jones,  1800" — "The  Gift  of  Sidney  Jones 
to  her  son,  Isaac  R.  Jones" — "The  Gift  of  Isaac  R.  Jones  to  his  brother  Joseph  \V. 
Jones,  March  — " — "The  Gift  of  Joseph  W.  Jones  to  his  Daughter  Sidney  E. 
Jones,  on  his  75th.  Birthday,  February  18,  1875."  On  blank  pages  in  the  front  of 
the  book  are  records  of  the  birth  of  the  children  of  Robert  and  Sidney  Roberts, 
the  dates  of  death  of  the  parents,  as  well  as  of  the  grandparents,  John  and  Gainor 
Roberts;  the  record  of  the  birth  and  death  of  Phineas  Roberts  and  his  wife,  Ann 
Wynne,  and  of  Sidney  (Roberts)  Jones,  her  husband,  John  Jones,  and  his 
parents,  Evan  and  Ann  (Evans)  Jones.  The  later  entries  were  doubtless  made 
by  Isaac  R.  Jones. 

Sidney  Roberts,  daughter  of  Phineas  and  Ann  (Wynne)  Roberts,  born  "near 
the  Falls  of  Schuylkill,  Lower  Merion,  September  6,  1756.  departed  this  life 
September  7,  1812,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  Morning."  She  married,  October  12,  1780, 
John  Jones,  born  in  Cumru  township,  now  Montgomery  county,  June  10,  1748. 
"Departed  this  life  April  24,  1821."  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  buried  at  Friends 
Burying-Ground,  Lower  Merion. 

Evan  Jones,  father  of  John  Jones,  was  born  in  what  is  now  Montgomery 
county,  March  13,  1723-4,  died  January  26,  1775.  He  married,  in  1745,  Ann 
Evans,  born  at  Great  Valley,  Chester  county,  June  10,  1727,  died  May  20,  1778. 
Both  were  of  Welsh  parentage. 

John  Jones  was  a  Quartermaster  of  Militia  during  the  Revolutionary  War.     He 
and  his  wife,  Sidney  Roberts,  lived  during  the  latter  part  of  their  lives  at  Darby, 
where  he  died  April  24,  1821,  and  she  September  7,  1812. 
Issue  of  John  and  Sidney  (Roberts)  Jones: 

Ann  Jones,  b.  July  10,  1781  ;  d.  Aug.,  1781  ; 

Thomas  Wynne  Jones,  b.  May  7,  1782; 

Richard  Roberts  Jones,  b.  Sept.  5,  1784:  d.  Nov.  29,  1821 : 

Isaac  Roberts  Jones,  b.  July  12,  1786:  d.  March  23,  1850;  m.  Maria  Mercer;  of  whom 

presently: 
William  Jones,  b.  June  10,  1788;  d.  June  12,  1788; 
John  Jones,  Jr.,  b.  July  11,  1789;  d.  Oct.  20,  1789; 
Sydney  Jones,  b.  Sept.  6,  1790;  d.  Sept.  27,  1790; 
Hester  Jones,  b.  Jan.  10,  1792;  d.  Jan.  21,  1793; 
John  Jones,  b.  Feb.  7,  1794;  d.  Feb.  22,  1797; 
Phineas  Evans  Jones,  b.  Jan.  6,  1797;  d.  unm.,  1834; 
Joseph  Washington  Jones,  b.  Feb.  18,  1800;  d.  1881; 
Mary  Ann  Jones,  b.  Sept  23,  1802;  d.  Sept.  18,  1859. 

Isaac  Roberts  Jones,  fourth  child  of  John  and  Sidney  (Roberts)  Jones,  born 
July  12,  1786,  married,  October  3,  181 1,  Maria  Mercer,  of  New  Jersey,  said  to 
have  been  of  the  same  family  as  Gen.  Hugh  Mercer. 
Issue  of  Isaac  R.  and  Maria  (Mercer)  Jones: 

John  Sidney  Jones,  b.  Aug.  27,  1812; 

Maria  Sydney  Jones,  b.  April  12,  1814; 

Isaac  Roberts  Jones,  b.  July  18,  1816;  d.  June  14,  181.7; 


ROBERTS  461 

Isaac  Roberts  Jones,  b.  Jan.  i,  1818; 
Eleanor  Moss  Jones,  b.  June  i,  1819;  d.  1890; 
Mercer  Jones,  b.  Jan.  22,  1821  ; 
Elias  Hicks  Jones,  b.  Aug.  23,  1823; 

Charlotte  Frelinghuysen  Jones,  b.  Oct.  21,  1825;  d.  Sept.  i,  1826; 
Charlotte  Frelinghuysen  Jones,  b.  Dec.  18,  1827; 

Elizabeth  Mercer  Jones,  b.  Sept.  8,  1830;  d.  April  26,  1898;  m.  William  MacLean;  of 
whom  presently. 

Elizabeth  Mercer  Jones,  youngest  child  of  Isaac  R.  and  Maria  (Mercer) 
Jones,  born  September  8,  1830;  married  at  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadel- 
phia, July  27,  1858,  William  MacLean,  second  son  of  William  and  Ann  (Porteus) 
MacLean,  born  July  18,  1828,  in  Stranraer,  a  maritime  port  on  Loch  Ryan, 
county  Wigtown,  southern  extremity  of  Scotland.  William  MacLean  came  to 
Philadelphia  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  years,  and  has  since  resided  in  that  city, 
where  he  has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  prominent  conveyancers.  He 
became  a  member  of  St.  Andrew's  Society  in  1855,  and  is  now  its  oldest  member. 
He  has  also  been  a  trustee  of  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadelphia  for  many 
years. 

Issue  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Mercer  (Jones)  MacLean: 

Anne  Porteus  MacLean,  b.  May  5,  1859;  d.  Dec.  29,  1861  ; 
Maria  Mercer  MacLean,  b.  Aug.  25,  1861  ;  d.  March  31,  1864; 
Charlotte  Frelinghuysen  MacLean,  b.  Aug.  31,  1863;  unm.; 
William  MacLean,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1865;  of  whom  presently; 
Hew  Brydon  MacLean,  b.  Jan.  9,  1867;  d.  Dec.  i,  1903;  unm.; 
Sarah  Jones  MacLean,  b.  Dec.  28,  1871;  unm. 

William  MacLean  Jr.,  Esq.,  eldest  son  of  William  and  EHzabeth  Mercer 
(Jones)  MacLean,  born  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  August  31,  1865,  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  George  Harrison  Fisher  in  that  city  and  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia bar,  March  i,  1895,  and  was  later  admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  During  the  earlier 
years  of  his  practice  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Jones,  Carson  &  Beeber, 
and  since  the  dissolution  of  that  firm,  in  1902,  has  practiced  alone,  with  offices  at 
812-815  South  Penn  Square.  He  was  President  of  the  Law  Academy  of  Philadel- 
phia in  1899;  is  a  member  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia;  Pennsylvania 
State  Bar  Association ;  Lawyers  Club  of  Philadelphia,  etc.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania, 
Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Academy  of  Social  and  Political 
Science ;  and  is  a  director  of  various  financial  and  business  corporations. 


CUTHBERT  FAMILY. 

The  follow  ing  is  a  copy  of  the  "Contracts  and  Testimonials,  under  the  hand  and 
seal  of  Lord  Lyon,  King  of  Arms  in  Scotland,  of  the  illustrious  Extraction  and 
Descent  of  the  Honorable  family  of  Castlehill,"  made  for  "James  Cuthbert,  of 
Berly,  great-grandchild  of  the  last  John  Cuthbert,  of  Castlehill  except  one." 

"A  Chronological  Account  of  the  Origin,  Settlement,  Armorial  Bearing,  and  Surname, 
of  the  Illustrious  family  of  Cuthbert.  of  Castlehill,  in  the  County  of  Inverness,  Scotland. 
The  aforesaid  name  vulgarly  called  Ciibbert  and  Colbert,  and  in  the  Erse  Language.  Quibert. 

"This  Illustrious  family  came  originally  to  Scotland  from  the  country  of  the  North- 
umbrians in  the  north  of  England,  where  it  was.  about  the  year  of  Christ  "00.  Alfred 
Reigned  then  in  that  Country  which  made  one  of  the  Kingdoms  of  the  Heptarchy  and  had 
lately  embraced  Christianity  by  the  Bishop  of  Landisfarn  (afterward  called  Holy  Land): 
he  was  of  the  same  stock  and  family  from  which  is  descended  the  family  of  Castlehill  as  is 
sufficiently  proved  from  the  antient  protection  granted  on  that  account  by  the  Kings  of 
Scotland  to  that  Illustrious  family;  from  the  surname  and  Armorial  Bearing,  and  has  been 
acknowledged  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  of  Scotland  in  the  year  1087.  The  Picts,  a  nation 
in  the  neighborhood  of  the  Northumbrians,  and  who  inhabited  the  South  of  Scotland,  were 
as  yet,  at  that  period  (670),  for  the  most  part  Pagans  and  always  at  war  with  the  Albanicks 
who  inhabited  the  West  hills  of  Scotland,  the  latter  had  then  embraced  Christianity  for 
some  time. 

"Alfred,  a  man  of  Letters,  as  well  as  zealous  for  the  prorogation  of  the  belief  and  law 
wherein  he  had  been  newly  instructed  and  truly  animated  with  the  spirit  of  Charity,  laid 
himself  out  ardently  in  procuring  and  cementing  peace  between  these  two  nations,  his 
neighbors,  and  the  more  that  he  had  conceived  a  particular  esteem  for  the  King  of  the  Al- 
banicks, Eugene  the  Fifth,  his  contemporary,  who  was  likewise  a  man  of  letters  and  a  Chris- 
tian. 

"Alfred  gave  commission  to  the  Bishop  of  Lindisfarn,  his  subject  and  Instructor  in 
Christianity,  to  negotiate  this  peace  betwixt  them;  he  hoped  thereby  to  see  the  religion  which 
he  had  newly  embraced  himself  more  easily  established  among  the  Picts  as  appears  from  the 
History  of  Scotland  by  Buchanan  and  others. 

The  Holy  Bishop  laid  himself  out  with  the  greatest  wisdom  and  impartiality  to  bring  this 
about  and  succeeded ;  he  brought  both  nations  to  agree  that  they  should  never  thereafter 
attack  each  other  with  their  whole  forces,  and  that  the  King  of  the  Picts  should  give  his 
daughter  in  marriage  to  the  King  of  Albanick's  eldest  son;  which  was  accordingly  executed. 
By  this  alliance  it  happened  that  soon  thereafter  the  rights  to  the  Crown  of  the  Albanicks 
and  the  Picts  were  united  together  in  the  person  of  Eugene,  the  Eleventh  and  King  of  the 
Albanicks,  descended  from  this  marriage;  although  these  rights  were  not  made  effectual  until 
King  Kenneth's  time  in  the  year  854,  however,  the  Albanicks  and  the  Picts  became  after- 
wards one  and  the  same  nation  and  were  known  by  the  name  of  Scots  as  appears  from  all 
Scottish  Historians.  But  Alfred,  while  he  charitably  procured  peace  between  the  nations, 
his  neighbors,  he  could  not  cover  himself  from  those  Revolutions  to  which  all  Crowns  were 
more  particularly  subjected  in  those  times  of  ignorance  and  confusion,  he  was  chased  out  of 
his  Kingdom  and  obliged  to  lake  refuge  with  the  King  of  the  Picts,  who  endeavored  in  vain 
to  restore  him  to  his  Throne;  by  this  revolution,  this  unsuccessful  assistance  of  the  King  of 
the  Picts  and  by  the  death  of  the  Bishop  of  Lindisfarn,  the  kindred  of  this  worthy  prelate 
were  obliged  to  quit  his  native  country  and  to  seek  refuge  abroad. 

".\bercromby.  a  modern  Scottish  Historian  says  this  Bishop  in  after  times  was  honour- 
ed, as  a  Saint.  He  left  his  family  to  go  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  Northumbrians.  Bedc. 
a  contemporary  with  the  Bishop,  imagines  him  to  be  of  the  Country  of  the  Northumbrians, 
the  Bishop's  kindred  who  were  distinguished  in  those  antient  times  by  no  other  name  but 
that  of  George,  which  one  of  the  family  had  received  in  baptism  or  on  his  embracing  Chris- 
tianity; they  came  to  ask  protection  and  refuge  from  the  King  of  the  Albanicks,  whose  resi- 
dence was  frequently  at  Inverness;  who  full  of  gratitude  for  the  peace  which  the  Bishop  of 
Lindisfarn  had  negotiated  with  so  much  dexterity  and  uprightness  betwixt  his  Grandfather 
and  the  King  of  the  Picts,  received  them  with  kindness  until  such  time  as  he  could  give 
them  employment  in  his  service  or  otherwise  provide  for  them.  These  marks  of  his  royal 
goodness,  though  not  yet  accompanied  with  a  solid  establishment,  having  acquired  to  them 
the  highest  consideration  in  the  Town  of  Inverness,  they  did  from  that  time  Hx  their  abode 
there  in  order  to  be  near  to  offer  their  service  and  show  their  attachment  to  the  King.  They 
had  the  good  fortune  to  distinguish  themselves  in  those  early  times  in  the  troops  which  the 
town  of  Inverness  was  bound  to  send  to  the  field  for  the  King's  service;  as  a  recompense  for 
their  valor  and  signali/cd  exploits  in  that  station  he  obtained  them,  together  with  the  free- 


CUTHBERT  463 

dom  of  being  Burgesses,  the  rights  of  the  Lands  of  Droggie  or  Drakies  in  vassalage,  or 
fee  holding  thereof  which  they  still  possess,  their  influence  in  the  King's  Court  and  in  the 
town  of  Inverness  engaged  thereafter  the  Baron  of  Dacier  in  the  neighborhood  to  give  them 
in  vassalage  the  Lands  of  Muckovy  to  be  held  of  him  which  they  likewise  still  possess. 

"It  was  not  till  long  thereafter  that  they  obtained  from  the  King  in  recompense  of  their 
constant  and  distinguished  services,  the  lands  that  compose  the  Barony  of  Castlehill,  which 
they  got  as  a  Royal  Holding  or  fee  with  a  fortified  Castle  under  the  burthen  of,  or  subject 
to  Military  service.  These  events  which  regard  their  first  settlement  at  Inverness  are  pre- 
sumed, from  the  proofs  of  the  high  antiquity  of  this  family,  to  have  happened  about  the  year 
950  A.  D.,  a  short  time  after  King  Kenneth  by  his  birthright  as  well  as  by  conquest  had 
united  the  Kingdom  of  the  Picts  to  that  of  the  Albanicks,  such  is  the  tradition  in  the  family 
of  Castlehill  about  the  origin  of  its  first  illustration,  and  its  settlement  in  Scotland,  the  prin- 
cipal facts  of  which  are  set  down  by  the  best  historians  such  as  Bede,  Fordum,  Boce,  Bu- 
chanan, &c.  The  dates  of  the  first  concession  of  the  Lands  of  Drakies  and  Muckovy  as  well 
as  of  the  Lands  of  Castlehill  are  now  unknown,  the  primitive  titles  having  been  destroyed 
during  the  invasion  of  Scotland  by  King  Edward  the  First  of  England,  and  in  the  wars  of 
the  great  families  in  the  Country  amongst  themselves.  The  use  of  the  publick  register  in 
order  to  supply  copies  of  this  kind  was  introduced  in  very  late  ages.  This  Royal  fee  in  all 
the  charters  both  antient  and  modern  is  designed  auld,  otherwise  Old  Castlehill,  the  Castle 
upon  it  was  most  probably  the  antient  habitation  of  the  King  of  the  Albanicks  at  Inverness, 
but  since  the  union  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Albanicks  and  Picts,  King  Duncan  as  it  is  sayed 
caused  to  be  built  a  new  Castle  on  a  rising  ground  in  the  middle  of  the  Town;  which  com- 
mands it  and  is  hkewise  called  Castlehill  but  is  now  in  ruins,  it  had  been  repaired  and  forti- 
fied about  the  year  1730,  but  Prince  Charles  Edward  (the  Pretender's  son)  in  the  year  1746 
blew  up  the  Castle  with  the  fortifications.  This  illustrious  family  in  possession  through  a 
great  many  ages  of  the  Lands  of  Castlehill,  as  likewise  of  that  of  Muckovy,  holding  of  the 
Barony  of  Dacies  and  of  the  Lands  of  Drakies,  holding  of  the  town  of  Inverness,  near  which 
is  their  residence,  was  known  and  distinguished  in  those  antient  times  and  in  the  newest  or 
earliest  of  Christianity  in  that  country,  only  by  the  usual  name  of  Baptism  of  the  head  of 
the  family,  which  was  George  upon  that  account  the  head  of  this  family  like  the  chieftans 
of  the  other  illustrious  families  in  the  Highlands  of  Scotland,  who  have  their  particular 
patronymic  baptismal  names  continues  always  to  be  known  and  distinguished  in  the  High- 
land Scottish  language  which  is  still  at  this  day  vulgar  in  all  the  Country  of  Inverness,  where 
the  Barony  of  Castlehill  is  situated,  by  the  patronymic  surname  of  M'George  without  any 
other  denomination,  such  surnames  being  the  only  ones  used  in  the  Highlands  till  the 
Eleventh  Century. 

"Patronymic  surnames  as  they  were  the  first  given  so  they  were  commonly  the  most  dur- 
able in  the  great  Highland  families,  others  given  on  account  of  some  quality  of  the  mind, 
of  the  heart  or  body,  as  well  as  those  drawn  from  the  place  of  their  residence,  they  were 
more  subject  to  being  altered  as  being  personal. 

"The  family  of  Castlehill  has  surnames  of  all  these  different  kinds,  excepting  from  the 
qualities  of  the  body  and  it  is  the  antient  possession  and  transmission  of  the  different  sur- 
names according  to  the  different  ages  wherein  they  shone  and  distinguished  themselves, 
wherein  the  national  customs  likewise  underwent  changes,  and  it  was  usual  to  get  surnames 
of  these  different  kinds  that  constitute  the  surest  proof  of  their  illustrious  existence  having 
been  destroyed  by  the  invasion  of  Edward  the  first  and  in  the  intestine  wars  of  the  Kingdom 
which  it  may  be  said  is  the  case  with  most  other  illustrious  Highland  families;  it  was  rela- 
tively to  the  primitive  illustration  of  this  family  that  at  the  same  time  of  the  introduction 
of  Armorial  Bearings  amongst  the  gentry  of  Europe,  they  took  for  theirs  a  quevie  in  pate 
azure,  armed  Gules  in  a  field  or,  as  being  the  most  expressive  symbol  of  their  wisdom  and 
uprightness  in  the  negotiation  of  the  peace  which  acquired  to  them,  this  their  first  and  great 
illustrion,  they  took  for  crest  a  Naked  Hand  holding  a  branch  of  Olive,  and  for  the  Motto, 
Perit  et  Vestc. 

"In  consequence  of  this  same  Illustration  and  of  the  above  Armorial  Bearing;  when 
surnames  other  than  patronymic  were  introduced  and  became  fixed  in  the  Twelfth  Century, 
this  family  got  in  the  Highland  Scottish  Language  the  vulgar  name  about  Inverness  where 
they  had  long  before  settled,  the  surname  of  Quivert  or  Quibert,  besides  that  of  M'George, 
which  the  Chief  carried  ever  since  the  family  became  Christians,  in  so  much  that  at  this  very 
day  all  the  descendants  of  this  family  is  not  called  otherwise  than  Quivert  in  the  Highland 
or  Erse  Language,  either  from  the  corruption  of  the  word  Quevre,  which  in  Heraldry  signi- 
fies Serpent,  which  they  had  taken  for  their  arms  or  from  the  word  Cou  which  in  the  Erse 
signifies  word,  wisdom  which  signifies  holy,  virtues,  and  Bart  or  Vart  which  signifies  rich, 
that  is  to  say  rich  or  holy  wisdom  to  perpetuate  the  remembrance  and  tradition  of  their 
origin  and  settlement.  It  was  after  the  union  of  the  Highland  and  Albanicks  and  the  Picts 
under  the  same  King  and  under  the  common  name  of  Scots,  and  after  the  Picts  language 
had  prevailed  over  the  Albanicks  and  become  the  language  of  the  Court  and  the  Assembly 
of  the  States  and  of  the  Parliament,  that  this  family  got  in  the  Picts  language  the  surname 
of  Cuthbert  or  Cudbert,  which  as  Camden  explains  it  in  his  work  called  "Brittanious  or  the 
Antiquities  of  Britain"  (wrote  about  the  year  1600  under  Queen  Elizabeth),  signifies  Illus- 
trious for  Skill,  which  happens  equally  as  Quivert  in  the  Erse  Language  to  be  relative  to  the 


464  CUTHBERT 

primitive  of  Castlehill,  and  to  the  Armorial  Bearing  was  granted  to  them  to  perpetuate  the 
erudition  therefrom. 

"The  word  Cuth  signifies  skill,  and  Bert  illustrious,  which  name  the  Bishop  of  Lindis- 
farn  got  in  the  same  language  probably  on  that  account.  In  those  distant  times,  it  was  very 
common  to  translate  surnames  from  one  language  into  another  and  even  more  recently, 
especially  when  they  were  significant,  and  the  language  original,  otherwise  when  no 
surname  had  any  signification,  or  when  it  was  not  attended  to  by  the  vulgar  as  is 
often  the  case.  People  did  commonly  add  or  cut  off  a  letter  at  the  end  of  a  name,  transfer  or 
substitute  one  letter  for  another  in  the  middle,  as  in  Stuart.  Douglass,  Sinclair,  etc.,  without 
going  further;  in  Cuthbert  itself  given  to  this  family  in  the  Pictish  Language,  for  although 
it  was  their  insignificant  or  relative  to  the  first  illustration  and  written  according  to  the 
etymology,  yet  it  ever  was  in  speaking  the  public  language  pronounced  at  Inverness  Cobbert, 
because  of  the  difficulty  or  harshness  which  the  natives  of  that  town  find  in  the  articulating 
the  different  consonants  that  compose  it,  and  the  natives  of  Edinburgh  for  the  like  reason 
as  likewise  the  French  who  anciently  resorted  thither,  softened  it  yet  more  and  pronounced  it 
a6  if  written  Colbert  or  Cubbert,  which  the  Armorial  Bearing  of  the  family  (in  Latin 
Coluber)  led  them  yet  more  easily  to  do  especially  about  the  beginning  of  the  Thirteenth 
Century,  when  arms  had  become  fixed,  and  the  Latin  was  universally  familiar  over  Europe, 
hence  it  happened  that  the  descendants  of  this  family  that  are  antiently  settled  about  Edin- 
burgh and  Trauent  as  well  as  those  who  went  over  to  France  have  allowed  their  names  to 
be  written  according  to  this  last  pronunciation  and  continue  still  to  do  so,  which  the  ances- 
tors of  their  respective  branches  were  at  first  in  all  probability  led  to  do,  from  their  not 
knowing  in  these  times  either  to  read  or  write  though  of  Illustrious  extraction. 

"From  these  various  circumstances,  it  has  happened  that  the  stock  itself  of  the  family 
though  constantly  designed  in  all  their  charters  by  the  Pictish  denomination  of  Cuthbert 
only,  has  ever  continued  to  be  known  and  called  in  the  vulgar  pronunciation  by  several 
different  surnames  above  mentioned  which  do  always  vary  to  this  day,  the  language  and 
idiom  which  at  the  same  time  these  different  denominations  have  never  ceased  to  be  looked 
on  as  synonymous,  and  the  same  as  equally  and  only  belonging  to  this  family  and  have  been 
acknowledged  and  declared  as  such  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  of  Scotland  in  the  year  1687, 
asserting  the  descent  of  John  Baptist  Colbert,  Marquis  of  Decinely.  from  this  illustrious 
family  by  Edward  Colbert  son  thereof,  who  went  over  to  France  with  Mary  Lindsay  of 
Edget,  his  spouse  about  the  year  1280,  accompanying  Christiana  as  Baliol,  niece  of  King 
-Alexander  the  Third,  when  this  Princess  went  there  to  marry  Eugert  de  Guines,  Lord  of 
Coney,  where  having  lived  some  time  and  left  issue  the  said  Edward  died  at  Rheims  and  was 
buried  there.  This  identity  of  the  various  surnames  has  been  likewise  certified  at  that  time 
by  the  testimonial  of  the  Magistrates  of  Inverness  and  has  again  been  certified  by  the  present 
Magistrates  4th  of  November  1769  in  favour  of  Lacklan  Alexander  and  Deicinely  Colbert 
called  in  the  Erse  or  Albanick  language  Quivert,  and  in  the  Pictish  language  Cuthbert. 

"All  the  younger  children  of  this  illustrious  family  immediately  descended  from  the 
same  Baron  of  Castlehill,  and  now  settled  these  several  years  past  in  France.  The  Barony 
of  Castlehill  is  contiguous  to  the  town  of  Inverness  insomuch  that  some  houses  built  upon 
the  Demesnes  do  form  a  suburb  of  the  town,  where  the  Baron  of  Castlehill  had  his  BaiH- 
wick  to  administer  justice.  This  Barony  is  bounded  on  the  North  by  the  town  of  Inverness 
and  the  sea,  and  extends  with  Drakies  and  Muckovy,  the  other  lands  of  the  family,  to  the 
East  and  South  as  far  as  the  lands  of  the  Earl  of  Murray  on  the  river  Naium  and  to  the 
Estate  of  CuUoden,  famous  for  the  battle  fought  there  in  the  year  1746. 

"The  family  of  Cuthbert  while  possessed  from  male  to  male  of  the  land  of  Drakies, 
Muckovy  and  Castlehill  from  remote  ages,  did  at  the  time  fill  the  most  distinguished  offices 
in  the  state,  much  as  that  of  High  Sheriff  of  the  Counties  of  Inverness  and  Ross,  whereof 
they  did  always  acquit  themselves  with  honour  and  the  strictest  faithfulness,  as  likewise  of 
the  Trust  of  Knight  of  the  shire,  they  had  likewise  been  founders  of  a  Chapel  in  Inverness 
which  they  dedicated  to  Saint  Cuthbert  but  was  destroyed  at  the  introduction  of  Calvinism, 
the  family  has  always  preserved  its  right  of  burying  on  the  ground  whereon  the  Chapel  was 
built. 

"The  foundation  of  this  Church  appears  by  the  family  from  Doctor  George  M'Kenzie 
on  the  life  of  Saint  Cuthbert.  Vol.  ist,  page  367.  It  was  in  consideration  of  the  great  valour 
and  high  exploits  which  the  head  of  this  family  showed  at  the  Battle  of  Harlaw  in  the  year 
141 1  in  support  of  James  the  second  against  M'Donald,  Lord  of  the  Isles,  whose  standard 
he  took  at  this  battle,  when  as  Chief  Vassal  of  the  Town  of  Inverness,  by  his  Lands  of 
Draky,  he  led  into  the  field  the  Troops  of  that  Town,  the  King  then  granted  to  George 
Cuthbert,  Chief  of  the  name,  as  a  recompense  for  his  signalized  services  and  a  particular 
mark  of  distinction,  a  Fess  Gules  in  a  Field  or  additional  to  the  quivre  Azure,  the  former 
Armorial  Bearing  of  the  family  which  they  afterwards  bore  in  chief  and  that  this  Prince 
ordered  him  to  take  for  a  Crest,  a  hand  in  gauntlet  holding  an  arrow,  and  for  Motto,  "Nee 
ininus  fortitur." 

"There  is  likewise  added  to  the  above  achievement  two  wild  horses  for  supporters, 
whereof  the  X'ouchers  are  in  the  Archives  of  the  College  of  Heralds  in  Scotland.  The 
family  of  Cuthberts  after  the  destruction  of  their  more  ancient  charters  by  the  English  under 
Edward  the  First,  and  afterwards  by  other  accidents  was  in  the  habit,  as  other  families  in 


CUT  H  BERT  465 

that  Country,  of  making  a  resignation  of  their  fees  into  the  hands  of  the  King  and  of  their 
other  superiors  in  order  to  obtain  new  charters,  confirmative  of  their  possessions ;  but  their 
ancient  charters  even  of  this  kind,  particularly  of  their  lands  of  Drakies  and  Muckovy 
whereof  no  public  records  were  made  as  holding  only  of  particular  superiors,  more  lately 
taken  from  them  or  destroyed  during  the  hostilities  betwixt  the  great  families  of  the  Coun- 
try, but,  chiefly  by  the  McDonalds  when  the  Lord  of  the  Isles  rose  in  arms  to  maintain  the 
right  to  the  County  of  Ross.  This  Lord  treated  in  the  same  manner  the  Town  of  Inverness 
and  the  most  of  the  great  families  about  it,  by  destroying  their  charters,  registers,  writings, 
and  by  laying  waste  all  the  country. 

"The  reformers  of  religion  sometime  thereafter  destroyed  with  the  Churches  all  the 
Church  writings  that  could  any  ways  have  supplied  losses  so  that  the  most  anticnt  Charters 
that  the  family  now  possesses  are  that  of  the  lands  of  Auld  Castlehill  granted  to  William 
Cuthbert  by  King  James  3d.  in  the  year  1478  and  that  of  Queen  Mary  for  the  same  lands  in 
the  year  1548,  granted  to  George  Cuthbert  nephew  and  heir  apparent  of  John  Cuthbert  of 
auld  Castlehill,  and  to  his  heirs  male.  They  have  likewise  other  titles  at  diiTerent  periods 
after  these  Charters  and  since  the  erection  of  the  Barony  of  King  James  6th  which  consists 
chiefly  in  a  Charter  of  confirmation  from  King  Charles  1st,  dated  August  1st.  1625,  and  in 
the  consecutive  enfiefments  of  the  said  lands. 

"The  head  of  the  family  of  Castlehill  so  antiently  proprietor  of  this  estate,  of  that  of 
Drakies  or  Draggle,  and  of  that  of  Muccovy,  though  by  nature  of  his  fee  of  Castlehill  he 
held  immediately  of  the  Crown  was  nevertheless  not  created  Baron  of  the  State  of  the 
Kingdom  till  James  6th  conferred  that  honor  on  him,  and  his  heirs  male  are  assignees  bear- 
ing the  name  and  arms  of  Cuthbert  as  appears  from  the  Charter  of  creation,  which  was 
dated  on  the  19th  of  August,  1592,  vesting  him  with  that  quality,  and  with  all  sorts  of  Jurisdic- 
tion thereto  belonging  with  the  right,  likewise  of  sitting  in  the  Assembly  of  the  States  of  the 
Kingdom,  wherein  as  well  as  in  the  Parliament  the  destination  of  the  House  of  Lords  and 
House  of  Commons  never  existed  as  in  the  Parliament  of  England  and  now  in  that  of  Great 
Britain,  and  things  always  remained  on  that  footing  in  Scotland  until  the  union  of  the 
Parliament  of  England  of  both  Kingdoms  in  the  year  170;  under  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne 
of  which  late  Charters  and  Seizins  that  have  escaped  destruction,  beginning  of  that  granted 
in  the  year  1478  to  William  (Cuthbert)  son  of  John  and  grandson  of  George  who  distin- 
guished himself  at  the  Battle  of  Harlaw.  Alexander  Cuthbert  hereafter  mentioned  has 
presented  with  the  preceding  memorial  in  an  interrupted  series  authenticated  copies  to  the 
Lord  Lyon  in  order  to  prove  as  far  back  as  evidence  of  this  kind  (on  account  of  the  above 
unfortunate  circumstances)  can  be  traced,  the  antient  illustrious  existence  of  the  family  of 
Castlehill  and  to  obtain  from  his  lordship  a  certificate  thereof  in  the  legal  and  due  form, 
also  a  testimonial  of  the  destruction  of  the  more  antient  writings  of  the  family  from  the 
above  mentioned  circumstances  and  likewise  a  certificate  of  the  Armorial  Bearing  of  the 
said  family  as  is  recorded  in  the  Lyon  Office  and  of  the  synonymous  appellations  of  the 
surname  thereof  in  the  Kingdom  so  as  to  ascertain  and  make  known  beyond  all  doubt,  the 
illustrious  extraction  and  descent  of  the  male  children  and  grandchildren  of  the  late  John 
Cuthbert,  Baron  of  Castlehill,  and  of  the  late  Jane  Hay,  heiress  of  Dalkethy,  his  spouse,  of 
the  late  George  their  eldest  son  Baron  of  Castlehill  who  espoused  Mary  M'lntosh  of  Holm 
and  left  by  her  besides  his  other  son  another  male  George  four  sons,  viz  :  James  settled  in 
Georgia  in  North  America,  Senely  in  France,  Lewis  and  George  in  Jamaica.  Lachlan  their 
second  son  who  espoused  Mary  Margaret  Harford  of  Sufton,  and  died  lately  in  France  where 
he  was  a  Major  General  having  by  his  said  spouse  a  son  named  Alexander  Roger,  and  a  daugh- 
ter; their  third  son  Alexander,  who  is  naturalized  in  France  and  commonly  lived  there,  their 
foi'rth  son  James  married  and  settled  in  Carolina,  there  was  presented  with  the  preceding 
metnorial  the  above  mentioned  Alexander  third  lawful  son  of  the  said  Lachlan,  who  was  a 
son  of  the  said  Jane  Hay  his  wife,  a  copy  duly  authentick  of  the  charter  granted  by  King 
James  the  third  dated  23d  of  July,  1478,  of  the  Lands  of  auld  Castlehill  to  William  Cuthbert 
son  of  John,  and  grandson  of  George  who  distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of  Harlaw 
against  the  King's  enemies  and  obtained  at  that  time  as  a  perpetual  monumental  thereof  a 
Fess  Gules  addition  to  the  Quiver  in  Pale,  the  antient  arms  of  his  fatnily,  a  copy  likewise 
authentic  of  the  charter  upon  resignation  of  the  said  man  or  of  Auld  Castlehill  granted  by 
Queen  Mary  on  the  24th  of  Jiily,  1548,  to  George  Cuthbert,  nephew  and  apparent  heir  of 
John  Cuthbert  of  Auld  Castlehill,  the  grandson  of  the  above  William  and  in  favour  of  his 
heirs  male,  a  copy  also  duly  authentic  of  a  Charter  under  the  Grand  seal  of  the  Kingdom 
writing  and  erecting  all  the  lands  belonging  to  the  family  of  Castlehill  that  were  held  of  the 
King  into  a  free  Barony  in  favor  of  John  Cuthbert  son  and  heir  of  the  last  inentioned 
George  and  to  his  heirs  male  or  assignees  they  bearing  the  names  and  arms  of  Cuthbert. 

"This  Charter  bears  date  the  igth  of  August,  1592,  service  and  retour  William  Cuth- 
bert Baron  of  Castlehill  as  Heir  to  his  father  the  last  mentioned  John  dated  13th  of  July, 
1624,  an  authentick  copy  of  the  Charter  of  Confirmation  under  the  great  seal  of  Charles  ist 
dated  the  first  day  of  August,  1625,  in  favor  of 

"John  Cuthbert  Baron  of  Castlehill  (this  John  was  the  father  of  David  Cuthbert  of 
America,  the  said  David  Cuthbert  is  grandfather  to  the  Honorable  James  Cuthbert,  of  Banty, 
in  the  Province  of  Canada,  North  America)  in  consequence  of  a  Charter  of  resignation 
from  his  father,  the  last  mentioned  William,  dated  the  3d  of  November,  1624,  service  and 


4'^'  CUTHBERT 

retour.  George  Cuthbert  Baron  of  Castlehill  as  heir  to  his  father  the  last  mentioned  John 
dated  the  1st  of  April,  1677,  authentick  extract  of  the  seizins  of  John  Cuthbert  Baron  of 
Castlehill  of  Barony  granted  to  him  by  his  father  the  last  mentioned  George,  dated  the  20th 
of  April,  1699,  authentick  extract  of  the  seizins  of  the  Life  Rent  provision  of  Jane  Hay  of 
Dalkethy  spouse  of  the  last  mentioned  John  dated  lith  of  May,  1700,  disposition  and  trust 
by  John  Cuthbert  Baron  of  Castlehill  to  Jane  Hay  his  spouse  in  favour  of  his  younger 
children  therein  named  for  securing  their  patrimonies  dated  the  6th  of  Xovember,  1731. 
Authentick  extract  of  the  seizins  of  George  Cuthbert  Baron  of  Castlehill  son  of  the  last 
mentioned  John  and  Jane  Hay  his  spouse  of  the  Barony  of  Castlehill  dated  the  22nd  of  De- 
cember, 1725,  upon  a  precept  contained  in  his  contract  of  marriage  with  Mary  his  spouse 
daughter  of  James  M'Intosh  of  Holm  Esq.  and  lastly  certificates  of  the  baptism  of  the  chil- 
dren of  the  last  mentioned  John  and  George  Barons  of  Castlehill  with  many  other  rights 
produced  in  process  all  which  prove  the  state  and  existence  of  their  children  and  grand- 
children as  above  set  forth. 

"We  John  Campbell  Hooks  of  Bankeston  Esq.  Lord  Lyon  King  of  Arms  do  hereby 
certify  and  make  known  the  facts  mentioned  in  the  above  memorial  presented  to  us  relat- 
ing to  the  antient  illustrious  Armorial  Bearing  and  surname  of  the  said  illustrious  family 
of  Castlehill,  conformable  to  the  general  History  of  this  Kingdom  to  vouchers  lodged  in 
the  Lyon  Ofiice,  to  public  notes  writ  that  the  illustrious  extraction  and  descent  of  the  Hon- 
orable John  Cuthbert  late  Baron  of  Castlehill  and  of  the  Honorable  Jane  Hay  of  Dalkethy 
his  spouse  and  their  descendants  as  above,  vouchers  and  writs  to  us  presented  that  illustrious 
existence  of  the  said  family  of  Castlehill  any  higher  than  the  above  battle  proceeding  truly  as 
is  the  case  of  many  other  antient  and  illustrious  families  of  this  Kingdom  from  the  general 
destruction  of  antient  monuments  and  writings  at  the  time  of  invasion  of  this  Kingdom  by 
King  Edward  the  first  of  England  from  the  devastations  afterwards  in  the  County  of  In- 
verness by  McDonald  Lord  of  the  Isles  from  the  late  destruction  of  the  antient  monuments 
at  the  time  of  the  Reformation  and  from  the  long  want  of  public  registers  for  Charters  and 
seizins  in  this  Kingdom,  that  the  Armorial  Bearing  as  above  described  and  supported  on 
account  of  the  erection  of  Castlehill  into  a  Barony  and  long  usage  as  are  allowed  and  record- 
ed in  the  publick  register  of  the  Lyon  Office  that  the  variation  of  the  surname  of  the  said 
family  according  to  the  variations  of  the  language  and  idiom  as  above  set  down  is  no  less 
public  by  known  Kingdoms  than  already  solemnly  acknowledged,  and  certified  by  an  Act  of 
the  second  session  of  the  first  Parliament  of  the  late  King  James  the  nth  and  that  George 
Cuthbert  of  Castlehill  son  of  John  Browne  of  Castlehill  and  his  spouse  a  daughter  of  John 
Cuthbert  of  Drakies,  the  last  mentioned  John's  father  was  married  to  Magdalen,  daughter 
of  Sir  James  Frazer  of  Brea  (third  son  of  Simon  the  seventh  Lord  Lovat)  and  Barbara 
his  spouse  daughter  of  David  Wyms  Fingask  a  younger  son  of  the  family  of  the  Earl  of 
Wyms  and  that  William  Hay  of  Dalkethy  Bishop  of  Murray  the  above  Jane  Hay  lawfully 
descended  in  the  direct  male  line  from  the  family  of  the  Earl  of  Errol,  who  are  hereditarj- 
Lord  Constables  of  Scotland  and  by  his  mother  Dorothea  Bruce  of  Pitharly  from  the  antient 
Islands  of  Annunadel  and  Carrick  was  married  to  Mary  daughter  of  Robert  Wyms  Baron 
of  Castlehill  a  lad  of  the  family  of  Wyms  and  of  his  spouse  Mary  Sharpe  a  daughter  of 
the  Baron  of  Houston  all  of  them  antient  and  illustrious  families  of  this  Kingdom. 

"In  Testimony  Whereof  these  presents  are  subscribed  by  Robert  Roswell  our  Deputy 
and  our  seal  of  Oflice  is  appended  hereunto  at  Edinburgh  the  first  day  of  August,  1771." 

Thom.xs  Cuthuekt,  first,  possibly  a  son  of  the  James  Cuthbert  mentioned  in 
the  above  record  as  the  second  son  of  John  Cuthbert,  Baron  of  Castlehill,  by  his 
wife,  Jane  Hay,  who  "married  and  settled  in  Carolina,  in  North  America,"  was 
born  in  England  or  Scotland  about  1680,  and  removed  to  America,  1715-20.  set- 
tling in  Bladen  county.  North  Carolina,  from  whence  he  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
prior  to  1744.  He  married  Anne ,  who  died  May  21,  1753.  He  died  Janu- 
ary 24.  1756,  and  was  interred  in  the  burial-ground  of  Christ  Church. 

They  had  two  sons  who  came  with  their  parents  to  Philadelphia,  viz: 

Thomas  Cuthbert,  second,  eldest  son,  of  whom  presently; 

John  Cuthbert,  who  settled  in  the  Chester  Valley,  where  he  purchased  a  plantation,  about 
five  miles  from  West  Chester:  he  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Thomas'  Church  in  the  Great 
Valley:  and  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Pennsylvania  Associators  in  1747,  at  the  time  of  the 
threatened  Spanish  Invasion,  during  the  War  of  the  Austrian  Succession. 

Tii()M.\s  Cuthbert.  second,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  Ciuhhert,  was 
born  in  England  or  Scotland  in  1713,  died  in  Philadelphia,  January  11.  1781,  ami 


CUTHBERT  467 

was  interred  in  the  burial-ground  of  Christ  Church.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Correspondence,  Philadelphia,  1775,  a  delegate  to  the  Provincial 
Convention  of  January,  1775;  vestryman  of  Christ  Church  and  Senior  Warden  in 
1776.  He  was  commissioned  September  3,  1776,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  Quarter  Sessions  of  the  Peace  and  Orphans'  Court  of  the 
city  and  county  of  Philadelphia. 

He  married.  May  19,  1744,  Ann,  daughter  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  Wilkinson, 
of  Philadelphia,  born  17 17,  died  January  15,  1759,  and  was  buried  in  the  graveyard 
at  Christ  Church,  Fifth  and  Arch  streets,  Philadelphia.  Her  father,  Anthony 
Wilkinson,  was  born  in  England. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Ann   (Wilkinson)   Citthbcrt: 

Thomas  Ciithbert,  Jr.,  b.  in  Phila.,  March  3,  1745;  d.  there,  March  18,  1823;  buried  at 
St.  Peter's  burial-ground,  Third  and  Pine  streets,  although  he  was  a  vestryman  of 
Christ  Church;  he  m.  at  Christ  Church,  June  23,  1773,  Sarah  Latimer,  of  Del.,  a  con- 
nection of  the  Richardson  family,  an  account  of  which  appears  in  this  volume;  they 
had  thirteen  children,  one  of  whom,  James  Latimer  Cuthbert,  was  a  member  of  the 
Gloucester  Fox  Hunting  Club,  who  joined  in  the  formation  of  the  First  City  Troop 
of  Philadelphia  Cavalry,  of  which  he  was  Second  Lieutenant,  1811-16;  and  was  also 
a  member  of  the  "State  in  Schuylkill;" 

John  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila..  June  18,  1746:  d.  July  31,  1774;  unm.; 

Allen  Cuthbert.  b.  in  Phila.,  Dec.  17,  1747;  d.  in  the  fall  of  1773;  unm.; 

Elizabeth  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  Nov.  23,  1749;  d.  there,  Dec.  26,  1828;  unm.; 

Anthony,  b.  March  4,  1751;  of  whom  presently; 

Ann  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  Sept.  22,  I7i2;  d.  there,  Oct.  i.  1786;  m.  Dr.  Henry  Latimer, 
of  Del.; 

Catharine  Cuthbert.  b.  in  Phila.,  Feb.  6,  1754;  m.  1774,  Abraham  Collings; 

William  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  Nov.  20,  1755;  d.  there,  Jan.  23,  1756; 

Peter  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  Jan.  10,  1757;  d.  unm; 

Samuel  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  Nov.  i,  1758;  d.  there,  Jan.,  1839:  m.  at  Christ  Church, 
Jan.  27,  1810,  Hannah  Ogden,  wife  of  Capt.  Duer. 

Anthony  Cuthbert,  son  of  Thomas  Cuthbert.  second,  by  his  wife,  Ann 
Wilkinson,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  4.  175 1,  was  one  of  Philadelphia's  early 
shipbuilders.  His  house  on  Penn  street,  south  of  Lombard,  is  still  standing.  He 
died  there  November  14,  1832,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Peter's  burial-ground.  On 
April  15,  1780,  Anthony  Cuthbert  was  commissioned  Captain  of  the  Sixth 
Company,  Artillery  Battalion  of  Philadelphia.  He  married  (first)  March  2,  1775. 
Sarah,  born  September  13,  1758,  died  December  16,  1792,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Sarah  (Lockett)  Dixon;  (second)  December  19,  1799,  Mary,  born  May,  1770, 
died  February  7,  1862,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Jemima  (Hughes)  Ogden. 
Issue  of  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Dixon)  Cuthbert: 

Sarah  Cuthbert,  b.  Sept.  i,  1775;  d.  May  4.  1850;  m.  Feb.  21,  1799,  at  Phila.,  Joshua  Perci- 

val; 
Mary  Cuthbert,  b.  May  23,  1778;  d.  July  17,  1799;  unm.; 
Thomas  Cuthbert,  b.  March  21,  1780;  d.  June  24,  1796; 
Anthony  Cuthbert,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  4,  1782;  d.  Aug.,  1805.  at  sea;  urm. ; 
Peter  Cuthbert,  b.  June  (or  July)  27,  1783;  d.  Aug.  24,  1797; 
Joseph  Cuthbert,  b.  Aug.  21,  1784;  d.  Oct.  3,  1788; 
Ann  Cuthbert.  b.  June  (or  July)  12,  1786;  d.  June  3,  1792; 
Robert  Cuthbert,  b.  Jan.  16,  1788;  d.  Oct.  7,  1798; 
Elizabeth  Cuthbert,  b.  Aug.  13,  1791;  d.  Oct.  29,  1792. 


468  CUTHBERT 

Issice  of  Anthony  and  Mary  (Ogden)  Cuthbert: 

Joseph  Ogden  Cuthbert,  b.  Sept.  23,  1800;  of  whom  presently; 

Elizabeth  Cuthbert,  b.  Feb.  22.  1802;  d.  Dec.  g.  1891 ;  m.  April  to,  1823,  in  Phila..  Alger- 
non Sydney  Roberts,  son  of  Algernon  and  Tacie   (Warner)   Roberts; 
Allen  Cuthbert.  b.  Feb.  25,  180.4;  d.  in   Phila.,  June  2g.   1884;  m.   (first)    May  17,   1833, 

Anna  Morrison,  who  d.  May  14,  1835,   (second)   Feb.,  1852,  Rebecca  T.  Waterman,  a 

descendant  of  Toby  Leech,  of  Cheltenham ; 
Mary  Cuthbert,  b.  Sept.  20,  1806;  d.  in  Phila.,  Jan.  23,  1876;  unm. ; 
Samuel  Cuthbert,  b.  in  Phila.,  April  18,   1808:  d.  at  Doylestown,  Bucks  cc,  Pa.,  April, 

1875;  m.  (first)  in  Phila.,  May  13,  1830,  Anna  Mayland,  who  d.  Oct.  5,  1839,  (scond) 

in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  March  25,  1848,  Eugenia  B.  Jones; 
Lydia  Cuthbert,  b.  in   Phila.,   March   13,   1811;   d.  there,  Nov.  27,   1896;  m.  at  41   Penn 

street.,  Phila.,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  William  White,  Bishop  of  Pa.,  Feb.  20,  1834,  Joseph  M. 

Thomas,  a  member  of  the  Gray  Reserves   (now   First  Regiment  Infantry,  N.  G.  P.) 

during  the  Civil  War,  and  a  member  of  "State  in  Schuylkill."' 

Joseph  Ogden  Cuthbert,  eldest  son  of  Capt.  Anthony  Cuthbert,  by  his  second 
marriage  with  Mary  Ogden,  and  named  for  his  maternal  grandsire,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  September  23,  1800,  died  near  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  in  1887; 
buried  in  Colestown  Cemetery,  New  Jersey.  He  was  Senior  Warden  of  Grace 
Church,  Haddonfield,  from  1851  until  his  death,  a  period  of  thirty-six  years.  He 
was  a  subscriber  to  the  Philadelphia  Library  from  1814  to  1887,  and  at  his  death 
devised  his  share  in  that  institution  to  his  grandson,  Joseph  Ogden  Cuthbert  HI., 
the  latter  being  the  fourth  generation  of  the  family  to  hold  it,  it  having  been 
subscribed  by  Joseph  Ogden,  before  referred  to,  in  1769.  Joseph  Ogden  Cuth- 
bert married,  April  5,  1823,  Elizabeth  Sharp  Coles,  of  Colestown,  New  Jersey, 
born  April,  1800,  died  May  3,  1873,  and  is  buried  beside  her  husband  in  the  Coles- 
town Cemetery. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Ogden  and  Elizabeth  S.  (Coles)  Citthhert: 

Mary  Cuthbert,  b.  Jan.  16,  1824,  on  the  "Ogden  Farm,"  West  Phila.;  m.  in  Phila.,  Sept. 
28,  1852,  Thomas  Leonard  Gillespie,  a  well-known  merchant  of  Phila.,  b.  Feb.  28, 
1824,  d.  Sept.  6,  igo6;  they  had  issue: 

George  Cuthbert  Gillespie,  b.  in  Phila.,  Sept.  14,  1858;  educated  in  private  schools 
and  the  Univ.  of  Pa.,  graduating  from  the  latter  institution  in  the  class  of  '78: 
member  of  Delta  Psi  fraternity;  member  of  St.  Elmo  and  Markham  clubs, 
Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  of  Welcome  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania; also  member  of  the  Philobiblin  Club;  he  is  a  descendant  of  Richard 
Stockton,  of  Flushing,  L.  L,  later  of  Princeton,  N.  J.,  through  the  marriage  of 
Elizabeth  Stockton  with  William  Budd,  IL,  of  Burlington,  N.  J.;  and  of  Sam- 
uel Cole,  member  of  New  Jersey  Assembly  from  Gloucester  co.,  1683-85;  m. 
April  26,  1899,  at  Christ  Church,  Phila.,  Mar\-,  dau.  of  .Mbert  Buzby,  of  New 
York  City;  they  have  issue; 

Katharine  Gillespie,  b.  March  7,  igoo; 
Eleanor  Cuthbert  Gillespie,  b.  July  23,  igo4; 
Alberta  Elizabeth  Gillespie,  b.  Nov.  13,  1905. 
.Anna  Gillespie,  m.  Dr.  George  Mellick  Boyd; 

Elizabeth  Cuthbert  Gillespie,  member  of  Society  of  Colonial  Dames. 
Lydia  Cuthbert ; 
Anthony  Cuthbert ; 
Sarah  Cuthbert; 
Joseph  Ogden  Cuthbert,  Jr.; 
Allen  Cuthbert; 
Henry  Clay  Cuthbert; 
Thomas  Cuthbert. 


CARPENTEU    APaiS. 


CARPENTER  AND  PRESTON  FAMILIES. 

Samuel  Carpenter,  said  to  have  been  the  first  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  and 
who  was  at  least  the  first  to  engage  in  foreign  trade  at  that  port,  and  at  his  death 
in  1 7 14,  the  wealthiest  man  in  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  came  of  "an  ancient 
and  noble  family  of  great  antiquity"  in  England.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  from 
Barbadoes,  bringing  a  certificate  from  the  Friends  Meeting  at  Bridgetown,  dated 
6mo.  23,  1683.  That  he  was  of  English  parentage  and  nativity  seems  to  be  proven 
by  the  will  of  his  brother  Abraham,  who  died  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  which 
mentions  a  sister  Mary,  a  widow,  in  Lambeth,  England;  a  sister  Demaris,  wife  of 
David  Hunt,  of  Southwark,  England ;  children  of  a  brother,  John  Carpenter, 
"late  of  Horsham,  Essex;"  and  a  sister  Dorothy  Jupp,  also  of  England.  Nothing 
has,  however,  been  discovered  in  reference  to  his  parents,  or  whether  they  accom- 
panied him  to  Barbadoes  or  not.  According  to  Besse,  Samuel  Carpenter,  was 
among  those  who  suffered  persecution  for  their  religious  faith  in  Barbadoes  in 
1673,  but  as  he  was  born  in  the  year  1650,  he  may  have  gone  to  Barbadoes  to 
engage  in  trade  about  the  time  of  attaining  his  majority,  as  he  was  possessed  of 
ample  wealth  on  his  arrival  in  Pennsylvania.  According  to  Burke's  "General 
Armory"  the  arms  of  the  Carpenter  family  of  Barbadoes,  granted  in  Ireland,  June 
II,  1647,  were  as  follows:  "Paly  of  six  ar.  and  gu.  on  a  chevron  Sa.  three  plates 
each  charged  with  a  cross  pattee  gu."  Crest, — A  Demi-lion  rampant,  gu.  Ducally 
crowned  or.  collared  Sa.  with  the  motto,  Audaces  Fortuna  Juvat.  The  crest  above 
described  was  invariably  used  by  Samuel  Carpenter,  of  Philadelphia,  on  his  seal. 
His  two  brothers,  Joshua  and  Abraham  Carpenter,  were  also  merchants  in  Phila- 
delphia for  a  time,  and  owned  several  tracts  of  land  jointly  in  West  Jersey. 
Joshua  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  1702-07,  and  was 
one  of  Penn's  Commissioners  of  Property,  1708.  Abraham,  the  other  brother, 
removed  to  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  died  there  unmarried  as  before  recited. 

Samuel  Carpenter  engaged  early  in  foreign  trade  and  had  a  warehouse  and  resi- 
dence on  the  river  front,  with  a  bakery  and  the  Globe  Tavern,  one  of  the  earliest 
hostelries  of  Philadelphia.  He  lived  for  many  years  in  the  "Slate-roof  House" 
on  Second  street,  site  of  the  Commercial  Exchange,  where  Gov.  Penn  resided  in 
1700,  and  afterwards;  John  Penn,  eldest  son  of  the  "Founder,"  being  born  there 
and  where  the  Provincial  Assembly  met  in  1696. 

He  also  owned  lots  on  the  north  side  of  Market  street  from  the  Delaware, 
extending  back  half  way  to  Arch;  and  on  Walnut  street  extending  from  the  river 
to  Second  street  and  back  to  Norris  alley.  He  had  a  half  interest  with  Penn,  in 
a  mill  on  the  site  of  Chester,  the  third  mill  to  be  erected  in  the  Province.  In  1692 
he  acquired  by  articles  of  agreement  with  Francis  Rossel,  a  half  interest  in  a  mill 
erected  by  Rossel  in  Bristol,  Bucks  county,  1683,  and  a  large  amount  of  valuable 
property  there,  to  which  he  added  by  purchase  after  the  death  of  Rossel,  and  under 
the  will  of  the  latter  became  sole  owner  of  the  mill  property.  He  also  owned  over 
5,000  acres  of  land  in  Warrington  and  Warminster,  Bucks  county ;  an  island  in 
the  Delaware,  opposite  Bristol;  a  half-interest  in  a  mill  at  Darby;  several  thousand 
acres  in  Elsenborough,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey ;  and  six  hundred  acres  on  the 


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Delaware  river  "over  against  Philadelphia."  He  was  from  his  arrival  in  Penn- 
sylvania a  close  friend  and  adviser  of  Penn,  later  becoming  one  of  the  trustees 
under  his  will,  and  was  almost  constantly  employed  on  Provincial  aiTairs.  He  was 
one  of  Penn's  Commissioners  in  1683,  and  probably  for  many  years  thereafter, 
and  was  a  member  of  Governor's  Council,  1687-89:  1694-5:  and  1697  to  1713; 
and  with  John  Goodson,  another  Philadelphia  merchant,  was  Deputy  Governor  of 
the  Province  from  November  24,  1694,  to  September  3,  1698.  He  was  a  member 
of  Provincial  Assembly,  1693-95,  and  was  Provincial  Treasurer  from  1685  to  his 
death.  As  the  pioneer  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  he  was  largely  instrumental  in 
establishing  its  early  commercial  prestige,  and  was  also  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
improvement  and  development  of  the  city,  as  well  as  in  the  establishment  of  manu- 
facturing industries  there  and  in  the  surrounding  country.  Watson  says  of  him, 
"he  was  the  Stephen  Girard  of  his  day  in  Wealth,  and  the  William  Sansom,  in  the 
improvements  he  suggested  and  the  edifices  which  he  built."  He  was  one  of  the 
first  trustees  of  the  public  school,  and  founded  the  business  of  ship  building  at 
Philadelphia.  He  lost  heavily  in  the  war  of  1703,  and  closing  out  his  shipping 
business  gave  almost  his  entire  attention  to  Provincial  affairs  and  the  development 
of  his  properties.  He  died  in  his  mansion  house  on  King,  now  Water  street,  April 
10,  1714.  A  memorial  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  he  was  a  consistent  and 
earnest  member  says  of  him:  "He  was  a  pattern  of  humility,  patience  and  self 
denial ;  a  man  fearing  God  and  hating  covetousness  :  much  given  to  hospitality  and 
good  works.  He  was  a  loving,  affectionate  husband,  tender  father,  and  faithful 
friend  and  brother.  *  *  *,  ever  ready  to  help  the  poor  and  such  as  were  in 
distress  His  name  shall  be  revered  among  the  faithful  for  generations  to  come." 
Samuel  Carpenter  married  at  Friends  Meeting  in  Philadelphia,  October  12, 
1684,  Hannah  Hardiman,  native  of  Haverford  West.  South  Wales,  who  brought 
a  certificate  from  the  Friends  Meeting  there,  dated  August  2,  1683,  which  was 
received  at  Philadelphia,  November  4,  1684.  It  was  signed  among  others  by 
Abraham  and  Jane  Hardiman,  the  latter  her  mother.  She  was  an  eminent  min- 
ister among  Friends  and  travelled  extensively  "in  the  service  of  Truth."  She  died 
May  24,  1728.  aged  eighty-two  years. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Hardiman)  Carpenter : 

Hannah  Carpenter,  b.  March  3,  1685-6;  m.  Dec.  6,  1701,  William  Fishbourne,  b.  in  Tal- 
bot CO.,  Md.:  settled  in  Phila..  1700;  Provincial  Councillor,  1723-31;  City  Treasurer, 
1725-6.  His  granddaughter,  Elizabeth  Fishbourne,  became  the  second  wife  of  Thomas 
Wharton,  President  of  Supreme  Executive  Council,  1776-8;  first  chief  executive  of 
the  state  under  the  constitution  of  1776;  and  other  descendants  of  Hannah  Carpenter 
were  intermarried  with  prominent  Colonial  families  of  Philadelphia; 
S.^MUEL  Carpenter,  b.   Feb.  g,   1687-8;   d.   1748;   m.   Hannah,  dau.   of   Samuel   Preston. 

Provincial   Councillor;  of  whom  presently; 
Joshua  Carpenter,  b.  March  28,  1689;  d.  April  16,  1689; 

John  Carpenter,  b.  May  5,  1690;  d.  1724;  m.  1710,  Ann,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Esther 
Hoskins.  the  former  an  eminent  minister  among  Friends  and  a  physician,  brought  a 
certificate  dated  7mo.  24,  1696.  from  a  Quarterly  Meeting  "att  the  house  of  Thomas 
Pilgrim"  Barbadoes,  including  his  wife  and  family.  "Has  travelled  much  for  the 
propagation  of  Truth,  in  Se\erral  Countries;"  issue: 

Martha  Carpenter,  m.  March  23.  1738.  Reese  Meredith,  son  of  Reese  of  Radnor, 
Wales,  b.  1708,  who  produced.  2mo.  1730,  a  certificate  from  Leominster  Meeting 
in  Hereford,  and  became  a  prominent  shipping  merchant  in  Phila.;  d.  there. 
Nov.  17,  1778,  and  his  wife,  Aug.  26,  1769.  Their  daughter,  Elizabeth,  m.  George 
Clymer,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence ; 
Hannah  Carpenter,  b.  Nov.  23,  1711;  d.  July  14,  1751;  m  Joseph  Wharton,  of 
"Walnut  Grove." 


CARPENTER  471 

Rebecca  Carpenter,  b.  April  26,  1692:  d.  1713; 
Abraham  Carpenter,  d.  in  1702. 

Samuel  Carpenter  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Hardiman)  Car- 
penter, was  also  a  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  and  took  a  more  or  less  prominent 
part  in  Provincial  affairs.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  Philadel- 
phia, October  2.  1716,  and  served  until  his  death,  and  was  also  one  of  the  trustees 
of  the  Loan  Office,  and  filled  other  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  He  married, 
May  25,  171 1,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Preston,  Provincial  Councillor,  etc., 
an  account  of  whose  life  and  services  follows.  She  was  born  in  1693,  died  in  1773. 
Issue  of  Sainuct  and  Hannah  (Preston)  Carpenter: 


Samuel  Carpenter,  b.   1712;  d.  in  Jamaica,  1747;  was  a  merchant  at  Kingston,  Ja 
m.  at  Kingston  and  had  three  children  : 
Samuel,  d.  at  Kingston,  in  1785; 
Hannah,  d.  y. ; 

Thomas,  succeeded  his   father  as  merchant  at   Kingston  ;   m.  and   reared  a  large 
family  there; 
Rachel  Carpenter,  b.  1716;  d.  at  Salem,  N.  J.,  num.,  Nov.  16,  1794: 
Preston  Carpenter,  b.  Oct.  28,  1721;  d.  Oct.  20,  1785:  of  whom  presently; 
Hannah   Carpenter,   m.   April   28,    1746,   Samuel   Shoemaker,   Mayor   of   Phila.    for   two 
terms.   Provincial  Justice,   City  Treasurer,  etc.;   she  was  buried  May   I,   1766;  of  her 
eleven  children  but  four  lived  to  mature  years,  and  but  one,  Benjamin,  of  Germantown, 
m.  and  left  issue; 
Thomas  Carpenter,  was  a  merchant  in  Phila.;  d.  there  unm.,  1772. 

Richard  Preston,  grandfather  of  Samuel  Preston,  Provincial  Councillor,  came 
from  England  about  the  year  1635,  and  settled  in  Nansemond  county,  Virginia, 
and  was  granted  a  tract  of  land  there  by  Governor  John  West,  December  22,  1636. 
He  later  received  two  other  grants  of  500  acres  each  of  Sir  William  Berkely,  in 
Upper  Norfolk.  He  was  a  Justice  of  the  Courts  of  Nansemond  county  in  1646, 
and  held  a  high  social  and  political  position  there.  He  was  however,  a  Puritan, 
and  in  1649,  with  a  view  of  founding  a  colony  of  his  own  faith,  removed  with  his 
family  and  seventy-three  other  persons  to  Patuxent  river,  Maryland,  where  several 
large  tracts  were  surveyed  to  him  in  1650-51.  On  a  tract  of  400  acres  on  the  north 
side  of  Patuxent,  augmented  by  later  grants  to  1,000  acres,  he  erected  a  brick 
dwelling  still  standing,  and  known  as  "Preston  on  Patuxent,"  the  oldest  building 
extant  in  the  state  of  Maryland.  "Preston"  was  the  seat  of  the  government  of 
Maryland,  under  the  "Cotiimonwealth"  1654  to  1658,  the  House  of  Burgesses,  or 
Provincial  Assembly  under  the  Cromwellian  authority,  meeting  there  during  that 
period.  Richard  Preston  was  made  a  member  of  Provincial  Council,  1652,  and 
"Commander  on  the  North  side  of  Patuxent,"  and  in  1654  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent leaders  of  the  "roundhead"  party  that  deposed  Gov.  William  Stone,  and 
removed  the  seat  of  government  from  St.  Maries,  the  Catholic  stronghold  of 
Lord  Baltimore,  to  "Preston,"  where  the  first  Puritan  Assembly  met  in  1654. 
When  Lord  Baltimore  regained  control  of  the  government  in  1658,  Richard 
Preston  retained  his  seat  in  the  Assembly,  and  continued  a  representative  of  his 
county  until  the  last  session  of  1666,  and  was  Speaker  in  1661.  He  became  a 
Quaker  late  in  life,  and  achieved  as  much  prominence  as  a  peaceful  Quaker  as  he 
had  as  a  fighting  Puritan,  under  Claiborne ;  Gov.  Charles  Calvert  alluding  to  him 
in  1663  as  "The  Great  Quaker."    He  died  at  "Preston,"  1669.    He  brought  with 


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him  from  Virginia,  his  wife  Margaret  and  five  children,  Richard,  who  settled  in 
Dorchester  county,  which  he  represented  in  the  Assembly  at  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1669;  James,  of  whom  little  is  known;  Samuel,  who  probably  died  young,  not 
being  mentioned  in  his  father's  will;  Naomi,  married  William  Berry;  member  of 
Assembly  and  Justice  of  Kent  county,  Delaware,  1684-89 ;  Margaret,  who  also  is 
supposed  to  have  died  young.  Two  other  daughters,  Rebecca  and  Sarah,  were 
born  in  Maryland.  The  former  married  Lovelace  Gorusch,  and  the  latter  married 
(first)  William  Ford  and  (second)  Edwin  Pindar. 

RiCH.vRD  Preston  Jr.  was  the  father  of  Samuel  Preston,  Provincial  Councillor. 
Margaret,  widow  of  Richard  Jr.,  married  (second)  William  Berry,  who  had  pre- 
viously married  Naomi  Preston,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard  Sr.,  by  whom  he  had 
a  son,  William  Berry,  who  married  Naomi,  daughter  of  Shadrach  Walley,  of 
Newtown,  Bucks  county;  another  son  James  who  was  twice  married,  and  a  daugh- 
ter Rebecca,  who  married  James  Ridley  and  settled  in  Salem  county,  New  Jersey. 

S.\MUEL  Preston  was  born  in  Maryland,  probably  at  "Preston"  on  the 
Patuxent,  1665,  and  was  reared  a  Quaker.  He  married  at  the  house  of  Francis 
Cornwall,  county  of  Sussex  on  Delaware,  (now  Delaware)  July  6,  1688,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd,  President  of  the  Governor's  Council,  and  Deputy 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  settled  in  Sussex  county ;  became  a  Justice  of  that 
county.  January  2,  1689 :  was  Sheriff  from  May  30,  1690,  to  April  28,  1693 ;  and  a 
member  of  Provincial  Assembly  from  there  in  1693-1701.  In  1699  he  accompanied 
Thomas  Story  on  an  extensive  religious  visit,  and  in  1703  removed  to  Philadel- 
phia and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  He  was  elected  to  the  Common 
Council  of  the  city  soon  after  locating  there,  and  was  elected  by  Council  a  member 
of  Board  of  Alderman.  October  5,  1708,  and  three  years  later  was  elected  Mayor 
of  the  city.  James  Logan  in  a  letter  to  Penn,  dated  January  17,  1708,  recom- 
mending an  increase  in  representation  in  the  Provincial  Council,  says.,  "Samuel 
Preston,  is  also  a  very  good  man,  and  now  makes  quite  a  figure,  and  indeed  Rachel's 
husband  ought  particularly  to  be  taken  notice  of,  for  it  has  been  too  long  neglected 
even  for  thy  own  interest."  Thus  potential  was  a  good  family  connection  in  the 
good  old  Colonial  days.  Samuel  Preston  and  Isaac  Norris,  both  sons-in-law  of 
Thomas  Lloyd,  were  called  to  the  Governor's  Council,  February  9,  1708-9,  and 
both  remained  prominent  members  of  that  body  for  the  next  twenty-five  years. 
Samuel  Preston  succeeded  Samuel  Carpenter  as  Provincial  Treasurer  in  1714,  and 
held  that  office  until  his  death,  September  10,  1743. 

Rachel  (Lloyd)  Preston,  wife  of  Samuel,  having  died,  he  married  (second) 
Margaret,  widow  of  Josiah  Langdale,  who  had  accompanied  her  husband  to  Phila- 
delphia on  a  religious  visit  in  1723,  the  latter  dying  on  the  voyage.  She  died 
August  23,  1742,  in  her  fifty-eighth  year.  Her  daughter.  Mary  Langdale,  married 
Samuel  Coates  in  1734,  and  is  the  ancestress  of  the  Coates  family  of  Philadel- 
phia. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Rachel  (Lloyd)  Preston: 

Margaret  Preston,  b.  1689:  m.  May  27.  1700,  Dr.  Richard  Moore,  Physician  and  Mer- 
chant, who  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  Phila.,  1716.  but  spent  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  in  Md.:  d.  there,  in  1734;  his  father.  Mordecai  Moore,  m.  as  (second) 
Deborah,  dau.  of  Thomas  Lloyd.  Samuel  Preston  Moore  (son  of  Richard  and  Mar- 
garet) Provincial  Treasurer.  1755-68,  married  his  cousin.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Dr.  Richard 
Hill,  by  his  wife,  Deborah,  dau.  of  Mordecai  and  Deborah  (Lloyd)   Moore: 


CARPENTER  473 

Thomas  Moore,  another  son  of  Richard  and  Margaret,  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Samuel 
and  Rachel   (Hudson)   Emlen,  and  granddaughter  of  Mayor  William  Hudson; 
Hannah   Preston,  b.   in   Sussex  co.,  now   Delaware,  in   1693,  came  with  her  parents  to 
Phila.,  1703,  and  m.  there.  May  25,  1711,  Samuel  Carpenter,  Jr.,  above  mentioned. 

Preston  Carpenter,  second  son  of  Samuel  Carpenter  Jr.  and  his  wife,  Hannah 
Preston,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  28,  1721,  located  on  the  lands  taken  up 
by  his  grandfather  in  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  when  a  young  man,  and  inherited 
a  large  part  thereof  at  the  death  of  his  father  in  1748.  Practically  his  whole  adult 
life  was  spent  in  that  county,  where  he  took  a  more  or  less  prominent  part  in 
public  affairs.    He  died  October  20.  1785. 

He  married,  at  Salem.  New  Jersey,  October  17,  1742,  Hannah,  born  at  Salem, 
1725,  daughter  of  Samuel  Smith,  by  whom  he  had  twelve  children.     He  married 
(second)  late  in  life,  Hannah  Mason,  but  had  no  children  by  her. 
Issue  of  Preston  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Carpenter: 

Hannah  Carpenter,  b.  Oct.  24.  1743;  m.  (first)  Charles  Ellet.  (second)  Jedediah  Allen; 
her_  grandson  and  great-grandson,  both  named  Charles  EHet,  were  civil  engineers  of 
national  reputation ; 

Samuel  Preston  Carpenter,  b.  Nov.   14,  1746;   d.  y.; 

Elizabeth  Carpenter,  b.  Dec.  18,  1747;  m.  Ezra  Firth,  of  Phila..  Pa.; 

Rachel  Carpenter,  b.  Aug.  26,  1749;  d.  Nov.  26,  1749; 

Mary  Carpenter,  b.  Nov.  18,  1750:  m.     1777,  Samuel  Tonkin,  but  d.  s.  p.,  Oct.  30,  1821; 

Thomas  Carpenter,  b,  Nov.  2,  1752;  d.  July  7,  1847;  m.  Mary  Tonkin;  of  whom  pres- 
ently; 

William  Carpenter,  b.  Nov.  i,  1754;  d.  in  Salem  co.,  N.  J..  Jan.  12,  1837;  m.  (first)  May 
29,  1782.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Bartholomew  Wyatt.  a  prominent  resident  of  Salem  co., 
(second)  Dec.  2,  1801,  Mary,  dau.  of  John  Redman,  of  Salem  co. ; 

Margaret  Carpenter,  b.  Aug.  26,  1756;  m.  1776,  James  Mason  Woodnut;  of  whom  later; 

John  Carpenter,  b.  Feb.  28,  1758;  d.  Nov.  2,  1773; 

Samuel  Carpenter,  b.  June  25,  1758;  d.  y. ; 

Martha  Carpenter,  b.  Aug.  19,  1760;  m.  Joseph  Reeve,  of  Salem  co..  N.  J.; 

Samuel  Carpenter,  b.  Feb.  17.  1765;  d.  July  12.  1769. 

Thomas  Carpenter,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Preston  and  Hannah  (Smith) 
Carpenter,  was  a  resident  of  Carpenter's  Landing.  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  a  prominent  merchant  and  business  man  there.  He  was  paymaster  and  com- 
missary of  the  New  Jersey  Line  during  the  Revolution.  He  died  at  Carpenter's 
Landing.  July  7,  1847.  He  married,  April  12.  1774,  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward 
Tonkin,  of  Springfield,  Burlington  county,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Cole.  Edward 
Tonkin  was  a  Justice  of  Burlington  county  in  1749.  His  grandfather.  Edward 
Tonkin  or  Tonkan,  settled  in  Springfield  in  1685. 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Tonkin)  Carpenter: 

Samuel  Carpenter,  b.  Jan.  6.  1775,  d.  s.  p..  April  16,  1792; 

Edward  Carpenter,  b.  June  4,  1777;  m.  Sarah  Stratton;  of  whom  presently; 

Rachel  Carpenter,  b.  Oct.  23.  1782;  d.  Oct.  7.  1784 

Edward  Carpenter,  second  son  of  Col.  Thomas  and  Mary  (Tonkin)  Car- 
penter, born  at  Carpenter's  Landing,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  June  4, 
1777;  on  his  marriage,  located  at  Glassboro,  New  Jersey,  and  was  a  prominent 
glass  manufacturer;  died  there  Match  13,  1813.  He  married,  September  5,  1799, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Stratton,  of  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey,  by  his  wife, 
Anna,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Harris,  of  Bound  Brook,  New  Jersey. 


474  CARPEXTER 

Issue  of  Edujard  and  Sarah  (Stratton)  Carpenter: 

Thomas  Preston  Carpenter,  b.  April  19,  1804;  a  practitioner  at  law  at  Woodbury,  N,  J., 
for  many  years;  Associate  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of  New  Jersey,  1845-52;  d. 
March  2.  1876;  m.  Nov.  19,  1839,  Rebecca  Hopkins; 

Mary  Tonkin  Carpenter,  b.  Sept.  14,  1805;  m.  Richard  \V.  Howell,  of  Camden,  N.  J.; 
of  whom  presently: 

Dr.  James  Stratton  Carpenter,  b.  Oct.  14,  1807;  graduated  at  the  Univ.  of  Pa.,  with  de- 
gree of  A.  B.,  later  from  Medical  Department  with  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine;  fin- 
ished his  medical  studies  abroad,  and  settled  in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  where  he  practiced 
medicine  for  many  years  and  until  his  death,  Jan.  31,  1872;  he  was  president  of  the 
State  Medical  Association  of  Pa.;  m.  Oct.  12,  1832,  Camilla  Jane.  dau.  of  John  Sand- 
erson, author  of  "Lives  of  the  Signers;" 

Samuel  Tonkin  Carpenter,  b.  Nov.  8,  1810;  d.  Dec.  26,  1864;  Rector  of  Episcopal  church 
at  Smyrna,  Del.,  and  Chaplain  of  U.  S.  .A.  during  Civil  War;  buried  at  Trinity  Church, 
Swedesboro,  N.  J.;  m.  Alay  26,  1841,  Frances  Champlain,  of  Derby,  Conn.,  (second) 
Emilie  Thompson,  of  Wilmington,  Del.; 

Edward  Carpenter,  b.  May  17,  1813;  settled  in  Phila. ;  conveyancer  and  real  estate  dealer; 
m.  Nov.  16,  1837,  Anna  M.,  dau.  of  Benjamin  M.  Howey,  of  "Pleasant  Meadows," 
Gloucester  co.,  N.  J. 

Mary  Tonkin  Carpenter,  eldest  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Stratton) 
Carpenter,  born  at  Glassboro,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  September  14,  1805, 
married,  March  30,  1830,  Richard  Washington  Howell,  Esq..  of  Camden  county 
bar,  son  of  Col.  Joshua  Ladd  Howell,  of  "Fancy  Hill,"  Gloucester  county,  by  his 
wife,  Anna  Blackwood ;  grandson  of  John  Ladd  Howell,  of  Woodbury,  Xew 
Jersey,  and  great-grandson  of  John  Howell,  sometime  of  Philadelphia,  and  his 
wife,  Katharine,  daughter  of  John  Ladd,  one  of  the  Proprietors  of  West  Jersey, 
who  emigrated  from  Swingfield,  county  Kent,  England,  with  his  wife  Sarah, 
prior  to  1685,  and  according  to  the  historian  of  the  family,  in  1678.  According 
to  the  same  authority,  John  Ladd  came  of  a  distinguished  Kentish  family  that 
traced  their  descent  from  a  Norman  follower  of  William  L  who  came  from 
Normandy  and  settled  at  Deal,  county  of  Kent,  England,  in  the  eleventh  century. 
His  lineage  as  definitely  traced  is  as  foUoti's: 

John  Ladd,  of  Eleham,  county  Kent,  died  1476,  leaving  a  son, 
John  Ladd,  of  Eleham,  who  died  1527,  and  by  wife  Alice  had  three  sons: 
Stephen  Ladd,  father  of  Thomas  Ladd,  of  Otling. 
John  Ladd,  father  of  Nicholas  Ladd,  of  Wooten. 

Thomas  Ladd,  of  Barham,  ancestor  of  the  Lades  of  "Boughton  House."  countv 
Kent. 

Nicholas  Ladd.  of  Wooten.  Kent,  whose  eldest  son  was, 
Nicholas  Ladd.  of  Swingfield,  county  Kent,  Gent.,  died  1669,  whose  son, 
Nicholas  Ladd,  became  a  convert  to  Friends,  and  was  buried  in  the  Friends' 
Burying  Ground  at  Hythe,  Kent,  in  1699 ;  father  of, 

John  Ladd,  who  came  to  New  Jersey,  1678,  and  was  known  as  John  Ladd,  of 
Gloucester  river.  He  purchased  a  share  of  West  Jersey  of  Maurice  Trent,  and 
later  purchased  4000  acres  of  the  heirs  of  William  Welch,  much  of  which  he  con- 
veyed during  his  lifetime,  but  at  his  death  in  1740  was  a  very  large  landholder. 
Among  the  numerous  tracts  surveyed  to  him  was  a  large  tract  on  the  Delaware. 
Deptford  township,  at  what  became  known  as  Ladd's  Cove,  on  which  he  erected 
a  dwelling  and  resided  there  until  his  death.  A  large  portion  of  the  land  becoming 
later  vested  in  his  descendants,  John  Ladd  Howell  and  Joshua  Ladd  Howell. 


CARPENTER  475 

John  Ladd  was  a  juror  at  the  first  Court  held  in  Gloucester  county,  September, 
1686.  He  was  a  practical  surveyor,  and  tradition  relates,  was  employed  by 
William  Penn  to  assist  in  laying  out  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  offered  a  lot 
of  land  there  in  lieu  of  the  thirty  pounds  which  he  was  to  receive  for  his  services, 
but  not  being  favorably  impressed  with  the  prospects  of  Philadelphia  becoming  a 
town  of  any  magnitude,  declined. 

John  Ladd  died  1740,  leaving  a  will  dated  1731,  and  a  codicil  added  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  by  which  he  devised  the  homestead  of  560  acres  to  his  son  John, 
and  his  other  property  to  his  daughter,  Katharine  Howell,  and  granddaughter, 
Mary  Parker,  (who  became  the  wife  of  Charles  Norris,  of  Philadelphia,  in  1759). 
His  sons,  Samuel  and  Jonathan,  had  been  previously  provided  for.  .Sarah,  wife 
of  John  Ladd,  died  in  1733. 

Issue  of  John  and  Sarah  Ladd: 

Samuel  Ladd,  m.  Mary  Medcalf,  1713;  he  died  1725,  and  his  widow  m.  Tobias  HoUoway, 

March  8,  1732; 
Jonathan  Ladd,  m.  Ann  Wills,  1723; 
Mary  Ladd,  m.  Joseph  Parker,  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  who  settled  for  a  time  in 

Chester  cc.  Pa.,  where  he  was  Deputy  Register,  and  Clerk  of  Orphans'  Court,  1713-4, 

removing  later  to  N.  J.;  their  dau.,  Mary  Parker,  married  Charles  Norris,  of  Phila., 

June  21,  1759; 
John   Ladd,  Jr.  m.  Hannah   Mickle,    1732,  but   d.   s.  p.,   Dec.  20,   1770,  and  devised  his 

estate  to  his  widow,   Hannah,  and   on   her   death   to  his  grandnephew,  Joshua   Ladd 

Howell;  he  was  a  Justice  of  Gloucester  co..  1739; 
Katharine  Ladd,  m.  Jan.  25,  1734,  John  Howell. 

John  Howell,  who  married  Katharine  Ladd,  was  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah 
(Vernon)  Howell,  of  Chester  county,  and  grandson  of  John  Howell,  who  with 
wife  Sarah,  and  children,  Jacob,  Evan  and  Sarah,  emigrated  in  1697  from 
Aberystwith,  Cardigan,  Wales,  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death  in  1721.  His  son  Jacob  settled  in  Chester  county,  where  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Colonial  Assembly  and  prominent  in  local  and  Colonial  affairs.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Francis  Vernon,  who  with  his  brothers,  Thomas  and 
Robert,  emigrated  from  Sandway,  Cheshire,  England,  and  settled  in  Chester,  now 
Delaware  county.  He  was  a  very  prominent  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
and  served  in  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  Chester  county  in  1687.  He  was  a  son 
of  James  Vernon,  at  one  time  Secretary  of  State  of  Great  Britain,  and  a  brother  to 
Sir  Edward  Vernon,  Rear  Admiral  of  the  Blue,  and  a  descendant  of  William, 
Lord  de  Vernon,  Norman  Baron,  who  accompanied  William  the  Conqueror  to 
England  in  1066.  Mt.  Vernon,  the  Washington  homestead,  was  so  named  by 
Lawrence  Washington,  in  honor  of  Admiral  Vernon,  under  whom  he  had  served. 

John  Howell  married  Katharine  Ladd,  at  Haddonfield  Friends  Meeting  House, 
January  25,  1734,  and  settled  at  Woodbury,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  removing 
to  Philadelphia  in  1739,  later  to  Georgia,  and  subsequently  to  South  Carolina, 
where  he  died. 

Issue  of  John  and  Katharine  (Ladd)  Hozvell: 

Sarah  Howell,  m.  John  Sparks; 

John  Ladd  Howell,  b.  March  15,  1738;  m.  at  Darby  Meeting  House,  Chester  co.,  Pa., 
Frances  Paschall,  July  23.  1761.  (They  had,  however,  been  married  quietly  by  the 
pastor  of  the  church  of  St.  Michael's  and  Zion,  March  i,  1761).  Frances  Paschall,  b. 
i2mo.  27,  1740,  d.  May  2,  1812,  was  a  dau.  of  John  and  Frances  (Hodge)  Paschall,  of 
Darby,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Margaret  (Jenkins)   Paschall,  of  Philadel- 


476  CARPENTER 

phia  CO.;  he  a  son  of  Thomas  Paschall.  who  purchased  land  of  William  Penn,  1681, 
and  emigrated  from  Bristol,  England,  in  Feb..  1681-2,  and  located  thereon;  and  Mar- 
garet Jenkins,  dau.  of  William  Jenkins,  who  with  wife,  Elizabeth  Griffith,  came  from 
Tenby,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  and  settled  in  Blockley,  Phila.;  William  Jenkins  was  a 
Colonial  Justice  and  member  of  Assembly,  i6yo-g6. 

Joshua  L.\dd  Howell,  son  of  John  Ladd  and  Frances  (  Paschall )  Howell,  born 
September  19,  1762,  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  married,  I'ebruary  16,  1786.  Anna 
Blackwood,  of  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  born  February  2,  1769,  died  Janu- 
ary 14,  1855.  For  several  years  after  their  marriage,  they  lived  on  the  old  Ladd 
homestead  known  as  "Candor  Hall,"  but  in  1805  he  erected  a  handsome  residence 
on  the  Delaware,  on  part  of  the  large  estate  he  had  inherited  from  his  grand- 
uncle,  John  Ladd  Jr.,  which  he  called  "Fancy  Hill,"  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,  January  10,  1818. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Ladd  and  Anna  (Blacktvood)  Hozi'cll: 

Samuel  Ladd  Howell,  b.  May  11,  1787;  m.  Nov.  30,  1809,  Mary  Harrison  Clayton; 

Paschall  Howell,  b.  Nov.  6,  1789,  d.  at  "Fancy  Hill,"  Sept.  i,  181 1; 

Frances  Howell,  b.  April  2,  1791;  m.  March  i^,  1810,  her  cousin.  Benjamin  Butterton 
Howell; 

John  Ladd  Howell,  b.  Jan.  16.  1793;  d.  unm.,  Nov.  30.  1828; 

Anna  Maria  Howell,  b.  Oct.,  1795;  m.  Rev.  James  H.  Jones; 

Joshua  Howell,  b.  Nov.  20,  1797;  d.  Aug.,  1800; 

RiCHARu  Washington  Howell,  b.  Dec.  15,  1709.  d.  Aug.  12,  1859;  m.  March  30,  1830, 
Mary  Tonkin  Carpenter ; 

Abigail  Blackwood  Howell,  b.  Feb.  i,  1802;  m.  Oct.  28,  1828.  Rev.  Thomas  Leiper  Jane- 
way; 

Joshua  Blackwood  Howell,  b.  Oct.,  1806;  m.  (first)  Mary  Lewis,  of  Phila.;  (second) 
Catharine  Whetley,  of  Newark,  N.  J.; 

Benjamin  Paschall  Howell,  b.  Nov.  26,  1808;  m.  April  29,  1835,  Rachel  Lewis,  who  d. 
Oct.  2,  1882. 

Issue  of  Richard  11'.  and  Mary  Tonkin  (Carpenter)  HowcU: 

John  Paschall  Howell,  b.  April  12,  1831 ;  d.  June  2.  1832; 

Edward  Carpenter  Howell,  b.  July  24,  1833;  d.  March  5,  1834; 

Samuel  Bedell  Howell,  M.  D.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1834;  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.;  m.  Maria  E. 

Neill.  dau.  of  Rev.  William  Neill,  D.  D.; 
Charles  Stratton  Howell,  b.  Dec.  21,  1837; 

Richard  Holmes  Offly  Howell,  b.  April  2,  1840;  d.  Jan.  3,  1850; 
Joshua  Ladd  Howell,  b.  June  16,  1842;  m.  April  15,  1875,  Mary  Eyre,  dau.  of  William 

Lyttleton  Savage,  of  Phila.; 
Thomas  James  Howell,  b.  Oct.   10.  1844,  Lieut,  in  N.  J.  \'olunteers,  during  Civil  War. 

killed  at  Gaines  Mill.  June  27,  1862; 
Anna   Howell,  b.  Sept.   12.   1846;  m.  June   10,  1869,  Malcolm   Lloyd,  son  of  John  and 
Esther  Barton   (Malcolm)    Lloyd,  and  a  descendant  of  Robert  Lloyd,  of  Merioneth- 
shire, Wales,  who  settled  in  Chester  co.,  Pa.,  1708,  an  account  of  whom  and  his  de- 
scendants is  given  in  this  volume. 
Issue  of  Malcolm  and  Anna   (Howell)   Lloyd: 
Howell  Lloyd,  b.  March  2,   1871; 
Malcolm  Lloyd,  Jr.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1874; 
Stacy  Barcroft  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  i.  1876; 
Francis  Vernon  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  31,  1878; 
Anna   Howell   Lloyd,  b.   Dec.  2.   1880; 
Esther  Lloyd; 
Mary  Carpenter  Lloyd. 

Mrs.  Anna  (Howell)  Lloyd,  in  addition  to  being  a  lineal  descendant  in  the  seventh 
generation  from  Samuel  Carpenter  and  Samuel  Preston,  both  Provincial  Councillors  of 
Pennsylvania,  and   in   the  eighth  generation   from  Thomas  Lloyd,   President  of   Gc 


CARPENTER  j^yy 

Council  and  Deputy  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  as  shown  in  the  preceding  pages,  and  sixth 
in  descent  from  Jacob  Howell,  all  prominently  associated  with  Philadelphia  in  its  early 
Colonial  days,  is  also  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  from  Francis  Collins,  of 
"Mountwell,"  near  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  one  of  the  Proprietors  of  West  Jersey;  mem- 
ber of  Provincial  Assembly,  1683,  and  of  Governor  Samuel  Jening's  first  Council.  She  is 
also  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  of  Randal  Vernon,  who  came  from  Cheshire, 
England,  1682,  and  located  in  Chester,  now  Delaware  county,  and  was  a  member  of  Colonial 
Assembly  in  1687. 

Richard  Woodnut,  grandfather  of  James  Mason  Woodnut,  who  married 
Margaret  Carpenter,  came  from  England  in  1680,  and  lived  for  a  time  in  or  near 
Philadelphia,  later  locating  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  in  1688,  and  his 
widow  Grace  Woodnut  in  1690. 

Richard  Woodnut  (2),  son  of  Richard  and  Grace  Woodnut,  born  in  England, 
accompanied  his  parents  to  America.  He  became  a  large  landholder  in  Salem 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  resided  in  the  Mannington  district,  where  he  died  Feb- 
ruary, 1726-7.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Thompson,  of  Salem  county, 
and  had  two  sons:  Joseph,  born  September  5,  1697,  and  Richard,  of  whom 
presently ;  and  two  daughters,  Grace  and  Sarah. 

Richard  Woodnut  (3),  second  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Wood- 
nut, was  born  in  Mannington  district,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  March  22, 
1702-3.  He  married  Ann  Walmsley,  and  had  two  sons:  James  Mason  and  Henry 
Woodnut. 

James  Mason  Woodnut,  eldest  son  of  Richard  and  Ann  (Walmsley)  Wood- 
nut, was  born  in  Mannington  district,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey:  married,  in 
1776, 

Margaret,  eighth  child  of  Preston  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Carpenter,  who  was 
born  August  26,  1756,  died  October  3,  182 1.  They  resided  in  Salem  county  all 
their  lives. 

Issue  of  James  Mason  and  Margaret  (Carpenter)   Woodnut: 

Sarah  Woodnut,  b.  Nov.  28,  1777,  d.  unm.,  June  9,  1820; 

Hannah  Woodnut,  b.  1780;  became  second  wife  of  Clement  Acton,  Sr.,  of  Salem  co. ; 

Thomas  Woodnut,  b.  1782,  d.  s.  p.; 

Jonathan    Woodnut,   b.    Oct.    12,    1784;    m.    (first)    Mary    Goodwin,    (second)    Sarah 

Dennis;  of  whom  presently; 
Preston  Woodnut,  b.  Jan.  24,  1787;  m.  Rachel  Goodwin; 
William  Woodnut,  b.  April  i,   1792;  went  to  Cincinnati,  O.,  and  engaged  in  mercantile 

business,  later  returning  to  Phila.,  where  he  d.  s.  p.; 
Margaret  Woodnut,  b.  1794;  m.  William  J.  Shinn ; 
Martha  Woodnut,  m.  Joshua  Reeve,  of  Salem  co.,  N.  J.; 
Mary  Woodnut,  m.  Benjamin  Newlin,  of  Phila.; 
Elizabeth  Woodnut,  m.  Morris  Hall,  of  Salem  co.,  N.  J. 

Jonathan  Woodnut,  second  son  and  fourth  child  of  James  Mason  and  Mar- 
garet (Carpenter)  Woodnut,  born  October  12,  1784,  married  (first)  Mary,  daugh- 
ter  of   William   and    Elizabeth   Goodwin,    of    Salem    county.    New    Jersey,    and 
(second)  Sarah  Dennis,  of  a  prominent  Salem  county  family. 
Issue  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Goodwin)   Woodnut: 

Richard  Woodnut,  m.  Lydia,  dau.  of  Clement  and  Sarah  Hall,  of  Elsenborough,  Salem, 

CO.,  N.  J.; 
William  C.  Woodnut,  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Lydia  Bassett,  of  Salem  co.,  N.  J. ; 
Thomas  Woodnut,  of  whom  presently. 


4/8  CARPEXTER 

Thomas  Woodnut,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Goodwin)  Woodnut,  was  born 
in  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  December  i,  1816.  He  joined  his  uncle  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  and  about  1840,  in  partnership  with  his  cousin,  Clement  Acton,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  mercantile  business  established  there  by  his  uncle  when  Cincinnati 
was  but  a  village.  Thomas  Woodnut  retired  from  business  in  1864.  and  removed 
to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  was  identified  with  manufacturing  and  banking 
enterprises.  Mr.  Woodnut  was  born  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  of 
whose  religious  meetings  he  was  a  regular  attendant.  As  in  business  life  his  keen 
foresight,  sound  business  judgment,  and  staunch  integrity,  made  him  esteemed  and 
respected  by  all  with  whom  he  came  in  close  contact,  so  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  he 
held  a  prominent  place  in  the  philanthropic  and  religious  interests  of  the  city.  His 
wise  judgment  and  untiring  zeal,  fostered  by  his  generous  impulses,  were  always 
at  command  for  furthering  any  laudable  enterprise  for  the  good  of  his  fellow 
citizens. 

Though  not  a  college  graduate,  he  was  a  man  of  keen  intelligence  and  broad 
culture,  and  his  appreciation  of  the  importance  of  proper  training  of  youth, 
prompted  him  to  associate  himself  with  several  other  men  of  means — members  of 
the  Society  of  Friends — in  providing  a  building  and  establishing  a  school  to  be 
conducted  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  the  Society.  To  this  work  j\Ir. 
Woodnut  devoted  his  time,  his  wise  counsel  and  an  open  purse,  during  the 
remainder  of  his  residence  in  Richmond,  Indiana. 

In  1880  Mr.  Woodnut  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  also  became  identified 
with  philanthropic,  educational  and  charitable  enterprises.  No  enterprise  for  the 
uplifting  and  enlightenment  of  his  fellowman  that  the  needs  of  the  great  city 
presented  to  his  attention  was  passed  heedlessly  by.  and  many  were  the  quiet, 
unostentatious  and  generous  gifts  that  the  seekers  for  aid  along  these  lines 
received  from  him.  He  was  a  man  of  determined  will,  clothed  with  an  air  of  quiet 
dignity  and  repose  under  every  provocation,  and  his  spirit  of  fairness  developed  in 
him  a  character  in  sympathy  with  all  who  were  oppressed  or  unjustly  treated,  and 
when  the  occasion  demanded,  no  one  could  be  more  insistent  and  vigorous  in  the 
demand  for  absolute  integrity  and  justice  on  the  part  of  every  interest  in  which  he 
was  engaged,  financial  or  otherwise.  Beloved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him, 
he  died  in  the  midst  of  a  useful  and  earnest  life,  Augu.st  9,  1889. 

Thomas  Woodnut  married,  January  5,   1838,  Hannah  Hooloway,  daughter  of 
Nathan  and  Margaret  (Hooloway)   Morgan,  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  of  dis- 
tinguished Welsh  ancestry.     She  still  survives  him,  residing  in  Pliiladelphia. 
Issue  of  Thotnas  and  Hannah  Hooloway  (Morgan)  Woodnut: 

Abigail  Woodnut,  b.  at  Cincinnati  O.,  Nov.  30,  1858:  m.  in   1884.  Charles  R.   Miller,  of 
Wilmington,  Del.  where  they  still   reside;   Mrs.   Miller  is  president  of  the   Delaware 
Society  Colonial  Dames  of  America,  and  is  identified  with  the  social,  literary,  educa- 
tional, and  philanthropic  interests  and  institutions  of  the  city:  they  had  issue: 
Thomas  Woodnut  Miller,  b.  June  28,  1886: 
Margaretta  Miller,  b.  July  29.  1889; 
Clement  Woodnut   Miller,  b.   Oct.  23,   1890; 
William  Lloyd  Woodnut,  b.  in  Cincinnati,  O.,  March  4,   i860:  m.   1885,  Jessie  Hale,  of 
Hutchinson,  Kansas,  and  they  now  reside  in  Seattle,  Washington:  they  had  issue: 
Lloyd  H.  Woodnut,  b.  Nov.  23,  1886; 
Hannah  M.  Woodnut.  b.  Feb.  24,  1800. 
Clement  Acton  Woodnut,  b.  in  Cincinnati,  O..  Jan.  20,  1864:  graduated  from  the  Medical 
Departnieiu  of  l^iiv.  of  Pii.,  and  after  serving  one  year  as  resident  physician  in  Phila. 


CARPENTER  479 

hospitals,  went  abroad  to  take  a  three  years  course  in  medicine  at  London,  Vienna  and 
Berlin;  while  at  the  latter  place  he  was  associated  with  Dr.  Koch  in  his  experiments 
on  bacteria,  when  his  health  failed  him,  and  developed  lung  trouble;  he  sought  to  stay 
the  ravages  of  the  disease  by  travel  in  Africa  and  Spain,  and  at  last  returned  to  Amer- 
ica, and  took  up  his  residence  in  Colorado,  where  he  died  of  consumption,  Oct.  17, 
1888,  closing  a  life  of  great  promise  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-four  years. 


PEN NYP ACKER  FAMILY. 

Hendrick  Panxebecker,  a  Dutch  Patroon,  was  ancestor  of  American  family, 
now  generally  bearing  the  name  Pennypacker,  which  has  furnished  a  United 
States  Senator  to  Virginia;  a  Major-General  from  Pennsylvania  to  the  United 
States  Army ;  a  State  Treasurer  to  Tennessee ;  a  State  Agent  to  Kentucky ;  a 
Canal  Commissioner  and  a  Governor  to  Pennsylvania,  and  which  sent  into  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion  two  generals,  four  colonels,  twenty-two  other  commissioned 
officers,  in  all  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  men,  the  largest  ascertained  contribu- 
tion of  any  single  family  in  that  war. 

Hendrick  Pannebecker  was  born  in  the  little  rural  village  of  Flomborn,  on  the 
Rhine,  not  far  from  city  of  Worms,  March  21,  1674.  He  was,  however,  of  Dutch 
lineage,  his  immediate  ancestors  having  removed  from  Holland  to  the  locality  of 
his  birth.  A  large  proportion  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  present  village  of  Flom- 
born, comprising  five  hundred  souls,  bear  the  name  of  Pannebecker.  The  name 
Pannebakker  is  of  Holland  origin,  meaning  in  the  Dutch  language  a  maker  of 
tiles. 

Hendrick  Pannebecker  was  one  of  those  who  sought  an  asylum  from  religious 
persecution,  and  a  new  field  for  advancement,  in  Penn's  Colony  in  Pennsylvania, 
soon  after  the  first  thirteen  families  of  Dutch  and  Germans  had  formed  their 
settlement  at  Germantown.  The  exact  date  of  his  arrival  is  not  known,  the 
earliest  record  we  have  of  him  being  his  marriage  at  Germantown,  1699,  to  Eve 
Umstat,  who  had  come  with  her  parents,  Hans  Peter  and  Barabara  l^mstat,  in 
the  "Francis  and  Dorothy"  from  Crefeld,  1685.  On  February  28,  1702,  a  patent 
was  granted  to  Matthias  Van  Bebber  for  6166  acres  of  land  on  the  Skippack  and 
Perkiomen  creeks,  comprising  the  present  townships  of  Skippack  and  Perkiomen, 
thereafter  for  many  years  known  as  "Bebber's  Township."  This  patent  was  made 
by  virtue  of  the  purchase  of  5000  acres  by  Dirck  Sipman  and  1000  acres  by 
Govert  Remke,  which  \"an  Bebber  had  acquired  after  about  750  acres  had  been 
laid  out  in  Germantown.  Immediately  on  the  location  of  Jhis  tract  a  number  of 
the  Germantown  residents  settled  upon  it,  among  whom  were  Hendrick  Panne- 
becker, and  his  brother-in-law,  Johannes  Umstat. 

The  first  purchase  by  Pannebecker  was  200  acres  by  deed  dated  December  25. 
1702,  and  six  years  later  he  added  204  acres.  Van  Bebber  never  settled  in  the 
township,  and  removing  to  Bohemia  Manor,  Maryland,  1704,  did  not  return  to 
Pennsylvania.  The  management  of  his  township  and  the  affairs  of  the  growing 
settlement  therein  devolved  upon  others,  the  leading  spirit  of  whom  was  Hendrick 
Pannebecker,  who  possessed  many  qualifications  that  fitted  him  for  a  useful  man 
of  business  in  this  growing  community. 

He  spoke  fluently  the  three  languages  common  to  the  communit)-  in  which  he 
lived,  Dutch,  German  and  English ;  was  a  competent  surveyor  and  wrote  deeds 
and  other  legal  papers  in  both  German  and  English.  For  the  Penns  he  surveyed 
the  manors  of  Manatawny,  Gilberts,  and  other  of  the  Proprietaries'  manors,  and 
he  laid  out  most  of  the  roads  in  that  part  of  Philadelphia  county,  now  constituting 
the  county  of  Montgomery.     He  held  a  power  of  attorney  from  \'an  Bebber  to 


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make  conveyances  of  land  and  deliver  seizin  thereof,  and  was  his  principal  repre- 
sentative in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  Colony  on  the  Skippack.  In  1727  his 
interest  was  transferred  from  that  of  attorney  to  that  of  proprietor,  he  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Lodowick  Christian  Sprogell,  purchasing  of  Van  Bebber  the  unsold 
portion  of  Bebber's  township ;  Sprogell  dying  in  1729,  his  widow  and  children  con- 
veyed to  Pannebecker  the  decedent's  undivided  interest  therein.  Thirty-three 
hundred  and  three  acres,  had  already  been  sold  but  no  quit  rent  had  been  paid  on 
any  of  the  original  purchases,  and  on  June  20,  1735,  Hendrick  Pannebecker  paid 
the  arrearages  on  6166  acres  for  the  period  of  thirty-three  years.  He  owned  at 
least  4772  acres  of  land,  and  was  one  of  the  prominent  figures  in  the  section  in 
which  he  lived,  and  principal  spokesman  in  matters  between  the  German  and 
Dutch  population  and  the  Proprietary  and  Provincial  government.  He  was  on 
terms  of  intimacy  with  Edward  Shippen,  Israel  Pemberton,  Richard  Hill,  James 
Logan,  Isaac  Norris,  and  others  prominent  in  the  Colonial  government  of  Penn- 
sylvania; is  referred  to  in  a  number  of  recorded  instruments  as  "Gentleman,"  and 
was  possessed  of  a  library  of  books,  one  of  which  was  recently  secured  by  Rev. 
A.  Stapleton,  in  which  was  written  by  some  theologian  of  the  time,  "Henrich 
Pannebecker,  habet  virtuosem  uxorem." 

Hendrick  Pannebecker  died  April  4,  1754,  and  his  large  landed  estate  was 
divided  among  his  children.  The  old  homestead  at  Pennypacker's  Mills,  Wash- 
ington's headquarters  during  the  Revolution  from  September  26,  to  October  8, 
1777,  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  great-great-great-grandson,  Hon.  Samuel 
Whitaker  Pennypacker. 

Hendrick  Pannebecker  married,  at  Germantown,  1699,  Eve,  daughter  of  Hans 
Peter  and  Barbara  Umstat,  granddaughter  of  Nicholas  Umstat,  who  died  at 
Crefeld,  on  the  Rhine,  October  4,  1682.  The  son,  Hans  Peter  Umstat,  with  his 
wife  Barbara,  and  their  three  children,  Johannes,  Eve  and  Margaret,  came  to 
Pennsylvania  in  the  "Francis  and  Dorothy"  and  located  in  Germantown,  where 
the  wife  Barbara  died  August  12,  1702.  Johannes  Umstat,  son,  joined  his  brother- 
in-law,  Hendrick  Pannebecker,  on  the  Skippack,  1702,  and  has  left  numerous 
descendants,  the  name  being  later  modified  into  Umstead.  The  Umstats  brought 
with  them  from  Crefeld  a  German  Bible  published  at  Heidelberg,  1568,  which  has 
been  in  the  family  since  1652.  Eve  (Umstat)  Pannebecker  died  some  years  prior 
to  the  date  of  death  of  her  husband. 

Issue  of  Hendrick  and  Eve  (Umstat)  Pannebecker: 

Martha  Pannebecker.  b.  June  15,  1700;  d.  Sept.,  1761;  m.  Anthony  Van  der  Sluys  (Van- 
derslice),  and  their  son,  Henry  Vanderslice,  later  Sheriff  of  Berks  cc,  succeeded  his 
grandfather,  Hendrick  Pannejjecker,  as  surveyor  and  conveyancer  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  the  Perkiomen  and  Skippack; 

Adolph  Pannebecker,  b.  1708;  d.  May,  1789;  Hke  his  four  brothers,  he  was  a  miller;  he 
inherited  a  portion  of  his  father's  lands  and  lived  and  died  in  Limerick  twp.; 

Peter  Pannebecker,  b.  March  8,  1710;  d.  June  28,  1770;  he  was  also  a  miller;  m.  Eliza- 
beth Keyser,  of  a  prominent  Germantown  family  of  that  name,  and  is  the  ancestor  of 
many  of  the  name  of  Pennypacker,  residing  in  later  years  in  the  counties  of  Chester, 
Lancaster,  and  Juniata:  among  his  more  distinguished  descendants  being  Hon.  Elijah 
F.  Pennypacker  (1804-88).  many  years  a  member  of  Pennsylvania  Legislature,  Canal 
Commissioner,  &c.,  a  sketch  of  whose  life  and  services  is  given  later; 

John  Pannebecker.  b.  Aug.  27,  1713;  d.  June  14,  1784;  m.  Annetje  Keyser,  and  resided 
in  Providence  twp.,  now  Montgomery  co.,  from  whence  his  descendants  have  migrated 
to  various  parts  of  the  Union;  among  his  notable  descendants  was  Hon.  Isaac  S. 
Pennypacker,  United  States  Senator  from  Virginia,  a  sketch  of  whom  is  given  later: 


482  PEXXVPACKER 

Jacob  Pannebecker,  b.  1715;  d.  May  27,  1752;  m.  Margaret  Tyson:  of  whom  presently: 

Henr>'  Pannebecker,  b.  1717:  d.  May  31,  1792;  m.  Rebecca  Kuster,  of  another  prominent 
Germantown  family,  later  settlers  on  the  Skippack  and  elsewhere; 

Barbara  Pannebecker,  b.  1720;  m.  Cornelius  Tyson,  and  an  account  of  her  descendants 
is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes: 

Susanna  Pannebecker.  m.  Peter  Keyser:  they  resided  in  Worcester  twp.,  now  Mont- 
gomery CO.,  Pa. 

Jacob  Pannebecker,  fourth  son  of  Hendrick  and  Eve  (L'mstat)  Pannebecker, 
born  in  Bebbers  township,  1715.  inherited  a  portion  of  the  lands  of  his  father  on 
the  Skippack,  and  for  the  comparatively  brief  period  of  his  mature  life,  was 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  flour,  which  he  and  his  brothers  marketed  in  Phila- 
delphia in  large  quantities.  He  died  May  27,  1752.  He  married  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthias  and  Barbara  (Sellen)  Tyson,  and  granddaughter  of  Cornelius 
Tyson,  who  was  born  at  Crefeld,  on  the  Rhine,  in  1652;  came  to  Germantown 
with  wife  Margaret,  who  survived  him,  and  several  children,  and  died  there  May 
9.  1716. 

Matthias  Pannebecker,  son  of  Jacob  and  Margaret  (Tyson)  Pannebecker. 
born  on  the  Skippack.  October  14.  1742,  died  February  12,  1808.  He  married 
(first)  INIary,  born  October  9,  1 75 1,  died  November  30,  1794,  daughter  of  John 
Kuster.  granddaughter  of  Hermanus  Kuster,  of  Germantown,  by  his  wife,  Isabel 
Conrad,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Paulus  Kuster  and  his  wife,  Gertrude 
Streepers,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  from  Crefeld,  county  of  Cologne,  on  borders 
of  Holland,  1699,  and  settled  in  Germantown,  where  a  portion  of  the  large  pur- 
chase of  land  by  Jan  Streepers,  a  brother  of  Gertrude,  had  been  located. 

Matthias  Pannebecker  purchased,  in  1774,  a  mill  and  tract  of  land  on  Pickering 
creek.  Schuylkill  township,  Chester  county,  and  settled  there.  He  became  a 
Bishop  of  the  Mennonite  Church,  and  preached  at  Phoenixville,  Skippack  and 
Germantown.  His  first  wife,  Mary  Kuster,  having  died  in  1794,  he  married 
(second)  Margaret  (Longaker)  Maris,  widow  of  Christian  Maris,  and  daughter 
of  Daniel  Longaker,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter  Sarah,  who  became  the  wife 
of  William  Walker,  of  Pickering  \'alley,  and  mother  of  Mary  Pennypacker 
Walker,  who  married  Tristram  Coffin  Colket. 

Matthias  Pennypacker,  as  the  name  now  came  to  be  spelled,  son  of  Matthias 
and  Mary  (Kuster)  Pannebecker,  born  in  Schuylkill  township,  Chester  county, 
August  15,  1786,  died  there  April  4,  1852,  after  a  life  of  more  than  ordinary 
public  activity.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1837 ;  for 
some  years  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania ;  and  President 
of  the  organization  which  led  to  the  construction  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading 
Railroad,  and  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  company.  He  married  Sarah, 
born  February  9,  1784,  died  September  13,  1853.  daughter  of  Hon.  Isaac  .Ander- 
son, a  Lieutenant  of  Militia  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  and  member  of  House 
of  Representatives  of  the  United  States.  1803-07,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Lane,  of 
whom  hereafter,  and  granddaughter  of  Major  Patrick  Anderson,  a  distinguished 
officer  of  the  Revolution,  who  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  July  24. 
1719.  Major  Anderson  was  a  son  of  James  Anderson,  a  native  of  Scotland,  by  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Jerman.  a  noted  preacher  among  Friends  in 
the  Chester  \'alley. 

Major  Anderson  was  educated  in  I'liilatleljihia,  and  taught  school  for  some  years, 
but  subse(|ucntly  located  on  his  father's  farm  two  miles  from  \'alley  Forge.     He 


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was  a  Captain  during  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  at  the  first  meeting  of  the 
Committee  of  Safety  of  Chester  county,  December  20,  1774,  was  named  as  one 
of  Committee  of  Observation  for  that  county  in  State  organization,  and  con- 
tinued to  serve  with  the  State  Committee  of  Safety  until  March  15,  1776,  when 
he  was  commissioned  Captain  in  Col.  Samuel  J.  Atlee"s  Musketry  battalion,  which 
was  later  consolidated  into  the  State  Regiment  of  Foot,  and  November  12,  1777, 
into  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  Continental  Line.  He  was  also  a  Major  in  Anthony 
Wayne's  regiment  of  Chester  county  minute-men  in  1775.  Major  Anderson  was 
in  the  battles  of  Long  Island,  Brandywine,  Germantown,  and  many  other  engage- 
ments. At  the  termination  of  his  term  of  enlistment,  January  i,  1778,  he  retired 
from  military  service  and  was  elected  to  General  Assembly  from  Chester  county, 
serving  in  that  body  until  1780.  In  1781  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners in  charge  of  the  navigation  of  the  Schuylkill,  and  filled  other  important 
positions.  Hon.  Isaac  Anderson  was  a  Lieutenant  of  Militia  during  the  Revolu- 
tion ;  member  of  General  Assembly,  represented  his  State  in  the  National  House 
of  Representatives  in  the  Eighth  and  Ninth  congresses  and  was  a  Presidential 
elector  for  Monroe  in  1816.     He  died  October  27,  1838. 

Mary  Lane  Anderson,  wife  of  Hon.  Isaac  Anderson  and  mother  of  Sarah 
(Anderson)  Pennypacker,  was  born  in  Providence  township,  Philadelphia,  (now 
Montgomery)  county.  May  22,  1762,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Edward  Lane,  by  his 
wife,  Sarah  Richardson;  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Lane,  of  Providence,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Edward  Lane,  a  son  of  William  Lane  and  his  wife,  Cecile  Love, 
of  Bristol,  England,  a  pioneer  of  Plymouth  township,  and  the  founder  of  St. 
James  Episcopal  Church,  (of  whom  further  hereafter)  by  his  wife,  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Richardson,  Provincial  Councillor,  etc.,  of  whom  later. 

Edward  Lane,  first  mentioned,  father  of  Mary  (Lane)  Anderson,  was  born  in 
Plymouth  township,  Philadelphia,  now  Montgomery  county,  removed  to  Charles- 
town  township,  Chester  county,  shortly  before  the  Revolution ;  died  there  July  8, 
1818,  and  is  buried  in  the  Anderson  burial  lot  in  Schuylkill  township.  He  married 
at  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  October  14,  1754,  his  cousin,  Sarah,  born  at 
Olethgo.  Providence  township,  January  14,  1732,  daughter  of  Edward  Richard- 
son, of  Olethgo,  by  his  wife,  Ann  Jones,  and  granddaughter  of  Joseph  Richardson, 
of  Olethgo,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Barbara  (Aubrey) 
Bevan,  of  Treverigg,  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  back  to  the 
tenth  century,  both  being  descended  from  Edward  III.,  of  England,  and  his  wife 
Philippa,  daughter  of  William  III,  Count  of  Hainault  and  Holland,  by  his  wife 
Joanna,  daughter  of  Charles  of  Valois,  son  of  King  Philip  of  France.  The 
ancestry  of  John  Bevan  has  been  traced  back  twelve  generations  further  to 
Dierck,  Count  of  Holland,  Zealand,  and  Friesland,  A.  D.  863,  (a  descendant  of 
the  Dukes  of  Aquitaine),  who  married  Gena,  daughter  of  the  King  of  Italy;  his 
son,  Dierck  II,  who  married  Hildegarde,  daughter  of  King  Louis  of  France,  and 
died  May  6,  988 ;  his  son  Arnulph,  who  married  Luitgarde,  daughter  of  Theo- 
phanus.  King  of  Greece,  and  sister  of  Theophana,  wife  of  Otho  II,  Emperor  of 
Germany,  killed  at  battle  of  Wentzel,  993 ;  his  son,  Dierck  III,  who  married 
Othilda,  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Saxony,  and  was  one  of  the  early  crusaders, 
died  1039 ;  his  son,  Floris  I,  who  became  Count  of  Holland,  etc.,  in  1048,  married 
Gertrude,  daughter  of  Herman,  Duke  of  Saxony ;  his  son,  Dierck  V,  who  became 
Count  in  1075,  married  Othilda,  daughter  of  Frederick.  Duke  of  Saxony;  his  son, 


484  PENNYPACKER 

Dierck  VI,  who  married  Sophia,  daughter  of  the  Count  Palatine,  a  crusader  of 
1139,  died  1 163;  his  son,  Floris  III,  a  crusader  in  1187,  with  9000  men,  and 
performed  many  feats  of  arms,  died  at  Antioch,  1191,  and  was  buried  at  St. 
Peter's  Church  there ;  married  Ada,  daughter  of  King  Henry,  and  granddaughter 
of  David  VIII,  of  Scotland;  their  son,  William  I,  who  accompanied  his  father  to 
the  Holy  Land,  and  remained  three  years  after  the  death  of  his  father  and  cap- 
tured Damiaten,  in  Egypt,  for  which  he  was  knighted  by  Frederick  Barbarossa ; 
was  again  a  crusader  in  1217,  died  February  4,  1224;  he  married  Adelheit.  daugh- 
ter of  the  Count  of  Gelderland,  and  their  son  was  Floris  I\',  slain  in  battle,  1235, 
married  Matilda,  daughter  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Brabant,  and  their  daughter  Alice. 
married,  in  1241,  John  of  Avennes,  Earl  of  Hainault,  whose  son  William  III,  of 
the  Netherlands,  married  Joanna,  of  Valois,  and  was  the  father  of  Philippa,  wife 
of  Edward  III,  of  England. 

Sarah  (Richardson)  Lane  died  July  8,  1818,  and  her  daughter,  Mary  (Lane) 
Anderson,  died  August  27,  1847.  Both  are  buried  in  the  Anderson  burying- 
ground  in  Schuylkill  township,  Chester  county.  Edward  Richardson  was  a  pupil 
of  Francis  Daniel  Pastorius,  founder  of  Germantown,  1712.  He  married  Ann 
Jones,  December  15,  1731,  and  took  up  his  residence  on  248  acres  in  Providence 
township,  part  of  the  Olethgo  plantation,  conveyed  to  him  by  his  father,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1730,  and  died  there  about  1750.  He  is  referred  to  as  a  man  of  great 
muscular  strength,  being  able  to  hold  a  fifty-six  pound  weight  at  arm's  length, 
while  writing  his  name  with  chalk  on  the  wall. 

Samuel  Richardson,  father  of  Joseph,  before  mentioned,  and  grandfather  of 
Edward,  came  to  Philadelphia  from  Jamaica,  1687,  with  his  wife  Eleanor  and 
their  children,  bringing  a  certificate  from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at  Spanish  Town, 
Island  of  Jamaica,  which  he  produced  at  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting,  "ye  loth. 
of  ye  3d.  Mo.  1687." 

It  is  probable  that  Samuel  Richardson  had  resided  but  a  short  time  on  the 
island  and  since  he  was  living  in  London  in  1673,  he  is  believed  to  have  been  the 
Samuel  Richardson  mentioned  in  Besse's  "Suff'erings  of  the  Quakers,"  as  having 
been  arrested  at  the  Peel  Meeting,  in  London,  1670,  and  fined  for  attending  non- 
conformist meetings.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  personality  and  more  than  ordi- 
nary executive  ability,  and  became  at  once  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Penn's 
infant  colony.  He  was  appointed  a  Judge  of  the  Courts  of  Philadelphia.  January 
12,  1688,  and  filled  that  position  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  elected  to  the  Gov- 
ernor's Council,  1688,  and  being  an  ardent  champion  of  the  people,  as  opposed  to 
the  dictatorial  attitude  of  Dep.  Gov.  Blackwell,  expressed  himself  rather  warmly 
in  criticism  of  some  of  the  acts  of  the  Governor,  by  reason  of  which  an  eflfort  was 
made  to  prevent  him  from  taking  his  seat  in  the  Council,  and  a  writ  was  issued 
for  the  election  of  a  successor.  This  resulted,  however,  in  his  return  by  "a  vote 
of  the  people,  February  8,  1688-9,  and  though  some  opposition  was  offered  to  his 
taking  the  oath,  he  and  his  friends  overcame  the  opposition  and  he  took  liis  seat 
in  the  Council.  He  was  again  returned  to  Council,  1695,  and  was  one  of  the 
active  and  influential  members  of  that  body.  He  served  as  one  of  the  committee 
of  twelve  to  whom  was  referred  the  demand  of  Col.  Fletcher,  Governor  of  New 
York,  that  Pennsylvania  furni.shher  quota  of  men  and  means  to  defend  the 
common  frontier  against  the  Indians  of  the  northwest,  and  made  the  report  of 


PEN  NYP  ACKER  485 

that  committee  to  Council.  He  was  a  member  of  Colonial  Assembly  from  Phila- 
delphia for  the  years  1691-94-97-1703-06-07-09. 

He  has  the  distinction  of  being  "The  first  alderman  of  Philadelphia,"  having 
been  appointed  to  that  office  by  Penn  at  the  head  of  a  list  of  six  when  the  city 
was  first  chartered  in  1691. 

Samuel  Richardson  lived  until  about  1705  on  a  tract  of  500  acres  of  land  lying 
along  the  line  of  Germantown,  in  what  was  then  known  as  Bristol  township, 
Philadelphia  county,  which  he  later  conveyed  in  trust,  for  the  use  of  his  grandson, 
John  Richardson. 

Eleanor,  wife  of  Samuel  Richardson,  died  April  19,  1703,  and  on  July  20,  1704, 
he  married  Elizabeth  Webb,  and  removed  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  was 
elected  an  Alderman  in   1705,  and  served  until  his  death,  June  10,  1719. 

The  children  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  Richardson  were :  Joseph,  married  Eliz- 
abeth Bevan,  June  20,  1696;  Mary,  married  William  Hudson,  Mayor  of  Philadel- 
phia ;  Elizabeth,  married  Abraham  Bickley ;  Anne,  married  Edward  Lane,  from 
Bristol,  England,  before  mentioned,  owner  of  a  large  tract  of  land  lying  along  the 
southwestern  boundary  of  Bebber's  township,  before  referred  to,  in  Providence 
township,  and  lying  between  it  and  the  Manor  of  Gilbert's,  where  he  died  in 
1710.  His  widow,  Anne  (Richardson)  Lane,  married  Edmund  Cartledge,  of 
Conestoga,  Lancaster  county.  Samuel  Lane,  eldest  son  of  Edward  and  Anne 
(Richardson)  Lane,  born  April  17,  1699,  ^'^d  December  17,  1771,  inherited  a  large 
part  of  his  father's  land  in  Providence  township,  and  was  a  lifelong  resident 
there;  was  Warden  of  St.  James  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Perkiomen.  He 
was  father  of  Edward  Lane,  who  married  Sarah  Richardson,  and  became  the 
father  of  Mary  (Lane)  Anderson,  mother  of  Sarah  (Anderson)  Pennypacker. 

Joseph  Richardson,  only  son  of  Samuel  Richardson,  Provincial  Councillor,  and 
paternal  grandfather  of  Sarah  (Richardson)  Lane,  purchased,  in  1710,  of  his 
brother-in-law,  Abraham  Bickley,  1000  acres,  known  as  "Olethgo"  in  Providence 
township,  on  which  he  settled.  He  died  there  in  December,  1751,  surviving  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Bevan,  who  died  February  27,  1740.  They  had  six  sons:  John, 
Samuel,  Aubrey,  Edward,  before  mentioned,  Richard  and  William;  three  daugh- 
ters, Eleanor,  married  William  Harmer,  and  was  the  grandmother  of  Col.  Josiah 
Harmer,  distinguished  officer  of  the  Revolution,  and  first  Commander-in-Chief 
of  the  Army  of  the  United  States  after  Washington:  Barbara,  married  Benjamin 
Davies,  of  Lower  Merion,  and  Elizabeth,  married  Samuel  Stalford,  of  Providence. 

Isaac  Anderson  Pennypacker,  son  of  Matthias  and  Sarah  (Anderson) 
Pennypacker,  was  born  at  Pickering,  Schuylkill  township,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, July  9,  1812,  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  13,  1856.  He  studied  medi- 
cine and  graduated  from  the  Medical  Department  of  University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  1833.  Locating  at  Phoenixville,  Chester  county,  he  became  an  eminent  and 
successful  physician.  He  was  the  first  chief  burgess  of  Phoenixville  on  its  organ- 
ization as  a  borough  in  1849. 

In  1854  Dr.  Pennypacker  was  appointed  Professor  of  the  Theory  and  Practice 
of  Medicine  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Medicine,  and  removed  to  that  city, 
residing  on  Chestnut  street,  west  of  Eighteenth  street,  where  he  died  in  1856.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first  president  of  the  Philadelphia  City  Institute, 
and,  together  with  the  late  Dr.  James  L.  Tyson,  organized  the  Howard  Hospital. 

Dr.    Pennypacker   married.    May  9,    1839,   Anna    Maria,   daughter   of   Joseph 


486  PENNYPACKER 

Whitaker,  a  wealthy  ironmaster  of  Phoenixville,  one  of  the  firm  of  Reeves  & 
Whitaker,  and  one  time  owner  and  proprietor  of  the  Durham  Iron  Works,  at 
Durham,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  as  well  as  of  extensive  iron  works  in 
Maryland  and  elsewhere,  and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  in  1843. 

Joseph  Whitaker  was  a  grandson  of  James  Whitaker,  of  Leeds,  England,  who 
married  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Musgrave.  Their  son,  Joseph  Whitaker  Sr.,  born 
August  25,  1755,  died  1837,  married  Sarah,  of  Coventry,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, daughter  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Butler)  Op  den  Graeff,  granddaughter  of 
Isaac  Op  den  Graeff,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Abraham  Op  den  Graeff,  of 
Crefeld,  county  Cologne,  on  borders  of  Holland,  who  with  his  two  brothers,  Her- 
man and  Dirck,  formed  part  of  the  little  colony  of  thirteen  families  that  founded 
Germantown  in  1683.  Abraham  Op  den  Graeff  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
famous  protest  against  slavery  in  1688;  was  one  of  the  first  Burgesses  of  German- 
town,  and  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly,  1689-92.  He  purchased  a  tract  of 
land  in  "Bebbers  Township,"  before  referred  to,  1709,  and  he  and  his  wife 
Trintje  are  believed  to  have  been  buried  in  the  old  Mennonite  burying-ground  at 
Skippack. 

Joseph  Whitaker,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Op  den  Graeff)  Whitaker,  and 
father  of  Anna  Maria  (Whitaker)  Pennypacker,  was  born  March  29,  1789,  died 
November  30,  1870.  He  married  Grace  Adams,  of  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey, 
born  March  7,  1789,  died  February  16,  1870. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Isaac  A.  and  Anna  Maria  (Whitaker)  Pennypacker: 

Hon.  S.^muel  Whitaker  Pennyp,\cker,  b.  April  9,  1843;  of  whom  presently; 
Henry  Cl.^y  Pennyp.\cker.  b.  June  20,  1847;  of  whom  presently; 
IsA.\c  RusLiNG  Pennypacker.  b.  Dec.  11,  1852;  of  whom  presently; 
James  Lane  Pennypacker,  b.  Dec.   11,  1855;  of  whom  later. 

Hon.  Samuel  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  LL.  D.,  Governor  of  Pennsylvania, 
1903-07,  was  born  at  Phoenixville,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  April  9,  1843. 
His  parents  removing  to  Philadelphia  when  he  was  a  child,  he  attended  the  North- 
west Grammar  School  in  that  city,  and  later  obtained  a  scholarship  at  the  Saund- 
ers' Institute,  West  Philadelphia.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  1856,  he  returned 
with  his  mother  to  Phoenixville  and  there  attended  the  Grovemont  Seminary.  In 
1862  he  taught  school  at  Mont  Clare,  Montgomery  county.  In  1863  he  enlisted  in 
Company  F,  Twenty-sixth  (Emergency)  Regiment,  the  first  force  to  encounter 
the  Confederate  Army  at  Gettysburg.  When  Lee's  invading  army  had  been  turneil 
back,  and  his  brief  term  of  service  had  e.xpired,  Mr.  Pennypacker  took  up  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Peter  McCall,  of  Philadelphia,  and  entered  the 
Law  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  receiving  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws,  1866,  and  in  the  same  year  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the 
Philadelphia  bar,  and  began  practice  in  that  city.  In  1868  he  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Law  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  1887  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  L'nited  States. 

In  1889  he  was  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  bench  of  Common  Pleas 
Court,  No.  2,  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  November  of  the  same  year  was  elected  to 
the  same  position  for  the  full  term  of  ten  years.  In  1899  he  was  unanimously 
re-elected  for  another  term  of  ten  years,  being  then  the  President  Judge  of  the 
Court.     He  resigned  his  judicial  position  in  1902  to  accept  the  nomination  of  the 


PEN  NYP  ACKER  487 

Republican  party  to  the  office  of  Governor,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  November 
by  a  majority  of  over  156,000  votes  over  ex-Governor  Robert  E.  Pattison,  the 
popular  standard  bearer  of  the  Democratic  party,  who  had  been  twice  elected  to 
that  position. 

During  Gov.  Pennypacker's  administration  the  Commonwealth  made  great 
progress  in  all  directions.  The  practical  movement  for  good  roads  was  begun,  the 
Health  Department  was  established,  the  State  Constabulary  created,  a  great  coal 
miners  strike  was  averted,  the  Forestry  Reserve  was  doubled,  Valley  Forge  made, 
in  fact,  a  State  Park,  Greater  Pittsburg  incorporated,  a  new  Capitol  completed 
and  dedicated,  the  State  apportioned  into  Senatorial  and  Representative  Districts 
for  the  first  time  in  thirty  years  :  the  volume  of  new  laws  was  cut  down  one-third  ; 
the  power  of  the  corporations  to  seize  the  streams  and  sources  of  water  supply  of 
the  State  taken  away,  and  legislation  enacted  which  President  Roosevelt  described 
as  marking  "an  epoch  in  the  practical  betterment  of  political  conditions"  for  all 
the  States;  $375,000  was  appropriated  for  the  deepening  of  the  channel  of  the 
Delaware  river  and  over  $13,000,000  left  in  the  treasury. 

As  a  jurist  Judge  Pennypacker  stood  exceedingly  high  in  the  estimation  of  the 
people.  His  opinions  were  characterized  by  good  sense,  sound  reasoning,  and  an 
enlightened  knowledge  of  and  practical  application  of  the  law  to  the  case  in  hand, 
and  he  was  seldom  reversed  by  the  higher  Courts.  Gov.  Pennypacker  has  taken  a 
lively  interest  in  the  affairs  of  Philadelphia.  In  1886  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  he  has  always  been  an  ardent  friend  of  popular 
education.  He  has  for  many  years  taken  a  very  active  interest  in  historical  sub- 
jects and  has  written  and  published  a  number  of  books,  papers,  pamphlets,  etc., 
of  high  merit  from  a  historical  point  of  view.  A  careful  and  conscientious  student, 
his  historical  publications  are  models  of  accuracy  and  authenticity.  Intensely 
proud  of  his  native  State  and  her  institutions,  his  ability  to  ferret  out  obscure  and 
interesting  facts  in  reference  to  their  history  is  unexcelled  among  contemporary 
historians.  Among  the  more  prominent  of  his  publications  are:  "The  Settlement 
of  Germantown,"  "Hendrick  Pannebecker,"  "Historical  and  Biographical 
Sketches,"  "Bebber's  Township,"  "The  Annals  of  Phoenixville"  and  "Congress 
Hall."  In  addition  to  the  above  he  has  published  some  fifty  other  books,  pamph- 
lets and  papers  of  more  or  less  historical  interest.  He  is  also  the  author  of  a 
number  of  legal  text  books  of  merit,  among  them  being  "Pennsylvania  Colonial 
Cases,"  "Digest  of  Common  Law  Reports,"  and  "Pennypacker's  Supreme  Court 
Reports ;"  and  he  also  aided  in  the  preparation  of  forty-five  volumes  of  the 
"Weekly  Notes  of  Cases." 

Gov.  Pennypacker  has  long  been  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  done  much  to  place  it  on  the  high  plane  of 
usefulness  as  an  institution.  He  served  it  many  years  as  Vice-President,  and 
since  1900  has  been  its  President.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  securing  the 
State  appropriation  which  enabled  the  Society  to  erect  its  large  and  commodious 
building  at  Thirteenth  and  Locust  streets  in  1906-07.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
and  is  now  Vice-President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution ; 
fills  the  same  official  position  in  the  Colonial  Society;  has  been  President  of  the 
Netherlands  Society,  and  of  the  Pennsylvania  German  Society,  is  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Society  of  the  War  of  1812,  and  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania History  Club.    He  is  President  of  the  Philobiblon  Club,  and  connected 


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with  a  number  of  other  historical,  educational  and  social  organizations.  He  has 
been  for  several  years  a  trustee  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  is  a  Past 
Commander  of  Frederick  Taylor  Post,  No.  lo,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

Gov.  Pennypacker  is  an  antiquarian  of  rare  instinct,  and  collected  a  library  of 
early  Pennsylvania  publications,  manuscripts  and  curios,  containing  over  ten 
thousand  books,  pamphlets,  and  manuscripts,  many  of  which  are  exceedingly  rare 
and  valuable. 

Franklin  and  Marshall  College  and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  conferred 
upon  Governor  Pennypacker  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 

He  married,  October  20,  1870,  Virginia  Earl,  daughter  of  Nathan  Broomall,  of 
Phoenixville,  and  a  descendant  of  some  of  the  old  and  prominent  Quaker  families 
of  Delaware  county.     They  had  issue: 

Dirck  Koster  Pennypacker,  b.  Aug.  4,  1871 ;  d.  Jan.  18,  1872; 

Josephine  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  b.  Nov.  14,  1872; 

Eliza  Broomall  Pennypacker,  b.  Oct.  18,  1874;  graduate  of  Bryn  Mawr  College,  1897; 

Anna  Maria  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  b.  Nov.  22,  1876;  graduate  of  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
1897; 

Samuel  Richardson  Pennypacker.  b.  Dec.  3,  1878;  d.  Nov.  2,  1880: 

Bevan  Aubrey  Pennypacker,  b.  July  2p.  1 881 ;  graduated  at  the  William  Penn  Charter 
School,  Phila.,  and  entered  the  Univ.  of  Pa.,  Department  of  Arts,  from  which  he 
received  his  degree  of  B.  S.,  class  of  1902.  He  subsequently  entered  the  Law  Depart- 
ment of  the  University,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1905,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Phila.  bar,  where  he  has  since  practiced  his  profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Law 
Academy,  has  been  President  of  the  Hare  Law  Club,  and  is  now  -Assistant  City 
Solicitor  of  Phila.;  m.  Oct.  19,  1907.  Katharine  Roberts,  dau.  of  Powell  Stackhouse, 
President  of  the  Cambria  Iron  &  Steel  Company,  by  his  wife,  Lucinda  Maria  Bu- 
chanan. 

Henry  C.  Pennvpacker,  second  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Anderson  and  Anna  Maria 
(Whitaker)  Pennypacker,  born  at  Phoenixville,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania. 
June  20,  1847,  was  for  a  number  of  years  engaged  in  the  printing  business  in 
Philadelphia,  retiring  from  business  to  accept  a  position  in  the  Prothonotary's 
office,  Philadelphia,  which  he  still  holds.  He  is  the  owner  of  over  two  hundred 
acres  of  land  in  Chester  county,  comprising  "Moore  Hall,"  the  historic  Colonial 
residence  of  the  Moore  family,  where  he  now  resides. 

Mr.  Pennypacker  married,  April  17,  1883,  Clara,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Sarah 
Elizabeth  (Jenkins)  Karnes,  born  in  Philadelphia,  September  30,  1855.  They 
have  one  son,  Joseph  Rusling  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  born  in  Philadelphia, 
November  10,  1887,  who  is  now  a  student  at  Wenonah  Military  Academy,  Weno- 
nah.   New  Jersey. 

Is.\AC  RcsLiXG  Pennypacker,  third  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Anderson  and  Anna 
Maria  (Whitaker)  Pennypacker,  born  at  Phoenixville.  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, December  11,  1852,  was  educated  at  Bond's  School,  Phoenixville,  and 
"The  Hill"  School,  Pottstown.  He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  and  editor  of  the 
Wilmington  (Delaware)  Morning  News  from  1880  to  1883;  on  the  editorial  staff 
of  the  Philadelphia  Press  and  Philadelphia  Inquirer,  1883  to  1899;  author  of 
"Gettysburg  and  Other  Poems,"  several  of  which  were  included  in  Stedman's 
"Library  of  American  Literature,"  Longfellow's  "Poems  of  Places"  and  other 
Anthologies.  The  poem  "Gettysburg"  was  read  at  the  dedication  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania monuments  erected  upon  the  battlefield.  George  Morgan,  writing  in  the 
"Book  News"  for  July,  1904,  of  the  poetry  relating  to  the  battlefield  said,  after 


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referring  to  poems  of  Bayard  Taylor,  Whittier,  J.  W.  DeForrest,  Bret  Harte,  and 
Will  H.  Thompson,  "Something  nobler  and  greater  than  these  is  Isaac  R.  Penny- 
packer's  'Gettysburg.'  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman,  who  was  generous  enough  to 
place  it  higher  than  his  own  Gettysburg  effort,  designates  it  as  a  noble  free-hand 
epic." 

Mr.  Pennypacker  wrote  the  article  "Philadelphia"  in  "Johnson's  Cyclopaedia," 
and  for  Appleton's  well-known  "Great  Commanders  Series,"  the  "Life  of  Gen- 
eral Meade,"  an  authentic  narrative  of  the  movement  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 
He  has  been  for  some  years  a  contributor  of  reviews  to  the  Chicago  Dial  and 
the  New  York  Nation. 

Since  1898  Mr.  Pennypacker  has  resided  at  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  town  council  there  in  1902 ;  was  Chairman  of  the  Street, 
Lighting,  and  Water  Committees,  and  originated  the  movement  which  resulted  in 
extending  the  town  limits.  He  resigned  in  the  autumn  of  1906.  He  is  a  director 
of  several  incorporated  companies ;  was  trustee  for  a  number  of  years  of  the  Mt. 
Holly  Library  Company,  is  a  member  and  was  formerly  president  of  the  Nether- 
lands Society  of  Philadelphia,  and  wrote  the  song  which  is  sung  at  each  of  the 
Society's  annual  dinners ;  is  a  member  of  the  Montrose  and  the  Camden  County 
Country  clubs,  and  the  Franklin  Inn  Club  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  elected  in 
1907  a  member  of  the  E.  O.  B.  Club  of  the  University  of  the  South,  at  Sewanee, 
Tennessee. 

Mr.  Pennypacker  married,  1878,  Charlotte,  of  Harford  county,  Maryland, 
daughter  of  William  P  C.  Whitaker,  by  his  wife,  Mary  Ramsay,  granddaughter 
of  Col.  Nathaniel  Ramsay,  of  the  Maryland  Line,  who  was  conspicuous  for  his 
bravery  at  the  battles  of  Long  Island,  Brandywine,  and  Germantown,  and  whose 
regiment  with  that  of  Col.  Stewart,  checked  the  British  pursuit  at  Monmouth, 
until  Washington  could  rally  the  retreating  American  troops.  Col.  Ramsay  was  a 
member  of  the  "Old"  Congress.  A  street  in  Baltimore  is  named  for  him,  and  his 
is  the  central  figure  of  one  of  the  bronze  groups  on  the  Monmouth  battle-field 
monument.  Col.  Ramsay's  portrait  and  that  of  his  brother.  Dr.  David  Ramsay, 
the  eminent  historian,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  both  painted  by  Charles 
Willson  Peale,  hang  in  Independence  Hall.  Dr.  David  Ramsay  was  elected 
President  of  the  Continental  Congress.  Col.  Ramsay's  wife,  the  great-grand- 
mother of  Mrs.  Pennypacker,  was  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Col.  Aquilla  Hall,  by 
his  wife,  Sophia  White,  (sister  to  Bishop  William  White,  first  Bishop  of  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church  in  Pennsylvania)  and  great-granddaughter  of  Capt.  John 
Hall,  of  the  long  established  Hall  family  of  Harford  county,  Maryland,  members 
of  which  intermarried  with  the  Heaths,  Keys,  Pacas,  Howards,  McHenrys,  and 
other  leading  families  of  Maryland.  Sophia  White  danced  at  the  Philadelphia 
Assembly  Ball,  in  1749. 

Issue  of  Isaac  R.  and  Charlotte  (Whitaker)  Pennypacker: 

Isaac  Anderson  Pennypacker,  b.  at  "Mt.  Pleasant."  Harford  co.,  Md.,  Aug.  29,  1879; 
graduate  of  the  Univ.  of  Pa.,  being  president  of  the  Senior  Class,  1902;  member  of  the 
Phila.  bar,  and  of  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pa.;  Director  in  1908  of  The 
Young  Republicans'  Club  of  Phila.;  Secretary  of  The  Netherlands  Society  of  Phila.; 
member  of  the  Delta  Phi  Fraternity;  Southern  Club,  Phila.,  and  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, being  a  delegate  from  Maryland  to  the  Triennial  Convention  of  1908,  held  at 
Charleston,  S.  C. ; 

Nathaniel  Ramsay  Pennypacker,  b.  at  "Mt.  Pleasant,"  Harford  co.,  Md.,  Sept.  26,  1881 ; 
graduated  from  Lehigh  Univ.,  with  degree  of  Engineer  of  Mines ;  in  charge  of  mining 


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operations  in  the  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada,  1906-07,  and  since  that  time  in  Nevada ; 
member  of  Delta  Phi  Fraternity; 

Charlotte  Pennypacker,  b.  June  20,  1885;  educated  at  The  Holman  School,  Phila.,  and 
Burnham  School,  Northampton.  Mass.:  pupil  of  Dr.  David  Wood,  of  Phila.; 

Julia  Elizabeth  Pennypacker,  b.  Jan.  12,  1887;  prepared  for  college  at  Miss  Hill's  school, 
Phila.,  and  the  Burnham  School,  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  entered  Vassar  College 
with  Class  of  1910;  Secretary  of  Sophomore  Class,  elected  by  student  body  member 
of  "The  Joint  Committee  of  Faculty  and  Student:"  member  of  Contemporary  Club, 
and  of  the  Membership  Committee  of  the  Christian's  Association; 

Mary  Ramsay  Pennypacker,  b.  March  28,  1888;  educated  at  the  Burnham  School,  North- 
ampton, Mass.; 

Maria  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  b.  Dec.  15.  1889;  educated  at  the  "Oldfields"  School, 
Glencoe,  Md. ; 

Grace  Adams  Pennypacker,  b.  Oct.  2S,  1892:  educated  at  "Oldfields"  School,  Glencoe, 
Md. 

James  Lane  Pennypacker,  youngest  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Anderson  and  Anna 
Maria  (Whitaker)  Pennypacker,  born  December  11,  1855,  in  Philadelphia,  in  the 
house  now  numbered  1803  Chestnut  street,  graduated  from  Friends  Central  High 
School,  1874,  and  from  Harvard  University  1881,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  magna 
cum  laiidc.  In  1881  he  entered  the  Old  Corner  Book  Store,  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, doing  the  editorial  work  for  that  well-known  book  publishing  establishment 
until  1883,  when  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  and  continued  the  publishing  business 
there.  In  1892  he  became  connected  with  The  Christopher  Sower  Company,  of 
which  house  he  is  now  Vice-President  and  General  Manager.  The  Christopher 
Sower  Company  was  founded  in  1738,  and  has  been  in  continuous  existence  from 
that  date  to  the  present  time,  and  is  the  oldest  and  historically  the  most  famous 
publishing  house  in  America.  It  is  a  member  of  the  Association  of  Centenary 
Firms  and  Corporations  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Pennypacker  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa ; 
Harvard  Club  of  Philadelphia;  Harvard  Club  of  New  Jersey;  University  Club, 
of  Philadelphia;  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  of  Philadelphia;  American  Asso- 
ciation for  the  Advancement  of  Science ;  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania ; 
Pennsylvania  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  Netherlands  Society  of 
Philadelphia.  He  is  an  advisory  manager  of  the  Free  Museum  of  Science  and  Art, 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  President  of  the  Delaware  Valley  Natural- 
ist's Union,  an  association  of  scientific  societies  located  in  or  near  Philadelphia,  on 
both  sides  of  the  Delaware  river. 

James  Lane  Pennypacker  married,  June  17,  1884,  Grace  Fisher,  born  October  3, 
1858,  daughter  of  George  and  Hepsy  A.  (Seaver)  Coolidge,  of  Dedham,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  ninth  in  descent  from  John  Coolidge,  who  came  from  Cambridge- 
shire, England,  1630,  and  settled  in  VVatertown,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Penny- 
packer  and  his  family  reside  at  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey. 

Issue  of  James  Lane  and  Grace  F.  (Coolidge)  Pennyf'acker: 

Grace  Coolidge  Pennypacker.  b.  Jan.  24,  1886:  graduated  from  Friends'  Central  School. 

1905;  d.  Feb.  I,  igo6; 
Joseph  Whitaker  Pennypacker,  b.  Oct.  8,  1887;  now  (1908)  member  of  Junior  Class  at 

Haverford  College; 
Edward  Lane  Pennypacker,  b.  Sept.  12,  1889;  d.  May  25,  1899; 
James  Anderson  Pennypacker  (twin),  b.  June  11,  1899; 
Anna  Margaret  Pennypacker  (twin),  b.  June  11,  1899. 

Among  the  descendants  of  Hendrick  Pannebacker,  who  have  rendered  distin- 


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guished  service  to  their  native  state  of  Pennsylvania,  other  than  those  in  direct 
line  of  descent  of  the  branch  of  the  family  treated  of  in  this  sketch,  are  Major 
General  Galusha  Pennypacker,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Hon.  Elijah  F.  Pennypacker, 
many  years  Canal  Commissioner  of  Pennsylvania,  when  that  office  was  a  very 
important  one,  for  the  reason  that  most  of  these  artificial  waterways  were  owned 
by  the  Commonwealth ;  sketches  of  both  of  whom  follow. 

Major  Gener^vl  Galusha  Pennypacker,  of  Philadelphia,  another  distin- 
guished descendant  of  Hendrick  Pannebecker,  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, June  I,  1844,  only  child  of  Joseph  J.  and  Tamson  Amelia  (Workiser) 
Pennypacker,  and  great-grandson  of  Matthias  and  Mary  (Kuster)  Pennypacker, 
before  mentioned.  He  was  educated  at  the  Classical  Institue  at  Phoenixville, 
Pennsylvania. 

Entering  the  Union  Army  as  a  non-commissioned  staff  officer  in  April,  1861,  in 
the  Ninth  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  he  served  his  term  of  three  months 
enlistment  with  Gen.  Robert  Patterson  in  the  Shenandoah  Campaign.  On  August 
22,  1861,  he  re-entered  the  army  as  Captain  of  Company  A,  Ninety-seventh  Regi- 
ment, Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  and  was  promoted  to  Major,  October  7,  1861 ; 
serving  in  the  Tenth  Corps,  Department  of  the  South,  during  1862  and  1863.  Was 
in  the  engagements  at  Forts  Wagner  and  Greeg,  James  Island,  Siege  of  Charleston, 
capture  of  Fort  Pulaski,  and  of  Fernandina  and  Jacksonville,  Florida.  He  joined 
the  Army  of  the  James,  in  Virginia,  in  April,  1864,  and  was  promoted  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  his  regiment,  April  3,  1864,  and  Colonel,  June  23,  1864,  commanding 
at  Swift  Creek,  May  9,  at  Drury's  Bluff,  May  16,  Chester  Station,  May  18,  and 
Green  Plains,  May  20,  1864.  He  was  in  numerous  battles,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
command  of  the  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Tenth  Corps,  September,  1864; 
was  in  the  successful  assault  on  Fort  Fisher,  North  Carolina,  January  15,  1865, 
and  received  the  Congressional  Medal  of  Honor  for  bravery  in  battle,  and  a  brevet 
as  Brigadier-General  United  States  Volunteers,  January  15,  1865. 

He  was  promoted  to  Brigadier-General  of  United  States  Volunteers,  February 
18,  1865,  and  was  made  Major-General  United  States  Veterans  by  brevet,  March 
13,  1865.  He  was  several  times  severely  wounded  and  was  the  youngest  general 
officer  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  After  the  War  he  entered  the  regular  service 
and  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  Infantry,  United 
States  Army,  July  28,  1866,  his  regiment  afterwards  changed  to  the  Sixteenth 
Infantry,  United  States  Army.  He  served  as  commander  of  different  posts  and 
was  a  department  commander  at  various  times  until  his  retirement  on  account  of 
wounds  in  1883.  He  became  Brevet  Brigadier-General  of  the  United  States  Army, 
March  2,  1867,  and  Brevet  Major-General  on  the  same  date,  and  was  commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General,  United  States  Army,  retired,  April  23,  1904.  Is  a 
member  of  Society  of  Cincinnati,  Loyal  Legion,  Historical  Society,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, etc.,  and  resides  at  300  South  Tenth  street,  Philadelphia.    He  is  unmarried. 

Hon.  Elijah  F.  Pennypacker,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Funk)  Penny- 
packer,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Hendrick  Pannebecker,  "Dutch  Patroon," 
was  born  in  Schuylkill  township,  Chester  county,  November  29,  1804,  died  January 
4,  1888.  He  completed  his  education  at  John  Gummere's  Boarding  School,  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  after  which  he  taught  in  a  private  school  in  Philadelphia, 
and  later  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  nativity,  being  engaged  there  in  teaching, 
surveying  and  farming  for  several  years.    He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature 


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for  the  terms  of  1831-2,  1832-3,  1834-5,  1835-6.  He  presented  in  the  Lower  House 
the  bill  by  which  the  Philadelphia  and  Reading  Railroad  Company  was  incor- 
porated, and  had  charge  of  it  as  Chairman  of  the  committee  to  which  it  was 
referred,  until  signed  by  the  Governor.  His  correspondence  shows  the  interest 
he  manifested  in  the  establishment  of  the  public  school  system,  he  being  associated 
with  Thaddeus  Stevens  in  its  adoption.  He  was  also  active  in  the  establishment  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Banks  and 
Banking. 

In  1836  he  was  made  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Canal  Commissioners,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Board,  in  1838,  Thad- 
deus Stevens  and  John  Dickey  being  his  associates.  From  the  fact  the  greater 
part  of  the  general  improvements  in  the  canal  system  of  the  State  were  owned  by 
the  Commonwealth  and  controlled  through  this  board  of  commissioners,  made  it 
the  most  responsible  political  position  in  the  State  with  the  e.xception  of  the  gov- 
ernorship. 

All  the  public  positions  held  by  Mr.  Pennypacker  were  voluntary  offerings,  the 
gift  of  the  people  who  acknowledged  his  intelligence,  sincerity  and  marked 
probity  in  the  transaction  of  public  business.  Other  and  more  flattering  prospects 
of  political  preferment  were  relinquished,  and  he  retired  from  public  life  in  1839, 
being  unwilling  to  hold  office  under  a  government  that  sanctioned  human  slavery. 
Soon  after  his  retirement,  he  united  himself  with  the  Society  of  Friends,  but  he 
was  much  too  radical  to  be  an  acceptable  addition  in  this  conservative  body,  and 
it  was  only  when  the  anti-slavery  feeling  became  generally  diffused  throughout 
the  Society,  several  years  later,  that  he  found  the  unity  with  his  views  therein  he 
had  expected  on  becoming  a  member.  In  the  great  struggle  between  freedom  and 
slavery  he  entered  heart  and  soul.  In  the  local  anti-slavery  society  of  his  neigh- 
borhood he  was  for  many  years  chosen  president,  and  he  filled  the  same  position  in 
the  Chester  County  and  the  Pennsylvania  State  Anti-Slavery  societies.  His  home 
became  a  station  on  the  Underground  Railroad,  three  lines  from  the  South 
meeting  at  that  point,  and  hundreds  of  fugitives  found  there  rest  and  help  on 
their  way  to  Canada  and  freedom.  After  the  slave  system  became  a  thing  of  the 
past,  Mr.  Pennypacker  spoke  of  the  unique  organization  known  as  the  "Under- 
ground Railroad,"  as  follows,  "The  stock  was  never  reported  in  money  circles, 
nor  dividends  declared,  but  means  were  ready  as  long  as  necessity  required.  The 
Emancipation  Proclamation  of  Abraham  Lincoln  dissolved  the  corporation." 

Elijah  F.  Pennypacker  married  (first)  in  183 1,  Sarah  W.  Coates,  of  the  Quaker 
family  of  that  name  who  settled  in  Chester  county  in  1731.  She  died  childless  in 
1841,  and  in  1843  he  married  (second)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary 
(Corson)  Adamson,  descended  from  John  Adamson,  an  English  Quaker,  who 
came  to  Penn.sylvania  in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Her  mother, 
Mary  Corson,  was  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Dickinson)  Corson,  whose 
ancestor,  Cornelius  Corssen,  said  to  have  been  a  French  Huguenot  refugee,  landed 
at  Staten  Island,  about  1685. 

Of  the  nine  children  of  Elijah  F.  and  Hannah  (Adamson)  Pennypacker  three: 
Gertrude,  Charles  and  Mary,  died  in  childhood,  and  a  son  Elijah  J.  died  in  1895 
at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years.  Five  are  still  living:  Sarah  C,  Caroline  B.,  Eliz- 
abeth, Margaret  and  Sumner. 

Isaac  Samuels  Pennypacker,  L'nitcd  States  Senator    from  Virginia,  Con- 


PENNYPACKER  493 

gressman,  and  Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court,  was  another  great-great- 
grandson  of  Hendrick  Pannebecker.  His  grandfather,  Dirck  Pennypacker,  son  of 
John  and  Annetje  (Keyser)  Pannebecker,  and  grandson  of  Hendrick  Panne- 
becker, removed  from  the  Perkiomen  region  of  Pennsylvania  to  Sharpsburg, 
Maryland,  established  an  iron  working  establishment  there,  which  in  the  spring 
of  1781  was  almost  entirely  swept  away  by  a  freshet.  Instead  of  rebuilding  at 
that  site  he  removed  with  his  family  over  the  mountains  to  Woodstock,  Shenan- 
doah county,  Virginia.  He  first  erected  Redwill  Furnace  on  Hawkesbill  creek  in 
what  is  now  Page  county,  and  later  erected  another  furnace  a  few  miles  below 
New  Market,  now  called  Pine  Forge,  Frederick  county.  West  Virginia.  He  was  a 
pioneer  iron  master  in  that  region,  and  the  business  established  by  him  was  con- 
tinued by  his  son  Benjamin,  and  grandsons,  George  M.  and  Joel  Pennypacker, 
sons  of  the  latter,  and  brothers  to  the  jurist  and  statesman,  Isaac  S.  Pennypacker. 
Benjamin,  father  of  the  senator,  in  1810  built  for  his  home  the  spacious  "White 
House,"  still  standing  at  Pine  Forge.  His  sons,  George  M.  and  Joel,  bought  large 
tracts  of  mountain  land  in  Western  Shenadoah  county  and  in  Rockingham  county  ; 
built  Liberty  Furnace,  a  few  miles  from  Woodstock,  which  for  many  years  sup- 
plied Pine  Forge  with  iron ;  they  also  built  a  furnace  at  Brock's  Gap  in  Rocking- 
ham county,  but  the  ore  there  proving  practically  worthless  it  was  later  abandoned. 
Hon.  Isaac  Samuels  Pennypacker,  son  of  Benjamin,  above  mentioned,  was  born 
in  Shenadoah  county,  Virginia,  September  12,  1807,  died  while  serving  as  United 
States  Senator,  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  January  12,  1847.  He  was  educated  at 
Washington  College,  Virginia,  and  on  his  graduation  entered  himself  as  a  student- 
at-law  in  the  office  of  St.  George  Tucker,  in  Winchester,  Virginia,  with  his  cousin. 
Green  B.  Samuels,  whose  mother  was  his  father's  sister,  who  by  the  way  was 
another  prominent  descendant  of  the  Pennypacker  clan,  fi'lling  with  great  dis- 
tinction the  office  of  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  for  many  years.  Isaac  S. 
Pennypacker  also  attended  Winchester  Law  School,  and  on  his  admission  to  the 
bar,  located  at  Harrisonburg,  and  there  attained  eminence  in  his  profession.  In 
1836  he  was  elected  to  Congress  on  the  Democratic  ticket  and  served  one  term; 
declining  re-election  to  accept  the  position  of  United  States  District  Judge,  to 
which  he  was  elevated  in  1839,  and  filled  until  1845,  when  he  was  elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate,  but  died  before  the  expiration  of  his  term.  He  was  offered 
by  President  Van  Buren  the  office  of  Attorney-General  in  his  cabinet,  but  he 
declined,  as  he  did  the  proffer  of  the  position  of  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Virginia,  and  the  nomination  of  his  party  for  Governor  of  the  State,  when  his 
election  was  an  assured  result.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  first  regents 
of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
popular  and  influential  men  of  his  day  in  Virginia. 


LLOYD   FAMILY. 

Robert  Lloyd,  of  Merionethshire,  Wales,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  ship 
"Lion,"  of  Liverpool,  1683,  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  and  in  1697  purchased 
land  and  settled  in  Lovk'er  Merion  township,  three  miles  from  the  present  site 
of  Bryn  Mawr,  traced  his  ancestry  back  to 

Llewelyn-  Eurdorchog,  Lord  of  lal  and  Yatrad  Alun,  son  of  Coel  ap  Gweryf, 
descended  from  Llywarch  Hen,  Prince  of  the  Strathlyde  Britons,  who,  when 
driven  from  his  dominions  by  the  Picts  and  Scots,  was  with  his  family  hospitably 
received  by  Cynddylan.  Prince  of  Powys,  who  was  later  slain  at  the  battle  of 
Tran,  613  A.  D.  Llewellyn  Eurdorchog  had  issue,  loris,  who  had  issue,  Ithel,  who 
had  issue,  Tudoe,  who  had  issue,  Tangwell,  who  had  issue,  Meyler,  who  had  issue, 
jMadog  Heddwych,  of  Rhiwlas,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Meredith  ap  David 
Lwch,  of  Halchddyn,  in  Deuddue,  and  had  among  other  issue,  a  son : 

David,  who  married  Dydgu,  daughter  of  David  ap  Madoc,  and  had  issue ; 

David  Welw,  who  married  Mallt,  daughter  of  David  ap  Ritid,    and  had  issue : 

David  Vair,  who  married  Kest.  daughter  of  Madoc  ap  Griffith  and  had 

Madoc  Llovd,  who  married  Taman,  daughter  Edynfed  ap  Goronwy,  and  had 

David  ap  Madoc,  of  Hirnant,  in  Mechain,  LUvch  Coed,  county  of  Montgomery, 
called  "Y  Dai  of  Hirnant"  in  the  old  pedigrees,  who  married  Maud,  daughter  of 
Howel  Gethin,  and  had  issue: 

Howell  ap  David,  of  Hirnant,  who  married  Gwenhwyfar,  daughter  of  Madoc 
ap  Tudor,  and  had  issue : 

Meredith  ap  Howell,  who  married  Katharine,  daughter  of  David  ap  Lewlln, 
and  had 

David  ap  Meredith,  who  married  Gwem,  daughter  of  David  ap  Einion,  and 
had 

David  Lloyd,  of  Cowney,*  parish  of  Llanwddyn,  Montgomeryshire,  who  was 
assessed  as  a  freeholder  in  the  lay  subsidy  of  the  third  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 

1696-7,  and  who  died  circa   1693.     He  married  Gwen  ,  and  had  among 

other  issue,  John  David  Lloyd,  of  whom  presently. 

John  David  Lloyd,  of  Cowney,  son  of  David  and  Gwen  Lloyd,  last  men- 
tioned, succeeded  to  a  part  of  the  family  estate,  and  was  assessed  in  the  lay 
subsidy  of  1606,  as  a  freeholder.  He  was  born  circa  1568,  died  July,  1645,  and 
was  buried  at  Llanwddyn  Church,  July  14,  1645.     He  was  a  Church-warden  of 

Llanwddyn  Church,  1629  and  subsequently.     He  married  Jane  ,  buried  at 

the  same  church  January  22,   1657,  and  had 

David  Lloyd,  of  Cowney,  born  circa  1601,  buried  at  Llanwddyn  Church,  March 
9,  1668.  He  married  at  Llawddyn  Church.  February  12,  1625.  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Powell,  or  John  ap  Howell  Goch,  of  Gadfa,  township  of  Rhinwargar,  in  the 
same  parish.  She  was  one  of  the  heirs  of  John  ap  Howell,  and  was  assessed  with 
land  in  the  township  of  Rhinmargar,  part  of  the  land  of  which  her  father  had  died 


♦Cowney  is  the  present  name  of  a  very  large  farm  in  the  parish  of  Llangadvan,  adjoin- 
ing Llanwddyn.  In  former  times  it  was  of  larger  extent  and  seems  to  have  been  inchided 
for  purposes  of  ta.xation.  in  the  parish  of  Llanwddyn.  It  gave  the  name  to  Cowney  town- 
ship, in  Llanwddyn,  now  called  Vsputty  township. 


LLOYD  495 

seized  in  fee,  1686,  at  which  date  she  was  the  widow  of  David  Lloyd  aforesaid. 
She  was  sister  to  EHzabeth,  wife  of  Humphrey  ap  Hugh  of  Llwyn  du,  in  Merion- 
ethshire, and  therefore  aunt  to  Owen  Humphrey  of  Llwyn  du,  whose  daughter 
Rebecca  was  the  wife  of  Robert  Owen,  of  Merion,  Pennsylvania,  at  whose  house 
in  Merion,  Robert  Lloyd  lived  until  his  marriage. 

Mary  Powell,  wife  of  David  Lloyd,  was  a  descendant  of  the  noble  family  of 
Percy,  founded  in  England  by  William  de  Perci,  who  came  from  Normandy  with 
William  the  Conqueror. 

Henry  Percy,  the  gallant  "Hotspur,"  son  of  the  first  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Shrewsbury,  1402,  married  Elizabeth  Mortimer,  and  their 
daughter,  Elizabeth  Percy,  married  John,  Seventh  Lord  Clifford,  slain  1422,  at  the 
siege  of  Meux  in  France,  under  Henry  V.  Their  daughter  Alice  married  Sir 
Richard  Dalton,  Knight,  and  their  daughter  Alice  Dalton  married,  circa  1446,  Sir 
William  Griffith  Vaughan,  Ivnight  of  Penrhyn  and  Llangai,  Caernarvonshire, 
North  Wales,  Chamberlain  of  North  Wales,  who  was  made  a  denizen  of  England, 
in  1449,  and  was  living  as  late  as  August  19,  1466.     Their  son. 

Sir  William  Griffith,  Knight,  of  Penrhyn,  created  Knight  of  the  Bath,  1489, 
married  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Troutbeck,  of  county  Chester,  England, 
slain  at  Blore  Heath,  by  his  wife  Jane  Goushill.  descendant  of  Edward  I.,  and 
had  by  her, 

Sir  William  Griffith,  Knight,  of  Penrhyn,  Chamberlain  of  North  Wales. 
who  was  with  Henry  VHI,  at  the  siege  of  Boulogne,  and  was  knighted  at 
Touraine,  in  France,  December  25,  1513.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  John 
Puleston,  of  Bers  and  Havod  Y  Wearne,  Constable  of  Caernarvon  Castle  and 
their  daughter  Sibil  Griffith  married  Owen  Hugh,  of  Bedeon  in  Anglesey,  High 
Sheriff  of  Anglesey,  1563-80,  died  1613;  and  their  daughter  Jane  married  Hugh 
Gwyn  of  Penarth,  High  Sheriff  of  Caernarvonshire,  1600,  and  King's  Justice  for 
Caernarvonshire  later,  and  their  daughter, 

Sybill  Gwyn,  married  John  Powell,  or  ap  Howell,  before  mentioned,  of  Gadfa. 
a  small  estate  in  the  township  of  Rhiwagar,  parish  of  Llanwddyn,  Montgomery- 
shire, who  was  father  of  Mary  Powell,  who  married  David  Lloyd,  as  before 
stated,  at  Llanwddyn  Church,  February  12,  1625.  John  Powell,  father  of  Mary 
(Powell)  Lloyd,  was  buried  at  Llanwddyn  Church,  July  24.  1636. 
David  and  Mary  (Powcl!)  Lloyd,  had  issue: 

Jane,  bap.  Nov.  6,  1636; 

Morris,  bap.  July  21,  1639; 

Edward,  d.  1663; 

Elizabeth,  bap.  Jan.  8,  1643; 

David  Lloyd,  bap.  1645;  of  whom  presently. 

David  Lloyd  of  Cowney.  son  of  David  and  Mary  (Powell)  Lloyd,  born  about 
1645,  was  assessed  as  a  freeholder  in  1675.  He  joined  the  Society  of  Friends 
prior  to  April,  1678,  and  was  living  August  31,  1685,  but  died  soon  after  that 
date  and  was  buried  in  the  Quaker  burial-ground  at  Llanwddyn.  He  married 
Gwen ,  and  had  issue : 

Robert  Lloyd,  b.  1669;  came  to  Pa..  1683;  of  whom  presently; 

Thomas  Lloyd,  b.  1671  ;  came  to  Pa.,  m.  there.  1697,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  ap  Ed- 
ward, and  left  descendants : 
Gainor  Lloyd,  also  came  to  Pa. 


496  LLOYD 

Robert  Lloyd,  born  in  Merionethshire,  Wales,  1669,  came  to  the  Welsh  Tract 
in  Philadelphia  and  Chester  counties  when  a  youth,  and  resided  for  a  time  with 
Robert  Owen,  in  Alerion  township,  Philadelphia  county,  little  being  known  of  hin> 
prior  to  his  marriage  and  purchase  of  a  home,  1698.  He  was  either  accompanied 
or  followed  to  America  by  a  brother  Thomas  Lloyd,  who  married,  1698,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  William  ap  Edward,  and  settled  in  Haverford.  His  eldest  son 
Thomas  removed  to  Bucks  county  and  is  ancestor  of  the  Lloyds  of  Warminster 
and  Moreland. 

Robert  Lloyd  purchased  September  5,  1698,  409  acres  northward  of  Rowland 
Ellis's  plantation  of  "Bryn  Mawr"  on  the  "Old  Gulf  Road"  one-half  mile  from 
Gladwyne  P.  O.  in  Lower  Merion  Township,  and  lived  thereon  until  his  death. 
He  took  a  very  prominent  part  in  township  affairs  and  was  a  consistent  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  He  married  at  Merion  Meeting,  October  11,  1698,  Lowry 
Jones,  born  in  Wales,  1680,  eldest  daughter  of  Rees  ap  John,  ap  William,  com- 
monly known  as  Rees  John  William,  by  his  wife  Hannah  Price,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard ap  Griffith,  ap  Rhys,  who  assumed  the  name  of  Price,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  r686,  was  living  in  the  parish  of  Llanfawr,  Merionethshire,  Wales,  and  was 
a  member  of  Pennllyn  Aleeting,  near  Bala.  His  son  Edward  Price  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania with  Rees  John  William  and  has  numerous  descendants. 

Rees  John  was  a  son  of  John  ap  William,  born  1590,  who  was  also  a  member 
of  Society  of  Friends  in  Wales,  living  in  the  parish  of  Llangelynin,  Merioneth. 
He  suffered  considerable  persecution  for  his  religious  belief.  His  three  children, 
Evan  John,  Rees  John  and  Margaret,  all  came  to  Pennsylvania ;  Evan  died  at 
Merion,  December  11,  1683,  soon  after  his  arrival,  and  Margaret  brought  a  certifi- 
cate to  Radnor,  dated  July  27,  1683. 

Rees  John  brought  a  certificate  from  the  Quarterly  Meeting  at  Dolgelly,  Meri- 
oneth, dated  2mo.  4,  1684,  in  which  he  is  named  as  "Rees  John,  of  Iscregenan, 
County  of  Merioneth."  He  had  purchased  land  in  the  Welsh  tract  of  John 
Thomas  of  Edward  Jones,  both  of  Merioneth,  the  projectors  of  the  Welsh  settle- 
ment in  Merion  and  Haverford.  In  the  deed  dated  April  i,  1682,  Rees  is  named 
as  "Rees  John  Williams,  of  Llanlynin,"  the  home  of  his  father.  Hannah,  the 
wife  of  Rees  John  and  her  children  Richard,  Evan  and  Lowry,  came  over  in  the 
"Vine,"  of  Liverpool,  jmo.   17,  1684. 

Six  other  children  were  born  to  Rees  and  Hannah  John  after  their  arrival  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  they  have  left  numerous  descendants.  Rees  John  died  January 
26,  1697-8,  and  was  buried  at  Merion  Meeting.  His  widow  Hannah  married 
(second),  April  22,  1703.  Ellis  David  of  Goshen,  died  in  1720;  she  married 
(third),  December  14,  1722,  Thomas  Evans  of  Gwj'nedd.  whom  she  also  survived, 
dying  November  19,  1741,  aged  eighty-five  years. 

Robert  Lloyd  died  on  his  plantation  in  Merion  township,  Philadelphia  county, 
near  Bryn  Mawr,  1714,  and  his  widow  Lowry  married  (second)  Hugh  Evans,  and 
had  by  him  three  daughters,  viz : — 

Ann  Evans,  b.  Jan.  25,  1718-9;  ni.  March  8.  1744-5,  Samuel  Howell; 
Susanna  Evans,  b.  Jan.  25,  1719-20;  m.  July  30.  1740,  Owen  Jones: 
Abigail  Evans,  said  to  have  d.  unm. 


Issue  of  Robert  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Lloyd: — 

Hannah,  b.  Nov.  21,  1699;  d.  Phila.,  Nov.  15,  1762;  m.  (first)  John  Roberts,  (second) 
William  Paschall,  (third)  Peter  Osborne.  Of  her  and  some  of  her  numerous  de- 
scendants some  account  will  be  given  later  in  this  narrative ; 

Sarah,  b.  July  19,  1703;  d.  Sept.  5,  1739;  m.  Dec.  5,  1729,  Gerard  Jones,  who  d.  March 
21,  1765; 

Gainor,  b.  April  5,  1705;  d.  Nov.  3,  1728;  m.  May  26,  1727,  Mordecai  James,  who  d.  Dec. 
15,  1776; 

David,  b.  June  27,  1707;  removed  to  North  Carolina; 

Rees,  b.  June  25,  1709;  d.  Nov.  25,  1743;  m.  Aug.  21,  1735,  at  Gwynedd  Meeting,  Catha- 
rine Humphrey,  who  d.  Dec.  13,  1782; 

Richard,  b.  March  15,  1731 ;  d.  Aug.  9,  1755;  of  whom  presently. 

Richard  Lloyd,  youngest  child  of  Robert  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Lloyd,  married 
at  Darby  Meeting,  November  24,  1736,  Hannah  Sellers,  born  February  10,  1717, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Sellers  Jr.,  of  Darby,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Smith,  both  ministers 
of  Society  of  Friends. 

Samuel  Sellers  Jr.  was  born  in  Darby  township.  May  12,  1690,  and  was  the 
eldest  son  of  Samuel  Sellers,  who  came  from  Belper,  Derbyshire,  England,  and 
settled  in  Darby,  1682.  He  belonged  to  an  old  and  well  connected  family  of 
Derbyshire  and  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Sellers  of  Belper,  the 
record  of  the  baptism  of  whose  six  children,  appears  on  the  parish  register  of 
Duffield  church  in  Derbyshire  as  follows : 

Jno.  bap.  20  Aug.   1648:  bur.  28  Apr.   1664; 

Elizabeth,  bap.  13  Jan.  1649; 

Mary,  bap.  7  Sept.  1651; 

George,  bap.  13  Feb.   1652; 

Samuel,  bap.  3  Feb.  1655; 

Sarah,  bap.  20  June  1663. 

George  Sellers,  eldest  surviving  son.  and  Samuel,  the  youngest  son,  came 
together  to  Darby,  but  George  died  without  issue,  1686,  and  his  estate  including 
fifty  acres  of  land,  reverted  to  his  surviving  brother.  Samuel  Sellers  erected  a 
home  at  Darby,  which  constituted  the  kitchen  part  of  the  later  "Sellers  Hall," 
the  home  of  several  generations  of  the  family.  He  was  one  of  the  original  mem- 
bers of  Darby  Meeting,  and  the  record  of  the  declarations  of  his  intentions  of 
marriage  to  Anna  Gibbons,  on  "5mo.  2,  1684"  was  the  first  entry  on  the  minutes 
of  that  Meeting.  Anna  Gibbons  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eleanor  Gibbons, 
and  her  name  appears  in  the  certificate  that  her  parents  brought  from  Parwich, 
Derbyshire,  1682. 

Samuel  Sellers  Sr.  was  a  weaver  by  trade  and  carried  on  that  business  at 
Darby.  He  purchased  175  acres  on  Cobb's  Creek,  and  lived  thereon  until  his 
death  November  22,  1732.  His  wife  survived  him  and  died  January  19,  1742. 
They  were  the  parents  of  six  children,  of  whom  four  lived  to  maturity,  three 
daughters,  Sarah,  who  married  John  Ashmead ;  Mary,  who  married  (first) 
William  Marshall,  (second)  Isaac  Vernon;  and  Anna,  who  married  a  Pritchard ; 
and  one  son,  Samuel  Sellers  Jr.  above  mentioned,  who  succeeded  his  father  in  the 
weaving  business,  which  he  greatly  improved  by  the  introduction  of  devices  of 
his  own  invention,  and  laid  the  foundation  of  the  important  industry  conducted 
for  several  generations  of  his  family  on  a  much  larger  and  improved  scale,  his  son 


498  LLOYD 

John  introducing  also  the  industry  of  weaving  wire.  Samuel  Sellers  Jr.  married 
at  Darby  Meeting  October  28,  1712,  Sarah,  born  at  Darby,  May  30,  1689,  daughter 
of  John  Smith  of  Croxton,  Leicestershire,  England,  by  his  wife  Eleanor  Dolby, 
of  Harborough,  the  same  county,  whom  he  married  May  4,  1669,  and  with  her 
came  to  Darby  in  1684,  where  both  were  ministers  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Eleanor  died  September  10,  1708,  and  her  husband,  January  12,  1714. 

Samuel  Sellers,  Jr.,  died  June  3,  1773,  and  his  widow,  Sarah  (Smith)  Sellers, 
May  24,  1778.  They  were  parents  of  seven  children,  four  sons,  three  of  whom 
lived  to  maturity,  and  three  daughters.  The  youngest  son  John  Sellers,  who  inher- 
ited Sellers  Hall,  with  the  mill  property  on  Cobb's  Creek,  later  known  as  "Mill- 
bourne  Mills,"  was  very  prominent  in  local,  Provincial  and  State  aiTairs ;  member 
of  Assembly  under  both  Province  and  State,  and  later  a  member  of  State  Senate 
from  Delaware  county.  He  filled  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  as  did  his 
sons  and  grandsons.  Hannah  Sellers,  who  became  the  wife  of  Richard  Lloyd,  was 
the  second  child  and  eldest  daughter  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Sellers. 
and  was  born  in  Darby,  February  10,  1717.  She  survived  her  husband,  Richard 
Lloyd,  and  married  (second)  November  30,  1757,  Lewis  Davis,  of  Haverford. 
and  died  April  12,  1819.  over  ninety-three  years  of  age. 

Richard  Lloyd  left  Lower  Merion  1742.  and  removed  to  Darby  township,  where 
he  had  purchased  the  Darby  Water,  Corn  Grist  and  Boulting  Mills,  of  Joseph  Bon- 
sal,  and  which  he  continued  to  operate  until  his  death,  August  9,  1755.     He  had 
been  in  very  delicate  health  for  several  years  prior  to  his  death. 
Issue  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Sellers)  Lloyd: 

Samuel,  d.  inf.; 

Isaac,  b.  Dec.  27,  1739;  d.  of  yellow  fever  in  Phila..  Aug.  10,  1798;  m.  Ann  Gibbons;  of 

whom  presently; 
Hugh.  b.  Jan.  22,  1741,  at  Merion;  d.  Kensington,  Phila..  March  20.  1832;  m.  Susannah 

Pearson;  of  them  later. 

IsA.^c  Lloyd,  eldest  surviving  son  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Sellers)  Lloyd,  was 
born  at  the  old  homestead  in  Lower  Merion,  December  27,  1739.  and  was  there- 
fore but  a  little  over  two  years  of  age,  when  his  parents  brought  him  to  their  new 
home  at  Darby,  where  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He  was  in  his  six- 
teenth year  at  the  death  of  his  father,  and  having  learned  the  milling  business  in 
his  father's  Darby  Mills,  purchased  the  interest  of  his  brother  Hugh  therein,  in 
1766,  and  continued  to  operate  them  some  years,  removing  later  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  died  August  10,  1798. 

Isaac  Lloyd  married,  October  23,  1765,  Ann  Gibbons,  born  in  U'esttown,  Ches- 
ter county,  April  21,  1744,  daughter  of  Joseph  Gibbons,  of  W'esttown,  born  Octo- 
ber 24,  1712,  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  Chester  county,  and  member  of 
Colonial  Assembly,  1748-63;  by  his  wife  Hannah,  born  November  7.  1715,  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  Marshall,  who  was  born  in  Gratton,  Derbyshire,  about  1669,  came 
to  Pennsylvania,  in  1 700,  and  settled  first  near  Darby,  and  after  his  marriage 
settled  in  West  Bradford  township,  on  Brandywine  Creek.  He  was  convinced  of 
the  principles  of  Friends  when  a  lad,  and  entered  the  ministry,  before  coming  to 
Pennsylvania  with  a  certificate  from  Monyash  Meeting  dated  gmo.  2,  1700.  He 
travelled  extensively  in  the  ministry  "into  ye  Jerseys  and  Southern  Provinces, 
where  his  Service  in  ye  Ministry  was  acceptable." 


LLOYD  499 

Abraham  Marshall  married  March  i6,  1702-3,  Mary  Hunt,  daughter  of  James 
Hunt,  of  Kingsessing,  Philadelphia,  who  had  come  from  Kent,  England,  1684,  by 
his  first  wife  Eliza  Chambers.  Abraham  and  Mary  (Hunt)  Marshall  were  par- 
ents of  nine  children,  of  whom  Hannah,  wife  of  Joseph  Gibbons,  was  fifth.  The 
eighth  was  Humphrey  Marshall,  the  eminent  botanist. 

John  and  Margery  Gibbons,  grandparents  of  Joseph  Gibbons,  above  mentioned, 
came  from  Warminster,  Wiltshire,  England,  and  settled  in  Bethel  township,  Ches- 
ter county,  1 681.  They  were  among  the  best  educated  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  in  Chester  county,  and  were  persons  of  wealth,  refinement  and  culture. 
Margery  was  ten  years  a  minister  among  Friends,  but  becoming  a  supporter  of 
George  Keith  in  his  schism  of  1692,  was  disowned.  John  Gibbons  was  one  of  the 
jury  empannelled  to  try  Margaret  Mattson  for  witchcraft  before  William  Penn 
and  his  council,  1682-3.  Both  John  and  Margery  died  on  their  Bethel  plantation 
about  1 72 1. 

James  Gibbons,  son  of  John  and  Margery  and  father  of  Joseph  first  above  men- 
tioned, married,  1708,  Ann,  daughter  of  George  Peirce,  of  Thornbury,  who  had 
come  from  the  parish  of  Winscome,  county  of  Somerset,  England,  1684,  by  his 
wife  Ann  Gainer,  of  Thornbury,  county  of  Gloucester,  England,  whom  he  had 
married  February  i,  1679.  George  Peirce  was  a  large  land  owner  in  Chester  coun- 
ty and  one  of  its  most  prominent  citizens ;  was  a  member  of  Colonial  Assembly, 
1706. 

James  Gibbons  received  by  deed  of  gift  from  his  father  a  plantation  of  600  acres 
in  Westtown  and  settled  thereon  on  his  marriage.  He  became,  like  all  his  family, 
prominent  in  the  affairs  of  his  county  and  Province  and  represented  Chester 
county  in  the  Provincial  Assembly  for  the  years  1717-18-19.  He  died  1732.  His 
widow,  Ann,  who  was  a  minister  among  Friends,  married  William  Pym,  of  East 
Cain,  and  died  there,  1753. 

Isaac  Lloyd,  died  August  10,  1798,  in  Philadelphia  of  yellow  fever;  his  widow, 
Ann  (Gibbons )  Lloyd,  surviving  him  over  thirty  years,  dying  January  26,  1831,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-seven  years. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Ann  (Gibbons)  Lloyd: 

Richard,  m.  Mary  Deal: 

Hannah,  m.  Isaac  Oakford; 

Mary,  m.  Benjamin  Tyson; 

Joseph; 

Isaac,  b.  April  25,  1768;  d.  Dec.  2,  1850;  m.  May  17,  1798,  Elizabeth  Gibbons;  of  whom 

presently ; 
James. 

Issue  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Gibbons)  Lloyd: 

Joseph,  m.  Beulah  S.  Enilen; 

Isaac,  m.   (first)   Hannah  S.  Boulton.  (second)   Catharine  W.  Boutcher; 

Ann,  m.   Rowland  Jones; 

George,  m.  Mary  Hunt; 

John,  b.  Oct.   5,   1805;  d.   Sept.  23,   1888;  m.  Aug.  q,    18,^7,  Esther  Barton  Malcolm,  b. 

Oct.  I,  1818;  had  issue  as  shown  below; 
Sarah; 
Richard; 
Elizabeth,  m.  Robert  Howell; 


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James; 

Mary; 

Hannah,  m.  James  Neill; 

William. 

Issue  of  John  and  Esther  Barton  (Malcolm)  Lloyd: 

Malcolm,  m.  June  lo,  1869,  Anna.  dau.  of  Richard  and  Mary  Tonkin  (Carpenter)  Howell, 
of  Camden,  N.  J.  She  is  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  from  Thomas  Lloyd, 
President  of  Council  and  Deputy  Governor  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania.     Issue : 

Howell  Lloyd,  b.  March  2,  1871  ;  m.  Emily,  dau.  of  Rev.  Robert  and  Helen  (Lin- 

nard)   Innis; 
Malcolm  Lloyd,  b.  Jan.  16,  1874; 

Stacy  Bancroft  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  I,  1877;  m.  Oct.  25,  1902,  Eleanor,  dau.  of  Effing- 
ham and  Ellen   (Burroughs)   Morris,  and  has  issue: 
Ellen  Douglass  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  5,  1903. 
Francis  Vernon  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  31,  1879;  m.  Oct.  15,  1903,  Mary  Emlen  Lowell,  of 

Boston,  Mass.; 
Anna  Howell  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  2,  1881 ; 
Esther  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  12,  1883; 
Mary  Carpenter  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  25,   1887. 
Isaac  Lloyd ; 
Elizabeth  Lloyd; 

Estelle  Lloyd,  m.  June  2^,  1873,  Henry  T.  Coates.  publisher,  Phila.; 
John  Lloyd; 

Anne  Morris   Lloyd,  m.  Sept.  30,  1869,  William  Morrison  Coates; 
Laura  Lloyd,  m.  Nov,  9,  1871.  George  Morrison  Coates. 

Hannah  Lloyd,  eldest  child  of  Robert  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Lloyd,  of  Merion. 
born  in  Merion,  November  21,  1699,  was  three  times  married  and  has  left  numer- 
ous descendants,  many  of  whom  became  residents  of  Philadelphia,  where  she  her- 
self died  November  25,  1762.  She  married  (first)  November  30,  1720,  John  Rob- 
erts, of  Merion,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Owen)  Roberts  and  had  by  him  one 
son, 

John  Roberts,  b.  Aug.   15,  1721. 

Hannah  (Lloyd)  Roberts  married  (second)  November  22,  1722.  William,  third 
son  of  Thomas  and  Margaret  (Jenkins)  Paschall,  of  Philadelphia  county,  and 
grandson  of  Thomas  and  Joanna  Paschall,  who  came  from  Bristol,  England,  and 
settled  on  land  in  Philadelphia  county  purchased  of  William  Penn  September  21 
and  27,  1681.  His  maternal  grandparents,  William  Jenkins  and  his  wife  Elizabeth 
Griffith,  came  from  Tenby,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  and  settled  on  1000  acres  pur- 
chased of  William  Penn,  October  24  and  25,  1681,  and  laid  out  to  them  in 
Haverford,  Chester  county,  where  they  resided  until  1696.  William  Jenkins  being 
a  Colonial  Justice  of  Chester  county,  1691-3,  and  a  member  of  Provincial  Assem- 
bly from  that  county,  1690-5.  They  removed,  1696,  to  Abington  township,  where 
William  Jenkins  purchased  a  tract  of  400  acres,  including  the  present  site  of  Jen- 
kintown,  name  for  him.  He,  with  Joseph  Phipps,  had  charge  of  the  erection  of 
Abington  Meeting  House,  1697.  Margaret  (Jenkins)  Paschall  was  born  in  Wales. 
May  23,  1674,  and  married  Thomas  Paschall,  Jr.,  at  Haverford  Meeting,  Novem- 
ber 15,  1692,  their  third  child  William,  horn  March  8,  1697,  married  (first)  Grace 
Hoopes,  who  died  July  3,  1721  :  (second)  as  above  stated,  November  22.  1722, 
Hannah  (Lloyd)  Roberts. 


LLOYD  501 

Issue  of  William  and  Hannah  (Lloyd-Roberts)  Paschall: 

Hannah  Paschal!,  m.  March   13,  1751,  Joseph  Sellers,  brother  of  Hannah  Sellers,  who 

m.  Richard  Lloyd,  youngest  brother  of  Hannah; 
Margaret  Paschall; 
Joanna  Paschall; 
Elizabeth   Paschall; 

Sarah  Paschall.  m.  at   Pikeland  Meeting,  July  5,   1751,  Henry  Troth;  of  whom  pres- 
ently; 
Hannah   (Lloyd- Roberts)    Paschall,  married   (third)   June  6,   1734,   Peter  Osborne,  her 
second  husband,  William   Paschall,  having  died   1732.     Peter  Osborne,  third  husband 
of  Hannah  Lloyd  was  a  business  man  of  Philadelphia,  and  died  there  1765,  surviving 
his  wife  Hannah  three  years. 
Issue  of  Peter  and  Hannah  (Lloyd-Roberts-Paschall)   Osborne: 
Lydia  Osborne; 

Peter  Osborne,  m.  at  Wilmington,  Del.,  Aug.  7,  1763,  Elizabeth  Stevens,  and  had 
issue: 

Hannah  Osborne; 
Lydia  Osborne; 
Sarah  Osborne; 

Elizabeth    Osborne,   m.   at    Second   Presbyterian   Church,    Phila.,    Dec.    18, 
1789,  Peter,  son  of  Pierre  Henri,  native  of  France,  by  his  wife  Henrietta; 
Ann  Osborne; 
Susan  Osborne. 
Charles  Osborne; 
Anne  Osborne. 

Sarah  Paschall,  youngest  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  (Lloyd)  Paschall, 
married  at  Pikeland  Meeting,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  Henry  Troth,  born  in 
Maryland  February  22,  1728,  died  there  February  21,  1768.  He  was  a  son  of 
Henry  Troth,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Johns,  and  a  grandson  of  William  Troth  who 
died  in  Maryland  December  28,  1710,  by  his  wife  Isabel. 

Samuel  Troth,  son  of  Henry  and  Sarah  (Paschall)  Troth,  born  September  3, 
1755,  died  April  26,  1815,  married  Ann  (Berry)  Dixon,  widow,  and  descendant  of 
Richard  Preston,  of  Preston. 

Henry  Troth,  son  of  Samuel  and  Ann  (Berry)  Troth,  born  September  4,  1794, 
in  Maryland,  came  to  Philadelphia  when  a  young  man  and  became  prominent  in 
the  affairs  of  that  city,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  Common  Council  of  the 
city.  He  died  in  Philadelphia  May  22,  1842.  He  married,  November  29,  1816, 
Henrietta,  daughter  of  Peter  Henri,  above  mentioned,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Os- 
borne, granddaughter  of  Hannah  Lloyd  by  her  third  marriage,  with  Peter  Osborne. 
Issue  of  Henry  and  Henrietta  (Henri)  Troth: 

Anna  Troth,  b.  Dec.  30.  1818;  d  Jan.  10,  1881 ;  m.  Oct.  i,  1840,  George  Morrison  Coates; 
Eliza  Henri  Troth,  b.  Oct.   10,  1820;  d.  Aug.  2,  1890 ;  m.  April  10,  1844,  Joseph  Potts 

Horner  Coates; 
William  Paschall  Troth,  m.  (first)  1845,  Emma  M.  Thomas,  and  had  issue: 

Helen  Troth,  m.  Charles  Ridgeway; 

Anna  Coates  Troth,  m.  Henry  S.  Harper; 

Alice  Troth. 
Married  (second)    i860,  Clara  G.  Townsend,  and  had  issue: 

Emily  S.  Troth; 

Henrietta  Troth; 

Alice  Gordon  Troth,  m.  John  R.  Drexel; 

Lillian  S.  Troth; 

Mabel  Troth,  d.  inf. 


S02  LLOYD 

Henrietta  M.  Troth,  m.  Edward  Y.  Townsend; 

Louisa  Troth ; 

Henry  Morris  Troth; 

Edward  Troth: 

Samuel  Troth  of  Phila.,  the  historian. 

Hugh  Llovd,  youngest  son  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Sellers)  Lloyd,  of  Darby, 
was  born  in  Lower  Merion,  January  22,  1741-2,  and  was  about  a  year  old  when  his 
parents  removed  to  Darby,  where  his  early  years  were  spent.  In  1752.  when  but 
eleven  years  old,  he  went  with  his  father  to  Xew  York  ;  the  latter  being  in  ill  health 
was  recommended  the  trip  by  his  physicians.  His  father  dying,  1755.  he  continued 
with  his  brother  Isaac  to  operate  the  Darby  Mills  until  1766,  when  he  sold  his 
interest  to  Isaac. 

Hugh  Lloyd  married  at  Darby  Meeting  House.  June  4,  1767,  Susannah  Pear- 
son, born  in  Darby,  September  22,  1746.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Pearson 
by  his  wife  Hannah  Blunston,  daughter  of  John  Blunston,  one  of  the  earliest  set- 
tlers in  Darby  and  a  prominent  member  of  Assembly ;  and  a  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  and  Susannah  ( Burbeck)  Pearson,  who  also  came  from  Darby.  John 
Blunston  had  purchased  1500  acres  of  William  Penn  prior  to  coming  to  America 
and  he  became  a  member  of  Council  and  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  community, 
a  member  of  Provincial  Council  and  Speaker  of  Colonial  Assembly,  1698. 

About  1768,  we  find  Hugh  Lloyd  operating  a  mill  on  Crum  Creek  in  Ridley  town- 
ship. This  was  the  place  now  known  as  Lapidea.  Here  he  carried  on  the  milling  busi- 
ness as  best  he  could  during  the  disturbed  condition  of  the  country.  A  letter  of 
his  dated  November  8,  1776,  offering  to  sell  bran  and  shorts  to  Thomas  Wharton, 
Jr.,  President  of  Supreme  Executive  Council,  State  of  Pennsylvania,  no  doubt  for 
use  by  the  American  Army,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  John  Coats  Browne,  of 
Philadelphia,  whose  grandmother,  Hannah  Browne,  was  a  daughter  of  Hugh 
Lloyd.  When  the  British  were  in  the  neighborhood  of  Philadelphia,  Hugh  Lloyd 
secreted  the  mill  stones  so  that  they  could  not  fall  into  their  possession.  In  a  letter 
dated  October  31,  1777,  from  Gen.  Washington  to  Gen.  Potter,  requiring  the  mill 
stones  to  be  taken  from  several  mills  to  prevent  the  British  from  using  the  same, 
he  particularly  mentions  Lloyd's,  about  two  miles  on  this  side  of  Chester. 

We  now  come  to  his  services  in  the  Revolution.  While  carrying  on  the  milling 
business  in  Ridley,  the  troubles  in  the  mother  country  coming  on,  Hugh  Lloyd 
enlisted  his  sympathies  with  the  Colonists  and  entered  actively  into  their  pro- 
ceedings. By  the  passage  of  the  Boston  Port  Bill,  the  people  became  aroused  to 
the  necessity  of  adopting  active  means  of  defence  of  their  liberties.  From  meet- 
ings held  in  Philadelphia,  circulars  were  sent  to  the  people  of  the  various  counties 
of  the  Province.  As  a  result  of  this  a  meeting  of  citizens  of  Chester  county  was 
held  at  Chester,  July  13,  1774,  at  which  Hugh  Lloyd  was  one  of  a  committee  of 
thirteen  appointed  for  this  county  to  consider  the  matter,  and,  July  15,  he,  with  his 
associates  met  similar  committees  from  the  other  counties  of  Philadelphia,  in 
whose  action  the  Continental  Congress,  which  met  in  the  same  city,  September  5 
following,  had  its  origin. 

He  was  one  of  the  committee  of  which  Anthony  Wayne  was  chairman,  appoint- 
ed at  the  County  Convention,  December  20,  1774,  "to  carry  into  execution  the  asso- 
ciation of  the  late  Continental  Congress,"  also  one  of  the  twelve  members  selected 
from  this  committee  to  attend  the  Provincial  Convention  which  assembled  at  Phil- 


LLOYD  503 

adelphia  January  23,  1775,  and  one  of  the  number  present.  At  a  meeting  of  the 
county  committee,  March  20,  1775,  he  was  one  of  the  seven  members  ordered  "to 
assay  a  draught  of  a  petition  to  present  to  the  General  Assembly  of  this  Province 
with  regard  to  the  manumission  of  slaves,  etc."  At  their  meeting  held  October  23, 
1775,  he  was  one  of  seven  members  appointed  as  a  committee  to  correspond  for 
this  county.  In  this  year  he  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Third  Battalion  of 
Chester  County  Associators,  his  command  being  frequently  called  into  service  in 
that  and  following  years. 

Just  previous  to  the  Independence,  he  was  one  of  the  thirteen  delegates  from  this 
county  to  the  Provincial  Conference  held  in  Carpenter's  Hal!,  Philadelphia,  June 
18,  1776,  which  meeting  resolved:  "that  a  Convention  should  be  called  for  the 
purpose  of  forming  a  new  Government  for  this  Province  on  the  authority  of  the 
people  above." 

Strange  as  it  now  seems,  he  was  one  of  the  Judges  of  election  in  the  Borough 
of  Chester,  July  8,  when  delegates  to  that  Convention,  he  being  a  candidate,  were 
voted  for.  On  June  25,  the  meeting  adjourned  after  each  delegate  had  signed  a 
declaration  which  stated  their  willingness  to  concur  in  a  vote  of  the  Congress  de- 
claring the  United  Colonies  free  and  independent  states. 

About  this  time  we  find  him  living  in  Darby  township  on  the  Great  Road,  near 
the  Blue  Bell  Inn.  Of  this  house  in  which  Hugh  Lloyd  lived  until  1816,  Town- 
send  Ward  in  the  Pcniisyh'ania  Magazine,  for  1879,  speaks  as  follows:  "On  the 
south  side  of  the  Kakarikonk  or  Cobb's  Creek  we  are  now  in  Delaware  County, 
and  to  the  East  of  the  Darby  Road  (formerly  called  the  Great  Road)  is  the 
picturesque  manion  house  of  the  Smiths  of  Tinicum,  bought  by  them  of  the  Lloyds 
in  1816.  An  ancient  house,  a  part  of  it  dating  from  1785,  embowered  among  aged 
trees,  no  destroying  hand  has  yet  touched  the  antique  double  doors,  now  so  rarely 
seen,  and  which  in  this  place  yet  retains,  what  perhaps  can  nowhere  else  be  seen, 
veriable  'bulls  eyes.'  There  are  round  pieces  of  glass,  very  thick  in  the  middle,  and 
inserted  two  of  them  in  the  upper  part  of  the  door  to  afford  some  light  in  the  hall. 
The  northern  door,  the  eastern  door  and  the  inside  door  opening  into  the  dining 
room  each  contains  two  of  these  now  almost  unknown  adornments.  A  wooden 
lock  yet  in  good  serviceable  condition  is  in  use  on  one  of  the  doors  of  this  house. 
While  living  here  his  family  having  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances,  were  accus- 
tomed to  entertain  very  hospitably."  This  old  house,  most  unfortunately,  was 
burned  down  within  a  few  years. 

After  peace  was  declared,  Hugh  Lloyd  pursued  the  even  tenor  of  his  ways,  but 
when  Delaware  county  was  erected,  1789,  he  was  a  representative  in  General  As- 
sembly, and  was  re-elected  to  the  same  office,  1791.  On  April  24,  1792,  Gov.  Miflin 
commissioned  him  one  of  the  Associate  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Delaware  county, 
and  he  continued  on  the  bench  a  third  of  a  century,  serving  faithfully,  until,  find- 
ing the  weight  of  years  pressing  upon  him,  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  Gov. 
Schultz. 

In  the  spring  of  1816  he  moved  to  Darby  with  his  family.  His  wife  dying  1825, 
the  following  year  he  went  to  live  with  his  daughter  Hannah  Browne,  of  Kensing- 
ton. Here  he  lived  until  his  death  caused  by  paralysis,  March  20,  1832,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-one  years.  He  was  buried  from  the  house  of  his  son, 
Charles  Lloyd,  opposite  the  Blue  Bell  Inn,  Kingsessing  or  Paschallville. 

Since  the  removal  of  Richard  Lloyd  and  his  wife  from  Merion,  1742,  the  Lloyd 


504  LLOYD 

family  have  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  all  movements  in  Darby.  In  1743. 
the  Darby  Library  was  organized,  the  same  year  in  which  was  founded  the  Amer- 
ican Philosophical  Society.  Richard  Lloyd  Hugh's  father,  and  Thomas  Pearson, 
whose  daughter  Susannah  afterwards  became  Hugh's  wife,  were  two  of  the  twen- 
ty-nine founders.  This  Library  claims  distinction  on  account  of  its  foundation  at 
such  an  early  date,  amidst  great  difficulties,  when  the  population  was  small,  money 
scarce  and  nearly  everyone  poor.  When  we  remember  that  it  was  thirty-three 
years  before  we  were  a  nation  and  that  Washington,  "the  Father  of  his  Country," 
was  but  eleven  years  old,  it  is  remarkable  that  so  many  were  found  willing  to  pay 
down  their  twenty  shillings  and  devote  some  of  their  time  to  the  formation  of  a 
library.  The  first  purchase  of  books  was  made  through  the  kind  offices  of  John 
Bartram,  whom  Linnaeus  called  the  "greatest  natural  botanist  of  the  world,"  and 
his  friend  Peter  Collinson,  of  London,  another  eminent  botanist,  and  consisted  of 
forty-three  volumes,  thirty-nine  of  which  are  still  on  the  shelves  of  the  library. 
This  library  has  been  perpetuated  until  this  time  without  the  omission  on  the  part 
of  its  managers  of  a  single  stated  meeting,  and  the  interest  of  the  Lloyd  family 
has  continued  to  the  present  time;  the  original  share  allotted  to  Richard  Lloyd 
being  now  in  possession  of  a  lineal  descendant,  Charles  Lloyd  Serrill,  of  Darby, 
great-great-grandson  of  Hugh  Lloyd. 

Hugh  Lloyd  himself  always  took  an  active  part  in  the  Library  Company,  being 
at  one  time  its  secretary,  and,  1795,  one  of  a  committee  to  ascertain  and  report 
upon  the  feasibility  of  procuring  a  lot  and  erecting  a  suitable  building,  but 
the  project  was  then  abandoned  on  account  of  the  insufficiency  of  funds.  P)Ut 
in  1872,  a  lot  was  bought  and  a  building  erected  at  a  cost  of  over  $10,000.  Of  the 
building  committee  of  seven  members,  two  were  Paschall  and  Charles  Lloyd, 
grandsons  of  Hugh  Lloyd,  and  one  a  great-grandson,  J.  Charles  .Andrews,  the 
latter  being  untiring  in  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  its  welfare. 

One  of  the  founders  of  the  Philadelphia  Library,  of  which  Rcnjainin  Franklin 
was  a  member,  was  Rees  Lloyd,  an  educated  and  literary  man,  a  brother  of  Rich- 
ard Lloyd,  father  of  Hugh. 

Hugh  Lloyd  was  also  a  member  of  the  Library  Company  of  Chester  founded 
1769.  In  1770,  we  find  him  one  of  a  committee  instructed  to  buy  books  "with  what 
money  is  in  bank."  Hugh  Lloyd  was  also  a  member  of  the  Darby  Fire  Company, 
founded  1775,  being  twice  its  secretary,  once  in  1793,  again  in  181 6,  and  in  18 17 
was  elected  its  permanent  President. 

Issue  of  Judge  Hugh  and  Susannah  (Pearson)  Lloxd : 

Thomas,  b.  June  24,  1768;  d.  Dec.  11,  1814;  m.  Mary  Wood;  had  issue; 

David  and  Samuel,  said  to  have  d.  inf.; 

Richard  Pearson,  b.  Jan.  18,  1773;  d.  Aug.  21.  1814;  m.  Edith  Lane: 

Ch.\rlks,  b.  June  20,  1776;  d.  Jan.  26,  i860;  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah,  b.  Feb.   15.    1779;   d.   .\ug.   7.   1868;   m.  John   Coates   Browne,  of   Kensington, 

Phila.,  at  whose  house  her  father  Hugh  Lloyd  d.; 
Samuel,  b.  Sept.  22,  1781;  d.  Sept.  3,  1806;  unm. ; 
Robert,  b.  Sept.  30,  1784;  d.  Feb.  4,  1875;  m.  .Anne  Browne; 
Hugh   Pearson,  b.   May  20,    1788,  d.    1876;   ni.    (first)    Mary   Warner,    (second)    Sidney 

Steel;  had  issue  by  second  wife. 

Charles  Lloyd,  fifth  son  of  Hugh  and  Susannah  (  Pearson  )  Llo\cl.  was  Ixirn 
in  Chester,  now  Delaware  county,  June  29,   1776,  while  the  bells  were  calling 


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together  the  delegates  to  the  Provincial  conference  at  Philadelphia  at  which  his 
father,  Col.  Hugh  Lloyd,  was  a  delegate  from  Chester  county.  As  this  convention, 
before  its  final  adjournment,  decided  to  declare  the  independence  of  the  Colonies, 
it  was  likewise  the  natal  day  of  the  Republic.  Charles  Lloyd  was  reared  in  Ridley 
township,  Delaware  county,  and  resided  there  until  after  his  marriage  at  Darby 
Meeting,  March  8,  1798,  to  Frances  Paschall,  when  they  took  up  their  residence 
at  Paschallville,  Philadelphia  county,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  their  lives  there. 

Frances  Paschall,  wife  of  Charles  Lloyd,  was  born  February  24,  1771,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Henry  Paschall,  of  Paschallville,  by  his  wife  Ann  Garret,  born  Novem- 
ber 24,  1752,  died  December  i,  1820,  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Ann  (Knowles) 
Garret,  of  Darby,  granddaughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Pennell)  Garrett,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Kirke)  Garratt,  of  Harby,  county  Lei- 
cester, England,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  and  settled  in  Upper  Darby,  Chester 
county,  bringing  certificate  from  Friends  at  Harby  dated  July  20,  1684.  William 
was  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  Garrat,  and  was  born  in  Leicestershire,  August  21, 
1643. 

Dr.  Henry  Paschall,  father  of  Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd,  was  a  great-grandson 
of  Thomas  Paschall,  of  Bristol,  England,  who  purchased  land  of  William  Penn  by 
lease  and  release  bearing  date  respectively,  September  26  and  27,  1681,  and  with 
wife  Joane  (Sloper)  Paschall  and  their  three  children,  Thomas,  William  and 
Mary,  arrived  in  Philadelphia  in  February  following,  and  settled  in  Philadelphia 
county,  where  Thomas  died  September  15,  1718,  aged  eighty-three  years  and  four 
months,  his  wife  having  died  September  2,  1707,  aged  seventy-two  years  and  nine 
months. 

Thomas  Paschall,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia  county,  born  in  England,  married  at 
Haverford  Meeting  of  Friends,  Margaret,  eldest  child  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Griffith)  Jenkins,  who  had  come  from  Tenby,  Pembrokeshire,  Wales  (where 
Margaret  was  born  May  23,  1674),  about  1682,  and  settled  first  at  Haverford,  and 
later  at  Abington,  Philadelphia  county.  Thomas  Paschall,  Jr.,  died  about  1743, 
and  his  wife  Margaret  in  1736.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  of 
whom  the  seventh,  Dr.  John  Paschall,  father  of  Dr.  Henry  Paschall  before  men- 
tioned, was  born  November  5,  1706,  and  died  1779.  He  married,  April  25,  1728, 
Frances,  born  June  15,  1710,  died  January  29,  1781,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Han- 
nah (Knight)  Hodge,  and  granddaughter  of  Christopher  Knight  who  came  from 
the  Island  of  Antigua.  Dr.  Paschall  settled  in  Darby  township,  where  he  owned 
considerable  real  estate  and  was  a  successful  practicing  physician,  as  was  also  his 
son  Dr.  Henry  Paschall,  the  youngest  child,  born  in  Darby,  October  28,  1746;  he 
died  at  Paschallville,  May  13,  1835.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, from  his  marriage,  1770,  until  1790,  when  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  coun- 
ty. He  married  (second)  Catharine  Lincoln,  and  was  father  of  thirteen  children, 
eleven  by  his  first  wife,  Ann  Garrett  before  mentioned,  and  two  by  the  second  mar- 
riage; Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd  being  the  eldest  child  of  Ann  Garrett.  Charles 
Lloyd  died  at  Paschallville,  Philadelphia,  January  26,  i860.  His  wife  Frances 
(Paschall)  Lloyd  had  died  there  August  27,  1837. 
Issue  of  Charles  and  Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd: 

Paschall,  b.  Jan.   15,  1799;  d.  Aug.  17,  1884;  m.   (first)    Henrietta  J.   Fitch,   (second) 

Massey  Serrill,  nee  Steele;  of  whom  presently; 
Charles  Washington; 


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Hannah,  h.  Jan.  25.  1802:  d.  June  20,  1868;  m.  James  Andrew; 
Frances,  b.  Feb.  5,  1803;  d.  Jan.  24,  1871;  m.  William  Davis  Jones;  left  issue; 
Henry  Paschall  Lloyd,  b.  Feb.  12,  1803;  d.  June  3,  1886;  ni.  Annabelle  Williams;  had  one 
son,  viz. : 

Howard  Williams  Lloyd,  of  Phila. 
Charles  Lloyd,  b.  Oct.  2,  181 1;  d.  Nov.  30,  1888;  m.  Mary  Humphrey  Oakford; 
Franklin  Lloyd,  b.  May  27,  1814;  d.  Aug.  11,  1884;  m.  Hannah  Hancock. 

Paschall  Llovd,  eldest  son  of  Charles  and  Frances  (  Paschall )  Lloyd,  born  at 
Paschallville,  Philadelphia,  January  15,  1790,  died  there  August  17,  1884.    He  was 
twice  married.    By  his  wife,  Henrietta  Fitch,  he  had  one  son,  Charles  Lloyd.     He 
married  (second)  May  19,  1831,  Massie  (Steele)  Serrill. 
Issue  of  Paschall  and  Massie  (Steele-Serrill)  Lloyd: 

William  Jones  Lloyd,  of  whom  presently; 
Henry  Paschall  Lloyd,  b.  Feb.  12,  1832: 
Washington  Lloyd,  b.  Jan.  15,  1834; 
Paschall  Lloyd,  Jr.,  b.  July  16,  1838; 
Francis  Henry  Lloyd,  b.  Aug.  2i,  1839. 

William  Jones  Lloyd,  eldest  son  of  Paschall  and  Massie  (Steele-Serrill) 
Lloyd,  born  in  Philadelphia  August  i,  1835,  married,  March  22,  1859,  Ann  E. 
Custer,  and  was  for  a  time  engaged  in  business  in  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin.  He  died 
December  29,  1895. 

Issue  of  William  Jones  and  Anna  E.  (Custer)  Lloyd: 

William  Supplee  Lloyd,  of  whom  presently; 
Emma  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  8,  1862;  d.  Sept.  24,  1871  ; 

Charles  Nathan  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  8,  1863;  m.   (first)   Amanda  Clivia  Pierce,  and  had  one 
child : 

Marie  C.  Lloyd,  b.  Sept.   14,  1887. 
He  m.   (second)   Lilian  Esler  Friar,  nee  Schantz,  and  had  issue: 

William  Jones  Lloyd,  2d.,  b.  May  28,  1903; 

James  B.  Lloyd,  b.  Sept.  27,  1905. 
Henry  Burroughs  Lloyd,  m.  Dec.  31,  igoi,  Kate  E.  Johnston; 
Helen  Lloyd,  b.  Dec.  29,  ;  ni.  Feb.  16,  1904,  William  Hastings,  of  Easton,  Pa. 

William  Supplee  Lloyd,  eldest  son  of  William  Jones  and  Anna  E.  (Custer") 
Lloyd,  born  at  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin,  February  12,  i860,  is  a  manufacturer  of  knit 
goods  in  Philadelphia.  He  married,  April  27,  1893,  Ida  (Croskey),  widow  of 
Thomas  Jones  Mustin,  and  daughter  of  Henry  Croskey,  by  his  wife  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthew  and  Anne  (Robinson)  Dunnahew ;  and  granddaughter  of  George 
Duncan  Croskey  and  his  wife  Eliza  Ashmead,  of  the  prominent  Philadelphia  fam- 
ily of  Ashmead. 

John  Ashmead,  founder  of  the  Ashmead  family  in  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Cheltenham,  county  of  Gloucester,  England,  October  14,  1648,  and  married  there, 
October  14,  1677,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Conner,  of  Cheltenham.  Having, 
in  connection  with  his  brother-in-law  Toby  Leech,  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land 
of  William  Penn,  both  he  and  Leech  and  their  respective  families  came  to  Penn- 
sylvania, 1682.  The  land  was  laid  out  in  what  becairie  Cheltenham  township,  Phil- 
adelphia, now  Montgomery  county,  named  for  the  English  home  of  the  Ashmeads, 
and  there  John  Ashmead  took  up  his  residence.    He  died  there  December  21,  1688, 


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as  the  result  of  an  accident,  and  his  wife  Mary,  survived  the  shock  of  his  death 
but  one  day. 

John  Ashmead  (2),  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Currier)  Ashmead,  was  born  in 
Cheltenham,  England,  July  12,  1679,  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Pennsylvania 
at  the  age  of  three  years.  He  married  at  Darby  Friends'  Meeting,  October  12, 
1703,  Sarah,  born  at  Darby,  July  13,  1685,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann  (Gibbons) 
Sellers,  from  Derbyshire,  founders  of  the  well-known  and  prominent  family  of 
Sellers  of  Darby  Mills,  an  account  of  which  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes. 
John  Ashmead  (2)  died  at  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  October  7,  1742. 

John  Ashmead  (3),  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Sellers)  Ashmead,  born  in  Ger- 
mantown May  12,  1706,  married,  August  27,  1734,  Ann,  born  October  25,  1716, 
daughter  of  James  Rush,  great-granddaughter  of  Capt.  John  Rush,  an  officer  of 
Cromwell's  army,  and  sister  to  the  father  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush, 
the  distinguished  Revolutionary  surgeon  and  statesman,  and  a  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence.  This  John  Ashmead  died  at  Germantown  July  30, 
1750,  and  his  widow,  Ann  (Rush)  Ashmead,  died  July  16,  1760. 

Capt.  John  Ashmead,  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Rush)  Ashmead,  born  in  Ger- 
mantown, Philadelphia,  September  29,  1738,  became  identified  with  the  sea-going 
trade  from  the  port  of  his  native  city  at  an  early  age,  and  before  attaining  his 
majority  went  as  super-cargo  of  a  merchant  vessel  to  St.  Croi.x,  West  Indies,  and 
from  that  time  followed  the  sea  until  incapacitated  for  its  hardships  by  old  age. 
He  became  a  captain  before  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  during  that  strug- 
gle, was  Captain  of  the  brigs  "Mars"  and  "Eagle"  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  also 
appointed  naval  constructor  by  the  Continental  Congress,  1776.  He  was  a  skillful 
and  daring  mariner  and  a  tactful  disciplinarian,  and  became  famous  as  a  naval 
commander.  After  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  he  was  captain  of  the 
"India"  and  other  famous  Indian  merchantmen,  and  made  many  voyages  to  Euro- 
pean and  Asiatic  ports.  During  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  was  senior  warden  of 
the  port  of  Philadelphia.  He  died  in  Philadelphia  June  6,  1818,  having  lived  and 
served  his  country  through  two  Colonial  Wars,  and  through  both  wars  for  inde- 
pendence. 

Capt.  John  Ashmead  married,  1760,  Mary,  born  1743,  died  May  18,  1814, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Mifflin,  and  niece  of  Gen.  and  Gov.  Thomas  Mifflin.  In  the 
commonplace  book  of  his  first  cousin  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  it  is  stated  that  in  1800, 
Capt.  Ashmead  stated  to  his  cousin  that  over  thirty  of  the  forty  years  of  his  mar- 
ried life  had  been  spent  upon  the  sea,  some  of  his  trips  consuming  seven  and  eight 
months.  In  this  book  is  also  found  Capt.  Ashmead's  epitaph,  written  by  himself 
many  years  before  his  death,  which,  as  revised  shortly  before  his  death,  is  as  fol- 
lows: 

"In  Life's  hard  bustle  on  the  troubled  seas, 

Thro'  many  storms  and  many  a  prosperous  breeze. 

Thro'  winter's  blasts  and  summer's  sultry  sun. 

From  frigid  to  the  torrid  zone  I've  run, 

In  ninety  voyages  thro  unnumbered  toils, 

I've  sailed  above  five  hundred  thousand  miles. 

Being  taken,  foundered,  and  oft  cast  away. 

Yet  weathered  all, — in  this  close  port  to  lay. 

Where  a  dead  calm  my  weary  bark  doth  find, 

Obliged  to  anchor  for  the  want  of  wind." 


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A  later  revision  cut  off  the  last  two  lines,  and  added  in  their  place : 


"Where  undisturbed  my  dust  it  shall 
Till  the  last  trump  calls  up  all  hands  again. 
And  what  new  perils  I  may  then  go  through 
No  human  reason  ever  yet  could  show. 
But  the  same  power  which  led  through  earth  and  sea, 
Will  doubtless  lead  me  through  eternity." 

Through  his  son  William  Ashmead,  who  married  Margaret  McKinley,  Capt. 
John  Ashmead  was  grandfather  of  John  W.  Ashmead,  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
lawyers  of  the  Philadelphia  and  New  York  Bars.  Through  his  son  John  Ash- 
mead (5)  and  grandson  John  Ashinead  (6),  who  married  Ann  Lehman,  he  was 
great-grandfather  of  Sophie  Ashmead,  who  married  Ellis  Bartlett,  of  an  old  New 
England  family,  and  after  his  death  took  her  two  sons,  Ellis  and  William  Ash- 
mead-Bartlett,  to  England,  where  the  elder  married  the  Baroness  Nudett-Couts. 

Eliza  Ashmead,  daughter  of  Capt.  and  Mary  (Mifflin)  Ashmead,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  1788,  married,  December  14,  George  Duncan  Croskey,  born  in  Eng- 
land December  14,  1778.  died  in  Philadelphia,  August  18,  1829.  She  died  in  Phil- 
adelphia, April  26,  1852. 

Henry  Croskey,  son  of  George  Duncan  and  Eliza  (Ashmead)  Croskey,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  November  15,  181 5,  was  a  prominent  merchant  of  that  city,  and 
died  there  October  i,  1899.  He  married,  August  25,  1837,  Anne  Dunnahew, 
daughter  of  Matthew  Dunnahew,  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  wife  Anne  Robinson,  of 
the  Robinson  family  of  Virginia,  prominent  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution  in  that 
section.  Her  brother  John  Robinson  Dunnahew  served  in  Mexican  and  Civil 
Wars.     Mrs.  Croskey  was  born  August  7,  1819,  and  died  January  u,  1892. 

Ida  Croskey,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Anne  (Dunnahew)  Croskey,  born  May  27,. 
1854,  married,  January  29,  1873,  Thomas  Jones  Mustin,  and  had  two  sons,  Henry 
Croskey  Mustin  of  U.  S.  N.,  and  John  Barton  Mustin. 

Mrs.  Mustin  married  (second)  April  27,  1893,  William  Supplee  Lloyd. 


CHEIV  FAMILY. 

John  Chew,  whose  descendants  became  prominently  identified  with  the  affairs 
of  Philadelphia  and  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  was  an  early  settler  of  James- 
town, Virginia.  He  came  over  in  the  ship,  "Charitie,"  with  three  servants,  and 
was  followed  by  his  wife  Sarah,  in  the  "Sea  Flower."  He  probably  settled  at 
James  City,  when  it  was  made  the  seat  of  government  in  1621,  as  he  was  already 
there  and  occupying  a  house,  in  1624,  when  a  deed  was  granted  for  "One  Rood 
and  Nine  Perches  of  Land  lying  about  said  Chew's  House." 

John  Chew  subsequently  became  a  member  of  House  of  Assembly,  but  the 
meagre  records  of  that  early  date  give  us  no  account  of  his  family,  though  he  was 
certainly  the  father  of  at  least  one  son,  viz: 

Samuel  Chew,  who  removed  to  the  Province  of  Maryland  prior  to  1648. 
There  was  probably  other  children,  as  a  son  of  Larkin  Chew,  and  a  near  relative 
of  Samuel,  married  a  great-grandaunt  of  President  James  Madison,  and  was 
ancestor  of  President  Zachary  Taylor. 

Samuel  Chew  became  Judge  of  High  Court  of  Chancery,  Province  of  Maryland, 
and  for  seven  years  prior  to  his  death,  which  occurred  May  15,  1676,  was  member 
of  Upper  House  of  Provincial  Legislature,  and  in  May,  1676,  is  referred  to  as 
"Colonel  Samuel  Chew,  Chancellor  and  Secretary."  His  will  mentions  a  brother, 
Joseph,  to  whom  he  devises  a  "Gold  Seale  Ring."  He  married  Anne,  daughter 
and  only  child  of  William  Ayres,  and  was  the  father  of  seven  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

Benj,\min  Chew,  fifth  son  of  Samuel  and  Anne  (Ayres)  Chew,  born  April 
13,  1671,  died  in  Maryland,  March  3,  1699-1700.  He  married,  December  8, 
1692,  Elizabeth  Benson,  by  whom  he  had  one  son  Samuel,  of  whom  presently,  and 
three  daughters;  Elizabeth,  Ann  and  Mary. 

Samuel  Chew,  only  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Benson)  Chew,  born  in 
Maryland,  October  30,  1693,  resided  at  an  estate  called  "Maidstone,"  near  Annap- 
olis, and  was  a  physician.  He  removed  to  Kent  county,  on  the  Delaware,  now 
state  of  Delaware,  probably  several  years  prior  to  1741,  as  in  that  year  Gov. 
Thomas  in  a  letter  to  John  Penn,  requesting  that  Dr.  Chew  be  made  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  three  Lower  Counties,  says,  "Dr.  Chew  has  been 
long  settled  in  Kent  County,  as  Prothonotary,  and  he  and  a  new  sett  of  Magis- 
trates, have  done  good  service."  Although  a  convert  to  principles  of  Friends, 
and  member  of  the  Society  until  his  death,  unlike  his  contemporary  Quakers  in 
the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  proper,  he  had  no  scruples  against  "lawful  war," 
and  gave  the  governor  all  the  assistance  in  his  power  toward  fitting  out  troops  for 
the  defense  of  the  frontier  and  coast.  In  his  charge  to  the  Grand  Jury  at  New 
Castle,  on  assuming  the  duties  of  Chief  Justice  in  1741,  he  set  forth  clearly  that  it 
was  the  duty  of  every  citizen  to  give  substance  and  even  life  itself,  if  need  be, 
in  support  of  the  government.  His  charge  was  printed  in  the  Philadelphia  papers 
and  caused  considerable  excitement  amongst  the  Quakers  of  that  city. 

Samuel  Chew  resided  in  Dover,  Delaware,  where  his  ancient  residence  is  still 
standing,  and  owned  a  plantation  three  miles  distant.     He  died  at  Dover,  June  16, 


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1742,  and  was  succeeded  as  Chief  Justice  by  John  Curtis.  He  married  (first) 
October  22,  1715,  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Anne  Galloway,  of  Maryland, 
and  aunt  to  Joseph  Galloway,  later  a  distinguished  attorney  of  the  Philadelphia 
and  Bucks  county  courts.  She  died  May  26,  1734,  and  he  married  (second)  Sep- 
tember 18,  1736,  Mary  (Paca)  Galloway,  widow  of  his  first  wife's  brother.  Rich- 
ard Galloway,  Esq.,  of  Cumberstone,  Maryland,  and  daughter  of  Aquilla  Paca. 
By  first  marriage  he  was  father  of  nine  children,  and  by  second  of  five  children, 
all  of  the  latter  dying  without  issue.  Samuel  Chew,  eldest  son  of  second  wife, 
was  Attorney-General  of  Province  of  Maryland,  and  was  Third  Justice  of 
Supreme  Court  of  Lower  Counties  from  October  23,  1773,  to  the  Revolution. 

Benjamin  Chew,  Provincial  Councillor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  ancestor  of  the 
Philadelphia  family  of  the  name,  was  one  of  nine  children  of  first  marriage  of 
Dr.  Samuel  Chew,  by  his  first  wife,  Mary  Galloway,  and  was  born  at  his  father'^- 
country  seat  on  West  river,  Maryland,  November  29,  1722,  and  removed  with  the 
family  to  Kent  county,  on  Delaware,  when  a  boy.  He  was  probably  reared  as  a 
Quaker,  and  retained  his  association  with  the  Society  until  his  second  marriage  in 
1757.  His  four  children  by  his  first  marriage  were  baptized  with  his  eldest  child 
by  second  marriage,  Benjamin  Chew,  1758.  Of  the  earlier  education  of  the  dis- 
tinguished Jurist  and  Councillor,  little  is  known.  He  was  not  a  college  graduate, 
but  at  an  early  age  was  student  in  law  office  of  Tench  Francis,  whom  he  later 
succeeded  as  Attorney-General  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  mes- 
senger boy,  student  and  clerk ;  drawing  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  all  the  papers  in 
a  case  of  Common  Recovery.  His  legal  training  was,  however,  principally 
entrusted  to  Andrew  Hamilton,  distinguished  attorney  for  the  Penn  family,  and 
member  of  Governor's  Council,  172041.  At  the  death  of  Hamilton  in  1741.  Ben- 
jamin Chew,  then  in  his  nineteenth  year,  went  abroad  and  entered  the  Middle 
Temple  in  the  same  year  as  Sir  William  Blackstone,  the  noted  jurist  and  com- 
mentarian.  The  death  of  his  father  in  1743  hastened  his  return  to  America,  with- 
out having  entirely  completed  his  legal  studies.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  at  September  term,  1746.  but  the 
dockets  of  that  court  do  not  show  that  he  had  charge  of  any  cases  until  nine  years 
later.  He  was  probably  employed  in  the  practice  of  law  at  the  courts  of  Dover 
and  New  Castle  in  the  interval.  In  1751  he  was  one  of  the  Boundary  Commis- 
sion from  Kent  county,  and  in  1752  was  appointed  Trustee  by  the  Assembly  of  the 
Lower  Counties  to  sell  certain  lands. 

Benjamin  Chew  removed  to  Philadelphia,  1754.  and  took  up  his  residence  on 
Front  street  above  Dock,  where  he  resided  until  May,  1771,  when  he  purchased  a 
house  on  Third  street,  built  by  Charles  Willing  for  his  son-in-law.  Col.  James 
Burd,  of  Virginia,  and  then  just  vacated  by  the  Hon.  John  Penn.  In  1761  he  built 
on  the  outskirts  of  Germantown  his  country  seat,  "Cliveden,"  which  figured  so 
conspicuously  in  the  battle  of  Germantown  as  the  "Chew  House."  and  is  still 
owned  by  the  family.  He  succeeded  Tench  Francis,  his  old  preceptor,  as  Attor- 
ney-General of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  January  14,  1755,  and  filled  that  posi- 
tion until  November  4,  1769.  On  August  29,  1755.  he  was  appointed  Recorder  of 
Philadelphia,  also  succeeding  Francis  in  that  office,  and  continued  to  fill  the  posi- 
tion until  October  3,  1767,  when  he  resigned.  He  was  also  member  of  Assembly 
for  Lower  Counties  for  some  years,  and  officiated  as  Speaker  of  that  body  in  1756. 

Benjamin  Chew  was  called  to  the  Governor's  Council,  November  2.  1755.  at  a 


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time  when  able  men  who  were  willing  to  countenance  the  arming  of  troops  for 
the  defence  of  the  Colonies,  were  badly  needed  in  that  body.  It  was  a  critical 
period  in  the  history  of  the  Province,  when  Braddock's  defeat  at  Fort  DuOuesne 
had  let  loose  upon  the  western  and  northern  frontiers  of  the  Province  hordes  of 
savages  and  their  hardly  less  savage  allies,  the  French,  and  the  Colonial  Assembly 
having  failed  to  make  adequate  provision  for  the  raising  of  troops,  the  people 
had,  as  in  1747-8,  raised  associated  companies,  the  officers  of  which  were  com- 
missioned by  the  Governor's  Council,  and  at  the  request  of  the  authorities  of  the 
Crown,  most  of  the  Quakers  retired  from  the  Assembly.  Benjamin  Chew  was  an 
ardent  partisan  of  the  Proprietary  party,  and  was  attorney  of  the  Penn  family  for 
some  years.  He  continued  to  serve  in  the  Provincial  Council  until  its  authority 
was  overturned  by  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  1775.  He  was  appointed  Register- 
General  of  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  August  23,  1765,  and  also  held  that  position 
until  the  inception  of  the  Revolution,  being  the  last  to  hold  the  position,  the  con- 
stitution of  1776,  and  subsequent  constitutions  giving  to  each  county  independent 
authority  in  the  probate  of  wills  and  granting  letters  of  administration.  In  con- 
nection with  the  office  of  Register-General,  Mr.  Chew  acted  personally  as  Regis- 
ter of  the  city  and  county  of  Philadelphia,  then  a  very  lucrative  office,  Philadel- 
phia having  become  the  wealthiest  and  largest  city  on  the  Continent.  In  1761 
Benjamin  Chew  was  appointed  by  Council,  with  others,  to  expend  the  money 
appropriated  by  Assembly  for  the  defense  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  he 
was  also  one  of  the  Commission  who  finally  settled  the  boundary  line  question 
between  Pennsylvania  and  Maryland,  so  long  in  dispute. 

Mr.  Chew  was  in  sympathy  with  the  resistance  of  the  oppressive  acts  of  Par- 
liament, and  signed  the  famous  Non-importation  agreement  in  1765,  but  holding  a 
number  of  commissions  under  the  Crown  would  not  go  to  the  length  of  counselling 
or  aiding  in  armed  resistance  to  the  Crown.  On  the  resignation  of  William 
Allen,  Mr.  Chew  was  commissioned,  April  29,  1774,  Chief  Justice  of  Supreme 
Court  of  Pennsylvania.  Though  all  commissions  were  abrogated  by  the  consti- 
tution of  1776,  no  provision  was  made  by  the  constituted  authorities  to  fill  the 
offices  for  Philadelphia  city  and  county,  and  Mr.  Chew  continued  to  act  as  Register 
until  March  14,  1777.  He  remained  entirely  passive  in  reference  to  the  National 
struggle,  and  was  on  the  best  of  terms  with  the  leading  actors ;  Washington 
and  members  of  the  Continental  Congress,  when  that  body  was  in  session  in 
Philadelphia,  were  frequently  entertained  at  his  house.  However,  the  Congress, 
when  the  crisis  came,  and  Philadelphia  was  threatened  by  the  British  army, 
acting  on  the  principle,  that  "all  are  against  us  that  are  not  for  us"  recommended 
the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  Pennsylvania  to  secure  all  those  who  were 
"disaffected  to  the  cause  of  the  Colonies"  against  giving  aid  and  counsel  to  their 
enemies,  and  a  large  number  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  prominent  men  of  Phila- 
delphia were  arrested  and  confined  in  the  Masonic  Lodge  Room,  August  6,  1777; 
and  on  their  refusal  to  take  the  "Test  Oath"  of  allegiance  to  the  Colonies  were 
transported  to  near  Winchester,  Virginia,  where  they  were  kept  under  guard 
until  after  the  evacuation  of  Philadelphia  by  the  British  in  1778.  Mr.  Chew 
was  arrested,  but  allowed  to  proceed  to  his  home,  under  guard,  and  being  given 
the  choice  of  his  place  of  exile,  outside  the  zone  of  action,  was  taken  with  John 
Penn  to  the  Union  Iron  Works  in  New  Jersey,  owned  and  operated  by  his  wife's 
uncle,  where  he  remained  for  ten  months  in  the  closest  seclusion.     On  May  15, 


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1778,  Congress  ordered  his  release,  and  Major  Stout,  under  appointment  of  Gov- 
ernor Livingston,  of  New  Jersey,  June  29,  1778,  conveyetl  him  from  the  Union 
Iron  Works  to  the  Pennsylvania  shore  of  the  Delaware,  leaving  him  at  the  house 
of  Henry  Lott  in  Bucks  county,  from  whence  he  made  his  way  to  Philadelphia, 
and  he  again  took  up  his  residence  in  his  Third  street  house,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  until  his  death,  January  20,  1810.  His  Germantown  house  was  never 
occupied  by  him  after  the  battle  of  Germantown,  and  he  sold  it  in  1779  to  Blair 
McClenachan.  After  John  Penn  had  departed  for  England  Mr.  Chew  was  Attor- 
ney for  the  Penn  Family  in  America. 

On  the  return  of  peace  the  ability  of  Mr.  Chew  as  a  jurist  was  again  recognized 
and  he  was  appointed  President  Judge  of  the  High  Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals, 
his  commission  as  Judge  of  that  Court  being  dated  October  3,  1791,  and  that  of 
President  Judge,  October  4.  He  continued  to  fill  this  position  with  eminent  ability 
until  the  abolition  of  the  Court  in  1808,  and  he  lived  a  retired  life  at  the  Third 
street  home  until  his  death  two  years  later. 

Chief  Justice  Chew  married  (first)  June  13,  1747.  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Thomas)  Galloway,  of  Maryland.  She  died  November  9,  1755,  aged 
twenty-six  years,  and  is  buried  at  Christ  Church.  He  married  (second)  Sep- 
tember 12,  1757,  Elizabeth,  born  May,  1735,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary 
(Turner)  Oswald,  and  niece  of  Joseph  Turner,  member  of  Provincial  Council, 
1747"76-  She  survived  him  and  died  in  May,  1810. 
Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Gallon'ay)  Chezc: 

Mary,  b.  March  10,  1747-8;  d.  July  22,  1794;  m.  May  18,  1766,  Alexander  Wilcocks,  of  the 
Phila.  bar;  appointed  a  Justice  of  Phila.,  March  14,  1774;  member  of  Committee  of 
Safety,  1775;  Recorder  of  Deeds  for  Phila.,  after  the  Revolution,  until  his  death,  July 
22,  1801 ;  an  account  of  some  of  their  descendants  follows; 

Anna  Maria,  b.  Nov.  27,  1749;  d.  Nov.,  1812,  in  Md. ;  unm.; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  10,  1751  ;  m.  Edward  Tilghman:  of  whom  presently; 

Sarah,  b.  Nov.  15,  1753;  m.  Oct.  23,  1796,  her  cousin,  John  Galloway,  son  of  Samuel 
Galloway,  by  his  wife,  Ann  Chew,  sister  to  Chief  Justice  Chew.  John  Galloway  d. 
June,  1810.  They  were  parents  of  two  children,  Mary  and  Ann,  who  d.  v.;  Mary  mar- 
ried Virgil  Maxcy,  a  native  of  Mass.,  who  practiced  law  in  Md.  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Legislature  of  that  state,  and  later  Solicitor  of  the  U.  S.  Treasury;  he  compiled 
the  Laws  of  Md.,  1692-1706;  and  was  Charge  d'Affaires  for  the  U.  S.  in  Belgium; 

Henrietta,  b.  Sept.,  1755;  d.  June,  1756. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Elicabeth  (Oszcald)  Chew: 

Benjamin,  b.  Sept.  30,  1758;  graduated  at  College  of  Phila.,  1775;  studied  law  at  Middle 
Temple,  London,  and  became  1  member  of  the  Phila.  bar;  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Pa.,  July  5,  1787;  d.  April  30,  1844;  m.  Dec.  11,  1788,  Katharine 
Banning,  of  Md.,  who  d.  in  1855.     Issue: 

Samuel,  b.  Dec.  8,  1789;  d.  March  21,  1795; 
Eliza,  b.  May  4,  1791;  d.  March  31,  1795; 

Benjamin,  b.  Dec.  5.  1793;  d.  Aug.  17,  1864;  member  of  Phila.  bar;  soldier  in  war 
of   1812-14;   m.  July,   1816,   Eliabeth   Margaret,  dau.  of  Chief  Justice   William 
Tilghman.  and  had  one  son  who  d.  at  age  of  three  years; 
Samuel,  b.  June  19,  1795;  d.  unm.,  .\ug.  21,  1841: 
John,    b.    Jan.    23,    1797;    midshipirian    U.    S.    N.,    and    a    bearer    of    Government 

despatches;  lost  at  sea,  Aug.,  1815; 
Eliza  Margaret,  b.  Nov.  19,  1798;  d.  Feb.  11,  1874;  m-  James  Murray  Mason,  mem- 
ber of   House  of  Delegates  of   Virginia,   1826;   member  of   Congress,    1837-39; 
United  States  Senator,  1847-61 ;  one  of  Commissioners  to  Europe  for  Confed- 
erate States,  1862;  d.  April  29,  1871; 


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Henry   Banning,  b.   Dec.    i.    1800;   d.   Dec.   12,    1866;   graduate   of   Univ.   of   Pa.; 
merchant  of  Phila. ;  m.   (first)   Harriet,  dau.  of  Gov.  Cliarles  Ridgely,  of  Md., 
and  (second)  Elizabeth  Ann,  dau.  of  Robert  Ralston,  of  Phila.; 
William  White  Chew,  b.  April  12,  1803;  d.  unm.,  Nov.  13,  1851  ;  Secretary  of  U.  S. 

Legation  at  St.  Petersburg,  1837; 
Anna  Sophia  Penn  Chew,  d.  unm.;  late  owner  of  "Cliveden;" 
Joseph  Turner  Chew,  b.  Dec.  12,  1806;  d.  in  Butler  co..  Pa.,  1835; 
Anthony  Banning  Chew,  b.  Jan.  24,   1809;   d.  unm.,   1854; 
Catharine  Maria  Chew,  b.  May  12,  181 1;  d.  Oct.  27,  181 1; 
Oswald  Chew,  b.  May  23,  1813;  d.  June,  1824. 
Joseph,  b.  1763;  d.  1764; 

Julianna,  b.  April  8,  1765;  m.  Philip  Nicklin,  a  merchant  of  Phila.,  who  d.  in  1806;  Sophia 
Chew  Nicklin,  third  child  of  Philip  and  Julianna,  m.  George  Mifflin  Dallas,  Mayor  of 
Phila.,  1828;  U.  S.  Attorney  for  Pa.,  under  President  Jackson;  U.  S.  Senator,  1831-3; 
Minister  to  Russia,  1837-39;  Vice-President  of  the  U.  S.,  1845-49;  Minister  to  Court 
St.  James,  under  Presidents,  Pierce  and  Buchanan;  d.  in  Phila.,  Dec.  31,  1864; 
Margaret  Oswald,  "Peggy,"  b.  Dec.  17,  1766;  d.  May  29,  1824;  it  was  in  her  honor  that 
Major  Andre  fought  in  the  tournament  at  the  Meschianza,  1778;  she  m.  May  18,  1787, 
Col.  John  Eager  Howard,  graduate  of  Princeton;  distinguished  officer  of  Maryland 
troops  during  the  Revolution;  member  of  Continental  Congress,  1787;  United  States 
Senator,  1796-1803;  President  pro  tern  of  VI  Congress;  Governor  of  Maryland,  1788; 
d.  Oct.  12,  1827.    Three  of  his  sons  were  officers  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  all  six  were 
among  the  most  prominent  men  of  their  state. 
Henrietta,  b.  Aug.  15,  1767;  d.  unm.,  March  8,  1848; 
Sophia,  b.  Nov.   13,  1769;  d.  Sept.  3,   1841 ;  m.  Oct.  3,  1796,  Henry  Phillips;  of  whom 

presently; 
Maria,  b.  Dec.  22,  1771;  d.  unm.,  March  27,  1840; 
Harriet,  b.   Oct.  22,   1775;   d.   April   10,   1861  ;   m.    Charles,   son   of   Charles   Carroll,   of 

Carrollton,  signer  of  Declaration  of  Independence; 
Catharine,  b.  May  3,  J779;  d.  unm..  May  28,  1831. 

Of  the  children  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Chew)  Wilcocks,  and  grandchildren 
of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew;  Benjamin  Chew  Wilcocks,  born  1776,  died 
1845;  married,  1842,  Sarah,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Wain,  and  had  two 
daughters,  Mary  Wains  Wilcoks,  married  Alexander  Dallas  Campbell,  Esq.,  of 
Philadelphia  bar ;  and  Helen  Julia  Wilcocks,  married  Chandler  Robbins,  Esq., 
of  New  York. 

Ann  Wilcocks,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Chew)  Wilcocks,  born  1781, 
died  1831  ;  married  Joseph  Reed  Ingersoll,  of  Philadelphia,  born  1786,  graduated 
at  Princeton,  class  of  1804,  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  1809,  and  rose  to  eminence  in  his  profession.  He 
was  a  member  of  Congress,  1835-37,  ^"d  1842-49,  and  served  for  some  time  in  that 
body  as  chairman  of  Committee  on  Judiciary.  In  1852  he  was  appointed  United 
States  Minister  to  the  Court  of  St.  James.    He  died  February  20,  1868. 

Mary  Wilcocks,  another  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Chew)  Wilcocks, 
born  1784,  died  1862;  married  1804,  Charles  Jared  Ingersoll,  born  in  Philadelphia, 
1782,  died  there  May  14,  1862.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
bar,  and  a  man  of  rare  intellectual  ability,  a  writer  of  considerable  note,  being  the 
author  of  several  plays,  and  of  a  "History  of  the  Second  War  with  Great  Britain." 
He  was  a  member  of  Congress,  181 3- 15,  and  United  States  District  Attorney  for 
Pennsylvania,  1815-29.  He  was  again  elected  to  Congress  in  1841,  and  served 
until  1847,  filling  the  important  position  of  Chairman  of  Committee  on  Foreign 
Affairs.  He  was  nominated  by  President  James  K.  Polk  as  Minister  to  France, 
but  the  appointment  failed  of  confirmation  in  the  Senate. 


Issue  of  Charles  Jarcd  and  Mary  (IVilcocks)  Ingcrsoll: 

Charles  J.  Ingersoll,  Jr.,  author  of  "Fears  for  Democracy,"  m.  Susan  Catharine,  dau.  of 
Gen.  Brown,  of  Tenn.; 

Alexander  Wilcocks ; 

Harry  Ingersoll,  m.  Sarah   E.  Roberts; 

John  Ingersoll,  d.  1859;  m.   (first)   Margaretta  Smith;   (second)   Sarah   (Starr)    Griffin; 

Benjamin  Wilcocks  Ingersoll,  d.  unm.  at  Rome,  1859; 

Elizabeth,  d.  May  27,  1872;  m.  Sydney  George  Fisher; 

Edward  Ingersoll,  long  a  prominent  member  of  the  Phila.  bar;  m.  Anna  C.  Warren,  of 
Troy,  N.  Y.;  their  son,  Charles  Jared  Ingersoll.  b.  Phila.,  June  17,  i860,  studied  law  in 
office  of  Francis  Rawle.  Esq.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Phila.  bar.  1884;  for  many  years 
member  of  law  firm  of  Gowen,  Hood  &  Ingersoll:  was  Surveyor  of  Port  of  Phila. 
during  Cleveland's  administration;  removed  to  Penllyn,  Montgomery  co.,  1895;  was 
Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Bucks-Montgomery  district,  1902; 

Ann  Wilcocks  Ingersoll,  d.  Dec.  30,  1856;  m.  John  Forsyth  Meigs,  M.  D.; 

Samuel  Ingersoll,  d.  inf. 

Sophia  Chew,  sixth  child  of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew,  by  his  second  wife, 
Elizabeth  Oswald,  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  13,  1769,  died  September  3, 
1841  ;  married,  October  3,  1796,  Henry  Phillips,  of  Philadelphia,  son  of  John  and 
Sarah  Phillips,  of  Bank  Hall,  Lancashire,  and  grandson  of  Nathaniel  Phillips, 
of  Heath  House,  county  Stafford,  England.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  11, 
1800.  and  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  at  St.  Peter's  Church.  Sophia  (  Chew) 
Phillips  is  buried  in  the  Montgomery  vault  at  St.  Peter's.     Their  only  issue  was : 

Elizabeth  Henrietta  Phillips,  b.  in  Phila.,  Aug.  11,  1797;  d.  there,  July  II,  1842:  m.  Nov. 
26,  1817,  John  Crathorne  Montgomery,  an  account  of  whom  and  his  distinguished  an- 
cestry is  in  this  work  under  the  title  of  "Montgomery  Family." 

Elizabeth  Chew,  third  daughter  of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew  by  his  first 
wife,  Mary  Galloway,  born  at  Dover,  Kent  county,  now  Delaware,  September  10, 
1751,  died  April  4,  1842;  married.  May  26,  1774,  Edward  Tilghman.,  Esq.,  born  at 
Wye,  Maryland,  December  11,  1750:  son  of  Col.  Edward  Tilghman,  of  \\'ye,  by 
his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Chew,  sister  of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew,  and  a 
descendant  of  Richard  Tilghman,  of  county  Kent,  England,  who  settled  in  Mary- 
land in  1663. 

Richard  Tilghman,  of  Holoway  Court,  county  Kent,  was  seated  there  in 
the  reign  of  Edward  H,  and  by  wife  Dionyse  had  a  son, 

Thomas  Tilghman,  of  Holoway  Court,  who  by  wife  Joan  had  a  son. 

William  Tilghman.  who  died  August  27,  1541  ;  married  (first)  Isabel  Avery, 
and  had  a  son,  Richard  Tilghman,  of  Holoway  Court;  by  second  marriage  with 
Joan  Amherst  had  other  children,  among  whom  were, 

William  Tilghman,  born  at  Holoway  Court,  1518,  whose  will  was  probated 
April  29,  1594.  He  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Bere,  of  Rochester; 
(second)  Susan,  daughter  of  Thomas  Whetenhall,  of  P'eckham.  By  second  mar- 
riage he  had  four  sons,  the  second  of  whom, 

Oswald  Tilghman,  born  October  4,  1579:  will  probated  January  22,  1628;  by 
wife  Elizabeth  was  father  of  Richard  Tilghman,  of  Maryland. 

Richard  Tilghman,  born  in  county  Kent.  England,  September  3.  1626.  became 
a  surgeon  in  English  Navy,  and  becoming  interested  in  English  Colonies  in  Amer- 
ica purchased  Canterbury  Manor,  Choptank  river,  Maryland,  his  patent  bearing 


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date  January  17,  1659.  He  came  to  America  in  1661,  and  in  1663  established  his 
seat  on  Chester  river,  which  he  called  the  "Hermitage,"  still  in  possession  of  his 
descendants.  Richard  Tilghman  died  there  January  7,  1675.  He  married,  in 
England,  Mary  Foxley,  who  accompanied  him  to  Maryland,  in  the  "Elizabeth  and 
Mary,"  1661,  and  survived  him  more  than  twenty  years,  acting  as  executrix  of  his 
will  in  1675. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Richard  and  Mary  (Foxley)  Tilghinaii: 

Samuel  Tilghman,  b.  England,  Dec.  11,  1650; 

Mary  Tilghman,  b.  England,  Feb.,  1655;  m.  (first)  Matthew  Ward,  of  Bay-Side,  Talbot 
CO.,  Md.,  who  d.  in  1677;  (second)  Rev.  John  Lillingston,  vicar  of  Ilmer.  county  of 
Bucks,  England,  1677,  came  to  Maryland  about  1680,  d.  there  1709.  He  had  by  Mary 
(Tilghman)  Ward  a  son  George,  who  m.  Elizabeth  Watson,  and  was  the  grandfather 
of  Mary  Till,  who  m.  Andrew  Hamilton.  Mathew  Tilghman  Ward,  son  of  Mathew 
and  Mary  (Tilghman)  Ward,  was  clerk  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  1695,  and  at  his  death, 
May  25,  1741,  was  President  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  Maryland.  He  was  twice 
married  but  had  no  son,  adopted  later  a  son  of  Richard  Tilghman,  his  uncle  and 
brother-in-law,  both  he  and  Richard  having  married  daughters  of  Col.  Philemon 
Lloyd ; 

William  Tilghman,  b.  in  England,  Feb.  16,  1658:  was  living  in  1680,  when  he  was  one  of 
the  grantees  in  a  trust  deed  from  his  sister,  Mary  Ward,  for  benefit  of  her  son, 
Mathew  Tilghman  Ward,  when  Mary  was  about  to  take  as  second  husband  Rev.  John 
Lillingston.  Is  mentioned  in  said  deed  as  "William  Tilghman  of  Talbot  (bounty. 
Gentleman;"  was  doubtless  proprietor  of  "the  Hermitage;" 

Deborah  Tilghman.  b.  at  "the  Hermitage,"   March  12,   1666: 

Richard  Tilghm.\n,  b.  at  "the  Hermitage,"  Feb.  23,  1672;  of  whom  presently 

Richard  Tilghman,  youngest  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Foxley)  Tilghman, 
born  at  the  "Hermitage"  on  Chester  river,  Maryland,  February  3,  1672,  and  there- 
fore but  three  years  of  age  at  the  death  of  his  father,  is  said  to  have  been  the  only 
son  of  the  emigrant  who  married  and  left  issue.  On  September  20,  1699,  his 
mother  conveyed  to  him  at  least  a  portion  of  the  "Hermitage"  tract,  charging 
him  with  the  payment  of  certain  monies,  at  her  decease,  for  the  benefit  of  other 
children  and  grandchildren.  Richard  Tilghman  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Province  of  Maryland  and  was  a  member  of  Provincial  Council. 
He  died  January  23,  1738.  He  married  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Philemon 
Lloyd. 

Issue  of  Richard  and  Anna  Maria  (Lloyd)  Tilghman: 

Mary  Tilghman,  m.  James  Earle,  of  l\Id.,  and  had  a  dau.,  .\nna  Maria  Earle,  who  m. 

Thomas  Ringgold,  a  prominent  merchant: 
Philemon,  d.  y:; 

Richard  Tilghman,  of  "the  Hermitage."  Judge  of  Provincial  Court  of  Md.;  d.  Sept.  29, 
1768;  m.  Susanna  Frisby,  and  had  issue: 

Richard,  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.   of  his  uncle.   Edward  Tilghman,   of   Wye,  hereafter 

mentioned ; 
Peregrine,  m.  Deborah  Lloyd; 

James,  Attorney  General  of  Md.:  m.  Susanna  Stewart; 
William,  m.  Anna  Maria  Lloyd; 

EHzabeth,  m.  William  Cooke;  their  son  Richard  took  the  name  of  Tilghman. 
Henrietta  Maria  Tilghman,  m.  George  Robins,  of  Md. ; 

Anna  Maria,  m.   (first)   William   Helmsley;    (second)    Robert  Lloyd;  her  son,  William 
Helmsley,  m.  Anna  Maria,  dau.  of  his  uncle,  James  Tilghman,  Provincial  Councillor; 
William  Tilghman.  m.   Margaret   Lloyd; 

Col.  Edward  Tilghman.  of  Wye.  Talbot  co.,  Md.:  m.  (first)  Anne  Turbutt;  (second) 
Elizabeth,   dau.  of   Dr.  Samuel   Chew,  and  sister  to  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew; 


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(third)  Julianna  Cornell;  Edward  Tilghman,  first  above  mentioned,  was  son  of  second 

marriage ; 
James  Tilghman,  b.  at  "Hermitage,"  Dec.  6,  1716;  of  whom  presently; 
Mathew  Tilghman,  Speaker  of  Maryland  Provincial  Assembly;  member  of  Continental 

Congress;   President  of  Constitutional  Convention  of  Maryland,  etc.;  d.  May  4,  1790; 

m.  Anna  Lloyd,  and  was  father  of  Lloyd  Tilghman,  who  m.  Henrietta  Maria,  dau.  of 

his  uncle,  James  Tilghman,  Councillor;  and  also  of  Anna   Maria  Tilghman,  who  m. 

Tench  Tilghman,  eldest  son  of  James,  Councillor. 

James  Tilghman,  fourth  surviving  son  of  Richard  and  Anna  Alaria  (Lloyd) 
Tilghman,  of  the  "Hermitage,"  was  born  there,  December  6,  1716.  He  studied 
law,  and  began  practice  in  Annapolis,  Maryland,  but  removed  to  Philadelphia  in 
1760,  where  he  became  very  eminent  in  his  profession.  He  was  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  Land  Office  of  Pennsylvania,  1765.  and  held  that  position  until  the  Revo- 
lution. He  was  elected  to  Common  Council  of  city  of  Philadelphia,  October  3, 
1764,  and  was  called  to  Provincial  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1767.  He 
took  a  prominent  part  in  settlement  of  boundary  dispute  with  province  of  Mary- 
land. At  outbreak  of  Revolution,  like  many  other  of  the  higher  officials  of  the 
Province,  he  was  a  Royalist  in  his  sympathies,  and  was  allowed  to  return  to  his 
native  state  on  parole,  went  to  Chestertown,  Maryland,  August  31,  1777,  and 
remained  there  until  discharged  from  his  parole,  May  16,  1778,  when  he  returned 
to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  August  24,  1793.  He  married,  at  Christ  Church, 
September  30,  1743,  Anne,  daughter  of  Attorney-General  Tench  Francis,  his  wife 
being  a  daughter  of  Foster  Turbutt,  of  Maryland,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev. 
John  Francis,  Dean  of  Lismore,  and  first  cousin  to  Sir  Philip  Francis,  K.  C.  B., 
reputed  author  of  the  "Junius"  letters. 

Issue  of  James  and  Anne  (Francis)  Tilghiiiaii: 

Tench  Tilghman,  b.  Dec.  25,  1744;  d.  April  18,  1786;  entered  College  of  Phila.,  1758; 
graduated  1761;  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Phila,  with  his  uncle.  Tench  Fran- 
cis, and  acquired  a  moderate  competence.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  he 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Colonies,  and  closing  out  his  business  invested  his  estate  for 
the  benefit  of  his  youngest  brother,  and  entered  the  military  service,  serving  through- 
out the  war:  was  military  secretary  and  Aide-de-Camp  to  Gen.  Washington,  1776-83. 
At  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  he  was  commissioned  by  Washington  to  bear  the  news 
to  Congress,  and  was  given  a  vote  of  thanks  by  that  body,  with  a  sword,  a  horse  and 
accoutrements.  After  close  of  war  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Baltimore. 
He  m.  his  cousin,  Anna  Maria,  dau.  of  Mathew  Tilghman,  of  Md.,  member  of  Conti- 
nental Congress; 

Richard  Tilghman,  b.  Talbot  cc,  Md.,  Dec.  17,  1746;  studied  law  at  Middle  Temple, 
London:  admitted  to  practice  in  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  April  11,  1772;  went 
to  India,  1776,  and  was  a  barrister  of  some  celebrity  there;  d.  while  on  a  voyage  to 
England,  Jan.  21,  1786; 

James  Tilghman,  b.  Talbot  co.,  Md.,  Jan.  2,  1748;  d.  at  Easton,  Md.,  April  19,  1809; 
entered  College  of  Phila.,  1763,  graduated  1766;  studied  law  and  was  Chief  Judge  of 
Second  Judicial  District  of  Maryland,  1791-1804,  and  1806-09;  married  Elizabeth  Buly; 

Anna  Maria  Tilghman,  b.  Feb.  19,  1750,  d.  s.  p.,  Jan.  5,  1817;  m.  her  cousin,  William 
Helmsley,  member  of  Congress; 

Elizabeth  Tilghman,  b.  1754;  m.  James  Lloyd; 

William  Tilghman,  b.  Aug.  12,  1756;  d.  April  30,  1827;  studied  law  with  Chief  Justice 
Benjamin  Chew,  but  left  Phila.,  1776.  and  went  to  Maryland;  admitted  to  practice 
there  in  1783,  was  later  a  member  of  Maryland  Legislature;  returned  to  Phila.,  1793, 
and  practiced  there;  appointed  by  President  Adams,  Chief  Justice  of  United  States 
Circuit  Court,  March  3,  1801,  snd  July  31,  1805,  became  President  Judge  of  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  of  Phila. ;  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania, 
Feb.  25,  1806,  and  served  until  his  death,  April  30,  1827:  he  was  a  Trustee  of  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  President  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  1824; 
m.  at  Christ  Church,  July  i,  1794.  Margaret  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  James  Allen,  by  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John   Lawrence;  issue: 


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Elizabeth  Margaret  Tilghman,  b.  April  19.  1796;  d.  June  16,   1817;  m.   Benjamin 
Chew,  only  son  of  William  Tilghman   Chew,  before  mentioned: 
Mary  Tilghman,  b.  Aug.  24,   1758;  d.  unm..   1789: 
Philemon  Tilghman,  b.  Phila.,  Nov.  29,  1760;  an  ardent  Royalist  during  the  Revolution; 

joined  the  Royal  Navy,  and  rising  to  rank  of  Captain  operated  against  the  Colonies; 

returned  to  America  after  close  of  war,  and  lived  in  Maryland;  d.  Jan.   11,   1797;  m. 

Harriet,  dau.  of   Rear  Admiral   Milbanke,  of  Royal   Navy;   she  returned  to  England 

after  his  death; 
Henrietta  Maria  Tilghman,  b.  Feb.  26,  1763;  m.  her  cousin  Lloyd  Tilghman,  of  Md.,  son 

of  Hon.  Mathew  Tilghman; 
Thomas  Ringgold  Tilghman,  b.  Aug.  II,  1765;  d.  s.  p.,  Dec.  29.  1789;  was  a  merchant  in 

Phila. 

Edward  Tilghman,  who  married  Elizabeth  Chew,  daughter  of  Chief  Justice 
Benjamin  Chew,  was  born  at  Wye,  Maryland,  December  11,  1750.  He  entered 
College  of  Philadelphia,  1764,  graduated  1766;  studied  law  at  Middle  Temple, 
London,  returned  to  Philadelphia,  1774,  and  became  one  of  the  leaders  of  Phila- 
delphia bar,  standing  at  the  head  of  his  profession  in  his  day,  a  very  talented 
advocate,  and  much  beloved  by  his  fellow  members  of  the  bar  for  his  many  esti- 
mable virtues.  He  was  especially  noted  for  helping  younger  members  of  the 
bar  in  their  early  struggles  with  knotty  questions  of  the  law.  On  the  resignation  of 
Chief  Justice  Edward  Shippen.  1805,  he  was  offered  the  Chief  Justiceship  of 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  but  declined  in  favor  of  his  cousin,  William 
Tilghman,  above  mentioned.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  November  i,  181 5.  He  had 
always  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  success  of  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
served  on  board  of  trustees  from  1794  to  1807. 

Issue  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Chciv)  TUghuian: 

Edward  Tilghman,  b.  Feb.  27,  1777;  d.  Jan.  17,  1826;  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.,  with 
degree  of  A.  M.,  1804;  merchant  in  Phila.;  m.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Jesse  Wain;  Edward 
Tilghman  was  also  a  member  of  the  Phila.  bar,  and  practiced  for  some  years; 

Elizabeth  Tilghman,  b.  Aug.  27,  1782;  m.  William  Cooke,  of  Baltimore,  Md. ; 

Benjamin  Tilghm.^n,  b.  Jan.  6,  1785;  of  whom  presently; 

Mary  Anna  Tilghman,  b.  Feb.  25,  1795;  d.  Feb.  2,  1878;  m.  William  Rawle; 

Richard  Tilghman,  d.  y.; 

Several  other  children  d.  inf. 

Benjamin  Tilghman,  second  son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Chew)  Tilgh- 
man, born  in  Philadelphia,  January  6,  1785,  graduated  at  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  studied  law  with  his  father.  Admitted  to  Philadelphia  bar,  and  prac- 
ticed for  many  years;  died  May  30,  1850.  He  married  Anna  Maria  McMurtrie, 
who  survived  him  many  years,  dying  in  April,  1872. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  and  Anna  Maria  (McMurtrie)  Tilghman: 

Maria  Tilghman,  unm.; 

Elizabeth  Tilghman,  unm.; 

Edward  Tilghman,  of  Phila. ; 

William  McMurtrie  Tilghman,  b.  Nov.  4,  1815;  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1829,  but  left  at 
end  of  first  year;  studied  at  Kenyon  College,  O.  1831-33:  studied  law,  and  admitted 
to  Phila.  bar;  member  of  American  Philosophical  Society;  ni.  Katharine,  dau.  of  Ed- 
ward Ingersoll,  Esq.; 

Anna  Maria  Tilghman,  unm.; 

Benjamin  Chew  Tilghman,  graduated  at  Univ.  of  Pa.;  studied  law  and  practiced  at 
Phila.  bar;  was  Colonel  and  Brigadier  General  of  Penna.  Volunteers  during  Civil 
War; 


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Richard  Albert  Tilghman,  b.  Alay  i8.  1823;  m.  Susan  Price  Toland;  of  whom  pres- 
ently ; 
Emily  Tilghman,  d.  inf. 

Richard  Albert  Tilghman,  third  son  of  Benjamin  and  Anna  Maria  (McMur- 
trie)  Tilghman,  born  in  Philadelphia.  May  18,  1823.  entered  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, 1837,  graduated  with  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  1841  ;  chemist.  Mar- 
ried, April  26,  i860,  Susan  Price,  third  child  and  eldest  daughter  of  Robert 
Toland,  by  his  wife,  Rebecca,  born  May  19.  1799,  daughter  of  John  Morgan  Price, 
by  wife.  Susanna,  daughter  of  John  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Wister,  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Hans  Casper  Wister.  of  Hilspach.  Germany,  and  of  Dr.  Edward  Jones,  of 
Merion.  and  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne,  Speaker  of  first  Pennsylvania  Assembly. 
Issiir  of  Richard  Albert  and  Susan  P.  (Toland)  Tilghman: 

Benjamin  Chew  Tilghman,  Jr..  b.  Phila.,  March  17,  1861 ;  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1877, 
graduated  18S1;  manufacturer;  Adjutant  of  Third  Regiment.  Infantry,  National 
Guard  of  Penn..  1897;  Major  of  Third  Regiment  Penn.  Infantry,  in  Spanish-American 
War.  mustered  in  Klay  11,  1898.  and  mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  October  22, 
i8g8:  m.  at  St.  Mark's  Church,  Phila.,  Nov.  18.  1888.  Mai.  dau.  of  Walter  McMichael. 
of  Phila.:  issue:  Benjamin  Chew.  b.  Jan.  15.  1890;  Edith  Sarah  Tilghman,  m.  Nov. 
3,  1886,  Jesse  Nalle.  of  Richmond.  \'a.:  they  have  three  children; 

Susan  Toland  Tilghman,  b.  1863 ;  m.  Ludovico  Lante  del  la  Rovere ;  they  reside  in  Rome, 
Italy,  and  had  three  daughters  and  one  son; 

Richard  Albert  Tilghman.  Jr..  b.  Jan.  24.  1865;  Cornet  of  City  Troop:  member  of  Frank- 
lin Institute;  m.  at  house  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Chew.  May  8,  1889,  Gabriella,  dau.  of  Cheval- 
lier  de  Potestad,  of  Spanish  Legation:  he  d.  June  12.  1906;  their  issue  was; 
Gabriella,  b.  May,  1891 ; 
Richard,  b.  1893. 

Agnes  Tilghman,  b.  1868;  m.  John  Hooker  Packard;  they  had  two  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter; 

Angela  Tilghman,  b.  1871 ;  d.  1894;  m.  George  Preston. 


HAMILTON  FAMILY. 

Andrew  Hamilton,  the  earliest  and  most  conspicuous  champion  of  the  Hberty 
of  speech  and  of  the  press  in  America,  as  well  as  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  and 
statesmen  the  colonies  produced,  was  over  twenty-five  years  a  resident  of  Phila- 
delphia. A  Scotchman  by  birth,  his  migration  to  America,  and  its  cause,  is  some- 
what shrouded  in  mystery.  The  family  tradition  is  that  he  was  obliged  to  flee 
from  his  native  country  in  consequence  of  the  killing  of  a  person  of  some  import- 
ance in  a  duel.  Always  the  champion  of  right  and  justice,  even  when  opposed  to 
conventional  customs  or  laws,  he  was  doubtless  involved  in  some  of  the  political 
difficulties  of  Great  Britain  during  the  reign  of  King  William. 

He  was  born  about  1676,  and  seems  to  have  come  to  America  during  the  first 
decade  of  the  following  century.  On  March  26,  1708,  he  purchased  of  John 
Toads  600  acres  on  the  north  side  of  Chester  River  in  Kent  county,  Maryland, 
present  site  of  the  town  of  Millington,  the  plantation  being  then  known  by  the 
name  of  "Henberry."  In  the  deed  for  this  property  he  is  described  as  of  North- 
ampton county,  Virginia.  During  his  residence  in  Virginia,  he  seems  to  have  con- 
cealed his  real  name  and  have  taken  the  name  of  Trent.  The  fact  that,  after  the 
accession  of  Queen  Anne,  he  resumed  his  real  name,  may  be  taken  to  indicate  that 
his  flight  and  temporary  obscure  life  in  Virginia  was  caused  by  some  political 
trouble.  As  he  eventually  returned  to  England  and  obtained  admission  to  Gray's 
Inn  and  the  English  Bar,  it  is  very  evident  that  he  did  not  emigrate  to  America 
under  any  disgraceful  charge. 

While  a  resident  of  \'irginia,  he  is  said  to  have  had  charge  of  an  estate  and 
to  have  conducted  a  classical  school.  After  his  removal  to  Kent  county,  Mary- 
land, he  practiced  law  not  only  in  Kent,  but  in  adjoining  counties,  and  as  far  north 
as  Philadelphia,  making  "Henberry"  his  residence  several  years.  By  1712  he  was 
established  in  Chestertown  with  a  large  practice  and  a  great  reputation  as  a 
lawyer.  In  that  year  he  was  retained  as  attorney  for  William  Penn  in  a  suit 
against  Berkley  Codd,  Esq.,  of  Sussex  county,  on  the  Delaware,  whose  step  great- 
granddaughter  Andrew  Hamilton,  son  of  the  distinguished  attorney,  later  mar- 
ried, obtaining  through  her  the  handsome  estate  of  "Woodlands,"  near  Philadel- 
phia, the  home  of  the  family  several  generations.  The  suit  of  Penn  vs.  Codd  had 
to  do  with  a  dispute  over  the  rights  of  Penn  under  the  grant  from  the  Duke  of 
York. 

It  is  supposed  that  the  legal  studies  of  Andrew  Hamilton,  commenced  in  Great 
Britain,  must  have  been  completed  in  Maryland,  where  there  were,  among  the 
officials  of  the  government,  several  men  of  considerable  legal  attainments,  and 
among  the  gentry  of  the  Eastern  shore,  some  highly  educated  men.  He,  however, 
felt  the  need  of  the  additional  standing  which  membership  in  the  English  Bar 
gave  to  those  practicing  before  the  early  Colonial  Justices,  and  late  in  17 12  sailed 
for  England,  on  January  27,  1712-13,  was  admitted  a  member  of  Gray's  Inn,  as 
Mr.  Andrew  Hamilton  of  Maryland,  and  on  the  tenth  of  February  following,  was 
called  to  the  Bar. 

Returning  to  Maryland,  he  resumed  his  extensive  practice  at  Chestertown.  He 


520  HAMILTON 

was  selected  as  one  of  the  Assembly  summoned  by  Gov.  John  Hart,  to  meet  on 
April  26,  1715,  for  the  purpose  of  codifying  the  laws  of  the  Province  of  Maryland, 
being  one  of  the  four  deputies  from  Kent  county.  Not  being  present  when  the 
Assembly  met,  he  was  summoned  by  the  sergeant-at-arms,  and  on  his  appearance 
excused  himself  on  the  ground  that  he  was  engaged  as  counsel  in  an  important 
case  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania.  The  delegates  fined  him  forty- 
five  shillings  for  non-attendance,  but  they  placed  him  at  once  on  the  Committee  of 
Laws,  and  the  forty-six  chapters  of  the  Acts  of  1715,  codified  by  that  committee, 
formed  the  basis  of  the  statute  law  of  the  Province  down  to  the  Revolution,  and 
long  afterwards.  Some  time  during  the  next  two  years,  Andrew  Hamilton  gave 
up  his  Maryland  residence  and  made  his  home  in  Philadelphia.  He  had  subse- 
quently added  to  his  purchase  of  "Henberry"  a  neighboring  plantation  called 
"Partnership,"  and  after  removing  to  Philadelphia,  sold  both  estates,  by  deed  dated 
September  16,  1717,  to  Gilbert  Falconer. 

Andrew  Hamilton  was  appointed  Attorney-General  of  Pennsylvania,  September 
24,  1 717,  and  held  that  office  until  his  resignation  in  1726,  his  successor,  Joseph 
Growdon,  Junr.,  of  Bucks  county,  being  commissioned  September  26,  1726.  In 
1720  he  was  called  to  the  Provincial  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  and  only  consented 
to  serve  on  condition  that  his  attendance  should  not  be  allowed  to  interfere  with 
the  practice  of  his  profession ;  and  though  he  retained  membership  in  the  Council 
until  his  death  in  1741,  he  seems  rarely  if  ever  to  have  taken  a  seat  in  that  body. 

On  his  resignation  of  Attorney  General's  office,  he  made  an  extended  visit  to 
England,  and  on  his  return,  June  5,  1727,  was  appointed  by  (jov.  Patrick  Gordon, 
Prothonotary  of  the  Court  of  Philadelphia.  He  had  previously,  July  30.  1723. 
been  made  a  Master  of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery.  In  1727  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  Bucks  county,  and  continued  to  represent 
that  county  in  the  House  until  the  close  of  the  session  in  1739,  filling  the  position 
of  speaker  from  1729  until  his  voluntary  retirement,  excepting  the  session  of 
1733-4;  receiving  at  one  time  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  members  for  that  office. 
He  took  a  leading  part  in  the  business  of  the  House  from  the  first,  being  chairman 
of  its  most  important  committees,  and  the  author  of  most  of  the  addresses  to  the 
Governor  and  Proprietors,  as  well  as  to  the  English  Government,  and  also 
draughtsman  of  the  important  Acts.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Loan  Office,  and  had 
charge  of  the  building  of  the  new  historic  State  House  at  Philadelphia,  for  which 
he  furnished  the  designs. 

The  address  of  Andrew  Hamilton  to  the  .Assembly  at  the  close  of  the  session  of 
1739,  when  he  announced  his  retirement  from  that  body,  so  well  illustrates  the 
high  character  and  noble  resolves  of  the  man,  as  well  as  his  appreciation  of  the 
benefits  of  the  form  of  government  enacted  by  William  Penn,  that  we  insert  it 
here  almost  in  its  entirety. 

Gentlemen : 

As  the  service  of  the  Country  should  be  the  only  Motive  to  induce  any  man  to  take  upon 
him  the  Country's  Trust,  which  none  ought  to  assume  who  find  themselves  incapable  of  giving 
such  a  constant  .\ttendance  as  the  nature  of  so  great  Trust  requires;  and  as  you  are  witnesses 
of  the  frequent  Indispositions  of  Body  I  have  so  long  laboured  under,  particularly  during  the 
winter  Season  (the  usual  Time  of  doing  Business  here),  and  being  apprehensive  that,  by 
Reason  of  my  .^ge  and  Infirmities,  which  daily  increase,  I  may  be  unable  to  discharge  the 
Duty  expected  from  a  Member  of  .Assembly:  I  therefore  hope  that  these  Considerations  alone, 
were  there  no  others,  will  appear  to  you  sufficient  to  justify  the  Determination  I  am  come  to, 
of  declining  the  farther  Service  of  the  Province  in  a  Representative  Capacity. 


HAMILTON  521 

As  to  my  Conduct,  it  is  not  for  me  to  condemn  or  commend  it.  Those  who  have  sat  here 
from  time  to  time  during  my  Standing,  and  particularly  these  several  Gentlemen  present,  who 
were  Members  when  I  first  came  into  the  House  (whom  I  now  see  with  Pleasure),  have  the 
Right  to  judge  of  my  Behavior,  and  will  censure  or  approve  it  as  it  has  deserved.  But  what- 
ever that  may  have  been,  I  know  my  own  Intentions,  and  that  I  ever  had  at  Heart  the 
Preservation  of  Liberty,  the  Love  of  which,  as  it  first  drew  me  to,  so  it  constantly  prevailed 
upon  me  to  reside  in,  this  Province,  tho'  to  the  manifest  Prejudice  of  my  Fortune. 

But  (waiving  all  Remarks  of  a  private  Nature,  which  Reflections  of  this  kind  might 
naturally,  and  justly  lead  me  into)  I  would  beg  Leave  to  observe  you,  That  it  is  not  to  the 
Fertility  of  our  Soil,  and  the  Commodiousness  of  our  Rivers,  that  we  ought  chiefly  to  attribute 
the  great  Progress  this  Province  has  made,  within  so  small  a  Compass  of  Years,  in  Improve- 
ments. Wealth,  Trade,  and  Navigation,  and  the  extraordinary  Increase  of  People,  who  have 
been  drawn  thither  from  almost  every  Country  in  Europe;  a  Progress  which  much  more 
ancient  Settlements  on  the  Main  of  America  cannot  at  present  boast  of.  No,  it  is  principally 
and  almost  wholly  owing  to  the  Excellency  of  our  Constiutution,  under  which  we  enjoy  a 
greater  Share  both  of  civil  and  religious  Liberty  than  any  of  our  Neighbours. 

It  is  our  great  Happiness  that  instead  of  trienniel  Assemblies,  a  Privilege  which  several 
other  Colonies  have  long  endeavored  to  obtain,  but  in  vain,  ours  are  annual,  and  for  that 
Reason,  as  well  as  others,  less  liable  to  be  practiced  upon,  or  corrupted,  either,  with  Money 
or  Presents.  We  sit  upon  our  own  Adjournments,  when  we  please,  and  as  long  as  we  think 
necessary,  and  are  not  to  be  sent  a  Packing,  in  the  Middle  of  a  Debate,  and  disabled  from 
representing  our  just  Grievances  to  our  Gracious  Sovereign,  if  there  should  be  Occasion, 
which  has  often  been  the  hard  fate  of  Assemblies  in  other  Places. 

We  have  no  Officers  but  what  are  necessary ;  none  but  what  earn  their  Salaries,  and 
those  generally  are  either  elected  by  the  People  or  appointed  by  their  Representatives. 

Other  Provinces  swarm  with  unnecessary  Officers,  nominated  by  the  Governors,  who 
often  make  it  a  main  Part  of  their  Care  to  Support  these  Officers  (notwithstanding  their 
Oppressions).  At  all  events,  I  hope  it  will  ever  be  the  Wisdom  of  our  Assemblies  to  create 
no  great  Offices  or  Officers,  nor  indeed  any  Officer  at  all,  but  what  is  really  necessary  for  the 
Service  of  the  Country,  and  to  be  sure  to  let  the  People,  or  their  Representatives,  have  at 
least,  a  Share  in  their  Nomination  or  Appointment.  This  will  always  be  a  good  Security 
against  the  mischievious  Influence  of  Men  holding  Places  at  the  Pleasure  of  the  Governor. 

Our  foreign  Trade  and  Shipping  are  free  from  all  Imposts,  except  the  small  Duties  pay- 
able to  his  Majesty  by  the  Statute  Laws  of  Great  Britain.  The  Taxes  which  we  pay  for 
carrying  on  the  Pujjlick  Service  is  inconsiderable;  for  the  sole  Power  of  raising  and  disposing 
of  the  Publick  Money  for  the  support  of  Government  is  lodged  in  the  Assembly,  who  appoint 
their  own  Treasurer,  and  to  them  alone  he  is  accountable.  Other  incidental  Taxes  are 
assessed,  collected  and  applied  by  Persons  annually  chosen  by  the  People  themselves.  Such  is 
our  happy  State  as  to  Civil  Rights.  Nor  are  we  less  happy  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  perfect 
Freedom  as  to  Religion.  By  many  years  Experience,  we  find  that  an  Equality  among  Relig- 
ious Societies,  without  distinguishing  any  one  Sect  with  greater  Privileges  than  another,  is 
the  most  effectual  Method  to  discourage  Hypocrisy,  promote  the  Practice  of  moral  Virtues, 
and  prevent  the  Plagues  and  Mischiefs  that  always  attend  religious  Squabbling. 

This  is  our  Constitution,  and  this  Constitution  was  framed  by  the  wisdom  of  Mr.  Penn, 
the  first  Proprietor  and  Founder  of  the  Province,  whose  Charter  of  Privileges  to  the  Inhabit- 
ants of  Pennsylvania  will  ever  remain  a  Monument  of  his  Benevolence  to  Mankind  and 
reflect  more  lasting  Honour  on  his  Descendants  than  the  largest  Possessions.  In  the  Framing 
of  this  Government,  he  reserved  no  Powers  to  himself  or  his  Heirs  to  oppress  the  People; 
no  Authority  but  what  is  necessary  for  our  Protection,  and  to  hinder  us  from  falling  into 
Anarchy;  and  therefore  (supposing  we  could  persuade  ourselves  that  all  our  Obligations  to 
our  great  Law-giver,  and  his  honourable  Descendants,  were  entirely  cancelled,  yet),  our  own 
Interests  should  oblige  us  carefully  to  support  the  Government  on  its  present  Foundation,  as 
the  only  Means  to  secure  to  ourselves  and  our  Posterity  the  enjoyment  of  those  Privileges, 
and  the  Blessings  flowing  from  such  a  Constitution,  under  which  we  cannot  fail  of  being 
happy  if  the  Fault  be  not  our  own.     *     *     * 

As  this.  Gentlemen,  is  likely  to  be  the  last  Time  I  may  trouble  you  with  anything  in  this 
Place,  I  hope  you  will  the  more  easily  pardon  the  Liberties  I  have  taken;  and  that  you  will 
farther  permit  me  here  to  acknowledge  my  Obligations  to  that  County,  which  has  so  often 
elected  me  for  one  of  their  Representatives ;  and  at  the  same  time  to  assure  you,  that  I  shall 
always  retain  a  grateful  Sense  of  the  great  Confidence  so  long  reposed  in  me,  and  the 
Honour  so  frequently  conferred  upon  me  by  many  successive  Assemblies,  in  calling  me  to 
the  Chair  of  this  honourable  House. 

Strange  though  it  may  appear,  it  would  seem  that  Andrew  Hamilton,  during  a 
portion  of  the  time  that  he  was  serving  as  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of 
Pennsylvania,  was  also  filling  a  like  position  in  the  Assembly  of  the  Three  Lower 
counties,  now  the  State  of  Delaware.  The  Laws  of  Delaware,  printed  by  Franklin, 
1741,  show  that  a  number  of  the  more  elaborate  statutes  bear  the  signature  of 


S22  HAMILTON 

Andrew  Hamilton,  as  Speaker.  Among  them  are  the  Acts  for  Regulating 
Elections ;  for  securing  the  Administration  of  Estates ;  for  the  confirmation  of 
titles  to  lands ;  and  for  establishing  Courts  of  Law  and  Equity.  These  were  all, 
without  doubt,  like  the  important  statutes  on  these  lines  in  Pennsylvania,  drawn 
b)-  Andrew  Hamilton,  and  have  been  cited  as  evidence  of  his  great  ability  by  emi- 
nent lawyers.  A  letter  from  John  French,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  the  Lower 
Counties,  dated  Alarch  15,  1726,  tenders  to  Andrew  Hamilton  the  thanks  of  "The 
Representatives  of  this  Government  in  Assembly"  for  services  "you  have  this 
session  done." 

It  is  mainly  through  the  laws  that  bear  impress  of  his  professional  ability,  that 
we  gain  an  accurate  knowledge  of  Mr.  Hamilton's  eminent  ability  as  a  lawyer,  as 
only  fragmentary  and  traditional  evidences  of  his  professional  attainments  have 
come  down  to  us,  with  the  exception  of  his  celebrated  argument  in  the  Zenger 
Libel  Case,  in  New  York,  which,  says  truly  one  of  his  biographers,  "has  procured 
for  him  a  place,  in  the  History  Of  Liberty,  and  has  been  called  by  Gouverneur 
2kIorris,  the  'Day  Star  of  the  Revolution,"  as  it  unquestionably  awakened  the 
public  mind  throughout  the  Colonies,  to  a  conception  of  the  most  sacred  rights 
as  Citizens  and  as  subjects  of  a  Free  Country." 

John  Peter  Zenger,  whom,  it  is  said,  Andrew  Hamilton  knew,  when  a  resident 
of  Kent  county,  Maryland,  had  gone  to  New  York,  where  he  learned  the  printer's 
trade  with  William  Bradford.  November  5,  1733,  Zenger  started  the  publication 
of  The  Nczv  York  Weekly  Journal.  It  at  once  marked  a  new  era  in  American 
journalism,  as  up  to  that  time  political  discussion  was  unknown  in  American 
newspapers,  and  almost  as  much  so  in  England.  Zenger's  Journal  from  the  first 
was  filled  with  a  series  of  articles  able,  witty,  sarcastic,  and  severely  personal, 
criticising  the  acts  of  officers  of  the  government  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey, 
and  harped  incessantly  on  the  "Liberty  of  the  Press."  The  cry  was  readily  taken 
up  by  the  people  of  both  states  as  well  as  in  other  localities,  even  as  far  south  as 
Charleston,  where  a  paper  of  like  calibre  was  soon  started.  The  columns  of  the 
Journal  were  open  to  all,  and  the  leading  articles  were  doubtless  written  by  Lewis 
Morris,  James  Alexander  and  William  Smith,  the  leaders  of  the  popular  party,  as 
opposed  to  the  "Court  Party"  composed  of  the  adherents  of  Gov.  Cosby  of  New 
York,  between  which  two  factions  an  extraordinarily  bitter  contest  was  being 
waged,  at  the  polls,  in  the  forum  of  public  opinion  and  in  the  halls  of  legislation 
and  government.  On  the  election  of  Morris  as  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Assembly  from  Westchester  county,  Zenger's  paper  was  filled  with  songs,  squibs 
and  articles  exulting  over  the  victory  and  severely  scoring  the  other  party.  When 
a  year  later,  1734,  a  like  rejoicing  over  the  success  of  the  popular  party,  had 
further  incensed  the  Court  Party,  Chief  Justice  DeLancey  charged  the  Grand  Jury 
that  Zenger's  paper  was  inculcating  treason  and  defamation,  and  insisted  on  his 
indictment,  but  they  contented  themselves  with  presenting  the  songs  and  copies  of 
the  papers  to  be  burned  by  the  common  hangman.  A  year  later,  however.  August 
4.  1735.  Zenger  was  brought  to  trial.  Alexander  and  Smith,  who  appeared  as 
Zenger's  counsel,  were  disbarred  by  Chief  Justice  DeLancey.  The  friends  of 
Zenger  then  secured  the  services  of  Andrew  Hamilton,  who  undertook  the  case 
without  fee  or  reward.  Hamilton  admitted  the  publication  of  the  articles  by  his 
client  and  laid  the  whole  .stress  of  his  argument  on  their  non-libelous  character. 
The  Chief  Justice  refusing  to  listen,  Hamilton  turned  to  the  jury  and  declared 


HAMILTON  523 

that,  as  the  court  would  not  hear  him,  the  jury  alone  must  be  judge  of  the  law,  as 
well  as  of  the  facts.  And  then  for  hours  the  great  advocate  held  the  packed 
courtroom  spell-bound,  as  he  made  the  first  pica  ever  heard  in  America  for  the 
freedom  of  the  citicen  and  of  the  press,  from  the  tyranny  of  the  rulers,  and  in 
their  eriticisin  of  their  public  acts.  Despite  the  extremely  bitter  charge  of  the 
Chief  Justice,  the  verdict  of  the  jury  was  "not  guilty,"  and  Zenger  was  borne  away 
in  triumph  on  the  shoulders  of  his  friends.  It  was  the  most  memorable  trial  ever 
held  in  America,  and  established  the  principle  that  in  such  cases  the  jury  must  be 
judges  of  the  law  and  the  evidence,  and  was  therefore  a  grand  victory  for  the 
people.  The  next  day,  when  Hamilton  was  about  to  take  the  boat  for  his  home 
in  Philadelphia,  he  was  followed  to  the  water's  side  by  nearly  the  whole  populace, 
who  hailed  him  as  the  champion  of  popular  liberty,  and  the  corporation  of  New 
York  presented  him  with  the  "freedom  of  the  City"  and  a  gold  box  for  the  seal. 
This  speech  of  Andrew  Hamilton  was  repeatedly  printed  in  England  and  America, 
and  justly  "established  its  author's  fame  as  the  first  lawyer  of  his  time  in  the 
British  Provinces."  "It  may  be  commended  more  for  its  bold  enunciation  of  a 
principle,  than  for  the  accumulation  of  learned  citations  and  for  its  argument  from 
precedents;  but  it  uses  its  authorities  with  masterly  skill,  and  deals  crushing 
blows  to  the  prosecution  and  the  Court."  The  masterly  effort  in  the  interest  of 
personal  liberty  is  more  to  be  commended  from  the  fact  that  it  was  made  entirely 
without  remuneration  or  the  hope  thereof,  and  when  the  author  was  suffering 
from  ill  health. 

Mr.  Hamilton  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Proprietary  family,  from  his  removal 
to  Philadelphia  until  his  death.  In  the  difficulties  with  Lord  Baltimore,  he  was 
particularly  useful,  and  served  in  various  commissions,  to  meet  the  Maryland 
authorities  in  framing  the  Terms  of  Agreement  in  1732,  upon  which  the  case  was 
brought  before  the  Privy  Council,  and  prepated  the  materials  for  the  brief  upon 
which  it  was  finally  submitted  to  the  Court  of  Chancery,  after  his  death.  Chief 
Justice  Langhorne,  of  Bucks  county,  in  a  letter  to  John  Penn,  dated  May  20, 
1737,  says,  "I  am  very  sorry  the  dispute  you  have  with  Lord  Baltimore,  is  not 
likely  to  be  brought  to  an  issue.  *  *  *  Had  Mr.  Hamilton's  advice  been 
strictly  pursued  relating  to  the  disputes  with  the  province  of  Maryland,  I  am  of 
opinion  our  province  would  have  come  off  with  more  credit  and  reputation." 
Andrew  Hamilton  was  held  in  high  consideration  by  his  professional  brethren  in 
the  neighboring  provinces,  where  his  opinion  was  constantly  sought  for.  He 
was  also  consulted  by  different  Provincial  Governors,  and  was  employed  in  the 
courts  of  several  colonies. 

The  first  Philadelphia  home  of  Andrew  Hamilton,  was  the  mansion  on  Chest- 
nut street  near  Third,  where  it  is  said  his  son  Gov.  James  Hamilton  was  born, 
later  owned  and  occupied  by  Israel  Pemberton,  and  during  Washington's  adminis- 
tration occupied  by  Alexander  Hamilton,  as  the  Treasury  Department  of  the 
United  States.  The  "Bush  Hill"  estate,  where  his  later  days  were  spent  and  where 
he  died,  was  granted  to  him  by  William  Penn,  from  a  part  of  the  Manor  of 
Springettsbury.  It  comprised  that  part  of  the  present  city  of  Philadelphia, 
extending  from  Vine  street  to  Fairmount  avenue  and  from  Twelfth  to  Nineteenth. 
Here  he  erected  a  spacious  and  stately  mansion  in  which  he  died,  and  where  his 
son,  the  Governor,  long  exercised  a  magnificent  and  generous  hospitality ;  during 


524  HAMILTOX 

Washington's  administration  it  was  the  residence  of  John  Adams,  \'ice-president 
of  the  United  States. 

He  also  owned  a  great  amount  of  valuable  real  estate  in  the  city,  on  Walnut  and 
Chestnut  streets  and  elsewhere;  considerable  land  in  Xew  Jersey  and  the  lower 
counties,  and  in  Bucks  county.  He  acquired  a  large  estate  in  Lancaster  county,  iin 
which  the  town  plot  of  the  city  of  Lancaster  was  laid  out,  1728. 

Andrew  Hamilton  died  at  Bush  Hill,  August  4,  1741,  and  was  buried  in  the 
family  burial-ground  on  that  estate,  but  upon  its  sale  his  remains,  with  those  of 
other  members  of  the  family,  were  removed  to  a  spacious  mausoleum  in  Christ 
Churchyard,  which  was  closed  upon  the  interment  of  the  last  of  his  name,  about 
1851. 

Andrew  Hamilton  married,  March  6,  1706,  in  Northampton  county,  \'irginia, 
Anne,  widow  of  Joseph  Preeson,  and  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Susanna  (Den- 
wood)  Brown.  She  was  a  lady  of  some  fortune,  and  was  connected  with  many  of 
the  best  families  in  Maryland.    She  died  about  1736. 

Issue  of  Andrezc  and  Anne  (Brozvn-Prccson)  Hamilton: 

James  Hamilton,  Lieut. -Gov.  of  Pa.,  b.  about  1710:  d.  unm.,  .\ug.  14,  1783;  "a  gentleman 
of  great  dignity  and  private  worth — distinguished  for  HberaHty  and  independence:  the 
only  native  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  before  the  Revolution;  and  probably  the  most 
esteemed  of  his  countrymen,  as  well  as  the  Proprietary  Family."  Was  Prothonotary  of 
Phila.,  1733;  member  Colonial  Assembly  for  Lancaster  county,  1734- 1738:  elected  to 
Common  Council  of  Phila.,  1739;  Alderman  and  Associate  Justice  of  the  City  Court, 
1741:  Mayor,  1745;  member  Provincial  Council.  1745-1776;  Deputy  Governor  of  Pa., 
Nov.  22,  1748-Oct.  3,  1754:  and  again,  Nov.  17,  1759-Oct.  31,  1763;  "everybody  pleased 
with  the  appointment,"  says  Watson,  "and  a  dinner  given  him  at  the  Lodge;"  again 
Acting  Governor,  as  President  of  Council  in  1771  and  1773;  President  of  American 
Philosophical  Society  and  of  Board  of  Trustees  of  College  of  Phila.,  and  interested  in 
all  public  enterprises;  he  held  by  deed  of  gift  from  his  father,  the  Lancaster  property, 
which  by  his  will,  dated  March  4,  1776,  and  proved  Sept.  15,  1783,  he  devised,  with  the 
Bush  Hill  estate,  to  his  nephew  William  Hamilton,  Esq.,  of  Phila.,  second  son  of  his 
brother,  Andrew;  to  his  other  nephews  and  their  children  he  bequeathed  his  real 
estate  in  Phila.  and  nearly  10,000  acres  of  land  in  N.  J.;  to  his  nephew,  William  Hamil- 
ton, he  devised  the  "Gold  Box,  which  was  presented  to  my  Honoured  Father  with  the 
Freedom  of  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of  New  York;" 
Andrew  Hamilton,  d.  Phila.,  Sept.,  1747;  of  whom  presently; 

Margaret  Hamilton,  only  dau.,  d.  May  13,  1760;  m.  Feb.  16,  1733-4.  William  Allen,  Chief 
Justice  of  Pa.  Supreme  Court,  1750-74;  he  was  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Budd) 
Allen,  b.  Aug.  5,  1704;  d.  Sept.  6,  1780;  was  among  most  prominent  men  of  the  Province 
and  probably  its  largest  landowner;  elected  to  Common  Council  of  Phila.,  1727;  .Mder- 
man,  1730;  Mayor,  1735;  Recorder,  1741-50;  Judge  of  several  courts;  member  Colonial 
Assembly,  1730-38;  issue: 

John  Allen,  d.  Feb.,  1778;  m.  ."Vpril  6.  1775,  Mary  Johnston,  dau.  of  David  Johnston, 
of  N.  Y.; 

Andrew  Allen,  b.  June,  1740;  d.  March  7,  i82t;  member  Provincial  Council.  1770- 
76;  m.  April  24,  1768.  Sarah,  dau  of  William'and  Mary  (Francis^  Coxe; 

James  .'Mien,  b.  1742;  d.  Sept.  19,  1778;  m.  March  10.  1768,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Francis)   Lawrence; 

William  Allen,  b.  1751;  d.  1838;  unm.; 

Anne  Allen,  m.  May  31,  1766,  John  Penn,  last  Proprietary  Governor  of  Pa.; 

Margaret  Allen,  d.  Oct.  18,  1827;  m.  Aug.  19,  1771.  James  DeLancey,  b.   1732;  d. 
April  8,  1800,  son  of  James  DeLancey,  Chief  Justice  and  Governor  of  New  York. 

Andrew  H.vmiltox,  second  son  of  Andrew  and  Ainie  (  Brown)  Hamilton,  bom 
in  Philadelphia;  died  there  in  September,  1747;  took  up  a  much  less  prominent 
part  in  public  affairs  then  his  father  and  brother.  He  was  a  member  of  Common 
Council  of  the  city  from  October  6,  1741,  to  his  death,  and  filled  the  position  of 
Clerk  of  the  City  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions,  and  Town  Clerk,  and  was  a  charter 


HAMILTON  525 

member  of  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia.  Turning  his  attention  to  mercantile 
pursuits,  his  father  erected  for  him  a  wharf  and  storehouses,  and  he  carried  on  an 
extensive  shipping  and  commission  business,  in  partnership  with  William  Coleman, 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  lived  at  Third  and  Walnut  streets,  where  he  owned 
considerable  property  part  of  which  he  devised  to  his  son,  William :  the  mansion 
house  being  devised  to  his  wife.  He  had  received  by  bequest  from  his  father,  a 
plantation  on  the  west  side  of  the  Schuylkill,  which  became  a  part  of  "The  Wood- 
lands," later  the  elegant  home  of  his  son,  William,  and  also  had  received  five  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  in  Hilltown  township,  Bucks  county,  by  the  will  of  Justice  Jere- 
miah Langhorne,  which,  with  his  wharves  and  storehouses  on  Front  street,  he  de- 
vised to  his  son,  Andrew. 

Andrew  Hamilton  married,  December  24,  1741,  Mary  Till,  born  in  Sussex 
county,  on  Delaware,  1722;  died  October  18,  1803,  at  "The  Woodlands."  She  was 
the  daughter  of  William  Till,  who  removed  from  Sussex  county  to  Philadelphia 
prior  to  1736,  by  his  wife  Mary  Lillingston,  daughter  of  George  Lillingston,  of 
Sussex  county,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Watson,  daughter  of  Luke  Watson,  of  Sussex 
county,  and  stepdaughter  of  Berkly  Codd,  Esq.,  before  referred  to.  John  Till,  the 
father  of  William,  was  a  druggist  of  Watling  street,  London,  who  married,  1693, 
Cassandra,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Cassandra  Newton,  of  the  city  of  Norwich. 

William  Till,  son  of  John  and  Cassandra,  born  in  England  about  1697,  came  to 
America  when  a  young  man,  and  married  at  Christ  Church,  January  7,  1720,  Mary 
Lillingston,  of  Sussex  county,  to  whom  Berkly  Codd,  Esq.  (who  had  married  her 
grandmother,  the  widow  of  Luke  Watson,  Jr.),  conveyed  a  tract  of  land  in  Sussex 
county,  February  3,  1718.  It  is  jiresumed  that  William  Till  and  his  wife  settled 
on  this  land  after  their  marriage.  They  later  acquired  other  large  tracts  of  land 
there.  William  Till  engaged  e.xtensively  in  shipping  business  in  Sussex  county 
and  later  at  Philadelphia.  He  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  Sussex  county,  July 
25,  1726:  was  trustee  of  Loan  Office  there,  1723-32;  commissioned  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  counties  of  New  Castle,  Kent  and  Sussex,  on  the 
Delaware,  October  23,  1736,  having  been  an  Associate  Justice  of  that  court  some- 
time previous  to  that  date.  Made  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania 
in  1743,  and  was  still  filling  that  position  in  1756,  when,  with  others,  he  was  given 
a  Dcdimns  Potcstatiim  to  administer  oaths  to  officials,  April  10,  1756.  He  was 
called  to  Provincial  Council  of  Pennsylvania  in  1741,  and  sat  in  that  body  until  his 
death,  1766.  Entered  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia,  October  2,  1739;  elected 
by  that  body  an  Alderman,  October  6,  1741.  and  in  1742  became  Mayor  of  the 
city.  On  May  9,  1747,  he  was  appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  of  New  Castle,  and 
doubtless  at  that  date  took  up  his  residence  there,  as  December  8,  1748,  he  was 
appointed  Prothonotary  of  the  Courts  of  New  Castle  county,  holding  the  former 
position  and  probably  the  latter  until  his  death.  His  will,  as  William  Till,  of  the 
town  and  county  of  New  Castle,  is  dated  July  16,  1761,  and  was  proved  May  8, 
1766;  it  devised  his  house,  stores,  lot  of  ground  and  wharf  on  Water  street,  Phila- 
delphia, then  in  the  tenure  of  Samuel  Smith,  to  his  wife,  and  after  her  decease  to 
his  daughter,  Mary  Hamilton,  until  his  grandson.  William  Hamilton,  should  attain 
his  majority,  when  the  title  was  to  vest  in  him.  It  confirmed  to  his  daughter,  the 
houses  and  buildings  erected  by  him  on  the  lot  in  Philadelphia,  where  Mrs.  Hamil- 
ton was  then  residing,  devised  to  her  by  her  husband.  He  left  various  legacies  to 
othe'r  grandchildren,  making  his  wife,  Mary  Till,  his  daughter,  j\Iary  Hamilton, 


526  HAMILTON 

and  his  grandson,  Andrew  Hamilton,  executors.  His  only  other  child  was  Thomas 
Till,  who  married  Gertrude  Ross,  of  New  Castle  county,  1752;  resided  at  Prime 
Hook,  Sussex  county,  and  was  a  Justice,  and  a  Captain  in  the  Provincial  service ; 
left  issue. 

Issue  of  Andrew  and  Mary  (Till)  Hamilton: 

Andrew  Hamilton,  b.  Jan.  12,  174^-3;  d.  Nov.  22.  1784:  m.  Jan.  6,  1768,  .\bigail  Franks: 
of  whom  presently; 

William  Hamilton,  b.  April  29,  1745:  d.  June  5,  1813;  unm. ;  inherited  from  his  father  a 
large  plantation  on  west  side  the  Schuylkill,  where  he  built  his  home,  "The  Wood- 
lands." among  finest  and  most  noted  seats  in  the  Province ;  the  grounds  and  gardens, 
planted  with  foreign  and  rare  trees  collected  from  all  parts  of  the  globe,  were  entered 
by  a  gateway  flanked  by  imposing  lodges:  the  luscious  fruits  and  exquisite  flowers, 
selected  with  the  greatest  care  and  taste,  attracted  the  attention  of  the  cultivated  people 
of  the  whole  country,  many  of  whom  were  entertained  there ;  he  was  a  noted  collector 
of  pictures,  in  which  he  was  assisted  by  Benjamin  West,  and  many  rare,  valuable  and 
tasteful  works  of  art  found  a  place  on  the  walls  of  "The  Woodlands:"  here  William 
Hamilton  many  years  led  the  life  of  a  country  gentleman:  at  the  close  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  he  made  a  tour  of  Europe,  and  in  England  his  full  length  portrait  and  that 
of  his  niece  Anne  Hamilton  (later  Mrs.  James  Lyle  ).  was  painted  by  Benjamin  West, and 
is  one  of  the  best  productions  of  that  artist:  in  1797  he  was  elected  member  of  .American 
Philosophical  Society:  in  1805  he  laid  out  the  northern  portion  of  his  land  in  streets 
and  building  lots,  giving  to  the  streets  many  of  the  old  family  names,  none  of  which 
they  now  bear:  Till  street  is  now  Fortieth:  James,  now  Chestnut;  Andrew,  now  Wal- 
nut: Moore,  now  Thirty- fourth ;  Margaret,  now  Thirty-sixth,  and  Mary,  now  Thirty- 
eighth;  he  gave  the  land  on  which  St.  Mary's  Church  was  built:  by  his  will  "The 
Woodlands"  was  devised  to  his  nephew,  James  Hamilton,  who  did  not  long  survive 
him;  it  was  many  years  the  home  of  the  sisters  of  the  latter.  Margaret  and  Mary 
Hamilton,  and  their  nieces;  it  is  now  Woodland  Cemetery,  and  says  Joshua  Francis 
Fisher,  in  his  sketch  of  Andrew  Hamilton.  Sr..  (published  in  the  Pennsylvania  Maga- 
zine, written  in  1868)  "the  present  gloomy  appearance  makes  a  sad  contrast  to  the 
hospitalities  and  gaieties  of  which  it  was  the  scene,  within  the  recollection  of  the  writer." 

Andrew  Hamilton,  eldest  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary  (Till)  Hamilton,  born 
January  12,  1742-3,  died  November  22,  1784.  He  married,  January  6,  1768,  Abi- 
gail Franks,  born  January  6,  1744-5,  died  September  u,  1798;  daughter  of  David 
and  Margaret  (Evans)  Franks,  and  granddaughter  of  Jacob  Franks,  a  merchant 
of  New  York,  born  in  Germany  in  1688.  came  to  New  York  from  London  about 
1705,  in  company  with  ]\Ioses  Levy,  whose  daughter.  Bilhah  Abigail  Levy,  he 
married  in  17 19.  Jacob  Franks  had  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  and  was  a 
Rabbi  of  the  Jewish  Congregation  in  New  York.  His  son  David  Franks,  born 
in  New  York.  September  23.  1720.  married.  Deceinber  17.  1743,  Margaret  Evans, 
born  August  2.  1720.  died  September  28.  1780.  daughter  of  Peter  Evans,  "of  the 
Inner  Temple,  London,  Gentleman,"  Sheriff  of  Philadelphia,  1707-09;  Register- 
General  of  Pennsylvania,  etc.,  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca 
(Axtell)  Moore,  and  sister  of  William  Moore  of  "Moore  Hall,"  of  whom  an 
account  is  given  in  these  volumes. 

Andrew  Hamilton  inherited  from  his  father,  the  wharves,  storehouses  and 
business  properties,  as  well  as  the  old  family  mansion,  but  having  ample  wealth, 
he  probably  did  not  engage  in  trade.  In  his  will,  dated  November  21,  1784.  and 
proved  January  i,  1785.  he  was  styled  "Andrew  Hamilton  of  Philadelphia.  Gcn- 
tleinan."  The  will  devised  the  house  where  he  lived  and  the  houses,  stores,  wharf 
and  lots  of  ground  on  Front  street,  to  his  wife  for  life,  with  his  plate,  householfl 
goods  and  furniture,  and  mentioned  his  children.  .Ann.  Mary,  .\ndrew.  Franks 
and  Rebecca  as  legatees.  His  son  James  having  inherited  amply  under  the  will  of 
his  uncle  William  Hamilton,  was  left  but  a  hundred  guineas. 


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Abigail  Hamilton,  the  widow,  continued  to  reside  in  the  old  mansion  at  Third 
and  Walnut,  but  her  death,  which  occurred  at  "The  Woodlands,"  September  11, 
1798,  is  thus  noted  in  the  Pcmisylvania  Gazette  of  September  12,  1798:  "Died  in 
the  township  of  Blockley,  yesterday,  after  a  lingering  indisposition,  Mrs.  Ham- 
ilton, relict  of  the  late  Andrew  Hamilton,  Esq.,  of  Third  street." 
Issue  of  Andreiv  and  Abigail  (Franks)  Hamilton: — 

Margaret,  b.  Oct.  4,  1768:  d.  Jan.,  1828;  unm. ; 

Ann,  b.  Dec.  16.  1769;  d.  Aug.  12.  1798;  m.  Oct.  17,  1792,  James  Lyie;  of  whom  presently; 

Mary  Hamilton,  b.  Aug.  i,  1771 ;  d.  April,  1849:  unm.;  last  of  the  name  to  occupy  "The 

Woodlands;" 
James,  b.  July  31,  1774:  d.  July  20,  1817;  unm.; 

Andrew,  b.  Nov.  4,  1776;  d.  at  Bath,  Eng.,  May  16,  1825;  m.  June  11.  1817.  Eliza,  dau.  of 
Rev.  D.  H.  Urquhart;  had  issue; 

Mary  Ann  Hamilton,  m.  Capt.  Septimus  Palairet,  of  British  Army;  their  children 
have  in  their  possession,  the  gold  box  in  which  the  seal  of  the  "Freedom  of 
City  of  N.  Y.,"  was  presented  to  their  distinguished  ancestor.  Andrew  Hamilton, 
in  1735.  for  "his  Learned  and  generous  Defence  of  the  Rights  of  Mankind,  and 
the  Liberty  of  the  Press." 
Franks,  b.  May  22,  1779;  d.  Aug.  14,  1798;  unm.;  buried  at  Christ  Church; 
Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  7.  1783;  d.  Feb.  2,  1842;  m.  Nov.  28,  1809,  Francis  Lewis  O'Bierne,  son 
of  Bishop  of  Meath;  left  issue. 

Ann  Hamilton,  second  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Abigail  (Franks)  Hamilton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  December  16,  1769,  married  there,  October  17,  1792,  James 
Lyle,  born  in  Ireland,  October  25,  1765,  died  in  Philadelphia  August  10,  1826.  He 
was  a  son  of  Hugh  Lyle  of  Coleraine,  Ireland,  by  his  wife  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  (Aderne)  Hyde  of  Belfast,  and  grandson  of  Capt.  Hugh  Lyle 
of  Coleraine,  an  officer  of  Dragocns,  and  his  wife,  Eleanor  Bankhead.  James 
Lyle  came  to  Philadelphia  when  a  young  man,  and,  in  partnership  with  John 
Beauclerc  Newman,  under  firm  name  of  Lyle  &  Newman,  carried  on  a  large  and 
successful  mercantile  business  and  amassed  a  fortune.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  Mr.  Lyle  and  his  two  daughters  resided  at  "The  Woodlands"  with  the 
Misses  Margaret  and  Mary  Hamilton.  He  was  a  member  of  Corporation  of 
Contributors  to  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  His  will,  dated  July  24,  1826,  proved 
August  15,  1826,  devised  his  entire  estate,  in  trust,  for  the  use  of  his  daughters 
and  their  issue. 

Issue  of  James  and  Ann  (Hamilton)  Lyle: — 

Mary  Lyle,  b.  Jan.  22,  ijgd;  d.  Nov.  21,  1829,  in  Phila. ;  m.  Nov.  12,  1818,  Henry  Beckett, 
b.  April  II,  1791;  d.  Sept.  11,  1871;  son  of  Sir  John  Beckett,  by  wife,  Mary  Wilson;  had 
issue : 
Marianna  Beckett,  b.  April  27,  1820;  d.  s.  p.,  May  10,  1849:  m.  July  10.  1839,  Sir  Thomas 

Whichcote,  Baronet; 
James  Beckett,  d.  y. ; 

Hamilton  Beckett,  b.  Oct.  15.  1829;  m.  Dec.  14.  1854.  Hon.  Sophia  Clarence  Copley,  dau. 
of  Baron  Lyndhurst;  issue: 

Henry  Lyndhurst  Beckett,  b.   1857;  d.   1896; 

Constance  Mary  Beckett,  b.  Nov.  11,  1855;  m.  Feb.  11.  1880.  Hon.  Henry  Campbell 
Bruce,  now  Lord  Aberdare. 
EJlen  Lyle,  b.  Oct.  21,  1797;  d.  Feb.  8,  1852;  m.  Dec.  15.  1818.  Hartman  Kuhn.  of  Phila. 
(see  Kuhn). 

George  Martin  Kuhn,  ancestor  of  Philadelphia  family  of  that  name  which 
was  prominent  in  business  and  professional  life  of  the  city  in  Colonial  days,  was  a 


528  HAMILTON 

son  of  John  Kuhn,  magistrate  of  Berwangen.  W'urtemberg,  Germany,  who  died 
before  November  30,  1676.  George  Martin  Kuhn  was  Assistant  Jurat  of  the 
Court  at  Fiirfeld,  a  village  on  the  Neckar,  in  Province  of  Wiirtemberg.  He 
married  at  Fiirfeld.  November  30,  1676,  Barbara,  daughter  of  Frederick  Ponmes, 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  at  Fiirfeld.  .\  son.  John  Christopher,  was  born  to  them 
at  Fiirfeld,  December  16,  1684. 

John  Christopher  Kuhn,  born  at  Fiirfeld,  Wiirtemberg,  December  16,  1684 : 
married  there,  January  31,  1713,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Marx  Reichss,  deceased, 
late  "a  Citizen  of  Sernum,  in  Piertrigan,  in  Grannbeinden,"  as  recited  in  the  mar- 
riage record,  on  the  Register  at  Fiirfeld.  After  1716  John  Christopher  Kuhn 
and  his  family  removed  from  Fiirfeld,  and  in  1719  he  became  a  citizen  of 
Hiitten,  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Strasburg,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until 
1732.  He  received,  April  25,  1732,  from  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Strasburg. 
permission  "to  leave  his  place  and  vassalage  and  go  to  Pennsylvania,  in  America." 
He  with  his  family,  consisting  of  his  wife  Margaret,  son  Adam  Simon,  aged  nine- 
teen, and  daughters,  Eva  Barbara,  aged  thirteen,  and  Anna  Maria,  aged  nine  years, 
embarked  from  Rotterdam  in  the  ship,  "Hope,"  and  arriving  in  Philadelphia,  were 
qualified  August  28.  1733.  Among  the  papers  in  the  possession  of  the  present 
generation  of  the  family  is  a  receipt  for  the  passage  money  on  the  "Hope,"  paid  in 
Holland  before  their  embarkation.  The  family  seem  to  have  located  for  a  time 
in  Germantown,  wdiere  the  eldest  son.  Adam  Simon,  remained  until  after  his 
marriage,  but  the  father  became  a  resident  of  Maiden  Creek  township,  Philadel- 
I)hia,  (now  Berks)  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  in  1754.  He  was  natural- 
ized March  28.  1747,  and  probably  took  up  land  in  Maiden  Creek  at  that  time,  as 
"Kuhn's  Estate"  is  taxed  for  land  there  some  years  later. 

Issue  of  John  Christopher  and  Margaret  (Reichss)  Kuhn: 

Adam  Simon,  b.  Dec.  26.  1-13.  at  Fiirfeld.  Germany;  d.  at  Lancaster.  Pa.,  Jan.  23,  1780; 

m.  Dec.  II,  1740,  .^nna  Maria  Sabina  Schrack;  of  whom  presently; 
Anna  Rosina,  b.  .Aug.  2,  1716,  at  Fiirfeld,  Germany; 
Eva  Barbara,  b.  Aug.  8,  1719,  at  Hiitten; 
Anna  Maria,  b.  Dec.  13,  1722.  at  Hiitten; 
Maria  Margaretha,  b.  Aug.  24,  1725,  at  Hiitten; 
Maria  Catharina,  b.  July  16,  1728,  at  Hiitten; 
Maria  Magdalena.  b.  Dec.  29.  1731,  at  Hiitten. 

Dr.  Ad.\m  Simo.x  Kuiin  was  a  resident  of  Germantown,  1741.  when  his  son 
.A.dam  was  born,  and  had  probably  resided  there  from  the  time  of  his  arrival  in 
America,  1733.  He  removed  to  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  naturalized 
there,  April  8,  1744.  He  was  a  physician,  described  as  "a  man  of  bright  natural 
parts,  improved  by  the  benefits  of  a  liberal  education,  and  was  considered  a  very 
skillful,  attentive  and  successful  practitioner  of  Medicine."  He  was  evidently 
connected  in  some  manner  with  the  military  operations  on  the  frontier  in  the 
Indian  war  of  1754-6,  as  he  writes  to  Edward  Shippen,  E.sq.,  under  date  of 
November  26,  1755,  in  reference  to  powder  and  lead,  "as  our  company  is  in  need 
of  it  at  .^dam  Reed's."  .'\dam  Reed  was  then  Captain  of  a  Lancaster  Company  of 
Associators  and  located  "on  the  Susquehannah."  No  roll  of  this  company  or  of 
the  regiment  is  in  existence.  Dr.  Kuhn  was  probably  Surgeon.  He  was  Chief 
Burgess  of  Lancaster,  1749-53;  was  commossioned  a  Justice  of  Lancaster  County 


HAMILTON  529 

Courts,  1752-61-64-70.  Xamed  as  one  of  the  first  Committee  of  Observation  and 
Correspondence  of  Lancaster  County,  December  15,  1774,  and  a  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  Convention  at  Philadelphia,  January  23,  1775.  He  was  an  elder  of 
Trinity  Lutheran  Church.  Lancaster,  where  there  is  a  tablet  to  his  memory.  He 
was  interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  and  was  the  principal  person,  actively  con- 
cerned in  the  promotion  of  classical  learning  in  his  county  at  that  period.  He 
procured  the  erection  of  a  school  house,  in  which  Greek  and  Latin  were  taught  by 
the  best  qualified  masters.    He  died  January  23,  1780. 

Dr.  Adam  Simon  Kuhn  married,  December  11,  1740,  Anna  Maria  Sabina 
Schrack,  who  was  born  on  the  high  seas,  October  26,  1717,  while  her  parents  were 
on  their  way  to  Pennsylvania,  and  was  baptized  at  Gloria  Dei  (Old  Swedes) 
Church,  Philadelphia,  January  12,  1718. 

John  Jacob  and  Eva  Rosina  Schrack,  parents  of  Mrs.  Kuhn,  came  from  Ger- 
many, 1 7 17,  and  soon  after  settled  in  Providence  township,  on  the  Perkiomen,  in 
what  is  now  Montgomery  county.     Mrs.  Kuhn  died  at  Lancaster,  1799. 
Issue  of  Dr.  Adam  Simon  and  Anna  Maria  Sabina  (Schrack)  Kuhn: 

Adam  Kuhn,  M.  D.,  b.  at  Germantown,  Nov.  17,  1741  ;  d.  July  5,  1817;  m.  May  14,  1780, 
Elizabeth  (Hartman)   Markoe; 

John  Kuhn,  M.  D.,  b.  1746;  d.  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Nov.  24,  1810;  graduated  Univ.  of  Pa., 
1771;  also  graduate  of  Univ.  of  Edinburgh;  Surgeon  Continental  Army;  m.  Sus- 
anna   ; 

Johann  Frederich  Kuhn,  b.  Aug.  24.  1748;  d.  April  2,  1816;  graduated  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1771 ; 
Surgeon  Third  Battalion,  Penna.  Militia,  during  Revolution;  Sheriff  Lancaster  CO., 
1789,  and  Associate  Justice  Court  of  Common  Pleas;  m.  1782,  Sarah  Bethel,  of  Lan- 
caster; 

Daniel  Kuhn,  b.  Nov.  14,  1750;  entered  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1765,  graduated  1769;  was  student 
at  Upsala  Univ.,  Sewden,  1777,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Swedish  Church,  at 
Christianna.  near  Wilmington,  Del.,  but  died  at  London.  Eng.,  without  returning  to  the 
United  States; 

Peter  Kuhn.  b.  1751  ;  d.  Nov.  27,  1826;  graduated  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1768;  member  of  the 
State  of  Schuylkill  Fishing  Company,  1769-1801 ;  merchant  in  Phila.;  resided  corner 
Tenth  and  Arch  streets;  m.  Elizabeth,  b.  1758,  d.  1799,  dau.  of  John  Henry  Keppele; 

Maria  Sabina  Kuhn,  b.  Sept.  18,  1755;  m.  James  Ross,  Esq.,  of  Lancaster; 

John  Jacob  Kuhn,  b.  Oct.  30,  1757;  merchant; 

Hannah  Kuhn,  b.  Nov.  13,  1761; 

Eve  Kuhn,  m.  Swope. 

Dr.  Ad.am  Kuhn,  born  at  Germantown,  November  17,  1741,  was  reared  at 
Lancaster.  He  studied  medicine  under  his  father  until  1761,  when  he  sailed  for 
Europe,  to  take  a  course  at  the  famous  old  LTniversity  of  LIpsala,  Sweden,  where 
he  arrived  in  January,  1762.  He  studied  medicine  and  botany,  under  Linnaeus, 
and  other  professors,  until  July  or  August,  1764,  when  he  proceeded  to  Edinburgh, 
taking  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  -Medicine  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  June  12, 
1767.  He  visited  France,  Holland  and  Germany,  and  in  January,  1768,  returned 
to  Pennsylvania,  and  took  up  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  in 
correspondence  with  Linnaeus,  with  whom  he  appears  to  have  been  a  favorite 
pupil,  during  the  remainder  of  the  life  of  that  famous  naturalist  and  botanist, 
many  of  whose  letters  are  still  in  possession  of  the  family. 

Dr.  Kuhn  soon  rose  to  a  position  of  distinction  among  the  medical  fraternity, 
and  acquired  a  large  and  lucrative  practice.  He  was  appointed  Professor  of 
Materia  Medica  and  Botany  in  the  College  of  Philadelphia,  January,  1768,  and  in 
May,  1775,  elected  one  of  the  physicians  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  a  position 


530  HAMILTON 

he  continued  to  fill  for  a  period  of  twenty-three  years.  He  was  appointed  physi- 
cian at  the  Philadelphia  Dispensary,  at  its  institution  in  1786,  was  one  of  the 
active  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Physicians,  and  succeeding  Dr. 
William  Shippen  as  its  president  at  the  latter's  death  in  July,  1808,  held  the  posi- 
tion until  he  died.  He  married  on  the  Island  of  St.  Croix,  May  14,  1781.  Eliza- 
beth (  Hartman)  ^larkoe,  born  August  20,  1755.  died  February  25,  1791.  widow  of 
Francis  Markoe,  and  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Alargaret  Carrell  (Xanton)  Hartman, 
of  that  island.  Returning  to  Philadelphia,  Dr.  Kuhn  continued  in  his  profession 
until  181 5,  when  he  retired  from  active  practice,  and  died  July  5,  1817.  Dr. 
Kuhn  was  appointed  Professor  of  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  November,  1789.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Philo- 
sophical Society. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Adam  and  Elizahctlt  ( Hartnian-Markoc)  Kuhn: 

H.»,RTMAN  KuHx,  b.  Feb.  4,  1784:  d.  Nov.  6,  i860;  m.  Dec.  15.  1818,  Ellen  Lyle:  of  whom 
presently ; 

Charles  Kuhn,  b.  April  12,  1785;  d.  Sept.  22,  1842;  graduated  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1799;  mer- 
chant; m.  July  28,  1808,  Elizabeth  Hester  Yard; 

William  Kuhn,  b.  June  15,  1789;  d.  June  28,  1789. 

H.\RTM.\N  Kuh.n;,  eldest  son  of  Dr.  .Adam  and  EHzabeth  (Hartman)  Kuhn, 
born  February  4,  1784,  graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  class  of  1800.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of 
the  company  raised  by  Col.  Oement  C.  Biddle,  May  26,  1813,  known  as  the  "State 
Fencibles  ;"  and  became  captain  of  the  same  in  1814-15 ;  was  one  of  the  committee 
appointed  in  181 3  to  prepare  a  pLn  of  defense  for  the  harbor  and  ports  of  the 
river  Delaware.  A  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  a  trustee 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  from  1836  until  his  death,  November  6,  i860. 
He  married,  December  15,  1818,  Ellen,  whose  father,  James  L}Ie,  was  born  in 
Ireland,  October  25,  1765,  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  married,  October 
17,  1792,  Ann,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Abigail  (  Franks)  Hamilton,  of  Philadel- 
phia. Mr.  Lyle  was  a  merchant  and  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Lyle  &  New- 
man. He  had  two  daughters,  Mary,  married  Henry,  son  of  Sir  John  Beckett,  and 
Ellen,  married  Hartman  Kuhn.  Mrs.  Kuhn  was  horn  October  21,  1797.  died 
February  8,  1852. 

Issue  of  Hartman  and  Ellen  (Lyle)  Kuhn: 

Mary,  b.  Oct.  5,  1819;  d.  Nov.  6,  1886;  m.  Feb.  3,  1842,  her  cousin,  Hartman  Kuhn.  son 
of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Hester  (Yard)   Kuhn; 

Charles,  b.  Nov.  2,  1821 ;  d.  Oct.  28,  1899.  in  Paris,  France;  m.  April  13,  1854.  Louisa 
Catherine,  dau.  of  Charles  Francis  Adams;  lawyer;  graduate  Univ.  of  Pa.,  1839;  mem- 
ber American  Philosophical  Society ; 

Ellen,  b.  Aug.  13,  1823;  d.  April  11,  1894;  m.  .\pril  14.  1846.  Manlius  Glendour  Evans; 

Elizabeth,  b.  July  17,  1826;  d.  April  2,  1830; 

Rosalie,  b.  April  23,  1829;  d.  Dec.  20,  1841  ; 

Hartman,  b.  Feb.  22,  1831  ;  d.  in  Rome,  in  consequence  of  a  fall  from  his  horse.  Jan.  21, 
1870;  m.  ."Xpril  6,  1865.  Grace  Morris  Cary; 

Elizabeth,  b.  .^pril  24,  1833;  d.  Oct.  13,  1890;  ni.  July  15,  1856,  George  Calvert  Morris; 

Sophia,  b.  June  5.  '835;  d.  at  Bar  Harbor,  Me.,  Oct.  7,  1885; 

James  Hamilton,  b.  Dec.  2,  1838;  d.  June  30,  1862;  killed  in  action  at  the  battle  of  While 
Oak  Swamp,  at   New  M;irket  Cross  Roads,  \'a. 


WHARTON   FAMILY. 

The  Wharton  Family  is  an  ancient  and  honorable  one  tracing  back  to  the  time  of 
Edward  I,  when  one  of  the  family,  then  known  as  de  Wherton,  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Hastings,  of  Croglin  m  Cumberland.  As  showing  the  association  of 
these  two  ancient  families,  the  arms  of  the  Wharton  family  of  Wharton  Hall, 
Westmoreland,  are  very  similar  to  those  of  the  Hastings  family. 

Thomas  Wharton  held  the  manor  of  Wharton  in  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  and 
the  succeeding  Lords  of  Wharton  Hall  held  the  manor  of  Ravenstonedale  for  one 
hundred  and  eighty-seven  years.  Thomas,  second  Lord  Wharton,  died  in  the 
fourteenth  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign  and  was  succeeded  by  Philip,  third 
Lord  Wharton,  who  was  a  partisan  of  Cromwell.  He  had  a  younger  son,  Henry, 
who  was  a  favorite  pupil  of  Isaac  Newton.  Philip,  fourth  Lord  Wharton,  who 
died  1695-6,  was  made  \'iscount  Winchenden  and  Earl  of  Wharton  and  finally 
Marquis  of  Wharton. 

The  descent  of  the  Pennsylvania  Whartons  from  the  Whartons  of  Wharton 
Hall  has  never  been  traced,  but  Richard  Wharton,  whose  son  Thomas  came  to 
Pennsylvania  in  1683.  was  doubtless  descended  from  one  of  the  younger  sons  of 
one  of  the  Lords  of  Wharton. 

Thom.\s  Wharton,  son  of  Richard  Wharton,  of  Kellorth,  Parish  of  Orton  or 
Overton,  Westmoreland,  was  baptized  at  All  Saints  Church,  Orton,  October  16, 
1664,  He  probably  retained  his  association  with  the  Established  Church  until 
coming  to  America,  but  united  himself  with  the  Society  of  Friends  sometime  prior 
to  his  marriage  at  Bank  Meeting,  Philadelphia,  iimo  (January)  20,  1688-9,  to 
Rachel  Thomas,  born  in  Monmouthshire,  England,  September  i,  1664.  Thomas 
Wharton  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  became  prominently 
identified  with  the  business  interests  of  the  city.  As  a  member  of  Common  Coun- 
cil, October  6,  1713,  he  gave  an  active  attendance  and  interest  in  the  work  of  that 
body  until  his  death,  July  3,  1718.  He  was  a  successful  business  man  and  left  a 
considerable  estate.  He  and  his  wife  were  regular  attendants  at  the  Friends 
Meeting. 

Issue  of  Thoiuas  and  Rachel  (Thomas)  JVIiarton: 

Joseph,  b.  Nov.  21,  1689;  bur.  July  24,  1690; 

Richard,  d.  March  5,  1691 ;  unm.; 

Mary,  b.  1696;  d.  Jan.  10,  1763;  unm.; 

James ; 

Thomas,  m.  (first)  Sept.  12,  1728,  Mary  Curry,  who  d.  1730,  (second)  widow  of  Richard 

Grafton ; 
Rachel,  d.  Aug.  7,  1735;  unm.; 

John,  m.  Nov.  2,  1727,  Mary  Dobbins;  of  whom  presently; 
Joseph,  b.  Aug.  4,   1707;  buried  July  27,   1776;  m.    (first)    Hannah  Carpenter,   (second) 

Hannah  Ogden,  nee  Owen. 

John  Wharton,  seventh  child  of  Thomas  and  Rachel  (Thomas)  Wharton, 
removed  to  the  town  of  Chester,  where  he  followed  the  trade  of  a  saddler  for  a 
number  of  years.    He  served  as  Coroner  of  Chester  county  for  the  years  1730-37. 


532  ]V  HART  OX 

He  married,  November  2,  1727,  Mary,  daughter  of  James  Dobbins,  of  Philadel- 
phia, where  she  was  born  in  1696.     After  the  death  of  her  husband  she  returned 
to  Philadelphia  and  died  there  January  10.  1763. 
Issue  of  John  and  Mary  (Dobbins)  Wharton: 

James,  b.  1732:  buried  May  4,  1785:  was  Sheriff  of  Colony  in  Schuylkill,  1760;  m.  (first) 
Wary  Hogg;   (second)   Christiana  Redd; 

Thomas,  b.  1735;  d.  May  23.  1778;  m.  (first)  Susannah  Lloyd,  (second)  Elizabeth  Fish- 
bourne;  of  whom  presently; 

John,  b.  1737;  d.  Oct.  22,  1799;  m.  June  24.  1751,  Rebecca  Chambless; 

Rachel,  m.  William  Crispin; 

Mary,  m.  Dec.  23,  1788,  Joseph  Baxter. 

Thomas  Wharton  Jr..  first  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  under  the  constitution 
of  1776,  was  second  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Dobbins  )  Wharton,  and  was  born  in 
Chester,  1735.  He  was  probably  educated  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  where  he 
served  his  apprenticeship  to  mercantile  business  with  Reese  Meredith,  a  colonial 
merchant  and  importer.  Soon  after  arriving  at  his  majority,  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  by  1762  had  become  one  of  the  largest  importers  of  foreign 
goods  in  the  city,  as  evidenced  by  the  Custom  House  bonds.  Sometime  after  this 
date  he  became  associated  in  business  with  Anthony  Stocker,  who  died  in  1777, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Stocker  &  Wharton.  He  prospered  in  his  business  under- 
takings, and  became  a  prominent  figure  in  the  business  and  social  circles  of  the 
city  in  the  prosperous  times  prior  to  the  Revolution.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
"Colony  in  Schuylkill"  in  1760.  This  unique  social  organization  was  organized  in 
1732  by  a  company  composed  of  the  ardent  disciples  of  the  piscatorial  art,  who 
erected  their  "castle"  on  the  banks  of  the  Schuylkill  near  the  falls,  where  they 
resorted  to  fish  and  entertain  their  friends.  It  became  known  as  the  "State  in 
Schuylkill"  in  1781,  and  was  later  incorporated  under  the  title  of  "The  Schuylkill 
Fishing  Company  of  the  State  in  Schuylkill."  On  the  passage  of  the  Stamp  Act 
in  1765,  Thomas  Wharton  Jr.  with  his  uncle,  Thomas  Wharton  Sr.,  and  a  number 
of  other  members  of  the  family,  were  among  the  earliest  signers  of  the  Non- 
importation Agreement,  and  from  that  date  he  was  foremost  in  the  protest  against 
the  oppressive  measures  of  the  mother  country.  When  the  news  of  the  closing  of 
the  port  of  Boston  by  the  British  reached  Philadelphia,  he  was  one  of  those  who 
hastily  gathered  in  the  long  room  of  the  City  Tavern,  May  20.  1774,  to  confer  as 
to  measures  of  relief  tor  their  brethren  of  New  England,  and  to  devise  means  of 
uniting  the  Colonies  in  a  common  cause  against  the  oppressive  measures  of  the 
British  Parliament,  by  the  formation  of  an  organization  composed  of  delegates 
from  each  Colony.  This  historic  meeting,  after  hearing  the  Boston  letter  read, 
agreed  "that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  correspond  with  the  representatives  of 
our  sister  Colonies"  thereafter  known  as  the  "Committee  of  Correspondence," 
who  drafted  a  letter  to  the  Boston  Committee,  which  letter  says  Bancroft,  the 
historian,  "for  the  coming  year  was  to  control  the  councils  of  America."  Thomas 
Wharton  Jr.,  June  22,  1774.  with  Joseph  Reed  and  John  Nixon  of  the  committee, 
called  upon  the  Governor  to  convene  the  Assembly,  and  on  his  expected  refusal, 
called  on  the  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  to  request  him  to  summon  the  members  to 
meet,  August  i,  to  consult  upon  public  affairs.  These  measures  were  the  prelimi- 
nary steps  taken  by  the  direct  rcjiresentatives  of  the  patriotic  element  of  the 
coirimunity  towards  taking  into  their  own  hands  the  control  of  affairs  of  state,  on 


WHARTON  533 

failure  of  the  constituted  authority  to  respond  to  their  call.  Thomas  Wharton  Sr. 
and  Thomas  Wharton  Jr.  represented  Philadelphia  in  the  Provincial  Conference 
of  the  representatives  of  the  different  counties  that  met  in  Philadelphia,  July  15, 
1774,  and  Thomas  Wharton  Jr.  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  State  of 
Pennsylvania,  named  by  resolve  of  the  Assembly,  October,  1775,  which  was  the 
governing  body  of  the  State  until  the  constitution  was  framed  by  the  convention  of 
August  and  September,  1776.  He  was  also  one  of  the  Delegates  to  this  conven- 
tion. He  was  also  named  as  one  of  the  Council  of  Safety,  of  which  he  was  first 
president  and  for  five  months  that  intervened  before  the:  election  of  members  of 
Assembly  and  Supreme  Executive  Council,  under  the  constitution,  was  acting 
chief  executive  of  the  State  and  as  such  did  all  in  his  power  to  aid  in  organization 
and  equipment  of  the  militia  that  was  to  aid  Washington  in  the  Jersey  campaign 
of  1776-7,  and  the  preparation  for  the  defense  of  the  City  and  State.  In  February, 
1777,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council,  and  at  its  organ- 
ization, March  4,  1777,  was  elected  its  president  by  the  Council  and  Assembly, 
George  Bryan  being  elected  its  Secretary.  On  March  5,  he  was  installed  into  office 
with  impressive  ceremonies,  as  "His  Excellency,  Thomas  Wharton  Junr.  Esquire, 
President  of  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania, 
Captain  General  and  Commander-in-Chief  in  and  over  the  same." 

That  Gov.  Wharton  fully  realized  the  responsibilities  he  assumed  as  Chief 
Executive  of  the  State  at  this  critical  time,  is  evidenced  by  a  letter  written  by  him 
to  Gen.  Arthur  St.  Clair,  in  reference  to  the  widespread  and  threatening  dissatis- 
faction with  the  provisions  of  the  new  constitution  among  the  people  of  the 
Province,  in  which  he  says:  "True  it  is,  there  are  many  faults  which  I  hope  one 
day  to  see  remedied ;  but  it  is  also  true,  that  if  the  Government  should  at  this 
time  be  overset,  it  would  be  attended  with  the  worst  consequences,  not  only  to  this 
state,  but  to  the  whole  continent  in  the  opposition  we  are  making  to  Great  Britain. 
Ha  better  frame  of  Government  should  be  adopted,  such  an  one  as  would  please 
a  much  greater  majority  than  the  present  one,  I  should  be  very  happy  in  seeing  it 
brought  about ;  and  any  gentleman  that  should  be  thought  by  the  public  qualified 
to  take  my  seat,  should  have  my  hearty  voice  for  it.  My  ardent  ambition  never  led 
me  to  expect  or  ask  for  it,  and  if  I  have  any  it  is  to  be  thought  and  to  merit  the 
character  of  an  honest  man.  I  feel  myself  very  inadequate  to  the  station  I  am  in, 
but  some  that  were  fit  for  it  have  either  withdrawn  themselves  entirely,  or  are 
opposing  the  Government.  However  as  it  is  in  the  power  of  every  man  to  act  with 
integrity  and  uprightness,  he  that  dees  that  will  at  least  have  the  approbation  of  his 
own  conscience  and  merit  that  of  the  public." 

The  lofty  sentiments  modestly  yet  firmly  expressed  in  this  letter,  marked  his 
administration  of  the  high  office  he  held  through  the  most  trying  period  of  the 
nation's  existence,  and  while  mistakes  were  no  doubt  made  in  piloting  the  newly 
launched  and  unwieldly  ship  of  State,  the  verdict  of  posterity  has  been,  that  Gov. 
Wharton  administered  with  honor  and  integrity  the  high  position  of  trust  to  which 
the  voice  of  the  people  of  Pennsylvania  had  called  him.  He  was  re-elected  by  the 
Assembly  and  Council,  in  their  exile  at  Lancaster,  November  20,  1777,  and  con- 
tinued to  fill  the  office  of  Chief  Executive  of  the  State  until  his  sudden  death  in  the 
following  May. 

Never  in  the  history  of  Pennsylvania  has  its  Chief  Executive  been  surrounded 
with  greater  difficulties  than  he  encountered  during  the  winter  of  1777-8.     The 


534  WHARTON 

reverses  met  with  by  the  armed  forces  of  the  nation  at  Brandywine,  German- 
town  and  Paoli ;  the  occupation  of  the  capital  of  the  State  by  the  British  forces; 
the  petty  jealousies,  growing  out  of  class  distinctions,  and  the  difference  of 
views  as  to  the  administration  of  affairs,  and  the  stagnation  of  business  interests, 
dampened  the  enthusiasm  of  the  nation's  defenders  to  an  alarming  extent.  During 
this  period  the  theatre  of  the  nation's  heroic  struggle  for  liberty  was  largely  on 
Pennsylvania  soil,  and  there  was  an  increasing  demand  for  more  troops,  and  with 
only  paper  money  of  doubtful  value  with  which  to  pay  for  their  service,  equip- 
ment and  support,  the  Government  was  met  at  times  with  wholesale  defection  of 
large  bodies  of  local  militia,  disheartened  and  discouraged  by  the  rigors  of  unac- 
customed service,  and  the  dim  hopes  of  ultimate  success  of  our  arms.  During 
these  trying  times  Gov.  Wharton  labored  incessantly  for  the  cause  of  the  Colonies 
to  which  he  had  dedicated  his  best  energies,  always  urging  the  Alilitia  in  defense 
of  their  homes  and  liberties  and  hotly  expressing  his  disgust  and  humiliation  at  any 
show  of  cowardice  on  their  part.  Just  as  his  beloved  state  was  about  to  be  to  some 
extent  relieved  of  the  thraldom  of  a  large  armed  force  of  her  enemies  within  her 
borders  by  the  evacuation  of  Philadelphia  by  the  British  army,  Pres.  Wharton 
was  unexpectedly  stricken  with  death,  and  was  buried  with  civil  and  military 
honors  in  front  of  the  altar  of  Evangelical  Trinity  Church,  Lancaster. 

Gov.  Wharton,  as  before  stated,  had  been  a  successful  business  man  and  had 
acquired  a  considerable  fortune,  which  was  to  some  extent  dissipated  by  the 
ravages  of  the  war  and  his  neglect  of  business  affairs  while  occupied  with  affairs 
of  State.  He  maintained,  prior  to  the  Revolution,  a  city  house  and  a  beautiful 
country  seat  known  as  "Twickenham,"  Cheltenham  township,  now  Montgomery 
county,  where  he  and  his  accomplished  wife  entertained  lavishly.  He  was  twice 
married,  in  both  instances  into  families  of  high  standing  that  had  been  identified 
with  the  affairs  of  Pennsylvania,  from  the  first  founding  of  the  Colony.  His  first 
marriage  on  November  4,  1762,  was  to  Susannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Susanna  (Kearney)  Lloyd,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd,  who  came 
from  Westmoreland  to  Philadelphia  in  1683,  and  was  the  first  Keeper  of  the  Great 
Seal,  Master  of  Rolls,  and  President  of  the  Governor's  Council,  1684-8  and  16903, 
and  therefore  acting  Governor  of  the  Colony  in  the  protracted  absence  of  Penn. 
Susannah  (f.loyd)  Wharton  died  on  the  tenth  anniversary  of  her  marriage, 
November  4,  1772,  and  he  married  (second)  December  7,  1774,  Elizabeth,  born  in 
Philadelphia,  1752,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Tallman)  Fishbourne,  and 
granddaughter  of  William  Fishbourne.  Provincial  Councillor,  1723-31.  and  City- 
Treasurer  1725-6.  William  Fishbourne  Sr.  was  born  in  Talbot  county,  Mary- 
land, being  a  son  of  Ralph  and  Sarah  (Lewis)  Fishbourne,  and  settled  in  Phila- 
delphia prior  to  1700,  where  he  married,  in  1702,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Carpenter,  Provincial  Councillor  and  recipient  of  many  well  merited  honors  from 
his  city  and  Province. 

Issue  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Lloyd)   Wharton: 

Lloyd,  b.  1764;  d.  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Feb.  16,  1799;  m.  Mary  Rogers: 

Ke.^rney,  b.  1766;  d.  Jan.  4,  1848;  m.  Maria  Salter;  of  whom  pre.sently; 

William  Moore,  d.  Aug.  14,  1816;  m.  (first)  Mary  Wain,  (second)  Deborah  Shoemaker; 

Sarah    Morris,   b.    1772:   d.    1836:   m.    (first)    Dr.    Benjamin   Tallman,    (second)    Samuel 

Courtauld; 
Susannah,  d.  inf.,  Feb.  2,  T773. 


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Issue  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Fislibourne)  Wharton: 

Mary,  b.  Sept.  7,  1775;  d.  June,  I799:  imm.; 

Thomas  Fishbourne,  b.  Nov.   10,  1776;  d.  Phila.,  Jan.,  1865;  unm. ; 
William    Fishbourne,  b.   Aug.    10,    1778;   m.    (first)    Susan    Shoemaker,    (second)    her 
sister,  Mary  Ann  Shoemaker. 

Elizabeth  (Fishbourne)  Wharton  returned  to  Philadelphia  after  its  evacuation 
by  the  British  and  died  there  April  24,  1826. 

Kearney  Wharton,  second  son  of  Gov.  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Lloyd) 
Wharton,  born  in  Philadelphia,  1766,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia bar,  but  followed  chiefly  the  business  of  a  merchant.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  Common  Council  of  Philadelphia  and  was  elected  its  presi- 
dent, October  16,  1798.  He  was  one  of  those  who  in  1799  presented  an  address 
to  Common  and  Select  Council  on  the  subject  of  supplying  the  city  with  whole- 
some water,  and  as  President  signed  the  ordinance  providing  for  the  raising  of 
funds  to  accomplish  this  purpose.  He  died  January  4,  1848,  aged  eighty-two  years. 
He  married  at  "Magnolia  Grove,"  her  father's  house  on  the  banks  of  the  Dela- 
ware near  Tacony,  November  11,  1795,  Maria,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Gordon)  Saltar,  who  survived  him  many  years.  She  died  June  16,  1867,  aged 
ninety-two  years.  Both  are  buried  at  Trinity  Church,  Oxford. 
Issue  of  Kearney  and  Maria  (Saltar)  Wharton: 

Thomas  Lloyd,  b.  1799;  d.  1869;  m.  Sarah  Howell  Smith;  of  whom  presently; 

Lloyd,  b.  Feb.  25,  1801 ;  took  surname  of  Bickley  in  1843;  d.  Sept.  17,  1855;  m.  Dec.  23, 

1830,  Margaret  Ann  Howell; 
John  Saltar,  d.  Aug.  10,  1835;  unm.; 
Elizabeth  Saltar,  b.  1803;  m.  Thomas  Morris; 
George  Saltar,  b.  1811 ;  d.  Aug.  7,  1844;  unm.; 
James  Saltar,  b.  1817. 

Thomas  Lloyd  Wharton,  eldest  son  of  Kearney  and  Maria  (Salter)  Wharton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  was  reared  on  his  father's  country  seat  at  Tacony,  where 
he  later  became  owner  of  a  fine  farm.  He  was  prominently  associated  with  the 
Philadelphia  Bank  for  over  forty  years.  He  died  July  27,  1869.  His  wife,  whom 
he  married  June  30,  1840,  was  Sarah  Ann  Howell,  daughter  of  Richard  Rodman 
and  Sarah  (Howell)  Smith,  born  October  11,  1800,  died  March  17,  1846. 
Issue  of  Thomas  Lloyd  and  Sarali  Ann  Howell  (Smith)  Wharton: 

Lucy,  b.  May  13,  1841  ;  m.  April  18,  1865,  Joseph  W.  Drexel;  of  whom  presently; 
Frances,  b.  May  31,  1843;  d.  Jan.  18,  1873;  m.  Brig.  Gen.  Guv  V.  Henry;  issue:  Sarah, 
b.  Nov.  9,  1867;  Thomas  Lloyd,  b.  Oct.,   1872. 

Lucy  Wharton,  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd  and  Sarah  Ann  Howell 
(Smith)  Wharton,  born  May  13,  1841,  married,  April  18,  1865,  Joseph  W.  Drexel, 
of  the  well  known  firm  of  Drexel  &  Company,  bankers.  New  York.  He  was  a 
son  of  Francis  M.  Drexel,  a  native  of  Austria,  who  in  early  life  was  an  artist  and 
portrait  painter.  He  located  for  a  time  in  South  America,  where  he  attracted  the 
attention  of  Gen.  Simon  Bolivar,  the  distinguished  hero  and  patriot  of  South 
American  independence,  whose  portrait  he  painted.  The  firm  as  first  established 
consisted  of  Francis  M.  Drexel  and  his  son  Francis,  but  soon  after  its  establish- 


536  WHARTON 

tnent  two  other  sons,  Anthony  and  Joseph  W.,  were  admitted  to  the  firm.  In  1871 
Joseph  W.  Drexel  was  placed  in  charge  of  a  branch  banking  house  in  Xew  York 
City,  with  which  he  was  associated  actively  for  five  years,  when  he  retired  from  its 
active  management  and  thereafter  devoted  his  attention  to  various  philanthropic 
schemes  for  the  betterment  of  the  condition  of  the  poorer  classes.  One  of  his 
successful  projects  was  the  incorporation  of  Klej  Grange,  upon  a  large  tract  of 
land  in  Maryland,  where  he  induced  poor  families  to  settle  by  keeping  them  with- 
out charge  for  one  year,  and  then  selling  them  the  land  on  easy  payments.  He 
also  owned  a  large  plantation  in  New  Jersey,  known  as  Cedar  Hill  Farm,  where 
hordes  of  unemployed  poor  were  fed  and  clothed  until  remunerative  employment 
could  be  found  for  them  elsewhere.  Many  other  projects  for  the  employment  and 
alleviation  of  the  wants  and  sufferings  of  the  poor  were  carried  into  efifect  by  him 
in  Philadelphia,  New  York  and  elsewhere.  Air.  Drexel  was  a  musician  of  talent 
and  a  patron  of  the  higher  arts.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Philharmonic  Society 
and  its  president  at  the  time  of  his  death  and  member  of  a  number  of  other 
musical  organizations,  and  a  life  member  of  the  Metropolitan  Art  Museum.  For 
many  years  prior  to  his  death  a  musical  quartette  was  entertained  at  his  house 
on  Thursday  of  each  week.    He  died  March  25,  1888. 

Mrs.  Drexel  has  for  several  years  made  her  home  at  Penn  Rhyn.  on  the 
Delaware  river,  part  of  a  plantation  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  known  as 
"Belle  \^oir,"  purchased  by  Abraham  Bickley,  a  native  of  Sussex  county,  England, 
1804,  and  named  by  him  Penn  Rhyn  after  the  home  of  his  ancestors  in  Wales. 
The  old  mansion  house  located  on  the  historic  Bristol  pike,  occupied  by  the  Bickley 
family  for  nearly  a  century,  descended  to  Lloyd  Wharton,  an  uncle  of  Mrs. 
Drexel,  who  thereupon  took  the  name  of  Lloyd  Wharton  Bickley.  After  his 
death,  it  was  occupied  for  some  years  by  his  widow,  at  whose  death  it  passed  to  her 
son.  Dr.  Lloyd  Wharton  Bickley,  who  in  1899  conveyed  it  to  Mrs.  Drexel.  It 
commands  a  fine  view  of  the  Delaware  river  and  the  surrounding  country,  and  is 
now.  as  it  has  been  for  centuries,  the  scene  of  a  generous  hospitality.  Mrs.  Drexel 
has  enlarged  the  house  and  made  extensive  improvements  in  the  grounds.  She 
lives  here  all  the  year,  making  occasional  visits  to  her  Philadelphia  house. 
Issue  of  Joseph  W.  and  Lucy  (Wharton)  Drexel: 

Katharine  Drexel,  b.  Feb.  15.  1866;  m.  Nov.  11.  1892.  Charles  B.  Penrose,  of  Phila..  and 
had  issue : 

Sarah  H.  Boies  Penrose,  b.  June  25.  1806; 
Boies  Penrose,  Jr..  b.  Nov.  20.  1O02. 
Lucy  Wharton   Drexel,  b.   April  6,   1867;  m.   Eric  B.   Dahlgren,  of  Washington.  D.   C, 
and  had  issue: 

Lucy  Wharton  Dahlgren,  b.  Nov.  10,  1891 ; 
Madilen  Dahlgren,  b.  Dec.  19,  1892; 
Katharine  Dahlgren,  b.  March  20,  1894; 
Ulrica  Dahlgren.  b.  July  31,  1895; 
Ulza  Dahlgren,  b.  Feb.  19,  1898; 
Eric  B.  Dahlgren,  Jr.,  b.  .April  24,  1900; 
Joseph  Drexel  Dahlgren.  b.  Jan.  24,  1903; 
Eva  Dahlgren,  b.  April  19,  1904. 
Elizabeth   Drexel,  b.   April   25.    1868;   m.    (first)    June  29,    1889,  John    \'.    Dahlgren,   of 
Washington,  D.  C,  who  d.  Aug.,   1898:   (second)    Harry  Symes  Lehr.  of   Baltimore, 
Md.;  by  her  first  husband  she  had  one  son, 
John  V.  Dahlgren,  Jr.,  b.  June  21,  1892. 
Josephine  Drexel,  b.  Oct.  19,  1878;  ni.  Feb.  9.  1904.  Dr.  John  Dunc.ui  Hmnict.  of  X.  V. 


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WiLLixVM  FiSHEouRNE  Wharton,  youngest  child  of  Pres.  Thomas  \Vharton 
by  second  marriage  with  Elizabeth  Fishbourne,  was  born  August  lo,  1778,  nearly 
three  months  after  the  decease  of  his  distinguished  father,  at  Lancaster.  His 
mother  having  returned  to  Philadelphia  after  its  evacuation  by  the  British,  he  was 
reared  in  that  city,  and  spent  his  whole  life  there:  died  in  December  of  1846, 
aged  sixty-eight  years. 

He  married  (first)  May  10,  1804,  Susan  Shoemaker,  who  died  November  3, 
1821  ;  married  (second)  January  20,  1832,  her  sister,  Mary  Ann  Shoemaker,  who 
survived  him,  dying  November  4,  1858. 

Issue  of  IViUiam  and  Susan  (Shoemaker)  Wharton: 

Thomas,  b.  May  4,  1805;  d.  March  7,  1830;  unm.; 

George  Mifflin,  b.  Dec.  26,  1806;  ni.  Maria  Markoe;  of  whom  presently; 

Fishbourne,  b.  Feb.  13,  1809,  d.  Jan.  3,  1842:  unm.; 

Henrj',  b.  Dec.  24,  1810,  d.  y.; 

Joseph,  b.  March,  1812;  d.  Aug.  30,  1838;  unm.; 

Deborah,  b.  Feb.  29,  1816;  d.  Dec.  28,  1816: 

William,  b.  Nov.  14,  1817;  d.  y.; 

Edward,  b.  Jan.  5,  1819;  m.  Jane  G.  Shippen; 

Elizabeth  Fishbourne.  b.  Jan.  14,  1821. 

Issue  of  William  Fishbourne  and  Mary  Ann  (Shoemaker)  Wharton: 

Susan,  b.  April  9,  1837; 

Philip  Fishbourne,  b.  April  30,  1841. 

George  Mifflin  Wharton,  second  son  of  William  Fishbourne  and  Susan 
(Shoemaker)  Wharton,  born  December  26,  1806,  entered  the  University  of  Penn 
sylvania,  1820,  graduated  in  class  of  1823.  He  studied  law  and  became  one  of  the 
ablest  practitioners  at  the  Philadelphia  bar.  He  was  Vice-Provost  of  the  Law 
Academy  of  Philadelphia,  1845-55,  ^"^  United  States  District  Attorney  for 
Eastern  District  of  Pennsylvania,  1857-60.  He  was  active  in  all  matters  that 
pertained  to  the  public  welfare  and  took  a  leading  part  in  all  questions  of  the 
day.  He  was  President  of  the  Select  Council  of  the  city,  1856-59.  He  always 
gave  active  support  to  the  cause  of  education,  and  was  for  many  years  one  of  the 
most*" active  members  of  Board  of  Directors  of  Public  Schools,  and  for  some  years 
President  of  Board  of  Control.  He  was  elected  one  of  the  trustees  of  his  alma 
mater,  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1841,  and  served  until  1868.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  in  1840,  and  took  an 
active  interest  in  its  work.  He  died  February  5,  1870.  He  married,  June  4, 
1835,  Maria,  daughter  of  John  and  Hitty  (Cox)  Markoe,  granddaughter  of  Abra- 
ham Markoe,  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Baynton,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Peter  Markoe,  whose  family  emigrated  from  France  to  the  West  Indies  in  1625. 
Maria  (Markoe)  Wharton  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  12,  1873. 
Issue  of  George  Mifflin  and  Maria  (Markoe)  Wharton: 

Ellen  Markoe,  b.  July  15,  1837:  m.  (first)  Robert  Morris,  (second)  George  M.  Dallas; 

of  whom  presently; 
Agnes,  b.   May  31,   1839;   m.  June   5,   i860,   Pemberton   Sydney   Hutchinson;   of  whom 

later; 
Maria,  b.  Nov.  26,  1840;  m.  June  2,  1864,  Thompson  Lennig,  died  at  Munich,  Bavaria, 

1865; 


538  WHARTON 

Hitty  M.,  b.  1842;  m.  (first)  George  Pepper,  (second)   Ernest  Zantzinger; 

Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.   12,  1844;  m.  Thomas  McKean; 

Wilham  Fishboume,  b.  Oct.  23,  1846;  m.  Frances  Fisher; 

Edith,  b.  Aug.  20,  1848;  m.  Dec.  27,  1871,  George  Boker,  son  of  George  H.  Boker; 

George,  b.  Aug.  29,  1850;  m.  Julia  V.  Duncan. 

Ellen  Markoe  Wh.-\rton,  eldest  child  of  George  Mifflin  and  Maria  (Markoe) 
Wharton,  born  July  15,  1837,  married  (first)  January  19,  i860,  Robert  Morris, 
Major,  Sixth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  in  Civil  War,  died  at  Libby 
Prison,  August  13,  1863.  She  married  (second)  October  22,  1867,  George  Mifflin 
Dallas,  son  of  Trevanion  Barlow  and  Jane  (Wilkins)  Dallas,  and  grandson  of 
Hon.  George  Mifflin  Dallas,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  1845-9. 
Issue  of  Robert  and  Ellen  Markoe  (Wharton)  Morris: 

Caroline  Nixon  Morris,  b.  Oct.   13,  i860; 

Marion  Wharton  Morris,  b.  .-Kug.  24,  1862;  m.  .'\pril  20,  1882,  Richard  Norris  Williams, 
and  had  issue : 

Aleandrer  Co.xe  Williams,  b.  April  12,  1883; 

Ellen   Markoe  Wharton   Williams,   b.    March   4,    i88^;   m.   June  20,   1906,   George 
Deardorf  McCreary,  Jr.,  of  Phila. 

Issue  of  George  M.  and  Ellen  Markoe  (Wharton)  Dallas: 

Edith  Wharton  Dallas,  b.  Sept.  6,  1868; 
Trevanion  Borda  Dallas,  b.  Jan.  23.  1870; 
Louise  Dallas,  b.  June,  1872;  d.  Jan..  1873; 
George  Wharton  Dallas,  b.  May  6,  1874. 

Agnes  Wharton,  second  daughter  of  George  Mifflin  and  Maria  (Markoe) 
Wharton,  born  May  31,  1839,  married,  June  5,  1869,  Pemberton  Sydney  Hutchin- 
son, born  February  15,  1836,  at  Cintra,  Portugal,  while  his  father,  Israel  Pem- 
berton Hutchinson,  was  United  States  Consul  to  Portugal.  He  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  1854,  but  left  at  close  of  his  freshman  year.  He  engaged 
in  mercantile  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  later  became  president  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Saving  Fund  Society.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Pennsylvania  Emer- 
gency Regiment,  1862,  and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  Sons  of  the 
Revolution.  His  mother  was  Margaretta,  died  March  25,  1849,  daughter  of 
Charles  Willing  and  Anne  (Emlen)  Hare,  and  granddaughter  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
garet (Willing)  Hare.  Israel  Pemberton  Hutchinson  died  May  9,  1866. 
Issue  of  Pemberton  Sydney  and  Agnes  (Wharton)  Hutchinson: 

Sydney  Pemberton  Hutchinson,  b.  April  27,  1861;  m.  .April  13.  1887,  .Amy,  dau.  of  John 

T.  Lewis,  of  Phila.; 
George  Wharton  Hutchinson,  b.  July  16,  1865;  d.  June  22,  1866: 
Sydney  Emlen  Hutchinson,  b.  Sept.   17,   1866;  m.  Olga  Bates; 
Cintra  Hutchinson,  b.  Jan.  15,  1869; 
Agnes   Wharton   Hutchinson,  b.   Feb.  24,   1870;   m.   .April  27,   1892,  Sanuiel   Liberkiihn 

Shober,  Jr.,  of  Phila.; 
Margaretta  Willing  Hutchinson,  b.  Dec.  13,  1875. 

Samuel  Liherklthn  Shober,  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  26,  1862,  son  of 
Samuel  Liberkiihn  Shober,  of  131 1  Spruce  street,  Philadelphia,  a  prominent  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife,  .\nne  Bond  Cochran,  and  a  grandson  of  Sam- 


WHARTON  539 

uel  Liberkiihn  Shober  Sr.,  also  a  prominent  business  man  of  Philadelphia,  by  his 
wife,  Mary  Anne  Bedford.  Samuel  L.  Shober  Jr.,  Civil  Engineer,  resides  at 
2031  Pine  street,  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Samuel  L.  and  Agnes  Wharton  (Hutchinson)  Shober: 

John  Bedford  Shober,  b.  Aug.  26,  1893; 
Pemberton  Hutchinson  Shober,  b.  Dec.  24,  1894; 
Samuel  Liberkiihn  Shober,  b.  Jan.   13,  1896; 
Annie  Bond  Shober,  b.  June  2,  1898; 
Edward  Wharton  Shober,  b.  Sept.  4,  1899; 
Agnes  Shober,  b.  Sept.  18,  1901; 
Edith  Shober,  b.  May  21,  1904; 
Elizabeth  Shober,  b.  July  30,  1905. 

James  Wharton,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Dobbins)  Wharton,  and 
grandson  of  Thomas  Wharton,  pioneer  of  family  in  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  1732,  and  was  prominent  in  the  business  and  social  life  of  Philadel- 
phia. He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  "Colony  In  Schuylkill,"  and  its 
Sheriff  in  1760.  During  the  Revoh'tionary  War,  he  was  proprietor  of  a  rope  walk, 
and  furnished  most  of  the  cordage  for  the  vessels  of  our  infant  navy  equipped  at 
Philadelphia.  He  was  buried  in  the  Friends  Burying  Ground,  May  4,  1785.  He 
married  (first)  November  2,  1754,  Mary,  daughter  of  Peregrine  Hogg,  who  lived  for 
a  time  in  Philadelphia,  but  later  was  a  merchant  of  London,  England,  by  his  wife, 
Mary,  daughter  of  George  Fitzwater,  who  came  to  Philadelphia  in  1682  from 
Handworth,  Middlesex,  England,  with  his  parents,  Thomas  and  Mary  Fitzwater, 
and  became  a  prominent  merchant  and  magistrate.  James  Wharton  married 
(second)  September  14,  1773,  Christiana  Redd;  his  first  wife,  Mary  Hogg,  died 
April  13,  1772,  aged  thirty-five  years.  He  also  survived  his  second  wife,  and  left 
seven  children,  all  except  one  by  the  first  wife. 
Issue  of  James  and  Mary  (Hogg)  Wharton: 

Reynold  Wharton,  prominent  ship  builder  of  Phila.  and  Burlington,  N.  J.;  m.  May  27, 

1782,  Beulah  Burr,  of  Burlington; 
James; 

Rebecca,  b.  1761 ;  d.  Aug.  31,  1807;  unm.; 

Peregrine  Hogg,  b.  Feb.  14,  1765;  m.  Jane  Brown;  of  whom  presently; 
George,  m.  Mary  Doughty; 
Morris. 

Issue  of  James  and  Christiana  (Redd)  Wliartoii: 

Deborah  Claypoole  Wharton,  m.  May  7,  1795,  Isaac  H.  Jackson. 

Peregrine  Hogg  Wharton,  third  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Hogg)  Wharton, 
born  February  14,  1765,  died  May  27,  181 1;  married  Jane,  born  May  17,  1776, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Brown,  and  had  issue : 

Anthony  Morris  Wharton,  b.  June  19,  1794; 
Peregrine  Wharton,  b.  Dec.  2,  1795;  d.  Dec.  7,  1795; 
William  Wharton,  b.  Nov.  13,  1796; 
Frederick  Augustus,  b.  Aug.  13,  1798; 
Henry,  b.  Sept.  4,  1800;  d.  Nov.  5,  1804; 


540  WHARTON 

Lewis,  b.  Oct.  24,  1802; 

Mary  Ann,  b.  Aug.  17,  1804;  m.  Samuel  Powel  Griffiths; 

Clementine,  b.  Oct.  26,  1806;  d.  May  I,  1810: 

Chambloss,  b.  Dec.  16,  1808:  d.  Dec.  18,  1808: 

Jane,  b.  Nov.  12,  1809;  d.  inf. 

Mary  Ann  Wh.\rton,  daughter  of  Peregrine  Hogg  and  Jane  (Brown)  Whar- 
ton, born  August  17,  1804,  died  December  30,  1876;  married.  October  14,  1824. 
Samuel  Powell  Griffiths,  son  of  Samuel  Powell  Griffiths,  ]\I.  D.,  the  distinguished 
Philadelphia  physician,  philanthropist  and  scholar,  and  grandson  of  William 
Griffiths,  (son  of  James  Griffiths,  of  Swansea,  South  Wales)  who  married  Abi- 
gail, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Morris)  Powell,  and  granddaughter  of 
Samuel  and  Abigail  (Wilcox)  Powell,  and  of  Anthony  and  Phoebe  (Guest) 
Morris.  The  wife  of  Dr.  Samuel  Powell  Griffiths,  and  mother  of  Samuel  Powell 
Griffiths,  above  mentioned,  was  Mary  Fishbourne,  the  "Polly  Fishbourne"  of 
"Sally  Wistar's  Journal,"  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  9,  1760,  died  September 
21,  1842,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Tallman)  Fishbourne,  and  grand- 
daughtei  of  William  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Fishbourne,  and  a  sister  to  Eliz- 
abeth Fishbourne,  second  wife  of  Gov.  Thomas  Wharton.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Samuel  Powell  Griffiths  were  therefore  descendants  of  and  connected  with  the 
prominent  families  of  Wharton,  Morris,  Powell,  Xorris,  Shippen,  Carpenter, 
Lloyd,  Fishbourne  and  others,  who  composed  the  distinguished  circle  to  whom 
Philadelphia  was  indebted  for  her  intellectual,  social,  political  and  commercial 
prominence  in  Colonial  days. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Poicell  and  Mary  Ann  (Wharton)  Griffiths: 

Mary  Fishbourne  Griffiths,  b.  Sept.  24,  1825; 

Samuel  Powell  Griffiths,  Jr.,  b.  May  7,  1827;  m.  Eleanor  Bird; 

Wharton  Griffiths,  b.   Nov.  21,  1828;  m.  Frances  L.  Pennington; 

Elizabeth  Brown  Griffiths,  b.  Aug.  24,  1830;  m.  June  19,  1873,  Dr.  Theodore  Herbert; 

William  Fishbourne  Griffiths,  b.  April  18,  1832;  m.  Sarah  F.  Russell; 

Franklin  Peale  Griffiths,  b.  May  26,  1834;  m.  Josephine  L.  Penington.  ■ 

Joseph  Wharton,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Rachel  (Thomas)  Wharton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  August  4,  1707,  was  during  the  active  years  of  his  life  a 
prominent  and  successful  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  but  later  retired  to  his  country 
seat,  "Walnut  Grove,"  district  of  Southwark,  after  his  death  the  scene  of  the 
famous  "Meschianza,"  the  elaborate  spectacular  entertainment  devised  by  Capt. 
Andre,  during  the  occupation  of  the  city  by  the  British  forces.  Joseph  Wharton 
died  at  "Walnut  Grove,"  July  27,  1776.  He  married  (first)  Hannah,  born  Novem- 
ber 23,  1711,  died  July  14,  1751,  daughter  of  John  and  Anne  (Hoskins)  Car- 
penter, and  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  Provincial  Councillor,  Treas- 
urer of  the  Province,  etc.  Joseph  Wharton  married  (second)  Hannah,  widow  of 
John  Ogden,  and  daughter  of  Robert  and  Susanna  (Hudson)  Owen,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Robert  Owen  and  of  William  Hudson,  both  of  whom  were  members 
of  Provincial  Assembly,  and  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  City  and  Province, 
as  shown  by  an  account  of  them  and  their  respective  families  in  this  volume. 
Issue  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Wharton: 

Thom.\s.  b.  Jan.  15.  1730-1 ;  d.  1782;  m.  Rachel  Medcalf;  of  whom  presently; 
Sami'El,  b.  May  3,  1732;  d.  March,  1800;  m.  Sarah  Lewis;  of  whom  a  more  particular 
account  is  given  below ; 


WHARTON  541 

Joseph.  Jr.,  b.  March  21,  1733-4;  d.  Dec.  25,  1816;  m.  Sarah  Tallman;  of  whom  a  more 

particular  record  is  also  given  below ; 
Rachel,  b.  June  7,  1736;  buried  Jan.  6,  1736-7; 
John,  b.  Jan.  17,  1737-8;  d.  1770; 
William,  b.  March  12,  1740;  d.  s.  p.,  Jan.,  1805;  m.  Susannah,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Susannah 

(Hudson)  Metcalf; 
George,  b.  March  13,  1741-2;  buried  March  17,  1741-2; 
Charles,  b.  Jan.  11,  1743-4;  d.  March  15,  1838;  m.   (first)  Jemima  Edwards,   (second) 

Elizabeth  Richardson,  (third)   Hannah  Redwood;  of  whom  and  his  descendants  later. 
Isaac,  b.  Sept.  15,  1745;  d.  March  31,  1808;  m.  Margaret  Rawle ; 
Carpenter,  b.  Aug.  30,  1747;  d.  April  6,  1780;  m.  1771,  Elizabeth  Davis; 
Benjamin,  b.  Feb.  12,  1749-50;  d.  Sept.  8,  1754. 

Issue  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Ozven-Ogden)   IV  hart  on: 

Mary,  b.  April  3,  1755;  m.  May  17,  1786,  William  Sykes ; 

Robert,  b.  Jan.  12,  1757;  d.  March  7,  1834;  m.  Dec.  17,   1787,  Salome,  dau.  of  William 

and  Salome   (Wistar)    Chancellor;  member  State  in  Schuylkill,   1790;   Governor,  Jan. 

23,  1812,  to  Oct.   I,   1828;  member  First  City  Troop,   1798;  Captain,   1803;   Colonel  of 

Phila.  Regiment,  June  14,  1810;   Brig.  Gen.  First  Brigade,  First  Div.,  Penna.  Militia, 

served  in  war  of  1812-14;  ,nember  Common  Council,  Phila.,  1792-95;  Alderman,  179S- 

98;  Mayor  of  Phila.  fifteen  terms,  1798-1824; 
Benjamin,  b.  April  29,  1759;  d.  April  9,  1764; 
James,  b.  Jan.  3,  1761;  d.  Jan.  9,  1761; 
Rachel,  b.  Aug,  27,  1762;  m.   Dec.   13,   1781,  William   Lewis;  their  dau.   Hannah  Owen 

Lewis,  m.  Richard  Wister; 
Hudson,  b.  Feb.  21,  1765;  d.  Aug.  10,  1771; 
Franklin,  b.  July  23,  1767;  d.  N.  Y.,  Sept.  i,  1818,  Colonel-Commandant  of  U.  S.  Marine 

Corps  under  President  Harrison;  m.  Mary  Clifton. 

Joseph  Wharton,  father  of  above  named  children,  was  one  of  original  members 
of  Colony  in  Schuylkill,  1732,  and  of  the  Fishing  Company  of  Fort  St.  Davids, 
1763  (consolidated  with  the  Fishing  Company  of  the  State  in  Schuylkill,  later.) 
He  was  one  of  the  first  contributors  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  1751,  and  was 
one  of  the  signers  of  Provincial  paper  money,  1755-6-7-8. 

Thomas  W-h.\rton,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Wharton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  January  15,  1730-1,  became  a  merchant  of  great  wealth,  and 
exercised  a  large  influence  among  the  prominent,  wealthy  members  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  He  was  a  partner  with  Galloway  and  Goddard  in  establishing  the 
Chronicle,  and  a  man  of  high  intellectual  ability  and  unswerving  devotion  to  the 
principles  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  was  one  of  the  first  signers  of  the  Non- 
importation Agreement,  but  persistently  refused  to  sanction  a  resort  to  arms  in 
defence  of  the  rights  of  the  Colonies,  and  thus  became  one  of  the  first  to  be  placed 
under  suspicion,  as  entertaining  opinions  "inimical  to  the  cause  of  the  Colonies," 
and  with  many  others  was  exiled  to  Virginia  in  1777.  Unbending  in  his  opposi- 
tion to  war,  he  was  prosecuted  as  an  enemy  to  his  country  and  his  large  estate  was 
confiscated.  Prior  to  the  war  he  had  been  a  man  of  large  influence,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  city.  He  was  a  manager  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Hospital,  1762-69;  and  again,  1772-79,  and  its  treasurer,  1769-72.  He  died  in  the 
winter  of  1782. 

Thomas  Wharton  married  Rachel,  born  February  21,  1729-30,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Susanna  (Hudson)  Medcalf,  and  had  issue: 

Hannah,  b.  Sept.  3,  1753:  m.  James  Cowles  Fisher,  who  married  (second)   her  cousin, 
Nancy  Wharton,  dau.  of  Samuel; 


542  WHARTON 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  22,  1755;  m.  May  17,  1780,  Owen  Jones  son  of  Owen  and  Susanna  (Evans) 
Jones,  and  brother  to  Sally  Wistar's  mother,  but  died  soon  after  marriage  without 
issue; 

Rachel,  b.  Nov.  28,  1756;  d.  Nov.  8,  1759; 

Joseph,  b.  1760;  buried  Aug.  I,  1766; 

Jacob,  buried  Dec.  21,  1769; 

Martha,  b.  1764;  d.  1788;  unm.; 

Franklin,  buried  Aug.  I,  1766,  aged  four  months; 

Susannah,  d.  unm.,  June  5,  1786: 

William  Hudson,  buried  Sept.  13.  1781,  aged  ten  years. 

Samuel  \\'h.\rton,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Wharton, 
bom  in  Philadelphia,  May  3,  1732,  was  also  a  prominent  and  influential  merchant 
of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Baynton,  Wharton  &  Morgan, 
one  of  the  largest  commercial  houses  of  Colonial  times.  Mr.  Wharton  was  a 
highly  cultured  scholar  and  polished  gentleman.  He  was  one  of  the  prominent 
members  of  the  Ohio  Company  who  planned  to  settle  the  Northwestern  Territory 
in  1767.  in  which  connection  he  was  closely  associated  with  Dr.  Franklin  and  Sir 
William  Johnson.  He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Non-importation  Agreement 
in  1765,  and  was  always  in  entire  accord  with  the  leading  spirits  in  the  prosecution 
of  the  war  for  independence.  He  was  deputed  by  the  Ohio  Company  to  go  to 
England  and  solicit  the  confirmation  of  the  grant  of  the  Ohio  country,  and  suc- 
ceeded in  obtaining  the  grant,  but  during  his  stay  in  England  his  correspondence 
with  Franklin,  then  in  France,  in  reference  to  the  Revolution,  was  discovered  and 
he  was  forced  to  flee  to  France,  where  he  joined  Franklin  and  remained  for  some 
time.  He  returned  to  Philadelphia  in  1780,  and  February  9,  1781,  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  to  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  member  of  Continental 
Congress,  1782-3,  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  from  May  10,  1784,  to  his  resignation, 
May  13,  1791.  He  died  in  March,  1800.  His  wife  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Rebecca  (Hussey)  Lewis,  and  they  had  issue: 

Stephen,  d.  inf.,  March  24,  1755; 

Samuel  Lewis,  b.  Feb.  14,  1759;  d.  Oct.  27,  1788;  m.  May  30,  1782,  Rachel  McCulloch 

Musgrove,  who  married   (second)   Chambless  .Mien; 
Hannah,  b.  1760;  d.  April  6,  1762: 
Rebecca,  m.  June  7,   1798.  Chambless   .Mien,  and  died  soon  after  marriage;  he  m.  her 

brother's  widow,  Rachel   (Musgrove)   Wharton; 
Martha,  d.  Nov.  3,  1821 ;  m.  Samuel  B.  Shaw; 
Richard,  d.  unm. 

Joseph  Wh.\rtox,  Jr.,  third  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Wharton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  March  21,  1733-4,  was  also  an  active  and  successful  mer- 
chant in  the  days  of  Philadelphia's  commercial  pre-eminence  prior  to  the  war  for 
independence.  He  devoted  much  time  to  literary  pursuits  and  was  a  fine  classical 
scholar  and  linguist,  one  of  the  most  accomplished  Greek  scholars  of  his  day.  The 
obituary  notice  of  him  in  the  Advertiser,  says:  "Few  men  possessed  such  intimate 
acquaintance  with  the  language  and  literature  of  Greece  and  Rome."  In  the  years 
immediately  preceding  the  Revolution  he  spent  some  time  in  England,  and  while 
there  was  a  correspondent  to  the  Pomsylvania  Journal,  over  the  signature  "Wig- 
wam." He  wrote  such  strong  letters  in  the  interest  of  the  Colonies,  which  being 
reproduced  in  the  English  Journals,  were  widely  commented  upon,  and  attracted 


WHARTON  543 

the  attention  of  the  authorities,  who  discovering  their  authorship,  the  King's 
messengers  were  sent  to  arrest  him,  but  through  timely  warning  he  escaped  to 
France,  where  he  spent  some  time  in  the  Society  of  Benjamin  West,  with  whom 
he  enjoyed  an  intimate  acquaintance.  It  was  through  his  soHcitation  that  the 
eminent  artist  presented  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  his  famous  picture  of 
■'Christ  Healing  the  Sick."  He  met  with  heavy  financial  losses  during  the  Revo- 
lution, and  after  its  close  was  compelled  to  close  out  his  business,  and  lived  a 
retired  life  until  his  death,  December  25,  1816.  He  married,  June  18,  1760,  Sarah, 
born  August  25,  1740,  daughter  of  Job  and  Sarah  Tallman,  and  they  had  issue: 

Joseph  Tallman,  b.  July  16,  1761 ;  d.  Dec.  17,  1762; 

Sarah,  b.   Nov.  20,   1763;  d.  Aug    27,    1764; 

Thomas  Parr,  b.  Nov.  18,  1765;  d.  Dec.  3,  1802;  unm. ; 

Hannah,  b.  Nov.  4,  1767;  m.  William  Chancellor; 

Nancy,  b.  Aug.  2,  1769;  d.  1852;  second  wife  of  James  Cowles  Fisher,  whose  first  wife 

was  her  cousin,   Hannah   Wharton ; 
Sarah,  b.  April  23,   1772;  m.  Jan.  29,  1795.  Jonathan  Robeson; 
Martha,  b.  Feb.   18,  1774;  d.  Feb.  24,  1861 ;  unm.; 
Rachel,  b.  Aug.  6,   1775;   d.   Jan.   29,   1784; 
Eliza,  b.  Sept.  18,  1781 ;  d.  April  7,  1869 ;  unm. 

Charles  Wharton,  eighth  child  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Wharton, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  January  11,  1743-4,  though  a  birthright  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  a  regular  attendant  of  their  meetings,  early  identified  him- 
self with  the  cause  of  the  Colonies.  On  November  11,  1775,  he  presented  a  peti- 
tion to  Congress  to  be  appointed  Commissary  of  the  Pennsylvania  Battalion,  then 
being  raised  for  the  campaign  in  New  Jersey,  and  though  taking  no  active  part  in 
the  military  operations,  gave  his  moral  and  financial  support  to  the  cause  through- 
out the  struggle,  taking  the  Oath  of  Allegiance,  July  3,  1778.  He  was  a  successful 
merchant  and  extensive  importer.  He  died  at  his  home,  136  South  Second  street, 
March  15,  1836.  He  married  (first)  at  Christ  Church,  Marsh  12,  1772,  Jemima 
Edwards,  who  was  buried  November  13  same  year,  aged  twenty-one  years.  He 
married  (second)  at  Friends'  Meeting,  October  22,  1778,  Elizabeth  Richardson. 
She  died  May  23,  1782,  aged  thirty  years.  He  married  (third)  at  Friends' 
Meeting,  October  13,  1784,  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  (Holmes) 
Redwood,  born  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  September  25,  1759,  died  at  Phila- 
delphia, April  II,  1769. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Redzvood)  Wharton: 

Joseph,  b.   Aug.   17.   1785 ;   d.  June  27,   1803 ;   unm. ; 

William,  b.   1787;  d.  March  8,   1788; 

Sarah  Redwood,  b.  June  i,  1789;  m.  William  Craig,  Nov.  19,  1808,  d.  June  15,  1837; 

William,  b.  June  27,   1790;  m.  Deborah  Fisher;  d.  Jan.   15.   1856; 

Charles,  b.  Sept.  20,  1792;  m.  Anna  M.  HoUingsworth ;  of  whom  presently; 

Hannah  Redwood,  b.   Nov.   15,   1794;  m.  Thomas  G.  HoUingsworth. 

Charles  Wharton,  son  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Redwood)  Wharton,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  September  20,  1792,  died  May  23,  1864.  He  married,  June  15, 
1815,  Anna  Maria,  born  March  29,  1796,  died  January  24,  1865,  daughter  of  Jehu 
and  Hannah  (Shallcross)  HoUingsworth. 


544  WHARTON 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Anna  Maria  (HoUingsworth)  Wharton: 

Charles,  b.   Feb.  26,   1816;  d.   Dec.   29,    1888;   m.   Mary  McLanahan   Boggs;   of  whom 

presently ; 
Elizabeth,   b.   Feb.    12,   1818;   m.   Charles   Illius; 
Redwood,  b.  June   15,   1821 ;   d.  July   19,   1821 ; 

Anne  Maria,  b.  July  21,  1824;  m.  April  2,  1844,  Patrick  Julius  Bujac; 
Edmund,  b.  May  13,   1831 ;  d.  Dec.  26,  1856;  unm. 

Charles  Wharton,  eldest  son  of  Charles  and  Anna  Maria  (HoUingsworth) 
Wharton,  born  February  26,  1816,  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1829, 
but  left  at  the  close  of  his  sophomore  year.  He  followed  mercantile  pursuits  for  a 
short  time,  but  early  in  life  became  interested  in  the  iron  industry,  having  an 
extensive  interest  in  iron  works  and  mines  in  Cumberland  and  Adams  counties, 
Pennsylvania,  in  both  of  which  counties  he  resided  at  different  periods,  but  later 
returned  to  Philadelphia,  and  resided  at  1495  Locust  street,  where  he  died  Decem- 
ber 29,  1888.  He  took  a  lively  interest  in  political  affairs ;  originally  a  Whig,  he 
became  an  enthusiastic  Republican  at  the  organization  of  that  party,  and  was  an 
ardent  champion  of  the  protection  of  American  industries.  He  married,  January 
18.  1842,  Mary  McLanahan,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  and  Isabella  (Allison)  Boggs, 
of  Greencastle,  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania,  born  January  31,  1820,  died  in 
Philadelphia,  July  10,  1886. 

Issue  of  Charles  and  Mary  McLanahan  (Boggs)   lVI:arton: 

Isabella  Allison   Wharton,  b.  April  28,   1844;  d.   May  22,   1852; 

Anna  HoUingsworth  Wharton,  b.  Dec.  15,  1845;  author  of  ''Colonial  Days  and  Dames," 
"The  Wharton  Family,"  and  a  number  of  delightful  books  bearing  on  the  Colonial 
History  of   Philadelphia   and  vicinity; 

John  Boggs  Wharton,  b.  March   16,   1848 ;  d.  July  6,   1877,  in   Phila. ;  unm. ; 

Mary  Boggs  Wharton,  b.  Dec.  26,  1849 ;  unm. ; 

Harry  Redwood  Wharton,  A.  B.,  A.  M..  M.  D.,  b.  Phila.,  May  23,  1852;  grad.  Univ. 
Pennsylvania,  1873,  and  Med,  Dept.  same  institution,  1876;  physician  and  surgeon; 
Surgeon  Children's  Hospital;  Asst.  Surg.  Univ.  Hospital,  and  Penn.  Institute;  Instruc- 
tor Clinical  Surgery  at  Univ.  Penn.;  Fellow  Coll.  of  Physicians;  member  Phila.,  Penn. 
State  and  American  Medical  associations,  and  Pathological  Society  Phila. ;  member 
Penn.  Society  Sons  of  Revolution ;  author  of  works  on  medical  science,  etc. ;  m.  Edith 
R.    Booth; 

Elizabeth  Johnston  Wharton,  b.  Jan.   15,   1854;  d.  May  16,   1872; 

Charles   Wharton,   b.   Oct.   29,    1855; 

William  Allison  Wharton,  b.  July  19,   1857:   d.  Clifton,   Pa.,  Jan.   18,   1865; 

Edith  Wharton,  b.   Phila.,  Dec.  30,   1858;   d.   Clifton,   Pa.,  Jan.  21,   1865; 

Bromley  Wharton,  b.  Phila.,  June  26,  1864;  entered  service  of  Penn.  R.  R.  Co.,  1882,  re- 
signed 1889  on  account  of  impaired  health,  and  entered  U.  S.  Customs  Service  with 
Appraiser  Port  of  Phila.,  served  as  private  secretary  to  Appraiser,  afterward  as  ex- 
aminer of  merchandise  for  Port  of  Phila. ;  res.  Jan.  I,  1903,  to  become  private  secre- 
tary to  Gov.  Samuel  W.  Pennypacker,  and  at  close  of  whose  term  he  became  agent 
and  chief  clerk  of  Board  of  Public  Charities,  which  position  he  still  holds;  member 
First  Troop,  Phila.  City  Cavalry,  with  which  he  participated  in  suppression  of  riots 
at  Hazelton,  1897,  and  during  coal  miners'  strike  of  1902;  was  lieut.  of  Light  Battery 
C,  Penn.  Vol.  Artillery,  with  which,  and  as  a  member  of  First  Troop,  he  served  in 
the  expedition  against  Porto  Rico,  Spanish-American  War,  1898;  was  recorder  of 
State  Board  of  Pardons,  secretary  of  Penn.  Commission,  Louisiana  Purchase  Expo- 
sition, 1904,  and  of  Jamestown  Exposition  Commission,  1906;  m.  Feb.  25,  1893,  Mary 
Lawrence,  dau.  of  Anthony  and  Caroline  (Johnson)  Taylor,  of  Phila.,  and  had  issue: 
Alice  Taylor  Wharton,  b.   Sept.   23,   1893. 


Colonial  and  Revolutionary  Families 


FRANK  C.  HOSIER 

Frank  C.  Hosier,  prominently  identified  with  the  professional,  progressive, 
industrial  and  business  interests  of  I'ittston,  Pennsylvania,  is  the  son  of  Daniel 
Dimmick  Hosier  and   Elizabeth  Ann    (Ward)    Hosier. 

John  Hoeser,  grandfather  of  Daniel  Dimmick  Hosier  and  great-grandfather 
of  Frank  C.  Hosier,  emigrated  to  America  from  Germany  and  settled  in  North- 
ampton county,  Pennsylvania,  before  the  war  clouds  of  the  Revolution  com- 
menced to  darken  the  political  horizon  of  the  Hother  Country's  American  Col- 
onies on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 

John  Hoeser  enlisted  in  Captain  Abraham  Hiller's  company  of  Colonel  Will- 
iam Thompson's  Battalion  of  Riflemen,  with  Luke  Brodhead  and  others.  (See 
Hatthew's  "History  of  Wayne,  Pike  and  Honroe  Counties,  Pennsylvania,"  p. 
75).  This  battalion  was  originally  made  up  of  ten  companies,  six  from  Penn- 
sylvania, two  from  Virginia,  and  two  from  Haryland.  One  of  the  Virginia  com- 
panies was  under  command  of  Captain  Daniel  Horgan,  who  afterwards  became 
a  major-general  in  the  Continental  army,  and  with  his  riflemen  at  Saratoga, 
helped  compel  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  on  October  17,  1777. 

These  troops  marched  from  northeastern  Pennsylvania  to  Cambridge,  Hassa- 
chusetts,  and  were  the  first  to  salute  George  Washington,  the  young  Virginian, 
under  whom  many  of  them  had  fought  years  before,  on  the  banks  of  the  Honon- 
gahela,  when  Braddock's  army  surrounded  on  every  side  by  savage  red  men, 
would  have  been  slaughtered  entire  on  that  horrid  field  of  blood  and  carnage  but 
for  the  courageous  soldier  whom  God  had  destined  to  again  become  their  leader. 
(See  Washington,  in  "Heroes  of  the  Nations,"  pp.  94-98).  They  were  the  back- 
woodsmen, scouts  and  Indian  fighters  of  the  border,  and  participated  in  the  siege 
of  Boston,  which  was  raised  by  the  British  on  the  morning  of  St.  Patrick's  day, 
1776. 

The  campaign  in  the  East  having  come  to  a  successful  close,  Washington 
marched  his  forces  through  Connecticut  to  Long  Island,  and  soon  the  soil  of  New 
York  became  the  zone  of  military  operations.  While  encamped  on  Long  Island, 
the  term  of  the  enlistment  of  Colonel  Thompson's  Battalion  of  Riflemen  was 
about  to  expire.  General  Washington,  on  April  22,  1776,  addressed  a  letter  to  the 
Continental  Congress,  recommending  that  some  method  be  instituted  to  induce 
the  battalion  of  Col.  Thompson  to  reenlist,  as  the  "loss  of  such  a  valuable  and 
brave  body  of  men  would  be  of  great  injury  to  the  service". 

On  July  I,  1776,  at  Utrecht,  Long  Island,  Col.  Thompson's  command  enlisted 
in  the  Pennsylvania  Line,  and  with  other  Pennsylvania  troops  were  formed  into 
a  division  which  was  the  Old  Guard  of  Washington's  army,  noted  for  its  steadi- 
ness under  fire  and  for  its  invincible  bravery  when  it  swept  across  the  ice  run- 
ning channel  of  the  Delaware  and  surprised  the  Hessians  at  Trenton,  and  then 
onward  to  Princeton,  where  it  again  defeated  the  war  trained  battalions  of 
Briton. 

On  June  28th,   1778,  upon  the  plains  of  Honmouth,  where   Freedom's  cause 


546  MOSIER 

came  near  being  lost  by  Major  General  Charles  Lee,  second  in  command  (who 
was  called  "a  damned  poltroon"  by  the  great  Washington,  and  promptly  relieved 
of  his  sword  in  the  face  of  the  enemy),  Wayne  and  his  brave  Pennsylvanians 
saved  the  army  from  annihilation  and  drove  Lord  Cornwallis  off  the  battle- 
stained  ground.  (See  Spear's  "Life  of  Wayne,"  p.  123).  Hours  before  the 
morning  dawn  of  July  16,  1779,  men  from  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  Penn- 
sylvania, Maryland,  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  followed  the  battle  flag  of 
"Mad  Anthony  Wayne"  up  the  rocky  heights  of  Stony  Point  with  fixed  bayonets 
and  won  another  victory  for  their  intrepid  leader. 

On  September  25th,  1780,  Arnold,  who  had  faced  death  at  Quebec  and  was 
the  bravest  of  the  brave  at  Saratoga,  was  charged  with  trying  to  deliver  up  West 
Point  to  the  British.  Wayne  was  at  that  time  at  Tappan  with  his  brigade  (the 
First  Pennsylvania),  and  General  William  Irvine  with  the  Second  Pennsylvania 
brigade,  was  with  him.  In  the  life  of  Major-General  Anthony  Wayne,  by  Spears, 
(p.  168,  et  seq.),  the  following  appears: 

"It  is  recorded  that  when  Washington  finally  learned  that  Arnold  was  a  traitor,  he  said 
in  a  sad  voice  to  Lafayette,  'Whom  can  we  trust  now?'  But  when  he  came  to  answer 
his  own  question,  he  turned  as  if  by  instinct  to  the  'Pennsylvania  Line.' 

"The  garrison  at  West  Point  had  been  scattered  by  .Arnold,  and  Washington  looked  to 
see  the  British  come  up  the  river  at  any  time  to  sweep  the  Americans  by  force  from  the 
Highlands.  There  was  need  of  men  who  could  come  in  haste,  and  fight  at  the  word.  .-K 
messenger  was  sent  galloping  down  the  trail  to  Tappan.  He  reached  Wayne's  tent  at 
one  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  soon  the  drums  were  beating  the  call  to  arms.  The  men 
of  both  brigades — Wayne's  and  Irvine's — sprang  up.  and  with  muskets  in  hand,  formed 
in  line,  and  when  rations  for  the  daj-  had  been  secured,  they  marched  away  through  the 
night." 

This  shows  the  high  regard  the  immortal  Washington  had  for  the  Pennsylvania 
troops,  who  were  kept  on  the  firing  line  during  the  march  to  Yorktown,  previous 
to  which  battle  Wayne  was  wounded  and  unable  to  lead  his  brave  comrades  when 
they  stormed  the  trenches  and  helped  compel  Lord  Cornwallis  deliver  up  his  sword 
to  the  Great  Commander. 

After  the  close  of  the  campaign  in  Virginia,  three  regiments  and  a  battery 
of  artillery  of  the  Pennsylvania  Line  were  ordered  to  the  southward,  where,  under 
Wayne  at  Sharon,  Georgia,  on  June  24,  1782,  a  large  force  of  British,  Tories 
and  Indians  were  routed  with  great  slaughter.  This  was  the  last  battle  of  the 
Revolution. 

After  driving  out  the  British  invader  and  negotiating  treaties  of  peace  with 
the  Cherokees  and  Creeks,  thus  completing  the  work  begun  with  the  sword, 
Wayne  and  his  division  returned  to  Philadelphia  in  July,  1783.  where  the  rear 
guard  of  the  Revolution  was  received  with  loud  acclaim  and  the  gratitude  of  a 
free    people. 

The  name  of  John  Moeser  is  inscribed  on  the  roll  of  Captain  Miller's  com- 
pany of  Colonel  Thompson's  Battalion  of  Riflemen.  (See  Penna.  Archives,  vol. 
10,  2d  series,  p.  33). 

On  the  roll  of  Captain  Craig's  company  of  the  First  Pennsylvania  Regiment 
of  the  Continental  Line,  the  name  of  John  Moeser  appears.  (See  Penna.  Ar- 
chives,  vol.    10,   2d   series,  p.   335). 

Also  the  name  of  John  Mosier*  appears  on  the  roll  of  Captain  Craig's  com- 


*Indicates  that  all  names  marked  with  this  asterisk  are  taken  from  a  list  in  the  Secretary's 
office  of  soldiers  whose  depreciated  pay  escheated  to  the  state  of  Pennsylvania.  (See 
Penna.    Archives,   vol.    10.   2d   series,   p.    346). 


MOSIER  547 

pany  before  June,  1777;  afterwards  in  Captain  Simpson's  company  of  Colonel 
Edward  Hand's  First  Pennsylvania  Regiment  of  the  Continental  Line.  Hand 
subsequently  became  a  major-general  in  the  Continental  army.  (See  Penna. 
Archives,  vol.    10,  2d  series,  p.  366). 

Colonel  Daniel  Brodhead  was  with  Wayne  in  his  campaigns  in  Georgia  and 
the  Carolinas  in  1781-82-83,  and  commanded  the  First  Pennsylvania  Regiment 
of  the  Continental  Line. 

John  Moeser,  after  his  long  service  in  the  armies  of  his  adopted  country, 
returned  to  his  home  in  Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania,  and,  notwithstand- 
ing his  children  after  his  death  were  ungratefully  deprived  of  the  back  pay  of 
this  soldier  of  the  Revolution  who  fought  under  Washington,  he  left  an  admir- 
able record  for  industry  and  thrift  in  the  archives  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Pennsylvania,  which  show  that  fifty  acres  of  land  were  surveyed  to  him  as 
warrantee  on  January  23,  1785,  and  that  he  also  became  the  owner  of  a  tract  of 
four  hundred  acres,  surveyed  to  him  July  12,  1785.  (See  Penna.  Archives,  vol. 
26,  3d  series,  pp.    130-131). 

John  Mosier,  father  of  Daniel  Dimmick  Mosier  and  grandfather  of  Frank 
C.  Mosier,  was  born  November  10,  1785,  near  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  and  mar- 
ried Sarah  Overfield,  daughter  of  Martin  and  Sarah  (Ott)  Overfield.  Sarah 
(Overfield)    Mosier  was  born  November  22,   1791. 

Paul  Overfield,  grandfather  of  Sarah  (Overfield)  Mosier,  and  maternal 
great-great-grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  born  in  North  Germany  in 
171 5,  and  came  when  a  child  with  his  parents  from  the  fatherland  to  New 
Jersey,  and  subsequently  married  Rebecca  Marshall.  The  following  named  chil- 
dren were  born  to  Paul  Overfield  and  Rebecca  (Marshall)  Overfield:  Abner; 
Benjamin;  Martin,  (married  Elizabeth  Ott);  Sarah,  (married  Lieut.  Moses 
Van  Campen) ;  Rachel,  (married  Joseph  Pennell)  ;  Paul,  (married  Hannah 
DePue)  ;  William:  and  Elizabeth,  (married  Edward  Marshall).  Paul  Overfield, 
great-great-grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  died  in  1800. 

Martin  Overfield,  father  of  Sarah  (Overfield)  Mosier,  and  maternal  great- 
grandfather of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  born  in  1756,  and  married  Sarah  Ott,  who 
was  born  November  24,  1749.  Martin  Overfield  in  the  Revolutionary  struggle 
served  his  country  during  the  years  1780-81-82  in  the  Fifth  Company,  Fifth 
Battalion  of  the  militia  of  Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania.  After  the  sur- 
render of  Lord  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown,  Virginia,  on  October  19,  1881,  and  the 
disbanding  of  Washington's  army  at  Newburg  on  the  Hudson,  Martin  Overfield 
was  mustered  out  of  his  country's  military  service  and  settled  in  the  backwoods 
of  Monroe  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  commenced  to  help  clear  up  the  primeval 
forest  which  shaded  the  Indian  war  path  extending  from  the  banks  of  the  Del- 
aware to  the  Susquehanna. 

Martin  Overfield  died  on  his  farm  in  Middle  Smithfield  township,  on  May 
25,  1821,  and  on  his  tombstone  is  the  following:  "A  soldier  of  the  Revolution 
under   General   Washington". 

Sarah  (Ott)  Overfield,  mother  of  Sarah  (Overfield)  Mosier,  and  maternal 
great-grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  died  February  29,  1848,  and  sleeps  by 
the  side  of  her  husband,  whom  she  survived  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
Hon.  William  Overfield,  son  of  Martin  and  Sarah  (Ott)  Overfield,  became  prom- 
inent in  public  life,  and  represented  Monroe,   Pike  and  Wayne  counties  in  the 


548  M  OSIER 

House  of  Representatives  and  Senate  of  Pennsylvania,  and  filled  other  offices 
with  honor,  for  he  was  a  faithful  and  honest  servant  of  the  people. 

John  Mosier  died  in  Middle  Smithfield  township,  May  7,  1855.  The  land 
on  which  is  located  Sand  Hill  cemetery  was  given  to  the  Church  Cemetery 
Association  by  John  Mosier,  who  is  buried  near  the  little  white  church,  which 
in  summer-time,  with  its  green  sloping  grounds  on  every  side,  can  be  seen  for 
miles  around. 

Sarah  ( Overfield )  Mosier  died  August  14,  1888,  in  the  home  she  had  lived  in 
continuously  for  nearly  four  score  years.  The  ]Mosier  homestead  is  now  occupied 
by  her  son,  Samuel  Overfield  Alosier,  who  bids  fair  to  pass  the  century  mark 
on  the  old  farm  among  the  meadows,  trout  streams,  hills  and  mountains  of  his 
boyhood  days. 

Daniel  Dimmick  AIosier,  son  of  John  Mosier  and  Sarah  (Overfield)  Mo- 
sier, and  father  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  born  in  Middle  Smithfield  township, 
Monroe  county,  Pennsylvania,  August  22,  1816,  and  when  about  sixteen  years 
old  came  to  the  Wyoming  \'alley.  Through  the  influence  of  his  uncle,  Hon.  Will- 
iam Overfield,  canal  commissioner  of  Pennsylvania,  he  obtained  a  position  on 
the  North  Branch  of  the  Pennsylvania  Canal,  which  with  other  internal  improve- 
ments cost  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  more  than  forty-one  millions  of  dollars. 
All  of  this  great  property,  which,  with  its  mighty  franchises,  would  in  time  have 
intermingled  the  waters  of  Lake  Erie,  with  the  Chesapeake,  and  made  this  water- 
way the  grand  highway  of  commerce  between  the  Atlantic  seaboard  and  the 
West,  was  sold  a  few  years  before  the  Civil  War  for  a  few  paltry  millions  by 
trusted  public  servants,  who  left  to  future  generations  in  the  legislative  halls  of 
our  State  the  record  of  a  public  calamity,  one  of  the  greatest  that  ever  befell  the 
people  of  this  Commonwealth. 

Daniel  Dimmick  Mosier  was  employed  by  the  state  on  the  North  Branch  Canal 
a  number  of  years,  which  gave  him  a  good  start  in  life,  for  he  was  enabled  to 
purchase  from  John  M.  Stark  a  large  farm  in  Pittston  township,  from  which 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  tons  of  anthracite  coal  have  been  mined.  This  valu- 
able property  is  still  owned  by  the  Mosier  family,  and  under  lease  with  the  Erie 
Railroad  Company,  successors  of  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Company. 

Daniel  Dimmick  Mosier  was  married.  January  2,  1842,  to  Elizabeth  Ann  Ward, 
of  Bridgeport,  Connecticut.  Elizabeth  Ann  ( Ward )  Mosier,  mother  of  Frank 
C.  ]\Iosier,  was  the  daughter  of  \'ictor  Ward  and  Anna  (Mills)  Ward. 

Thomas  Ward,  paternal  grandfather  of  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier,  and 
maternal  great-grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  of  English  ancestry,  and 
emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Connecticut  previous  to  the  Revolutionary 
war,  and  married  Anna  Wakely.  He  enlisted  in  Captain  Samuel  Wright's  com- 
pany of  Colonel  Samuel  Wyllys"  regiment.  December  2.  1775.  and  took  part  in 
the  siege  of  Boston. 

This  command  was  previously  General  Spencer's,  and  was  reorganized  for 
service  in  1776  as  the  22nd  Connecticut  Regiment  of  the  Continental  Line,  .\fter 
the  evacuation  of  Boston  by  the  British,  it  marched  under  General  Washington 
to  New  York  by  way  of  New  London  and  the  Sound,  and  helped  fortify  New 
York  City.  On  August  24  it  was  ordered  to  the  Brooklyn  front,  and  remained 
there  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Long  Island,  fought  August  27,  and  was  in 
the  retreat  of  the  .\merican  army  across  the  East  River  on  the  evening  of  .\ugust 


MOSIER  549 

29.  At  \Miite  Plains  it  was  in  line  of  battle  on  October  27-28  to  oppose  the 
advance  of  the  British  forces  under  General  William  Howe  against  the  intrenched 
position  of  Washington's  Army.  After  the  retreat  of  the  British  from  White 
Plains,  his  command  remained  encamped  in  the  vicinity  of  Peekskill,  under  Ma- 
jor-General  Heath,  until  the  expiration  of  term  of  service,  December  30,  1776. 
(Record  of  Conn.  Men  in  Revolution,  p.  107).  Thomas  Ward  applied  for  a 
pension  September  28,  1818,  which  was  allowed.  Soldier  died  at  Glastonburg, 
Connecticut,   October   5,    1824.       (Ref. -Hartford   County,   Conn.,    Pension   Roll, 

P-  45)- 

The  date  of  the  death  of  Anna  (Wakely)  Ward,  wife  of  Thomas  Ward,  is 
unknown. 

Victor  Ward,  father  of  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier,  and  grandfather  of 
Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Ward  and  Anna  (Wakely)  Ward,  and 
was  born  in  Trumbull,  Fairfield  county,  Connecticut.  He  married  Anna  Mills, 
daughter  of  Robert  Mills  and  Desire  (Robertson)  Mills,  a  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Robertson. 

Jonathan  Robertson,  maternal  great-grandfather  of  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward) 
Mosier,  and  great-great-grandfather  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  of  Scotch  ances- 
try, and  settled  in  Weston,  Fairfield  county,  Connecticut,  at  an  early  date,  and  on 
April  14,  1759,  enlisted  in  Captain  Samuel  Hubbell's  5th  Company  of  Colonel 
David  Wooster's  3rd  Conn.  Colonial  Regiment.  (See  Conn.  Colonial  Record, 
French-Indian    Wars,    1758-1762,    p.    151). 

His  regiment  took  part  in  the  campaign  of  1759  under  General  Amherst  which 
began  with  the  capture  of  Fort  Ticonderoga  and  closed  with  the  battle  of  Quebec, 
September  13,  1759,  which  was  a  glorious  victory  for  British  arms,  for  it  added 
a  vast  territory  to  the  Mother  Country's  possessions  in  North  America,  and  made 
the  name  of  Wolfe,  who  fell  at  the  head  of  his  troops,  renowned  forever  in  the 
annals  of  Time.  Colonel  Wooster  was  a  fighter,  and  before  the  close  of  the 
Colonial  wars,  became  a  brigadier-general  in  the  English  army,  in  which  he  vali- 
antly served.  During  the  struggle  for  American  liberty  his  sword  was  drawn  on 
the  side  of  the  colonies  in  whose  battles  he  bravely  fought.  Years  afterward 
the  State  of  Connecticut  erected  to  the  memory  of  its  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
soldier  a  colossal  monument  which  perpetuates  the  name  of  one  of  its  patriotic 
sons,  Major-General  David  Wooster,  who  died  in  defense  of  the  soil  of  his  native 
state.  May  2,  1777.  (See  History  of  Danbury,  Conn.,  pp.  85-86).  (Washing- 
ton and  his  Masonic  Compeers,  pp.  315-317). 

Robert  Mills,  maternal  grandfather  of  EHzabeth  (Ward)  Mosier  and  great- 
grandfather of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  was  of  English  ancestry,  and  married  Desire 
Robertson,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Robertson,  of  Weston,  Fairfield  county,  Con- 
necticut. 

Desire  (Robertson)  Mills,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Robertson,  and  grandmother 
of  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier,  survived  her  husband,  Robert  Mills,  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  is  buried  in  Bridgeport,  Connecticut.  Elizabeth  Robertson,  sister 
of  Desire  (Robertson)  Mills,  in  1782,  was  married  to  Thomas  Williams,  who 
came  with  his  father,  Thadeus  Williams,  to  the  Wyoming  Valley,  previous  to 
the  Revolutionary  war.  About  January  i,  1777,  Thomas  Williams  enlisted  in 
Captain  Samuel  Ransom's  2nd  Independent  Company  (recruited  by  authority  of 
the  Continental  Congress  in  the  Wyoming  Valley)   of  Colonel  Durkee's  Fourth 


550  .HOSIER 

Connecticut  Regiment,  which  fought  under  Washington  at  Princeton,  and  upon 
other  battlefields  of  the  Revolution.  Thomas  Williams  became  a  non-commis- 
sioned officer,  was  a  courageous  soldier  and  brave  Indian  fighter.  The  name  of 
Sergeant  Williams  is  often  mentioned  in  the  annals  of  the  Wyoming  \'alley.  He 
died  November  12,  1839,  and  is  buried  in  Hollenback  Cemeterj'. 

In  our  country's  second  conflict  with  Great  Britain,  the  Connecticut  military 
records  show  that  Victor  Ward  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812  and  was  in 
active  service  in  1814,  when  the  towns  bordering  on  Long  Island  Sound  were 
threatened  with  attack  by  a  combined  British  land  and  naval  force. 

Victor  Ward  died  at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  in  the  year  1827. 

Anna  (Mills)  Ward,  mother  of  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier,  died  in  Plains 
township,  Luzerne  county,  in  the  year  1834,  and  was  buried  in  the  Hollenback 
Family  burying  ground.  In  after  years  her  remains  were  removed  to  the  ceme- 
tery founded  by  George  M.  Hollenback,  a  son  of  Matthias  Hollenback,  who  was 
an  ensign  in  Captain  Ransom's  2nd  Independent  Company  of  Colonel  Durkee's 
4th  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  who  returned  to  his  home  in  time  to  take  part  in 
the  battle  of  W'yoming,  fought  July  3,  1778,  and  was  one  of  the  few  survivors  of 
a  butchery  which  has  few  parallels  in  the  annals  of  history.  Colonel  Hollenback 
was  a  Virginian  by  birth.  He  died  in  the  home  of  his  adoption,  Wilkes-Barre, 
Pennsylvania,  February  18,  1829,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  which  bears  his 
honored    name. 

Eliz.\beth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier,  mother  of  Frank  C.  Mosier,  of  Scotch  and 
English  ancestry,  was  born  in  Trumbull,  Fairfield  county,  Connecticut,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1 82 1.  After  the  death  of  her  father  she  came  from  Bridgeport,  Connec- 
ticut, to  Plains  township,  about  the  year  1829,  with  her  mother  and  grandmother. 
Desire  (Robertson)  Mills,  and  became  neighbors  of  her  great-uncle.  Sergeant 
Thomas  Williams,  and  her  mother's  brother,  David  Alills,  formerly  of  Bridge- 
port, Connecticut,  who  was  the  owner  of  a  large  farm  from  which  was  mined 
in  after  years  millions  of  tons  of  coal. 

Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mosier  became  well  acquainted  with  Sergeant  Will- 
iams, who  often  entertained  her  with  stories  of  his  many  fights  with  the  Brit- 
ish Tories  and  Indians.  She  was  a  continuous  resident  of  the  Wyoming  \'alley 
for  more  than  four  score  years.  When  very  young  she  became  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  which  she  always  was  a  faithful  and  charitable 
worker.  In  the  War  for  the  Union,  her  only  brother,  Joseph  S.  Ward,  fought  in 
the  7th  and  12th  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers.  John  Ward,  a  son  of  Joseph 
S.  Ward,  also  served  his  country  in  the  9th  Regiment,  Connecticut  \'oluntecrs. 
Both  survived  the  battles  of  the  Civil  War,  and  after  the  surrender  of  the  .Army 
of  Northern  Virginia  at  Appomattox,  each  returned  to  his  home  in  Bridgeport, 
Connecticut,  and  became  members  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

Daniel  Dimmick  Mosier  died  May  14,  1889,  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Ward)  Mo- 
sier died  March  6,  1909,  and  both  sleep  in  the  Mosier  plot  in  Hollenback  Ceme- 
tery,  Wilkes-Barre,   Pennsylvania. 

The  following  children  were  born  to  Daniel  Dimmick  Mosier  and  Elizabeth 
Ann  (Ward)  Mosier;  Georgia  .Mosier,  (daughter)  born  October  18,  1842,  and 
on  October  31,  1865,  was  married  to  Conrad  Sax  Stark,  who  was  born  .\pril  12. 
1836.  He  was  a  son  of  John  D.  Stark  and  Ann  ( .'^lax  )  Stark.  John  D.  Stark  was 
born  April  26,  1797,  and  was  a  grandson  of  Aaron  Stark,  who  was  slain  in  the 


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battle  of  Wyoming,  July  3,  1778.  John  D.  Stark,  on  February  22,  1828,  wa? 
married  to  Ann  Sax,  who  was  born  February  15,  1803.  Ann  (Sax)  Stark 
was  born  February  15,  1803.     She  died  November  25,  1855. 

John  D.  Stark  became  a  prominent  citizen  of  Pittston  township.  The  last  days 
of  his  life  were  spent  on  his  farm  located  upon  the  banks  of  Spring  Brook,  where 
its  waters  join  the  Lackawanna.  His  life  was  one  of  industry  and  usefulness. 
He  died  June  21,  1862,  and  is  buried  in  the  Stark  Family  plot  in  Marcy  Ceme- 
tery, Luzerne  county,  near  the  Brick  Church,  which  was  erected  in  1853. 

Many  soldiers  of  the  Revolutionary  and  other  wars  repose  in  Marcy  Ceme- 
tery. The  first  interments  therein  were  made  previous  to  the  year  1790.  The 
date  of  the  death  of  Ebenezer  Marcy  is  marked  upon  his  tombstone  as  having 
occurred  March  20,  1790,  at  which  early  time  there  were  more  than  one  hun- 
dred unmarked  graves  in  this  burying  ground.  Marcy  township,  Luzerne  county, 
was  named  after  Ebenezer  Marcy. 

Conrad  S.  Stark  graduated  at  Union  College,  Schenectady,  New  York,  in 
i860.  He  was  offered  and  accepted  a  professorship  in  the  Wyoming  Seminary, 
Kingston,  Pennsylvania,  during  1860-1861,  after  which  he  studied  law  with  Hon. 
W.  G.  Ward  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Luzerne  bar, 
November  30,  1864.  He  died  at  his  home  in  West  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  March 
26,  1880,  in  the  strength  and  vigor  of  manhood,  a  leading  member  of  his  pro- 
fession. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Luzerne  county  bar  held  March  27,  1880,  the  chairman  of 
the  meeting  was  Hon.  Charles  E.  Rice,  now  president  judge  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  Pennsylvania,  who  after  paying  an  eloquent  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
the  deceased,  concluded  as   follows : 

"He  will  be  missed  in  the  profession  by  the  Bar  and  the  Court ;  he  will  be  sadly 
missed  in  the  town  in  which  he  lived,  and  with  whose  varied  interests  he  was  so  fully 
identified ;  he  will  be  missed  in  this  county  by  all  good  men,  and  in  that  home  which  has 
been  so  sadly  bereaved ;  but  notwithstanding  all  this,  we  cannot  but  with  pleasant  emotions 
bear  testimony  to  the  character  and  life  of  a  man,  who  with  humility  yet  with  self-reliance 
and   earnestness,   did   in   his  lifetime   all   that   God   gave   him   to   do." 

Georgia  (Mosier)  Stark  died  in  the  state  of  Florida,  where  she  was  temporarily 
residing,  July  14,  1896.  She  was  a  sincere  friend  and  an  affectionate  sister  and 
mother,  and  was  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her.  Conrad  Sax  Stark  and  Georgia 
(Mosier)   Stark  are  buried  in  Hollenback  Cemetery. 

John  B.  Mosier  (son)  was  born  in  Pittston  township,  August  9,  1844,  on  his 
father's  farm  which  was  cleared  up  by  David  Brown,  shortly  after  the  close  of 
the  Revolutionary  War.  (See  Bigsby's  "History  of  Luzerne  County,"  p.  617; 
Hayden's  "Genealogical  and  Family  History  of  the  Wyoming  and  Lackawanna 
Valleys,   Pennsylvania,"  p.    168). 

John  B.  Mosier  never  married,  was  successful  in  business,  and  accumulated 
a  large  estate.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  September  27,  1889,  he  was  a  Mason, 
and  a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania ;  Pitts- 
ton Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  and  a  Sir  Knight  of  Wyoming  Valley  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania.     He  is  buried  in  Hollenback  Cemetery. 

Frank  C.  Mosier  (son)  was  born  October  8,  1846,  (of  whom  further  men- 
tion is  hereafter  made). 

James   H.   Mosier    (son)    married   Fannie  Field.     He   is  engaged   in   the   real 


552  MOSIER 

estate  and  general  insurance  business,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  belongs  to  Wyoming  Valley  Lodge,  F.  and  A. 
M.,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania;  Pittston  Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  Wyoming  Valley 
Commandery,  K.  T.,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  (of  which  he  is  a  past  eminent  com- 
mander) ;  Lu  Lu  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  (Mystic  Shrine),  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania ;  and  Keystone  Consistory.  S.  P.  R.  S.,  32°  Scranton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, A.  A.  S.  R. 

Helen  Mosier,  his  daughter,  is  a  member  of  Dial  Rock  Chapter,  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  West  Pittston,  Pennsylvania. 

Frank  C.  Mosier's  birthplace  was  in  Pittston  township,  on  his  father's  farm. 
His  boyhood  days  passed  the  same  as  other  boys  brought  up  on  a  farm,  working 
in  the  fields,  fishing  in  the  mountain  streams,  hunting  in  the  nearby  woods,  and 
attending  district  school  in  winter.  During  these  halcyon  days  came  the  Civil 
War,  and  the  rolling  of  drums,  waving  of  flags,  and  marching  of  soldiers  to 
the  front,  inspired  the  heart  of  every  true  patriot  and  lover  of  his  country. 

In  September,  1862,  Lee,  with  a  mighty  host,  came  up  along  the  Blue  Ridge 
from  the  sacred  soil  of  Virginia  in  solid  columns  of  gray,  with  bayonets  flashing 
in  the  autumnal  sun,  the  stars  and  bars  flying,  and  with  martial  bands  playing, 
"Maryland,  My  Maryland",  he  thundered  at  the  southern  gateway  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 

It  was  then  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Hileman's  company,  19th  Regiment,  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers,  and  went  to  the  front,  where,  with  thousands  of  patriotic 
men  under  Major-General  John  F.  Reynolds,  stood  ready  to  repel  the  rebel  inva- 
der if  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  met  with  defeat  upon  the  soil  of  Maryland, 
where  was  fought  the  battle  of  Antietam,  one  of  the  most  sanguinary  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Civil  War. 

Returning  home  from  the  Antietam  campaign,  he  attended  Wyoming  Semin- 
ary, Kingston,  Pennsylvania,  and  subsequently  obtained  a  position  with  the 
Lackawanna  Iron  and  Coal  Company  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
remained  until  he  entered  the  University  of  Michigan.  After  completing  his 
studies  at  Ann  Arbor,  he  became  a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Hon.  Fitz  William 
H.  Chambers,  of  Detroit,  an  ex-member  of  the  Canadian  Parliament,  and  later 
on  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Wayne  county,  Michigan. 

After  being  admitted  to  the  Detroit  bar  he  returned  East  and  studied  law  with 
Conrad  S.  Stark,  Esq.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Luzerne  bar,  February  26,  1874, 
and  still  practices  his  profession  in  the  Federal  Court  and  in  the  Supreme,  Supe- 
rior and  other  courts  of  Pennsylvania. 

On  Wednesday,  March  4,  1891,  Frank  C.  Mosier  was  married,  by  the  Rev. 
John  LaBar,  to  Lydia  Ellen  Stark,  daughter  of  John  M.  Stark  and  Sarah  (David- 
son) Stark,  of  Wyoming,  Pennsylvania. 

Christopher  Stark,  son  of  William  Stark,  and  great-great-great-grandfather  of 
Lydia  (Stark)  Mosier,  came  of  English  ancestry,  and  was  born  at  Groton,  Con- 
necticut, in  1698.  On  April  i,  1722,  he  married  Joanna  Walworth,  of  \ew  Lon- 
don, Connecticut.  He  subsequently  removed  to  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  and 
from  thence,  in  the  year  1772,  to  the  Wyoming  Valley,  where  he  became  an 
extensive  land  owner.  A  number  of  children  were  born  to  Christopher  Stark 
and  Joanna  (Walworth)  Stark,  only  two  of  whom,  James  Stark  and  Aaron 
Stark,   we  make  mention   of  in   this   sketch. 


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HOSIER  55.5 

James  Stark,  son  of  Christopher  Stark,  and  great-great-grandfather  of  Lydia 
(Stark)  Mosier,  was  born  May  22,  1734.  In  1758  he  married  EHzabeth  Carey, 
of  Dutchess  county.  New  York.  James  Stark  enlisted  September  17,  1776,  in 
Captain  Ranson's  2nd  Independent  Company  of  Colonel  John  Durkee's  4th 
Connecticut  Regiment  of  the  Continental  army,  and  fought  under  Washington. 
While  in  his  country's  service  he  contracted  a  disease  which  caused  his  death,  July 
20,   1777. 

His  elder  brother,  Aaron  Stark,  born  November  3,  1732,  was  slain  in  a  mas- 
sacre of  July  3,  1778,  and  his  name,  with  that  of  Daniel  Stark,  is  inscribed  on  the 
Wyoming   Battle   Monument. 

Henry  Stark,  son  of  James  Stark,  and  great-grandfather  of  Lydia  (Stark) 
Mosier,  was  born  April  19,  1762,  and  married  Elizabeth  Kennedy  November  3, 
1791,  and  died  January  22,   1807. 

James  Stark,  son  of  Henry  Stark,  and  grandfather  of  Lydia  (Stark)  Mosier, 
was  born  April  24,  1792,  and  married  Mary  Michael,  of  Monroe  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, April  19,  1819.  James  Stark  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812. 
(See  Hayden's  "Genealogical  and  Family  History  of  the  Wyoming  and  Lacka- 
wanna Valleys,  Pennsylvania,"  vol.  i,  p.  540).  James  Stark  became  one  of  the 
most  prominent  business  men  of  his  time.  He  accumulated  a  large  landed  estate, 
which  represented  hundreds  of  acres  of  anthracite  coal  worth  millions  of  money. 
This  valuable  property  at  his  death  was  devised  to  his  family,  the  children  of 
some  of  whom  still  live  to  enjoy  the  patrimony  of  a  grandparent  who  prospered, 
became  wealthy,  and  left  a  record  for  honesty,  industry  and  thrift  to  his  descend- 
ants, which  is  worthy  of  emulation.  James  Stark  died  February  3,  1856,  and  now 
reposes  in  Hollenback  Cemetery. 

John  M.  Stark,  father  of  Lydia  (Stark)  Mosier,  was  born  in  Plains  township, 
Luzerne  county,  Pennsylvania,  February  23,  1819,  and  on  October  16,  1841,  was 
married  to  Sarah  Davidson,  daughter  of  Morris  Davidson  and  Ann  Davidson, 
both  natives  of  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey.  Ann  Davidson,  mother  of  Sarah 
(Davidson)  Stark,  was  related  to  the  Morgan  family  of  New  Jersey,  one  of 
whose  kinsman  was  General  Daniel  Morgan,  of  Virginia,  a  comrade  in  arms  of 
Washington  in  the   Colonial  and  Revolutionary  Wars. 

John  M.  Stark  was  a  man  of  prominence,  noted  for  his  firmness,  integrity, 
self-reliance  and  industry.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  superintendent  of  one 
of  the  divisions  of  the  North  Branch  of  the  Pennsylvania  Canal.  This  position 
he  resigned  to  accept  a  more  responsible  one  with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Com- 
pany, of  which  corporation  John  B.  Smith,  of  Dunmore,  Pennsylvania,  was  the 
general  manager,  and  between  these  two  men  of  the  old  school  ties  of  friendship 
existed  long  after  John  M.  Stark  retired  from  the  employ  of  the  great  coal  com- 
pany, which  will  always  remain  an  enduring  monument  to  the  management  and 
executive  ability  of  John  B.  Smith,  one  of  the  best  known  pioneer  coal  men  of 
northeastern  Pennsylvania.  (For  Portrait  of  John  M.  Stark,  see  Bradsby's 
"History  of  Luzerne  County,"  p.  335). 

During  John  M.  Stark's  active  life  he  made  careful  investments  in  anthracite 
coal  lands,  and  the  rentals  therefrom  enabled  him  before  his  death  to  make  a 
large  distribution  of  his  property  among  his  children. 

John  M.  Stark  was  proud  of  the  record  of  his  family,  for  a  forefather  fought 
under  Washington  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  name  of  a  kinsman. 


554  M  OSIER 

Aaron  Stark,  is  inscribed  on  the  W'yoming  Battle  Monument,  over  the  immortal 
words:  "Duke  et  deconiiii  est  pro  patria  mori".  (See  Bradsby's  "History  of 
Luzerne  County,"  p.    121). 

During  all  the  wars  of  the  American  Republic,  the  Stark  family  have  main- 
tained a  record  for  patriotism,  not  often  excelled.  General  John  Stark,  of  New 
Hampshire,  a  name  famous  in  the  annals  of  the  Revolution,  commanded  a  bri- 
gade at  Bunker  Hill,  fought  under  \\'ashington  at  Trenton  and  Princeton,  heroic- 
ally led  the  Green  ^Mountain  boys  at  Bennington,  and  achieved  a  substantial  victory 
for  the  American  cause,  came  of  the  same  English  line  of  ancestry  as  the  Stark 
family  of  the  Wyoming  \'alley.  ( See  Hawthorne's  "United  States,"  vol.  2,  pp. 
512-17-22-31,  etc.":  Bradsby's  "History  of  Luzerne  County."  p.  357). 

In  the  armed  conflict  with  Mexico  which  secured  the  acquisition  of  immense 
territory  to  the  American  Union,  his  brother,  George  H.  Stark,  served  as  a  ser- 
geant in  Captain  Ogier's  H  Company,  4th  Regiment  Louisiana  Volunteers,  and 
on  July  29,  1846,  by  order  of  General  Taylor,  was  honorably  discharged  at  Mata- 
moras.     On  July  30,  1846,  he  re-enlisted  and  became  a  non-commissioned  officer 

in  Captain  Blanchard's   (Phoeni.x)   company,  Regiment,  Louisiana  \'olun- 

teers,  and  by  order  of  Major-General  Scott  was  honorably  discharged  at  New 
Orleans,  May  15,  1847.  On  soldier's  discharge  the  following  is  endorsed:  "Said 
G.  H.  Stark  participated  in  the  storming  of  Monterey  and  also  the  bombardment 
of  Vera  Cruz,  and  acquitted  himself  gallantly  in  both  engagements." 

In  the  war  inaugurated  for  the  destruction  of  the  American  L^nion,  his  son, 
George  M.  Stark,  on  August  21,  1862,  enlisted  in  Schooley's  Independent  Bat- 
tery, recruited  in  Pittston  by  Lieutenant  U.  S.  Cook,  formerly  principal  of  the 
Pittston  high  school,  who  prevailed  upon  many  of  his  scholars  to  volunteer  in 
defense  of  their  country's  flag. 

As  soon  as  Schooley's  command  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  military 
service  it  was  assigned  to  garrison  duty  at  Fort  Delaware,  in  the  state  of  Dela- 
ware, where  on  October  17,  1862,  the  scholarly  Cook  died.  After  his  death  the 
battery  was  ordered  to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  became  Battery  M,  Second  Heavy 
Artillery,  112th  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  \'olunteers,  and  for  a  time  remained  on 
guard  at  Fort  Lincoln. 

At  midnight  on  May  3,  1864,  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  moved  out  of  its  win- 
ter cantonments  on  the  Rapidan  and  began  its  last  campaign  against  the  Army 
of  Northern  Virginia,  strongly  intrenched,  ready  for  battle.  The  advance  of 
Grant's  troops  against  the  positions  held  by  the  Confederates  under  Lee  was 
stubbornly  contested,  and  thousands  of  brave  men  were  killed,  wounded  or 
burned  up  in  the  battles  which  raged  for  weeks  in  the  \'irginia  wilderness,  with 
a  fierceness  unparalleled  in  the  annals  of  war. 

On  May  27,  1864,  the  2nd  Penna.  Heavy  Artillery  was  ordered  to  join  the  .\nny 
of  the  Potomac,  which  had  just  passed  through  the  battles  of  the  NN'ilderness, 
Spottsylvania  and  North  Anna,  fought  within  a  circle  of  twelve  miles  in  diameter, 
which  history  records  the  bloodiest  spot  on  earth.  (See  "History  of  2nd  Penna. 
Veteran    Heavy   Artillery,   pp.    167-176). 

In  the  early  dawn  of  June  5,  1864,  the  regiment  reinforced  the  .\rmy  of  the 
Potomac  at  Cold  Harbor,  and  was  immediately  formed  in  line  of  battle  to  charge 
the  Confederate  intrenchments,  in  front  of  which  lay  more  than  fourteen  thou- 
sand   dead,    wounded    and    djang    comrades,    whose    sufferings    are    graphically 


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described  in  Drake's  "History  of  the  9th  New  Jersey  Veteran  Volunteers,"  pp. 
218-221;  Eaton's  "Civil  War  Photographs,"  p.  87;  and  "The  Story  of  Ameri- 
can Heroism,"  pp.  412-414. 

After  the  repulse  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  Second  Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artillery, 
on  the  night  of  June  12,  1864,  under  a  ceaseless  fire  of  musketry  and  artillery, 
silently  moved  out  of  the  Union  trenches  to  the  road  in  the  rear,  when  the 
command  in  a  low  voice  passed  along  the  line,  "Double  up,  double-quick  march", 
which  order  was  strictly  obeyed  until  the  White  House  Landing  on  the  Pamunky 
river,  twenty-two  miles  away,  was  reached.  For  an  account  of  this  flank  move- 
ment, see  "History  of  2nd  Penna.  Veteran  Heavy  Artillery,"  pp.  59-60.  On 
the  14th  of  June,  Major-General  William  F.  (Baldy)  Smith's  i8th  Army 
Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  James  began  a  forward  movement  with  Petersburg  as 
its  objective  point.  After  days  of  continuous  fighting.  Smith's  command  closed 
in  upon  Petersburg. 

At  the  battle  of  the  Crater  on  the  morning  of  July  30,  1864,  the  2nd  Pennsyl- 
vania Heavy  Artillery  stood  in  line  of  battle  ready  for  the  order  to  charge  into 
the  bloody  vortex  of  death,  in  which  more  than  four  thousand  comrades  fell. 
For  seventy-two  days  this  brave  Pennsylvania  regiment  lay  in  the  advance  line 
of  trenches  exposed  to  the  incessant  fire  of  the  enemy  day  and  night. 

On  September  29,  1864,  occurred  the  battle  of  Chapin's  Farm,  which  was 
fought  by  a  part  of  the  Army  of  the  James,  commanded  by  Major-General  Ed- 
ward O.  C.  Ord,  and  was  in  reality  a  number  of  desperate  charges  against  the 
intrenched  and  strongly  fortified  positions  of  the  enemy.  The  first  assault  was 
directed  against  Battery  Harrison,  mounted  with  sixteen  pieces  of  heavy  artil- 
lery, which  was  successfully  made.  In  this  charge  General  Ord  was  wounded,  and 
Brigadier-General  Burnham,  who  led  the  storming  columns,  mortally  wounded. 

In  the  same  chain  of  defenses  on  the  right  of  Battery  Harrison,  was  Fort  Gil- 
mer, the  key  to  Richmond,  which  was  next  assaulted,  first  by  two  divisions  of  the 
loth  Corps,  Army  of  the  James,  in  succession.  The  first  charge  was  made  by 
Foster's  division,  and  the  other  by  Birney's  division  of  colored  troops.  The 
charges  of  the  brave  men  of  this  corps  were  repulsed  with  terrible  slaughter. 
Again  another  assault  was  ordered,  and  soon  the  2nd  Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artil- 
lery charged  over  the  ground  strewn  with  the  bodies  of  dead  and  dying  comrades, 
and  many  reached  the  redoubt  in  front  of  the  fort  where  the  gallant  Colonel  James 
L.  Anderson  fell  at  the  head  of  his  courageous  men.  Anderson's  body  was  left 
on  the  field  and  never  recovered. 

This  ended  the  battle  of  Chapin's  Farm,  in  which  the  2nd  Penna.  Heavy 
Artillery  lost  over  three  hundred  men  in  killed,  wounded  and  missing.  (See 
"History  of  2nd  Penna.  Veteran  Heavy  Artillery,"  pp.  107-8,  etc.). 

After  the  battle  of  Chapin's  Farm,  George  M.  Stark  was  appointed  orderly  to 
Major-General  Godfrey  Weitzel  (one  of  the  greatest  compliments  to  bestow  upon 
a  soldier)  commander  of  the  25th  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  James,  the  first 
troops  to  enter  Richmond  after  its  capture  by  the  Union  army  at  whose  head  on 
that  eventful  3rd  day  of  April,  1865,  rode  Weitzel,  his  stafif  and  young  Stark. 

Whh  the  surrender  of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  on  April  9,  1865,  the 
slave-holders'  rebellion,  which  sent  sorrow  and  mourning  into  thousands  of  happy 
northern  and  southern  homes,  came  to  a  righteous  end,  and  soon  the  disbandment 
of  the  armies  of  the  Union  began.     In  the  earlji  summer  of  1865  the  surviving 


556  MOSIER 

heroes  of  the  Second  Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artillery,  with  battle  flags  riddled  with 
shot  and  shell,  returned  to  their  homes  and  firesides,  and  with  them  came  George 
M.  Stark,  who  became  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  Wyoming  \'alley, 
Pennsylvania.  He  died  July  27,  1895,  at  his  summer  home  near  Dallas,  Penn- 
sylvania, leaving  surviving  him  his  wife,  Albertine  Brace  Stark.  George  M. 
Stark  is  buried  in  the  historic  Forty  Fort  Cemetery,  near  the  site  of  the  old  fort, 
from  which  his  revolutionary  kinsman,  Aaron  Stark,  marched  forth  to  battle  on 
the  memorable  third  day  of  July,  seventeen  hundred  and  seventy-eight. 

The  following  brothers  of  John  M.  Stark  also  served  in  the  Civil  War:  William 
S.  Stark,  in  the  52nd  Penna.  Infantry,  George  H.  Stark  (Mexican  War  Veter- 
an) in  the  177th  Penna.  Inf.,  and  Henry  W.  Stark  in  Capt.  Hileman's  Company, 
of  the    19th   Penna.    Inf. 

Charles  H.  Flagg  married  his  sister,  Mary  Jane  Stark,  and  became  captain  of 
Company  K,  142nd  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  made  up  of  Pittston, 
Pennsylvania  men,  which  he  led  into  action  at  Fredericksburg,  December  13, 
1862,  and  with  Meade's  Division,  (Pennsylvania  Reserves)  in  which  were  Sin- 
clair's, Jackson's  and  Magilton's  brigades,  courageously,  in  a  terrific  storm  of 
shot  and  shell,  charged  the  Confederate  entrenchments  on  the  Heights  of  Fred- 
ericksburg, defended  by  General  A.  P.  Hill's  division  of  Stonewall  Jackson's 
corps. 

During  Hooker's  campaign  he  was  again  under  fire  at  Chancellorsville,  where 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  met  with  disaster  and  defeat,  after  which  there  fol- 
lowed, in  the  rapid  march  of  events,  the  invasion  of  Pennsylvania,  one  of  the  most 
perilous  epochs  in  our  country's  history. 

Captain  Flagg  was  a  Pennsylvanian  by  adoption,  and  gallantly  served  as  an 
aide  on  the  staff  of  Brigadier-General  Thomas  A.  Rowley,  who  commanded  the 
1st  Brigade,  3rd  Division,  of  the  First  Army  Corps,  at  Gettysburg.  The  142nd 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers  fought  in  Rowley's  brigade,  and  bravely  helped  to  drive 
the  rebel  invaders  off  the  soil  of  Pennsylvania. 

After  the  clash  of  steel  and  thunder  of  battle  was  hushed,  his  body  was  found 
on  the  field  and  brought  home  to  his  young  and  griefstricken  wife,  who  caused  to 
be  erected  in  the  Hollenback  Cemetery,  to  the  memory  of  her  soldier  husband, 
an  enduring  monument  of  granite  upon  which  is  inscribed: 

"CAPT.    CHAS.    H.   FLAGG." 

•KILLED    AT    THE    B.'KTTLE    OF    GETTYSBURG." 

'■JULY   3,    1863-AGED   29   YEARS." 

"Sleep,   sleep,   noble   warrior,  sleep, 
The  tomb  is  now  thy  bed. 
Cold   is   its  bosom,   thou   dost   rest 
In  silence   with  the  dead." 

"We  tell  thy  doom   with  many  tears. 

How  rose  thy  morning  sun. 
How    quickly    too,    alas    it    set. 
Warrior,   thy   march    is   done." 

John  M.  Stark  died  at  his  residence  in  Wyoming,  Pennsylvania,  on  Mardi  14, 
1896.  Sarah  (Davidson)  Stark,  his  wife,  died  at  her  summer  home  at  Lake 
Carey,  Pennsylvania,  Septeinber  9,  1898.  Both  are  buried  in  Hollenback  Ceme- 
tery. 


HOSIER  557 

Lydia  Ellen  Stark  was  bom  in  Plains  Township,  Luzerne  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, May  19,  185 1. 

Ruth  Mosier,  only  child  of  Frank  C.  Hosier  and  Lydia  Ellen  (Stark)  Mosier, 
born  April  2,  1893,  died  December  16,  1901.  On  the  base  of  the  Italian  marble 
statue  which  marks  her  grave  in  Hollenback  Cemetery  are  the  inspired  words: 
"Heavenly  Bells  are  calling  me  now",  which  were  found  after  her  death  among 
her  child  treasures,  written  in  her  own  hand. 

Frank  C.  Mosier  is  a  Mason,  and  belongs  to  St.  John's  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  AL, 
Pittston,  Pennsylvania ;  Pittston  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Wyoming  Val- 
ley Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  (of  which  he  is  past 
eminent  commander)  Irem  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  (Mystic  Shrine)  Wilkes- 
Barre,  Pennsylvania;  and  Keystone  Consistory,  S.  P.  R.  S.,  32°,  Ancient  Ac- 
cepted Scottish  Rite  of  Freemasonry,  Northern  Jurisdiction,  United  States  of 
America. 

Frank  C.  Mosier  is  of  the  Democratic  faith,  and  believes  that  a  sound  democ- 
racy is  the  substructure  of  this,  the  greatest  government  on  earth,  and  favors  the 
enactment  of  laws  that  will  benefit  all  the  people,  promote  everlasting  tranquil- 
ity and  continued  prosperity  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  Union. 

For  centuries,  the  progress  of  the  people  of  the  Southern  States  was  handi- 
capped by  the  two  great  Evils  of  the  Ages.  It  required  the  awful  horrors,  suf- 
ferings and  enormous  expenses  of  a  cruel  fratricidal  war  to  add  the  Thirteenth 
Amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

The  people  whose  soil  has  been  drenched  with  the  blood  of  its  sons  and  de- 
vastated by  invading  armies,  are  now  engaged  in  another  revolution,  and  will,  with 
ballots,  destroy  forever  the  other,  which  will  never  be  extirpated  until  another 
amendment  to  the  constitution,  allowing  a  just  compensation  to  all  American 
citizens  whose  moneys  are  invested  in  the  liquor  traflSc,  is  ratified  by  three-fourths 
of  the  States  of  the  American  Union. 

In  the  halls  of  Congress,  nothing  should  be  left  undone  to  perpetuate  the  friend- 
ship between  the  descendants  of  the  men  who  followed  the  battle-flags  of  Grant 
or  Lee.  This  will  keep  the  Union  safe  to  the  end  of  Time,  and  save  our  fair 
land  from  being  overrun  by  Pagan  armies  thoroughly  drilled,  armed  and  trained 
for  battle,  under  the  skies  of  Asia. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  in  the  past,  has  often  been  called  upon  to  address 
the  surviving  soldiers  of  the  Civil  War,  and  his  utterances  have  always  com- 
manded respectful  attention.  Upon  the  occasion  of  the  Fortieth  Annual  Reunion 
of  the  143rd  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  September  11,  1906,  General  J.  Madison 
Drake,  one  of  New  Jersey's  most  gallant  soldiers,  was  a  prominent  speaker  and 
subsequently  wrote  Comrade  Mosier  that  the  address  delivered  by  him  at  the 
reunion  ought  to  be  republished.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  letter  which  is 
inserted  herein,  with  address  referred  to,  copied  from  the  columns  of  the  Sim- 
day  Leader,  EHzabeth,  N.  J.,  in  its  issue  of  September  16,  1906; 

Elizabeth,   N.   J.,   July  3,    1907. 
Frank   C.   Mosier,   Esq.,   Pittston,   Pa. 

My  dear  Comrade ; — In  the  autumn  of  last  year  you  delivered  an  address  at  Fern- 
brook  Park,  Penna.,  on  the  occasion  of  the  Fortieth  Annual  Reimion  of  the  gallant  143rd 
Penna.  Vols.,  which  I  had  the  honor  to  attend.  Rev.  Otis  A.  Glazebrook,  a  Virginian, 
and  an  officer  on  the  staff  of  General  Stonewall  Jackson,  who  preceded  you  in  an  eloquent 


SS8  MOSIER 

and  scholarly  address,  was  outspoken   in  his  admiration  of  your  patriotic  effort,  and  has 
often  referred  to  it  in  words  of  praise. 

I  suggest  that  it  would  not  be  out  of  place  to  publish  your  speech  entire  in  some 
historical  work,  as  it  not  only  reflects  credit  upon  you  as  an  orator,  but  also  perpetuates 
the  record  of  one  of  the  bravest  fighting  regiments  of  the  Second  Brigade.  Third  Divi- 
sion, First  Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Fraternally  vours, 

(Signed)         J.    MADISON    DRAKE. 
Capt.    9th    N.    J.    Vols,    and    Bt.    Brig.    Gen. 

1861  Medal  of  Honor,  U.  S.  A.,  1863. 

After  the  conclusion  of  Captain  Glazebrook's  able  and  eloquent  address.  Hon. 
Patrick  DeLacy  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  president  of  the  Regimental  Associa- 
tion (143rd  Penna.  Vols.)  afterwards  commander  of  the  Medal  of  Honor 
Legion,  U.  S.  A.,  and  department  commander  of  Pennsylvania,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  introduced  Comrade  Mosier,  who  spoke  as  follows : 

In  this  assembly  are  many  of  the  surviving  veterans  of  America's  great  Civil  War, 
who  fought  under  the  battle  flags  of  Grant,  Meade,  Warren,  Reynolds  and  Sheridan,  or 
followed  the  banner  of  Lee  and  Jackson,  or  marched  with  Sherman  from  Atlanta  to  the 
sea,  which  makes  this  reunion  one  of  the  most  memorable  in  the  history  of  the  gallant 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-third  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  who  have  met  again 
beneath  the  autumnal  skies  of  old  Luzerne  to  greet  comrades  with  whom  they  marched  to 
battle,  to  help  preserve  the  American  Union  from  dismemberment  and  save  from  ruin, 
the  great  political  edifice  erected  by  the  patriotic  men  of  the  north  and  south,  who,  upon 
the  battlefields  of  the  Revolution,  were  led  by  Virginia's  greatest  son,  George  Washing- 
ton, whose  name  will  ever  remain  bright  on  the  pages  of  his  country's  history. 

When  we  study  the  great  achievements  of  our  Revolutionary  forefathers  during  the 
prolonged  struggle  with  the  mother  country,  we  admire  their  wisdom  in  civic  council  and 
bravery  on  the  field  of  battle.  Without  these  grand  attributes  inherent  in  the  statesmen 
and  soldiers  of  the  Revolution  and  firmly  adhered  to  by  them  from  the  beginning  to  the 
end  of  the  conflict,  victory  would  have  been  achieved  by  British  arms  and  the  fate  of  Ire- 
land, unhappy  Ireland,  the  home  of  Emmett,  whose  memory  will  live  forever  in  the  hearts 
of  the  brave  sons  of  the  Emerald  Isle;  Scotland,  the  land  of  Bruce  and  Wallace,  only  in 
name,  with  all  its  ancient  glory  gone,  nothing  but  its  national  music  left,  which  sound- 
ed the  charge  of  the  brave  Highlanders  at  Alma,  the  storming  of  the  Malakhoff,  and  when 
they  fought  their  way  over  the  bodies  of  mutinous  Sepoys  to  the  gates  of  Lucknow,  whose 
beleagured  garrison,  men,  women  and  children,  wept  with  tears  of  gladness  when  they 
faintly  heard   in   the   early  dawn   of  the  morning,   afar  away   the  bag  pipes  playing: 

"The  Campbells  are  coming;  the  Campbells  are  coming!" 

Wales,  the  nation  of  bards,  from  the  tops  of  whose  rugged  mountains  the  fires  of  lib- 
erty have  long  since  gone  out ;  India,  with  its  restless  Pagan  and  Mohammedan  mil- 
lions— upon  whom  the  watchful  eye  of  the  British  lion  will  never  close,  and  South  Africa, 
subjugated  and  enslaved  forever,  would  be  ours  to-day  and  the  school  children  of  Amer- 
ica,  instead  of  reciting  Drake's  grand  poem : 

"When    Freedom,    from    her    mountain    height. 

Unfurled  her  standard  to  the  air, 
She  tore  the  azure  robe  of  night. 

And   set   the   stars  of  glory  there!" 

would  now  be   singing  "God   Save   the   King." 

Our  own  favored  land  not  included,  where  is  the  country,  from  the  frozen  seas  of 
the  north  to  the  shores  of  the  great  southern  ocean  in  the  far  south,  that  has  ever  thrown 
off   the    everlasting   grip    of    England's    rule? 

The  hand  of  God  is  visible  in  the  great  struggle  for  independence  and  more  than 
three-quarters  of  a  century  afterwards,  it  appears  again  in  .American  history,  when  it 
struck  the  bonds  of  slavery  from  the  limbs  of  a  race  of  human  beings,  who  would  never 
have  been  released  from  bondage,  if  Southern  slavelords  had  not  inaugurated  a  war  for 
the  destruction  of  the  American  Union  in  order  to  rear  upon  its  ruins  a  government 
founded   upon  human  slavery. 

The  statesmen  of  the  south  believed  that  slavery  was  a  divine  institution,  and  for 
years  arrogantly  advocated  in  the  Congressional  Halls  of  the  nation  that  it  should  be  ex- 
tended to  all  the  new  territories  of  the  American  L'nion.  This  provoked  an  irrepressible 
conflict  between  the  north  and  south  that  culminated  in  war,  which  had  to  come,  for  in 
no  other  way  could  slavery,  the  relic  of  the  dark  ages,  be  forever  extirpated  from  the 
land   of   the    free. 


MOSIER  559 

When  the  storm  of  the  Civil  War  burst  upon  our  beloved  land,  we  of  the  north 
remembered  with  pride  the  traditions  that  made  our  country  great,  and  when  the  call 
carne  to  defend  the  old  flag,  maintain  the  supremacy  of  the  constitution  and  save  the 
Union,  there  was  a  mighty  uprising  of  the  patriotic  men  of  America,  with  whom  we  include 
the  loyal  people  of  the  border  slave  states  of  the  Union,  many  of  whose  valiant  sons  bravely 
supported  the  government  and  fearlessly  fought  and  died  to  save  it  from  destruction. 
When  the  clouds  of  disunion  darkened  our  political  horizon,  it  required  a  high  grade  of 
patriotism  and  indomitable  courage  for  the  men  of  the  south  to  remain  true  to  their 
country  which  owes  each  and  every  one  of  them  an  eternal  debt  of  gratitude,  for  without 
their  aid,  the  Union  would  never  have  been  restored. 

To-day  we  are  honored  by  the  presence  of  an  eminent  and  learned  divine  whose 
eloquence  upon  this  occasion  will  ever  be  remembered.  To  him,  under  the  peaceful  skies 
of  a  restored  Union,  we  gladly  extend  a  friendly  welcome  for  he  was  a  brave  soldier  ot 
the  south  and  fought  under  the  battle  flag  of  Gen.  Thomas  J.  Jackson,  who,  as  the  com- 
mander of  a  corps  in  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  won  imperishable  renown  on  many 
bloody  fields,  which  placed  his  name  high  on  the  roll  of  fame,  with  the  most  eminent  of 
Virginia's  sons.  At  Chancellorsville,  Stonewall  Jackson  fought  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
for  the  last  time,  the  battle  precipitating  the  invasion  of  the  north,  which  soon  followed  in 
the  rapid  march  of  events. 

We  of  Pennsylvania  are  proud  of  her  grand  Colonial  and  Revolutionary  records. 
Upon  her  soil  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was  born,  the  Federal  Constitution  framed 
and  the  Thirteen  Colonies  formed  into  a  more  perfect  Union.  Pennsylvania,  the  last 
to  adopt  the  Federal  Constitution,  stands  in  history,  the  Keystone  state  of  the  Union. 
Pennsylvania  has  always  remained  true  to  the  Union  and  her  valiant  sons  have  taken  part 
in  every  war  in  which  the  Republic  has  been  engaged,  and  their  blood  has  reddened  the 
soil  and  crimsoned  the  seas  from  the  walls  of  Quebec  to  those  of  Pekin,  all  for  God,  coun- 
try   and    freedom. 

In  1861,  when  South  Carolina  fired  upon  the  old  flag,  the  thunder  of  disunion's  guns 
rolled  over  sea  and  land,  crossed  the  Potomac,  shook  the  tomb  of  Washington,  and,  re-echo- 
ing among  the  hills  and  mountains  of  the  north,  it  aroused  Pennsylvania,  whose  troops  were 
the   first   to   rush   to  the   defense   of  the   imperiled   National    Capital. 

Again  in  1861,  after  the  Army  of  McDowell  fled  defeated,  demoralized  and  dismayed 
from  the  disastrous  field  of  Bull  Run,  it  was  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  fresh  from  their 
camps  in  the  old  Keystone  State,  marching  up  Pennsylvania  avenue  with  15,000  bayonets 
flashing  in  the  summer's  sun  that  restored  order  and  saved  the  capitol  from  capture  and 
pillage. 

This  nation  owes  an  everlasting  debt  of  gratitude  to  Andrew  G.  Curtin,  the  great  War 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  for  through  his  patriotic  eflforts,  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves  were 
enrolled,  trained,  armed  and  equipped  for  battle.  Curtin  is  dead.  He  sleeps  among  tht 
Altoona  Mountains,  but  justice  will  never  be  done  his  memory  until  his  country  erects  a 
monument  within  the  shade  of  the  capitol  he  helped  to  save. 

In  1863,  the  Confederate  Army  with  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville  inscribed  up- 
on its  victorious  banners,  debouched  from  the  plains  of  Culpepper  in  solid  columns, 
marched  northward  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  strong.  Sweeping  across  Maryland 
with  the  resistless  force  of  a  tornado.  Lee  crossed  our  southern  border  and  met  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  commanded  by  a  gallant  son  of  Pennsylvania,  Gen.  George  G. 
Meade,  who  after  a  terrific  combat,  administered  a  crushing  defeat  to  the  invader.  At 
Gettysburg,  the  high  water  mark  of  the  Rebellion  was  reached,  and  after  the  crimson  tide 
receded,  the  Confederate  States  of  .America,  which  came  very  near  being  marked  on  the 
map  of  nations,  was  doomed. 

After  years  of  blood,  the  loss  of  thousands  of  lives,  the  destruction  of  millions  of 
property  and  expenditure  of  billions  of  money,  Grant  was  called  to  the  command  of  all 
the  Union  Armies,  and  at  midnight  on  May  3,  1864,  led  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  the 
most  formidable  body  of  disciplined  troops  that  ever  went  forth  to  battle  on  this  continent, 
against  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  strongly  intrenched  in  the  Wilderness.  "The  cam- 
paign that  followed  is  written  in  blood  and  revealed  to  the  nations  of  the  world  the  des- 
perate valor  of  northern  and  southern  troops. 

The  surrender  of  the  Confederate  Armies  made  General  Grant  the  hero  of  the  hour. 
His  conduct  toward  the  vanquished  revealed  to  his  countrymen,  the  greatness  of  the 
silent  soldier  who  had  fought  from  the  Rapidan  to  the  James  and  compelled  Lee  to  furl 
his  battle  flags  and  lay  down  his  arms  at  Appomattox.  Grant,  in  the  hour  of  victor}',  was 
magnanimous.  He  looked  upon  those  who  had  bravely  opposed  him  in  battle  as  Americans, 
and  worthy  of  a  victor's  magnanimity.  In  after  years  he  was  chosen  the  ruler  of  a  re- 
united people  and  when  death  summoned  him  from  earth,  a  mighty  nation  mourned,  for  a 
great   soldier   and  civic  leader  had   passed   away. 

When  the  death  notes  of  the  bugle  that  once  sounded  the  charge  of  the  armies  he  led 
to  victory,  floated  over  the  Hudson  and  re-echoed  along  its  historic  banks,  there  stood 
around  the  grave  of  Grant,  brave  comrades  side  by  side  with  gallant  soldiers  of  the 
South  who  were  there  to  pay  a  last  tribute  to  one  who  will  ever  live  in  history,  the  no- 
blest of  Americans,  for  after  he  sheathed  his  sword,  he  uttered  the  immortal  words :  "Let 
us  have  peace,"  which  a  grateful  country  has  inscribed  upon  his  tomb. 

The  mighty  blows   struck  by   Abraham   Lincoln   in  behalf   of  human    freedom   and   the 


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American  Union,  placed  his  name  alongside  of  Washington,  to  be  and  remain  there,  so  long 
as   the  Republic   survives. 

The  fame  of  Grant.  Sherman,  Farragut,  Meade,  Warren,  Reynolds,  Hancock,  Sheridan, 
Thomas  and  Logan  will  endure  forever,  for  they  commanded  nearly  three  millions  of  men 
in  arms,  in  one  of  the  greatest  fratracidal  conflicts  the  world  has  ever  known. 

America's  glorious  sun  of  peace  is  now  in  the  zenith,  high  up  under  the  Union  dome 
and  its  refulgent  rays  light  up  a  land  happy,  prosperous  and  free  under  one  flag,  from  whose 
blue  fields  there  is  no  star  lost  in  disunion's  eternal  night  of  political  darkness. 

For  each  star  upon  the  nation's  flag  a  battleship  will  soon  be  in  commission  to  proclaim 
on  every  sea  that  our  country  is  a  world  power  ever  ready  and  able  to  defend  its  possessions, 
wherever  the  waves  of  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  oceans  and  Carribean  and  China  seas  dash 
upon  our  shores.  Nearly  one  hundred  millions  of  people,  representing  no  north,  no  south, 
no  east,  no  west,  are  now  firmly  united  under  one  flag,  one  constitution  and  one  govern- 
ment. 

More  than  four  hundred  years  ago.  the  Ruler  of  nations  permitted  Spain,  through  the 
compass  of  the  navigator  or  by  conquest,  to  become  the  possessor  of  numerous  small  isl- 
ands in  the  mighty  waste  of  waters  extending  from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  to  the  shores  of 
Asia.  Spain  was  a  cruel  and  oppressive  master.  From  the  days  of  Columbus,  who  felt  the 
heavy  weight  of  her  ungrateful  hand,  the  people  of  her  colonies  after  paying  tribute  to 
their  sovereign,  were  robbed,  enslaved,  tortured,  or  thrown  into  prison.  This  would  have 
continued  down  to  the  present  time  if  an  intrepid  son  of  the  Green  Mountain  State  had  not, 
with  a  squadron  of  his  country's  warships,  manned  by  brave  northern  and  southern  men, 
fearlessly  entered  Manilla  Bay  and  demolished  the  sea  power  of  Spain  in  the  Orient,  which 
placed  Dewey  on  the  roll  of  sea  fighters  with  Drake.  Nelson  and  Farragut,  to  which  we 
add  the  name  of  Togo,  the  hero  of  the  Sea  of  Japan. 

In  the  harbor  of  Santiago,  again  the  patriotic  sons  of  the  Union,  under  the  gallant 
Schley,  of  Maryland,  dealt  the  battleships  of  Cervera  a  blow  which  was  as  destructive  as 
God's  storm  centuries  before,  which  destroyed  the  Spanish  armada  and  made  England  mis- 
tress of  the   seas. 

In  the  war  invoked  by  God  and  declared  by  Congress  for  the  liberation  of  Cuba,  whose 
leaders  all  want  office,  aiid  whose  people  are  restless,  on  the  verge  of  revolution  and  unfit 
for  self-government,  let  us  not  forget  the  brave  and  gallant  men  who  courageously  charged 
up  Santiago  Hill  under  one  flag,  went  down  to  death  together  and  now  sleep  in  one 
common   grave. 

The  part  taken  in  the  Spanish-American  War  by  Fitzhugh  Lee,  of  Virginia,  and  Joseph 
Wheeler,  of  Alabama,  gallant  Confederate  troopers,  will  never  be  forgotten  by  a  grateful 
country.  In  the  far  off  incoming  years,  the  example  of  Lee  and  Wheeler  and  thousands  of 
patriotic  southern  men  who  fought  under  Dewey,  Schley,  Lawton  and  Roosevelt  will  ever 
be  remembered  by  the  future  rulers  of  this  Republic,  who  will  always  trust  the  descend- 
ants of  the  men  who  espoused  the  cause  of  the  south  in  the  Civil  War  when  the  order, 
founded  on  the  Federal  constitution  is  given,  let  no  one  but  Americans  be  placed  on  guard ! 


FRANKLIN  LAWRENCE  SHEPPARD 

and 

HOWARD   REYNOLDS   SHEPPARD 

The  paternal  ancestors  of  the  subjects  of  this  sketch  were  early  settlers  in 
Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  the  Sheppards  coming  there  originally  from  Eng- 
land, while  the  Westcotts,  with  whom  the  former  family  early  and  often  inter- 
married, came  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  a  half  century  earlier  and  located  in 
Salem,  New  Jersey,  at  about  the  same  time  as  the  Sheppards.  The  Sayres, 
another  ancestral  line  also  came  from  New  England  to  New  Jersey,  by  way, 
however,  of  Long  Island. 

David  Sheppard,  with  Eve  his  wife,  settled  for  some  years  at  Shrewsbury, 
Monmouth  county.  East  Jersey,  and  in  1688,  removed  to  that  part  of  Salem 
county.  West  Jersey,  later  incorporated  as  Cumberland  county,  taking  up  500 
acres  of  land  lying  on  the  south  side  of  Cohansey  river  and  on  the  north  side  of 
Back's  creek  which  flows  into  Delaware  Bay,  which  was  known  as  Back  Neck. 
Here,  David  Sheppard  died  early  in  i6g6,  leaving  a  will  dated  November  30,  1695, 
in  which  he  devises  to  his  wife  Eve,  "the  right  and  privilege  of  my  Mansion  House 
and  improved  land  and  thirty  pounds  current  money  of  this  Province",  besides 
a  full  share  of  his  personal  estate  with  his  sons  David,  John  and  Joseph  and  his 
daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Hannah  Sheppard.  To  his  eldest  son  David,  and  his 
second  son  John,  he  devises  each  150  acres  of  land  in  Back  Neck,  and  to  his  son 
Joseph,  when  of  age,  twenty  pounds.  To  his  daughter  Ruth  Abbot  he  devises 
five  shillings,  having  probably  provided  for  her  on  her  marriage.  David  Shep- 
pard was  one  of  the  organizers  in  1690  of  the  First  Cohansey  Baptist  Church, 
and  the  first  and  second  church  edifice,  the  latter  erected  in  1741,  stood  on  the 
north  side  of  Cohansey  creek,  south  of  the  road  leading  to  Sheppard's  plantation 
and  mill.  The  church  has  long  since  disappeared  and  a  new  church  has  been 
erected  at  Roadstown ;  but  the  old  grave-yard  near  the  siet  of  the  ancient  church 
building,  where  many  of  the  Sheppard  family  are  interred,  is  still  enclosed. 

David  Sheppard,  (2),  eldest  son  of  David  (i)  and  Eve,  is  not  referred  to 
in  his  father's  will  as  a  minor,  as  is  the  case  with  the  third  son  Joseph,  from 
which  it  is  to  be  inferred  that  he  was  already  of  legal  age.  However  he  does  not 
seem  to  have  married  until  about  the  year  1719,  and  his  eldest  son  was  born  in 
the  year  1720.  He  inherited,  as  above  shown,  a  part  of  his  father's  plantation 
on  the  Cohansey,  and  seems  to  have  spent  his  whole  adult  life  there.  He  took 
a  more  or  less  prominent  part  in  public  affairs  and  was  one  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  build  the  first  county  court  house  for  Cumberland  county  in  1760. 
He  died  soon  after  the  latter  date.  By  his  wife  Sarah  he  had  five  children, 
Philip,  (1720- 1 797)  who  was  twice  married  and  had  eight  children;  David 
Sheppard,  (3)  (born  1745)  had  seven  children;  Ephraim,  who  was  three  times 
married  and  had  ten  children;  Joseph,  of  whom  presently;  Phebe,  born  1729. 


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Joseph  Sheppard,  fourth  son  of  David  and  Sarah  Sheppard,  bom  on  the 
Cohansey  plantation  in  1727,  was  one  of  the  most  eminent  men  of  his  section. 
New  Jersey  was  one  of  the  first  of  the  American  colonies  to  take  active  meas- 
ures for  the  preservation  of  the  rights  of  the  Colonists  against  the  oppressive 
measures  of  the  British  ministry  and  Joseph  Sheppard  was  one  of  the  foremost 
patriots  in  the  organization  of  the  citizens  of  Cumberland  county,  first  to  pro- 
test against  an  infringement  of  those  rights,  and  second  to  take  measures  for 
their  defense.  He  was  selected  at  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  his  county,  held 
December  22,  1774,  as  one  of  the  first  Committee  of  Safety  for  Cumberland 
county,  to  carry  into  effect  the  resolutions  of  the  Continental  Congress  that  had 
recently  met  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  continued  to  act  with  the  Provincial  Com- 
mittee and  Council  of  Safety,  in  whose  hands  rested  the  supreme  authority,  until 
the  formation  of  the  new  state  government,  and  took  an  active  part  in  formulat- 
ing and  carrying  into  effect  measures  for  the  prosecution  of  the  war  for  inde- 
pendence, and  lived  to  see  independence  practically  achieved,  dying  August  i, 
1782.  He  built  the  first  brick  house  in  Back  Neck.  He  and  his  family  were 
members  of  the  old  Cohansey  Baptist  Church,  of  which  his  grandfather  David 
Sheppard  had  been  one  of  the  organizers,  but  he  and  his  wife  and  his  daughter 
Lydia,  lie  buried  in  a  family  burying  ground,  laid  out  by  him  on  the  homestead 
farm,  where  the  tombstones  at  the  head  of  their  graves  can  still  be  seen.  Joseph 
Sheppard  married  Mary  Sayre,  (b.  1732,  d.  Jan.  22,,  1790),  daughter  of  David 
and  Ruth  Sayre  of  Cohansey ;  granddaughter  of  David  Sayre  who  came  from 
Southampton,  Long  Island,  to  Cohansey,  great-granddaughter  of  Daniel  Sayre, 
and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Sayre  one  of  the  founders  of  South- 
ampton,  Long   Island,   in   1740. 

The  ancestors  of  Mary  (Sayre)  Sheppard,  were  resident  in  the  little  hamlet 
of  Hynwick,  parish  of  Poddington,  thirteen  miles  northwest  of  Bedford  in  Bed- 
fordshire, on  the  borders  of  Northamptonshire  in  the  sixteenth  century. 

William  Sayre,  of  Hynwick,  purchased  lands  there  in  1545,  and  died  there  in 
1564.  By  his  wife  Alice  Squyre,  he  had  sons  William  and  Thomas,  and  daugh- 
ters Alice  and  Agnes. 

William  Sayre  (2),  inherited  his  father's  lands  at  Hynwick,  and  died  there 
prior  to  1581.  By  his  wife  Elizabeth  he  had  four  sons,  William,  of  Hynwick; 
Robert;    Thomas;    and  Francis;    and  daughter  Alice. 

Francis,  third  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Sayre  of  Hynwick,  parish  of  Pod- 
dington, Bedfordshire,  removed  to  the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  Hundred 
of  Manshead,  Deanery  of  Dunstable,  Bedfordshire,  on  the  border  of  Bucking- 
hamshire, thirty  miles  south  of  Hynwick,  and  his  name  appears  on  the  ta.x- 
rolls  of  that  parish  from  i(x)9  to  his  death  in  1645.  He  married  at  the  parish 
church  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  November  15,  1591,  Elizabeth  Atkins,  and  the  rec- 
ord of  the  christening  of  their  children  appears  on  the  parish  registry  of  that 
church.  They  had  fourteen  children,  nine  sons  and  five  daughters.  At  least 
three  sons,  Thomas,  Job  and  Tobias,  and  a  daughter  Mary,  who  married  Ed- 
ward Tynge,  and  probably  others  of  this  large  family,  emigrated  to  Massachu- 
setts Bay,  before  middle  life. 

Thomas  Sayre,  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  Mrs.  Sheppard,  was  the  third  son  and 
fourth  child  of  hVancis  and  Elizabtth  (.Atkins)  Sayre,  and  was  baptized  at  the 
parish  church  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  Bedfordshire,  July  20,  1597.     He  probably 


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remained  in  Bedfordshire  until  after  his  marriage  and  the  birth  of  his  eldest 
children.  We  find  his  name  and  that  of  his  brother  Job  Sayre  on  a  list  of  the 
proprietors  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  made  in  1638,  for  the  purpose  of  dividing 
the  lands  between  them.  Lynn  was  settled  in  1629,  but  whether  Thomas  Sayre 
was  one  of  the  original  settlers,  there  or  elsewhere  in  New  England,  we  have 
no  means  of  determining.  Thomas  and  Job  Sayre  were  each  allotted  sixty  acres 
in  the  division  above  referred  to.  In  1639,  both  were  contributors  to  the  fund 
for  purchasing  a  sloop  and  transporting  themselves  and  others  to  Long  Island, 
where  they  had  purchased,  by  deed  dated  August  20,  1639,  from  James  Farrell, 
deputy  of  the  Earl  of  Stirling,  all  the  land  from  Taconick  and  the  easternmost 
end  of  the  Island,  "with  the  whole  breadth  thereof." 

The  Lynn  colony,  including  Thomas  and  Job  Sayre  and  their  families  removed 
to  Long  Island  early  in  1640,  and  May  10,  1640,  pulled  down  the  arms  of  the 
Prince  of  Orange  from  a  tree  at  the  head  of  Schoute's  Bay,  on  land  purchased 
by  them.  This  act  brought  them  into  conflict  with  the  Dutch  authorities  at  New 
Amsterdam,  and  Job  Sayre  and  five  others  were  arrested  and  carried  to  Fort 
Amsterdam,  where  they  were  discharged,  May  19,  on  condition  that  they  "prom- 
ise to  depart  forthwith  from  our  territory  and  never  return  without  the  Director's 
express  consent."  The  little  colony  therefore  gathered  up  their  effects  and  leav- 
ing the  few  houses  they  had  erected,  sailed  through  the  sound,  around  the  eastern 
end  of  the  Island,  and  landed  about  three  miles  from  the  present  village  of  South- 
ampton, and  there  founded  the  "Old  Town"  of  Southampton. 

Thomas  Sayre  built  a  house  on  the  main  street  of  Southampton  on  land  appor- 
tioned to  him  in  1640,  which  was  occupied,  or  owned  by  his  lineal  descendants 
until  1892,  and  is  still  standing,  being  the  oldest  house  erected  by  the  English 
in  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was  one  of  the  rulers  of  the  town,  or  "towns- 
men" as  they  were  called,  for  many  years  and  one  of  the  overseers  of  highways 
and  bridges,  and  served  on  the  most  important  committees  of  the  town  for  vari- 
ous purposes.  He  died  in  1670,  leaving  a  will  dated  September  16,  1669,  which 
was  probated  April  i,  1671.  The  name  of  Thomas  Sayre's  wife  is  unknown. 
He  had  four  sons,  Job,  Francis,  Daniel  and  Joseph;  and  three  daughters,  De- 
mairs,  married  David  Atwater;  Mary,  married  Benjamin  Price,  of  New  Jersey; 
Hannah.  Francis  was  the  ancestor  of  Stephen  Sayre,  who  sold  his  beautiful 
estate  at  Bordentown  to  Joseph  Bonaparte.  Joseph,  the  youngest  son  was  one 
of  the  proprietors  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  in  1665. 

Daniel,  third  son  of  Thomas  Sayre,  was  probably  born  in  Bedfordshire,  but 
may  have  been  born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts.  He  accompanied  his  father  to 
Southampton,  Long  Island,  in  1640,  and  his  name  appears  on  the  list  there  as 
an  adult  in  1657.  One  of  the  principal  industries  of  Southampton  was  whaling, 
and  Daniel  Sayre  was  in  the  "whaling  squadron"  from  1657  to  1667.  In  the  lat- 
ter year,  January  13,  1667,  he  received  a  grant  of  land  in  Bridgehampton,  on 
which  he  resided  until  his  death  in  1708,  having  outHved  all  his  brothers.  His 
will,  dated  August  21,  1707,  and  probated  April  13,  1708,  mentions  his  sons, 
Nathan,  Joseph,  Daniel,  Samuel,  David  and  Ephraim,  and  his  daughter  Han- 
nah, who  married  Captain  Josiah  Topping.  Nathan  removed  to  Connecticut,  and 
Joseph,  David  and  Ephraim  to  Cohansey,  New  Jersey. 

Daniel  Sayre  married  (first)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Frances 
Foster,  and  sister  to  Nathaniel  Foster,  of  Cape  May,  referred  to  elsewhere  in 


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these  volumes.     He  married    (second)    Sarah  .     David,    fourth   son   of 

Daniel  and  Hannah  (Foster)  Sayre  of  Bridgehampton,  Long  Island,  removed  to 
Cohansey,  New  Jersey,  prior  to  1709,  in  which  year  he  was  overseer  of  the  poor 
there.  In  1714  he  with  others  refused  to  pay  taxes  because  assessed  by  a 
Roman  Catholic,  and  were  indicted  therefor.  His  will,  dated  February  16,  1741, 
and  proved  December  8,  1744,  mentions  sons,  David  and  Job,  and  daughters, 
Dorothy,  wife  of  Thomas  Paget,  who  is  named  as  executor;  Hannah  Plummer; 
Rebecca  Gillespie;  Christina  Mulford,  and  Anne  Sayre.  The  name  of  his  wife 
is   unknown. 

David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  Sayre,  was  a  drummer  boy  in  the  militia  of 
Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1715,  and  was  constable  at  Cohansey  in  1730.  He 
did  not  long  survive  his  father,  his  will  being  dated  February  21,  1742,  and  pro- 
bated April  26,  of  the  same  year.  It  mentions  his  wife  Ruth,  sons,  David,  Daniel, 
William,  Thomas  and  James,  and  daughters,  Hannah  Dayton,  Elenor,  Ruth, 
Mary,  and  Prudence.  The  widow,  Ruth  Sayre,  married  (second),  the  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel Jenkins,  of  the  Cohansey  Baptist  Church,  April  21,  1743. 

Mary,  daughter  of  David  and  Ruth  Sayre,  married  Joseph  Sheppard.  They 
had  six  children,  David,  born  1758;  Lydia ;    Ruth;    Isaac;    Mary;    Lucy. 

Isaac  Sheppard,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Sayre)  Sheppard,  was  born  at 
Cohansey,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  September  30,  1766,  and  died  there, 
December  16,  1815.  He  married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Captain  Jeremiah 
and  Sarah  (Berryman)  Bennett.  She  died  in  1797,  leaving  four  children,  Isaac, 
Henry,  Joseph  and  Sarah.  He  married  (second)  Jane  (Harris)  Westcott,  widow 
of  Henry  Westcott,  and  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Jane  Harris,  of  Fairfield,  Cum- 
berland county,  whose  two  daughters  by  her  former  husband,  Charlotte  and  Ma- 
tilda Westcott,  married  respectively,  Josiah  and  William  Sheppard,  the  former 
a  grandson  and  the  latter  a  son  of  Philip  Sheppard,  a  brother  of  Joseph  Shep- 
pard who  married  Mary  Sayre.  The  mother  of  Josiah  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Westcott  hereafter  mentioned.  Isaac  Sheppard  married  (third)  Abigail  (Bish- 
op)  Husted,  widow  of  Henry  Husted  and  daughter  of  Ichabod  Bishop. 

Ephraim  Harris,  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  Cumberland  county. 
He  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  court  in  1774,  was  a  member  of 
Assembly  in  1776,  and  assisted  in  formulating  the  first  State  constitution  adopted 
in  that  year.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council  in 
1778;  was  again  returned  to  the  Assembly  and  was  its  speaker  or  president  in 
1782.  He  was  selected  as  a  member  of  the  first  Committee  of  Safety,  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  inhabitants  of  Cumberland  county  held  at  Bridgeton,  December  22, 
1774,  being  a  colleague  of  Joseph  Sheppard  in  that  organization.  He  resided  at 
Fairfield,  Cumberland  county,  and  was  an  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
Isaac  and  Jane  (Harris)   Sheppard,  had  one  son  Ephraim. 

Ephraim  Sheppard,  only  child  of  Isaac  Sheppard,  by  his  second  wife  Jane 
(Harris)  Westcott,  was  born  August  15,  1801,  and  died  near  Bridgeton,  New 
Jersey,  July  9,  1848.  He  married  (first).  October  16,  1819.  Jane  Westcott,  daugh- 
ter of  Jehiel  and  Mary  Westcott,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  Ephraim  Har- 
ris, who  died  at  Bunker  Hill,  Illinois,  September  24,  1845,  age'l  twenty-five  years, 
and  Elias,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two  months.  Ephraim  Sheppard  married 
(second),  August  20,  1823,  Mary  Westcott  (b.  March  14.  1798.  d.  March  3. 
1842),  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Bennett)  Westcott;   granddaughter  of  Sam- 


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uel  and  Hannah  (Shaw)  Westcott;  great-granddaughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Bar- 
bara Westcott;  great-great-granddaughter  of  Daniel  and  Abigail  Westcott,  of 
Stamford,  Connecticut,  and  great-great-great-granddaughter  of  Richard  and 
Joanna  Westcott. 

Richard  Westcott,  whose  ancestry  has  been  traced  back  to  1170,  in  Devonshire, 
England,  and  his  brothers  Strickly  and  William  Westcott,  came  to  Salem,  Mas- 
sachusetts, prior  to  1636,  and  were  members  of  the  church  there,  of  which  Roger 
Williams  was  pastor.  Strickly  Westcott  was  one  of  those  named  with  Roger 
Williams  in  the  decree  of  banishment  from  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay, 
made  by  the  General  Court  March  12,  1638.  Richard  Westcott  removed  from 
Salem  to  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  in  1639,  and  in  1644,  to  Fairfield,  Connec- 
ticut, where  he  died  in  1651.  By  his  wife  Joanna,  he  had  children:  John,  Daniel, 
Joanna,   and  Abigail. 

Daniel  Westcott,  second  son  of  Richard  and  Joanna,  settled  in  Stamford,  Con- 
necticut, was  selectman  of  that  town  for  five  years,  and  represented  it  in  the 
General  Court  at  Hartford  in  1691  and  1692.  He  served  in  King  Philip's  war, 
and  was  voted  town  lands  in  1676  for  his  military  services.  In  1696  he  sold  his 
land  in  Stamford  and  soon  after  removed  to  that  part  of  Salem  county.  West 
Jersey,  later  laid  out  as  Cumberland  county,  purchasing  land  on  the  south  side 
of  the  Cohansey  river,  near  the  Sheppards.  Here  he  died  about  June  i,  1703, 
the  date  of  the  inventory  of  his  personal  estate,  being  June  10.  His  will,  dated 
November  30,  1702,  and  probated  February  17,  1703-4,  makes  his  wife  Abigail, 
Captain  Joseph  Seely  and  Nicholas  Johnson,  executors,  and  devises  his  estate 
to  his  children,  Samuel,  Daniel,  Ebenezer,  Mary,  Joanna  Foster  and  Abigail 
Lummas.  It  further  provides  that  the  children,  Daniel,  Ebenezer  and  Mary,  shall 
be  sent  to  his  cousin  Jonas  Weed,  of  Stamford,  Connecticut,  "if  their  mother  can- 
not decently  maintain  them  in  this  country."  Letters  testamentary  were  granted 
to   the   widow   only. 

Ebenezer  Westcott,  son  of  Daniel  and  Abigail,  born  in  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
was  a  minor  at  the  death  of  his  father  in  1703.  His  will  probated  in  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey,  March  24,  1748,  mentions  his  wife  Barbara,  sons,  Eben- 
ezer, Foster,  Samuel,  Jonathan,  David  and  Joseph;  and  his  daughters  Abigail, 
Rhoda,   Phoebe,   and  Joanna. 

Samuel  Westcott,  of  Fairfield,  Cumberland  county,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Bar- 
bara, was  Captain  of  a  company  in  the  First  Battalion,  Cumberland  county  militia, 
commanded  by  Colonel  Elijah  Hand,  during  the  Revolution.  He  was  a  free- 
holder of  Cumberland  county,  in  1786  and  1788,  and  filled  other  muni- 
cipal offices.  He  died  at  Fairfield  Cross-Roads,  in  1792.  His  will,  probated 
March  20,  1792,  devises  his  lands  to  his  sons  Samuel  and  John,  and  his  personal 
estate  to  his  daughters,  Hannah,  wife  of  Amos  Sheppard,  and  Mary  and  Louisa 
Westcott.  Samuel  Westcott  married,  about  1760,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Carll 
and  Hannah  Shaw,  of  Fairfield,  Cumberland  county,  granddaughter  of  Edmund 
Shaw,  of  Fairfield  who  died  in  1719,  and  his  wife  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abiel 
Carll,  of  Cohansey;    and  great-granddaughter  of  Richard  Shaw. 

John,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Shaw)  Westcott,  was  born  at  Fair- 
field, Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  March  i,  1766,  and  died  October  8, 
1819.  He  was  prominent  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  county,  serving  many  years 
as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  (commissioned  1810  and  1816),  and  was  captain  of  a 


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troop  of  horse  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  (first),  January  x.  1787.  his  cousin 
Rebecca  Westcott,  who  died  June  17,  1788,  leaving  a  son  David,  born  December 
o,  1787.  He  married  (second),  November  2,  1789,  Mary  Bennett,  (b.  June  29, 
1770,  d.  Jan.  14,  1850),  daughter  of  Captain  Jeremiah  Bennett,  (b.  Jan.  23,  1736, 
d.  Nov.  21,  1807),  and  his  wife  Sarah  Berryman,  (b.  Feb.  21,  1738,  m.  Nov.  23, 
1759,  d.  Feb.  9,  1798),  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah   (Bateman)   Berryman. 

Captain  Jeremiah  Bennett,  (1736-1807),  above  mentioned,  was  in  active  ser- 
vice during  the  Revolutionary  war  as  captain  in  the  First  Battalion,  Cumberland 
county  militia,  and  Colonel  Enos  Seeley"s  battalion.  New  Jersey  state  troops. 

Mary  (Westcott)  Sheppard,  wife  of  Ephraim  Sheppard,  was  the  fourth  of 
the  ten  children  of  Captain  John  and  Mary   (Bennett)   Westcott. 

Ephraim  and  Mary  (Westcott)  Sheppard  had  three  children:  Mary  Jane, 
born  December  18,  1824,  married  Charles  Campbell  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey; 
Isaac  Applin  Sheppard,  of  whom  presently;  La  Fayette  Sheppard,  born  Jan- 
uary 29,  1831,  died  of  yellow  fever  in  New  Orleans,  October  19,  1859.  Ephraim 
Sheppard,  being  several  years  younger  than  his  half  brothers  and  sisters,  they 
had  married  and  found  homes  of  their  own  before  he  became  of  age  and  the  care 
of  the  old  Sheppard  homestead  at  Back  Neck,  Cumberland  county,  largely 
devolved  upon  him  while  he  was  yet  a  minor,  his  father  having  died  when  he  was 
in  his  fifteenth  year.  He  continued  to  conduct  the  farm  until  the  death  of  his 
stepmother,  his  father's  third  wife,  and  then,  at  the  solicitation  of  the  other  heirs, 
purchased  it  at  a  high  price  and  mortgaged  it  to  secure  the  shares  of  his  broth- 
ers and  sisters  therein.  The  tremendous  money  stringency  and  business  depres- 
sion caused  by  President  Jackson's  withdrawal  of  the  government  deposits  from 
the  United  States  bank,  in  1832,  and  the  destruction  for  the  United  States  bank- 
ing system,  induced  the  mortgagee  to  demand  immediate  payment,  and  the  impos- 
sibility of  either  securing  a  purchaser  for  the  farm  or  funds  to  pay  the  mortgage, 
resulted  in  foreclosure  and  the  utter  financial  ruin  of  Mr.  Sheppard.  The  old 
farm  of  his  ancestors  was  sold  at  a  great  sacrifice  and  after  a  few  years  spent 
in  his  native  county  as  a  renter,  he  secured  a  position,  in  January,  1839,  in  Phil- 
adelphia and  removed  with  his  family  to  that  city,  but  was  stricken  down  with  a 
severe  sickness  in  the  autumn  of  the  same  year,  which  deprived  him  of  the  use 
of  his  limbs.  In  this  condition  he  remained  for  several  months  and  never  fully 
regained  his  health.     He  died  July  9,  1848. 

Isaac  Applin  Sheppard,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Mary  (Westcott)  Sheppard, 
born  on  the  Sheppard  homestead  in  Back  Neck,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, July  II,  1827,  rose  to  the  position  of  one  of  the  most  honored,  valued  and 
wealthy  citizens  of  Philadelphia,  under  the  most  adverse  circumstances.  His 
parents  removed  from  the  old  homestead,  March  25,  1835,  when  he  was  in  his 
ninth  year,  and  March  25,  1837,  took  up  their  residence  at  Fairfield.  Isaac,  then 
less  than  ten  years  of  age  found  it  incumbent  upon  him  to  earn  his  own  living, 
and  went  to  live  with  a  Mr.  Howell  in  the  neighborhood,  returning  home  in  the 
fall  to  attend  school  at  Sayre's  Neck,  four  and  a  half  miles  distant,  again  taking 
a  like  position  with  a  Mr.  Ogden  at  Cedarville,  the  following  spring,  and  return- 
ing home  for  school  in  the  fall.  With  the  removal  to  Philadelphia  in  1839,  and 
his  father's  sickness,  he  was  thrown  almost  wholly  upon  his  own  resources  at 
the  age  of  twelve  years,  and  with  the  death  of  his  mother  in  1842,  his  home  was 
also  broken  up.     He  first  secured  a  position  as  errand  boy  in  a  shoe  store,  then 


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for  about  a  year  as  packing  boy  in  a  cracker  factory,  followed  by  a  like  period 
in  a  candy  manufactory.  In  July,  1843,  he  secured  an  apprenticeship  in  a  brass 
and  iron  foundry  with  a  view  of  learning  the  trade  of  a  moulder,  but  the  death 
of  the  proprietor  and  consequent  closing  of  the  works  six  months  later  necessi- 
tated another  change  and,  in  January,  1844,  he  entered  on  a  three  years'  appren- 
ticeship with  Charles  W.  Warnick  &  Co.,  stove  and  hollow  ware  founders,  and  at 
the  close  of  his  apprenticeship,  was  retained  by  them  as  a  journeyman,  their  sat- 
isfaction with  his  services  and  his  proficiency  as  an  apprentice  being  such  that  he 
was  assured  that  he  could  have  employment  as  long  as  they  had  work  for  any 
one.  His  schooling,  from  the  first,  confined  to  four  months  each  year,  ended 
entirely  at  twelve  years  of  age,  and  his  education  was  mainly  acquired  by  even- 
ing study,  after  a  hard  day's  work  in  the  foundry.  These  studies  were  conducted 
systematically,  and  he  was  enabled  to  stand  well  with  men  who  had  received 
much  better  educational  advantages.  He  became  a  charter  member  of  Welcome 
Lodge  No.  229,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  1847,  ''"d  was  made  sec- 
retary thereof,  which  enabled  him  to  acquire  some  knowledge  of  book-keeping. 
Carefully  husbanding  his  earnings,  he  acquired  a  small  capital,  and  in  1848,  witb 
a  number  of  his  associates  formed  a  savings  and  loan  association,  on  practically 
the  same  plan,  as  the  now  popular  and  numerous  building  and  loan  associations,, 
the  share  holders  paying  in  one  dollar  per  month,  per  share,  and  the  shares 
maturing  at  $200.  In  1849,  ^^  purchased  a  lot  on  North  Sixth  street  and  built 
the  house  in  which  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life,  a  period  of  nearly  a  half 
century;  and,  February  5,  1850,  he  married  Caroline  Mary,  (b.  Feb.  5,  1826), 
daughter  of  John  Holmes,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  and  his  wife  Mary 
Hooper,  a  native  of  Devonshire,  England.  The  former  died  in  Philadelphia, 
January,  1828,  and  the  latter  April  9,  1879.  Mrs.  Sheppard  was  a  fit  helpmate  to 
the  struggling  and  ambitious  mechanic  and  shared  lovingly  his  joys  and  sorrows 
for  over  a  half  century.  In  i860,  Isaac  A.  Sheppard,  having  accumulated  a 
modest  capital,  decided  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account.  He  pur- 
chased a  property  on  Girard  avenue  between  Seventh  and  Marshall  streets,  and 
in  partnership  with  four  of  his  fellow  workmen,  under  the  firm  name  of  Isaac 
A.  Sheppard  &  Co.,  started  the  Excelsior  Stove  Works  and  Hollow  Ware 
Foundry.  The  firm  soon  gained  a  high  reputation  for  the  excellence  of  its  pro- 
ducts and  the  business  increased  rapidly.  In  1866  they  established  a  branch  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  for  the  manufacture  of  goods  for  the  southern  market. 
Mr.  Sheppard  having  the  financial  control  and  general  management  of  both 
establishments.  With  a  steady  increase  in  the  business,  greater  facilities  were 
required,  so  in  1871,  he  purchased  the  property  bounded  by  Third,  Berks  and 
Fourth  streets  and  Montgomery  avenue,  belonging  to  the  Frankford  and  South- 
wark  Passenger  Railway  Company,  and  erected  additions  to  the  buildings  and 
fitted  the  plant  with  machinery,  increasing  the  capacity  of  his  Philadelphia  estab- 
lishments to  a  making  and  melting  capacity  of  forty  tons  of  iron  per  day.  Dur- 
ing the  financial  panic  of  1873,  his  was  one  of  the  few  industrial  establishments 
that  were  run  up  to  their  full  capacity.  Of  his  four  original  partners,  one  died 
in  1878,  one  in  1882,  another  in  1883  and  the  last  in  1886.  Mr.  Sheppard  pur- 
chased successively  their  interest  in  the  business,  and  associated  with  him  his  two 
sons,  Franklin  L.  and  Howard  R.  Sheppard,  who  still  conduct  the  business  under 
the  old  firm  name  of  Isaac  A.  Sheppard  &  Co.     Mr.  Sheppard's  associations  with 


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and  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his  employees  was  such  that  there  was  always 
the  closest  co-operation  and  good  feeling  between  employer  and  employed.  On 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  engaging  in  the  foundry  business,  in  July,  1893, 
he  gave  a  banquet  to  the  workmen  at  the  Baltimore  and  Philadelphia  works,  and 
the  employees,  unknown  to  him,  arranged  to  present  to  him  a  loving  cup,  in 
appreciation  of  the  many  kindnesses  received  at  his  hands,  the  presentation  being 
made  by  Mr.  Lawrence  a  life-long  friend  and  shop-mate. 

Notwithstanding  the  engrossing  care  of  the  building  up  and  maintaining  the 
mammoth  business  establishments  under  his  personal  supervision,  Mr.  Sheppard 
found  time  to  devote  to  public,  charitable  and  benevolent  enterprises,  and  his 
ability,  zeal  and  indomitable  energy,  easily  brought  him  to  the  fore- front  in  pub- 
lic as  in  private  affairs.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  in  1858,  and 
twice  re-elected,  serving  three  years.  His  three  terms  covered  an  eventful  period 
in  the  history  of  the  states  and  union,  and  business  of  vital  importance  came 
before  the  legislature.  Among  the  earlier  measures,  which  he  advocated  and 
successfully  carried  through,  was  a  law  regulating  building  and  loan  associa- 
tions, in  which  he  was  much  interested,  as  furnishing  means  whereby  working 
men  could  procure  their  own  homes.  He  was  chairman  of  the  ways  and  means 
committee  in  1861,  and  as  such  had  charge  of  measures  for  sustaining  the 
national  government  when  it  was  threatened  with  disruption  by  the  civil  war, 
preparing  and  reporting  the  "Act  to  create  a  Loan  for  Arming  the  State",  under 
which  the  fifteen  regiments  of  Pennsylvania  reserves  were  organized  and  did 
valiant  service  during  the  war.  He  was  a  warm  supporter  of  the  federal  author- 
ities and  freely  contributed  his  personal  service  and  influence  in  every  way  pos- 
sible during  the  war. 

In  1861,  by  reason  of  the  protracted  illness  of  the  speaker  of  the  house  of 
representatives,  it  was  necessary  to  elect  a  speaker  pro  tern  and  Mr.  Sheppard 
was  unanimously  elected  to  the  position  and  exercised  the  functions  of  speaker 
with  dignity,  credit  and  marked  abilitj',  during  more  than  one-third  of  that 
memorable  session,  in  addition  to  filling  the  position  of  chairman  of  the  ways 
and  means  committee.  In  1867,  Mr.  Sheppard  was  unanimously  elected  by  the 
councils  of  Philadelphia,  to  represent  the  interests  of  the  city  in  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Northern  Liberties  Gas  Company  and  served  the  city  in  that 
trust  for  over  thirty  years,  being  successively  re-elected  by  acclamation.  In  1879 
he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  First  school  district 
of  Pennsylvania  in  which  he  served  until  December,  1896;  and  one  of  the  most 
enduring  monuments  to  his  memory  is  the  work  he  accomplished  for  the  better- 
ment of  the  public  education  of  boys.  He  was  one  of  the  committee  that  estab- 
lished the  School  of  Industrial  Art  Education,  and  of  the  committee  tliat  organized 
and  established  the  Central  Manual  Training  School.  He  was  always  active  and  ag- 
gressive in  advancing  the  educational  interests  of  the  city.  In  January,  1889,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Board  of  Education  and  was  annually  re-elected  to  and 
including  the  year  1896.  November  24.  1896,  he  sent  a  letter  of  resignation  to 
the  board,  and  the  judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  that  had  appointed  him, 
his  continued  ill  health  demanding  his  relinquishment  of  the  duties  of  the  office. 
His  letter  to  the  Board  of  Education  recites  the  accomplishment  of  his  seventeen 
years  of  service  on  the  board,  in  the  betterment  of  the  night  schools,  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  superintendency  and  a  well-graded  course  of  study ;   better  meth- 


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ods  of  instruction ;  establishment  of  public  kindergartens,  the  School  of  Indus- 
trial Art,  the  two  Manual  Training  High  Schools  for  Boys,  the  High  School  for 
Girls,  the  School  of  Pedagogy,  etc.,  in  all  of  which  he  had  been  one  of  the  most 
active.  His  resignation  was  accepted  with  the  utmost  regret  by  both  the  board 
and  the  public  at  large.  Resolutions  were  adopted,  by  the  Board  of  Education 
and  the  school  directors,  of  a  highly  complimentary  nature ;  many  letters  of  the 
same  import  were  received  from  persons  prominent  in  the  cause  of  education, 
and  the  public  press  of  Pliiladelphia  voiced  the  regret  of  the  public  at  the  loss  of 
his  eminent  services.  In  1890,  when  city  councils  had  failed  to  make  sufficient 
appropriation  for  the  establishment  of  an  additional  Manual  Training  School, 
Mr.  Sheppard  assumed  the  responsibility  of  providing  the  equipment  of  rooms 
therefor,  by  advancing  $1,500  to  the  Board  of  Education  for  that  purpose.  He 
labored  with  the  councils  for  years  for  an  appropriation  for  a  new  building  for 
the  Boys'  Central  High  School,  and  had  the  satisfaction  of  laying  the  corner 
stone,  as  president  of  the  board,  October  20,  1894.  Mr.  Sheppard  became  a 
member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  1852,  and  was  for  thirty-five  years 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  of  Emanuel  church.  He  was  active  in  all 
branches  of  church  work  and  served  as  vestryman  for  over  forty  years,  and  as 
lay  delegate  in  many  diocesian  conventions.  In  1890,  he  built  and  presented  to 
the  trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  City  Mission,  a  cottage  building  to  fur- 
nish additional  accommodations  at  the  House  for  Consumptives  at  Chestnut  Hill, 
since  known  as  "The  Sheppard  Memorial  Cottage  of  the  Home  for  Consump- 
tives." In  1870,  Isaac  A.  Sheppard  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  National 
Security  bank,  and  became  one  of  its  board  of  directors.  In  1874,  he  was  unani- 
mously chosen  vice-president,  and  in  1886,  its  president,  filling  that  position  until 
his  death.  He  was  also  many  years  a  director  and  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Northern  Savings  Fund  and  Safe  Deposit  Company. 

As  before  stated,  Isaac  A.  Sheppard  united  himself  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  1847,  as  a  charter  member  of  Welcome  Lodge  No. 
229.  Of  his  work  in  and  impress  on  the  great  charitable,  benevolent,  and  fra- 
ternal order,  volumes  might  be  written.  Believing  thoroughly  in  its  cardinal 
principle  of  the  fatherhood  of  God,  and  brotherhood  of  man,  he  labored  incessantly 
for  its  upbuilding,  and  its  establishment  on  a  firm  basis  financially.  He  united 
with  Palestine  Encampment  No.  51,  and  served  several  years  as  its  scribe  as 
well  as  secretary  of  his  lodge.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1849,  and  to  the  Grand  Encampment  in  1856.  He  represented  his 
Lodge  in  the  Grand  Lodge  for  many  years,  being  absent  from  but  three  ses- 
sions in  forty-six  years.  He  was  elected  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in 
1874,  and  in  1878,  was  elected  representative  to  the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge,  and 
regularly  re-elected  until  1886,  when  he  was  elected  Grand  Treasurer  of  the  Sov- 
ereign Grand  Lodge,  which  position  he  resigned  in  1895  by  reason  of  failing  health, 
the  resignation  being  accepted  with  great  regret,  publicly  expressed  by  a  special 
committee  appointed  to  secure  his  continued  service  if  possible.  In  both  the 
Grand  and  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  he  served  on  the  most  important  committees  and 
took  an  active  part  in  all  legislation  introduced,  and  many  of  the  committee 
reports  during  his  terms  of  service  bear  the  impress  of  his  ripe  experience  as  a 
legislator,  and  his  wisdom,  sagacity  and  zeal  for  the  strengthening  and  upbuilding 


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of  the  great  moral  features  of  the  order,  and  in  furthering  its  designs  to  promote 
the  welfare  and  happiness  of  common  humanity.  He  was  prominent  in  its  coun- 
cils, vigilant  in  guarding  its  interests,  and  tireless  in  his  labors  to  promote  the 
welfare  and  usefulness  of  the  great  order  which  he  loved,  and  by  whose  mem- 
bers he  was  loved  and  known  in  all  parts  of  the  country  as  a  great  and  good 
man. 

He  married  Caroline  Mary  Holmes,  who  was  born  February  5,  1826,  and  died 
May  24,  1897.  He  died  March  6,  1898.  They  had  six  children  :— Applin  Holmes 
Sheppard,  born  November  28,  1850,  died  January  21,  185 1  ;  Franklin  Lawrence 
Sheppard,  of  whom  presently;  Mary  Ball  Sheppard,  born  June  7,  1858,  died 
May  2,  1872;  Heber  Judson  Sheppard,  born  June  8,  1863,  died  October  26, 
1886;    and  Howard  Reynolds  Sheppard,  of  whom  later. 

Franklin  Lawrence  Sheppard,  second,  and  eldest  surviving,  son  of  Isaac 
A.  and  Caroline  Mary  (Holmes)  Sheppard,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August 
7,  1852.  He  was  educated  in  public  and  private  schools  of  Philadelphia,  pre- 
paring for  college  at  the  classical  school  of  William  Fewsmith,  then  a  leading 
educator  of  Philadelphia.  He  entered  the  college  department  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  1868,  and  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  of  1872,  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Taking  a  post-graduate  course,  he  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  the  same  institution  in  1875.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Delta  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternity  of  the  University. 
In  1875,  he  went  to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  had  charge  of  the  branch  house 
of  the  firm  of  Isaac  A.  Shepherd  &  Co.,  in  that  city  until  1888.  In  the  lat- 
ter year  he  removed  to  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  where  he  has  since  resided, 
being  still  actively  engaged  in  the  busines  established  by  his  father  as  the  head 
of  the  firm  of  Isaac  A.  Sheppard  &  Co.,  in  which  he  and  his  brother  How- 
ard Reynolds   Sheppard,   are   the  only   surviving  partners. 

Mr.  Sheppard  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution;  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and  City  Clubs,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  is  a  director  of  the  National  Security  bank.  He  is  connected  with  the  First 
Presbyterian  church  of  Germantown,  and  has  for  many  years  been  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  his  section,  having  been  President  of  the 
Presbyterian  Social  Union  of  Philadelphia,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Board 
of  Publication  and  Sabbath  School  Work,  and  also  of  the  Hymnal  Committee 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United  States  of  America.  He  has  also 
served  repeatedly  as  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  General  Assembly. 

Franklin  L.  Sheppard  married  (first),  September  15,  1875,  Mary  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Jesse  and  Elizabeth  (Shinnick)  Lee,  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  William  Lee,  an  officer  under  William,  Prince  of  Orange,  at  the  battle  of 
Boyne,  said  to  have  been  a  near  relative  of  the  progenitor  of  the  illustrious 
Richard  Henry  Lee,  and  "Light  Horse  Harry  Lee"  of  the  Virginia  family  of 
Lee. 

William  Lee  is  said  to  have  come  to  Pennsylvania  soon  after  the  battle  of 
Boyne,  but  little  is  known  of  his  life  here.  He  is  supposed  to  have  located  on 
land  surveyed  to  the  Pennsylvania  Land  Company  of  London,  in  the  manor  of 
Highlands,   Upper   Makefield  township,   Bucks  county,   where   land,  previously 


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occupied  by  the  family,  was  conveyed  to  his  son  William  Lee  (2),  on  the  clos- 
ing out  of  the  lands  of  the  London  Company  many  years  later. 

William  Lee  (2),  born  about  1700,  married,  in  1729,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
William  Smith,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  ship  "Friends'  Adventure" 
which  arrived  in  the  river  Delaware,  September  28,  1682,  and  lived  with  Phineas 
Pemberton,  the  eminent  Bucks  county  official,  known  as  the  "Father  of  Bucks 
County"  at  the  Falls,  for  a  few  years,  and  then  located  on  a  large  tract  of  land  in 
Wrightstown,  where  he  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers.  This  William  Smith 
married,  November  20,  1690,  Mary  Croasdale,  who  had  accompanied  her  parents, 
Thomas  and  Agnes  Croasdale,  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Welcome"  with  William 
Penn  in  1682,  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Lee  was  their  eighth  child.  Mary  (Croas- 
dale) Smith  died  in  17 16,  and  William  Smith  died  in  1743.  Their  descendants 
have  taken  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs  in  Bucks  county  and  elsewhere  since 
the  earliest   colonial   times. 

Thomas  Lee,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Lee,  was  the  ances- 
tor of  Mary  Eleanor  (Lee)  Sheppard.  He  was  born  in  the  year  1730,  at  the 
old  Lee  homestead  near  the  present  site  of  Buckmanville,  Upper  Makefield  town- 
ship, Bucks  county,  and  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Solebury  township, 
removing  later  in  life  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  about  the  year  1812.  He 
married  (first)  in  1754,  Mary  Burgess,  by  whom  he  had  ten  children,  and  (sec- 
ond) in  1785,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Reuben  and  Effie  (Burd)  Pownall,  of  Sole- 
bury,  and  great-granddaughter  of  George  and  Eleanor  Pownall,  of  Leylock, 
county  Chester,  England,  who  also  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Friends'  Adven- 
ture" September  28,  1682,  and  settled  in  Bucks  county.  Two  brothers  of  Han- 
nah (Pownall)  Lee,  Reuben  and  George,  married  daughters  of  Thomas  Lee  by 
his  first  wife  Mary  Burgess.  She  was  bom  in  Solebury,  Bucks  county,  August 
6,  1759,  and  was  younger  than  the  first  three  daughters  of  her  husband  by  Mary 
Burgess.  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Pownall)  Lee  had  three  children,  Reuben, 
Effie  and  William. 

Reuben  Lee,  the  eldest  child,  born  in  Solebury,  Bucks  county,  January  18, 
1786,  married  Clarissa,  daughter  of  William  Wetherill,  of  the  family  of  that 
name  long  prominent  in  Philadelphia,  a  descendant  of  Christopher  Wetherill 
one  of  the  earliest  English  settlers  of  New  Jersey,  and  resided  for  many  years 
at  Mil  ford.  New  Jersey,  removing  in  1839  to  Newtown,  Bucks  county,  where 
he  died,  August  27,  1872.  His  wife  Clarissa,  who  was  born,  December  16,  1788. 
and  died,  January  29,  1876.  They  had  eight  children : — Wetherill,  died  in  1874, 
aged  62;  Eleanor,  married  A.  E.  Albright  and  died  in  1853;  Mary,  died  unmar- 
ried in  1853;  Jesse,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Sheppard,  born,  October  22,  1817,  at 
Milford,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  died  in  Philadelphia,  June  28,  1875, 
married  Elizabeth  Shinnick ;  William,  still  living  at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota ;  Clara, 
married  Louis  Buckman  of  Newtown,  Bucks  county;  Keturah,  died  unmarried 
in  Bucks  county  in  1904;  Joseph,  still  living  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  Frank- 
lin Lawrence  and  Mary  Eleanor  (Lee)  Sheppard,  had  five  children,  all  bom  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland : — Mary  Sheppard,  born  1876 ;  Grace,  born  1877 ;  Irene, 
born  1879;  Walter  Lee,  born  1880,  a  practicing  attorney  in  Philadelphia;  Helen, 
bom  1882,  died  in  infancy.  Mary  Eleanor  (Lee)  Sheppard  died  February  22, 
1904,  and   Mr.   Sheppard  married    (second),   at    Plymouth,   Indiana,   August    i. 


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1906,  Victoria,  daughter  of  Gilson  Strong  Cleaveland,  of  a  well-known  New  Eng- 
land family,  who  settled  in  Indiana  in  1835,  who  died  at  Plymouth,  December 
12,  1906,  in  his  ninety-fifth  year.  The  only  child  of  Franklin  Lawrence  and 
Victoria  (Cleaveland)  Sheppard,  is  Mildred  Cleaveland,  born  January  21,  1908. 

Howard  Reynolds  Sheppard,  youngest  child  of  Isaac  A.  and  Caroline  Mary 
(Holmes)  Sheppard,  was  bom  in  Philadelphia,  December  31,  1865.  He  was 
educated  at  the  Eastburn  Academy,  Philadelphia,  and  on  his  graduation  in 
1884,  became  actively  associated  with  his  father  and  elder  brother  Franklin  Law- 
rence Sheppard,  in  the  stove  foundry  business  of  the  firm  of  Isaac  A.  Sheppard 
&  Co.  of  which  firm  he  became  a  member  on  reaching  his  majority,  and  of 
which  he  and  his  brother  are  now  the  surviving  partners,  still  carrying  on  a 
large  business  under  the  old  firm  name.  Mr.  Sheppard  is  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  in  right  of  his  great-great-grand- 
fathers, Joseph  Sheppard  and  Ephraim  Harris,  members  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  of  Cumberland  county;  his  great-great-great-grandfather  Thomas 
Haines,  Chairman  of  that  body;  and  of  his  great-great-grandfathers,  Samuel 
Westcott  and  Captain  Jeremiah  Bennett,  of  the  New  Jersey  troops  during  the 
Revolution.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  L^nion  League,  Manufacturers'  and 
City  Clubs,  of  Philadelphia.  Like  his  father  he  early  united  with  the  Indepen- 
dent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  he  is  an  active  and  prominent  member  of  that 
Order,  as  well  as  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 

Howard  R.  Sheppard  married,  December  21,  1891,  Mary  Estelle  (b.  May  10, 
1871,  d.  Aug.  14,  1907),  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Margaret  Fowles  of  Phila- 
delphia. They  had  one  child,  Isaac  Applin  Sheppard,  who  was  born  April 
30,   1894. 


JACOB  ESHER  HEYL 

The  ancestors  of  tlie  Heyl  family  of  Philadelphia,  resident  in  the  Grand- 
Duchy  of  Baden,  were  early  converts  to  the  Protestant  faith,  who  affiliated  with 
the  Moravian  Brethren. 

John  Thomas  Heyl,  the  earliest  ancestor  of  whom  we  have  any  definite  rec- 
ord, with  his  wife  Kathrina,  resided  at  a  place  called  Vahesbach,  a  little  village 
near  Saisheim,  Baden,  on  the  river  Main,  where  Kathrina  died  August  20,  1738, 
and  from  whence  John  Thomas  Heyl  and  two  of  his  sons,  Heinrich,  aged  40, 
and  George  Thomas  aged  ;^7,  with  their  families  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  the 
following  year,  crossing  the  Atlantic  in  the  good  ship  "Friendship,"  Captain 
William  Vittery,  with  about  sixty  other  families  of  German  Protestants,  and 
landing  at  Philadelphia,  September  3,  1739.  They  affiliated  with  the  Moravian 
Church  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  aged  emigrant,  who  did  not  long  survive  his 
settlement  in  the  city  of  brotherly  love,  lies  buried  in  the  old  Moravian  bury- 
ing ground  at  the  corner  of  Franklin  and  Wood  streets. 

George  Thomas  Heyl,  son  of  John  Thomas  and  Kathrina,  was  born  at  Sais- 
heim Baden,  August  2,  1702,  and  was  christened  at  the  Moravian  church  at 
Kambach.  At  an  early  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  a  tailor,  with 
Daniel  Alberch,  or  Alberg,  at  Bischoffsheim,  on  a  branch  of  the  river  Main, 
called  Tauler,  some  miles  below  Saisheim,  and  on  coming  of  age  went,  according 
to  an  ancient  German  custom,  on  the  Vandenchaft,  a  travel  or  pilgrimage  away 
from  home  to  learn  the  ways  of  the  world  before  settling  down  permanently. 
Returning  to  the  home  of  his  parents,  he  betrothed,  January  4,  1728,  and  married. 
May  25,  1728,  at  Bischoffsheim,  Susannah  Steirheim,  the  sweetheart  of  his 
apprentice  days,  born  at  Bischofifsheim  January  13,  1706.  After  following  his 
vocation  in  his  native  country  for  eleven  years,  George  Thomas  Heyl  decided 
to  emigrate  with  his  little  family  to  the  land  of  promise  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
many  of  his  countrymen  had  already  settled,  and  his  mother  having  died  a  year 
previously,  his  aged  father,  and  an  elder  brother  accompanied  them  to  Phila- 
delphia in  the  "Friendship"  where  they  arrived,  September  3,  1739,  as  before 
stated.  George  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Steirheim)  Heyl  were  members  of  the 
Moravian  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  and  lie  buried  in  the  old  Moravian  church- 
yard at  Franklin  and  Wood  streets,  the  latter  dying,  August  3,  1780.  On  the 
baptismal  record  of  the  church  may  be  found  the  record  of  the  baptism  of  five 
of  their  children  born  in  Philadelphia,  exclusive  of  that  of  their  son  Philip,  born 
less  than  two  weeks  after  their  arrival  in  the  city.  They  probably  had  other  chil- 
dren born  in  Germany,  but  we  have  no  complete  list  of  them.  Those  baptized 
at  the  Moravian  Church  were, — Daniel  Christopher,  born  January  14,  1745,  bap- 
tized January  16;  Gottfried,  born  August  22,  1746;  John,  born  March  28,  1748, 
baptized  March  30,  died  in  infancy;  John,  born  July  18,  1750,  baptized  July  19. 
married,  at  the  German  Reformed  Church  of  Philadelphia,  September  18,  1771, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Adam  Strieker,  a  blacksmith,  of  the  Northern  Liberties,  Phil- 


574  HEYL 

adelphia,  and  had  sons  John  and  Philip;  Mary,  born  August  19,  1752,  married 
November  7,  1771,  Philip  Worn;  George,  another  son,  married  July  14,  1763, 
Sophia  Ohmenzettern,  and  left  issue. 

Philip  Heyl,  son  of  George  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Steirheim)  Heyl,  was 
bom  in  Philadelphia,  September  15,  1739,  twelve  days  after  the  arrival  of  his 
parent's  in  that  city,  was  for  many  years  proprietor  of  a  bakery  in  Philadelphia 
and  owned  considerable  real  estate  in  the  city  proper  and  in  Germantown, 
where,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1810,  he  also  owned  a  bake-house  and  dwell- 
ing, the  former  apparently  in  the  tenure  of  his  nephew  John  Heyl,  son  of  his 
brother  John,  who  with  his  son  John  was  named  as  an  executor  of  his  will.  He 
was  a  prominent  business  man  of  Philadelphia,  and  appears  as  executor,  trus- 
tee, etc.,  of  quite  a  number  of  wills,  and  in  other  capacities  of  trust,  in  the  years 
immediately  succeeding  the  Revolutionar}-  War,  in  which  he  had  taken  an  active 
part.  His  commission  as  ensign,  in  the  First  battalion,  Associators  of  the  City 
and  Liberties  of  Philadelphia,  bearing  date  February  4,  1775,  and  signed  by 
John  Morton,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  is  in  the  possession  of 
his  great-grandson,  Jacob  E.  Heyl,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  served  through- 
out the  war  in  the  Philadelphia  Brigade,  under  Brigadier-general  John  Cad- 
walader.  Philip  Heyl  married,  at  the  Lutheran  Church  of  St.  Michael's  and 
Zion,  June  10,  1762,  Maria  Jacobina  Zeigler,  who  was  born  June  i,  1740.  Their 
family  bible,  with  the  dates  of  their  birth  and  those  of  their  children  neatly 
entered  therein,  is  in  possession  of  their  great-grandson,  Jacob  E.  Heyl.  These 
children  were: — George,  born  April  17,  1763,  died  young;  Mary,  born  July  22, 
1765,  died  February  17,  1810,  married  Bernard  Raser ;  Philip,  (2)  born  Febru- 
ary 19,  1765,  died  May  2,  1835;  Susanna,  born  May  9,  1771,  died  young; 
Thomas,  born  September  10,  1772,  died  in  1792;  John,  born  February  7,  1775, 
died  December  11,  1849;  and  Elizabeth,  born  June  26,  1779,  died  1834.  Maria  Ja- 
cobina (Zeigler)  Heyl,  died  in  Philadelphia,  September  2,  1804.  Philip  died  De- 
cember 29,  181 1.  His  will  is  dated  January  31,  1810,  and  mentions  his  sons,  Philip 
and  John,  daughter,  Mary  Raser,  and  his  nephew,  John  Heyl,  son  of  his  brother, 
John  Heyl ;  and  a  codicil  dated  May  7,  1810,  mentions  the  death  of  his  daughter 
Mary,  and  devises  her  share  of  his  estate  to  her  five  children,  William,  Thomas 
Bernard,  George,  and  Mary  Raser.  The  will  of  Mary  Raser,  of  Philadelphia, 
widow  of  Bernard  Raser,  late  of  Philadelphia,  mariner,  dated  February  7,  1810, 
and  probated  February  23,  1810,  mentions  the  same  children,  and  names  her 
brother  John  Heyl,  as  executor. 

John  Heyl,  youngest  son  of  Philip  and  Maria  Jacobina  (Zeigler)  Heyl.  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  February  7.  1775.  and  married.  May  13,  1813,  .\nn  Molle- 
dore,  born  January  3,  1785.  He  died  December  11,  1849. and  she.  October  21,  1864. 
They  had  five  children,  whose  births  are  recorded  in  the  old  Lutheran  bible 
of  Philip  Heyl  before  referred  to,  printed  at  Nuremberg  in  1733.  They  were: — 
William  Molledore,  born  January  3.  1814,  died  October  21,  1864;  Mary  Raser, 
born  May  25,  1816,  died  September  25,  1840;  Ann  Eliza,  born  March  17,  1819; 
John  Bernard,  born  May  8,  1822,  died  November  4,  1874;  Ckorge  Raser,  bom 
November  11,  1824,  died  April  16,  1826. 

John  Bern.\rd  Heyl,  second  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Molledore)  Heyl,  was 
born  May  8,  1822,  and  married,  December  31,  1847,  Jane  Chapman  Esher,  bom 


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October  28,  1825,  daughter  of  William  Esher,  of  Philadelphia,  born  January  25, 
1793,  died  October  13,  1871,  by  his  wife  Jane  Chapman,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, July  22,  1798,  died  May  6,  1855,  and  granddaughter  of  George  Esher, 
and  his  wife,   Sarah   Shuster. 

George  Esher,  the  grandfather  of  Jane  Chapman  (Esher)  Heyl,  was  born 
September  12,  1766,  and  died  February  26,  1855.  He  was  probably  a  son  of 
Johan  Jacob  Esher,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  ship,  "Crawford"  Charles 
Smith,  master,  which  arrived  in  Philadelphia,  October  26,  1768,  from  Rotter- 
dam. George  Esher  and  his  family  were  members  of  Market  Square  Reformed 
church  of  Germantown  and  are  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  the  graveyard  of 
that  church.  August  25,  1779,  George  Esher  enlisted  as  a  drummer  boy  in  the 
company  of  Ezekiel  Leets,  First  Regiment  of  Foot,  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  under  the  command  of  Colonel  William  Bradford,  of  the  Philadelphia 
City  militia,  and  saw  considerable  active  service  in  the  field,  though  but  13  years 
of  age  at  the  date  of  his  enlistment.  George  Esher  married,  at  the  Lutheran 
Church  of  St.  Michael's  and  Zion,  November  14,  1790,  Sarah  Shuster,  who 
died  October  16,  1847.  The  Eshers  owned  a  plantation  lying  on  both  sides  of  the 
Ridge  road,  in  the  present  built  up  limits  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  where  three 
generations  of  the   family  resided. 

William,  son  of  George  and  Sarah  (Shuster)  Esher  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
January  25,  1793,  and  married  there,  November  28,  1820,  Jane,  daughter  of 
Robert  Chapman,  an  English  Quaker,  born  at  Stockton-on-Tees,  county  Durham, 
England,  on  the  borders  of  the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  April  25,  1775,  who 
came  to  Pennsylvania,  with  his  wife  Mary,  born  at  Longnewton,  near  Stockton- 
on-Tees,  November,  1771,  and  lived  for  many  years  near  Chestnut  Hill,  Phila- 
delphia, later  removing  to  a  farm  in  what  is  now  West  Philadelphia,  north  of 
Haver  ford  avenue,  where  he  died,  April  29,  1858,  aged  83  years  and  4  days. 
Jane  (Chapman)  Esher  died  May  6,  1855,  and  her  husband  William  Esher  died 
October  13,  1871.  The  Eshers,  father  and  son  were  active  in  public  affairs  and 
held  municipal  positions   of   importance. 

John  Bernard  and  Jane  Chapman  (Esher)  Heyl,  had  six  children: — Jacob 
Esher  Heyl,  the  subject  of  this  sketch ;  William  Esher,  Mary,  Robert  Chapman, 
Margaret  Chapman,  and  Jane  Heyl. 

Jacob  Esher  Heyl,  eldest  son  of  John  Bernard  and  Jane  Chapman  (Esher) 
Heyl,  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  2,  1849,  was  educated  at  the  Friends'  Central 
School  of  Philadelphia,  graduating  in  1866.  He  then  entered  the  Rensselaer 
Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  New  York,  from  which  he  graduated  in  the  class 
of  1870.  His  father  was  then  a  member  of  a  firm  engaged  in  the  sugar-refining 
business  in  Philadelphia,  and  Jacob  E.  entered  the  firm  on  his  graduation  and 
remained  with  them  until  1890,  when  he  engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage 
business,  founding  the  firm  of  Heyl  &  Company,  which  has  continued  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  Mr.  Heyl  is  a  director  of  the  German-American  Trust  Company,  and 
of  the  Tacony  Trust  Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League,  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  Pennsylvania,  one  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Merion  Cricket  Club,  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  College  Fraternity,  etc.  Mr.  Heyl  married, 
March  i,  1877,  Ella  Cora,  daughter  of  James  Carmalt  and  Mary  (Tuller)  Willis, 


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and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Jacob  Tuller,  who  enlisted  in  1775,  immediately 
after  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  at  Simsbury,  Connecticut,  as  sergeant  of  Com- 
pany H.  Colonel  Jedediah  Huntingdon's  regiment,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut ; 
and  again  enlisted  under  Colonel  Huntingdon  in  the  Eighth  Connecticut  regiment, 
in  1776.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heyl  have  one  daughter,  Marion  \\"\\\\s  Heyl,  born  May 
4,  1883,  who  married,  January  9th,  1907,  George  Sheldon  Chauncey,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  son  of  George  W.  Chauncey.  They  have  issue,  George  Heyl, 
born  September  15,   1908. 

William  Esher  Heyl,  second  son  of  John  Bernard  and  Jane  Chapman 
(Esher)  Heyl,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  December  15,  1850.  His  ancestry  and 
an  account  of  the  Revolutionary  services  of  his  paternal  great-grandfather, 
Philip  Heyl,  (1739-1811)  as  ensign,  in  the  First  battalion,  Philadelphia  Asso- 
ciators,  1775-6,  etc.,  and  of  his  maternal  great-grandfather  George  Esher,  (1766- 
1855),  drummer-boy,  and  ensign,  of  Captain  Ezekiel  Leet's  company  in  Colonel 
William  Bradford's  battalion,  Philadelphia  city  militia,  are  given  in  the  preceding 
sketch  of  his  elder  brother  Jacob  Esher  Heyl,  and  need  not  be  repeated  here. 

William  Esher  Heyl  was  educated  at  the  Friends  Central  School,  Philadel- 
phia, graduating  in  1867.  He  became  at  once  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
sugar-refining  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  has  continued  in  that  business  to  the 
present  time,  being,  since  1880,  associated  with  his  brothers  under  the  firm  name 
of  Heyl  Brothers,  with  offices  at  loi  South  Front  Street,  and  their  refinery  located 
at  Washington  Avenue  and  Water  Street.  Mr.  Heyl  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  of  the  Merion  Cricket  Club,  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  in  right  of  the 
ancestors  above  mentioned. 

William  Esher  Heyl  married  November  i,  1892,  Mary  Jackson,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Hallowell  Clothier,  the  well-known  merchant,  financier,  and  philanthropist, 
of  Philadelphia,  born  in  that  city,  November  5,  1837,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Clapp 
Jackson,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Lieutenant-colonel  Ebenezer  Clapp,  born  in 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  April  23,  1732,  died  there  January  29,  1802,  and  his 
wife,  Mary  Glover,  born  October  18,   1760,  died  September  17,   181 7. 

Lieutenant-colonel  Ebenezer  Clapp,  had  been  commissioned  Colonel  of  the 
Massachusetts  Militia,  early  in  1775,  but  having  received  his  commission  from 
officers  having  their  authority  under  the  British  crown,  with  other  officers  resigned 
his  commission  and  was  re-appointed  by  the  Continental  Congress,  March  7, 
1775,  Lieutenant-colonel  of  Read's  Massachusetts  Regiment,  Continental  line,  and 
served  as  such  from  May  to  December,  1775.  He  became  Lieutenant-colonel  of 
the  Thirteenth  Continental  Infantry,  January  i,  1776,  and  served  with  that  regi- 
ment during  the  war. 

Enoch  Clapp,  son  of  Lieutenant-colonel  Ebenezer  and  Mary  (Glover)  Clapp, 
born  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  August  6,  1790,  died  in  Philadelphia,  May  7, 
1877.  He  married,  Jime  11,  1812,  Mary  Tyson,  born  September  4,  1785,  died 
March  18,  1858,  daughter  of  Elisha  Tyson,  and  a  descendant  of  the  well-known 
Tyson  family  of  Philadelphia  and  vicinity. 

Elizabeth  Howe  Clapp,  daughter  of  Enoch  and  Mary  (Tyson)  Clapp,  born 
May  17,  1814,  died  November  13,  1876,  married,  January  16,  1839,  William 
Jackson,  born  August  9,  181 1,  died  May  16,   1891,  and  they  were  the  parents 


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of  Mary  Clapp  Jackson,  born  September  16,  1842,  who  on  September  i,  1864, 
became  the  wife  of  Isaac  Hallowell  Clothier,  above  mentioned.  Mary  Clothier 
Heyl,  is  a  member  of  the  National  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  in  right  of  her  great-great-grandfather  Colonel  Ebenezer  Clapp. 
She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Acorn  and  Civic  Clubs  of  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Esher  Heyl  reside  at  Wynnewood,  Pennsylvania.  They 
have  three  sons  : — William  Esher  Heyl,  (2),  born  August  26,  1893  ;  Isaac  Clothier 
Heyl,  born  January  13,  1897;  and  Bernard  Chapman  Heyl,  born  June  7,  1905. 


MAGEE  FAMILY 

The  Magee  family,  representatives  of  which  became  identified  with  Philadel- 
phia in  the  decade  following  the  close  of  the  American  Revolution,  are  of  Scotch- 
Irish  origin;  belonging  to  that  vast  army  of  Scotch  covenanters,  the  founders 
of  the  Presbyterian  Kirk  of  Scotland,  who  in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth 
century  sought  refuge  from  religious  persecution  in  the  northern  counties  of  Ire- 
land, from  whence  many  of  them  migrated  to  America,  principally  to  Pennsyl- 
vania and  the  Carolinas,  during  the  period  between  1720  and  1800.  The  Magees 
were  among  those  who  remained  in  Ireland  for  several  generations.  In  the  middle- 
of  the  eighteenth  century,  we  find  them  settled  at  Rathmullen,  in  the  extreme 
northernmost  part  of  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  just  southwest  of  Scotland,  from 
whence  their  forebears  had  migrated  less  than  a  century  before. 

Michael  Magee,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Rath- 
mullen, County  Donegal,  Ireland,  and  received  a  fair  English  education  in  the 
excellent  schools  that  have  always  been  maintained  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  wherever  its  loyal  supporters  established  colonies,  it  being 
a  well-known  historical  fact  that  the  church  and  school  went  hand  in  hand  into 
the  wilderness  of  America  with  the  sturdy  Scotch-Irish  pioneers,  and  this  cus- 
tom had  its  inception  in  the  first  alien  home  of  the  Scotch  covenanters  in  the 
north  of  Ireland.  Michael  Magee  was  married  by  the  Rev.  William  Gamble, 
pastor  of  the  Reformed  Presb3^erian  Church,  at  Letterkenny,  Ireland,  in  1785, 
to  Frances  Mac  Adoo,  of  Rathmelton,  County  Donegal,  and  resided  at  Rath- 
mullen until  1792,  when  he  came  to  Philadelphia,  and  found  employment  as  a 
book-keeper  in  the  offices  of  the  iron-works  of  Leedom  &  Lawrence;  his  wife 
Frances,  and  daughter  Lydia,  following  prior  to  1796.  The  family  united  with 
the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadelphia,  where  they  were  regular  attend- 
ants. Three  other  children,  Elizabeth,  James  and  Michael,  (2),  were  born  in 
Philadelphia.  Michael  Magee  died  in  Philadelphia,  December  31,  1804.  His 
wife  survived  him  nineteen  years,  dying  in  December,  1823. 

Michael  Magee,  (2)  youngest  son  of  Michael  and  Frances  (MacAdoo) 
Magee,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  27,  1805,  nearly  two  months  after 
the  death  of  his  father,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  tliat  city.  He  early 
became  connected  with  and  was  later  a  partner  in  the  firm  established  by  his 
elder  brother  James  Magee,  and  the  lives  of  the  two  brothers  so  closely  asso- 
ciated, much  of  their  property  and  business  interests  being  held  in  common,  that 
any  sketch  of  Michael  Magee  and  his  descendants  would  be  very  incomplete 
without  some  account  of  this  elder  brother. 

James  Magee,  eldest  son  of  Michael  and  Frances  (MacAdoo)  Magee,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  December  5,  1802,  and  was  therefore  but  little  over  two  years 
of  age  at  the  death  of  his  father.  At  an  early  age  he  became  connected  with  the 
firm  of  Peter  Dickson  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  saddlery,  harness,  etc.,  at 
Market  and  Decatur  streets,  and  became  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  business. 


MAGEE  579 

In  1824,  he  and  George  Taber  purchased  the  southern  branch  ot  the  trade  of  the 
firm,  at  New  Orleans,  and  organizing  the  firm  of  Magee  &  Taber,  established 
their  manufacturing  establishment  on  Market  street  near  Fourth,  later  removed, 
under  the  firm  name  of  M.  Magee  &  Company,  to  24  and  26  Decatur  street.  This 
firm  had  only  been  established  one  year,  when  it  was  awarded  a  medal  by  the 
Franklin  Institute  for  the  general  excellency  of  the  goods  manufactured.  This 
was  the  first  medal  ever  awarded  to  that  branch  of  industry.  The  branch  estab- 
lishment, at  New  Orleans,  for  the  sale  of  the  goods  in  the  south,  long  in  charge 
of  Michael  Magee,  the  younger  brother  of  James,  who  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  soon  after  coming  of  age,  was  most  successful,  though  remotely  situated 
from  the  base  of  supplies,  and  carried  on,  on  a  system  of  long  credits  and  barter. 
In  the  early  twenties,  a  trip  from  Philadelphia  to  New  Orleans,  by  the  sailing 
vessels  in  which  their  goods  were  shipped  consumed  thirty-five  days.  This  branch 
of  the  business  was  for  a  time  in  charge  of  George  Taber,  the  junior  member  of 
the  firm,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  he  has  related  that  a  num- 
ber of  their  customers  were  Indians,  who  like  the  other  customers  of  the  firm 
frequently  received  a  long  credit  on  the  goods  purchased,  yet  a  bill  was  never 
lost  through  the  dishonesty  of  the  red  men.  The  successful  outcome  of  the  south- 
ern venture  led  the  firm  to  invest  largely  in  land  in  the  southern  states.  In 
1841  they  purchased  over  3,000  acres  in  Scott  county,  Mississippi,  and  about 
1846,  4,000  acres  in  Wilburger  county,  Texas.  James  Magee  retired  from  the 
firm  in  1847,  ^^d  became  interested  in  the  building  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad 
and  other  enterprises.  He  was  one  of  the  committee  of  seven  appointed  at  a 
town-meeting  held  in  the  Chinese  Museum,  in  April,  1846,  to  set  forth  to  the 
public  the  advantage  of  building  the  road  and  of  its  early  completion,  and  to 
secure  funds  for  that  purpose.  This  committee  collected  from  the  merchants 
of  Philadelphia  the  first  subscriptions,  on  which  was  based  the  organization, 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.    A  historian  of  the  corporation  writes: 

"Old  residents  who  remember  those  days  say  that  James  Magee  was  the  father  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  The  company  formed  in  1846  had  a  hard  struggle  to  get  a  charter 
and  after  it  had  passed  the  legislature,  Governor  Francis  Shunk  refused,  for  some  time  to 
sign  it,  and  Mr.  James  Magee,  during  the  later  years  of  his  life  took  great  pride  in  telling 
how  in  a  personal  interview,  he  prevailed  upon  Mr.  Shunk  to  sign  the  act  of  incorporation." 

Mr.  Magee  was  one  of  the  first  board  of  directors,  and  continued  as  such  for 
many  years.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Harrisburg,  Lancaster,  Portsmouth 
&  Mount  Joy  Railroad;  and  founded  the  Westmoreland  Coal  Company,  to  this 
day  one  of  the  most  successful  coal  companies  in  Pennsylvania.  After  the  close 
of  the  civil  war,  Mr.  Magee  gave  much  time  and  aid  to  Dr.  Emanuel,  of  Vicks- 
burg,  Mississippi,  president  of  the  Vicksburg  &  Meridian  Railroad  Company,  in 
rehabilitating  that  road.  During  the  later  years  of  his  life  James  Magee  was  a 
member  of  the  vestry  of  St.  Stephen's  church.  He  died  in  Philadelphia,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1878.  He  married,  July  5,  1830,  Caroline  Axford  Kneass,  who  was  a 
great-great-granddaughter  of  John  Hart,  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. They  had  seven  children:  Caroline  Lydia,  Elizabeth  Jane,  Fanny 
Sarah,  James  Ronaldson,  Horace,  Frank  Hamilton,  Ann  Justina. 

Michael  Magee,  as  above  stated,  became  associated  with  his  brother  in  the 
firm  of  Magee  &  Taber,  and  later,  on  the  retirement  of  James  Magee,  was  senior 


58o  MAGEE 

member  of  the  new  firm  of  M.  Magee  &  Company.  He  represented  the  firm 
in  the  New  Orleans  sales  department,  where  the  goods  manufacturd  in  Phila- 
delphia were  distributed  among  the  sugar  and  cotton  planters  of  that  section, 
and  spent  most  of  his  winters  in  the  South,  usually  coming  North  during  the 
summer  months,  as  New  Orleans  was  at  this  time  very  unhealthy,  fevers  pecu- 
liar to  that  semi-tropical  climate  and  the  low  marshy  location  being  prevalent, 
and  he  at  one  time  contracted  yellow  fever  there.  During  the  war  of  the  rebel- 
lion the  entire  stock  of  the  firm,  then  Magee  &  Kneass,  was  confiscated  by  the 
Confederate  government,  but  it  was  returned  when  General  Butler  took  command 
of  the  city.  During  the  Mexican  war,  the  firm  received  large  orders  from  the 
United  States  government  for  saddles  and  other  equipment  in  their  line,  for  the 
troops  sent  to  Mexico.  In  1848,  Michael  Magee  erected  his  residence,  No.  1418 
Arch  street,  said  to  have  been  the  first  dwelling  erected  on  the  south  side  of 
Arch  street  between  Broad  street  and  the  Schuylkill.  Here  he  resided  until  his 
death  on  October  8,    1884. 

During  1850  and  1851,  Michael  and  James  Magee  purchased  a  three-hundred- 
acre  farm,  in  what  was  once  known  as  the  Welsh  tract,  just  north  of  Wynne- 
wood  and  Narbeth  stations,  on  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  part  of  612  acres, 
patented  to  John  Thomas,  April  i,  1682.  This  three-hundred-acre  tract,  most 
of  which  is  still  in  its  primitive  condition,  is  yet  owned  by  the  Magee  family. 

Michael  Magee  married,  March  31,  1831,  Catharine  Horter,  born  in  Gwynedd 
township,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  October  19,  1807,  who  died  Janu- 
ary 3,  1899,  aged  ninety-two  years,  having  at  the  time  of  her  decease,  nine  living 
great-grandchildren.  She  was  of  German  ancestry,  a  daughter  of  George  and 
Catharine  (Wise)  Horter;  and  granddaughter  of  Jacob  and  Magdalena  (Rausch) 
Horter,  and  of  John  and  Catharine  Wise,  all  of  Germantown  and  vicinity,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Johan  Nicholas  Rausch,  prominently  identified  with  the 
affairs  of  Germantown  before  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

Johan  Nicholas  Rausch,  born  in  the  little  province  of  Hesse,  in  1704,  emigrated  to 
America  at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years,  arriving  at  Philadelphia  in  the  ship 
"Glasgow,"'  from  Rotterdam,  Walter  Sterling,  master,  September  9,  1738,  with 
348  other  passengers  from  the  Palatinate,  one  of  whom  bearing  the  name  Johan 
Bernhard  Rausch,  aged  24,  was  probably  his  brother.  Johan  Nicholas  Rausch, 
was  a  spinner  of  wool,  or  as  it  was  called  in  his  native  country  in  those  days, 
"blaufarber"  i.  e.  "blue  dyer",  in  the  little  village  of  Bettenhousen,  just  outside 
of  Cassell,  of  which  a  modern  traveller  and  historian  has  written:  "The  little 
country  of  Hesse  itself  was  too  poor  in  fertile  land  and  material  weaUh  to  sup- 
port a  large  town ;  forty  per  cent  of  its  area  is  covered  with  woodland ;  the 
little  mountain  villages  in  whose  cottages  the  loom  is  heard  rattling,  are  surrounded 
by  wide  stretches  of  meadow  and  pasture  land." 

Cassell,  in  the  time  of  the  American  Revolution,  was  the  capital  of  the  Elec- 
torate of  Hesse,  and  it  was  here  that  Prince  Frederick  H,  built  his  most  costly 
gardens,  fountains  and  cascades,  with  money  derived  from  hiring  12,000  of  his 
liege  subjects  to  England,  to  aid  her  in  subduing  the  rebellious  American  colon- 
ies, struggling  for  national  independence.  Quite  a  number  of  the  Palatine  set- 
tlers in  and  around  Germantown  were  spinners  and  weavers  in  their  native 
country  and  followed  that  vocation  after  their  settlement  in  Pennsylvania.     Nich- 


MAGEE  581 

olas  Rausch  purchased  part  of  Lot  No.  14,  of  the  Frankfort  Company's  land, 
Feb.  17,  1 741,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Germantown  road,  that  had  been  owned 
in  1714  by  Peter  Shoemaker.  He  was  a  member  of  the  German  Reformed 
Church,  and  had  married  in  Hesse,  Anna  Charlotta,  maiden  name  unknown,  who 
with  their  daughter,  Maria  Magdalena,  born  December  18,  1734,  and  possibly 
their  eldest  son  Isaac,  accompanied  him  in  the  "Glasgow,"  to  Pennsylvania. 
They  became  members  of  the  Reformed  church  at  Market  square,  Germantown, 
and  when  the  synods  of  the  Reformed  church  in  Holland  sent  inquiries  as  to 
the  location  and  condition  of  the  Reformed  churches  in  Pennsylvania,  with  a 
view  of  sending  funds  to  assist  in  their  maintenance,  the  following  reply  was 
received  from  the  congregation  at  Market  Square ; — as  translated  into  English : — 

"Owing  to  dissensions  caused  by  all  kinds  of  sectarian  persons  the  Germantown 
Church  is  in  a  very  pitiable  condition.  However,  if  the  Germantown  and  Whitemarsh 
congregations  can  be  united,  Ten  Pounds,  Pennsylvania  money  can  be  collected  annually 
for  a  pastor's   salary. 

Signed   as  members   of   the   congregation,   by, 

Jacob    Bauman, 

JOHANN      NiCKLAUS     RaUSCH." 

Germantown,    i8th    March,    1740. 

In  letters  written  by  the  Rev.  Michael  Schlatter,  from  Pennsylvania  to  the 
Synod  of  South  Holland,  dated  September  28  and  October  3,  1746,  he  states 
that  he  had  preached  at  Germantown  and  that  82  male  members  of  the  church 
there,  whose  names  are  in  the  Holland  archives,  had  subscribed  £34  towards  sal- 
ary, and  among  the  larger  subscriptions  is  that  of  "Nicol  Rausch,  £\."  "Johan 
Nicolaes  Rausch  und  Heus  frau  Scharlotta  Rauschin"  were  sponsers  at  the 
baptism  of  "Schalota  Gensel"  at  St.  Michael's  Church,  Germantown,  February 
24,  1743.  Nicholas  Rausch  died  in  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  October  18, 
1757'  aged  53  years  and  9  months;  his  will  signed  October  15,  1757,  has  attached 
to  the  signature,  the  Rausch  family  crest,  a  swan,  in  a  double  octagon.  The  inven- 
tory of  his  estate,  a  horking  loom,  spinning  wheel,  shuttles,  spools  and  other 
weaving  tools  and  stock;  66  pairs  of  stockings,  wool,  woolen  yarn,  and  a  clock 
with  case  valued  at  f  10.  His  widow  Anna  Charlotta  Rausch,  survived  him  many 
years,  dying  May  19,  1794,  aged  88  years.  Johan  Nicholas  and  Anna  Charlotta 
Rausch  had  six  children : — Maria  Magdalena,  and  Isaac  before  mentioned ;  Anne 
Elizabeth,  married  Johan  Jacob  Gerber ;  John ;  Matthias ;  Nicholas ;  Isaac 
married  Anna  Dekhler,  July  14,  1768. 

George  Jacob  Horter,  the  paternal  grandfather  of  Catharine  (Horter)  Magee, 
is  believed  to  have  been  born  in  Spiers,  on  the  river  Rhine.  He  arrived  in  Phil- 
adelphia in  the  ship  "Phoenix,"  John  Mason,  master,  from  Rotterdam,  Septem- 
ber 15,  1749,  and  married,  at  the  German  Reformed  church  of  Germantown,  July 
18,  1753,  Maria  Magdalena  Rausch,  the  eldest  child  of  Johan  Nicholas  and  Anna 
Charlotta  Rausch,  above  mentioned,  who  was  born  in  Bettenhousen,  Hesse  Cas- 
sell,  December  18,  1734.  On  the  records  of  St.  Michael's  and  Zion  Church, 
Philadelphia  we  find  the  baptism  of  their  eldest  child,  Johannes  Horter,  on  the 
same  day  as  his  birth,  December  27,  1755 ;  the  sponsors  being  the  grandparents, 
Niclaus  and  Charlotta  Rausch ;  the  other  nine  children  were  all  born  and  baptised 
in  Germantown.  Jacob  Horter,  as  his  name  is  signed,  was  a  farmer  and  either 
purchased  or  came  into  possession  of,  through  his  wife,  a  large  tract  of  land  in 


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Germantown,  on  the  Main  street,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  August  i6, 
1806.     His  wife  died  October  i,  1796. 

George  Horter,  son  of  George  Jacob  and  Maria  Magdalena  (Rausch)  Horter 
and  the  father  of  Catharine  (Horter)  Magee,  was  born  September  14,  1769,  on 
his  father's  farm  on  Main  street,  Germantown,  where  now  stands  the  house 
No.  6643,  Germantown  avenue.  January  31,  1793,  he  married  Catharine  Wise, 
and  at  about  that  time  removed  to  Gwynedd  township,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
mining  business,  purchasing  the  grist  and  saw  mill  owned  by  Peter  Trokel  in 
1777.  He  died  in  Philadelphia  about  1840,  and  his  wife  Catharine  (Wise)  Hor- 
ter, died  June  8,  1843,  ^^^  7°  years. 

John  Wise,  the  father  of  Catharine,  wife  of  George  Horter,  was  a  resident  of 
Roxboro,  Philadelphia  county,  now  city,  in  1774,  purchasing  on  March  12,  of 
that  year,  of  George  Hocker,  a  grist  and  saw-mill  on  the  Wissahickon  creek, 
with  a  plantation  of  82j4  acres  of  land  in  Whitpain  and  Upper  Dublin  townships, 
now  Montgomery  county.  In  the  deed  for  these  properties  he  is  named  as 
"John  Wise  of  Roxboro,  Miller".  The  mills  purchased  in  1774  were  in  the 
present  town  of  Ambler,  and  were  conveyed  to  George  Hocker,  April  22,  1768, 
by  Lewis  Reynear.  After  the  death  of  John  Wise,  in  1803,  they  were  purchased 
by  his  son  Joseph,  who  operated  them  until  September  9,  1813,  when  they  were 
sold  to  Jacob  Reiff.  April  i,  1796,  John  Wise  and  his  son-in-law  George  Hor- 
ter, purchased  from  Jacob  Gorgas,  son  of  John  Gorgas,  the  original  owner,  a  grist 
mill  and  25  acres  of  land  in  Roxboro,  on  the  Wissahickon,  where  Oil  Mill  Run 
flows  into  the  Wissahickon  at  Gorgas  Lane.  This  mill,  it  is  said,  was  burned 
down  twelve  times  in  a  period  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  years.  It  was  in  this 
mill  that  John  Wise  was  killed,  July  21,  1803.  An  account  of  the  accident  was 
published  in  Poulson's  American  Advertiser,  for  July  27  is  in  part  as  follows: 

"MELANCHOLY  ACCIDENT.— On  Thursday  last  Mr.  John  Wise,  a  reputable  millet 
on  the  Wissahickon  Creek  8  miles  from  the  City,  in  examining  the  spindle  of  the  trammel 
wheel  in  the  mill  when  in  motion,  his  head  was  caught  between  the  great  cog-wheel  and 
wollowers,  which  after  closing  upon  it  gave  sufficient  space  for  his  body  to  pass  below. 
His  son  who  was  near  the  mill  observed  the  works  to  be  deranged  and  closed  the  water- 
gate  and  on  searching  for  the  cause  found  his  father's  body." 

The  son  mentioned  in  the  above  account,  was  John  Wise,  (2),  who  was  a  part- 
ner with  his  father  in  the  operation  of  the  mills,  the  firm  name  being  John  Wise 
&  Son.  John  Wise  (2),  to  whom  letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  his 
father's  estate,  purchased  in  1806.  a  merchant  and  a  grist  mill  with  80  acres 
of  land,  on  both  sides  of  the  Wissahickon,  one  mill  being  in  Germantown  and  the 
other  on  the  Roxboro  side,  just  above  Green  Valley  Inn.  The  Wise  Mill  road 
connecting  them  with  Qiesi'nut  Hill  and  Roxboro.  These  two  mills  were  success- 
fully operated  by  John  Wise,  Jr.,  until  about  1830.  He  sold  the  old  Gorgas 
Mill  to  Peter  Adams,  April  i,  1812. 

John  Wise,  married  in   1772,  Catharine  ,  and  they  had  three  sons  and 

two  daughters,  Catharine,  married  George  Horter  and  Ann,  married  William 
Streeper.  Jacob  Wise,  the  youngest  son.  purchased  the  Stony  Creek  mill  in  Nor- 
ristown,  in  1813.  John  Wise  (i),  was,  in  1777,  a  member  of  Fourth  Batallion, 
Philadelphia  militia,  commanded  by  Col.  William  Dean. 

James  Francis  Magee,  son  of  Michael  and  Catharine  (Horter)  Magee,  was 


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born  in  Philadelphia,  June  5,  1834.  He  graduated  from  the  Central  High  School 
in  1850,  and  in  1855  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  that  institution. 
In  1852  and  1853,  he  was  a  surveyor  in  an  engineering  corps  in  the  employ  of 
the  Subury  &  Erie  Railroad  Company.  In  1853-4,  he  studied  chemistry  in  the 
Booth  Laboratory,  Philadelphia.  April  20,  1855  he  sailed  from  Newr  York  irp 
the  "Washington,"  a  side-wheel  steamer,  for  Bremen,  and  entered  the  Univer- 
sity Georgia  Augusta,  at  Gottingen,  to  study  chemistry,  under  Professor  Wohler, 
and  in  1856,  continued  his  studies  at  the  University  of  Heidelberg,  where  there 
was,  at  the  time,  quite  a  colony  of  American  students.  He  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia, and  in  1858,  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  photographic  chemicals,  at 
108  South  Fifth  street,  with  S.  S.  Garrigues,  under  the  firm  name  of  Garrigues 
&  Magee.  In  1861,  the  firm  became  James  F.  Magee  &  Co.,  which  continued  to 
1877,  when  Mr.  Magee  sold  out  to  Phillips  &  Jacobs,  and  retired  from  active 
business.  James  F.  Magee  was  an  elder  in  the  Arch  Street  Presbyterian  Church 
from  1870  until  his  death  in  1903;  treasurer  of  the  Presbyterian  Home  for 
Single  Women,  and  Trustee  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital.  In  1901,  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  held  in  New 
York  city.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  St.  Andrew's  Society.  James  F. 
Magee  married  December  i,  1859,  Cynthia  Ann  Jarden,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents,  1907  Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia,  the  ceremony  being  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Albert  Barnes,  LL.D.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Cynthia  Eunice  (Whiting)  Jarden,  and  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  19,  1837. 
Up  to  the  time  of  her  marriage  she  had  attended  the  First  Presbyterian  church 
of  Philadelphia,  with  which  the  Jarden's  had  been  connected  for  many  years. 
After  her  marriage  she  took  an  active  interest  in  the  charities  and  missions  of  the 
Arch  Street  church.  She  died  March  30,  1904.  Her  husband,  James  F.  Magee, 
died  October  4,  1903.  The  James  F.  Magee  Memorial  chapel  at  60th  and  Wal- 
nut streets,  dedicated  June  14,  1904,  as  well  as  a  free  bed  in  the  Presbyterian 
hospital,  were  endowed  in  memory  of  James  F.  Magee,  and  his  wife  Cynthia 
Ann    (Jarden)    Magee. 

Robert  Jarden,  great-grandfather  of  Cynthia  Ann  (Jarden)  Magee,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  the  District  of  the  Northern  Liberties  of  Philadelphia  and  married,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1763,  Christiana  McCammon,  or  McCalmont  as  the  name  was  usually 
spelled  later.  She  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  and  supposed  to  have  been  a 
daughter  of  Alexander  McCammon,  an  early  Scotch-Irish  settler  in  Bucks  County. 
They  were  members  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church  and  are  buried  in  the  sec- 
tion reserved  for  that  church  in  the  Old  Pine  street  church-yard  at  Fourth  and 
Pine  streets,  where  their  tombstones  record  that  Robert  Jarden  died,  December 
10,  1803,  aged  74  years  and  4  months;  and  Christiana,  April  21,  1811,  in  her 
76th  year.  In  deeds  recorded  in  Philadelphia,  his  name  is  sometimes  written  as 
"Jordan."  Robert  and  Christiana  (McCammon)  Jarden,  had  at  least  five  chil- 
dren, viz: — Margaret,  born  1769,  married,  August  11,  1788,  Solomon  Maag; 
Samuel  Jarden,  of  whom  presently;    Mary,  married  James  Killigan;    Alexander 

Jarden,  born  May  25,    1773,   married  Rachel  and  had  three  children, 

Julia  married  Joseph  S.  Kite,  Elizabeth  married  Daniel  Leinau,  Alexander  (2), 
died  without  issue;  William,  born  1777,  died  November  14,  1823,  leaving  a 
widow   Mary. 

Samuel,     son     of     Robert     and     Christiana      (McCammon)     Jarden,     and 


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grandfather  of  Cynthia  Ann  (Jarden)  Magee,  was  born  June  9,  1770.  He  was  a 
builder  and  plasterer,  and  owned  considerable  real  estate  in  Philadelphia,  includ- 
ing houses  on  Arch,  Race  and  Spruce  streets.  He  resided  near  Eleventh  and 
Race  streets,  in  the  Northern  Liberties,  and  died,  July  17,  181 7,  leaving  a  goodly 
estate  for  that  time.  He  married,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  Old  Swedes 
Church,  September  i,  1791,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Maria  (Peltz) 
Maag.  She  was  born  in  1774  and  died  December  7,  1855,  surviving  her  husband 
over  thirty-eight  years.  They  were  members  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church, 
where  their  children  were  baptised,  and  are  both  buried  in  the  Old  Pine  street 
graveyard  at  Fourth  and  Pine  streets. 

Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Catharine  (Maag)  Jarden  and  father  of  Cynthia 
Ann  (Jarden)  Magee,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  7,  1802.  In  early  life 
he  established  a  stone-yard  on  Race  street,  below  Tenth,  later  he  was  associated 
with  his  brother  Jacob  Jarden  in  the  establishment  of  the  successful  business 
long  carried  on  by  the  Jarden  Brick  Company.  After  1845,  Samuel  Jarden  was  a 
real  estate  agent  and  built  in  1856,  the  house  No.  1907  Chestnut  street,  where 
he  resided  until  his  death,  July  6,  1864.  He  married,  December  27,  1827,  Cyn- 
thia Eunice,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Cynthia  (Richardson)  Whiting,  of 
whom  later.  She  was  bom  in  Philadelphia  February  18,  1803,  and  died  there 
November   23,    1882. 

Henry  Maag,  grandfather  of  Catharine  Maag  who  married  Robert  Jarden, 
above  mentioned,  was  born  in  Zurich,  Switzerland,  July,  1722,  and  came  to  Phil- 
adelphia with  his  parents  as  a  child.  There  were  at  least  twelve  male  adults 
bearing  the  name  of  Maag,  who  arrived  in  Philadelphia,  between  September  11, 
1732,  and  October  20,  1752.  He  was  doubtless  a  minor  son,  under  16  years  of 
age,  of  one  of  the  earliest  of  these  arrivals.  He  is  known  to  have  had  a  brother 
Conrad  Maag,  born  1731,  and  a  sister  Barbara,  who  married  Samuel  Sivert, 
January    17,    1764. 

There  is  a  very  interesting  account  of  the  migration  of  a  large  company  of 
prospective  emigrants  to  the  Carolinas,  from  Zurich  to  Rotterdam,  under  the 
leadership  of  the  Rev.  Mauritus  Goetschy.  Among  these  was  Hans  Maag,  of 
Hochfelden,  with  five  in  his  family,  and  Johannes  Maag  of  Hochfelden,  with 
three  in  the  family.  They  left  Zurich,  October  5,  1734,  and  after  many  hard- 
ships reached  Rotterdam,  where  they  were  stranded  for  some  time,  while  Goet- 
schy negotiated  with  the  Holland  synods  for  his  own  betterment  in  America. 
Some  of  them  returned  to  Switzerland,  some  crossed  over  to  England  and  the 
residue  eventually  came  to  Philadelphia  in  the  ship  "Mercury",  which  arrived 
May  29,  1735.  The  Maags  were  among  those,  who  according  to  a  circumstantial 
account  of  the  expedition  and  the  emigrants,  went  to  England,  and  they  probably 
came   from  there  to   Philadelphia   some  years  later. 

It  is  very  probable  that  Heinrich  Maag  was  a  relative,  if  not  one  of  this  fam- 
ily. The  first  record  we  have  of  him  is  a  purchase  of  50  acres  of  land,  August 
18,  1749,  from  Thomas  Livezly,  in  O.xford  township,  Philadelphia  county,  near 
Frankford,  and,  October  8.  1760,  land  adjoining  Trinity  church.  His  daughter 
Anna  Elizabeth  was  baptised  at  the  First  Reformed  church,  October  16,  175Q; 
and  his  brother  Conrad's  daughter,  Barbara,  was  baptised  at  the  same  church, 
December  7,  1762,  at  the  age  of  three  weeks,  the  record  of  the  latter  baptism 
stating  that  Conrad  Maag  was  of  Zurich,  and  that  the  sponsors,  or  god-parents 


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were  Heinrich  Maag,  a  brother  and  Barbara  Maag  a  sister  of  Conrad.  Hein- 
rich  Maag,  Jacob  Maag  and  a  Hans  Hendrick  Maag,  arrived  in  the  "Royal 
Judith,"  September  2,  1743,  and  Jacob  Maag  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  letter 
from  members  of  the  German  Reformed  congregation  at  Market  square,  Ger- 
mantown,  to  the  Holland  Synod  in  1744.  It  is  possible  and  even  probable  that 
the  Heinrich  Maag,  above  mentioned  as  a  passenger  on  the  "Royal  Judith"  was 
the  Henry  Maag  with  whom  this  sketch  is  concerned.  His  brother  Conrad,  born 
173 1,  would  have  been  then  under  16,  and  would  not  have  been  mentioned  on 
the  passenger  list.  Neither  does  this  list  give  the  name  of  women  passengers, 
which  would  account  for  the  absence  of  the  name  of  his  sister  and  mother. 

Henry,  or  according  to  the  German  form  of  the  name,  Heinrich  Maag  pur- 
chased 55  acres  of  land  in  Passyunk  township,  Philadelphia,  May  6,  1761,  it  being 
part  of  on  original  grant  by  Governor  Richard  Nicholls  of  New  York,  January 
I,  1667,  to  Dunkin  Williams.  Here  he  lived  as  a  farmer  until  his  death,  Janu- 
ary 10,  1787.  His  first  wife  Verena  (Frances)  died  July  11,  1783,  and  he  mar- 
ried (second),  January  20,  1784,  Elizabeth  Brown,  a  widow,  who  survived  him. 
By  his  first  wife  he  had  five  children,  Jacob,  John,  Solomon,  Ann,  and  Verena 
(or  Frances).  His  will  directed  that  his  plantation  and  tract  of  land  in  Passyunk 
and  his  house  and  lot  at  Third  and  Gaskell  streets,  where  his  son  Jacob  lived,  be 
sold  within  one  year.  His  estate  amounted  to  £2,444 !  to  his  widow  he  devised 
his  riding  chair,  horse  and  harness,  and  £400. 

His  son,  Jacob  Maag,  married,  April  1 6,  1773,  Marial,  daughter  of  John  and 
Catharine  Peltz,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Catharine  Maag,  (b.  1774,  d.  1855) 
wife  of  Samuel  Jarden,  and  grandmother  of  Cynthia  Ann  (Jarden)  Magee, 
whose  maternal  ancestry   follows : 

Nathaniel  Whiting,  born  in  England,  in.  1609,  was  a  land  owner  in  Lynn,  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  1638.  He  is  next  mentioned  in  the  records  of  the  First  church  of 
Dedham,  as  admitted  to  that  church,  July  30,  1641.  He  was  by  occupation  a 
miller  and  was  the  first  to  operate  a  corn  mill  in  Dedham,  the  site  of  which 
is  now  marked  by  a  stone  monument,  bearing  the  inscription,  "Near  this  spot 
the  first  dam  and  mill  were  built  in  1640."  On  the  assessment  list  for  the  sup- 
port of  Harvard  College,  December  5,  1667,  appears  the  name  of  Nathaniel 
Whiting  to  the  amount  of  6  sh.  5  d. ;  that  of  Elder  John  Hunting,  for  14  sh. 
10  d. ;  and  that  of  Robert  Ware  for  9  sh.  6d.,  all  payable  in  Indian  corn.  Ware 
and  Hunting  were  also  ancestors  of  Cynthia  Eunice  Whiting  as  hereafter  shown. 
July  14,  1673,  on  the  rate  list  to  defray  the  expenses  of  King  Philip's  War,  "Sar- 
gent Nath.  Whiting"  is  rated  for  6  sh.  3  d.,  and,  March  14,  1680,  a  bill  is  given 
Nathaniel  Whiting  for  corn  lent  to  pay  the  Indian  Nehodin.  The  Whiting  fam- 
ily were  millers  on  the  same  site  for  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  years,  and  at 
least  twelve  of  Nathaniel  Whiting's  descendants  were  owners  of  mills  in  Ded- 
ham, Wrentham,  Medway,  and  Whitingville,  Massachusetts,  and  Chester,  Ver- 
mont. The  first  Nathaniel  Whiting  died  in  Dedham,  November  15,  1682.  He 
married,  at  Dedham,  November  4,  1643,  Hannah  Dwight,  who  survived  him 
and  died  November  4,  1714,  aged  89  years.     She  had  14  children. 

John  Dwight,  father  of  Hannah  (Dwight)  Whiting,  came  from  Dedham,  England, 
to  New  England,  prior  to  1635,  ^^'^  settled  first  in  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  soon 
after  removing  to  Dedham.  Winthrop's  Journal  states  that  John  Dwight  and 
others  conveyed  the  first  water  mill  to  Dedham,  in  September,  1635.     He  brought 


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considerable  estate  from  England  and  was  a  well-to-do  farmer.  He  is  repre- 
sented as  "having  been  publicly  useful  and  a  great  peace-maker."  He  was  one 
of  the  promoters  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  which  was  gathered  at  Ded- 
ham  in  1638,  and  was  selectman,  1639-1655.  He  was  the  common  ancestor 
of  nearly  all  who  bear  the  name  of  Dwight  in  America,  including  two  presi- 
dents of  Yale  College.  He  died  February  3,  1660.  Over  one-fifth  of  his  estate 
was  devised  to  his  daughter  Hannah  Whiting,  who  was  named  for  her  mother. 

John,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  (Dwight)  Whiting,  was  born  in  Dedham, 
Massachusetts,  in  1665,  and  died  in  Wrentham  in  1732.  He  married  in  1688, 
Mary  Billings,  and  they  were  the  parents  of — 

Captain  Nathaniel  Whiting,  bom  in  Wrentham,  Massachusetts,  February  2, 
1691.  He  married  there,  April  18,  171 1,  Margaret  Mann,  and  moved  to  Med- 
field,  Alassachusetts,  and  in  1717,  when  the  new  town  of  Medway  was  founded 
he  was  one  of  the  founders  and  for  eight  years,  betwen  1723  and  1749,  served 
as  selectman.  He  was  captain  of  a  company  formed  in  Medway  to  serve  in  the 
Indian  war  in  1745,  and  an  ancient  record  of  the  company  is  headed,  "An 
Account  of  the  persons  impressed  by  Captain  Whiting  and  done  service  for  his 
Majesty,  June  17,  1745".  When  Captain  Whiting  was  80  years  old,  his  name 
appears  on  a  list  of  men  returned  by  a  committee  of  the  town  of  Medway,  as 
having  rendered  military  service  at  various  times  subsequent  to  April  19,  1775, 
with  the  rank  of  captain.  Captain  Nathaniel  Whiting  owned  618  acres  of  land, 
about  one-fourth  of  what  is  now  ]\Iedway.  He  was  chosen  moderator  of  the 
Second  Church  of  Christ  in  Medway,  October  8,  1750,  and  was  for  many  years 
an  elder  thereof.  He  died  in  West  Medway,  September  4,  1779,  leaving  a  will 
dated  April  4,  1770.  A  full  account  of  him  is  given  in  the  Dedham  Historical 
Register,  for  October,  1901,  and  January,  1902.  His  wife  Margaret  (Mann) 
Whiting  was  born  1691,  and  died  in  1775.     She  was  a  daughter  of 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Mann,  born  in  Cambridge.  Massachusetts,  July  6,  1647,  son 
of  William  Mann,  born  in  England  in  1697,  by  his  wife  Mary  Jarrard,  whom  he 
married  in  1643.  The  Rev.  Samuel  Mann  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1665, 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  May  3,  1667,  he  was  appointed  by  the  selectmen 
of  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  as  schoolmaster,  the  entry  on  the  town  records  for 
that  date  reading,  "Agreed  with  Mr.  Samuel  Mann  to  teach  the  male  children 
that  shall  be  sent  to  him  in  English,  writing,  grammar,  and  arithmeiick,  for  the 
space  of  one  whole  year,  for  which  he  is  to  receive  20  pounds."  He  continued 
there  for  five  years,  the  first  two  years  accepting  part  of  his  salary  in  Indian 
corn  at  the  valuation  of  three  shillings  per  bushel.  In  1672  he  became  pastor  of 
the  church  at  Wrentham,  and  preached  there  to  the  sixteen  families  of  the  towTi 
until  March  30,  1676,  when  the  town  was  entirely  abandoned  because  of  King 
Philip's  war,  and  after  the  flight  of  the  inhabitants,  all  the  houses  but  two  were 
burnt  by  the  Indians  returning  from  the  outrages  at  Medfield.  Mr.  Mann  went 
back  to  Dedham,  and  again  taught  school  there;  but  he  came  once  more  to 
Wrentham  with  the  other  inhabitants,  in  August,  1680.  and  again  ministered  to 
them,  though  he  was  not  ordained  until  April  13,  1692,  when  he  preached  his  own 
ordination  sermon  from  i  Cor.  4:2,  and.  May  i,  1692,  seventeen  persons  were 
baptised  by  him.  Judge  Sewell's  diary  for  September  16,  1697.  says,  "Mr. 
Danforth  and  I  and  our  men  set  out  to  come  home,  go  by  Wrentham  to  visit 
Mr.  Mann,  who  hath   11  children."     Sept.   12,   1703,  "Col.  Hathborn  and  I  hear 


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Mr.  Mann  preach  and  dine  with  him."  October  16,  1699,  '"  the  dead  of  night, 
Mr.  Mann's  house  with  all  the  records  of  the  church  were  burned.  His  last  ser- 
mon was  preached  March  i,  1719,  and  he  died  May  22,  1719,  "beloved  by  all  his 
people;  not  only  a  very  good  man  but  a  very  learned  man."  He  married,  at 
Dedham,  Massachusetts,  May  15,  1673,  Esther  Ware,  who  survived  him  and 
died  September  3,  1734,  aged  79.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Captain  Robert  Ware, 
who  came  from  England  prior  to  1642.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company  in  1644,  and  married  in  Dedham,  March  24,  of  that 
year,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Elder  John  Hunting,  before  referred  to,  by  his  wife 
Esther  Seaborn,  who  had  accompanied  her  parents  from  England  in  1638. 
Robert  Ware  joined  the  Church  of  Dedham,  October  11,  1646,  the  date  of  bap- 
tism of  his  eldest  child.  Before  the  burning  of  Wrentham,  during  King  Philip's 
war,  Captain  Robert  Ware  mustered  a  company  of  a  dozen  resolute  men  and 
attacked  a  party  of  42  Indians,  killing  all  but  two  of  them.  His  name  was  sec- 
ond on  the  town  list  of  Dedham  in  point  of  wealth.  "Robert  Ware,  the  aged" 
died  April  19,  1699.     His  wife  had  died  at  Dedham,  August  26,  1670. 

Lieutenant  Nathan,  son  of  Captain  Nathaniel  and  Margaret  (Mann)  Whiting, 
and  his  twin  brother,  Nathaniel,  were  born  in  Medway,  Massachusetts,  Sept.  22, 
1725.  He  was  a  miller,  farmer  and  large  property  owner.  He  was  a  lieutenant 
of  militia  and  served  in  both  the  French  and  Indian  war  and  the  Revolution. 
His  name  appears  at  the  head  of  a  list  of  21  names  of  "The  men  who  have  done 
service  against  the  French,  in  the  expedition  under  Lord  Loudon,"  along  the 
Canadian  border,  signed  by  Jonathan  Adams,  Captain,  May  29,  1759.  Nathan 
Whiting's  name  appears  again  on  a  list  of  officers  nominated  by  Colonel  Pond 
for  commissions  in  Captain  Job  Plimpton's  Second  Medway  Company,  dated 
at  Dedham,  September  16,  1771,  commissions  to  be  dated  September  19. 

Lieutenant  Nathan  Whiting  was  one  of  the  men  detached,  June  22,  1778,  from 
Captain  Moses  Adam's  Company  from  Medway,  to  go  to  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  to  serve  until  January  i,  1779.  He  died  in  Medway,  May  9,  1709.  His 
will  devises  to  his  son  Nathaniel,  his  silver  hilted  rapier  which  had  been  presented 
to  him  by  the  citizens  of  Medway,  in  recognition  of  his  bravery  on  the  field  of 
battle.  He  married.  May  23,  1749,  Mary,  (b.  1728,  d.  1798),  granddaughter  of 
John  and  Mehitabel  (Sevels)  Metcalf,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Jonathan 
Metcalf,  (b.  1650,  d.  May  27,  1724),  who  was  a  son  of  Michael  Metcalf  (2),  by 
his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Fairbanks;  and  grandson  of  Michael  Met- 
calf (i),  the  first  schoolmaster  in  Dedham,  Massachusetts.  Jonathan  Metcalf 
served  in  King  Philip's  war,  and  received  pay  for  military  services  between 
January  24  and  December  24,  1676.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Dedham  Church, 
October  10,  1671,  when  he  was  assessed  with  others  to  help  defray  the  expenses 
of  the  funeral  of  their  late  pastor,  the  Rev.  John  Allin.  He  married,  April  10, 
1674,  Hannah  Kenric,  born  1652,  died  1731. 

John,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Kenric)  Metcalf,  and  grandfather  of 
Mary  (Metcalf)  Whiting,  was  born  in  Dedham,  March  20,  1678,  and  died  there 
October  16,  1749.  He  was  a  tanner  and  farmer  and  one  of  the  best  known  and 
prominent  men  of  the  town.  He  served  as  representative  in  the  General  Court 
for  six  years ;  was  town  clerk  for  sixteen  years ;  selectman  for  sixteen  years  and 
held  a  number  of  other  positions  of  trust.  The  inventory  of  his  estate  shows 
that  he  had  a  library  of  99  volumes,  and  228  pamphlets,  something  very  unusual 


588  MAGEE 

for  any  individual  of  that  time  and  especially  so  for  a  farmer.  Other  items  on 
the  inventory  were  "32  cattle,  3  horses,  valued  at  679  pounds ;  silver  plate  and 
jewelry  at  331  pounds;  and  four  punch  bowls.  The  sermon  preached  at  his 
funeral  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Denker,  was  published  at  the  time.  He  was  three 
times  married  and  had  eighteen  children.  His  first  wife,  Mehitabel  Sevels, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mehitabel,  was  the  grandmother  of  Mary  Metcalf  Whit- 
ing. 

John  (2),  son  of  John  (ij  and  Mehitabel  (Sevels)  Metcalf,  was  born  in 
Dedham,  Massachusetts,  in  1704,  and  died  in  1799.  He  married,  July  31,  1728, 
a  daughter  (b.  Dedham,  1702),  of  Vigilance  Fisher  (b.  1654,  d.  1713),  and 
Hanna  (Hewins)  Lyons,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Hewins.  Lieutenant 
Joshua  Fisher,  the  father  of  \'igilance  Fisher  was  baptised  at  Syleham,  Eng- 
land, the  Parish  record  reading  as  follows,  "1621,  Joshua  Fysher,  the  sonne 
of  Joshua  Fysher,  was  baptised  on  the  2nd  daye  of  Aprille."  On  the  town  rec- 
ords of  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  in  1637,  is  the  following  entry,  "First  of  ye 
nth  Mo.  1637,  upon  motion  made  by  Antliony  Fisher  it  is  considered  that 
Joshua  Fisher  may  enter  upon  the  Smith's  Lott  and  there  fitt  himself e  ye  build- 
ing to  doe  some  work  of  the  trade  for  ye  town  in  the  behalfe  of  his  Father 
who  is  expected  this  next  Somer."  In  August  1639,  he  joined  the  Dedham 
Church,  the  following  year  became  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable 
Artillery  Company  and  was  its  second  sergeant,  in  1648.  He  was  known 
throughout  the  Colony  as  Lieutenant  Joshua  Fisher;  at  a  town  meeting  Janu- 
ary 16,  1649,  he  was  chosen  selectman  and  continued  in  that  office  for  twenty- 
two  years.  He  was  town  surveyor  and  did  considerable  surveying  outside  of 
Dedham,  one  of  his  largest  surveys,  8,000  acres  at  Deerfield,  being  completed 
in  May,  1665.  He  went  to  the  General  Court  as  deputy  from  Dedham  from 
1653  to  1672.  In  1664,  the  General  Court  granted  him  300  acres  of  land  for  sur- 
veying the  south  line  of  the  Patent  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  next  to 
Plymouth.  In  1666  he  settled  the  controversy  between  Mr.  Gold  and  Governor 
Endicott  as  to  land  bounds  and  laid  out  the  Governor's  farm  on  Ipswich  River. 
November  14,  1660,  he  and  Sergt,  Ellice  were  deputed  "to  treat  and  to  conclude 
with  the  Indians  that  claim  at  Wrentham,  to  buy  them  all  out,  and  clear  the 
place  from  all  Indian  title."  Another  curious  order  from  the  General  Court  is  as 
follows,  "In  answer  to  the  request  of  the  selectmen  of  Dedham  in  regard  of  their 
remoteness  from  Boston,  Lieut.  Joshua  Fisher  might  have  liberty  to  sell  some 
strong  watters  to  supply  ye  necessity  of  such  as  shall  stand  in  need  thereof  in 
that  town,  the  Court  grantes  theire  request."  Joshua  Fisher  died  in  Dedham 
August  10,  1672.     He  married  February  16,  1654,  Lydia,  widow  of  S.  Oliver. 

Nathaniel  Whiting,  father  of  Cynthia  Eunice  (Whiting)  Jarden,  above  men- 
tioned, was  a  son  of  Lieutenant  Nathan  and  Mary  (Metcalf)  Whiting,  and  was 
born  in  West  Medway,  Massachusetts,  February  i,  1770.  Soon  after  coming 
of  age,  he  removed  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  June  2,  1799,  he  married 
Cynthia,  daughter  of  David  Richardson  of  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  of  whom 
presently,  and,  his  father  having  died  a  month  previously,  sold  his  share  of  the 
estate  to  his  brother  Timothy  Whiting,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  took  up  his  residence  at  No.  jj  Water  street.  Here  his  daughter, 
Cynthia  Eunice  Whiting,  later  the  wife  of  Samuel  Jarden,  was  born  in  1803. 
Nathaniel  Whiting  engaged  in  several  lines  of  business  in   Philadelphia,  during 


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the  period  of  nearly  twenty  years  that  he  resided  there,  in  all  of  which  he  was 
more  or  less  unsuccessful.  In  September,  1820,  he  left  the  city  for  Lubeck, 
Maine,  and  after  a  short  stay  there  engaged  in  business  in  New  York  city.  He 
died  in  1823,  and  his  widow  returned  to  Philadelphia  where  she  continued  to 
reside,  after  1827,  with  her  married  daughter,  Mrs.  Jarden,  their  only  child. 
She  died  in  Philadelphia,  in  January,   1856. 

David  Richardson,  father  of  Mrs.  Cynthia  (Richardson)  Whiting,  was  born  in 
Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  in  1746,  and  was  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Coy) 
Richardson;  grandson  of  William  and  Rebecca  (Vinton)  Richardson,  great- 
grandson  of  Stephen  and  Abigail  (Wyman)  Richardson;  and  great-great- 
grandson  of  Samuel  and  Joanna  Richardson.  During  the  Revolution,  David 
Richardson  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  Attleboro,  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  a  farmer  in  what  is  now  known  as  Attleboro  Falls.  He  married, 
about  1770,  Abigail  Peck,  who  survived  him  and  died  May  15,  1838,  aged  88 
years.  He  died  December  25,  1823,  aged  yj  years.  Their  daughter  Cynthia 
was  born  in  1771. 

James  Francis  and  Cynthia  Ann  (Jarden)  Magee,  had  four  children,  viz, 
Cynthia  Whiting  Magee,  who  married  January  13,  1887,  Edwin  John  Stevens,  of 
Baltimore,  grandson  of  Governor  Samuel  Stevens,  of  Maryland,  and  of  dis- 
tinguished Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  ancestry,  an  account  of  which  is  here- 
after given;  Michael  Jarden  Magee,  James  Francis  Magee  (2),  George  W. 
Magee,   of   whom   presently. 

Michael  Jarden  Magee,  eldest  son  of  James  Francis  and  Cynthia  Ann  (Jar- 
den) Magee,  married  January  22,  1890,  Mary  E.  Miskey,  and  they  have  two 
children,  Elizabeth  and  Cynthia.  He  graduated  from  the  Polytechnic  College 
of  Philadelphia,  in  June,  1881,  and  engaged  in  mining  near  Leadville,  Colorado. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Sault  Ste  Marie,  Michigan,  where  he 
is  engaged  in  real  estate  and  editing  the  Soo  Daily.  He  is  also  Vice-President 
of  the  Soo  Trust  Co. 

James  Francis  Magee  (2),  born  in  Philadelphia,  January  7,  1876,  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Friends  Central  School  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  graduating  from  the  scientific  department  of  the  University  with 
the  degree  of  B.  S.  in  1887.  He  is  a  merchandise  broker  in  Philadelphia.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Tau  Omega  fraternity,  of  the  University  Club,  the 
Spring  Haven  Country  Club,  the  Racquet  Club,  the  Rose  Tree  Hunt,  and  the 
Franklin  Chess  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  He  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  Philadelphia. 
Mr.  Magee  married,  February  4,  1891,  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Mayland 
and  Myra  Barclay  (Kennedy)  Adams,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Captain 
Thomas  Adams,  the  owner  and  editor  of  the  Boston  Independent  Chronicle, 
the  most  influential  Anti-Federalist  paper  in  New  England,  from  1783  to  his 
death  in  1799.  He  was  a  first  cousin  to  Samuel  Adams,  the  patriot  of  the  Rev- 
olution and  second  cousin  to  President  John  Adams. 

James  Francis  (2)  and  Mary  (Adams)  Magee  have  two  children,  James 
Francis   Magee,    (3)    and   Catharine   Magee. 

George  W.  Magee,  son  of  James  F.  and  Cynthia  Ann  (Jarden)  Magee,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  March   19,   1868,  was  educated  at  the  Friends'  Central   School, 


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Philadelphia.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Mclntyre,  Magee  &  Brown,  whole- 
sale opticians,  Philadelphia,  a  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  a  member 
of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Over- 
brook,  and  the  Presbyterian  Social  Union  and  has  served  as  a  delegate  to  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  married.  May  21,  1896, 
Sarah  Streeper,  daughter  of  John  and  Catharine  Vandorn  (Leigh)  Andrews  of 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Vandorn  family  which  came 
from  Holland  in  the  seventeenth  century.  They  have  two  children,  Leigh  Jar- 
den  Magee,  and  Frances  Whiting  Magee.  Their  eldest  child,  Francis  Andrews 
IMagee,  died  in  infancy. 

Cynthia  Whiting  Magee,  daughter  of  James  Francis  and  Cynthia  Ann 
(Jarden)  Magee,  married,  January  13,  1887,  Edwin  John  Stevens  a  wholesale 
druggist,  of  Baltimore,  where  they  reside  with  their  two  daughters,  Cynthia  Jar- 
den, and  Sarah  Eccleston  Stevens ;  their  eldest  child,  James  Magee  Stevens,  died 
in  infancy. 

Edwin  John  Stevens  (2),  was  born  in  Talbot  County,  Maryland,  December 
31,  1853,  and  is  a  son  of  Edwin  John  Stevens  (i),  who  was  born  in  Talbot 
county  in  1818,  and  died,  June  5,  1854,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Hooper  Eccleston, 
born  October  26,  1822,  died  December  31,  1894,  whom  he  married,  November  14, 
1843.  She  was  a  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  John  Hugh  Eccleston,  (1785- 
1868)  of  Dorcester  county,  Maryland,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  University  and 
several  years  a  member  of  the  Maryland  State  Senate,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Ennalls, 
daughter  of  Major  John  Hooper,  of  Cambridge,  Maryland,  an  officer  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  granddaughter  of  General  Henry  Hooper  and  his  wife 
Ann  Ennalls.  Thomas  Firmin  Eccleston,  the  maternal  great-grandfather  of  Mr. 
Edwin  John  Stevens,  who  died  June  10,  1785,  married  April  18,  1782,  Milcah 
(Airey)  Pitt,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Airey,  (1701-1760)  first  rector  of  the 
Episcopal  church  of  Cambridge,  Maryland,  by  his  wife  Milcah  Gale.  In  the 
possession  of  the  present  Edwin  John  Stevens,  is  a  ring  engraved  with  the  coat 
of  arms  of  the  Eccleston  family,  which  was  brought  from  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, by  his  great-great-grandfather  Hugh  Eccleston,  the  founder  of  the  prom- 
inent family  of  Eccleston  in  Cambridge,  Maryland.  Edwin  John  Stevens,  (i) 
was  a  son  of  Governor  Samuel  Stevens,  born  July  13,  1778,  died  February  7, 
i860,  of  Compton,  Talbot  County,  Maryland. 

Samuel  Stevens  was  elected  governor  of  Maryland  in  1822  and  re-elected  in 
1823  and  1824,  serving  the  three  years  permitted  by  the  constitution  of  the  state. 
He  was  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Connelly)  Stevens,  and  grandson  of 
Thomas  Stevens,  (1678-1752),  and  was  educated  at  the  school  of  the  Rev.  John 
Bowie.  On  attaining  his  majority,  the  care  of  his  father's  plantations  gave  him 
sufficient  occupation  and  he  turned  his  attention  to  agriculture.  It  was  through 
his  influence  that  the  Maryland  Agricultural  Society  was  founded  and  he  was  its 
first  president,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  a  long  series  of  years.  He  married, 
June  2,  1804,  Eliza  May,  daughter  of  Robert  May,  of  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  within  a  few  years  thereafter  made  his  initial  appearance  in  state 
affairs  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  being  first  elected  a  delegate  from 
Talbot  county  in  1807.  He  was  repeatedly  re-elected  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  deliberations  of  the  house  during  the  .sessions  of  1808,  1809.  181 1,  1813, 
1817,   1819,  and  1820.     He  was  a  colonel  of  militia  and  had  command  of  the 


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militia  of  the  county  during  the  war  of  1812-14.  His  residence,  Compton,  near 
Trappe,  where  Governor  Stevens  died  in  i860,  was  finely  situated  near  the 
Choptank,  upon  a  cove,  where  Dividing  creek  falls  into  that  river.  During  the 
war  of  1812,  Admiral  Blackburn,  with  part  of  the  British  fleet  passed  up  to  this 
point,  and,  from  the  number  of  buildings  supposing  the  plantation  to  be  a 
small  town,  he  opened  his  port-holes  to  bombard  it,  but  being  informed  by  some 
runaway  slaves  on  board  that  it  was  a  private  residence,  he  dropped  down  the 
river.  Colonel  Stevens  being  apprehensive  of  an  attack,  had  sent  his  wife  and 
her  young  family  to  a  place  of  safety  before  the  arrival  of  the  fleet.  Eliza 
May,  the  wife  of  Governor  Samuel  Stevens,  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, March  2,  1787,  and  died  at  Compton,  December  8,  1834.  She  was  a 
daughter  and  granddaughter  of  Robert  May,  the  elder  Robert,  born  1696,  died 
1749,  married  in  1724,  Elizabeth  Brooke,  of  a  prominent  Chester  county  and 
Maryland  family,  and  Robert  May  (2),  the  father  of  Mrs.  Stevens,  born  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1750,  died  February  16,  1786,  married  Rebecca  Grace  Potts,  born  July 
5,  1760,  died  July  30,  1789,  of  the  famous  family  of  iron-masters  of  Pottstown 
and  vicinity.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Potts,  born  May  29,  1735,  died 
March  22,  1785,  and  his  wife,  Anna  Nutt,  whose  father  and  grandfather  were 
also  prominently  identified  with  the  Pennsylvania  iron  industry;  son  of  John 
Potts,  (1710-1768),  the  founder  of  Pottstown,  and  his  wife,  Ruth,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Anna  (Rutter)  Savage,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Rutter,  the 
first  iron-master  of  Pennsylvania.  Thomas  Potts,  Junior,  the  father  of  John 
Potts,  last  mentioned  came  with  his  uncle  Thomas  Potts,  Senior,  from  Wales, 
and  lived  for  a  time  in  Germantown.  He  married,  August  20,  1699,  Martha, 
daughter  of  Peter  Keurlis  one  of  the  founders  of  Germantown,  and  prominent- 
ly associated  with  its  early  history. 


EDGAR  ARTHUR  SIXGER 

Edgar  Arthur  Singer,  one  of  the  prominent  educators  of  Philadelphia,  is  of 
German  and  English  ancestry  and  numbers  among  his  progenitors  some  of  the 
earliest  German  immigrants  to  Pennsylvania. 

C.\SPAR  Singer,  the  earliest  paternal  ancestor  of  whom  we  have  any  definite 
record,  came  from  Alsace  to  Pennsylvania,  prior  to  September,  1727,  since  his 
name  does  not  appear  on  the  lists  of  foreigners  naturalized,  or  qualified  as  sub- 
jects of  the  English  crown,  under  the  Act  of  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania  of  that 
date,  by  which  all  foreigners  were  required  by  the  masters  of  the  several  ships 
to  qualify  before  leaving  their  custody.  As  a  further  evidence  of  his  earlier 
immigration,  we  find  that  Caspar  Singer  was  naturalized  by  Act  of  Assembly 
May  19.  1739,  showing  that  he  had  not  been  previously  qualified.  He  was, 
however,  a  landholder  prior  to  this  date,  as  we  find  that  he  paid  quit  rent  on  50 
acres  of  land  in  Hanover  township,  Philadelphia  (now  Montgomery)  county, 
where  he  died  in  March,  1759.  By  his  wife,  Anna  Margaretha,  a  native  of  Swit- 
zerland, he  had  a  son  of  the  same  name. 

Caspar  Singer  (2),  son  of  Caspar  (i)  and  Anna  Margaretha,  born  in  Han- 
over township,  Philadelphia  county,  Pennsylvania,  October  6,  1738,  removed 
when  a  young  man  to  Lancaster  county,  and  owned  and  operated  a  tannery  in 
Lancaster.  He  was  a  private  in  Captain  Jasper  Yeates  company,  Lancaster 
militia,  attached  to  Colonel  Matthias  Slough's  battalion  of  Associators,  "destined 
for  the  camp  in  the  Jerseys,  September  5.  1776."  After  the  close  of  the  Rev- 
olutionary war  he  removed  to  Philadelphia  and  carried  on  business  as  a  gro- 
cer at  137,  (old  number)  High,  (now  Market)  street.  He  died  in  Philadelphia, 
February  24,  1797,  and  was  buried  in  the  Lutheran  burying-ground  on  Eighth 
street,  between  Race  and  \^ine  streets.  Jacob  Krug,  step-son  of  Caspar  Singer 
was  captain  of  a  company  in  the  same  battalion ;  and  \'alcntine  Krug,  another 
step-son,  was  ensign  of  Captain  Samuel  Boyd's  company  in  Colonel  John  Fer- 
ree's  battalion,  which  accompanied  Slough's  battalion  in  the  campaign  in  the 
Jerseys.  Caspar  Singer  married,  at  St.  James  Episcopal  church,  Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania,  August  10,  1759.  Eve  Maria  (Spangler)  Krug,  (b.  Nov,  10,  1726) 
widow  of  Valentine  Krug,  of  Lancaster,  and  daughter  of  .^dam  Spangler,  of 
New  Hanover  township,  Philadelphia  (now  Montgomery)  county,  who  died  in 
1737,  leaving  a  widow  Anna  Maria,  and  four  daughters. 

The  Spangler  family  of  Pennsylvania  trace  their  ancestry  back  to  George 
Spangler  or  Spengler,  who  was  cup-bearer  to  the  Emperor  Barbarossa  (1150, 
A.  D.)  whom  he  accompanied  in  one  of  the  crusades  to  the  Holy  Land  in  1189. 
The  family  coat  of  arms  consists  of  a  red  shield  emblazoned  with  a  silver  beak- 
er resting  on  three  golden  hills,  and  surmounted  by  a  bishop's  bust.  The  fam- 
ily was  long  settled  at  Nuremberg,  Germany,  of  which  town,  a  George  Speng- 
ler (b.  1479,  d.  1534)  was  town  clerk  in  1526.  in  which  year  he  entertained 
there  Melanchton,  the  great  reformer.  Lazarus  Spengler,  son  of  George  the 
town-clerk,  was  a  friend  and  coadjutor  of   Martin  Luther,  and  an  active  par- 


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ticipator  in  the  scenes  of  the  reformation,  was  with  Luther  at  the  Diet  of 
Worms,  of  the  proceedings  of  which  he  wrote  a  graphic  description.  He  was 
also  the  author  of  a  number  of  theological  treatises,  and  of  religious  poetry. 
After  his  death  Luther  published  his  "Confessions  of  Faith  of  Lazarus  Speng- 
ler,  formerly  Syndic  of  the  City  of  Nuremberg."  Valentine  Krug,  whose  widow 
Caspar  Singer  married,  was  a  tanner,  and  died  in  Lancaster,  in  1757,  leaving 
children  Valentine  and  Jacob,  before  referred  to  as  soldiers  in  the  Revolution, 
and  daughters,  Barbara  and  Margaret.  Eve  Maria  (Spangler-Krug)  Singer, 
died  at  Lancaster,  December  13,  1802,  aged  76  years,  i  month  and  three  days. 

Caspar  and  Eve  Maria  (Spangler)  Smger  had  nine  children,  four  of  whom, 
Emanuel,  John,  Abraham,  and  Elizabeth,  lived  to  mature  years,  married  and 
reared  families.  Rebecca  Singer,  daughter  of  John,  was  for  many  years  an 
eminent  preacher  among  Friends,  became  the  second  wife  of  Isaac  Collins,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  her  sister  Elizabeth  married  Isaac  S.  Lloyd,  another  prominent 
Quaker;  three  other  sisters  married  ministers  of  the  gospel. 

Abraham  Singer,  youngest  surviving  son  of  Caspar  (2)  and  Eve  Maria 
(Spangler)  Singer,  was  born  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  April  25,  1765.  He  ac- 
companied or  preceded  his  father  to  Philadelphia,  and  seems  to  have  been  as- 
sociated with  him  in  the  mercantile  business,  at  137  Market  street.  At  any 
rate  he  and  his  brother  John  succeeded  their  father  in  the  business  there  and 
their  names  appear  on  the  Philadelphia  directory  of  1797,  the  year  of  their  fath- 
er's decease,  as  grocers  at  137  High  street.  John,  however,  after  the  settle- 
ment of  his  father's  estate,  engaged  in  business  at  91  Race  street  while  Abra- 
ham continued  at  the  old  place  until  1809.  In  1796  his  residence  was  No.  10, 
North  Eighth  street;  in  1797,  North  Fifth  street;  and  in  1811,  he  is  denominated 
"Gentleman"  and  resident  at  No.  16  Filbert  street. 

Abraham  Singer  was  a  member  of  Captain  Eleazer  Oswald's  light  infantry 
company,  Philadelphia,  Second  Battalion  Pennsylvania  militia,  at  the  close  of 
the  Revolution,  and  one  of  those  who  signed  the  petition  of  members  of  this 
company  to  the  Supreme  Executive  Council,  August  i,  1786,  setting  forth,  that 
they  were  assured  that  Congress  had  lately  received  "an  official  declaration  from 
the  Court  at  London,  'That  they  will  not  relinquish  the  Posts  and  Garrisons  on 
our  Frontier,'  "  and  that  Congress  had  it  in  contemplation  to  call  for  a  "portion 
of  the  Militia,  to  dispossess  the  British  of  these  Fortresses."  The  petition  con- 
cludes, "we  wish  not  to  be  excelled  or  out  done  in  Point  of  Zeal  and  Activity  in 
promoting  the  Interest  and  Welfare  of  our  Country  at  large,  we  take  this  early 
opportunity  to  entreat  that  your  Honorable  Body  will  be  pleased  to  consider  us 
as  the  First  on  the  List  of  Volunteers  from  Pennsylvania,  whenever  Congress 
shall  think  proper  to  adopt  so  necessary  a  Measure."  Abraham  Singer  was  also 
the  first  captain  of  the  Second  troop,  Philadelphia  City  cavalry,  organized  about 
1793,  which  formed  part  of  the  regiment  known  as  the  "MacPherson  Blues" 
sent  to  Western  Pennsylvania  to  quell  the  Whiskey  Insurrection,  in  1794.  He 
was  present  as  captain  of  the  Second  troop  at  the  dinner  given  to  General 
Wayne,  at  Weed's  Tavern,  Gray's  Ferry,  February  25,  1796;  led  the  troop  as 
an  escort  to  President  Adams  on  his  return  to  Philadelphia ;  was  captain  of  the 
Second  troop,  when  the  three  "Troops  of  Cavalry,  belonging  to  Philadelphia, 
Captains,  Dunlap,  Singer,  and  Morell"  were  called  into  service  at  the  order  of  the 


594  SINGER 

Secretary  of  War,  March  20,  1799,  to  quell  the  House  Tax  Insurrection  in 
Northampton,  Berks,  and  northern  Bucks  counties. 

Abraham  Singer  was  an  ardent  Federalist,  and  his  company  was  considered 
a  Federalist  organization,  politically.  Captain  Singer  became  involved  in  the 
riot  in  St.  Mary's  Catholic  church-yard  on  Sunday,  February  9,  1799,  growing 
out  of  the  excitement  over  the  repeal  of  the  alien  and  sedition  act,  and  with 
several  others  was  arrested,  and  finally,  in  1801,  tried  and  convicted  of  assault, 
for  which  he  was  sentenced  to  a  nominal  fine  and  costs. 

Captain  Singer,  entered  the  United  States  service  in  the  war  of  1812-14,  as 
lieutenant  of  a  company  commanded  by  Captain  George  Hetzellberger  in  the 
regiment  commanded  by  Lieutenant-colonel  John  Lutz,  which  was  ordered  by 
the  governor  to  rendezvous  at  York,  Pennsylvania,  August  26,  1814,  for  a  tour 
of  duty,  and  where  a  roll  of  the  company  was  made,  September  2,  1814.  He 
died  January  4,  1815.  His  sword  is  in  possession  of  his  great-grandson,  Howard 
Stetler;  his  epaulettes  and  a  portrait  in  oil,  painted  at  Lancaster  in  1806,  have 
descended  to  Edgar  A.  Singer,  the  son  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Abraham  Singer  married,  at  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  May  8,  1794,  Ann, 
(b.  Phila.  November  25,  1769)  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Singleton) 
Tresse;  granddaughter  of  Hugh  and  Hannah  (Finney)  Tresse ;  great-grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Pearse)  Tresse;  and  great-great-granddaughter 
of  Hugh  and  Margaret  Tresse,  of  Newark  on  the  river  Trent,  in  the  County  of 
Nottingham,   England. 

The  first  of  the  Tresse  family  to  come  to  America  was  Thomas  Tresse,  a  broth- 
er of  Hugh  Tresse,  last  above  mentioned,  who  was  in  Philadelphia  at  least  as  early 
as  1688.  He  was  a  prominent  merchant,  and  was  associated  with  Samuel  Car- 
penter, and  others  in  a  number  of  business  enterprises ;  was  one  of  the  com- 
pany, with  William  Bradford,  the  printer,  Robert  Turner,  and  William  Ritten- 
house  in  1690,  organized  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  paper  mill  in  or  near 
Philadelphia,  the  interest  wherein  Turner  and  Tresse  sold  in  1701.  In  1709 
Thomas  Tresse  purchased  13,000  acres  of  land  on  the  Manatawney,  Hanover 
township,  Philadelphia  (now  Montgomery)  county,  and,  March  12,  1712,  exe- 
cuted a  deed  of  trust  therefor  to  his  sister  Margaret  Tench,  and  his  nephew 
Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.,  including  other  lands,  at  Germantown,  in  the  Jerseys  and 
elsewhere,  for  the  benefit  of  his  sisters,  nephews  and  nieces.  The  wharf  of 
Thomas  Tresse  adjoined  that  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  and  was  on  Front  street 
between  Walnut  and  Dock  streets.  He  was  one  of  the  prominent  merchants  of 
Philadelphia,  who  joined  with  the  mayor,  aldermen,  and  other  officials  of  the 
city  in  1710  in  a  petition  to  the  General  Assembly  to  grant  more  liberal  powers 
to  the  corporation  of  the  city.  He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  Christ 
church,  but  in  171 1  was  baptized  as  a  member  of  Pennypack  Baptist  church,  and 
though  he  was  buried  at  Christ  church.  May  17,  1714,  his  will,  dated  April  30, 
1714,  and  proved  June  i,  1714,  gives  legacies  for  the  benefit  of  the  Baptist 
church  of  Philadelphia,  and  at  Pennypack,  and  to  "Friends"  John  Hart,  of 
Bucks  county.  Baptist  minister ;  Samuel  Jones  and  Abel  Morgan.  Baptist  minis- 
ters, and  James  Poulter  and  Edward  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  deacons  and  trus- 
tees of  the  Baptist  church.  This  will  however  leaves  the  bulk  of  his  estate  to 
two  of  the  children  of  his  brother  Hugh,  Joshua,  and  Thomas  Tresse,  the 
former  being  named  as  executor.     Substantial  legacies  are,  however,  given  to 


SINGER  595 

his  sister  Margaret  Tench,  of  Philadelphia;  his  sister  Elizabeth  Bate,  residing 
in  Great  Britain,  and  her  two  sons;  his  uncle  William  Mallett,  "now  in  Phila- 
delphia" ;  and  his  brother  Hugh  Tresse.  From  the  fact  that  he  mentions,  three 
of  the  children  of  Hugh,  viz,  Charles,  Hugh,  and  Sarah  Tresse,  as  "now  in 
Great  Britain,"  it  is  supposed  that  the  brother  Hugh  had  but  lately  arrived  in 
Philadelphia,  with  his  two  elder  sons,  Joshua  and  Thomas,  and  was  followed 
later  by  his  wife  Margaret,  and  younger  children.  The  will  also  mentions  "Hugh 
and  Margaret  Tress,  children  of  Cousen  (nephew)  Thomas  Tresse"  then  mere 
infants,  the  latter  less  than  a  year  old.  Thomas  Tresse  was  evidently  closely  as- 
sociated with  most  of  the  prominent  and  wealthy  families  of  Philadelphia,  as 
he  appears  as  witness,  trustee,  executor,  or  legatee  of  more  than  twenty  wills 
between  1694  and  17 14. 

Hugh  Tresse,  the  elder,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  does 
not  seem  to  have  taken  so  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  Philadelphia  as  his 
brother  Thomas,  and  probably  did  not  come  to  Philadelphia  until  shortly  before 
his  brother's  death,  at  which  time  his  sons  Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.,  and  Joshua 
Tresse  were  already  prominently  associated  with  their  uncle  in  various  business 
affairs  they  having  probably  been  in  this  country  several  years  prior  to  the  ar- 
rival of  their  father.  Hugh  Tresse,  survived  his  brother  sixteen  years,  and 
was  buried  at  Christ  church,  August  26,  1730.  He  left  no  will  and  letters  of 
administration  on  his  estate  were  granted  to  his  son  Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.  His 
wife  Margaret,  was  buried  at  Christ  church.  May  3,  1720. 

The  children  of  Hugh  and  Margaret  Tresse,  all  born  at  Newark  on  the 
Trent,  Nottinghamshire,  were  Thomas,  Joshua,  Charles,  Hugh,  and  Sarah.  Of 
Joshua,  we  know  little,  further  than  that  he  was  the  executor  of  the  will,  of 
his  uncle  Thomas  in  1714,  and  later  purchaser  of  a  large  amount  of  the  real 
estate  of  the  other  beneficiaries  under  the  trust  deed  of  1712,  above-mentioned. 
Hugh  Tresse  (2)  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  April  3,  1720;  he  left  a  widow 
Mary  and  children,  James,  Charles  and  Hugh,  mentioned  in  the  will  of  their 
aunt,  Sarah  Tresse,  who  died  unmarried,  prior  to  June  4,  1720,  the  date  of 
probate  of  her  will,  dated  April  2,  1720,  which  also  mentions  her  father,  Hugh 
Tresse,  and  brothers  Thomas,  Joshua,  and  Hugh,  the  latter  deceased ;  and 
refers  to  legacies  received  under  the  wills  of  her  uncle  Thomas  Tresse  and 
aunt,  Margaret  Tench.  The  latter  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  November  18, 
1716. 

Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.,  as  his  name  appears  on  the  early  records  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  uncle  Thomas,  was,  like  his  uncle,  very  prominent  in  the  affairs 
of  Philadelphia.  He  was  born  in  Newark  on  the  Trent',  County  of  Nottingham, 
England,  where  he  was  baptised,  March  27,  1686.  He  probably  came  to  Phila- 
delphia when  quite  a  young  man  and  lived  there  with  his  uncle  Thomas  Tresse, 
and  aunt  Margaret  Tench,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  childless  widow.  He  was  a 
member  of  Christ  church,  where  he  was  married  by  Rev.  Evan  Evans,  April 
8,  171 1,  to  "Mary,  daughter  of  Mr.  Nicolas  Pearse."  She  was  buried  at 
Christ  church,  in  the  Pearse  vault.  May  28,  1714. 

(From  the  fact  that  the  elder  Thomas  Tresse  was  also  buried  in  this 
vault,  it  has  been  assumed  by  some  that  Mary  was  his  wife  and  not  that  of 
his  nephew  Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.,  but  the  baptism  of  their  two  children,  Hugh 
and  Margaret,  who  are  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Thomas  Sr.,  as  the  children  of 


596  SINGER 

his  "cousen  Thomas  Tresse,"  the  term  cousin  being  at  that  time  applied  to 
nephews  and  nieces,  fully  proves  that  she  was  the  first  wife  of  Thomas,  Junior. 
The  term  "wife,"  not  "widow,"  in  the  record  of  her  burial  is  another  proof.) 

Thomas  Tresse  married  (second)  at  Christ  Church,  May  15,  1715,  "Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Captn.  Samuel  Finney,  and  relict  of  Joseph  Pidgeon,  deceased." 
Thomas  Tresse  Jr.,  was  early  associated  with  his  uncle  in  mercantile  business 
in  Philadelphia,  and  at  the  death  of  the  latter,  in  1714,  inherited  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  ample  estate.  Most  of  the  real  estate,  outside  of  Philadelphia,  how- 
ever, owned  by  Thomas  Tresse,  Sr.,  was  conveyed  to  Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.  and 
Margaret  Tench,  his  aunt,  by  a  deed  of  trust  from  Thomas  Tresse,  Sr.,  in 
1712,  and  later  conveyed  by  them  to  different  parties,  the  iron  lands  and  inter- 
ests at  Manatawney,  going  to  Joshua  Tresse,  brother  of  Thomas,  Jr.  The  dif- 
ferent tracts  owned  by  Thomas  Tresse,  Sr.,  "Merchant  and  Ironmonger,"  in- 
cluded the  13,000  acres  in  New  Hanover  township.  On  the  Alanatawney 
Creek;  1250  acres  in  Warwick  township,  Bucks  county,  sold  by  the  trustees  in 
1714;  500  acres  in  Burlington  county,  and  500  acres  in  Gloucester  county, 
New  Jersey ;  1086  acres  in  Philadelphia  county ;  340  acres  in  Chester  county ;  50 
acres  in  New  Castle  county ;  and  50  acres  on  the  Delaware  in  Philadelphia. 

Thomas  Tresse  was  one  of  the  solid  men  of  Philadelphia,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs.  He  was  elected  to  the  common  council  of  the 
city,  October  7,  1718,  and  served  until  his  death  in  1739,  and  was  city  treas- 
urer from  1732.  Like  his  uncle,  he  filled  numerous  trusts  in  the  settlement  of 
estates,  etc.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  Christ  church  filling 
the  position  of  Warden  from  1723,  and  from  1727  to  1731  served  as  chairman 
of  various  committees  for  raising  funds  for  the  enlargement  and  improvement 
of  the  church  and  other  business  matters  relating  thereto.  He  was  also  inter- 
ested in  Trinity  Episcopal  church,  in  Oxford  township,  Philadelphia,  where  the 
family  of  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Finney,  held  membership,  being  one  of 
the  donors  in  1715,  of  a  patent  to  that  church.  He  was  buried  at  Christ 
church,  November  21,  1739,  being  in  his  54th  year.  By  his  first  wife,  Mary 
Pearse,  Thomas  Tresse,  had  two  children,  Margaret,  baptised  at  Christ  church, 
September  13,  1713,  buried  there,  December  4,  1732;  and  Hugh  Tresse,  bap- 
tised January  26,  1714,  at  the  age  of  8  days,  died  1746,  married  Hannah  Fin- 
ney, niece  of  his  stepmother,  Elizabeth  Finney :  of  them  hereafter. 

Elizabeth  Finney,  second  wife  of  Thomas  Tresse,  was  a  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Finney,  by  his  first  wife.  She  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  Feb- 
ruary I,  1736-7.  Her  first  husband  Joseph  Pidgeon  was  a  merchant,  and  justice 
of  Philadelphia,  and  member  of  the  provincial  council. 

Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Finney)  Tresse.  had  six  children,  only  two  of  whom 
lived  to  mature  years,  .Ann,  (1722- 1793),  married  Daniel  Rundle :  and  Mary, 
married  James  Murgatroyd  and  died  in  1782.  The  will  of  Thomas  Tresse, 
proved  December  31,  1739,  names  his  three  children,  Hugh,  Mary  and  Ann, 
and  makes  his  "brother-in-law  Charles  Finney,"  trustee.  All  three  of  the  chil- 
dren are  named  as  executors,  but  letters  were  granted  to  Mary  and  Ann  Tresse, 
(then  both  single),  "Hugh  being  absent." 

Captain  Hugh  Tresse,  son  of  Thomas  Tresse,  Jr.,  by  his  first  wife,  Mary 
Pearse,  and  only  son  of  his  father,  who  survived  infancy,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1712.    He  was  a  sea  captain,  and  probably  lost  his  life  at  sea,  as  we  find 


SINGER  597 

no  record  of  his  burial.  He  survived  his  father  but  a  few  years,  the  exact  date 
of  his  death  being  also  unknown.  He  is  named  as  "absent"  when  letters  testa- 
mentary were  granted  on  the  estate  of  his  father  December  31,  1739,  being 
probably  on  a  sea  voyage.  Letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  his  es- 
tate, September  2,  1746,  to  his  father-in-law  Charles  Finney,  four  days  after  the 
burial  of  his  wife.  Finney  evidently  renounced  letters  later,  as,  July  16,  1748, 
letters  were  granted  to  Robert  Greenway,  "during  the  minority  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  Tresse,  minor  children  of  the  said  deceased."  Charles  Finney  was 
still  living,  dying  exactly  two  years  after  the  grant  of  the  letters  to  Greenway. 
Captain  Hugh  Tresse  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Charles  Finney,  of  Oxford 
township,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Tregony,  and  granddaughter  of  Captain  Sam- 
uel Finney,  of  Tacony. 

Captain  Samuel  Finney,  of  Cheatham  Hill,  county  of  Lancaster,  England, 
merchant,  purchased  by  deeds  of  lease  and  release,  dated  August  4,  1699,  of 
Thomas  Fairman,  800  acres  of  land,  laid  out  in  Philadelphia  county,  and  Feb- 
ruary 6th,  1699-1700,  purchased  another  tract  of  187  acres  at  the  mouth  of 
Tacony  Creek,  and  soon  after  the  last  purchase  came  to  Philadelphia  and  settled 
thereon.  He  engaged  in  business  as  a  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  driving  into 
the  city  from  his  residence  between  Tacony  and  Frankford.  In  1705  he  was 
granted  a  vacant  lot  for  a  stable  "for  accommodating  his  horses  when  he  comes 
to  town,  *  *  *  in  thg  ^j  St.  Between  Sassafras  and  Vine  Sts.  on  the  East 
side,  of  3d  St.  55  ft.  in  breadth  and  196,  depth."  Captain  Samuel,  "being  a 
man  of  good  ability,  and  very  considerable  estate,"  was  early  called  upon  to 
take  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  province  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
called  to  the  provincial  council  and  took  the  oath  as  a  member  thereof,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1701,  and  retained  his  seat  in  that  body  until  his  death  in  1712. 
On  October  28,  1701,  when  William  Penn  was  about  to  leave  the  province  and 
return  to  England,  Captain  Finney  was  one  of  the  council  of  state  named  by  him 
"for  the  Government  of  the  said  Province  of  Pennsylvania  and  Counties  an- 
nexed *  *  *  and  in  the  absence  of  me  or  my  Lieutenant  Governor,  out  of 
said  Province,  or  on  the  incapacity  of  the  Lieut.  Govr.  to  exercise  all  the  pow- 
ers and  jurisdicition  conferred  by  the  Royal  Charter,  etc.,  for  the  Government 
thereof."  He  was  also  commissioned  a  justice  of  Philadelphia  county,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1701,  and  re-commissioned  September  4,  1704.  April  17,  1706,  he  was 
named  as  one  of  the  provincial  judges  of  the  province  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the 
lower  counties  thereof,  and  served  on  the  supreme  bench  of  the  province  until 
his  death.     He  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  August  7,  1712. 

Captain  Samuel  Finney,  was  accompanied  to  Pennsylvania,  by  a  family  of 
children,  most  of  whom  had  already  reached  the  age  of  maturity,  but  was 
probably  a  widower.  He  married  (second)  about  1705,  Elizabeth,  the  widow 
of  Henry  Tregony,  a  colonial  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  who  died  in  1704. 
She  was  baptised  at  Christ  church,  as  Elizabeth  Finney,  September  11,  171 1, 
then  aged  58  years.  She  married,  (third)  May  17,  1717,  Edward  Evans. 
John  Finney,  the  eldest  son  of  the  captain,  was  sheriff  of  Philadelphia,  1703-4, 
later  a  provincial  judge,  etc.  Elizabeth  Finney,  the  second  daughter,  married 
(first)  Joseph  Pidgeon  and  (second)  Thomas  Tresse,  as  before  stated  the  other 
sons  were,  Samuel,  Joseph  and  Charles,  who  with  "kinsman  Robert  Asheton", 
were  mentioned  in  their  father's  will. 


598  SINGER 

Charles  Finney,  probably  the  youngest  son  of  Samuel,  the  provincial  council- 
lor and  judge,  was  born  in  England  in  1682.  He  settled  in  Oxford  township, 
Philadelphia  county  and  was  one  of  the  active  members  of  Trinity  Episcopal 
church  there,  serving  many  years  as  vestryman,  and  as  trustee  from  1737  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  contributor  in  1724,  to  the  fund  for  the  purchase  of  63 
acres  on  the  Bristol  road  for  the  use  of  the  rector.  He  died,  July  16,  1750,  aged 
68  years,  and  is  buried  at  Trinity  church,  Oxford. 

Charles  Finney  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Treg- 
ony,  the  latter  being  his  step-mother.  Mrs.  Finney  died  October  14,  1748,  at 
the  age  of  66  years  and  is  buried  beside  her  husband  at  Trinity  church,  Oxford, 
where  many  of  the  family  are  buried.  They  had  six  children  who  lived  to  ma- 
ture age  : — Elizabeth,  married  in  1732  ;  Mary,  married  John  Bringhurst,  the  famous 
coach-maker  of  Germantown ;  Hannah,  married  Captain  Hugh  Tresse ;  Samuel, 
died  in  1753,  leaving  an  only  child,  Hannah;  William,  died  without  issue  in  1752; 
Henry  died  without  issue  in  1744;  Richard,  who  has  left  numerous  descendants. 

Hannah  (Finney)  Tresse,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Tregony)  Fin- 
ney was  baptised  at  Trinity  church,  Oxford,  April  9,  1721 ;  and  wife  of  Captain 
Hugh  Tresse,  and  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  August  29,  1746.  She  had  two 
children,  Thomas  and  Hannah  Tresse,  mentioned  in  the  will  of  her  father, 
Charles  Finney. 

Thomas  Tresse,  only  son  of  Captain  Hugh  and  Hannah  (Finney) 
Tresse,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  4,  1744-5  and  was  baptised  at 
Christ  church,  December  8,  1745.  Losing  both  father  and  mother  when  less 
than  two  years  of  age,  he  was  probably  reared  in  the  family  of  his  maternal 
relatives.  He  learned  the  trade  of  house  carpenter,  and  after  his  marriage, 
March  30,  1767,  at  Christ  church,  resided  in  the  district  of  Southwark,  where 
he  died  November  18,  1772,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  buried 
in  Christ  Church  burying  ground,  where  his  tombstone  may  still  be  seen.  His 
widow,  nee  Elizabeth  Singleton,  married  (second)  November  22,  1774,  Thomas 
Pugh,  who  had  been  named  as  one  of  the  executors  of  her  first  husband's  will. 
Thomas  and  Hannah  (Singleton)  Tresse  had  three  children:  Thomas  Tresse, 
born  December  31,  1767,  married  Mary  Buck,  in  1780,  and  left  issue;  Ann 
Tresse,  born  November  25,  1769,  married  Abraham  Singer;  Richard  Tresse,  born 
October  4,  1772,  died  unmarried,  October  20,  1793.  Ann  (Tresse)  Singer,  died 
at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  January  25,  1806.  The  following  account  of  her 
death  and  burial  was  written  by  her  husband.  Captain  Abraham  Singer; — 

"My  dear  wife,  Ann,  died  at  Lancaster  the  25th  of  January,  1806,  in  the  presence  of 
several  friends  and  myself,  aged  thirty-six  years  and  two  months.  The  natural  amia- 
bleness  of  her  temper  was  not  affected  by  the  tedious  and  painful  disease  which  terminated 
her  life,  and  she  resigned  her  breath  with  that  tranquility  and  confidence  in  the  mercy  of 
her  God  which  manifested  piety  and  the  consciousness  of  a  virtuous  well  spent  life  alone 
can  inspire.  Her  remains  were  interred  in  the  German  Lutheran  burying  ground  at 
Lancaster  by  the  side  of  my  mother's  grave."  (The  church  has  since  been  enlarged  and 
now  extends  over  both  the  graves  mentioned,  the  bodies  now  resting  under  the  church). 

Abraham  and  Ann  (Tresse)  Singer  had  three  children:  Maria  Singer,  born 
April  19,  1795,  died  August  16.  1869,  married,  June  13,  1819,  George  Shively ; 
Thomas  Tresse  Singer,  born  October  2.  1797,  dietl,  at  Nazareth,  Pennsylvania, 
March  10,  1809,  while  attending  the  Seminary  there,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Congregational  grave-yard  there ;  Richard  Spangler  Singer,  of  whom  presently. 


SINGER  599 

Richard  Spangler  Singer,  youngest  son  of  Abraham  and  Ann  (Tresse) 
Singer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  November  23,  1798.  His  par- 
ents removed  to  Reading,  Berks  county,  Pennsylvania,  when  he  was  a  child  and 
he  was  reared  and  educated  in  that  city.  He  married,  May  4,  1834,  Martha 
Arthur,  who  was  born  November  28,  1817.  The  first  thirteen  years  of  their 
married  life  was  spent  in  various  parts  of  the  United  States.  They  resided  for 
a  time  in  Dearborn  county,  Indiana ;  removed  from  there  to  New  Orleans,  Louis- 
iana, and  from  there  to  the  neighborhood  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  coming  to  Phila- 
delphia in  1847,  and  spending  the  remainder  of  their  days  in  that  city.  Richard 
Spangler  Singer  died  December  8,  1890,  and  his  wife,  Martha  Arthur,  died 
July  5,  1894.  They  had  five  children:  Charles  Arthur  Singer,  born 
March  9,  1836,  died  March  15,  1909;  Arthur  E.  Singer,  born  September  7, 
1837,  died  June  1862;  Edgar  Arthur  Singer,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Emma 
M.  Singer,  born  November  18,  1842,  died  January  14,  1864;  Frances  Maria 
Singer,  born  May  13,  1844. 

Edgar  Arthur  Singer,  third  child  and  youngest  son  of  Richard  Spangler  and 
Martha  (Arthur)  Singer,  was  born  in  Dearborn  county,  Indiana,  April  13,  1841. 
Soon  after  his  birth  his  parents  removed  to  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  a 
year  later  to  the  vicinity  of  Cincinnatti,  Ohio.  When  he  was  six  years  old,  the 
family  removed  to  Philadelphia,  and  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  that 
city,  later  entering  the  Fayette  school,  at  Bustleton,  Philadelphia  county.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Central  High  School  of  Philadelphia  in  1855,  and  later  re- 
turned to  the  Fayette  school  and  studied  Latin  and  mathematics  under  the  late 
George  W.  Fetter,  who  was  afterwards  principal  of  the  Girls  Normal  School 
of  Philadelphia.  In  1857,  Mr.  Singer,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  became  the 
teacher  of  the  Godfrey  school,  in  Byberry  township,  Philadelphia  county,  and 
in  i860,  of  the  Franklin  school  near  League  Island,  Philadelphia.  He  continued 
his  studies  while  filling  these  positions,  and  in  1862  was  appointed  principal  of 
the  Central  school  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  later  of  the  Tenth  Ward  School 
in  that  city.  In  1865,  he  became  principal  of  the  Zane  school,  Germantown, 
Philadelphia;  later  filling  the  same  position,  at  the  Filbert  street  and  Keystone 
grammar  schools,  until  1872,  when  he  became  principal  of  the  Hallowell  school, 
Philadelphia,  which  position  he  filled  until  the  close  of  the  year  1886,  when 
having  been  appointed  assistant  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of  Philadel- 
phia, he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  this  responsible  position,  January  i,  1887, 
and  continued  to  serve  in  the  capacity  of  assistant,  later  associate  superintend- 
ent until  his  death  on  January  28.  1909.  In  1893,  Mr.  Singer  entered  on  a  post- 
graduate course  in  philosophy,  English  literature  and  pedagogy,  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  June,  1896,  received  from  that  institution  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  He  was  always  an  indefatigable  student,  and  per- 
formed faithfully  the  duties  incumbent  upon  him  in  the  respective  positions  he 
occupied,  and  while  waiting  for  calls  to  higher  positions,  strove  to  qualify  him- 
self for  the  assumption  of  higher  responsibilities.  He  possessed  rare  accomplish- 
ments both  as  a  man  and  an  educator  and  those  who  came  in  close  contact 
with  him  and  are  best  able  to  judge  of  his  qualifications  bear  testimony  to  his 
great  and  invaluable  services  to  the  cause  of  education  in  Philadelphia,  to 
which  most  of  the  active  years  of  his  life  were  given.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Teachers  Institute,  the  Educational  Club  of  Philadelphia,  the  State  Teachers 


6oo  SINGER 

Association  and  the  National  Educational  Association  and  of  the  National  Coun- 
cil of  Educators.  He  was  the  Philadelphia  representative  in  the  National  Educa- 
tional Association  in  1880,  and  served  on  the  various  committees  on  courses  of 
study  for  the  public  schools.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Penn  Club  and  the 
Contemporary  Club  of  Philadelphia.  Dr.  Singer  was  prominent  in  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  enjoying  the  rare  distinction  of  being  a  thirty-third  degree  Free  Ma- 
son. He  was  a  member  of  Phoenix  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Mary 
Commandery,  and  of  Consistory,  Royal  x\rch  Masons.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  vestryman  of  St.  Mark's  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  Frankford.  Philadelphia, 
where  his  funeral  services  were  conducted  in  January,  1909 ;  interment  being 
made  in  the  ancient  church-yard  at  Trinity  church,  Oxford,  near  Fox  Chase, 
Philadelphia,  where  many  generations  of  his  family  lie  buried.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pennsylvannia  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  will  be 
long  remembered  among  the  members  of  that  society  for  the  loyal  and  patriotic 
support  he  gave  to  its  objects  and  aims. 

Dr.  Singer  married  January  27,  1872,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Ellen  (Sheppard)  Phillips,  and  two  sons  survive,  Edgar  Arthur,  (2)  and 
Walter  Tresse  Singer.  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Phillips)  Singer  died  September  20, 
1908. 

Edgar  Arthur  Singer,  (2)  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  13,  1873. 
He  graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Science,  in  1892,  and  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  the 
same  institution  in  1894.  He  followed  courses  at  Harvard  University,  1894-1896, 
being  appointed  assistant  instructor  in  psychology  at  that  university  in  1895  •  '" 
1896  was  made  senior  fellow,  and  in  1898,  instructor.  In  1903  he  was  ap- 
pointed assistant  professor  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1909,  was 
appointed  to  the  chair  of  modern  philosophy  in  that  university.  During  the 
Spanish-.\merican  war  he  served  as  sergeant  in  Company  E.  First  regiment, 
United  States  Volunteer  Engineers.  He  married,  in  New  York  city.  July  5, 
1905,  Helen,  daughter  of  Edward  Hamilton  and  Mary  Georgiana  (Hinman) 
Bunker,  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey.  Edward  Hamilton  Bunker  traces  his  descent 
through  Thomas  Y.  and  Sykie  (Raymond),  Richard  and  Lois  (Cartwright). 
Richard  and  Eunice  (Mitchell),  Thomas  and  Ann  (Swain),  Benjamin  and  De- 
borah (Paddock),  William  and  Mary,  to  George  and  Jane  (Godfrey)  Bunker, 
of  Topsfield,  England.  Jane  (Godfrey)  Bunker  having  married  (second)  Rich- 
ard Swain,  came  with  him  and  the  children  of  her  first  husband  to  Nantucket 
in  1660.  Edward  A.  Singer,  (2)  and  his  wife  Helen  (Bunker)  have  one  child. 
Edgar  Arthur,  (3),  born  March  9,  1907. 

Walter  Tresse  Singer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  December  8,  1879.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1899,  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Science,  and  in  1902  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws 
from  the  same  institution  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  and  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of   Illinois. 


HENRY  WILSON  RUPP 

Henry  Wilson  Rupp,  of  Philadelphia,  is  a  descendant  on  several  lines  froiii 
ancestors  who  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  patriot  cause  during  the  Revo- 
lution. 

George  Rupp,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  the  little  village  of  Wimmern,  in  Lower  Alsace,  Germany,  August  ii, 
1721,  and  was  a  son  of  Ulrich  Rupp,  of  Wimmern,  and  his  wife  Margaret  Holtz, 
both  of  whom  died  in  Lower  Alsace.  George  Rupp,  married  in  Germany,  Jan- 
uary 23,  1750.  Ursula  Von  Peterholtz,  who  was  born  August  17,  1722,  in  the 
town  of  Rabschwiern,  in  the  duchy  of  Zweibrucken,  Upper  Alsace.  In  the 
year  of  their  marriage,  George  and  Ursula  Rupp  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania. 
The  name  has  been  frequently  spelled  on  Pennsylvania  records  Roop,  and  it  is 
probable  that  the  Johan  George  Roop,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  ship 
"Brothers"  Captain  Muir,  arriving  at  Philadelphia,  August  24,  1750,  was  the 
George  Rupp  above  mentioned.  George  Rupp,  soon  after  his  arrival  in  Penn- 
sylvania, located  in  that  part  of  Northampton  County,  now  included  in  Lehigh 
county,  where  he  took  up  a  large  tract  of  land,  including  the  present  Ruppsville, 
Lehigh  county,  the  first  tract  being  surveyed  to  him  under  warrant  dated  Decem- 
ber 25,  1752.  George  Rupp  was  a  member  of  one  of  the  Ranging  companies  of 
Northampton  county  during  the  Revolution,  under  Lieutenant-colonel  Philip 
Boem.  He  died  at  Ruppsville,  Macungie  township,  Northampton,  (now  Lehigh) 
county,  September  13,  1807;  and  his  wife  Ursula,  died  March  10,  1800.  They 
had  eight  children,  three  sons,  and  five  daughters.  The  three  sons,  Adam  Her- 
manns, John  George  and  Andrew,  were  all  soldiers  in  the  Northampton  county 
militia  throughout  the  Revolution. 

Adam  Hermanus  Rupp,  fourth  child  and  eldest  son  of  George  and  Ursula 
(Von  Peterholtz)  Rupp,  was  born  at  Ruppsville,  Macungie  township,  North- 
ampton now  Lehigh)  county,  November  6,  1756,  and  died  there  August  30, 
183 1.  He  was  the  owner  of  280  acres  of  land  in  Macungie  township  prior  to  the 
death  of  his  father,  when  he  inherited  the  old  homestead,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death.  He  served  four  years  as  a  soldier  during  the  Revolution,  and  was 
active  in  the  militia  organization  later,  reaching  the  rank  of  brigadier  general  of 
militia.  He  married  Barbara  Berer,  who  was  born  in  the  same  locality,  July 
2,  1767,  and  died  at  Ruppsville,  December  7,  1847. 

Jacob  Rupp,  eldest  son  of  Adam  Hermanus  and  Barbara  (Berer)  Rupp,  was 
born  at  Ruppsville,  Northampton  (now  Lehigh)  county,  July  13,  1787,  and  died 
there,  March  9,  1858.  He  inherited  the  old  homestead  and  lived  thereon  his  entire 
life.  He  married  Anna  Maria  Fogel,  who  was  born  at  Fogelsville,  Macungie 
township,  Lehigh  county,  March  21,  1788,  and  died  on  the  old  Rupp  homestead, 
in  Upper  Macungie,  December  11,  1866. 

John  Fogel,  the  father  of  Anna  Maria  (Fogel)  Rupp,  was  born  in  Lynn 
township,  Lehigh  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  at  Fogelsville,  Macungie  town- 
ship, April  25,  1849.    He  was  a  member  of  the  General  Committee  of  Safety  for 


6o2  RUPP 

Northampton  County  in  1776,  and  later  an  officer  of  militia  in  active  service  dur- 
ing the   Revolution. 

TiLGHMAN  Rupp,  eldest  son  of  Jacob  and  Anna  Maria  (Fogel)  Rupp,  was  born 
at  Fogelsville,  Macungie  township,  December  13,  1812.  and  died  in  Philadelphia, 
October  18,  1859,  where  he  was  for  some  years  engaged  in  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  business.  He  married,  December  17,  1835,  Emily  Margaret  (b.  Allentown, 
Pa.,  July  24,  1814,  d.  Phila.,  Feb.  28,  1886),  daughter  of  John  and  Catharine 
(Rhoads)  Wilson,  of  Allentown,  Lehigh  county,  Pennsylvania. 

John  Wilson,  her  father  and  the  maternal  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  at  Allentown,  July  9,  1789,  and  died  at  Bethlehem,  Pennsyl- 
vania, March  2,  1864.  He  was  a  private  in  Captain  John  F.  Ruhe's  Fifth  com- 
pany, of  the  Second  Regiment,  Volunteer  Light  Infantry,  under  the  command 
of  Colonel  Louis  Bache,  attached  to  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division,  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Militia,  during  the  War  of  1812-14;  which  company  was  stationed 
at  Marcus  Hook,  from  August  27  to  November  29,  1814.  John  Wilson  married 
March  27,  1813,  Catharine  (b.  Allentown,  September  28.  1793,  d.  Bethlehem, 
April  13,  1883),  daughter  of 

George  Rhoads,  who  was  born  at  Allentown.  Lehigh  county,  Pennsylvania, 
January  24,  1769,  and  died  there.  September  12,  185 1.  He  studied  law  and  was 
in  active  practice  of  his  profession  for  many  years  prior  to  his  death,  at  Al- 
lentown, the  county  seat  of  Lehigh  county.  He  served  as  clerk  of  the  County 
Commissioners  of  Lehigh  county  from  the  organization  of  the  county  in  1813 
until  1818,  and  again  from  1827  to  1832,  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  1835-1840: 
and  County  Treasurer,  1841-43;  after  which  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  and 
continued  it  until  his  death  in  1851.  He  married  in  1790,  Christiana  Ealer,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children. 

Peter  Rhoads,  the  father  of  George  Rhoads  and  great-great-grandfather  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Whitehall  township.  Northampton  county, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1730,  and  died  in  Allentown.  December  20.  1814.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  military  company  of  Volunteers  at  Allentown,  organized  for  the 
defense  of  the  town  against  the  Indians  in  1763,  and  from  the  beginning  of  the 
struggle  for  independence,  was  one  of  the  foremost  in  his  section  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  associated  companies  for  service  in  the  field,  serving  as  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Safety  for  Northampton  county  from  its  organization.  He  was 
one  of  the  delegates  to  the  Provincial  convention  held  at  Philadelphia,  July  15, 
1776;  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Council  of  Safety,  from  July  24,  1776  to 
March  13,  1777.  He  was  a  member  of  Assembly  from  1777  to  1780:  was  com- 
missioned President  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Northampton  coun- 
ty, June  II,  1777,  and  filled  that  position  until  the  adoption  of  the  constitution 
of  1790,  under  which  he  was  commissioned  an  Associate  Justice,  August  17, 
1791,  which  latter  position  he  held  until  1809.  October  13,  1812.  he  was  ap- 
pointed senior  associate  justice  of  the  new  county  of  Lehigh  and  retained  that 
office  until  his  death.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  state  constitutional  convention 
in  1 789- 1 790  and  was  chairman  of  the  county  convention  which  met  at  Beth- 
lehem, October  22,  1787,  for  the  adoption  of  resolutions  approving  and  accepting 
the  federal  constitution.  He  married,  in  1768,  Sabina  Roster,  by  whom  he  had 
four  children ;  George  Rhoads  above  mentioned  being  the  eldest.  Tilghman 
Rupp,  and  Emily  Margaret  Wilson  had  five  children,  of  whom — 


RUPP  603 

Henry  Wilson  Rupp,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  eldest  son  of  Tilgh- 
man  and  Emily  Margaret  (Wilson)  Rupp.  He  was  born  at  Treichlersville, 
Lehigh  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  par- 
ents in  1849.  He  learned  the  jewelry  business  and  is  still  engaged  in  that 
business  as  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Bailey,  Banks  &  Biddle 
at  1218  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Rupp  married,  in  Bethlehem,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  12,  1859,  Ellen  Maria  Guetter,  who  was  born  in  Bethlehem, 
June  28,  1836,  and  died  in  Philadelphia  June  26,  1899.  They  had  three  children 
only  one  of  whom  survives,  a  daughter,  Carrie  Guetter  Rupp,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, July  25,  1867,  married  Herbert  G.  Leonard,  now  residing  at  5413,  Pulaski 
Avenue,  Germantown.  The  first  born,  Tilghman  Rupp,  was  born  and  died  at 
Concord,  North  Carolina,  April  9,  i860.  The  youngest  child,  Henry  Guetter 
Rupp,  born  in  Philadelphia,  September  10,  1868,  died  October  17,  1896,  un- 
married. He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  War  of  1812,  being  the 
youngest  member  of  that  society  at  his  death.  From  the  minutes  of  the  So- 
ciety meeting  succeeding  his  death  we  abstract  the  following: 

"Henry  G.  Rupp,  a  member  elected  in  1894,  died  October  16,  i8g6.  We  learn  that 
he  was  an  earnest  worker  in  all  pertaining  to  the  interests  of  the  Society,  and  his  loss  will 
be  greatly  felt.    A  descendant  of  a  gallant  soldier  and  patriot." 

Henry  Wilson  Rupp,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  admitted  a  member  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  February  11,  1902,  as 
a  great-great-grandson  of  Private  George  Rupp,  (1721-1807),  of  Northampton 
county,  Pennsylvania,  Rangers.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  War 
of  1812,  being  admitted  in  1893,  the  Pennsylvania  German  Society,  the  His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Moravian  Historical  Society  of  Nazareth, 
Pennsylvania. 


WILLIAM  PARTRIDGE  GILPIN 

The  Gilpin  family,  founded  in  America  by  Joseph  Gilpin,  of  Dorchester, 
County  Oxford,  England,  who  came  to  Pennsylvania  and  settled  in  Birmingham 
township,  Chester  (now  Delaware)  county,  in  1695,  is  of  Norman  origin. 

Bert  de  Guylpyn,  came  to  England  in  the  train  of  William  the  Conqueror  in 
1066,  and  founded  the  family  in  that  country. 

Richard  de  Guylpyn,  the  first  representative  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  any  very  definite  record,  was  secretary  to  the  Baron  of  Kendal,  in  the 
reign  of  King  John,  and  accompanied  him  to  Runnymede.  He  was  known  as 
"Richard  the  Rider,"  and,  while  serving  the  Baron,  performed  a  signal  act  of 
bravery  in  slaying  a  fierce  wild  boar  which  had  long  preyed  upon  the  flocks 
and  herds  in  the  valleys  of  Westmoreland  and  Cumberland.  For  this  service 
Baron  Kendal  in  1206,  granted  to  Richard  de  Guylpyn,  an  estate  of  some  4.000 
acres  in  the  English  Lake  district  about  ten  miles  from  Lake  Windermere, 
County  Westmoreland,  which  was  created  into  the  manor  of  Kentmere,  on 
which  Richard  erected  "Kentmere  Hall"  an  imposing  castle  still  standing,  which 
was  the  home  of  the  Gilpin  family  for  five  centuries.  In  honor  of  his  heroic  feat 
the  coat  of  arms  of  the  Guylpyn  family  was  changed  from  the  Norman  armorial 
bearings  of  his  ancestors  by  having  a  boar  as  its  central  figure.  This  change  is 
recounted  in  an  ancient  poem  called  the  "Minstrels  of  Wandwemere,"  as  fol- 
lows : — 

"Bert  de  Gylpn  drew  of   Normandie, 

From    Walshelin    his    gentle    blood. 
Who  haply  heard,  by  Bewley's  sea, 

The  Angerins'  bugles  in  the  wood. 
His    crest,    the    rebus    of    his    name. 

A    pineapple — a    pine    of    gold, 
Was   on   his   Norman   shield ;   and. 

Sincere    in    word    and    deed,    his    fame   e.xtolled. 
But    Richard,    having    killed    the    boar. 

With    crested    arm    an    olive    shook, 
And  sable  boar  on   field  of  or. 

For   impress   on    his   shield    he   took. 
And  well  he  won  his  honest  arms. 

And  well  he  won  his  Kentmere  lands, 
He   won   them   not   in   war's  alarms, 

Nor  dipt   in   human   blood  his   hands." 

The  arms  recorded  in  the  College  of  Arms  and  thereafter  borne  by  the  de- 
scendants of  Richard  de  Guylpyn,  were,  "Or.  a  boar  sable,  langued  and  tusked, 
gules" — Crest,  A  dexter  arm  embowed,  in  armor  proper,  the  naked  hand  grasp- 
ing a  pine  branch  fesswise,  vert.     Motto — Dictis  Factisque  Simplex. 

Ricn,\RD  DE  GvLPYN,  grandson  of  Richard  the  grantee  of  Kentmere,  inherited 
his  grandsire's  lands  and  titles,  and,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  HI,  received  the  grant 
of  the  Manor  of  Ulwithwaite,  the  original  patent  for  which  is  still  in  possession 
of  his  descendants.  From  this  Richard  de  Gylpyn  both  Kentmere  and  l^lwith- 
waite  descended   to   his   son   of   the   same   name   and   passed   successivelv    from 


GILPIN  605 

father  and  son  for  six  generations  from  the  latter.  The  family  name  became 
gradually  modernized,  first  by  dropping  the  "u"  in  the  name,  then  the  Norman 
prefix  "de"  and  finally  by  substituting  "i"  for  th  "y." 

Richard  Gilpin,  of  the  ninth  generation  from  the  grantee  of  Kentmere,  was 
the  first  of  the  family  to  spell  the  name  in  its  modern  form.  He  inherited  the 
manor  of  Kentmere,  which,  because  his  eldest  son  William  Gilpin  was  killed  at 
Bosworth  Field,  August  22,  1485,  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father,  passed  to  the 
second  son. 

Edwin  Gilpin,  whose  second  son,  Bernard  Gilpin,  "The  Apostle  of  the  North" 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  figures  in  the  ecclesiastic  history  of  England. 
He  was  born  at  Kentmere  Hall,  in  1517,  educated  at  Queen's  College,  Oxford, 
made  a  Fellow  of  the  college  and,  taking  priest's  orders,  was  made  one  of  the 
head  masters  of  the  college  by  Cardinal  Woolsey,  its  founder.  In  the  first  di- 
visions arising  among  the  students  and  faculty,  which  led  up  to  the  English 
Reformation,  he  took  sides  against  the  "protestants"  but  having  some  doubts  of 
the  correctness  of  his  views,  he  gave  the  subject  diligent  study  and  became  con- 
vinced that  he  and  the  church  were  in  error  and  was  thereafter  one  of  the 
most  prominent  exponents  of  the  Protestant  religion  of  his  time.  He  was 
many  times  tried  for  apostacy,  but  always  escaped  conviction  by  the  influence 
of  his  uncle,  the  bishop  of  Durham.  The  life  of  this  remarkable  man  has  been 
written  by  many  prominent  religious  historians,  and  Scott's  painting  of  "Gilpin 
in  Rothbury  Church"  hangs  at  Wallington  Hall,  Northumberland.  A  memorial 
window  in  Durham  cathedral  also  commemorates  important  episodes  in  his  car- 
eer. He  was  licensed  by  King  Henry  VI,  as  a  general  preacher  of  the  Gospel 
throughout  the  kingdom,  and  after  serving  several  years  as  vicar  of  Norton  in  the 
diocese  of  Durham,  of  which  his  maternal  uncle  was  bishop,  resigned  his  charge 
and  for  several  years  pursued  his  theological  studies  on  the  continent.  Return- 
ing to  England  toward  the  close  of  Queen  Mary's  reign,  he  was  appointed  by  his 
uncle,  the  bishop,  archdeacon  of  the  diocese  of  Durham,  and  became  resident  rec- 
tor of  Essington.  As  archdeacon  he  attacked  so  vigorously  the  ignorance,  su- 
perstitions and  inefficiency  of  the  priests  that  the  bishop  was  forced  to  discharge 
him,  and  transfer  him  to  the  rectorship  of  Houghton-le-Spring.  The  priests 
however  carried  their  case  to  the  bishop  of  London,  Dr.  Bonner,  and  war- 
rants were  issued  for  his  arrest.  Without  waiting  for  the  execution  of  these 
warrants  he  started  to  London,  expecting  to  suffer  martyrdom,  but  the  death  of 
"Bloody  Mary"  before  his  arrival  put  an  end  to  the  persecution  of  the  Protest- 
ants and  he  returned  to  his  rectorship,  though  offered  the  bishopric  of  Carlisle, 
which  he  declined.  His  parish  in  the  north  included  fourteen  villages  and  was  one 
of  the  richest  benefices  of  the  north,  the  whole  income  of  which  he  spent  in  char- 
ity and  beneficence,  keeping  open  house  for  travellers  and  furnishing  periodical 
feasts  to  his  poorer  parishioners,  beside  distributing  vast  amounts  of  provisions  in 
his  parish.  He  was  known  all  over  his  parish  as  "Father  of  the  Poor."  He  founded 
a  grammar  school  for  boys  in  his  parish,  and  assisted  a  great  number  of  the 
more  promising  students  therein  to  enter  universities,  always  maintaining  at  least 
six  scholarships  for  them  in  the  leading  universities.  His  death  occurred  March 

4.  1583- 

William  Gilpin,  eldest  brother  of  the  "Apostle  of  the  North,"  inherited 
Kentmere  Hall,  and  it  passed  on  his  death,  January  23,  1577,  to  his  son  George, 


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and  on  the  death  of  the  latter  to  his  son,  Charles  Gilpin,  but  the  latter  being  a 
captain  in  the  army  of  Charles  I,  at  the  time  of  the  civil  war,  he  lost  his  in- 
heritance with  the  downfall  of  the  House  of  Stuart.  William  Gilpin  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Thomas  Washington,  of  Hall  Head,  West 
Moreland,  great  grandson  of  Robert  Washington,  Lord  of  Milburne,  ancestor 
of  George  Washington.  This  relationship  may  have  accounted  for  the  intimacy 
between  members  of  the  two  families  in  America. 

Martin  Gilpin,  one  of  the  younger  sons  of  William,  was  the  ancestor  of 
the  American  branch  of  the  Gilpin  family.  He  married,  in  1580,  Catharine 
Newby  and  died  at  Kendal,  Dec.  18,  1629.  His  widow  died  at  Kendal,  in  1634. 
They  had  eight  children,  of  whom  Isaac,  one  of  the  younger  sons,  was  the  father 
of  Richard  Gilpin,  D.  D.  (1625-1699),  who  first  studied  medicine  and  later  en- 
tered the  ministry;  eminent  for  his  piety  and  learning,  first  a  rector  of  Gray- 
stock,  later  a  staunch  Presbyterian  divine  at  New  Castle-on-the-Tyne,  still  later 
the  purchaser  of  Scaleby  Castle,  County  Cumberland,  where  he  died.  Some  of 
his   descendants  later  migrated   to  America. 

Bernard  Gilpin,  eldest  son  of  Martin,  above  mentioned,  married  Dorothy 
Ayrey  and  died  April  21,  1636,  leaving  several  sons  and  daughters. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  one  of  the  younger  sons  of  Bernard  and  Dorothy  (Ayrey) 
Gilpin,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Pennsylvania  Gilpins  as  well  as  of  Benjamin 
West,  the  artist,  his  daughter  Ann,  having  married  Thomas  West,  of  Long 
Grandon,  County  Bucks,  England,  grandfather  of  the  painter,  whose  father 
John  West,  came  to  Pennsylvania  some  years  later  than  his  cousin,  Joseph  Gil- 
pin, though  William  West,  another  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Gilpin)  West, 
emigrated  about  the  same  date  as  Gilpin  and  settled  in  Chester  county,  where 
he  has  left  descendants.  Thomas  Gilpin  resided  at  Mill  Hill,  parish  of  Eaton, 
Westmoreland,  on  the  borders  of  Lancashire,  and  had  five  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  youngest  son  of  the  above  named  Thomas,  was  born  in 
Westmoreland,  in  1629,  and  died  at  Warborough,  Oxfordshire,  February  3, 
1682.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  an  eminent  preacher 
of  that  sect,  suffering  numerous  imprisonments  and  other  persecutions  for  his 
religious  convictions.  He  married  in  1645,  Joan,  daughter  of  Thomas  Bartholo- 
mew, of  Shillingford,  in  Warborough,  who  was  born  1625  and  died  1700-1. 
He  had  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  the  record  of  whose  births  appear  on 
the  early  Friends'  records. 

Joseph  Gilpin,  third  son  and  sixth  child  of  Thomas  and  Joan  (Bartholomew) 
Gilpin,  was  born,  June  8,  1663,  at  Warborough,  Oxfordshire,  and  at  the  date 
of  his  marriage,  February  23,  1690-1.  was  a  weaver  at  Dorchester  in  the  same 
county,  as  shown  by  the  certificate  of  his  marriage  to  Hannah  Glover,  "of 
Ichingwell  in  ye  parish  of  Kingsclerc,  and  County  of  Southton,  spinster,  daugh- 
ter of  George  Glover  of  the  same  place,  deceased,  and  Alice  his  wife,  him  sur- 
viving," at  "an  Assembly  of  the  People  of  God  called  Quakers,  in  their  pub- 
lick  meeting  place  at  Baghurst,  County  of  Southton,  aforesaid."  Which  certifi- 
cate is  entered  on  the  records  of  Concord  Friends  Meeting,  Delaware  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  the  certificate  of  Joseph  Gilpin  and  his  wife  "from 
Friends  in  England"  was  deposited  February  10,  1695-6.  Alice  Glover,  the 
mother  mentioned  in  the  above  quoted  certificate  was  a  sister  to  William  Lam- 


GILPIN  607 

boll,  of  Reading,  Berkshire,  England,  who  by  deeds  of  lease  and  release  dated 
June  28  and  30,  1683,  purchased  of  William  Penn  625  acres  of  land  to  be  laid 
out  in  Pennsylvania.  George  Glover,  had  beside  Hannah  Gilpin,  another  daugh- 
ter, Alice,  who  December  19,  1680,  married  John  Brunsden,  of  Bucklebury,  to 
whom  William  Lambol,  by  deed  dated  August  2,  1684,  conveyed  100  acres  of  his 
Pennsylvania  land.  October  12,  1684,  he  conveyed  another  100  acres  thereof 
to  his  sister  Alice  Glover,  of  Dorchester,  County  Oxford,  for  her  use  for  life, 
then  to  her  daughter  Hannah  Gilpin.  John  and  Alice  (Glover)  Brunsden  came  to 
Pennsylvania  to  settle  on  the  land  conveyed  to  them  by  Lamboll,  and  by  vir- 
tue of  warrant  of  survey,  dated  November  11,  1684,  the  whole  625  acres  were 
laid  out  in  Birmingham  township,  Chester  county,  to  John  Brunsden,  for  the 
said  William  Lamboll,  who  never  came  to  Pennsylvania,  dying  at  Reading, 
County  Berks,  England,  October  3,  1720,  in  his  eighty-sixth  year.  By  deed, 
dated  December  g,  1704,  he  conveyed  75  acres  to  Joseph  Gilpin,  and  by  another 
deed,  dated  May  18,  1716,  250  acres  of  the  625  acre  purchase,  making  their 
holdings  on  the  Brandywine,  425  acres.  This  tract  was  nearly  a  century  later  the 
scene  of  the  historic  battle  of  Brandywine.  Joseph  Gilpin,  his  wife  Hannah  and 
their  two  eldest  children  arrived  at  New  Castle  in  the  autumn  of  1695,  and  from 
thence  made  their  way  on  foot  to  their  new  home  in  the  primitive  wilderness, 
still  inhabited  by  the  Indians,  with  whom  he  and  his  family  remained  on  inti- 
mate terms  for  many  years.  Their  first  residence  was  in  a  cave  on  the  bank  of 
the  Brandywine,  where  their  first  American  born  child  was  born.  Joseph  Gilpin 
was  the  patriarch  of  the  early  English  settlement  of  that  section  and  for  many 
years  acted  as  the  agent  of  later  settlers  in  securing  homes  for  them  in  the  wil- 
derness. He  died  on  his  Birmingham  plantation,  November  9,  1739,  and  his 
widow  and  the  mother  of  his  fifteen  children  survived  until  January  12,  1757, 
when  all  of  her  fifteen  children  were  married,  and  she  had  sixty-two  grand- 
children, and  several  great  grand-children. 

Samuel  Gilpin,  the  eldest  and  second  child  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Glover) 
Gilpin,  was  born  at  Dorchester,  Oxfordshire,  England,  June  7,  1694,  and  ac- 
companied his  parents  to  the  wilderness  of  southern  Pennsylvania  when  a  year 
old.  He  married,  January  25,  1722-3,  Jane  Parker,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Con- 
cord township,  •  Chester  county :  the  old  home,  in  Birmingham,  which  became 
the  headquarters  of  General  Howe  during  the  battle  of  Brandywine,  in  1777, 
passing  to  his  younger  brothers  and  their  descendants.  In  1733,  Samuel  Gilpin 
and  his  family  removed  to  Nottingham  township,  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  set- 
tling a  tract  of  700  acres,  previously  purchased  on  the  great  northeast  arm  of 
Chesapeake  bay,  which  was  long  known  as  Gilpin's  Falls,  or  Gilpin's  Rocks,  the 
site  of  the  present  town  of  North  East.  A  natural  water  power  there,  has  been 
converted  into  a  great  hydro-electric  plant,  owned  by  the  Gilpin's  Falls  Electric 
Company,"  which  supplies  Elkton  and  the  neighboring  places  with  light  and 
power.  Here  Samuel  Gilpin  lived  until  his  death,  December  7,  1767.  He  was 
interred  in  a  family  burying  ground,  at  "Gilpin  Manor"  the  estate  of  his  son 
Joseph,  hereafter  mentioned.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  provincial  Assem- 
bly from  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania  for  the  term  of   1729-30. 

Jane  Parker,  the  wife  of  Samuel  Gilpin,  (b.  Mar.  24,  1701)  was  a  daughter  of 
John  Parker,  of  Philadelphia,  who  had  come  from  Bingley,  Yorkeshire,  Eng- 
land, and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Doe,  said  to  have  been  a  Huguenot 


6o8  GILPIN 

refugee  from  France.  Mrs.  Gilpin  survived  her  husband,  and  resided  from  his 
death  with  her  son  Joseph  at  Gilpin  Manor,  where  she  died,  August  8,  1775. 
They  had  four  sons,  Joseph,  Thomas,  Samuel,  and  George,  and  three  daughters, 
Mary,    Hannah   and    Rachel. 

Thomas  Gilpin,  the  second  son,  (1727-177SJ  was  adopted  by  his  uncle  Thomas 
Gilpin,  the  proprietor  of  extensive  flour  mills  on  the  Brandywine,  near  Wil- 
mington, Delaware,  which  his  nephew  later  inherited  and  operated.  He  became 
later  a  prominent  merchant  and  shipper  of  Philadelphia  and  was  among  those 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  who  were  arrested  on  the  approach  of  the 
British  army  to  Philadelphia,  and  exiled  to  Virginia,  where  he  died  March  2, 
1778.  He  was  a  man  of  high  scholastic  attainments  much  interested  in  scienti- 
fic investigations,  a  prominent  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society, 
and  the  projector  of  the  Delaware  and  Chesapeake  Canal. 

Samuel  and  George  Gilpin,  the  two  younger  sons,  though  reared  in  the  peac- 
able  principles  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  which  their  parents  were  members, 
were  among  the  most  active  patriots  of  their  section  from  the  inception  of  the 
Revolutionary  struggle.  Samuel,  (1734-1799),  was  a  major  of  Maryland  mil- 
itia ;  rose  to  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  Continental  line,  and  was  some  time 
purchasing  agent  for  the  army  on  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland.  He  inherited 
the  homestead  at  "Gilpin's  Falls,"  and  died  there  in  1799. 

George  Gilpin,  youngest  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Parker)  Gilpin,  born  in 
Nottingham,  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  March  4,  1740,  was  brought  up  by  his 
elder  brother  Thomas,  at  Brandywine,  New  Castle  county,  Delaware,  at  the 
head  of  Chester  creek,  now  A'lillington,  Maryland,  where  Thomas  operated  flour 
mills,  and  carried  on  an  extensive  shipping  business  for  many  years.  George 
removed,  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war,  to  Alexandria,  Virginia,  where  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent.  He  was  intimately  associated  with  George 
Washington,  and  many  autograph  letters  of  the  "Father  of  his  Country"  to  George 
Gilpin  are  still  in  possession  of  the  family.  He  was  commissioned  colonel  of 
Fairfax  county  militia  in  1775,  and  joined  General  Washington's  army  at  Dor- 
chester Heights,  Boston,  with  his  regiment,  and  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Bos- 
ton, later  taking  part  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine  and  Germantown.  While  the 
army  was  encamped  at  Valley  Forge  in  the  winter  of  1777-8,-  Colonel  Gilpin 
went  to  visit  his  brother,  in  his  exile  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  and  returning  to 
the  camp  at  Valley  Forge  proceeded  to  York,  Pennsylvania,  where  congress 
was  then  in  session  to  intercede  for  the  return  of  the  exiles  to  their  homes. 
He  secured  the  promise  that  they  should  be  permitted  to  return,  but  his  brother 
died  before  it  was  accomplished.  At  the  close  of  the  revolution.  Colonel  George 
Gilpin,  under  the  direction  of  General  Washington,  made  a  survey  of  the  river 
Potomac  from  tide  water  to  the  upper  falls  and  prepared  a  plan  for  the  improve- 
ment of  the  channel  for  navigation.  He  was  interested  in  this  and  other  pub- 
lic improvements  there,  until  his  death,  December  24.  1813.  At  the  request  of 
the  family  he  was  named  one  of  the  pall-bearers  of  Washington.  He  married 
(first)  Catharine  Peters,  and  (second)  her  sister,  Jane  Peters,  cousins  to  Martha 
Washington.  He  had  three  children  by  Catharine,  and  six  by  Jane,  most  of 
whom  have  left  descendants. 

Jo.sEi'H  Gii.riN,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Parker)  Gilpin  and  ancestor 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Concord  township,  Chester  county. 


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Pennsylvania,  August  i,  1725,  and  removed  with  his  parents  to  Nottingham, 
Cecil  county,  Maryland,  at  the  age  of  eight  years.  On  arriving  at  manhood's 
years  he  acquired  the  tract  of  land  long  known  as  "Gilpin  Manor,"  and  in  1760 
erected  thereon  on  the  bank  of  the  Big  Elk,  about  one  mile  north  of  Elkton,  the 
county  seat  of  Cecil  county,  the  fine  old  colonial  mansion,  still  standing,  and  one 
of  the  picturesque  and  historic  colonial  houses  of  the  Atlantic  coast.  Joseph 
Gilpin  was  one  of  the  prominent  patriots  of  Maryland  and  was  from  the  first 
an  ardent  supporter  of  the  cause  of  independence.  He  was  representative  in  the 
Provincial  convention  held  at  Annapolis,  December  7,  1775,  and  later  a  member 
of  the  convention  held  August  14,  1776,  to  frame  a  constitution  for  the  state  of 
Delaware.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Maryland  convention  called  for  the 
ratification  of  the  United  States  constitution,  in  1787;  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  convention  of  1777,  a  member  of  the  Maryland  Assembly,  1777,  and 
presiding  justice  of  the  first  court  of  Cecil  county  under  the  new  government. 
In  1780  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  from  Maryland  to  the  con- 
ference at  Philadelphia  held  to  consider  measures  to  restore  the  public  credit; 
was  again  commissioned  presiding  justice  of  the  courts  of  Cecil  county,  in 
1784,  and  held  that  office  until  his  death,  March  26,  1790.  He  was  one  of  the 
largest  contributors  to  the  fund  for  erecting  a  court  house  in  1783  and  one  of 
the  commissioners  in  charge  of  its  erection.  Joseph  Gilpin  married,  November 
8,  1764,  Elizabeth  Read,  who  was  born  1742,  and  died  1802.  They  had  nine 
children. 

John  Gilpin,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Read)  Gilpin,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 17,  1765,  and  died  April  19,  1808.  He  inherited  Gilpin  Manor  and 
spent  his  whole  life  there,  taking  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  filling 
a  number  of  public  offices  in  his  native  county.  He  succeeded  his  father  as 
presiding  judge  of  the  Cecil  county  courts,  February  14,  1788,  was  a  presiden- 
tial elector  for  John  Adams  in  1797,  and  for  Thomas  Jefferson  in  1801  and 
1805.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  in  1800.  He  married, 
September  28,  1797,  Mary  Husbands  (b.  Apr.  26,  1772,  d.  Nov.  21,  1850)  daugh- 
ter of  Colonel  Henry  Hollingsworth,  one  of  the  most  prominent  figures  during 
the  Revolutionary  war,  in  his  section,  and  a  descendant  of  a  family  long  prom- 
inent   in    that    section. 

Valentine  Hollingsworth,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  America,  was  born 
"about  the  Sixth  Month  in  the  Year  1632,"  as  shown  by  the  ancient  records  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  in  County  Armagh,  Ireland.  He  was  a  son  of  Henry 
and  Catherine  (Cornish)  Hollingsworth,  of  Ballineskcrannell,  parish  of  Segoe, 
County  Armagh,  Ireland,  who  it  is  believed  emigrated  to  Ireland  from  Ches- 
hire, where  the  family  was  long  seated.  Valentine  was  an  early  convert  to 
Quakerism,  and  suffered  severe  persecutions  for  his  faith  in  167 1  and  1672. 
He  married  (first),  June  7,  1655,  ^n"  R^c-  of  R^a,  (b.  1628,  d.  Apr.  i,  1671), 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Ree,  of  Tanderagee,  County  Armagh.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) June  12,  1672,  at  a  Friends  meeting  in  the  house  of  Mark  Wright,  parish 
of  Shenkell,  County  Armagh,  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  Calvert  of  Drogora, 
parish  of  Segoe,  and  with  her,  their  three  eldest  children,  his  daughter  Ann,  by 
his  first  marriage,  and  her  husband  Thomas  Conway,  came  to  America  in  1682, 
it  is  said  with  William  Penn,  in  the  "Welcome."  They  settled  on  a  plantation  of 
1000  acres  on   Shelpot  creek,   Brandywine  Hundred,   New   Castle  county,   now 


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in  Delaware,  about  five  miles  northwestwardly  from  the  present  city  of  Wil- 
mington, where  Valentine  died  in  1710.  The  early  meetings  of  Friends  were 
held  at  his  house,  and  later  a  meeting  house  erected  on  his  land  and  a  monthly 
meeting  established,  '  known  as  "New  Worke  Meeting,"  which  later  became 
Kennett  Alonthly  Meeting,  Chester  county.  In  1687,  X'alentine  Hollingsworth 
donated  "unto  friends  for  a  burying  place  halfe  an  acre  of  land  for  yt  purpose." 
as  shown  by  the  records  of  said  meeting.  \'alentine  Hollingsworth  was  a  repre- 
sentative from  New  Castle  county  in  the  first  Provincial  Assembly  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1682-3,  and  in  the  subsequent  assemblies  of  1685,  1687,  1688,  1689,  1695 
and  1700,  and  was  also  a  justice  of  the  county  from  February  7,  1685  to  his 
death.  His  wife  Ann  died  October  17,  1697.  Two  sons,  Henry  and  Thomas, 
and  another  daughter,  Catharine,  with  her  husband  George  Robinson,  all  by 
the  first  wife,  followed  him  to  the  Delaware;  and  he  had  seven  children  by  his 
second  wife  Ann  Calvert. 

Henry  Hollingsworth,  eldest  son  of  Valentine  and  Ann  (Ree)  Hollingsworth, 
was  born  at  Ballineskcrannell,  parish  of  Segoe,  County  Armagh,  Ireland,  No- 
vember 7,  1658.  He  did  not  accompany  his  father  and  stepmother  to  the  Dela- 
ware in  1682,  but  followed  them  in  the  "Lion,  of  Liverpoole,"  which  arrived  in 
the  Delaware  river,  October  14,  1683.  He  came  with  Robert  Turner,  the  Dub- 
lin merchant,  who  was  an  intimate  friend  of  William  Penn,  and  a  large  pur- 
chaser of  land  in  Pennsylvania.  With  him,  Henry  Hollingsworth  served  two 
years,  and  then  took  up  his  residence  with  his  father  in  New  Castle  county.  He, 
however,  returned  to  Ireland,  as  soon  as  he  was  comfortably  established  and 
married,  in  his  native  parish  of  Segoe,  August  22,  1688,  Lydia  Atkinson,  the 
sweetheart  of  his  youth,  and  returned  immediately  with  -her  to  the  Delaware 
and  located  near  his  father  in  New  Castle  county,  which  county  he  represented 
in  the  Provincial  Assembly  in  1695.  At  about  this  date,  however,  he  seems  to 
have  located  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  of  which  he  was  elected  sheriff 
in  the  autumn  of  1695.  He  was  deputy-master  of  rolls  there  in  1700,  and  filled 
the  offices  of  coroner,  clerk  of  courts  and  deputy  surveyor,  being  directed  iK 
1699,  in  the  latter  capacity,  by  William  Penn  to  survey  a  large  tract  of  land,  some 
30,000  acres,  for  his  daughter  Letitia,  later  known  as  Letitia's  Manor,  located  in 
Chester  and  New  Castle  counties.  He  removed  to  Elkton,  Cecil  county.  Mary- 
land, prior  to  May  9,  1712,  on  which  date  he  was  appointed  by  Lord  Baltimore, 
surveyor  for  Cecil  county.  His  book  of  surveys,  containing  a  medley,  of  poetry, 
receipts,  notes  on  astrology,  alchemy  and  chemistry,  in  addition  to  his  notes 
of  surveys  made,  is  still  in  existence,  being  lately  owned  by  Ex-Governor  Sam- 
uel Pennypacker.  It  indicates  that  he  was  a  man  of  high  scholastic  attainments 
both  in  the  sciences  and  classics,  much  of  the  miscellaneous  matter  being  written 
in  Latin.  He  died  at  Elkton,  April  or  May,  1721,  leaving  six  children,  two  sons, 
Stephen,  long  a  magistrate  of  Cecil  county,  later  removing  to  the  Shenandoah 
valley,  Virginia;  Zebulon,  of  whom  presently;  and  four  daughters,  Catharine. 
Ruth,  Abigail  and  Mary. 

Captain  Zebulon  Hollingsworth,  second  son  of  Henry  and  Lydia  (Atkinson) 
Hollingsworth.  born  in  1696.  presumably  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  was 
prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Cecil  county,  serving  many  years  as  a  justice  of  her 
courts,  filling  the  position  of  presiding  justice  in  1742  and  for  several  subsequent 
years.     He  was  appointed  in  1743  to  lay  out  the  town  of  Charlestown.     He  was 


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one  of  the  prominent  members  of  the  church  in  St.  Mary  Ann's  parish,  erected  at 
North  East  in  1740,  by  Samuel  Gilpin,  and  was  one  of  the  vestry  thereof  from 
1742  to  his  death,  August  8,  1763.  He  was  a  large  landowner  as  well  as  a  mil- 
ler, manufacturing  large  quantities  of  flour,  which  was  shipped  to  Philadelphia 
and  other  points,  his  sons  Levi  and  Colonel  Henry  being  later  associated  with  him 
in  this  business,  the  former  locating  in  Philadelphia,  where  the  firm  carried  on  an 
extensive  business,  which  on  the  death  of  the  father  devolved  upon  Levi,  who 
continued  to  reside  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  prominently  identified  with  public 
affairs  there  during  the  Revolution.  Zebulon  Hollingworth  was  buried  in  the 
old  family  burying  ground,  near  the  Episcopal  church  at  Elkton,  on  the  banks 
of  the  river  Elk,  but  in  1883  his  remains  were  removed  to  Elkton  Cemetery.  He 
married  (first)  June  18,  1727,  Ann,  daughter  of  Colonel  Francis  Maulden,  of 
Cecil  county.  She  died  in  1740,  leaving  five  children,  and  he  married  (second) 
Mary  Jacobs,  by  whom  he  had  six  children. 

Colonel  Henry  Hollingsworth,  son  of  Captain  Zebulon  and  Ann  (Maulden) 
Hollingsworth,  and  father  of  Mary  (Hollingsworth)  Gilpin,  was  born  at  Elk- 
ton, Maryland,  September  17,  1737.  Well  educated  and  of  fine  business  ability 
and  training,  and  in  the  prime  of  his  life  of  usefulness  and  activity,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  struggle  for  independence,  he  was  called  upon  to  take  an  active  part 
in  that  struggle.  His  name  appears  on  the  records  of  the  Committee  of  Safety 
of  his  native  state  as  one  who  was  relied  upon  in  all  its  urgent  emergencies.  He 
was  commissioned  January  3,  1776,  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Elk  battalion,  of 
Cecil  county  militia,  and  was  commissioned  Colonel,  June  7,  1781.  His  useful- 
ness however  lay  more  particularly,  in  the  commissary  department,  and  in  the  or- 
ganizing, equipping  and  forwarding  much  needed  recruits,  looking  after  the  for- 
warding and  furnishing  supplies  for  the  troops  in  the  field,  and  the  general  su- 
pervision of  afifairs  pertaining  to  the  army  for  his  section.  His  voluminous  cor- 
respondence, much  of  which  remains  in  the  Hollingsworth  mansion  erected  by 
him,  and  still  occupied  by  his  descendants,  shows  that  he  was  in  constant  com- 
munication with  the  heads  of  the  various  departments  both  state  and  national, 
and  was  relied  upon  to  fill  many  important  commissions.  This  correspondence 
includes  letters  to  and  from  Timothy  Pickering,  by  order  of  the  War  Office, 
Charles  Carroll,  of  Carrollton,  president  of  the  Council  of  Maryland,  who,  on 
July  13,  1776,  writes  to  him  to  secure  400  bayonets  and  other  equipment  for 
the  Maryland  troops,  from  Patrick  Henry  who  in  1779  sends  him  fifteen  Highland 
prisoners  of  war,  from  Generals  Lafayette,  Lord  Stirling,  Nathaniel  Greene, 
and  Horatio  Gates,  and  other  prominent  commanders,  principally  on  the  pro- 
viding of  munitions  of  war,  of  which  Colonel  Hollingsworth  was  one  of  the 
first  manufacturers.  He  was  commissary-general  for  the  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland  during  the  greater  part  of  the  war,  and  had  charge  of  the  purchase 
and  forwarding  of  flour  and  other  provisions  for  the  army  in  Virginia  and 
Maryland,  which  by  a  letter  from  Timothy  Pickering  in  1778  he  is  directed  to 
collect  at  the  Head  of  the  Elk  and  in  Harford  county.  September  24,  1781,  he 
was  directed  to  make  a  tour  through  the  Eastern  Shore  to  see  that  the  several 
requisitions  of  the  board  of  war  for  supplying  the  army  were  put  into  execu- 
tion, and  the  flour  and  other  provisions  collected  at  points  on  the  navigable  wat- 
ers and  shipped  as  soon  as  practicable  for  the  use  of  Washington's  army  on  its 
southern  expedition  against  Cornwallis  in  Virginia. 


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The  Hollingsworth  mansion,  erected  by  Colonel  Henry  Hollingsworth  early 
in  the  eighteenth  century,  was  one  of  the  first  houses  erected  on  the  site  of 
Elkton,  the  present  county  seat  of  Cecil  county,  Maryland.  It  is  a  venerable 
pile,  in  a  remarkable  state  of  preservation,  picturesquely  situated  upon  a  natural- 
ly terraced  hill  near  the  centre  of  the  town,  of  ample  proportions  and  built  in 
the  sedate  colonial  style.  Its  lofty  porch  is  supported  by  round  columns ;  its 
gabbled  roof  and  keystone  lintels  bespeak  its  colonial  origin ;  the  interior  retains 
much  of  its  original  design ;  the  ceilings  are  high,  the  woodwork  heavy  and  of 
antique  design,  and  carved  corner  cupboards  with  circular  shelves  and  brass- 
hasped  hinges  and  knobs  of  the  doors  add  unique  ornamentation. 

"Separate  and  to  the  east  of  the  mansion  proper  stands  a  quaint  two-storied,  two- 
roomed  building — the  office.  About  the  walls  of  the  lower  apartment  are  book  shelves, 
while  in  both  rooms  are  deep  fireplaces  and  inglenooks  suggesting  quiet  comfort.  Here 
indeed  was  a  retreat   for  the  book  lover,  a  haven  of  rest   for  the  weary." 

It  was  from  this  historic  residence  that  the  theodolite  belonging  to  Colonel 
Hollingsworth's  grandfather,  Henry  Hollingsworth,  the  noted  surveyor  appoint- 
ed by  Lord  Baltimore  and  used  in  laying  out  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  was  taken 
by  the  British  soldiers  when  marching  from  the  Chesapeake  to  attack  Philadel- 
phia just  before  the  battle  of  Brandywine.  Here  remained  intact  until  1898, 
all  the  beautiful  old  furnishings  of  the  period  of  its  construction,  including  the 
family  silver,  cut-glass,  and  monogramed  china  handed  down  for  generations. 
Tarnished  coins,  musty  papers  of  historical  value,  implements  of  antique  design 
long  since  dulled  by  rust,  and  the  cradle  that  rocked  the  heroes  to  be.  now  gath- 
ered to  their  fathers,  laurel-crowned.  The  house  was  occupied  by  Colonel  Hol- 
lingsworth until  his  death,  September  29,  1803.  when  it  passed  to  his  descendants 
of  the  Partridge  family.  At  the  death  of  their  last  representative  in  1898,  it 
was  sold  and  purchased  by  a  descendant  of  his  daughter  Mary  Husbands  (Hol- 
lingsworth) Gilpin,  and  is  still  retained  in  the  family.  Among  the  papers  ac- 
cumulated there,  were  the  original  proceedings  of  the  first  Maryland  state  assem- 
bly ;  a  copy  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Maryland  convention  held  at  Annapolis, 
August  14.  1776,  to  which  both  Joseph  Gilpin  and  Colonel  Henry  Hollingsworth 
were  delegates,  printed  in  1778.  One  of  these  was  the  property  of  Joseph  Gilpin 
and  is  now  in  possession  of  his  great-great-grandson,  William  P.  Gilpin,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  There  were  also  a  great  number  of  other  papers  of  re- 
markable historic  interest,  most  of  which  are  still  in  the  possession  of  the  family. 

Colonel  Henry  Hollingsworth  married  (first)  in  1769,  Sarah  (b.  Sept.  21,  1748, 
d.  Dec.  27,  1775),  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Husbands  of  Cecil  county, 
Maryland,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: — Mary  Husbands  Hollingsworth,  (b. 
Apr.  26,  1772,  d.  Nov.  21,  1850),  married  (first")  John  Gilpin,  above  mentioned, 
and  (second)  March  31.  1819.  Frisby  Henderson,  of  Frenchtown.  Cecil  county, 
Maryland;  William  Hollingsworth,  and  a  child  that  died  in  infancy.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  February  14,  1776,  Jane  Evans.  (1749-1835)  by  whom  he  had 
four  children,  none  of  whom  left  issue  except,  the  eldest,  Hannah.  (1782-1844) 
who  married  James  Partridge,  (1773-1835).  whose  heirs  occupied  the  Hollings- 
worth mansion  until    1898. 

Hknrv  Hoi.ungsworti!  Gilpin,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Husbands  (Hol- 
lingsworth)  Gilpin,  was  born  at  Elkton.   Maryland,   March   23,    1804,   and  died 


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there  April  7,  1857.  He  married  Margaret  Whann  (b.  Mar.  17,  1812,  d.  Aug. 
7,  1881),  daughter  of  William  Ricketts,  of  "Union  Mills,"  Cecil  county,  Mary- 
land, (b.  1778,  d.  1838),  and  his  wife,  Mary  Whann,  (b.  1783,  d.  1852)  ;  grand- 
daughter of  Benjamin  Ricketts,  (1749-1795),  and  his  wife  Susanna;  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Ricketts  and  Mary,  of  Hunt  Hill,  Cecil  county,  Mary- 
land,  (1703-1773)- 

William  Ricketts  Gilpin,  second  son  of  Henry  H.  and  Margaret  W.,  (Ric- 
ketts) Gilpin,  was  born  at  Elkton,  Maryland,  November  11,  1834.  He  married 
September  11,  1856,  Anna  Eliza  (b.  Nov.  6,  1839,  d.  Oct.  8,  1899),  daughter  of 
Aaron  C.  and  Eliza  Engle  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

William  Partridge  Gilpin,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  William 
R.  and  Anna  Eliza  (Engle)  Gilpin,  and  was  born  at  Elkton,  Maryland,  April 
29,  1869.  He  was  educated  in  public  and  private  schools  at  Elkton,  and  came 
to  Philadelphia  in  1886,  and  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business,  which  he  has 
since  followed.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution  in  right  of  descent  from  Col.  Henry  Hollingsworth,  and  Joseph 
Gilpin,  of  the  Maryland  Committee  of  Safety,  Judge,  etc.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  of  the  White  Marsh  Valley 
Country  Club,  and  other  social  organizations. 

Mr.  Gilpin  married  (first)  September  30,  1897,  Nannie  Haddock  (b.  Apr.  21, 
1869,  d.  Nov.  2,  1898),  daughter  of  Rear  Admiral  W.  G.  Buehler,  U.  S.  N.,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  has  one  son,  William  Buehler  Gilpin,  born  October  14,  1898, 
now  being  educated  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He  married  (second)  March  29,  1910, 
Maude  Alma,  daughter  of  George  and  Isabella  Morris,  of  Philadelphia. 


SAMUEL  MARSHALL 

John  Marshall,  the  pioneer  ancestor  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  came 
to  Pennsylvania  from  the  parish  of  Elton,  County  Derby,  England,  about  i6S6, 
and  settled  in  Blockley  township,  Philadelphia  county.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends  and  one  of  the  early  members  of  Darby  Meeting,  where 
he  proposed  intentions  of  marriage  with  Sarah  Smith,  who  had  come  to  Darby 
with  her  brother,  Thomas  Smith,  from  Croxton,  County  Leicester,  England. 
Their  marriage,  December  19,  1688,  was  the  first  one  solemnized  in  the  Darby 
Meeting  House  after  its  erection.  On  his  marriage  John  Marshall  located  in 
Darby  township,  then  Giester,  now  Delaware  county.  He  purchased  a  farm  on 
Cobb's  Creek,  in  Upper  Darby  in  1689  and  added  to  it  an  additional  plantation  of 
150  acres  in  1692.  He  continued  to  own  to  his  death  no  acres  in  Blockley,  which 
he  devised  to  his  widow.  He  was  an  overseer  of  Darby  Monthly  Meeting,  and 
active  in  local  affairs,  holding  a  number  of  township  offices.  He  died  November 
13,  1729,  and  his  wife  Sarah  survived  until  July  16,  1749.  His  will  refers  to 
Abraham  Marshall,  of  West  Bradford.  Chester  county,  as  "Cousin."  This 
Abraham  Marshall,  the  father  of  Humphrey  Marshall,  the  famous  botanist, 
came  from  Gratton,  parish  of  Youlgreave,  Derbyshire,  in  1700.  John  and 
Sarah  (Smith)  Marshall,  had  three  children,  John,  (1690-1749)  married  (first) 
Joanna  Paschall  and  (second)  Elinor  Shenton ;  William,  (1692-1727)  married 
Mary  Sellers :  Thomas,  of  whom  presently. 

Thomas  Marshall,  the  youngest  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Marshall, 
was  born  in  Darby  township,  Chester  county,  February  10,  1694-5.  About  the 
time  of  attaining  his  majority  he  removed  to  Concord  township,  Chester  county, 
and  located  on  a  farm  near  the  present  village  of  Concordville,  where  he  erected 
later,  in  1727,  a  house  that  has  since  been  continuously  occupied  by  his  descend- 
ants. He  died  there  about  the  year  1741.  Thomas  Marshall  married,  at  Con- 
cord Friends  Meeting,  April  24,  1718,  Hannah  Mendenhall,  who  was  born  in 
Qiester  county,  August  11,  1696,  and  died  about  1770.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Mendenhall,  of  Concord  township,  who  with  his  brothers  John  and 
i\Ioses,  and  a  sister  Mary  Mendenhall,  who  became  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  New- 
lin,  came  from  Mildenhall,  County  Suffolk,  England,  in  1686.  Benjamin  Men- 
denhall, died  in  1740,  at  an  advanced  age.  He  was  many  years  prominent  in  lo- 
cal affairs,  religious  and  civil,  and  was  held  in  high  repute.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Provincial  assembly  in  1714,  and  held  a  number  of  minor  offices.  He 
married,  April  17,  1689,  Ann,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Hannah  Pennell.  who 
had  settled  in  Middletown  township,  Chester  county  in  1686.  Ann  Mendenhall, 
a  sister  to  Hannah  (Mendenhall)  Marshall,  became  the  wife  of  John  Bartram, 
the  famous  founder  of  "Bartram's  Gardens,"  the  well  known  botanist  and 
horticulturist.  Hannah  Marshall  married  (second)  Peter  Grubb  the  eminent 
ironmaster. 

Thomas  and  Hannah  (Mendenhall)  Marshall,  had  nine  children,  two  of 
whom  died  young.     The  three  surviving  sons  were  Benjamin,  Thomas  and  John. 


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The  latter  located  in  Birmingham  township  and  later  in  Kennett  where  he  be- 
came an  extensive  landowner,  established  mills,  etc.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
Marshalls,  who  were  for  a  long  time  prominent  paper  manufacturers  in  Kennett, 
and  the  iron  manufacturers  of  Marshallton,  New  Castle  county,  Delaware. 

Thomas  Marshall,  second  surviving  son  and  fifth  child  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  (Mendenhall)  Marshall,  was  born  in  Concord  township,  Chester  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  September  26,  1727.  He  inherited  one-half  of  his  father's- 
lands  in  Concord,  and  settled  thereon,  but  died  comparatively  a  young  man  in 
1759.  He  married,  August  19,  1752,  at  Concord  Friends  Meeting,  Edith,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  Newlin,  one  of  the  most  prominent  public  men  of  his  time  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  his  wife  Esther  Metcalf,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of 
Nicholas  Newlin,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth. 

Nicholas  Newlin,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  council  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1685  to  1688,  and  a  Justice  of  the  courts  of  Chester  county,  1685-91,  was 
long  a  resident  of  Mount  Mellick,  Queens  county,  Ireland.  He  was  a  man  of 
considerable  wealth  for  that  period,  and  a  devout  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  long  before  his  emigration  to  America  and  suffered  many  distraints  of 
goods  for  participating  in  the  Meetings  of  Friends.  This  determined  him  to  re- 
move with  his  family  to  Penn's  colony  in  America,  and  Mount  Mellick  Meeting 
granted  him  a  certificate  dated  i2mo.  (February)  25,  1682-3,  ^o  remove  with 
his  family  "Out  of  this  Nation  into  New  Jersey  or  Pennsylvania  in  America," 
in  which  they  give  him  a  high  recommendation  but  add, 

"But  our  Meeting  is  generally  dissatisfied  with  his  removing  with  his  family,  and  hav- 
ing sufficient  substance  for  food  and  raiment,  which  all  that  possess  godliness  in  Christ 
Jesus  ought  to  be  contented  with  for  we  have  brought  nothing  into  this  world  and  we  are 
sure  to  take  nothing  out.  And  he  hath  given  us  no  satisfactory  reason  for  his  removing, 
but  our  godly  jealousy  is  that  his  chief  ground  is  tearfulness  of  suffering  here  for  the 
testimony  of  Jesus  or  courting  worldly  liberty." 

He  was  accompanied  to  Pennsylvania  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  his  sons  Nathan- 
iel and  John  and  daughter  Rachel,  sailing  in  the  "Levee"  of  Liverpool.  They 
settled  on  a  tract  of  land  in  Concord  township,  Chester  (now  Delaware)  county, 
where  he  built  and  operated  a  mill  and  was  an  important  man  of  affairs.  The 
early  Meetings  of  the  Society  of  Friends  were  held  at  his  house  as  early  as  1687, 
and  continued  after  his  death  which  occurred  in  May,  1699.  Elizabeth  Newlin 
the  widow  died  in  1717. 

Nathaniel  Newlin.  his  son,  born  in  Ireland  about  1660,  married,  April  17, 
1685,  Mary  Mendenhall,  sister  to  Benjamin  Mendenhall,  before  mentioned. 
Nathaniel  Newlin  was  like  his  father  a  man  of  eminent  ability,  and  he  was  called 
upon  to  take  a  like  prominent  part  in  local  and  provincial  affairs.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Provincial  assembly  in  1701,  1705,  1710,  1713,  1714,  1717,  1718, 
1719,  1721  and  1722,  and  was  first  commissioned  as  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  of 
the  courts  of  Chester  county,  in  1703,  and  several  times  re-commissioned,  the 
last  commission  of  record  being  August  26,  1726,  although  he  probably  served 
until  his  death  in  1729.  He  resided  all  his  life  in  Concord  township  where  his 
house,  erected  in  1699,  was  recently  torn  down.  He  purchased  in  1724,  7700 
acres  of  the  trustees  of  the  Free  Society  of  traders,  which  was  later  laid  out  as 
Newlin  township.  He  was  also  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  General  Loan  Office 
and  filled  numerous  other  positions  of  trust,  being  one  of  the  commissioners  se- 


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lected  in  1700  to  draw  up  a  plan  for  a  new  form  of  government  for  the  Province 
of  Pennsylvania.  Nicholas  Newlin,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Mendenhall) 
Newlin,  born  in  Concord  township,  Chester  county,  May  19,  1689,  married  in 
1715,  Edith  Pyle,  born  March  20.  1695. 

Edith  (Newlin)  Marshall,  the  widow  of  Thomas  Marshall,  married  (second) 
October  8,  1762,  Samuel  Schofield,  of  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  took 
with  her  to  that  county  her  four  children  by  her  former  husband,  Esther,  Han- 
nah, Thomas  and  Phebe  Marshall. 

Thomas  Marshall,  only  son  of  Thomas  and  Edith  (Newlin)  Marshall,  born 
in  Concord  township,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  8,  1756,  removed 
with  his  mother  to  Bucks  county  on  her  re-marriage  in  1762,  and  resided  in  that 
county  until  1773  when  he  returned  to  Chester  county,  as  an  apprentice  to  the 
tanning  business.  When  he  arrived  of  legal  age  he  settled  on  the  paternal  estate 
m  Concord,  where  he  established  a  tanyard.  He  died  there,  August  13,  1844. 
He  married  (first)  April  21,  1779,  at  Concord  Friends  Meeting,  Mary  Grubb 
(b.  Mar.  25,  1756,  d.  Nov.  24,  1791)  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Hewes) 
Grubb,  of  Pennsbury,  Chester  (now  Delaware)  county.  He  married  (second) 
August  12,  1795,  Margaret  Swayne.  Of  his  five  children,  all  by  his  first  wife 
four  lived  to  mature  years,  married  and  reared  families,  these  were  two  sons, 
Thomas  and  Samuel,  and  two  daughters. 

Samuel  Marshall,  youngest  child  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Grubb)  Marshall, 
was  born  in  Concord  township,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  March  24,  1789. 
He  acquired  a  part  of  the  Concord  homestead  and  the  tannery  erected  by  his 
father,  which  he  operated  until  his  death  on  August  27,  1832.  He  married,  No- 
vember 25,  1812,  at  Londongrove  Friends  Meeting,  Philena  Pusey  (b.  May  24, 
1794,  d.  Dec.  30,  1842)  daughter  of  Ellis  and  Abigail  (Brinton)  Pusey  of 
Londongrove,  Chester  county.  She  married  (second)  April  5,  1837,  Samuel 
Wollaston  of  Wilmington,  Delaware.  Samuel  and  Philena  (Pusey)  Marshall 
had  nine  children,  three  of  whom  died  young  or  unmarried.  Ellis  Pusey  Mar- 
shall, the  eldest  son  (1815-1892)  resided  on  the  old  Marshall  homestead  in  Con- 
cord and  was  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen :  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends,  and  in  local  reform  and  charitable  enterprises.  Samuel  Mar- 
shall, the  third  son,  went  to  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  in  1847,  became  a  prominent 
banker  there,  was  many  years  president  of  the  oldest  bank  in  continuous  exis- 
tence in  the  state,  and  resigned  on  account  of  the  infirmities  of  age,  in  1901. 
He  was  also  the  organizer  and  mnay  years  president  of  the  State  Bank,  at  Madi- 
son, Wisconsin,  where  he  resided  for  some  years. 

William  Pusey  Marshall,  the  seventh  child  and  fourth  surviving  son  of 
Samuel  and  Philena  (Pusey)  Marshall,  was  born  in  Concord  township,  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania,  December  21,  1826.  He  was  less  than  six  years  of  age 
at  the  death  of  his  father,  and  but  sixteen  years  of  age  at  the  death  of  his 
mother.  He  entered  the  well-known  Friends  educational  institution,  the  West- 
town  Boarding  School  in  1839,  and  spent  three  years  there  as  a  student.  He  be- 
gan teaching  school  at  the  old  octagon  school  house  at  Birmingham  Meeting 
house  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  and  from  1843  to  1849  ^""'^^  teacher  of  the 
Friends  School  at  Darby,  and  for  the  next  two  years  taught  in  Benjamin 
Swayne's  school  in  Londongrove  township.  On  his  marriage,  .^pril  3,  185 1,  to 
Frances  Lloyd  Andrews,  ho  settled  on  a   farm   in  West  Goshen  townshi|i.  near 


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West  Chester,  but  continued  to  teach  school  for  several  winters  after  taking  up 
the  vocation  of  a  farmer,  having  charge  of  a  public  school  nearby  for  one  winter, 
and  of  the  Friends  school  on  North  High  street,  West  Chester,  for  two  or  more 
winters.  He  was  for  twenty  years,  an  industrious,  enterprising  and  successful 
farmer,  maintaining  a  large  dairy.  In  1871,  he  sold  his  dairy  and  associated 
himself  with  Walter  Hibberd,  of  West  Chester  m  the  business  of  conveyancing, 
money  loaning,  and  general  agent.  On  the  death  of  his  partner  in  1879,  he  took 
entire  charge  of  the  office  on  North  High  street,  West  Chester,  and  continued 
the  business  until  his  death  in  1901,  though  for  several  years  the  business  was 
principally  in  the  charge  of  his  son  Samuel  Marshall,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
November  11,  1884,  William  Pusey  Marshall  was  made  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Chester  county,  and  he  was  annually  elected  to  that  posi- 
tion thereafter  until  his  death.  January  13,  1893,  he  was  elected  vice-president 
and  March  27,  1894,  president  of  this  bank.  From  this  time,  till  his  death,  Mr. 
Marshall  gave  his  almost  undivided  attention  to  the  affairs  of  the  bank.  In  1890, 
he  was  elected  vice-president  of  the  newly  organized  Dime  Savings  Bank  of 
Chester  county,  and  continued  to  fill  that  position  until  his  death.  He  was  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  West  Chester  State  Normal  School,  from  1872  to  1885, 
and  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  from  1876  to  1882.  He  was  for  twenty- 
four  years  and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  one  of  board  of  prison  inspectors.  He 
was  a  constant  attendant  at  the  Friends  Meeting  on  High  street.  West  Chester, 
and  one  of  the  trustees  of  their  real  estate.  He  died  October  17,  1901,  univer- 
sally mourned  by  the  people  among  whom  he  had  lived  a  long  life  of  marked  in- 
dustry, purity  and  usefulness  to  his  fellow  man.  A  man  of  inflexible  honesty 
and  sound  business  judgment,  he  deservedly  held  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  community  in  which  he  labored ;  the  widows  and  orphans  intrusted  him 
with  their  investments  and  the  aged  sought  his  advice  and  assistance  in  the  dis- 
posal of  their  property.  Pure,  temperate,  industrious,  sincere  and  earnest,  he 
honored  sincere  men,  even  when  he  could  not  share  their  views  and  had  a  su- 
preme contempt  for  all  sham,  hypocrisy  and  insincerity,  in  business,  religion  or 
daily  life.  Possessed  of  a  tender  heart,  the  trials  and  sorrows  of  the  unfortunate 
and  afiflicted  called  forth  from  him  words  and  acts  of  sympathy. 

William  Pusey  Marshall  married,  April  3,  1851,  Frances  Lloyd  (b.  Jan.  8, 
1826,  died  March  21,  1904).  daughter  of  James  and  Hannah  (Lloyd)  Andrews 
of   Darby,  Delaware  county,   Pennsylvania. 

James  Andrews  was  an  associate  justice  of  the  Delaware  county  courts,  and 
his  wife  Hannah  Lloyd,  (b.  Jan.  25,  1802,  d.  June  20,  1868)  was  a  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd  and  granddaughter  of  Hugh  Lloyd  one 
of  the  most  active  and  prominent  patriots  of  Chester  county,  during  the  trying 
period  of  the  Revolution,  and  many  years  thereafter  prominently  associated  with 
the  affairs  of  Delaware  county. 

Robert  Lloyd,  the  pioneer  ancestor  of  this  branch  of  the  Lloyd  family,  was 
born  in  Merionethshire,  Wales,  in  1669,  came  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  ship  "Lion" 
of  Liverpool  in  1683,  with  his  cousins  Robert  and  Rebecca  (Humphrey)  Lloyd, 
with  whom  he  lived  in  Merion  township,  Philadelphia  county,  until  after  he  had 
arrived  at  his  majority,  when  he  married,  October  11,  1698,  Lowry  Jones,  also 
a  native  of  Wales,  a  daughter  of  Rees  John  Williams,  one  of  the  prominent  set- 
tlers in  the  "Welsh  Tract,"  and  in  the  same  year  purchased  a  large  plantation 


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near  Bryn  Mawr,  on  which  he  settled.  The  Welsh  ancestry  of  Robert  and  Low- 
ry  (Jones)  Lloyd  extending  back  through  a  long  line  of  princes  of  Wales,  and 
the  noble  family  of  Percy  of  Northumberland,  is  given  briefly  elsewhere  in 
these  volumes,  and  may  be  found  in  detail  in  Glenn's  "Merion  in  the  Welsh 
Tract."  Robert  Lloyd  died.  May  29,  1714.  He  and  his  wife  Lowry  Jones  had 
six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  Of  his  sons,  David  Lloyd  removed 
to  North  Carolina,  Rees  Lloyd  settled  in  Gwynedd  township,  now  ^Montgomery 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  Richard  in  Darby,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania. 

Richard  Lloyd,  the  father  of  Hugh,  the  Revolutionary  patriot  before  referred 
to,  was  the  youngest  son  of  Robert  and  Lowry  (Jones)  Lloyd,  and  was  born 
near  Bryn  Mawr,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  March  18,  1713.  He  married 
at  Darby  Meeting,  November  24,  1736,  Hannah  (born  Feb.  10,  1717)  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Sellers  of  the  prominent  Sellers  family  of  Darby 
Mills  and  "Sellers  Hall,"  and  a  few  years  later  purchased  the  Darby  water, 
corn  and  grist  mills,  which  he  operated  until  his  death  August  9,  1735.  Isaac 
and  Hugh  Lloyd  the  two  surviving  sons  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Sellers) 
Lloyd,  were  both  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Chester  county  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  former,  born  in  1739,  operated  the  Darby  mills  during  that  period  and 
later  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died.  August  10,  1793.  He  married 
Ann  Gibbons,  of  the  prominent  Chester  county  family  of  that  name  and  has 
left  numerous  descendants. 

Hugh  Lloyd,  youngest  son  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Sellers)  Lloyd,  born 
near  Bryn  Mawr,  Lower  Merion  township.  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  Jan- 
uary 22,  1741-2,  was  brought  to  Darby  township  by  his  parents  when  less  than  a 
year  old,  and  was  reared  in  that  township,  at  the  Darby  mills  which  he  inherited 
jointly  with  his  brother  Isaac  and  assisted  in  operating  until  1766.  In  the  lat- 
ter year  he  purchased  a  mill  property  on  Crum  Creek  in  Ridley  township,  now 
Delaware  county,  where  he  carried  on  the  milling  business  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  with  the  exception  of  the  period  when  Philadelphia  was  occupied 
by  the  British  army,  when,  by  orders  of  General  Washington  the  millstones  of 
that  and  other  mills  within  reach  of  the  British  lines,  were  removed  and  se- 
creted to  prevent  them  from  being  pressed  into  use  to  supply  flour  for  the 
enemy.  Hugh  Lloyd  was  one  of  the  committee  of  thirteen  selected  at  a  public 
meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Chester  county,  held  at  Chester  July  13.  1774,  to 
confer  with  representatives  of  the  other  counties  of  the  state  and  arrange  for 
concerted  action  in  an  effort  to  obtain  redress  for  the  grievances  of  the  Amer- 
ican Colonies,  and  was  one  of  the  deputies  to  the  Provincial  conference  held  at 
Philadelphia,  July  15,  1774,  when  it  was  decided  to  establish  a  continental  con- 
gress of  deputies  from  all  the  colonies.  The  first  Continental  congress  held  at 
Philadelphia,  September  5,  1774,  as  a  result  of  the  above  mentioned  conference, 
having  recommended  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  of  Safety  and  Observa- 
tion, in  each  county  of  the  state,  the  inhabitants  of  Chester  county  again  assem- 
bled at  Chester,  December  20,  1774,  and  Hugh  Lloyd  was  one  of  the  Committee 
of  Safety  and  Observation  then  selected,  and  continued  a  member  of  that 
body  during  the  whole  Revolutionary  struggle,  when  these  county  committees 
and  their  representative  in  the  state  committee  constituted  the  governing  bwly 
of  the  state.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Provincial  convention  of  January  23, 
1775,  when  it  was  decided  to  "meet  force  with  force"  and  "at  every  hazard  to 


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defend  the  rights  and  Hberties  of  America."  Hugh  Lloyd  was  selected  by  the 
officers  of  the  several  companies  composing  the  Third  battalion  of  Chester  coun- 
ty Associators,  organized  in  accordance  with  the  resolves  of  the  Continental 
congress,  as  colonel  of  that  battalion,  at  a  meeting  of  these  officers  held  July 
21,  1775.  He  was  also  selected  by  the  Committee  of  Safety  as  a  member  of  its 
Committee  of  Correspondence,  October  23,  1775.  He  was  again  a  delegate  to 
the  Provincial  convention  at  Carpenter's  Hall,  June  18  to  25,  when  it  was 
decided  to  "sever  all  allegiance  to  the  English  Crown."  He  was  selected  at 
this  convention,  as  one  of  the  judges  to  hold  elections  for  delegates,  to  the 
constitutional  convention  of  July  15,  1776.  He  continued  active  in  measures 
for  carrying  on  the  war  for  independence,  and  on  the  organization  of  the  new 
county  of  Delaware,  in  1789,  was  elected  one  of  its  first  representatives  in  the 
General  Assembly  and  re-elected  in  1791.  April  24,  1792,  he  was  commissioned 
one  of  the  associate  justices  of  Delaware  county,  and  he  continued  to  fill  that 
position  for  33  years,  tendering  his  resignation  when  the  infirmities  of  age  de- 
manded that  he  relinquish  the  active  duties  of  the  position.  At  about  the 
time  of  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  Hugh  Lloyd  erected  a  house  on  his  planta- 
tion, on  the  east  side  of  Darby  road,  near  the  Blue  Bell  Inn,  in  which  he  resided 
until  the  death  of  his  wife  in  1825.  It  was  one  of  the  notable  early  mansions  of 
the  neighborhood  of  Philadelphia  and  is  described  in  detail  by  Townsend  Ward, 
in  a  paper  published  in  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine  in  1879.  He  died  at  the 
residence  of  his  daughter,  Hannah  Browne,  in  Kensington,  March  20,  1832,  at 
the  age  of  ninety-one  years.  Hugh  Lloyd  was  active  in  his  support  of  a  num- 
ber of  local  institutions.  He  was  a  life-long  share-holder  in  the  Darby  Library 
of  which  his  father  Richard  Lloyd  was  one  of  the  founders,  and  was  secretary 
of  the  Library  Company  for  two  considerable  periods  and  active  in  the  efifort 
to  secure  the  erection  of  a  new  building  in  1795.  He  was  also  one  of  the  ac- 
tive members  and  supporters  of  the  Library  Company  of  Chester,  founded  in 
1769.  Hugh  Lloyd  married,  at  Darby  Friends  Meeting  House,  June  4,  1767, 
Susanna  (b.  Darby,  Sept.  22,  1746,  d.  there,  April  17,  1825)  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Hannah  (Blunston)  Pearson  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Susannah 
(Burbeck)  Pearson,  who  came  from  Darby,  England  and  were  among  the 
first  settlers  of  Darby  township,  Chester  county.  Her  maternal  great-grand- 
father, John  Blunston,  was  a  purchaser  of  1,500  acres  of  land  of  William  Penn, 
before  coming  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  arrived  in  1682,  and  settled  in  Darby 
township,  being  one  of  its  first  settlers.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  As- 
sembly, 1682-1702,  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council  1690-1709,  and  speaker 
of  the  Assembly,  1696- 1700.  Hugh  and  Susannah  (Pearson)  Lloyd,  had  seven 
sons  and  one  daughter,  the  latter,  Hannah,  the  wife  of  John  Coates  Browne, 
at  whose  house  in  Kensington  he  died.  The  sons  were  Thomas,  David,  (d. 
young),  Richard  P.,  Charles,  Samuel,  Robert  and  Hugh  Pearson  Lloyd. 

Charles  Lloyd,  fifth  son  of  Hugh  and  Susannah  (Pearson)  Lloyd,  was  born 
in  Ridley  township,  Chester  (now  Delaware)  county,  Pennsylvania,  June  20, 
1776.  On  his  marriage  to  Frances  Paschall,  March  8,  1798,  they  took  up  their 
residence  at  Paschallville,  Philadelphia  county,  where  they  spent  the  remainder 
of  their  lives.  He  died  January  26,  i860.  Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd,  born 
February  24,  1771,  died  August  27,  1857,  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  Pasch- 
all, of  Paschallville  and  his  wife  Ann  Garrett,  granddaughter  of  Dr.  John  Pas- 


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chall  and  his  wife  Frances  Hodge,  great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Paschall, 
Jr.  and  his  wife  Margaret  Jenkins ;  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Paschall,  of  Bristol,  England,  who  purchased  land  of  William  Penn,  by  lease  and 
release  bearing  date  September  25  and  27.  1681,  and  with  his  wife  Joane  (Slo- 
per)  and  three  children,  Thomas,  William  and  Mar}',  arrived  in  Philadelphia  in 
February  1681-2  and  settled  in  Philadelphia  county,  where  Thomas  Sr.  died 
September  15,  1718,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years  and  four  months.  His 
wife  Joane  died  September  2,  1707,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years  and  nine 
months.  Margaret  (Jenkins)  Paschall,  wife  of  Thomas  Paschall,  Jr.,  was  a 
daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Griffith)  Jenkins,  who  came  from  Tenby, 
Pembrokeshire,  Wales,  in  1682  and  settled  first  in  Haverford  township,  remov- 
ing later  to  the  site  of  Jenkintown,  Montgomery  County,  which  was  so  named 
in  their  honor.  Thomas  Paschall,  Jr.,  died  in  1748,  and  his  wife  Margaret 
in  1736,  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years.  Dr.  John  Paschall,  the  seventh  of  their 
eleven  children,  was  born  November  5,  1706,  and  died  February  11,  1779;  he 
married,  February  25,  1728,  Frances  (b.  June  15,  1710,  d.  Jan.  29,  1781)  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Frances  (Knight)  Hodge  and  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Christo- 
pher Knight  who  came  to  Philadelphia  from  the  Island  of  Antigua.  Dr.  John 
Paschall  was  a  practicing  physician  in  Darby  township,  and  owned  considerable 
land  there.  Dr.  Henry  Paschall  was  his  youngest  child  and  was  born  in  Darby. 
October  28,  1746.  He  married  Ann  Garrett,  May  24,  1770,  and  from  that  date 
until  1790  practiced  medicine  in  Wilmington,  Delaware.  He  then  removed  to 
Paschallville,  Philadelphia  county,  where  he  died,  May  13,  1835.  He  married 
(first)  Ann  (b.  Nov.  24,  1752,  d.  Dec.  i,  1820)  daughter  of  Nathan  and  .\nn 
(Knowles)  Garrett,  of  Darby,  granddaughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Pennell) 
Garrett  and  great-granddaughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Kirk)  Garrett,  who  em- 
igrated from  Harby,  County  Leicester,  England  in  1684,  and  settled  in  Upper 
Darby,  Chester  County.  Charles  and  Frances  (Paschall)  Lloyd  had  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Hannah,  the  wife  of  Judge  James  Andrews  and  grandmother  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  third. 

William  Pusey,  and  Frances  Lloyd  (Andrews)  Marshall  had  seven  children: 
Elizabeth  Pusey  and  Hannah  Andrews  Marshall,  who  are  unmarried ;  Sarah 
Hoopes  Marshall,  wife  of  John  H.  Darlington  of  East  Bradford,  Chester 
county;  Margaret  Palmer  Marshall,  the  wife  of  Dr.  George  G.  Groflf  of  Lew- 
isburg,  Pennsylvania,  for  thirty-one  years  professor  in  Bucknell  University, 
thirteen  years  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Board  of  Health,  ten  years 
a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  surgeon-major  of  Pennsylvania 
troops  in  the  Spanish-American  war,  sometime  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion and  medical  director  in  Puerto  Rico  and  widely  known  as  a  lecturer  and 
author.  He  died  February  18,  1910;  Frances  Andrews  Marshall,  wife  of 
Franklin  R.  Strayer,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  professor  of  physics  in  the 
New  York  City  high  schools:  Philena  Marshall,  died  .\ugiist  6.  1901,  unmarried: 
Samuel  Marshall,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Samuel  Marshall,  youngest  of  the  seven  children  of  William  Pusey  and 
Frances  Lloyd  (Andrews")  Marshall,  was  born  in  West  Goshen  township,  near 
West  Chester,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  21,  1863.  He  was  ed- 
ucated at  the  Friends  School,  the  West  Giester  State  Normal  School,  and  at 
the  academy  of    Professor  J.    Hunter   Worrall.      He   is   unmarried,   and   resides 


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with  his  two  unmarried  sisters  at  the  old  homestead  in  West  Goshen  township 
and  retains  his  father's  office  in  West  Chester.  He  succeeded  his  father  as  a 
director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Chester  county,  and  is  now  secretary  of  the 
board  and  a  trustee  of  the  Dime  Savings  Bank  of  Chester  County  and  March 
29,  1904,  was  elected  secretary  and  cashier.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  West  Chester  State  Normal  School  for  15  years;  one 
of  the  managers  of  the  Chester  County  Hospital ;  a  director  of  the  Edison  Elec- 
tric Illuminating  Company ;  and  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Forestry  Association.  He  is  a  life  member  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania, a  life  member  and  Vice  President  of  the  Chester  County  Historical 
Society;  the  Genealogical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  the  Pennsylvania  So- 
ciety of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania 
and  is  affiliated  with  a  number  of  social  organizations.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  of  the  High  Street  Meeting,  West  Chester.  His  participation 
in  politics  has  been  confined  to  local  affairs,  having  been  for  a  number  of  years 
judge  of  election  and  auditor  in  his  township.  Though  always  a  member  of 
the  Republican  Party  he  has  never  been  bound  by  party  lines,  believing  the 
qualifications  of  the  candidates  for  local  and  State  officers  more  important  than 
membership  in  any  political  party. 


ELBERT  AUGUSTUS  CORBIN ,  JR. 

Elbert  Augustus  Corbin,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia,  is  descended,  on  the  pa- 
ternal side,  from  early  New  England  ancestry,  his  father  Elbert  Augustus  Cor- 
bin, Sr.  being  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in   Philadelphia. 

Clement  Corbin,  the  first  of  the  American  branch  of  the  family  of  whom 
we  have  any  definite  record,  was  a  resident  of  Muddy  River,  now  Brookline, 
a  suburb  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as  March  7,  1655,  on  which  date 
he  married  Dorcas,  daughter  of  Thomas  Buckmaster  of  the  same  town.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Muddy  River  and  in  the  division  of  the 
lands  in  1655  was  granted  a  tract  of  land  there.  In  1664  he  removed  to  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  and  was  one  of  the  party  of  residents  of  that  town  who 
on  October  6,  1683,  formulated  a  plan  and  projected  the  founding  of  the  town 
of  New  Roxbury,  now  Woodstock,  Windham  county,  Connecticut.  He  died 
at  the  latter  place  late  in  the  year  1696,  his  will  being  probated,  November  23, 
1696. 

James  Corbin,  only  son  of  Clement  and  Dorcas  (Buckmaster)  Corbin,  was 
born  at  Muddy  River,  Massachusetts  in  1656.  He  was  a  resident  of  Roxbury 
and  was  present  at  the  meeting  held  to  consider  the  selection  of  the  site  of  the 
town  of  New  Roxbury,  now  Woodstock,  Windham  county,  Connecticut,  October 
6,  1683.  When  the  town  was  incorporated  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  the 
General  Court,  he  located  in  Woodstock  and  received  considerable  grants  of 
land  there,  and  later  inherited  land  originally  granted  to  his  father.  He  was 
one  of  the  council  of  the  proprietors  and  a  selectman  of  that  town,  where  he 
resided  for  many  years.  He  later  removed  to  Dudley,  Massachusetts,  near  the 
Connecticut  line  in  the  county  of  Worcester,  of  which  town  he  was  a  selectman 
almost  if  not  quite  continuously  from  1732  to  1740,  surveyor  in  1734  and  con- 
stable in  1735.  He  died  intestate  in  1757.  He  married,  April  7,  1679,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  Eastman,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  his  wife 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Hannah  Haddon,  of  the  same  place. 

Philip  Corbin,  son  of  James  and  Hannah  (Eastman)  Corbin,  was  born  at 
Woodstock,  Windham  county,  Connecticut,  and  removed  with  his  father  to  Dud- 
ley, Massachusetts,  where  he  was  surveyor  of  highways,  1735-1739,  1749-1750 
and  1762-1774;  tything  man  1740-1765  and  constable  1745-6.  He  married  at 
Dudley,  January  13,  1734,  Dorothy  Barstow,  (b.  Marlboro,  Mass.  April  25, 
1714,  d.  Dudley,  Mass.)  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Barstow,  of  Marlboro,  and  his 
wife  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Howe. 

Capt.mn  Lemuel  Corrin,  son  of  Philip  and  Dorothy  (Barstow)  Corbin, 
was  born  at  Dudley,  Worcester  county,  Massachusetts.  February  19,  1739. 
He  was  active  in  the  patriot  cause  from  the  inception  of  the  Revolutionary- 
struggle,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Worcester  county  Committee  of  Safety, 
and  its  sub-committee  of  Correspondence  and  Inspection,  during  the  years  1776, 
1777,  1778  and  1779,  and  was  enrolled  as  a  member  of  the  first  Worcester  county 
company   of   minute   men    from    Dudley,    under   Captain    Ebenezer    Craft,    and 


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marched  with  that  company  on  the  Lexington  Alarm  of  April  19,  1775,  in  the 
battalion  commanded  by  Col.  Larned,  being  dismissed  from  this  tour  of  duty. 
May  I,  1775.  In  December  1776,  he  was  sergeant  of  Captain  Nathaniel  Healy's 
company,  Colonel  Jonathan  Holman"s  regiment,  Connecticut  line,  with  which 
he  marched  to  Rhode  Island  and  was  stationed  at  Providence  from  January  3, 
to  January  21,  1777.  September  25,  1778,  he  was  commissioned  First  Lieuten- 
ant of  the  Fifth  Worcester  county  regiment.  Captain  Elias  Pratt,  in  Colonel 
Holman's  regiment.  October  18,  1779  we  find  him  holding  the  same  rank  in 
Captain  Samuel  Hamant's  Second  Worcester  Company  in  the  Second  Wor- 
cester Regiment,  Colonel  Samuel  Denny,  and  in  active  service  under  General 
Schuyler  in  the  campaign  on  lakes  George  and  Champlain  and  at  Ticonderoga. 
He  was  honorably  discharged  from  this  service  Nov.  23,  1779.  February  17, 
1780  he  was  commissioned  captain  of  a  company  in  the  Worcester  county  mi- 
litia, under  Colonel  Davis,  and  served  with  that  regiment  in  Rhode  Island  from 
July  30,  to  August  12,  1780.  Captain  Corbin  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
his  native  town  of  Dudley  before  and  after  the  Revolutionary  War ;  he  was 
Constable,  1767-8,  surveyor  of  highways  1772- 1785,  and  a  selectman  in  1787. 
Soon  after  the  latter  date  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Union,  Tolland  county, 
Connecticut,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,- May  7,  1825  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
six  years.  He  married,  at  Dudley,  Massachusetts,  December  8,  1763,  Rebecca 
Davis,  (b.  Jan.  10,  1737,  at  Oxford,  Mass.)  daughter  of  Samuel  Davis  of  that 
town  and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  Weld,  of  Braintree,  Massachusetts. 

Philip  Corbin,  son  of  Captain  Lemuel  and  Rebecca  (Davis)  Corbin,  was 
born  at  Dudley,  Worcester  county,  Massachusetts,  February  13,  1765,  and  re- 
moved to  Union,  Tolland  county,  Connecticut,  in  1793.  He  was  prominent  in 
the  local  affairs  of  the  latter  town  for  many  years  and  represented  it  in  the 
state  legislature  in  1814-15.  He  died  at  Union,  Conn.,  May  2,  1845.  Philip 
Corbin  married  at  Dudley,  Massachusetts,  November  26,  1789,  Rhoba  Healy, 
(b.  Mar.  9,  1768),  daughter  of  Captain  Lemuel  Healy,  (b.  Dec.  9,  1783,  d.  De- 
cember 1817)  captain  of  a  company  in  the  Fifth  Worcester  county  regiment, 
during  the  Revolutionary  war  and  his  wife  Phebe  Curtis. 

Philip  Corbin,  (2)  son  of  Philip  (i)  and  Rhoba  (Healy)  Corbin,  was  born 
at  Union,  Tolland  county,  Connecticut,  April  14,  1797.  He  removed  in  early 
life  to  Willington,  Connecticut,  and  later  to  West  Hartford,  where  he  was  liv- 
ing as  early  as  1833,  and  where  he  died,  July  24,  1881.  He  married,  November 
29,  1821,  Lois  Chaffee,  (b.  Ashford,  Conn.  Sept.  24,  1799,  d.  West  Hartford, 
Sept.  12,  1872)  daughter  of  Abner  Chaffee,  (b.  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  Aug.  3,  1762, 
d.  Westford,  Conn.,  Dec.  26,  1816)  and  his  wife  Judith  Walker,  (b.  May  17, 
1769,  d.  July  5,  1854),  whom  he  married  November  9,  1790. 

Elbert  Augustus  Corbin,  son  of  Philip  and  Lois  (Qiaffee)  Corbin,  and 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  at  West  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
October  17,  1845.  He  removed  to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  in  1866,  and 
has  since  resided  in  that  city,  where  he  has  been  prominently  associated  with 
leading  and  important  corporations,  and  has  long  been  identified  with  the  in- 
surance business.  He  married,  in  Philadelphia,  January  13,  1876,  Charlotte 
Phillipina  Eckfeldt  (b.  Sept.  25,  1851)  daughter  of  Adam  Eckfeldt,  a  veteran 
of  the  civil  war,  who  died  December  29,  1879,  and  his  wife  Malvina  Hooper; 
granddaughter  of  Michael  Eckfeldt,   (b.   1779,  d.  Feb.  6,   1852),  and  his  wife 


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Catharine  Senf;  and  great-granddaughter  of  Jacob  Eckfeldt,  who  came  to 
Philadelphia  from  Rotterdam  in  the  ship  "Chance,"  Captain  Charles  Smith,  and 
was  qualified  as  a  subject  of  the  British  crown,  August  9.  1764.  This  Jacob 
Eckfeldt  died  Jan.  29,  1818,  at  the  age  of  75  years.  He  married,  as  his  second 
wife,  at  St.  Michael's  and  Zion  Lutheran  Church,  Philadelphia,  March  22, 
1774,  Elizabeth  Hunkels.  Elbert  Augustus  and  Charlotte  Phillipina  (Eckfeldt) 
Corbin  had  two  sons,  E.  A.  Corbin,  Junior,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  Arthur 
Eckfeldt  Corbin,  born  September  19,   1879. 

Elbert  Augustus  Corbin,  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  E.  A.  and  Charlotte  Phillipina 
(Eckfeldt)  Corbin,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  26,  1877.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Eastburn  Academy,  the  Penn  Charter  School,  Philadelphia,  the  Lawrence- 
ville  Academy,  Lawrenceville,  New  Jersey,  and  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, graduating  from  department  of  Architecture  of  the  last  institution  in 
1900.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  Fraternity,  and  of  the  Sphinx 
senior  society  of  the  University.  He  became  president  of  the  Continental 
Chemical  Company  of  Philadelphia,  with  which  he  is  still  associated,  repre- 
sentative of  the  Pullman  Automatic  Ventilator  Manufacturing  Company,  of 
York,  Pennsylvania  and  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Corbin  &  Stull,  the  Philadel- 
phia agents  of  the  latter  corporation.  Mr.  Corbin  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  right  of  descent  from  Captain 
Lemuel  Corbin ;  of  the  New  England  Society ;  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of 
Founders  and  Patriots,  the  Military  Order  of  Foreign  Wars,  and  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Spring  Haven  Country  Club,  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks.  Mr.  Corbin  married  April  18,  1903,  Gladys,  daughter  of  Washington 
Bleddyn  Powell,  the  eminent  Philadelphia  architect  and  his  wife  Sarah  Lybrand 
(Wills)  Powell.  The  paternal  ancestors  of  Mrs.  Corbin,  were  for  generations 
lords  of  Castle  Madoc,  Wales,  and  her  ancestry  has  been  traced  back  many  gen- 
erations to  many  princes  of  early  Briton  and  Wales.  William  Powell  the  first 
American  ancestor,  a  son  of  Edward  Powell,  of  Castle  Madoc,  was  living 
in  the  district  of  the  Northern  Liberties,  Philadelphia,  in  1730,  and  died  in  1754. 
His  son  William  Powell,  who  died  in  Philadelphia,  in  1757,  married  Sarah 
Mifflin,  of  the  well-known  Mifflin  family  of  "Fountain  Green."  Samuel,  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Mifflin)  Powell,  born  in  1739,  was  a  prominent  carpenter 
and  builder  of  Philadelphia,  was  admitted  member  of  the  Carpenters'  Company 
of  Philadelphia  in  1763,  subscribed  towards  the  erection  of  the  famous  Carpen- 
ters" Hall,  and  was  warden  of  the  company  in  1771.  He  was  captain  of  an 
Associate  Company  of  Philadelphia  in  1776,  and  was  commissioned  second  lieu- 
tenant of  the  Philadelphia  Artillery  Company  in  1777.  He  left  Philadelphia 
between  1735  and  1791  and  settled  in  western  Pennsylvania,  dying  at  "Deerfield." 
Bedford  county,  in  1814.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Moulder, 
a  distinguished  officer  of  the  Philadelphia  Artillery  in  the  Revolution,  whose 
military  record  is  given  elsewhere  in  these  volumes.  Dr.  William  Mifflin  Pow- 
ell, the  grandfather  of  Gladys  (Powell)  Corbin,  was  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Moulder)  Powell  and  was  born  October  20,  181 1.  He  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Tower  of  Philadelphia  and  Dr.  Benjamin  Waterhouse,  professor  of 
medicine  in  Cambridge  University.  He  resided  for  a  number  of  years  in  Phila- 
delphia, serving  as  a  member  of  common  council  for  the  Fourth  ward,  etc.,  and 


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later  removed  to  Deerfield,  Bedford,  (now  Fulton)  county,  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  died  August  19,  1857.  He  married  Anna  Henion,  (b.  Nov.  11,  1810;  d.  Dec. 
21,  1892)  daughter  of  Benjamin  Henion,  a  native  of  Amsterdam,  Holland,  and 
his  wife  Ruth  Bickley,  of  a  well-known  Philadelphia  county  family.  Mrs.  Cor- 
bin  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Pa.,  February  7,  1881.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Corbin 
Junior  have  one  child,  Anne  Corbin,  born  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber II,  1905. 


MURDOCH  K  END  RICK 

The  ancestors  of  Murdoch  Kendrick,  of  the  Philadelphia  bar,  were  among 
the  early  German  settlers  in  the  Conestoga  and  Pequea  valleys  of  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania,  long  prior  to  the  Revolution,  and  many  members  of  the 
Kendrick  family  took  an  active  part  in  that  struggle.  Henry  Kendrick,  who  had 
a  mill  and  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  Pequea  creek  in  jNIartick  township,  was 
captain  of  a  company  in  the  First  battalion  of  Lancaster  county  militia,  Colonel 
John  Boyd,  which  was  called  into  active  service  in  May,  1777,  and  George,  Mar- 
tin, Isaac,  and  Henry  Kendrick,  Jr.,  were  members  of  the  same  battalion.  Cap- 
tain Henry  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Michael  Graflf  of  Martick  township,  and 
had  a  large  family. 

Captain  Matthias  Slaymaker,  great-great-grandfather  of  Murdoch  Kendrick, 
was  bom  in  Strasburg  township,  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  the  year 
1732,  and  was  a  son  of  Matthias  Slaymaker,  Sr.,  who  settled  on  land  original- 
ly surveyed  to  the  Pennsylvania  Land  Company  of  London,  in  that  part  of 
Strasburg  township,  Lancaster  county,  now  included  in  Paradise  township,  in 
1710,  one  thousand  acres  of  which  was  acquired  in  fee  by  the  Slaymakers  when 
the  London  Company  closed  out  in  1760.  The  Slaymakers,  the  name  originally 
spelled  in  German  "Schleiermacher"  were  residents  of  Hesse  Cassel,  where 
the  two  brothers  of  Matthias  Schleiermacher  continued  to  reside  after  his  emi- 
gration to  Pennsylvania.  One  of  them,  a  clergyman,  was  for  some  years  secre- 
tary of  the  German  legation,  at  the  Court  of  St.  James,  and  afterwards  Charge 
d'Affaires.  By  a  strange  coincidence,  a  Major  Schleiermacher,  an  officer  of 
Hessian  Troops  in  the  British  army,  was  one  of  the  Hessian  officers  captured  by 
the  American  forces  during  the  Revolution  and  was  confined  in  the  Lancaster 
jail.  He  was  probably  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  brothers  of  the  American  em- 
igrant. Matthias  Slaymaker,  Sr.,  was  married  prior  to  his  emigration,  and  had 
five  sons,  Laurence,  Matthias,  John,  Henry  and  Daniel,  and  two  daughters, 
Margaret  and  Barbara.  Of  these  Laurence  and  Margaret  were  born  in  Ger- 
many, and  the  other  five  children  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania.  All  of 
these  sons  with  the  possible  exception  of  Laurence,  the  eldest,  were  soldiers  in 
the  patriot  army  during  the  Revolution,  in  the  Lancaster  County  Militia,  as 
were  also  some  of  their  sons. 

John  Slaymaker,  the  second  son  of  the  emigrant,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Provin- 
cial service  in  the  second  expedition  against  Fort  Du  Quesne,  and  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  Revolution  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the  First  battalion.  Lancaster 
county  militia,  being  a  colleague  of  Captain  Henry  Kendrick,  of  the  same  bat- 
talion, and  both  were  in  active  service  during  a  great  part  of  the  war  for  inde- 
pendence. 

Matthias  Slaymaker  Jr.,  above  mentioned,  was  a  private  in  the  company 
commanded  by  his  brother  John  in  1776-7.  He  was  later  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant of  a  company  commanded  by  Captain  Alexander  White,  in  the  same  bat- 
talion, which   in    1780  was  in  active  service  under  Lieutenant-colonel   George 


KENDRICK  627 

Stewart,  William  Slaymaker,  son  of  John,  being  ensign  of  the  same  company. 
In  1781,  Matthias  Slaymaker  was  promoted  to  captain  of  a  company  in  the  same 
battalion,  and  as  such  was  enrolled  in  the  service  of  the  United  States,  at  Lan- 
caster, his  term  in  the  Continental  service  extending  from  June  28  to  July  30, 
1781  ;  though  he  was  captain  of  militia  until  the  close  of  the  war.  The  "London 
Lands"  in  Strasburg  township,  Lancaster  county,  taken  up  by  Matthias  Slay- 
maker, Sr.,  descended  to  his  four  sons,  John,  Henry,  Matthias  and  Daniel,  and 
portions  of  it  to  their  respective  descendants,  to  the  present  time,  some  of  it 
being  still  held  by  descendants  of  the  name.  Henry,  an  officer  of  militia  during 
the  Revolution,  was  long  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court  of  Lancaster  County, 
a  delegate  to  the  constitutional  convention  of  1776,  and  prominent  in  the  local 
affairs  of  Lancaster  county.  Matthias  Slaymaker  Jr.  died  January  9,  1804. 
By  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Smith,  he  had  two  sons,  John  and  William, 
and  daughters  Rachel,  Rebecca  and  Elizabeth.  Of  these  Rachel,  born  in  Lan- 
caster county,  March  3,  1790,  married  David  Kendrick. 

David  Kendrick,  was  born  in  Lancaster  county.  May  12,  1770.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Lancaster,  April  3,  1804,  Rachel  Slaymaker,  daughter  of  Captain  Mat- 
thias Slaymaker,  and  soon  after  that  date  removed  to  Philadelphia  where  he 
resided  until  his  death  on  October  17,  1837.  His  wife  Rachel  survived  him 
and  died  in  Philadelphia,  July  18,  1858. 

George  W.  Kendrick,  son  of  David  and  Rachel  (Slaymaker)  Kendrick,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  April  22,  1817,  and  died  there  February  18,  1892.  He 
married,  at  St.  John's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  Philadelphia,  November  13,  1835, 
Maria  McDonald,  who  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  December  181 5,  and  died  in 
Philadelphia,  December  6,  1875.  They  had  four  children :  Jennie,  William, 
George  W.  Jr.,  and  Charles  Kendrick. 

George  W.  Kendrick,  Jr.,  father  of  our  subject,  and  second  son  of  George 
W.  and  Maria  (McDonald)  Kendrick,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  31,  1841. 
He  married,  Sept.  5,  1866,  Minnie  Murdoch,  born  in  Philadelphia,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Kehl  Murdoch,  of  Philadelphia  and  his  wife  Mary  Hanna,  daughter  of 
John  Hanna  (son  of  John  and  Grace  Hanna,  of  near  Belfast,  Ireland)  who 
came  to  Philadelphia  from  county  Down,  Ireland,  soon  after  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  married  there  about  1805,  Elizabeth  Patterson,  who 
had  come  from  county  Down,  Ireland,  when  a  small  girl,  with  her  parents,  who 
both  died  of  yellow  fever  in  Philadelphia  in  1793.  John  Hanna  was  a  private 
in  Captain  Peter  A.  Brown's  Company,  First  Pennsylvania  Regiment,  Colonel 
Clement  C.  Biddle,  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  during  the  War  of  1812-14, 
under  Brigadier-general  Thomas  Cadwalader.  The  late  Judge  William  B.  Han- 
na was  a  grandson  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Patterson)  Hanna. 

Thomas  Murdoch,  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  28,  1787,  father  of  Samuel 
Kehl  Murdoch,  and  great-grandfather  of  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  second 
lieutenant  of  the  Second  company,  First  regiment  Artillery,  in  First  brigade  of 
Pennsylvania  militia,  and  first  lieutenant  of  Second  company,  Independent  Ar- 
tillerists, in  the  War  of  1812-14.  He  married  Elizabeth  Kehl,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Kehl,  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  wife  Christiana  Scheibel,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Theobald  Scheibel,  of  Colonel  Bradford's  battalion  of  Philadel- 
phia Associators,  in  the  Revolution.  Lieutenant  Theobald  Scheibel  was  born 
in    Frankford-on-the-Main,    Germany,    August     16,     1725.       June     25,     1777 


628  KENDRICK 

he  was  commissioned  lieutenant  of  the  Third  company  in  the  Associ- 
ated battalion  of  Philadelphia  militia,  Colonel  William  Bradford,  which 
company,  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant  Scheibel,  the  captain,  George 
Easterly,  being  "absent  on  leave,"  was  mustered  into  the  service  of  the 
United  States  at  Billingsport,  New  Jersey,  July  12,  1777.  Theobald  Scheibel 
died  in  Philadelphia,  January   11,   1786. 

Murdoch  Kendrick,  son  of  George  W.  Kendrick  Jr.  and  Minnie  Murdoch  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  October  4,  1873.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Rugby  Acad- 
emy, and  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1889,  graduating  in  the  class 
of  1893  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  entering  the  Law  department 
of  the  same  institution  received  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  in  1896.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar,  June  1896,  and  has  since  been  in  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  assistant  district  attorney 
for  Philadelphia  from  November  1902  to  January  1907.  Mr.  Kendrick  is  a 
member  of  the  Law  Association  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the  Law  Academy,  a 
former  member  of  the  Committee  of  Censors  of  the  former  association,  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Bar  Association.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Union  League  Gub,  and  of  the  University,  Philadelphia  Country,  Five 
O'clock,  Lincoln  and  Young  Republican  Clubs  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the  Mask 
and  Wig  Club,  and  Alumni  Associations  of  the  L^niversity  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
married,  December  10,  1902,  Ethel  Christine  Smith,  daughter  of  F.  Percy  and 
Katharine  A.  Smith,  of  Philadelphia,  and  they  have  one  child,  Christine  Ken- 
drick, born  November  5,  1907.  Mr.  Kendrick  is  eligible  to  membership  in  the 
Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  in  right  of  descent  from 
Captain  Matthias  Slaymaker,  and  his  mother,  Mrs.  Minnie  Murdoch  Kendrick, 
who  died  May  19,  1903,  was  a  member  of  Quaker  City  Chapter  No.  7,  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  in  right  of  descent  from  Lieutenant  and  acting 
Captain  Theobald  Scheibel,  above  mentioned. 


CHARLES  SMITH  TURN  BULL,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Charles  Smith  Turnbull,  the  eminent  oculist  and  aurist,  of  Philadel- 
phia, is  a  son  of  Dr.  Laurence  Turnbull,  an  eminent  Philadelphia  physician,  who 
was  born  in  Scotland,  September  lo,  1821,  and  his  wife  Louise  Paleske  Smith, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  November  11,  1821,  and  on  the  maternal  side  is  descended 
from  ancestors  who  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  Revolutionary  struggle  in 
Philadelphia,  and  also  from  some  of  the  earliest  English  settlers  in  New  Eng- 
land, being  ninth  in  descent  from  the  Rev.  Henry  Smith  of  Norfolk,  England, 
who  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1638 ;  eighth  in  descent  from  Jeremy  Adams, 
who  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1632 ;  and  seventh  in  descent  from  John  Somers, 
the  first  settler  at  Somers'  Point,  New  Jersey,  who  was  born  in  Worcester,  Eng- 
land,  in    1640. 

The  Reverend  Henry  Smith,  above  mentioned  the  founder  in  America,  of 
the  Smith  family  to  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  belongs,  was  born  in  County 
Norfolk,  England  in  1588.  He  graduated  at  Cambridge  university  and  was  or- 
dained as  a  minister  of  the  Church  of  England,  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury. In  1638,  he  emigrated  to  New  England  with  his  three  sons,  and  died  there 
ten   years   later. 

Richard  Smith,  one  of  the  sons  of  Rev.  Henry  Smith,  was  a  resident  of 
Connecticut  in  1657,  and  either  he  or  his  son  of  the  same  name  probably  partici- 
pated in  the  purchase  from  the  Indians,  and  patent  from  Governor  Nicolls,  of 
the  large  tract  of  land  in  New  Jersey  in  1665,  in  the  limits  of  which  the  settlers 
were  to  "have  free  liberty  of  conscience  without  molestation  or  disturbance 
whatsoever  in  their  way  of  Worship,"  since  we  find  the  latter  a  resident  on  this 
tract  at  Woodbridge,  soon  after  this  date.  Richard  Smith  appears  also  to  have 
been  one  of  the  Connecticut  settlers  on  Long  Island,  and  was  probably  the  real 
founder  of  Smithtown,  an  honor  generally  accorded  to  his  son  as  the  "Patentee" 
in  1683.  The  civil  records  in  reference  to  these  two  Richards,  are  rather  con- 
fusing. While  the  Richard  Smith  of  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey  is  referred  to 
as  "Richard  Smith,  Senr.,"  there  being  a  third  Richard  Smith  at  that  date  it 
is  impossible  to  determine  to  which  generation  he  belonged.  Since  Richard  (i) 
was  born  approximately  in  1620,  it  was  probably  he  who  died  at  Woodbridge, 
New  Jersey,  in  1695-96,  leaving  a  will  dated  July  7,  1692,  which  was  probated 
April  30,  1696,  and  mentions  wife  Elinor,  and  children,  Elizabeth,  Dorothy, 
Richard  and  Thomas ;  and  that  the  son  was  granted  the  patent  for  the  lands  at 
Smithtown,  Long  Island  in  1683  and  remained  there. 

Richard  Smith,  (3),  son  and  grandson  of  Richard,  was  a  resident  of  Smith- 
town,  SuflFolk  county.  Long  Island,  about  the  year  1693,  but  had  evidently  re- 
sided in  the  neighborhood  of  Woodbridge  shortly  prior  to  that  date  as  he  mar- 
ried about  1693,  Rebecca  Adams,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  Adams,  of 
Woodbridge,  of  New  England  ancestry,  a  granddaughter  of  Jeremy,  or  Jere- 
miah Adams,  who  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  1632.  Thomas  Adams  was  in 
Woodbridge  prior  to  1679.     His  daughter  Rebecca  married  first  in  1688,  James 


630  TURN  BULL 

Seaton,  but  separated  from  him  in  1690,  and  is  mentioned  in  her  father's  will  in 
1694  as  the  wife  of  Richard  Smith,  who  joins  her  in  the  conveyance  of  land 
given  her  by  her  father  on  her  first  marriage.  Richard  and  Rebecca  (Adams) 
Smith,  located  after  their  marriage  at  Cape  May,  New  Jersey.  Their  seven 
children  were: — William;  Richard  (4)  of  whom  presently;  John;  Daniel,  who 
married  Martha  Swain;  Jonathan,  who  married  Abigail  Ludlam,  of  a  Long 
Island  family,  that  had  located  with  the  Smiths  at  Cape  May ;  Jeremiah,  who 
married  Abigail  Somers ;  and  Elizabeth,  who  married  Samuel  Foster. 

Richard  Smith,  (4)  of  Cape  ]\'Jay  county.  New  Jersey,  was  prominently 
identified  with  the  affairs  of  that  county,  largely  made  up  of  families  that  had 
migrated  from  Long  Island.  He  was  born  in  1715,  and  about  1740,  married 
Hannah  Somers,  born  at  Somers  Point,  now  Atlantic  county,  then  Cape  May 
county,  at  Great  Egg  Harbour,  in  the  year  1721.  She  was  a  daughter  of  James 
Somers,  and  his  wife  Abigail  Adams,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Adams  of  Great  Egg 
Harbour,  who  with  his  wife  Barbara,  and  several  children,  had  come  from 
Long  Island,  in  1695,  and  purchased  land  at  Great  Egg  Harbour,  on  the  same 
date  as  the  purchase  of  John  Somers,  whose  son  his  daughter  Abigail  married 
in   1718. 

John  Somers,  the  first  settler  at  Somers'  Point,  was  born  in  Worcestershire, 
England,  in  1640,  and  was  distantly  related  to  John  Somers,  (1652-17x6)  of 
Worcester,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England  etc.  John  Somers  married  in 
England,  and  embarked  for  America  with  his  wife  and  child,  but  both  the  lat- 
ter died  on  the  voyage.  He  located  near  Great  Egg  Harbour,  and  married  Han- 
nah Hodgkins,  of  a  family  early  identified  with  the  whaling  industry  at  Cape 
May.  At  the  first  Court  of  Cape  May  county,  held  March  20,  1693,  John  Som- 
ers was  appointed  constable  for  Great  Egg  Harbour.  By  deed  dated  November 
30,  1695,  Thomas  Budd  conveyed  to  John  Somers,  3,000  acres  of  land  at  Great 
Egg  Harbour,  1500  acres  "on  the  Sound  northeast  of  Great  Egg  Harbour,"  800 
acres,  "between  Patonick  Creek  and  Bass  River"  and  700  acres  "on  the  Sound 
side  of  Great  Egg  Harbour."  On  March  20,  1718,  John  Somers  made  a  deed 
of  gift  to  his  son  James  Somers  for  350  acres  of  this  purchase,  the  deed  being 
witnessed  by  Jeremiah  Adams.  Richard  and  Hannah  (Somers)  Smith  had  six 
children : — Rachel,  who  married  Ca^parus  Smith,  Judith,  who  married  Andrew 
Crawford;  Hannah,  who  married  Henry  Ludlam;  Daniel,  of  whom  presently; 
James,  who  married  Jemima  Russell ;  and  John,  who  married  Eliza  Porterfield. 

Daniel  Smith,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Somers) 
Smith,  was  born  at  Cape  May,  New  Jersey,  January  14,  1755.  He  came  to 
Philadelphia  when  a  young  man  and  became  a  prominent  business  man  there, 
long  identified  with  local  institutions  of  the  city.  He  died  June  5,  1836.  He 
married  at  Christ  church,  Philadelphia,  October  24,  1780,  Elizabeth  Shute, 
born  in  Philadelphia.  July  3,  1760,  died  there  February  9,  1799,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth    (Jackson)   Shute. 

William  Shute,  father  of  Elizabeth  (Shute)  Smith,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  during  the  Revolutionary  period  was  a  resident  of  the  District  of 
Southwark.  In  the  formation  and  organization  of  the  first  armed  forces  for 
the  defence  of  American  liberties,  known  as  "Associators,"  John  Shute  became 
a  member,  and  was  commissioned  lieutenant,  of  the  associated  company  of  his 
district,  known  as  the  "Southwark  Guards,"  of  which  Richard  Barret  was  cap- 


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tain,  and  this  company  was  in  1777,  enrolled  in  the  service  of  the  United  States 
in  the  battalion  commanded  by  Major  Lewis  Nichols.  Lieutenant  William  Shute 
died  in  Philadelphia  in  1783.  He  had  married  at  Oirist  church,  January  31, 
1754,  Elizabeth  Jackson,  who  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  1731,  and 
died  there  November  1763,  and  was  buried  at  Christ  church,  November  21,  1763. 

Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Shute)  Smith,  had  seven  children,  James  S.,  Francis- 
Gurney,  Richard  S.,  Daniel,  William  S.,  and  Qiarles  Somers  Smith. 

Charles  Somers  Smith,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Shute)  Smith  was 
the  maternal  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, April  9,  1798,  and  died  there  August  21,  1884.  He  married  January 
II,  1821,  Wilhelmina  Paleske,  of  Polish  ancestry,  who  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
July  25,  1799,  and  died  there  September  19,  1886.  Their  daughter  Louis 
Paleske,  married,  April  19,  1846,  Dr.  Laurence  Turnbull,  and  was  the  mother 
of  Dr.  Charles  Smith  Turnbull.  Charles  Somers  Smith  was  captain  of  a  com- 
pany in  the  Pennsylvania  militia  1861-2  and  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-second  Regi- 
ment,  1863. 

Dr.  Charles  Smith  Turnbull,  born  in  Philadelphia,  November  10,  1847,  re- 
ceived his  preliminary  education  at  the  Central  High  School.  He  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  the  Episcopal  Academy  and  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  re- 
ceiving the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  the  College  department  in  1869,  that  of  Ph.  D., 
in  1871,  and  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Medical  department  of  the  same  insti- 
tution in  1873.  In  1871  he  was  surgeon  for  the  United  States  Geological  Survey 
of  the  territories  of  Wyoming  and  Montana,  and  in  the  same  capacity  ac- 
companied Professor  F.  V.  Hayden,  United  States  geologist,  in  the  survey  of 
Yellowstone  National  Park  in  1871-2.  From  1873  to  1875  he  was  resident  as- 
sistant surgeon  in  the  New  York  Ophthalmic  and  Aural  Institute,  and  studied 
diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear  under  Dr.  Herman  Knapp.  He  then  went  abroad 
and  spent  two  years  as  a  student  in  the  several  ophthalmic  and  aural  depart- 
ments of  the  Imperial  General  Hospital  at  Vienna,  under  Professors  Arlt, 
Jaeger,  Von  Stellwag,  Schroetter,  Hyrtl,  Politzer,  Gruber  and  others.  Return- 
ing to  Philadelphia  in  the  autumn  of  1876,  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  oph- 
thalmology and  otology,  and  in  addition  to  his  duties  as  a  regular  practitioner 
in  his  specialties,  has  since  filled  many  important  positions  in  the  hospitals  and 
scientific  institutions  of  his  native  city.  He  was  for  nineteen  years  oculist  and 
aurist  to  the  German  Hospital ;  since  1876,  has  filled  the  same  position  for  the 
Odd  Fellows  Home,  of  Philadelphia ;  for  five  years  in  the  Pennsylvania  Insti- 
tute for  Deaf  and  Dumb :  for  ten  years  in  the  Home  for  Teaching  Deaf  Children 
to  Speak ;  and  was  chief  of  the  aural  department  of  JeiTerson  Medical  College  for 
more  than  ten  years,  and  for  many  years  ophthalmic  and  aural  surgeon  to  the 
Howard,  Jewish,  and  St.  Christopher's  hospitals,  and  the  Home  for  Incurables. 

Dr.  Turnbull  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Medicine,  a  member 
of  the  Franklin  Institute,  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  of  the  Philadelphia 
county,  Pennsylvania  state  and  American  Medical  Associations,  and  of  the 
.'\ssociation  of  Military  Surgeons  of  the  United  States  and  other  national  sci- 
entific associations.  Since  1888  he  has  been  associate  editor,  in  charge  of  the 
department  of  otology,  of  the  "Annual  of  the  Universal  Medical  Sciences."  He 
has  also  translated  from  the  German  original,  Arlt's  "Injuries  to  the  Eye  con- 
sidered  Medico-Legally,"    1876;   Gruber's   "Tenotomy   of   the   Tensor-Tympani 


632  TURN  BULL 

Muscle,"  1879;  and  Braner's  "Treatise  on  the  Methods  of  Connection  of  the 
Ossicles,"  1880.  He  has  also  made  numerous  original  contributions  to  the  lit- 
erature of  his  specialty,  especially  in  reference  to  diseases  of  chidlren.  Dr. 
TurnbuU  joined  the  First  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  militia,  known  as  the  Grey 
Reserves,  in  1862,  as  a  private  in  Company  A,  of  which  his  grandfather  Charles 
Somers  Smith,  later  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-second  (Emergency)  Regiment, 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  was  then  captain,  and  continued  as  an  associate  and 
enlisted  member  of  that  organization,  until  1873  when  he  was  appointed  Assist- 
ant Surgeon  of  the  First  Regiment,  National  Guard  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
acting  brigade  surgeon  of  his  regiment  during  the  Pittsburg  riots  of  1877,  and 
received  high  praise  in  the  official  report  of  Colonel  R.  Dale  Benson,  "for  faith- 
ful and  untiring  service  throughout  the  tour  of  duty,  especially  on  the  march 
of  July  22,   1877." 

Dr.  Turnbull  is  now  Major  and  Surgeon  of  the  First  Regiment  National  Guard, 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  Veteran  Corps  ist  Regiment,  National  Guard  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  a  member  of  the  Old  Guard,  Company  A.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Union  League  Club  of  Philadelphia,  and  other  social  and  semi-political  organiza- 
tions, and  of  the  alumni  associations  of  the  Central  High  School  and  the  Medical 
Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

Charles  Smith  Turnbull,  M.  D.,  married  October  18,  1877,  Elizabeth  L. 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  (Rehn)  Claxton,  and  they  had  four  daugh- 
ters, Louisa  Qaxton  Turnbull,  born  September  9,  1878.  died  April  27,  1889: 
Elizabeth  Turnbull,  born  April  27,  1881,  married  March  18,  1905,  Lieutenant 
now  Captain.  Hamilton  Disston  South,  of  the  LTnited  States  Marine  Corps,  son 
of  Thomas  W.  and  Ida  (Corbley)  South  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  they  have 
one  child,  Hamilton  Disston  South,  Jr.,  born  December  8,  1906;  Edith  Dunbar 
Turnbull,  born  January  23,  1883,  married  December  3,  1908,  Paymaster  McGill 
Robinson  Goldsborough,  of  the  United  States  Navy,  son  of  Worthington  Golds- 
borough,  United  States  Navy,  and  his  wife  Henrietta  Maria  Jones,  of  Cam- 
bridge, Maryland ;  Gladys  Laurence  Turnbull,  born  May  29,  1888.  married 
June  3,  1908,  Lieutenant  Nelson  Palmer  Vulte,  of  the  United  States  Marine 
Corps,  son  of  Herman  Theodore,  and  Eugenia  Wilhelmina  Caroline  (Fielitz) 
Vulte,  of  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  and  has  one  son.  Nelson  Palmer  Vulte, 
Jr.,  born  April  9,  1909. 


I 


RICHARD  DALE  SPARHAWK 

Richard  Dale  Sparhawk,  of  Philadelphia  is  a  descendant  of  early  settlers 
of  New  Jersey,  several  representatives  of  whom  took  part  in  the  war  for  Inde- 
pendence, but  on  the  paternal  side  is  of  New  England  ancestry. 

Nathaniel  Sparhawk,  came  from  Dedham,  England,  and  was  made  a  free- 
man of  Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  May  23,  1639.  He  settled  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  there,  and  represented  that 
town  in  the  General  Court  or  legislative  body  of  Massachusetts  Bay  colony, 
1642  to  1647. 

Nathaniel  Sparhawk,  (2),  was  a  selectman  of  Brighton  district,  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  1677  to  1686,  and  was  also  a  deacon  of  the  church  there. 

Nathaniel  Sparhawk,  (3)  enlister  from  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and 
served  in  Sir  William  Phipps'  expedition  against  Port  Royal  and  Quebec,  Can- 
ada, in  1690.  He  was  a  selectman  of  Cambridge,  1715  to  1730,  and  was  elected 
a  deacon  of  the  church,  August  5,  1724. 

The  Rev.  Nathaniel  Sparhawk  (4),  graduate  from  Harvard  College  in 
1715,  and  in  1720,  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  at  Lynnfield,  Massachu- 
setts. 

John  Sparhawk,  M.  D.,  fifth  in  the  line  of  descent  from  Nathaniel  Sparhawk, 
the  emigrant,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  John  Sparhawk  who  enlisted  from 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  in  Pepperill's  expedition  against  Louisburg  in  1745. 
He  removed  to  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  about  1750,  and  became  a  merchant  there. 
He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  "Non-Importation  Resolutions"  in  1765,  and 
took  the  oath  of  allegiance  prescribed  by  act  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  of 
June  13,  1777,  on  June  25,  1777.  He  was  joint  owner  with  Matthew  Irwin  of  the 
Sloop  "Col.  Parry,"  which  was  armed  and  entered  the  service  of  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania,  or  the  Continental  service,  sealing  from  Philadelphia,  October 
29,  1776,  in  command  of  Captain  William  Gambel,  who  had  been  a  captain  in 
the  Pennsylvania  Navy,  with  a  crew  of  15  men  and  four  guns.  John  Sparhawk 
is  believed  to  have  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  probably  as  a  surgeon 
without  a   formal  commission. 

Thomas  Sparhawk,  son  of  Dr.  John  above  mentioned,  enlisted  twice  in  the 
war  of  1812,  in  the  defence  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  private  in 
Captain  Condy  Rauet's  company,  "Washington  Guards,"  May  13,  1813,  to  July 
28,  181 3  and  was  fifth  sergeant  of  the  same  company — commanded  by  Captain 
Thomas  F.  Pleasants  in  the  second  campaign — First  Regiment  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, Colonel  Clement  C.  Biddle,  commanding,  attached  to  the  "Advance  Light 
Brigade,"  Brigadier-general  Thomas  Cadwallader,  stationed  at  Camp  Dupont, 
August  29,  1814  to  January  3,  1815.  Thomas  Sparhawk  married  Catharine 
Passmore,  of  the  well-known  family  of  that  name. 

Samuel  Sparhawk,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  son  of 
Thomas  Sparhawk,  above  mentioned,  and  seventh  in  descent  from  Nathaniel 
Sparhawk,  of   Cambridge,   Massachusetts,    (1639).     He  was  bom   in   Philadel- 


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phia,  December  25,  1823,  and  died  there.  May  22,  1883.  He  was  vice-president 
of  the  Fire  Association  of  Philadelphia  for  many  years.  He  married  Sarah 
Axford  Kneass,  born  in  Philadelphia,  a  daughter  of  Christian  Kneass  of  Phil- 
adelphia, and  his  wife  Sarah  Axford,  a  daughter  of  John  Axford  of  Oxford, 
Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  whose  maternal  ancestry  traces  back  to  the  first 
English  settlers  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania. 

Hannah  Polhemus,  the  wife  of  John  Axford,  above  mentioned,  and  mother 
of  Sarah  (Axford)  Kneass,  was  a  daughter  of  Major  John  Polhemus,  of  Rocky 
Hill,  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  of  the  New  Jersey  Line  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  and  his  wife  Susannah  Hart,  daughter  of  John  Hart,  member  of  Continental 
Congress  from  New  Jersey,  and  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
The  Polhemus  family  was  founded  in  America  by  Rev.  Johannes  Theodorus  Pol- 
hemus, a  minister  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  in  Holland,  who  came  to 
New  Amsterdam  in  1654.  The  family  was  one  of  considerable  celebrity  in  the 
Netherlands  for  centuries,  one  of  the  family,  Eleazer  Polhemus,  a  verj'  learned 
jurist,  being  Burgomaster  of  Antwerp  as  early  as  1310. 

Daniel  Polhemus,  son  of  Rev.  Johannes  Theodorus,  the  Dutch  dominie,  was 
captain  of  the  Kings  county.  New  York  Troop ;  supervisor  of  Flatbush.  Long 
Island,  and  a  judge  of  Kings  county  court.  He  died  in  1730,  at  an  advanced 
age. 

Hendrick  Polhemus,  son  of  Daniel,  and  father  of  Major  John  Polhemus, 
settled  in  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  about  four  miles  north  of  Princeton, 
where  his  grandfather.  Rev.  Theodorus  Polhemus  and  a  number  of  other  Dutch 
residents  of  Long  Island  had  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  on  Millstone  river, 
in    1701. 

Major  John  Polhemus,  son  of  Hendrick,  above  mentioned,  was  born  at 
Hopewell,  now  Mercer  county.  New  Jersey,  May  25,  1738.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen years,  in  1755,  he  served  in  the  New  Jersey  contingent  of  the  provincial 
forces  in  the  Braddock  campaign  against  Fort  Duquesne.  On  March  10,  1762, 
he  was  enrolled  in  Colonel  Samuel  Hunt's  regiment  of  New  Jersey,  organized 
for  the  expedition  against  the  Spanish  possessions  in  the  West  Indies,  and  on 
May  7,  embarked  with  that  regiment  for  the  West  Indies,  and  took  part  in  the 
attack  on  Moro  Castle,  Havana.  Cuba.  July  30,  1762.  At  the  outbreak  of  the 
Revolution,  when  affairs,  even  to  the  most  sanguine,  wore  a  gloomy  aspect,  John 
Polhemus,  deeply  impressed  with  the  importance  and  necessity  of  prompt  ac- 
tion on  the  part  of  every  true  patriot,  was  among  the  foremost  to  respond  to  the 
summons  of  his  country  to  come  forward  and  offer  his  services  and  his  means. 
November  22,  1775,  he  was  appointed  fourth  captain  in  the  First  battalion.  First 
establishment.  Continental  troops.  New  Jersey  line,  commanded  by  Colonel  \\\\- 
liam  Alexander,  Lord  Stirling.  ,A.t  the  time  of  his  appointment,  his  company 
of  eighty-six  men,  recruited  by  himself,  was  without  arms  and  accoutrements. 
These,  as  the  public  treasury  was  empty,  he  was  requested  by  his  colonel  to 
furnish,  with  a  promise  of  reimbursement.  This  he  did,  mortgaging  his  prop- 
erty to  raise  the  money,  and  marched  his  company  fully  armed  and  equipped  to 
the  New  Brunswick  barracks,  where  he  remained  until  January  i,  1776.  Gen- 
eral Nathaniel  Heard  of  the  militia,  having  been  ordered  to  disarm  the  tories 
on  Long  Island  and  bring  off  the  military  stores  there.  Captain  Polhemus  was 
sent  to  accompany  him.     In  the  execution  of  this  order  six  hundred  and  forty- 


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one  persons  were  sworn  in  allegiance  to  the  patriot  cause,  and  the  most  no- 
torious tories  and  the  captured  stores  were  taken  to  New  York,  where  Captain 
Polhemus  remained  until  May.  The  result  of  this  expedition  was  bitterly  re- 
taliated during  the  subsequent  British  occupation  of  Long  Island,  upon  the 
Whigs,  among  whom  were  many  of  Captain  Polhemus's  relatives.  In  the  same 
year  (1776)  Captain  Polhemus  was  ordered  to  join  the  expedition  against  Can- 
ada, where  he  participated  in  the  battle  of  Three  Rivers,  and  several  skirmishes, 
in  sight  of  the  British  fleet,  until  the  army  was  compelled  to  fall  back  to  Cham- 
bly.  There,  he  says  in  his  journal,  "the  forts,  stores,  and  all  the  shipping  were 
burned,  except  the  batteaux,  which  were  pulled  up  the  rapids  by  rope  to  the 
Isle  aux  Noix,  at  the  north  end  of  Lake  Champlain,  and  from  thence  to  Crown 
Point  and  Ticonderoga,  where  the  troops  remained  in  camp  until  autumn,  forti- 
fying and  building  a  bridge  across  the  lake  to  Mount  Independence."  In  No- 
vember, 1776,  the  term  of  his  company's  enlistment  having  expired,  at  the  re- 
quest of  General  Gates,  he  and  his  men  remained  two  weeks  over  time,  until 
relieved  by  the  Third  regiment  under  Colonel  Dayton.  At  this  time  he  was  in- 
formed by  Lord  Stirling,  of  his  reappointment  on  November  29,  as  fourth  cap- 
tain. First  battalion.  Second  establishment.  Continental  troops.  New  Jersey  line, 
for  three  years  or  during  the  war.  At  Pinckemin,  on  the  homeward  march, 
he  found  the  people  much  alarmed  and  the  militia  ordered  out.  Major  Linn  of 
the  militia  presented  himself  to  Captain  Polhemus  and  requested  him  to  ac- 
company him  and  assist  him  in  his  command.  So  together  they  marched  against 
the  enemy  at  Brown's  Hook,  who,  being  apprised  that  the  militia  had  been  joined 
by  veterans  from  Canada,  left  for  other  parts.  The  Americans  then  continued 
their  march  to  the  camp  at  New  Brunswick.  "On  my  return,"  says  Captain  Pol- 
hemus in  his  journal,  "Jersey  was  so  overrun  with  the  British  that  I  could  not 
go  to  my  home.  My  wife  left  all  and  fled  for  safety  to  the  mountains  where  I 
found  her."  He  remained  a  day  or  two  with  his  family  at  the  house  of  Wil- 
liam Blew,  then  leaving  them  in  the  care  of  friends,  rejoined  the  army  at  New- 
town, Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  During  this  visit  he  further  mortgaged  his 
property  to  satisfy  his  men  with  their  back  pay  and  secure  their  re-enlistment, 
as  they  refused  to  continue  in  the  service  until  payment  could  be  arranged  by 
congress.  Rapidly  succeeding  military  events  are  thus  described  by  Major  Pol- 
hemus in  his  journal  as  follows: — 

On  the  26th  of  December,  1776,  the  army  moved  from  Newtown  and  crossed  the 
Delaware  to  Trenton,  where  after  a  severe  contest,  the  enemy  fell  back  in  defeat.  *  *  * 
We  whipped  them  terribly  and  took  a  thousand  Hessians  prisoners,  driving  them  into 
Newtown  jail  yard  like  a  pack  of  sheep  during  a  severe  hailstorm.  We  allowed  the  offi- 
cers to  wear  their  side  arms,  also  the  privilege  of  occupying  part  of  the  house  with  Gen- 
eral Patterson  and  myself.  *  *  *  On  the  3d  of  January,  1777,  we  attacked  them  at 
Princeton,  and  drove  them  to  New  Brunswick.  I  was  left  behind  with  a  rear  guard  to  se- 
cure stores  and  bury  the  dead,  which  we  did  by  hauling  them  on  sleds  to  great  holes  and 
heaping  them  in.  *  *  *  I  was  then  relieved  by  Colonel  Chamberlain.  *  *  *  Our 
regiment  passed  on  the  left  side  of  Millstone  River,  where  our  mill  stood ;  the  British 
passing  before  us  on  the  other  side.  *  *  *  One  night  the  British  lay  near  Ten  Mile 
Run,  not  more  than  three  miles  distant.  In  the  morning  they  sent  a  company  of  dragoons 
to  burn  the  mill  and  cut  down  the  bridge,  but  as  they  hove  in  sight  a  body  of  militia  came 
down  the  hill  with  a  field  piece  and  opened  on  them.  They  scampered  like  a  drove  of 
oxen,  luckily  for  us,  for  at  that  time  we  had  four  hundred  bushels  of  wheat  and  a  large 
quantity  of  flour  on  hand.  The  mil!  belonged  to  my  father-in-law,  John  Hart,  then  a 
member  of  Continental  Congress,  and  myself.  Going  to  the  mill  I  found  about  fifty  of  the 
British  that  Morgan's  Rifles  had  killed,  belonging  to  the  Fifty-first  British  Regiment.  We 
buried  them  and  on  going  to  the  house  I  found  a  British  Sergeant  in  my  bed.  with  a  part 


636  SPARHAWK 

of  his  face  shot  off,  also  a  number  of  sick  and  wounded  soldiers.  *  *  *  As  there  was 
no  way  by  which  we  could  take  them  with  us,  I  swore  every  man  of  them  not  to  take  up 
arms  against  the  independence  of  America,  unless  exchanged  according  to  the  rules  of  war, 
and  left  them.  *  *  *  The  next  day  I  found  the  army  at  Street's  Mountain,  and  we  lay 
there  some  time  watching  the  enemy  occupying  New  Brunswick  until  they  vacated  the 
town.  We  then  traversed  the  mountains,  always  keeping  by  their  side,  until  we  came  into 
the  State  of  Delaware,  and  participated  in  a  severe  skirmish  at  Iron  Hill,  there  losing  Cap- 
tain Dallas  and  quite  a  number  of  men.  We  soon  reached  the  Brandywine  and  on  the 
nth  day  of  September  had  a  bitter  engagement  with  the  British  Army,  which  had  been 
largely  reinforced,  and  fought  until  dark.  We  lost  over  five  hundred  men  there  and  one 
field  piece,  a  three  pounder  of  wrought  iron  commanded  by  Captain  Jones.  Our  luck  was 
against  the  British  grenadiers  and  fusiliers.  *  *  +  Our  Colonel  had  his  horse  killed 
and  General  Marquis  de  Lafayette  received  a  wound  in  his  leg  from  the  same  ball,  where- 
upon while  stroking  the  smarting  wound,  he  exclaimed  "Bon,  bon,  America."  I  asked  him 
what  bone  had  to  do  with  it,  to  which  he  replied  "Good,  good  for  American  liberty,"  and 
we  both  enjoyed  the  joke.  In  our  retreat  the  Jersey  Line  retired  to  Chester,  and  that 
night  I  quartered  in  the  same  house  with  the  Marquis  and  was  present  when  his  wound 
was  dressed.  *  *  *  On  the  29th  day  of  September  I  was  with  General  Wayne's  expe- 
dition and  unfortunate  surprise  by  the  enemy  at  Paoli.  *  *  *  We  continued  our  lines 
along  the  mountains  until  the  4th  of  October  and  attacked  the  British  at  Germantown.  driv- 
ing in  their  pickets.  They  fled  abandoning  their  tents  and  a  few  of  their  field  pieces  after 
cutting  the  timber  off.  Some  fled  to  the  hills  some  to  the  mills  and  some  to  Chew's  house. 
Having  field  pieces  within  and  about  the  latter  place,  we  were  ordered  to  storm  it,  which 
we  did.  This  charge  was  a  deadly  one,  all  the  captains  in  the  First  Battallion  were 
killed  or  wounded  but  myself,  and  I  did  Major's  duty.  Major  Witherspoon  was  killed  at  my 
side ;  General  Nash's  horse  was  killed  and  himself  wounded.  Lieutenant  Hurley  was  tak- 
en prisoner  and  hung  to  a  tree  without  benefit  of  clergy  by  the  enemy  who  recognized  him 
as  formerly  belonging  to  the  King's  Dragoons.  The  scattered  forces  of  the  enemy  ral- 
lied, marched  down  the  hill,  and  poured  into  us  a  deadly  fire,  compelling  us  to  halt  in  our 
charge  and   retire   from   the   field. 

Later,  while  the  American  army  was  encamped  at  \'alley  Forge,  Captain 
Polhemus,  who  had  been  promoted  major  of  his  battaHon  which  he  called  the 
"Jersey  Blues"  asked  for  leave  of  absence  to  visit  his  family  in  New  Jersey 
but  was  refused  by  Lord  Stirling,  for  the  reason  that  he  was  the  only  field  of- 
ficer of  his  regiment  in  the  camp,  and  that  he  could  not  part  with  "so  valuable 
an  officer"  while  there  was  no  one  to  take  his  place.  So  the  Major  stayed  on 
at  the  camp  throughout  the  winter  and  its  severe  trials.  June  28,  1778,  he  par- 
ticipated in  the  battle  of  Monmouth,  and  shortly  after  while  engaged  in  the  ser- 
vice near  Amboy  under  General  Washington,  to  quote  again  from  his  valuable 
journal,  "I  was  taken  prisoner  by  a  large  party  of  Tories.  I  was  sent  to  New 
York  gaol,  there  suffering  terribly  from  want  of  food  and  clothing,  and  obliged 
to  lie  on  the  cold  floor  almost  perishing,  without  any  hope  of  relief.  It  was  in- 
deed a  most  dismal  and  severe  winter.  The  bay  and  East  and  North  Rivers 
were  frozen  over  and  formed  solid  bridges  of  ice,  great  numbers  constantly 
crossing  from  New  York  to  Staten  Island  and  Paulus  Hook.  During  this  severe 
and  cold  weather  I  was  removed  to  the  sugar  house.  It  was  out  of  the  frying 
pan  into  the  fire — no  fire,  not  even  a  blanket  to  keep  me  warm.  In  the  spring 
of  1780,  I  was  let  out  on  parole,  by  the  intercession  of  Dr.  Bainbridge,  father 
of  the  future  cotnmodore.  United  States  Navy.  I  went  directly  to  my  regi- 
ment crippled  and  twisted  with  rheumatism  and  in  bad  health,  then  to  my  home 
where  I  remained,  never  receiving  notice  of  my  exchange  until  peace  was  de- 
clared." The  Journal  concludes,  "I  am  now  in  my  eighty-seventh  year,  old  and 
infirm.  I  have  been  in  most  all  the  actions  and  skirmishes  of  the  war  for  Amer- 
ican independence  this  side  of  \'irginia,  and  have  received  a  pension  since  1818." 

His  home  had  been  sacrificed  to  pay  the  liens  put  upon  it  to  equip  his  com- 
pany and  pay  their  back  pay.  He  entered  the  army  in  affluence  and  left  it  with- 
out a  pittance  to  support  his  nimierous  fam.ily :  neverthele.'^s  he  declined  to  press 


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his  claims  against  the  federal  government  in  its  infancy  and  thus  lost  not  only 
reimbursement  for  moneys  advanced  but  much  of  his  pay  as  an  officer.  His 
powerful  frame  however  gradually  recovered  its  tone  when  surrounded  by  his 
family,  and  he  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age,  dying  at  the  residence  of  his  daughter, 
the  wife  of  Captain  Peter  Kurtz,  of  the  Continental  army.  No.  178  Pine  street, 
Philadelphia,  May  25,  1833,  in  the  ninety-sixth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  an  orig- 
inal member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  admitted  July  4,  1786.  A  few  months 
before  his  death  he  sent  for  the  late  Colonel  James  Page  of  the  State  Fencibles, 
whose  father  had  been  a  personal  friend,  and  requested  him  to  see  that  a  cor- 
poral's guard  should  carry  his  remains  to  the  grave.  Colonel  Page  on  notice  of 
his  death  called  out  his  whole  company  and  Major  Polhemus  was  buried  with 
military  honors  at  Ronaldson's  cemetery,  where  a  marble  slab  appropriately  in- 
scribed marks  the  resting  place  of  himself  and  his  wife. 

Major  Polhemus  had  married,  in  1770,  Susannah  Hart,  Daughter  of  John 
Hart,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  John  Hart,  the  Sign- 
er, was  a  son  of  Captain  Edward  Hart,  who  came  from  Stonington,  Connecticut, 
about  the  time  of  the  birth  of  his  distinguished  son,  and  settled  in  Hopewell 
township,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey.  So  near  to  the  time  of  the  birth  of 
his  son  John,  was  this  removal  that  it  is  uncertain  whether  the  latter  was  born 
in  Stonington,  or  at  Hopewell.  A  granddaughter  is  authority  for  the  state- 
ment that  he  was  born  at  Stonington.  He  was  baptised  as  a  child  at  the  Presby- 
terian church  of  Maidenhead,  now  Lawrenceville,  New  Jersey,  by  the  Rever- 
end Jedediah  Andrews,  on  the  "12th  Mo.  (February)  21,  1713-14."  He  was 
reared  on  his  father's  farm  in  Hopewell  township,  and  spent  his  whole  life 
there,  dying  at  his  home  in  Hopewell,  May  11,  1779.  He  early  became  interested 
in  public  affairs ;  was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  people  and  wielded  a  wide  in- 
fluence. He  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Hunterdon  county  in  1755,  and  was 
elected  to  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  that  county  in  1761,  taking  his  seat  on 
April  7,  1 761.  He  continued  a  member  until  the  dissolution  of  the  Assembly  in 
1768,  and  was  re-elected  in  June,  1768,  and  contmued  a  member  until  its  dissolu- 
tion December  21,  1771.  He  was  commissioned  at  about  this  date  a  justice  of 
the  common  pleas  court  of  Hunterdon  county,  and  was  filling  this  position 
when,  July  8,  1774,  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  county  in  the  first  Provincial 
congress  of  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  various  provincial  conven- 
tions ;  presiding  at  that  of  January  18,  1875,  for  the  election  of  delegates  to  the 
second  Provincial  congress  at  which  he  was  chosen  to  the  latter  body.  At  its 
sessions  in  May  and  August,  1775,  he  took  a  most  active  part  in  its  deliberations ; 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Observation,  and  Committee  of 
Correspondence,  and  served  on  the  State  Committee  of  Safety  during  the 
years  1776-7.  He  was  re-elected  to  the  Provincial  congress  in  September  1775, 
and  served  in  the  sessions  of  October,  1775,  and  January  and  June,  1776,  being 
named  on  important  committees,  and  as  one  of  the  signers  of  the  paper  money 
issued  by  the  Provincial  congress  for  the  purpose  of  arming  for  the  war  that 
they  recognized  as  imminent.  June  15,  1776,  he  was  elected  vice-president  of 
the  New  Jersey  provincial  congress,  and  one  week  later  was  elected  one  of  the 
five  delegates  from  that  state  to  the  Continental  Congress.  He  and  his  col- 
leagues Richard  Stockton,  Francis  Hopkinson,  John  Witherspoon  and  Abraham 
Qark  arrived  in  Philadelphia  in  time  to  affix  their  signatures  to  the  immortal 


638  SPARHAIVK 

Declaration  on  July  2,  1776.  In  the  selection  of  the  new  delegation  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  November  30,  1776,  Mr.  Hart  and  Francis  Hopkinson  were 
omitted,  and  in  August  1776.  Mr.  Hart  was  elected  to  the  first  New  Jersey  As- 
sembly under  its  state  constitution,  and  on  the  meeting  of  that  body  was  elected 
unanimously  its  speaker,  which  office  he  held  by  successive  re-elections  during 
1776,  1777  and  the  first  session  of  1778,  when  failing  health  compelled  him  to 
relinquish  his  arduous  public  duties.  Owing  to  his  prominence  and  influence  in 
the  cause  of  independence,  he  was  hunted  with  peculiar  ferocity  by  the  British 
and  Tories  when  the  enemy  were  in  force  in  New  Jersey.  Some  of  his 
correspondence  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  and  also  as  speaker  of 
the  house,  showing  his  activity  in  procuring  supplies  for  the  army,  etc.,  has 
been  preserved.  In  1865  the  New  Jersey  legislature  caused  a  monument  to 
be  erected  to  his  memory,  on  which  occasion  Governor  Joel  Parker  truthfully 
said  of  him  in  his  public  address, — "Upon  a  careful  examination  of  the  history 
of  New  Jersey  during,  and  immediately  preceding  the  Revolutionary  War,  I  am 
of  the  opinion  that  John  Hart  had  greater  experience  in  the  Colonial  and  State 
legislation  of  that  day,  than  any  of  his  contemporaries ;  and  that  no  man  ex- 
ercised greater  influence  in  giving  direction  to  the  public  opinion  which  culmin 
ated   in   independence." 

The  dates  of  birth  and  death  of  John  Hart  are  given  on  the  monument  as 
171 1  and  1780  respectively,  and  a  number  of  biographers  have  perpetuated  the 
error  in  the  last  date.  Family  records  and  the  date  of  the  proof  of  his  will, 
furnish  abundant  evidence  of  its  incorrectness,  however.  John  Hart  married 
Deborah  Scudder  of  a  prominent  New  Jersey  family,  and  they  were  the  parents, 
among  others,  of  Susannah  Hart,  who  became  the  wife  of  Major  John  Polhemus 
above  mentioned,  whose  daughter  Hannah,  was  the  wife  of  John  Axford,  and 
maternal  great-grandmother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Samuel  and  Sarah  Axford  (Kneass)  Sparhawk  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children,  viz.; — Helen  S.,  born  October  17,  1854,  died  September  17,  1886:  Sam- 
uel, born  March  16,  1856,  married  Grace  Emily  Reifsnyder,  died  December  26, 
1907;  Horace  Magee,  died  in  infancy;  Richard  Dale,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Catharine  Passmore,  born  September  25,  1866;  Edward  Magee.  born 
September  10,  1868,  married  in  1898,  Mary  Howard,  and  has  issue  three  chil- 
dren, Richard  Dale,  Jr.,  Elizabeth  and  Helen;  Louise  Everly,  born  June  21, 
1870. 

Richard  Dale  Sparh.\wk,  second  son  and  third  child  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
Axford  (Kneass)  Sparhawk,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  25,  1861 ;  was  ed- 
ucated in  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia.  On  leaving  the  Central  High  School 
he  engaged  in  the  life  insurance  business  in  his  native  city,  and  January  i, 
1905,  became  manager  of  the  Philadelphia  agency  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York,  a  position  he  still  fills. 

Mr.  Sparhawk  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Order  of 
Founders  and  Patriots  of  America,  and  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  vice-president  of  the  Philadelphia  Association  of  Life 
Underwriters,  and  is  a  warden  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the 
Atonement,  the  memorial  to  the  Reverend  Benjamin  Watson,  D.  D.,  of  West 
Philadelphia.  He  married,  November  3,  1891,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Ellen   (Cascaden)   Hume,  of  Philadelphia. 


SAMUEL  REA 

Samuel  Rea,  Second  Vice-President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company, 
and  in  charge  of  the  engineering  and  accounting  departments  of  that  corpora- 
tion, comes  of  sturdy  Scotch  Irish  ancestry  that  were  prominent  in  the  early 
settlement  of  central  Pennsylvania,  and  rendered  yeoman  services  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  independence  of  the  Colonies  of  America. 

Samuel  Rea,  the  great  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born 
in  the  north  of  Ireland  of  Scotch  parentage  and  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  in 
1754  or  1755.  He  settled  for  a  short  time  in  the  western  part  of  Qiester 
County,  then  removed  to  Lancaster  County  and  finally  to  the  Conococheague 
Valley,  now  Franklin  County,  then  part  of  Cumberland  County.  He  was  three 
times  married,  his  first  wife  being  a  Snodgrass,  of  the  same  family  as  the 
Rev.  James  Snodgrass,  one  of  the  early  Presbyterian  ministers  of  the  Scotch- 
Irish  settlement  on  the  eastern  bank  of  the  Susquehanna,  who  was  a  grandson  of 
Benjamin  Snodgrass,  an  early  settler  in  the  Scotch-Irish  Colony  on  the  Ne- 
shaminy,  in  Bucks  County.  His  second  marriage  was  to  a  widow  named  Edgar, 
and  his  third  to  Martha  (Grier;  Wallace,  who  survived  him.  He  died  August 
15.  1811. 

Brigadier-general  John  Rea,  of  Chambersburg,  Franklin  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, second  child  and  eldest  son  of  Samuel  above  mentioned  and  grand  father 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  Janu- 
ary 17,  1755,  and  died  at  Chambersburg,  February  6,  1829,  and  is  buried  in 
Rocky  Springs.  His  early  life  was  spent  in  the  Conococheague  region,  while 
it  was  still  infested  with  savage  Indians  and  amid  the  hardships  of  frontier 
life.  With  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle  he  became  at  once  an 
ardent  supporter  of  the  patriot  cause,  enlisting  in  Captain  William  Hendricks' 
company,  in  Colonel  Thompson's  rifle  battalion,  the  first  armed  force  from 
Pennsylvania  to  march  for  General  Washington's  camp  at  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, leaving  Carlisle,  Cumberland  county,  July  15,  1775,  and  reaching  the 
camp  at  Cambridge,  August  8,  1775.  His  next  service  was  as  lieutenant  of  a 
company  in  the  Fifth  battalion  of  Cumberland  county  militia  to  which  position 
he  was  commissioned  January  20,  1777.  On  July  31,  1777,  he  was  promoted  to 
captain  of  the  Eighth  company  in  the  Eighth  battalion,  Colonel  Smith,  being 
re-commissioned  May  14,  1778,  and  again  on  May  10,  1780,  as  captain  of  the 
Second  company,  First  battalion,  Cumberland  county  militia.  Colonel  James 
Johnston,  and  was  in  active  service  during  practically  the  whole  war,  serving 
under  Colonels  Armstrong,  Smith  and  Johnston.  With  the  close  of  the  Revolu- 
tion he  became  an  officer  of  the  Pennsylvania  militia  and  rose  through  the  sev- 
eral grades  to  the  rank  of  brigadier-general,  and  during  the  War  of  1812-1814, 
was  major-general  of  the  Seventh  division  of  Pennsylvania  militia,  in  active 
service.  His  services  in  the  civil  department  of  his  native  country  were  not 
less  distinguished  than  in  the  military  department.  He  was  a  member  of 
Assembly  from  Franklin  county  in  the  sessions  of    1789-1790,    1792-1793,  and 


640  REA 

1796-1797:  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Congress  in  1803  and  served  until 
181 1,  and  was  again  elected  to  Congress  on  May  11,  1813,  for  the  unexpired 
term  of  Robert  Whitehill  who  died  in  1812,  and  was  again  elected  for  the  term 
of  1814-1815.     He  was  elected  to  the  state  senate  in  1823  and  resigned  in  1824. 

General  John  Rea,  in  November  1806,  married  Elizabeth  Culbertson,  born 
about  1770,  died  June  6,  1836,  at  Mann's  Forges  and  buried  at  Martinsburg, 
both  in  Blair  County,  Pennsylvania.  She  was  daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  Cul- 
bertson, and  granddaughter  of  Captain  Alexander  Culbertson,  of  Culbertson 
Row,  one  of  the  most  prominent  families  in  the  annals  of  central  and  western 
Pennsylvania,  and  one  that  probably  furnished  more  officers  to  the  Revolution- 
ary army  than  any  other  family  in  Pennsylvania. 

The  Culbertson  Family  of  Culbertson  Row,  Ballygan,  County  Antrim,  Ire- 
land, were  of  ancient  Scottish  ancestry,  their  forbears  having  fled  from  Scot- 
land during  the  religious  and  civil  disturbances  of  the  seventeenth  century.  In 
1730,  three  brothers,  Alexander,  Joseph  and  Samuel  Culbertson,  from  near  Bal- 
lymoyney,  County  Antrim,  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  and  settled  in  Lancaster 
County.  Long  prior  to  the  organization  of  Cumberland  county,  they  located  in 
what  became  Lurgan  township,  Franklin  county,  seven  miles  north  of  the  pres- 
ent site  of  Chambersburg,  and  called  their  settlement  "Culbertson's  Row"  after 
the  home  of  their  ancestors  in  the  Province  of  Ulster,  Ireland. 

Alexander  Culbertson,  the  grandfather  of  Elizabeth  (Culbertson)  Rea,  was  a 
soldier  in  General  Braddock's  army  in  the  unfortunate  expedition  against  Fort 
DuQuesne,  now  Pittsburgh,  in  1755,  and  when  the  settlements  on  the  whole 
Pennsylvania  frontier  were  threatened  with  annihilation  by  savage  hordes  of 
Indians,  incited  by  the  French  and  left  unrestrained  by  the  disorganization  of 
the  Provincial  forces  as  a  result  of  the  defeat  at  Braddock's  Field,  he  raised  a 
company  among  his  neighbors,  of  which  he  was  commissioned  Captain  in  Lieu- 
tenant-colonel Armstrong's  Second  Pennsylvania  regiment  and  marched  against 
the  Indians.  He  was  killed  in  a  battle  with  the  Indians  at  McCord's  Point, 
Franklin  county,  April  2,  1756.  He  had  probably  held  a  captain's  commission 
prior  to  this  time,  as  we  find  him  in  command  of  a  company  at  Fort  Augusta, 
now  Sunbury,  in  1755.  Two  sons  of  Captain  Alexander  Culbertson,  were 
colonels  in  the  Revolutionary  War :  Samuel  and  Robert ;  another  son,  Alexander 
was  a  captain,  and  his  daughter  Elizabeth  was  the  wife  of  Lieutenant-colonel 
Charles  Cessna,  of  the  Bedford  county  militia.  Several  of  his  nephews  were 
likewise  officers  in  the  patriot  army.  Colonel  Samuel  Culbertson,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Alexander,  and  father  of  Elizabeth  (Culbertson)  Rea,  was  born  in  the  pres- 
ent limits  of  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  21.  1741.  and  died  there 
February  4,  1817.  He  married  (first)  March  20,  1761,  Margaret  Henderson, 
born  1743,  died  April  30,  1775,  and  (second)  at  Rocky  Spring  church,  February 
4,  1777,  Elizabeth  McClay,  born  1755.  died  June  4,  1817.  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
John  McClay  of  Lurgan  township,  member  of  United  States  Congress  and  long  a 
prominent  figure  in  state  and  national  politics. 

Brigadier-general  and  Elizabeth  (Culbertson)  Rea  had  eleven  children,  nine 
boys  and  two  girls,  two  of  whom  died  in  childhood.  The  eldest  son  Samuel, 
Dr.  John  Rea,  William  and  Charles  located  in  Pittsburgh  in  the  forties.  The 
only  survivor  is  Charles,  born  in  1823,  for  three  years  a  soldier  in  the  civil  war, 


RE  A  641 

and  still  residing  in  Pittsburgh.  The  only  daughter  who  survived  childhood 
was  Elizabeth  McClay  Rea,  who  married  William  Scott  of  St.  Louis  in  1851. 

James  D.  Rea,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  third  son  of 
Brigadier-general  John  and  Elizabeth  (Culbertson)  Rea  and  was  born  at  Cham- 
bersburg,  Pennsylvania,  May  23,  181 1.  He  taught  school  as  a  young  man  and 
early  advocated  a  public  school  system  which  he  lived  to  see  adopted.  He  lo- 
cated at  Hollidaysburg,  Blair  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  in  the  canal 
forwarding  offices,  afterwards  he  became  a  storekeeper  and  married  Ruth  Blair 
Moore,  in  Hollidaysburg,  daughter  of  Thomas  Blair  Moore.  He  died  in  Hol- 
lidaysburg, April  28,  1868.  James  D.  and  Ruth  Blair  (Moore)  Rea  had  chil- 
dren : — Thomas  Blair,  Jane  Moore  and  Samuel. 

Samuel  Rea,  second  son  of  James  D.  and  Ruth  Blair  (Moore)  Rea,  was  born 
at  Hollidaysburg,  Blair  county,  Pennsylvania,  September  21,  1855.  While  he 
inherited  little  of  this  world's  goods  in  houses  and  lands,  he  did  inherit  from 
worthy  Scotch-Irish  ancestors,  sterling  qualities  of  energy,  industry,  and  the 
pride  of  independence  that  went  far  toward  moulding  his  future  successful  ca- 
reer. His  father  dying  when  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age,  he  soon  after  ac- 
cepted a  position  in  a  small  store  in  his  native  town  and  later  was  a  clerk  for 
three  months  in  a  country  store  at  Port  Royal,  Juniata  county,  Pennsylvania, 
but  in  1871,  he  began  his  career  with  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  as  chainman  and 
rodman  on  the  Morrisons  Cove,  Williamsburg  and  Bloomsfield  branches  of  that 
company's  system.  The  panic  of  1873  put  a  temporary  stop  to  all  engineering 
work  and  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Hollidaysburg  Iron  and  Nail  Company  as 
a  clerk,  but  in  the  spring  of  1875,  re-entered  the  employ  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Company  as  a  member  of  an  engineering  corps  stationed  at  Connells- 
ville.  The  latter  part  of  that  year  and  until  1877,  he  was  assistant  engineer  in 
charge  of  the  construction  of  the  "Point  Bridge,"  a  chain  suspension  bridge  over 
the  Monongahela  River  in  Pittsburgh.  Upon  its  completion  he  was  appointed 
assistant  engineer  on  the  original  location  of  the  Pittsburgh  and  Lake  Erie 
Railroad  and  subsequently  on  its  construction  until  its  completion  in  1879,  when 
upon  its  opening  he  served  for  a  time  as  cashier  in  the  freight  office  and  the 
first  ticket  agent  in  the  Pittsburgh  office.  He  soon  returned  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania system  in  1879  as  assistant  engineer  in  charge  of  the  construction  of  the 
Pittsburgh,  Virginia  and  Charleston  Railway  south  of  Monongahela  City.  From 
1879  to  1883,  Mr.  Rea  was  engineer  in  charge  of  surveys  and  construction  in 
Westmoreland  county  and  the  rebuilding  of  the  Western  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road, whereby  it  was  transformed  into  an  active  low-grade  freight  line,  under 
the  supervision  of  J.  N.  DuBarry,  then  assistant  to  the  president  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Company.  In  1883,  Mr.  DuBarry,  having  become  vice-pres- 
ident of  the  company,  called  Mr.  Rea  to  Philadelphia  as  his  assistant,  with  the 
title  of  principal  assistant  engineer,  which  position  he  filled  until  1888,  when 
he  was  made  assistant  to  the  second  vice-president.  He  resigned  the  latter  office 
in  1889  to  go  to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  as  vice-president  of  the  Maryland  Cen- 
tral Railway  Company  and  chief  engineer  of  the  Baltimore  Belt  Railroad  Com- 
pany, which  positions  he  resigned  in  1891  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  leaving 
Baltimore,  relinquished  all  work  for  a  year. 

May  25,  1892,  Samuel  Rea  was  appointed  assistant  to  the  president  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and  returned  to  the  employ  of  that  company 


642  REA 

after  an  absence  of  three  years.  On  the  day  of  his  appointment,  he  left  for 
London,  England,  to  make  a  thorough  investigation  of  the  underground  rail- 
ways, then  proposed  and  constructed,  of  which  he  subsequently  made  special 
reports  to  his  chief.  He  was  well  qualified  for  this  mission,  having  during  his 
last  year  at  Baltimore,  located  and  put  under  construction  for  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Railroad  Company,  a  comprehensive  surface  and  underground  double- 
track  railway  through  that  city.  The  result  of  his  experience  abroad  was  after- 
ward put  to  good  service  on  the  Pennsylvania's  New  York  Tunnel  Extension, 
under  the  direct  charge  of  Mr.  Rea.  After  the  death  of  \'ice-president  DuBarry 
in  1892,  Mr.  Rea  was  assigned,  to  the  charge  of  the  general  construction  work 
then  in  progress,  the  acquisition  of  real  estate  and  right  of  way  for,  and  the 
promotion  of,  all  new  lines  and  branches,  and  the  financial  and  corporate  work 
incident  thereto,  which  duties,  with  the  exception  of  the  construction  work, 
have  since  been  discharged  by  him.  February  10,  1897,  he  was  appointed  first 
assistant  to  the  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and  June  14, 
1899,  was  elected  fourth  vice-president:  October  10,  1905,  was  advanced  to  third 
vice-president,  and  March  24,  1909,  to  the  position  of  second  vice-president  of 
the  company,  and  in  addition  to  his  former  duties  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
engineering  and  accounting  departments.  Mr.  Rea  is  also  second  vice-president 
of  the  Northern  Central  Railway  Company,  as  well  as  of  the  Philadelphia,  Bal- 
timore &  Washington  Railroad  Company  and  the  West  Jersey  &  Seashore  Rail- 
road Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and,  in- 
cident to  supervising  the  corporate  work  of  the  subsidiary  companies  of  the 
Pennsylvania  system  east  of  Pittsburg  and  Erie,  and  the  promotion  and  con- 
struction of  new  lines,  serves  as  director,  vice-president  and  president  of  about 
one  hundred  of  these  companies. 

Mr.  Rea  was  for  many  years  interested  in  a  project  to  bridge  the  Hudson 
River  from  Hoboken  to  New  York  city,  thus  establishing  in  the  metropolis  a 
terminus  for  the  railroads  having  their  termini  on  the  New  Jersey  side.  He  was 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  North  River  Bridge  Company  chartered  by  Act 
of  Congress  in  1888.  The  other  railroad  companies  not  joining  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Company  in  aiding  the  project,  it  went  ahead  alone  and  after  a  very 
careful  examination  and  report  on  the  entire  situation,  coupled  with  the  success- 
ful introduction  of  electrical  traction  about  that  time,  determined  to  build  its  own 
extension — by  means  of  tunnels — with  a  large  and  commodious  station  in  New 
York  City,  and  Mr.  Rea  was  given  direct  charge  of  what  is  considered  the  most 
important  piece  of  engineering  work  accomplished  in  this  country.  The  New 
York  Connecting  Railroad  jointly  owned  by  the  Pennsylvania  and  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Companies  is  a  part  of  this  great  work 
yet  to  be  completed  (1910),  and,  with  the  tunnel  extension  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  will  form  a  through  all  rail  route  between  the  southern,  western  and 
New  England  States. 

Mr.  Rea  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  of  the  In- 
stitution of  Civil  Engineers  of  London,  as  well  as  of  a  number  of  other  scien- 
tific, patriotic,  benevolent  and  social  organizations.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  of  the  Society  of  the 
War  of  1812  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  in  right  of  descent  from 
Major-general  John  Rea,  who  served  in  both  wars  for  independence.     He  is 


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the  author  of  a  number  of  papers  on  technical  subjects,  one  of  which  is  "The 
Railways  Terminating  in  London,"  a  comprehensive  study,  based  on  personal 
investigation  in  1887  of  the  physical  and  financial  condition  of  the  English  Rail- 
way systems.  His  extended  and  varied  experience  as  an  engineer,  as  a  student 
of  financial  questions,  generally,  and  of  railroad  accounts  and  reports  and  their 
analysis,  coupled  with  his  unceasing  activity  and  experience  in  organizing  and 
consolidating  railroad  companies,  and  his  familiarity  with  the  laws  governing 
such  enterprises  for  the  betterment  and  increase  of  traffic  in  the  conduct  of 
this  character  of  work,  make  him  an  unquestioned  authority  in  many  matters 
pertaining  to  railroads.  February  22nd,  1910,  the  University  of  Pennslyvania 
conferred  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  on  Mr.  Rea  in  recognition  of  his 
ability  and  genius  in  carrying  to  a  successful  conclusion  the  New  York  Tunnel 
Extension  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad. 

Samuel  Rea  married  September  11,  1879,  Mary  M.  Black,  youngest  daughter 
of  George  Black,  deceased,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  formerly  one  of  the  prominent 
men  of  western  Pennsylvania,  long  engaged  in  the  transportation  business,  first 
by  canal  and  later  by  railroad,  and  as  an  iron  manufacturer  and  actively  identi- 
fied with  the  leading  financial  institutions  of  Pittsburgh,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
decease,  in  1872,  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Rea  had  two  children,  George  Black  Rea,  who  died  April  8th,  1908,  and 
Ruth  Rea. 


FRANCIS  ADAMS  DONALDSON 

Hans  de  Neus,  the  great-great-great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  founder  of  the  Nice  Family,  long  prominently  associated  with  public  affairs 
in  Philadelphia,  and  that  part  of  Philadelphia  known  as  Nicetown.  He  came 
to  Philadelphia  from  Holland,  with  Janneke  his  wife,  but  was  a  French  Hugue- 
not, his  family  having  taken  refuge  from  religious  persecution  in  France,  in 
Holland,  where  he  married.  The  Christian  name  of  his  wife  would  indicate  that 
she  was  of  Holland  ancestry,  but  her  maiden  name  is  unknown.  They  settled 
on  the  site  of  Nicetown,  in  what  was  the  Northern  Liberties  of  Philadelphia, 
and  tradition  relates  that  they  celebrated  the  erection  of  their  house  there  by 
throwing  a  bottle  of  schnapps  over  it  and  christening  it  and  their  plantation 
Nicetown,  by  which  name  it  has  since  been  known.  Hans  de  Neus  died  at 
Nicetown  in  1736,  and  his  widow  Janneke  in  1742. 

Anthony  Nice,  the  third  son  of  Hans  and  Janneke  de  Neus,  was  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  the  name  de  Neus  becoming 
anglicized  into  Nice. 

Captain  George  Nice,  second  son  of  Anthony  Nice,  bom  at  Nicetown,  Phila- 
delphia in  1739,  like  several  other  grandsons  of  the  Huguenot  pioneer,  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  was  captain  of  the  Second  Company,  Sec- 
ond battalion,  Philadelphia  Associators,  1776-77,  and  was  otherwise  active  in  the 
cause  of  Independence.  He  died  in  Nicetown,  Philadelphia,  April  10,  1812. 
Captain  George  Nice  married  Hannah  Hall,  and  had  among  other  children : 

Jacob  Nice,  born  at  Nicetown,  Philadelphia,  in  1766.  and  died  there,  October 
2,  1818.  He  married  December  11,  181 1,  Mary  Allen,  of  Winchester,  Virginia, 
and  their  daughter  Matilda  Nice,  born  at  Nicetown,  Philadelphia,  November  16. 
1814,  married.  May  24,  1832,  John  Plankinhorn  Donaldson,  and  was  the  mother 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  Donaldson,  paternal  great-great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  in  1705.  His  family  were  among  the 
vast  number  of  Scotch  Covenanters  who  sought  an  asylum  from  religious  perse- 
cution in  the  province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  and  William  Donaldson  married  in 
County  Down,  Ireland,  in  1730,  Margaret  Townsend,  and  soon  after  came  with 
her  to  Pennsylvania  and  located  in  Philadelphia,  where  they  spent  the  remainder 
of  their  days. 

Andrew  Donaldson,  fourth  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Townsend) 
Donaldson,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  in  1736.  He  married  at  Old  Swedes 
Church,  Philadelphia,  March  23,  1761,  Eleanor  Toy.  He  was  lost  at  sea  in  Sep- 
tember, 1782,  while  captain  in  the  Merchant  Marine. 

William  Townsend  Donaldson,  eldest  son  of  Andrew  and  Eleanor  (Toy) 
Donaldson,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  11.  1762.  He  took  a  prominent  part 
in  public  affairs  in  his  native  city,  and  filled  the  office  of  sheriflF  of  Philadel- 
phia county,  for  the  term,  1808-1810.  He  died  March  31.  1818.  He  married. 
October  20,  1785,  Mary  Adams,  and  had  several  children,  among  them: 


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John  Plankinhorn  Donaldson,  above  mentioned,  who  was  born  Decem- 
ber 4,  1795,  and  died  April  17,  1845.  He  married  (first)  in  Philadelphia,  May 
24,  1832,  Matilda  Nice,  born  November  16,  1814,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  (Allen)  Nice,  and  granddaughter  of  Captain  George  Nice,  of  the  Revo- 
lution. Matilda  (Nice)  Donaldson  died  in  Philadelphia,  March  20,  1842,  and 
John  P.  Donaldson  married  (second)  November  8,  1843,  Eliza  Ann  (Nice) 
Clason,  who  survived  him  over  a  half  century,  dying  in  Philadelphia,  September 
18,  1907.  John  Plankinhorn  and  Matilda  (Nice)  Donaldson  had  five  sons,  viz: 
Charles  Keen  Donaldson,  died  in  infancy ;  Jacob  Nice  Donaldson,  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1835,  married  September  13,  1866,  Annie  M.  Crossan,  and  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Mary  Crossan  Donaldson,  who  married  April  26,  1893,  James  Monroe  Reed ; 
John  Plankinhorn  Donaldson,  Jr.,  born  June  12,  1838,  died  July  22,  1901.  He 
was  a  captain  in  the  22nd  Virginia  Infantry,  Confederate  States  Army  during 
the  Civil  War,  was  wounded  at  Droop  Mountain  and  Cold  Harbor,  Virginia, 
and  taken  prisoner  at  the  latter  battle,  and  was  confined  at  Fort  Delaware  until 
the  termination  of  the  war;  Francis  Adams  Donaldson,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Coleman  Donaldson,  died  in  infancy. 

Francis  Adams  Donaldson,  fourth  son  of  John  Plankinhorn  and  Matilda 
(Nice)  Donaldson,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  7,  1840.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War,  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  army  and  was  mustered  in,  June  4,  1861, 
as  sergeant  of  Company  H,  Seventy-first  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers, 
originally  known  as  the  California  Regiment,  from  the  fact  that  it  was  recruited 
(principally  in  Philadelphia)  by  Edward  D.  Baker,  United  States  Senator  from 
Oregon  under  special  instructions  from  President  Lincoln,  and  Isaac  J.  Wistar 
of  Philadelphia,  who  had  been  a  trapper  in  the  employ  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Com- 
pany and  had  commanded  Indian  Rangers  in  Oregon  and  California  in  1850- 
1851.  Baker  was  chosen  colonel,  and  Wistar,  later  a  brigadier-general,  lieuten- 
ant-colonel. The  regiment,  treated  during  its  earlier  service  as  belonging  to  the 
regular  army,  was  sent  to  Fortress  Monroe  where  it  performed  dangerous  and 
arduous  picket  and  scouting  duty,  until  after  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  when  it 
was  ordered  to  the  south  bank  of  the  Potomac,  opposite  Washington,  and 
charged  with  guarding  the  line  of  fortifications  encircling  the  capital  and  with 
scouting  and  picket  duty,  of  extremely  hazardous  character.  It  suflfered  con- 
siderable loss  in  the  attack  on  Munson's  Hill  in  September,  1861,  and  October 
21,  1861,  was  almost  annihilated  at  the  battle  of  Ball's  Blufif,  Va.,  Colonel  Baker 
being  killed,  and  more  than  half  of  his  command  either  killed,  wounded  or  tak- 
en prisoner.  Among  the  latter  was  Sergeant  Donaldson,  who  was  confined  in  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  until  exchanged  February  19,  1862.  The  regiment  went  into  winter 
quarters  and  was  recruited  as  part  of  Pennsylvania's  quota.  Under  Colonel 
Wistar  it  served  for  a  time  with  General  Banks  at  Winchester,  Virginia  and 
later  with  McClellan  at  Yorktown  and  on  the  Peninsula.  Sergeant  Donaldson 
was  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  of  Company  M,  May  i,  1862,  and  was 
severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  May  31,  1862.  On  the  organization 
of  the  One  hundred  and  eighteenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  known 
as  the  "Corn  Exchange  Regiment"  being  recruited  and  equipped  by  the  Corn 
Exchange  of  Philadelphia,  Lieutenant  Donaldson  was  chosen  captain  of  Com- 
pany H,  in  that  regiment,  which  was  mustered  into  the  service,  August  19,  1862. 
The  regiment  was  assigned  to  the  First  brigade.  First  division.  Fifth  corps,  and 


646  DONALDSON 

took  a  leading  part  in  most  of  the  important  battles  of  the  war  from  Antietam 
to  Gettysburg,  and  later  at  Bristoe  Station,  Rappahannock  Station  and  other 
engagements,  suffering  terrible  losses  in  the  battle  at  Shepherdstown,  Freder- 
icksburg, Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg.  It  went  into  winter-quarters  at  Bev- 
erly Ford,  Virginia,  in  December,  1863,  and  Captain  Donaldson  was  honorably 
discharged,  January  14,  1864,  and  returned  to  Philadelphia.  On  his  retirement 
from  the  army.  Captain  Donaldson  engaged  in  the  general  insurance  business  in 
Philadelphia,  and  is  still  engaged  in  that  business  at  204  Walnut  Place,  Phila- 
delphia. He  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Rev- 
olution ;  the  Pennsylvania  Commandery,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States,  and  of  a  number  of  social,  and  patriotic  organizations. 

Captain  Donaldson  married  October  15,  1872,  Mary  Heyberger,  daughter  of 
John  and  Eliza  (Keene)  Landell,  of  Philadelphia.  They  had  three  children, 
viz : — Francis  Adams  Donaldson,  Jr.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  9,  1875,  married 
April  5,  1904,  Mattie,  daughter  of  Rudolph  and  Martha  (Patton)  Oelbermann, 
and  has  two  children,  Francis  Adams  Donaldson,  3d,  born  August  24,  1907,  and 
William  David  Donaldson,  born  October  4,  1908;  Kate  Beresford  Donaldson, 
born  June  28,  1876,  married  October  15,  1896,  George  Herbert  Taylor,  and  has 
one  son  William  Shipley  Taylor,  2d,  born  December  6,  1900;  Wharton  Landell 
Donaldson,  born  June  26,  1880. 


HARRY  BLYNN 

Peter  Blynn,  the  earliest  paternal  ancestor  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  of 
whom  we  have  any  definite  record,  born  in  or  about  the  year  1640,  was  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut.  The  family  is  supposed  to  have 
been  of  French  Huguenot  ancestry,  and  the  name  in  the  early  days  of  phonetic 
spelling  of  proper  names  appears  on  the  records  as  Blin,  Blinn,  Ely,  Blynn,  and 
even  as  Blen  and  Blenn.  Peter  Blynn  was  collector  for  the  town  of  Wethers- 
field, Connecticut  in  1692.  He  drew  his  allotment  of  the  common  land  of  the 
town  in  1694;  was  fence  viewer  in  1708-9,  and  filled  various  other  municipal 
offices.  He  died  in  Wethersfield  in  March,  1724-5,  the  inventory  of  his  estate 
being  made  March  18,  1724-5,  and  his  will  bearing  date  March  2,  1724-5.  The 
will  mentions  his  wife  Mary  Blynn,  and  children:  Peter,  James,  William,  and 

Mary,  the  latter  wife  of  Hurlburt ;  and  grandson  Daniel  Blynn,  son  of  a 

deceased  son  Daniel. 

William  Blynn;  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  Blynn,  of  Wethersfield,  Connecti- 
cut, was  born  July  i,  1675,  and  died  October  17,  1729.  He  married  (first),  No- 
vember 13,  1701,  Anna  Coltman,  born  March  11,  1680-1,  daughter  of  John 
Coltman,  who  first  appears  in  the  Connecticut  colony  in  1645.  He  was  a  son 
of  Thomas  Coltman  of  Newton-Harcoate,  county  Leicester,  England,  and  came 
to  New  England  as  a  member  of  the  family  of  Leonard  Chester,  who  erected 
the  first  mill  at  Wethersfield,  of  which  Coltman  was  manager  until  1648,  when 
he  became  part  owner.  He  was  a  man  of  education  and  was  the  town  school- 
master in  1666.  In  1668  he  was  granted  land  near  the  Chester  Mill,  where  he 
erected  a  house  in  which  his  son-in-law,  William  Blynn,  later  resided.  John 
Coltman  died  about  1696,  and  his  widow  married  a  man  by  the  name  of  Sher- 
man. Anna  (Coltman)  Blynn,  died  October,  1724.  William  Blynn  married 
(second)  December  22,  1725,  Thankful,  daughter  of  John  Nott.  By  his  first 
wife,  Anna  Coltman,  he  had  seven  children.  He  was  proprietor  of  Chester's 
mill,  at  Wethersfield  in  1715,  when  the  town  records  show  that  he  was  granted 
liberty  to  overflow  "Deming's  Meadow."  He  resided  in  the  house  formerly 
the  property  of  his  father-in-law,  John  Coltman,  in  the  south  part  of  Wethers- 
field. 

William  Blynn,  (2),  the  third  of  the  seven  children  of  William  and  Anna 
(Coltman)  Blynn,  was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  July  29,  1709.  The 
record  of  the  birth  of  seven  children  born  to  him  and  his  wife  Sarah,  appear  at 
Wethersfield:  Solomon,  in  1734;  Deliverance  in  1739;  Mary,  1740;  Elizabeth  in 
1741  ;  William,  in  1742;  Hosea,  in  1744,  and  Sarah  in  1746. 

HosEA  Blynn,  youngest  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Blynn,  born  at  Wethers- 
field, Connecticut,  December  i,  1744,  died  August  6,  1815.  He  probably  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  as  few  able-bodied  men  of  New  England  of  suita- 
ble age  escaped  active  service.  On  the  roll  of  Captain  Luther  Stoddard's  Sixth 
company  in  Colonel  Charles  Burrell's  Connecticut  Battalion,  "raised  by  virtue 
of  the  Governor's  proclamation  of  January  27,  1776,  to  reinforce     the  northern 


648  BLYNN 

army"  appear  the  names  of  William  Blinn  and  Billy  Blinn,  both  of  whom  en- 
listed February  7,  1776.  They  were  doubtless  the  father  and  brother  of  Hosea 
Blinn.  There  were  a  number  of  the  name  of  Blinn  in  the  service.  Hosea 
Blynn  married,  November  8,  1773,  Ruth  Smith,  who  died  July  28,  1826,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-seven  years.  He  had  eight  children: — Sarah,  born  1774;  Hannah, 
born  1775;  Captain  Hosea  Blynn,  baptised  July  7,  1776,  a  captain  of  Connecticut 
militia,  married  Mehitable  Wolcott,  April  15,  1798;  William,  born  1779;  Rog- 
er, born  1782:  James,  born  1785;  John,  baptised  May  30,  1790:  and  Henry,  born 
April    17,    1795. 

Henrv  Blynn,  son  of  Hosea  and  Ruth  (Smith)  Blynn,  of  Wethersfield, 
Connecticut,  was  born  April  17,  1795.  He  was  married  at  Litchfield,  Connecti- 
cut, by  the  Rev.  Lyman  Beecher,  August  7,  1816,  to  Lydia  Julia  Goodwin, 
daughter  of  Micah  and  Sally  (Clark)  Goodwin  of  Litchfield.  Henry  Blynn, 
was  a  hatter  by  trade,  and  followed  that  business  for  a  year  at  Litchfield,  Con- 
necticut, after  his  marriage,  and  then  removed  to  Catherine,  Schuyler  county. 
New  York,  where  he  resided  until  1820,  and  then  removed  back  to  Litchfield 
and  followed  his  vocation  there  until  183 1,  when  he  removed  to  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  and  in  1837,  to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death  in  February,  1885.  His  wife,  Lydia  Julia  (Goodwin)  Blynn,  was 
born  at  Litchfield,  Connecticut.  June  4,  1799,  died  in  Philadelphia,  in  September 
1872.     Her  paternal  ancestry  is  as  follows : — 

Ozias  Goodwin,  born  in  or  near  London,  England,  in  the  year,  1596,  mar- 
ried Mary  Woodward,  daughter  of  Robert  Woodward,  of  Braintree,  County 
Essex,  England,  and  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  the  latter,  dated  May  17.  1640, 
as  "living  in  New  England,  in  America."  Ozias  Blynn.  accompanied  by  his 
brother  William  Blynn,  and  their  respective  families,  sailed  from  London,  Eng- 
land, June  22,  1632,  and  arrived  at  Boston,  IMassachusetts,  in  September  fol- 
lowing. They  settled  first  at  "New  Town"  (now  Cambridge)  William  residing 
m  a  house  facing  the  college  green  of  Harvard  University.  Both  brothers 
joined  a  colony  in  the  settlement  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1635,  where  they 
resided  until  1659.  In  the  latter  year  they  were  among  the  company  of  resi- 
dents of  Hartford  who  signed  the  agreement  to  form  a  settlement  at  Hadley. 
on  the  Connecticut  river  in  Hampshire  county,  Massachusetts,  where  they 
were  among  the  prominent  organizers  of  the  town.  William  Goodwin  died  at 
Farmington,  Connecticut.  March  11,  1673,  and  his  wife  Susanna,  died  there 
May  17,  1676.  His  only  known  child  was  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Crow.  In 
an  affidavit  made  at  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  in  1674.  Ozias  Goodwin,  states 
that  he  was  then  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  This  affidavit  was  in  reference 
to  the  settlement  of  his  brother  William's  estate,  and  indicates  that  they  were 
closely  associated  in  business  matters.  Ozias  died  in  Hadley  in  1683.  The  only 
children  of  Ozias  and  Mary  (Woodward)  Goodwin,  of  whom  we  have  any  rec- 
ord, were  William,   Nathaniel,  and  Hannah. 

William  Goodwin,  son  of  Ozias  and  Mary  (Woodward)  Goodwin,  and  his 
son  William,  both  made  affidavits  in  1674,  in  reference  to  the  joint  interests  in 
the  estate  of  William  Goodwin,  the  elder,  uncle  of  William,  above  mentioned 
in  which  it  is  stated  that  they  were  respectively  aged  forty-five  years,  and  six- 
teen years.  This  would  place  the  date  of  birth  of  William  Goodwin  in  1629,  and 
the  place  of  his  birth  consequently  in  Essex  county.  England.     He  was  made  a 


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freeman  of  the  Connecticut  colony  by  the  General  Court  at  Hartford,  May  21, 
1657,  purchased  land  at  Hartford  in  1663,  and  is  referred  to  as  holding  minor 
municipal  offices  in  1662,  and  in  1676.  He  does  not  appear  to  have  accompan- 
ied his  father  to  Hadley,  remaining  a  resident  of  Hartford  until  his  death  on  Oc- 
tober 15,  1689.  His  widow  Susanna  married  second  in  August,  1691,  John 
Shepard,  of  Hartford.  The  children  of  William  and  Susanna  Goodwin  were : — 
Susanna  who  married  John  Pratt ;  William,  who  married  Elizabeth  Shepard, 
and  Nathaniel. 

Nathaniel  Goodwin,  son  of  William  and  Susanna,  born  about  1665,  was  a 
life-long  resident  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  died  there  in  November,  1747. 
He  was  elected  deacon  of  the  First  Church  of  Hartford  in  March,  1734,  and 
filled  that  position  until  his  death.  In  his  will  which  was  probated  December  i, 
1747,  he  is  styled,  "Nathaniel  Goodwin  of  the  County  of  Hartford,  and  Colony 
of  Connecticut  in  New  England."  He  married  Mehitable  Porter,  who  was 
born  September  15,  1673,  and  died  February  6,  1726,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  (Stanley)  Porter  of  Hadley,  Massachusetts.  They  had  ten  children, 
five  sons,  Hezekiah,  Isaac,  .A^braham,  Stephen,  and  Eleazer;  and  five  daughters. 

Abraham  Goodwin,  the  fifth  child  of  Nathaniel  and  Mehitable  (Porter) 
Goodwin,  was  born  at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  July  30,  1699.  His  father  Na- 
thaniel Goodwin  was  one  of  the  first  purchasers  of  land  in  "Bantam,"  incor- 
porated as  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  at  the  May  sessions  of  the  General  Court  at 
Hartford,  1719,  and  Abraham  settled  thereon,  being  one  of  the  first  settlers  in 
the  new  town.  By  deed  dated  March  17,  1723-4,  Nathaniel  Goodwin,  of  Hart- 
ford, "for  the  naturall  Love  and  parental!  Affection  I  have  and  bear  towards 
my  son  Abraham  Goodwin,  of  the  Town  of  Litchfield"  conveys  to  him,  "My 
Lottments  of  Land  in  the  said  Town  of  Litchfield,  *  *  *  reserving  one 
halfe  of  the  use  and  enjoyment  thereof  to  myself  and  Mehitable  my  wife  during 
our  Naturall  lives."  Abraham  Goodwin  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of 
Litchfield  from  the  time  of  its  incorporation.  He  was  "Lister"  (assessor), 
1727-9;  was  a  grand-juror  in  1731  ;  was  selected  as  ensign  of  the  train-band  in 
1736;  constable,  1742-4;  selectman  from  1747,  for  many  years;  and  his  name 
appears  almost  constantly  on  the  town  records,  as  serving  in  some  capacity  in 
the  interest  of  the  common  good.  He  acquired  considerable  real  estate  in  Litch- 
field, and  in  1754  conveyed  to  each  of  his  sons,  Nathaniel,  Thomas  and  Charles, 
a  farm  of  fifty  acres,  and  was  seized  of  a  considerable  real  and  personal  estate 
at  his  death.  He  died  January  6,  1771,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  church-yard  on 
West  State  Street,  Litchfield,  where  his  tombstone  may  be  seen. 

Abraham  Goodwin  married,  April  13,  1726,  Mary  Bird,  of  Farmington,  Con- 
necticut, who  died  June  7,  1788,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  They  had 
eight  children.  The  six  sons  were  all  soldiers  in  the  service  of  their  country. 
Nathaniel,  the  eldest,  born  in  1727,  was  lieutenant  of  the  Third  company  of 
Litchfield  in  1767  and  in  January,  1776  was  commissioned  captain  of  a  com- 
pany which  was  stationed  at  New  York  during  1776.  He  was  inoculated  with 
small  pox,  with  a  view  of  re-entering  the  service  but  died  from  that  dread  dis- 
ease at  Litchfield,  May  18,  1777.  Thomas  Goodwin,  the  second  son  of  Abra- 
ham, born  June  30,  1729,  was  ensign  of  the  Fifteenth  company.  Sixth  Connect- 
icut regiment,  and  served  throughout  the  Revolution.  He  died  November  6, 
1807.     Charles  Goodwin,  the  third  son,  was  appointed  ensign  of  Captain  Epa- 


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phras  Lommis'  company,  in  the  battalion  Colonel  Fisher  Gay  raised  in  June, 
1776,  to  reinforce  General  Washington  at  New  York,  and  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Long  Island,  White  Plains,  and  in  the  various  engagements  on  the 
Hudson,  later  reaching  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  Phineas  Goodwin,  the  fourth  son 
of  Abraham,  was  also  a  soldier  in  the  service  of  his  country  and  was  killed  in 
the  service,  at  Fort  William  Henry,  during  the  French  and  Indian  War.  Jesse, 
the  sixth  and  youngest  son  of  Abraham,  born  in  1737,  was  a  corporal  of  the 
company  commanded  by  Lieutenant  Thomas  Bidwell,  in  the  Eighteenth  Con- 
necticut regiment,  August  19,  to  September  8.  1776,  and  in  1778,  was  corporal 
of  Captain  Amasa  Mills'  company  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Colonel  Roger 
Enos. 

Ozias  Goodwin,  the  fifth  of  the  six  soldier  sons  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Bird) 
Goodwin,  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  November  27,  1735.  He  married 
October  26,  1761,  Hannah  Vail,  of  Litchfield,  and  resided  on  his  father's  home- 
stead, on  the  east  side  of  South  Street,  Litchfield.  On  January  i,  1777,  he  was 
appointed  ensign  of  a  company  of  Litchfield  volunteers  of  which  his  brother 
Nathaniel  was  captain.  He  was  one  of  the  detachment  that  rallied  to  repel  the 
attack  of  the  British  troops  on  Danbury,  Connecticut,  in  April,  1777,  and  he 
rendered  active  service  elsewhere  during  the  war.  He  died  at  Litchfield,  March 
I,  1788.  His  wife,  Hannah  (^'ail)  Goodwin,  died  November  4,  1822,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-two  years.  They  had  fifteen  children,  several  of  whom  died 
young. 

Micah  Goodwin,  the  sixth  of  the  fifteen  children  of  Ensign  Ozias  and  Hannah 
(Vail)  Goodwin,  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  April  6,  1770.  He  married 
May  22,  1798,  Sally  Clark,  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  where  she  was  born 
September  1,  1777.  They  resided  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  where  Micah 
Goodwin  died  April  4,  1815.  His  widow  married  (second)  December,  1821, 
Elihu  Barber,  of  Torrington,  Litchfield  county,  Connecticut,  and  survived  her 
first  husband  many  years.  Micah  and  Sally  (Clark)  Goodwin  had  six  children, 
of  whom  Lydia  Julia,  who  became  the  wife  of  Henry  Blynn  in  1816,  was  the 
eldest,  and  was  born  at  Litchfield.  Connecticut,  June  4,  1799. 

Henry  and  Lydia  Julia  (Goodwin)  Blynn,  had  three  sons,  and  two  daughters, 
the  record  of  whose  births  and  marriages  are  recorded  in  old  family  bible  now 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  Harry  Blynn,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Henry  Goodwin  Blynn,  the  eldest  son,  was  born  in  Catharine,  Schuyler  county 
New  York.  August  20,  1818.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  parents  in  1837, 
and  soon  after  removed  to  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  where  he  married  (first) 
February  19,  1845,  Maria  Le  Page  Pierce,  who  was  born  in  New  Orleans, 
May  27,  1829.  He  married  (second)  November  5,  1850,  Frances  Gray  Jamie- 
son.  William  Blynn.  the  third  son  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  after  the 
return  of  his  parents  to  that  town,  August  17,  1822.  Sarah  Blynn.  the  fourth 
child,  was  born  at  Litchfield,  April  9,  1824,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  unmarried, 
July  17,  1849.  Mary  Blynn,  the  youngest  child,  was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, December  12,  1833,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  February  5,  1840. 

Michael  Blynn.  second  son  of  Henry  and  Lydia  Julia  (Goodwin)  Blynn, 
and  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  at  Litchfield.  Connecticut, 
September  6,  1820,  after  the  return  of  his  parents  to  that  town,  and  his  early 
boyhood  days  were  spent  in  that  town  where  his  maternal  ancestor  had  long  been 
prominent  in  public  affairs.     He  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Newark,  New  Jer- 


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sey  at  the  age  of  eleven  years  and  to  Philadelphia  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  He 
was  a  prominent  and  successful  business  man  of  Philadelphia,  and  died  in  that 
city.  He  married,  at  Roxborough,  Philadelphia,  September  12,  1844,  Eliza  Rich- 
ardson, of  an  old  Philadelphia  family  and  they  had  five  children,  viz :  Harry 
Blynn,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Margaret  Blynn,  born  September  13,  1847; 
Ross  Blynn,  born  November  15,  1849,  died  February  1890;  Sarah,  who  died 
in  infancy.  Marion,  born  1856;  Thomas  born  1857;  and  Lydia  born  October  8, 
1859. 

Harry  Blynn,  eldest  child  of  Michael  and  Elizabeth  (Richardson)  Blynn, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  7,  1845.  He  received  a  good  preliminary  educa- 
tion and  prepared  to  enter  Harvard  University,  but  soon  after  entering  that 
institution  decided  to  take  up  a  business  life,  and  learned  the  hat  business  with 
Lewis  Blaylock,  with  whom  he  entered  into  partnership  in  1873,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Blaylock  &  Blynn.  They  carried  on  a  large  business  and  after  the 
death  of  Mr.  Blaylock  in  1898,  Mr.  Blynn  continued  the  business  under  the 
firm  name  as  surviving  partner.  He  was  one  of  the  best  known  hat  dealers  in 
this  section  of  the  country  and  few  merchants  were  better  or  more  favorably 
known  in  Philadelphia.  His  personal  acquaintance  extended  all  over  the  coun- 
try and  embraced  many  well  known  people,  prominent  in  public  and  social  life. 
His  nature  was  genial,  social  and  hopeful.  He  had  pleasure  in  communicating 
with  kindred  spirits  and  delighted  in  confidential  and  frank  interchange  of  ele- 
vated thought.  He  had  a  cultivated  literary  taste  and  possessed  a  library  of 
good  and  valuable  books.  A  good  judge  of  art,  he  indulged  in  the  possession  of 
a  number  of  pictures  of  high  merit.  Harry  Blynn  was  for  thirty  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Union  League  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  member,  and  for  eight 
years  prior  to  his  death  had  been  president  of  the  Philadelphia  chapter,  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  of  the  New  England  So- 
ciety; the  Orpheus  Club,  of  Philadelphia;  the  Valley  Forge  National  Park  As- 
sociation ;  and  of  the  Old  Guard,  First  Regiment  National  Guard  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  of  the  Veteran  Corps  of  that  regiment.  He  was  prominent  in  Ma- 
sonic circles,  being  a  member  of  Ionic  Lodge  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Photographic  Society.  Mr.  Blynn  died  at  his  home,  2026  Locust 
Street,  November  5,  1908,  after  a  week's  illness,  though  he  had  been  in  poor 
health  for  some  months,  having  but  recently  returned  from  a  trip  abroad,  taken 
with  the  hope  of  improving  his  heahh.  The  Philadelphia  chapter  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  of  which  he  had  been  for  several  years  one  of  the 
most  active  and  popular  members,  and  for  the  past  eight  years  president,  at  a 
meeting  held  November  9,  1908,  adopted  a  memorial  of  him,  showing  their 
high  appreciation  of  his  many  good  qualities. 

Mr.  Blynn  married  (first)  Ida,  daughter  of  George  Ross,  of  Philadelphia,  who 
died  four  years  after  her  marriage,  leaving  one  son  Lloyd  Ross  Blynn  of  Phil- 
adelphia; born  September  7,  1875:  selling  agent  for  a  mercantile  firm  of  Lon- 
don, England;  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Chapter  of  the  Sons  of  American 
Revolution,  of  the  Germantown  Cricket,  and  Philadelphia  Kennel  Clubs,  etc. 
Harry  Blynn  married  (second)  February  11,  1886,  Margaret  Brice  Matthews, 
daughter  of  John  N.  and  Margaret  Brice  (Turner)  Matthews,  by  whom  he 
had  two  sons,  John  Matthews  Blynn,  born  October  21,  1893,  and  Bryce  Blynn, 
born  April  19,  1897. 


HAROLD  MONTGOMERY  SILL 

Joseph  Sill,  the  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  at  Car- 
lisle, Cumberland  County,  England,  March  14,  1801,  and  was  a  son  of  Sylvester 
Sill,  born  June  8,  1773,  died  May  13,  1814 ;  grandson  of  Joseph  Sill,  of  Brown- 
field,  Cumberland,  born  December  25,  1725 ;  and  great-grandson  of  Richard 
Sill,  who  was  born  November  17,  1691,  and  died  May  22,  1729. 

Joseph  Sill  came  to  Philadelphia  from  England,  in  1825,  and  resided  in  that 
city  until  his  death  which  occurred  November  2,  1854.  He  married  in  Philadel- 
phia, October  20,  1825,  Jane  Todhunter  (b.  July  30,  1801,  London,  d.  Jan.  27. 
1877,  Phila.),  daughter  of  Joseph  Todhunter  (b.  Nov.  10,  1767,  at  High  Hol- 
lows, Cumberland,  England,  m.  August  17,  1794,  in  London,  d.  October  12,  1833, 
in  Philadelphia)  and  his  wife  Mary  Wright  (b.  July  28,  1768,  at  Messlem,  Co. 
Derby,  Eng.,  d.  Dec.  16,  1824). 

John  Todhunter  Sill,  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (Todhunter)  Sill,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  August  i,  1828,  and  died  on  board  the  steamship  "Atlantis." 
oflf  Holyhead,  Wales,  November  11,  1855.  He  married,  in  Philadelphia,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1851,  Sarah  Caufifman  Dunlap  (b.  Phila.  Dec.  13,  1825),  youngest  child 
of  Sallows  Dunlap,  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  wife  Susanna  Bispham,  grand- 
daughter of  James  Dunlap,  of  Bucks  county  and  his  wife  Susanna  Shewell, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah   (Sallows)   Shewell,  of  Bucks  county. 

The  Shewell  family  was  founded  in  America  by  three  brothers,  Walter,  Rob- 
ert and  Thomas  Shewell,  natives  of  the  little  rural  village  of  Painswick,  County 
Gloucester,  England.  They  came  to  Philadelphia  together,  arriving  June  7, 
1722.  Robert  Shewell,  remained  in  Philadelphia  and  was  a  prominent  and  suc- 
cessful shipping  merchant.  He  was,  however,  associated  with  his  brother  Wal- 
ter in  the  purchase  of  land  in  Bucks  county,  which  he  owned  until  his  decease. 

Walter  Shewell,  born  at  Painswick,  County  Cumberland,  England,  in  1702, 
came  to  Philadelphia  with  his  brothers  in  1722,  and  in  1729,  purchased  a  large 
tract  of  land  in  New  Britain  township,  Bucks  county,  lying  along  the  line  of 
Warwick  township,  about  two  miles  east  of  the  present  county  seat,  Doylestown, 
in  what  is  now  Doylestown  township,  on  the  north  branch  of  Neshaminy  creek. 
His  brother  Robert  purchased  an  adjoining  tract  and  the  whole,  aggregating  500 
acres,  came  into  the  ownership  of  Walter  at  the  death  of  Robert,  and  is  the  site 
of  "Painswick  Hall,"  the  historic  home  of  the  Shewell  family  for  several  gen- 
erations, which  is  still  standing,  on  the  banks  of  the  Neshaminy.  Walter  Shew- 
ell married,  in  1731,  Mary  Kimber  of  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  and  took  up  his 
residence  on  his  plantation  in  Bucks  county,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  Oc- 
tober 23,  1795,  at  the  age  of  ninety-three  years.  His  wife,  Mary  Kimber,  who 
was  born  February  10,  1702,  died  December  29,  1790.  Walter  Shewell  and  his 
descendants  for  several  generations  were  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Bucks 
county. 

RonERT  Shewell,  son  of  Walter  and  Mary  (Kimber)  Shewell,  born  in  New 
Britain  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  January  27,  1740,  went  to  Phil- 


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adelphia  when  a  young  man  and  was  for  several  years  engaged  in  the  West 
India  trade,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Oldman  &  Shewell,  but  returned  to 
Bucks  county  in  1769,  and  erected  in  that  year,  "Painswick  Hall,"  on  a  part  of 
his  father's  plantation,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days  there,  dying  in 
Painswick  Hall,  December  28,  1825. 

From  the  inception  of  the  struggle  for  national  independence,  Robert  Shew- 
ell, and  his  brothers  were  among  the  ardent  supporters  of  the  rights  of  the  col- 
onies. Robert  was  the  representative  of  his  township  in  the  Bucks  County  Com- 
mittee of  Safety,  and  at  a  meeting  of  that  committee  at  Bogart's  tavern,  Buck- 
ingham, April  24,  1776,  was  chosen  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  second  battalion  of 
Associators  of  the  county,  and  his  selection  with  that  of  the  other  officers  of  the 
battalion,  (Colonel  Joseph  Hart  having  been  selected  as  colonel),  was  directed  by 
the  Committee  of  Safety  to  be  certified  to  the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  "agree- 
able to  a  late  resolve  of  that  body."  and  he  was  duly  commissioned,  and  marched 
with  the  battalion  to  Amboy,  New  Jersey,  where  it  was  stationed  until  near  the 
close  of  1776.  Colonel  Shewell  was  however  in  attendance  as  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Safety,  at  its  meeting  held  at  Bogart's,  July  i,  1776,  and  at  the  sub- 
sequent meetings  of  July  29,  and  August  12,  1776,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the 
work  of  the  committee  in  fitting  out  the  Bucks  county  contingent  of  the  Flying 
Camp,  and  served  on  important  committees. 

He  married,  at  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Philadelphia,  January  15,  1764, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard  Sallows,  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  wife  Sarah  Stone, 
the  former  born  at  East  Carshold,  county  Suffolk,  England,  November  4,  1694, 
and  the  latter  in  London,  England,  March  16,  1704.  Richard  Sallows  died  in 
Philadelphia,  September  30,  1741.  Sarah  (Sallows)  Shewell,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, April  2,  1 74 1,  was  baptized  by  the  Rev.  Morgan  Edwards,  as  a  member  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Philadelphia,  June  11,  1762,  eighteen  months  before 
her  marriage  at  that  church  to  Robert  Shewell.  She  died  at  Painswick  Hall, 
now  Doylestown  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  August  15,  1804.  Rob- 
ert and  Sarah  (Sallows)  Shewell,  had  eight  children.  Five  of  their  sons  be- 
came merchants  in  Philadelphia. 

JuLi.^NA  Shewell,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Sallows)  Shewell,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  April  5,  1769,  and  the  same  year  was  taken  by  her  par- 
ents to  Painswick  Hall,  Bucks  county,  where  she  resided  until  her  marriage  at 
Neshaminy  Presbyterian  church  of  Warwick,  Bucks  county,  May  16,  1793,  to 
James  Dunlap,  of  a  Scotch-Irish  family  who  had  settled  in  New  Britain,  Bucks 
county  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

Sallows  Dunlap,  son  of  James  and  Juliana  (Shewell)  Dunlap,  born  near 
Doylestown,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  April  16,  1794,  went  to  Philadelphia 
when  a  youth  and  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  there. 
From  1832  to  1858,  he  was  senior  member  of  the  dry-goods  firm  of  Dunlap  & 
Bispham,  the  junior  partner  being  his  brother-in-law,  Joseph  Bispham.  He  mar- 
ried, March  14,  1816,  Susanna  Bispham,  who  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1794,  and  died  there  September  i,  1880. 

John  Bispham,  the  great  grandfather  of  Susanna  (Bispham)  Dunlap,  was 
an  early  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends  at  Bicursteeth,  (BickerstaflFe)  meet- 
ing, Lancashire,  England,  and  married  there,  April  24,  1677,  Mary  Bostwell.    He 


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travelled  extensively  in  the  ministry  and  his  name  appears  frequently  on  the 
records  of  the  early  Friends  in  England. 

Joseph  Bispham,  only  child  of  John  and  Mary  (Bostwell)  Bispham,  born  in 
Lancashire,  England,  May  17,  1678,  married  March  6,  1699-1700,  Hannah  Hub- 
bersty,  of  Yelland,  Lancashire,  and  they  had  two  sons,  both  of  whom  emigrated 
to  America,  Benjamin,  born  March  31,  1702-3,  and  Joshua,  bom  April  11,  1706. 
Benjamin  married  Sarah  Backham,  July  5,  1727,  and  soon  after  emigrated  to 
New  Jersey,  where  he  has  numerous  descendants. 

Joshua  Bispham,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Hubbersty)  Bispham, 
of  Bickerstaffe,  Lancashire,  England,  born  April  11,  1706,  married  February  12, 
1729,  Mary  Lawrence,  and  resided  for  seven  years  in  Manchester,  England. 
December  13,  1736,  with  his  wife  and  son,  Joshua,  he  sailed  from  London  in 
the  ship  "Mary  and  Hannah,"  Captain  Henry  Savage,  and  landed  in  Philadel- 
phia, April  26,  1737.  A  daughter  was  born  to  them  on  the  voyage,  March  22, 
1737,  whom  they  named  Atlantica. 

Joshua  Bispham  purchased  a  house  on  Fifth  Street,  Philadelphia,  where  he 
resided  until  the  death  of  his  wife  in  1742.  He  married  (second)  February, 
1743,  Ruth  Atkinson,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  Atkinson  of  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Moorestown,  New  Jersey, 
where  his  wife's  parents  had  large  landed  possessions,  and  near  where  his  elder 
brother  Benjamin  had  located.  He  was  town  clerk  of  Moorestown  and  asses- 
sor, 1744-7,  and  a  chosen  freeholder,  in  1753. 

Thomas  Atkinson,  the  grandfather  of  Ruth  (Atkinson)  Bispham,  for  many 
years  an  esteemed  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  first  in  England,  and  later 
in  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  was  a  son  of  John  Atkinson  of  Thrus-cross. 
parish  of  Fewston,  in  the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  England.  John  Atkinson 
was  among  the  earliest  converts  to  the  Society  of  Friends  in  Yorkshire,  with 
the  Stacys  of  Ballifield,  into  which  family  his  grandson  married  in  New  Jer- 
sey. Besse,  in  his  Sufferings  of  Friends,  gives  an  account  of  several  persecu- 
tions of  John  Atkinson,  of  Fewston,  for  his  religious  belief,  as  early  as  1659.  It 
is  thought  that  his  wife  was  Mary  Canby,  daughter  of  Thomas  Canby,  of 
Thome,  Yorkshire,  whose  will,  dated  October  17,  1667,  and  probated  March 
16,  1668,  gives  a  legacy  to  his  daughter,  "Mary,  wife  of  John  Atkinson,"  and 
also  to  her  son  Thomas  Atkinson.  This  "Thomas  Canby,  the  elder,  of  Thorne, 
Yorkshire,  Gent,"  born  about  the  year  1590,  was  the  grandfather  of  Thomas 
Canby,  another  eminent  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  whither  he  came  with  his  uncle  Henry  Baker  in   1684. 

Thomas  Atkinson,  son  of  John,  and  Mary  (Canby)  Atkinson,  born  at  Newby, 
Yorkshire,  England,  prior  to  1660,  married  under  the  care  of  Knaresborough 
Meeting  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  13  miles  from  Thrus-cross  in  Yorkshire. 
June  4,  1678,  Jane  Bond,  of  a  well  known  family  of  that  name  in  Yorkshire,  sev- 
eral members  of  which  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  at  different  periods.  Both 
husband  and  wife  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  In  1681  they 
obtained  a  certificate  from  the  Friends  Meeting  at  Beamsley,  Yorkshire,  and 
came  to  New  Jersey,  but  soon  after  located  in  Bristol  township,  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  Thomas  Atkinson  was  a  considerable  landowner.  His 
brother,  John  Atkinson,  followed  him  to  Pennsylvania,  but  little  is  known  of 
him.     Thomas  Atkinson  died  in  Bucks  county,  October  31,   1687.     His  widow, 


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Jane,  married  again,  December  11,  1688,  William  Biles,  of  Bucks  county,  one  of 
the  most  noted  men  of  Pennsylvania  in  his  day,  a  member  of  Provincial  council ; 
many  years  a  member  of  the  Assembly  and  justice  of  the  Bucks  county  courts. 
She  died  in  1709,  after  a  long  and  zealous  service  in  the  ministry,  continuing  to 
her  death.  With  her  second  husband  also  a  minister  she  made  a  religious  visit 
to  England  and  Ireland,  covering  the  greater  part  of  the  years  1701  and  1702. 
Thomas  and  Jane  (Bond)  Atkinson,  had  three  sons,  Isaac,  William,  and  Sam- 
uel, the  two  former  born  in  England. 

Samuel  Atkinson,  the  father  of  Ruth  (Atkinson)  Bispham,  was  the  youngest 
son  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Bond)  Atkinson,  and  was  born  in  Bristol  township, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  July  17,  1685.  On  the  re-marriage  of  his  mother 
in  1688,  he  went  to  live  with  her  and  his  step-father  William  Biles  in  Falls 
township,  and  remained  in  that  township  until  1714,  when  he  removed  to  Not- 
tingham township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  taking  a  certificate  from 
Falls  Meeting  in  Bucks,  to  Chesterfield  Meeting  in  Burlington  county,  dated 
August  4,  1714,  and  proposing  intentions  of  marriage  the  following  day  at  Ches- 
terfield Meeting  to  Ruth  (Stacy)  Beakes  widow  of  William  Beakes,  formerly 
of  Bucks  county,  and  daughter  of  Mahlon  Stacy  and  his  wife  Rebecca  Ely, 
who  were  among  the  most  prominent  people  of  Burlington  county.  Mahlon 
Stacy  belong  to  the  prominent  family  of  landed  gentry  of  Ballifield,  Yorkshire, 
and  married  there  in  1668,  Rebecca  Ely,  of  a  like  prominent  family.  He  was 
one  of  the  purchasers  of  the  lands  of  West  Jersey,  becoming  one  of  the  lords 
proprietors  of  the  province,  of  which  he  owned  one-tenth  interest.  He  came 
over  with  his  family  in  1678,  and  settled  on  the  site  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  of 
which  settlement  he  was  the  founder,  and  named  his  main  plantation  Ballifield, 
after  his  ancestral  home  in  England.  He  erected  a  mill  on  the  site  of  Trenton, 
which  with  a  goodly  portion  of  his  land  thereabout  was  sold  by  his  son,  of  the 
same  name  to  Colonel  William  Trent  and  Trent  adding  a  number  of  other 
manufacturing  industries,  the  town  took  its  name  from  him.  Mahlon  Stacy  was 
one  of  the  principal  men  of  the  province  and  filled  many  important  official  posi- 
tions. Ruth  Stacy  inherited  considerable  estate  from  her  father,  and  after 
the  death  of  her  first  husband,  William  Beakes,  purchased  100  acres  of  land 
of  her  stepson,  Edmond  Beakes,  adjoining  Ballifield,  on  which  she  and  her 
second  husband,  Samuel  Atkinson,  took  up  their  residence  on  their  marriage, 
which  took  place  at  the  house  of  her  brother  Mahlon,  September  12,  1714.  She 
was  born  March  30,  1680,  and  died  June  9,  1755.  They  however  resided  here 
but  a  short  time,  removing  in  1719,  to  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Chester  town- 
ship, in  the  lower  part  of  Burlington  county,  embracing  what  is  now  the  east- 
erly portion  of  Moorestown,  where  he  lived  in  lordly  style.  His  wife  having 
inherited  a  large  part  of  the  estate  of  her  brother  Mahlon  Stacy,  Jr.,  who  died 
without  issue,  as  well  as  a  considerable  estate  from  her  father,  Samuel  and 
Ruth  Atkinson  were  among  the  most  wealthy  people  of  the  province  in  their 
day.  They  were,  after  their  removal  to  Moorestown,  active  members  of 
Gloucester,  later  Haddonfield,  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends,  of  which  Samuel 
was  an  overseer,  and  frequently  represented  in  the  Quarterly  Meeting  at  Salem, 
and  the  Yearly  Meeting  in  Philadelphia.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Chester  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  February  21,  1775.  aged  nearly  ninety 
years.     An  obituary  notice  of  him  in  the  Pennsylvania   Gazette,  of   March    i. 


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1775,  says  of  him,  "In  every  period  and  station  of  his  life,  he  supported  the  char- 
acter of  an  honest  man,  which  secured  him  the  esteem  of  those  who  were  ac- 
quainted with  his  virtues — With  a  tender  benevolent  heart,  he  possessed  ex- 
tensive knowledge  and  good  abilities,  which  he  always  cheerfully  exerted  for 
the  benefit  of  his  fellow-creatures.  He  endured  all  the  infirmities  of  old  age 
with  Christian  fortitude  and  resignation,  leaving  this  world  with  a  well-grounded 
hope  of  unfading  joys,  in  a  kingdom  'not  made  zvith  hands,  eternal  in  the 
Heavens.'  "  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  Atkinson,  had  four  children,  of  whom 
Ruth,  the  wife  of  Joshua  Bispham,  was  the  youngest. 

Joshua  Bispham  left  a  considerable  landed  estate  about  Aloorestown,  most 
of  which  descended  to  his  eldest  son  Joshua.  By  his  second  wife,  Ruth  At- 
kinson, he  had  four  children,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Benjamin  and  Joseph.  Joseph 
Bispham,  the  father  of  Susanna  (Bispham)  Dunlap,  above  mentioned,  was 
the  youngest  son  of  Joshua  and  Ruth  (Atkinson)  Bispham,  and  was  born  at 
Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  October  4,  1759.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his 
elder  brother  Samuel  Bispham,  in  1772,  and  on  arriving  at  mature  age  engaged 
in  business  there,  and  continued  to  reside  in  the  city  until  the  breaking  out  of 
the  yellow  fever  in  1798,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Moorestown, 
and  engaging  in  farming  there,  never  again  took  up  his  residence  in  Philadel- 
phia, though  he  died  there  in  1832,  while  on  a  visit,  at  the  residence  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Sallows  Dunlap.  Like  his  father,  he  was  a  member  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends.  He  married,  April  i,  1783,  in  Philadelphia,  Susanna,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Ann  Pearson,  of  that  city.  She  died  at  Moorestown,  New 
Jersey,  in  183 1.     They  had  four  daughters  and  two  sons. 

Sallows  and  Susanna  (Bispham)  Dunlap  had  seven  children,  Joseph  Dunlap, 
Robert  Shewell  Dunlap.  James  Hendrie  Dunlap,  Juliana,  Susan,  (wife  of  Wil- 
liam Clayton  Newell)   Sarah  Cauffman  Dunlap,  and  Josephine. 

S.ARAH  Cauffman  Dunlap,  the  youngest  child  of  Sallows  and  Susanna 
(Bispham)  Dunlap,  born  in  Philadelphia,  December  13,  1825.  married,  October 
28.  1 85 1,  John  Todhunter  Sill,  before  mentioned,  who  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, August  I,  1828,  and  was  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (Todhunter)  Sill, 
of  I'hiladelphia.  He  died  at  sea  on  board  the  steamship  "Atlantis"  Captain  West, 
oflf  Holyhead,  Wales,  November  11,  1855,  and  is  buried  at  Laurel  Hill  ceme- 
tery,  Philadelphia. 

Harold  Montgomery  Sill,  son  of  John  Todhunter  and  Sarah  Cauffman 
(Dunlap)  Sill,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  15,  1854.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Academy  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  1871  engaged  in  the 
banking  business  with  E.  W.  Clark  Co.,  and  entered  the  firm  Jan.  i,  1882.  In 
1888  he  withdrew  from  active  business  pursuits  and  has  since  lived  retired 
on  School  House  Lane,  Germantown.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  So- 
ciety of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  of  the  Rittenhouse,  Philadelphia, 
Racquet,  Radnor  Hunt,  Germantown  Cricket  and  Philadelphia  Country  Clubs. 
He  married,  (first)  October  10,  1877,  Pauline,  (b.  May  26.  1835,  d.  Feb.  2,  igco) 
daughter  of  Heinrich  and  Eliza  (.Anderson)  Wiener,  of  Philadelphia.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  .\pril  17,  1906.  Agnes  Jessie,  daughter  of  the  Reverend  C.  George 
Currie,  and  they  have  one  child.  Margaret  Sill,  born  May  2t,.  1907.